It’s a known addiction. Dreams of bigger windows, terrazzo floors, cupboards with no handles so visitors won’t know they are cupboards at all.

Hiring professional designers to guide you through a home revamp can get you what you want, which doesn’t necessarily have to be what TV home improvement shows tell us, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Love him or hate him, as a nation there is something fascinating to us about architect Dermot Bannon, when more than 600,000 people tune in to see him build his new home on television and hundreds more turn up to see his old house at an open viewing.

The Late Late Show returns to the screens tomorrow for its first show of 2020.

Dermot Bannon has invited cameras in to follow his own journey towards an ideal home — but will it be a dream or a nightmare?

Dermot Bannon: “There is a hunger for architecture that I have never experienced before.”

A great many hours of television viewing went in the remaking of Copper Beech in Dunmore East - which has been transformed from a B&B into an ultra-stylish family home.

So that’s nearly Friday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on Room to Improve? As the series returns, Vickie Maye takes a deep breath – and hands her house plans over to Dermot Bannon.

Friday's Late Late Show has been revealed...

About the kindest way to describe how John Horan is going about fixing the fixtures is that it’s as if after commissioning the Brennan brothers to assess and improve his hotel, he has them arrive on site only to find him already unleashing his inner Dermot Bannon who is about to give a foreman the thumbs up to a garish giant water fountain being plumped in the middle of the foyer.

They called it the ‘Irish Football Stakeholder Forum’ but really last Friday’s gathering at the Mansion House was a cry for help.

“GET OUT OF MY ROOM!” So went the Banshee shriek of my daughter.

One-off housing is not a big issue in relation to climate change but it is arguably a contributor to the rapid decline in the fortunes of rural Ireland, writes Michael Clifford.

This stunning Cobh home has hen run, and pigs, on the property sale menu, writes Tommy Barker

Eve Kelliher looks at what’s happening in the worlds of art and interiors.

Kerry's famous Bat Family will also be in the studio for a very special performance of their latest viral video, the Triangle Dance - Kerry Shtyle.

As series two of Incredible Homes concludes, it’s been a mix of cheesy one-liners, cringy moments and a hard-to-resist dose of interiors porn, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

The radio show then pushed Bannon to pick his favourite out of this year’s contestants and sadly, there was some favouritism involved.

Ireland’s largest annual conference for project managers takes place in Cork this month. Pádraig Hoare speaks with the project manager who will oversee the event, Clodagh Geary

Worth a watch.

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The weather, this weekend, and its effects on the environment, would remind you of those