Room to Improve: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Room To Improve features challenging and innovative new design projects, the man with the plan is Architect Dermot Bannon.

Featuring a diverse mix of renovations, rescues and extensions, as always, each build is fraught with human and financial drama: overstressed budgets, last minute changes of heart, unexpected disasters, unpredictable weather and the vagaries of an architect desperately, sometimes unsuccessfully, trying to convince his clients that he knows what's best for them. With a range of budgets and demanding clients, Dermot Bannon balances his role as designer with that of diplomat, mediator and project manager as he fights his corner with feisty contractors and has his diplomacy skills tested by clients who know exactly what they want.

Exposed power lines, extensions built without foundations, unstable roofs, parasitic fungus, spiraling budgets, design dilemmas, slipping schedules, necessary compromise, unnecessary delays, absent homeowners, flights of fancy and frayed nerves - this series has it all.

Series details

• Title: Room to Improve
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: DIY
• Premiere date: 2007-06-20
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: RTÉ ONE
• Network country: Ireland
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 14366
• IMDb ID: tt14246436
• TVDB ID: 263733

Cast and credited roles

• Dermot Bannon — Host
• Tomás Ó Súilleabháin — Narrator
• Fiona Browne — Narrator
• Claire Irwin — Quantity Surveyor
• Patricia Power — Quantity Surveyor
• Lisa O'Brien — Quantity Surveyor

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2007-06-20; final listed air date 2007-07-25.
• Season 2: premiered 2008-06-04; final listed air date 2008-07-23.
• Season 3: premiered 2009-06-03; final listed air date 2009-07-29.
• Season 4: premiered 2010-05-05; final listed air date 2010-07-07.
• Season 5: premiered 2011-09-14; final listed air date 2011-10-19.
• Season 6: premiered 2012-10-14; final listed air date 2012-11-26.
• Season 7: premiered 2013-12-01; final listed air date 2013-12-22.
• Season 8: premiered 2015-01-25; final listed air date 2015-03-15.
• Season 9: premiered 2016-02-07; final listed air date 2016-03-06.
• Season 10: premiered 2017-01-29; final listed air date 2017-03-05.
• Season 11: premiered 2018-02-18; final listed air date 2018-04-01.
• Season 12: premiered 2019-09-08; final listed air date 2019-10-13.
• Season 13: premiered 2022-02-20; final listed air date 2022-03-20.
• Season 14: premiered 2023-01-08; final listed air date 2023-01-29.
• Season 15: premiered 2024-01-07; final listed air date 2024-01-28; episode order: 4.
• Season 16: premiered 2025-01-05; final listed air date 2025-02-02; episode order: 5.
• Season 17: premiered 2026-01-04; final listed air date 2026-01-25.

Source and licence

Adapted from Room to Improve on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.