Room to Improve - Season 5 (2011)

The series begins in Cork City with our youngest and most ambitious couple yet, Meadhbh and Niall, both 27-years-old. The couple trying to completely restore a 1920s cottage.

Architect Dermot Bannon visits Legan in Co. Longford to help Elaine and Hughie create their ideal home

After a series of delays and an ongoing failure to see eye-to-eye with the clients Dermot comes close to walking off a project in Wicklow

Dermot helps a couple in Dundrum to extend their cottage that has been home to three generations of the McDonnell clan

Dermot sets about redesigning a dream home in Dalkey but there are plenty of setbacks along the way.

Dermot tells a couple, who have bought a villa style cottage in their dream location of Blackrock, that they've essentially bought themselves a "mud hut"!