Room to Improve is back on our screens and with the newest season of the show, Dermot Bannon and his team have set out to become even more transparent - and one might argue hopeful - about how we can get the homes we want.
With an increased focus on grants that are available from the government, Bannon has been vocal about why buying a house is more "financially viable" than it has been in previous years. All it takes is a subtle shift in perspective.
It's not the first time the show has tried to change our minds about what homes could be like. It's something that Bannon himself is keenly aware of.
Speaking at RTÉ's sneak preview at its new crop of shows this season, the presenter reflected on how ideas about design have radically shifted in Ireland.
"When I started off this, nobody knew what an architect did", he said. "People just wanted a conservatory, and then it became the walk-in wardrobe. But what people want for their homes has evolved. Fifteen years of Room to Improve is a long time."
From putting in more windows to ditching the long-standing Irish design tradition of putting the kitchen sink directly under one, Bannon and his team has witnessed this shift in real time.
"They were the big things on day one in Room to Improve. But that slowly evolves and slowly changes. I love the fact that the audience are engaged with it and they're thinking about it."
Now, 15 years later, he has a new ambition: to show viewers the need for greater care and appreciation of Ireland's architectural heritage.
"It's the one thing that breaks my heart when I travel around Dublin city and I see derelict properties and I see mass dereliction in our cities and towns", he said. "We're lucky, because we get to travel from one end of the country to the other. And I drive through towns and villages and I see dereliction upon dereliction. The grants are there to try and turn that.
"But that's why I would have done every project this year using dereliction grants, because I think it's a really important thing. Dereliction is kind of like a disease. Once a few houses become derelict, it's spreads."
He also noted that the country is potentially missing a trick when it comes to caring for our older buildings: "Anybody who's travelled in Europe and you go to Paris, you go to Rome, and the cities are gorgeous, and that's part of what their big attraction. We need to protect ours, we need to protect our architectural heritage.
"A lot of those older buildings are a lot more expensive to renovate than, say, a brand new build.
"Hopefully... people will look at shops and townhouses in smaller towns and villages and cities, say, but you know something? If I'm getting a little bit of help with this, it does make it financially viable. Let's do it. Let's take this project on.
"And that's what Ireland needs. That's what Ireland needs to mind our architectural heritage."
Watch Room to Improve on Sundays at 9:30pm on RTÉ One.
