Colm O'Regan: No wow and drama, I just want a shed — and maybe a water park for dollies

I love Cheap Irish Homes... some of those prices are at 1998 or ‘Currently Owned By The Criminal Assets Bureau’ levels
Colm O'Regan: No wow and drama, I just want a shed — and maybe a water park for dollies

I wonder what the Home of the Year judges would say walking into our house: “You can see with the way the Sudocrem is stored on top of the Nutribullet that they have really devil-may-care attitude to category. They are not shackled by conventional ideas of what should go where.”

The important thing is not to be jealous. But it’s hard. I’m naturally an insecure, weak and flawed person so watching any programme about people getting the house of their dreams is tinged with the green-eyed monster. Although it’s not quite green-eyed. In this light it’s probably more ‘jade’ or even ‘teal’.

Grand Designs was the grand-uncle of them all. But there was the tension there. You know things weren’t going to go smoothly. Grand Designs was like an episode of Murder She Wrote. An all-seeing host watching as people laid bare all their very human traits.

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