Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon transforms 60s semi-d into modern family home

'I never thought an architect would be like a house psychiatrist'

The light-flooded kitchen after. 

Homeowner Katie Rehill is not just gobsmacked at her property’s transformation from a relic of the 1960s into an extended residence tailored to her family’s needs.

No, she’s fascinated by the fact that architect Dermot Bannon has included all items on Katie and her husband Jason’s wish list. “I thought he was never listening because he loves to talk but he was listening all along!” says Cork native Katie on episode two of Room to Improve.