Dermot Bannon is currently hosting his eleventh season of Room to Improve on RTÉ One. After so many seasons, we wanted to find out how he keeps things interesting and the hardest thing about filming the series.
"How do I keep it interesting? It's the people. Every time you start a new project, you're starting with a whole different couple or family and a whole new set of problems. It's like starting over every single time."
"People keep it interesting - new challenges, new problems - I've never taken on one that I've done before. The hardest part actually in making it over and over again is to try and not do something that you've done before."
"It is a show about people. It is a show about how people react to different things. It's a show about how people react to going through that process of building a home - and you become good friends with them so it's brilliant. I still love it."
Tonight on RTÉ One
On the north Dublin coast, sisters Anna and Marion have returned from living abroad with plans to move into their childhood home with their 81-year-old mother and Anna’s son Michael.
Dermot Bannon has the challenge of making a home comfortable and spacious enough for three generations of one family to live in - no easy feat.
Dermot comes up with a plan to unify a series of stone outbuildings and create a new structure with a raised level – which opens up the house to the sea-view it’s been denied since it was first built.
With a limited budget and boundless optimism, the sisters make every penny count and even get stuck into the demolition work themselves. What could go wrong?
Watch Room to Improve tonight on RTÉ One every Sunday at 9.30pm
