{"id":288936,"date":"2026-01-17T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:38:09","slug":"hes-a-changed-man-meet-the-grim-reaper-for-dermot-bannons-ott-home-tastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288936\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s a changed man\u2019 \u2013 meet the \u2018grim reaper\u2019 for Dermot Bannon\u2019s OTT home tastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Quantity surveyor Claire Irwin has achieved the apparently impossible in getting the \u2018Room to Improve\u2019 architect to finally get real about budgets\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire Irwin says she's most proud of work that brings an old house up to an A1 or A2 rating\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Claire.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Claire Irwin says she&#8217;s most proud of work that brings an old house up to an A1 or A2 rating<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">RT\u00c9\u2019s Room to Improve quantity surveyor Claire Irwin may have achieved the impossible \u2013 reining in Dermot Bannon\u2019s lavish tastes.The 17th season of the popular show may well herald a more considered approach from the celebrity architect.Bannon, who often refused to let the trifling issue of homeowners\u2019 budgets get in the way of his vision, is now \u201ca changed man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen a change in Dermot a bit over the last couple of years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quantity surveyor Claire Irwin has achieved the apparently impossible in getting the \u2018Room to Improve\u2019 architect to finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,81743,366,18,117,19,17,57978,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-288936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-dermot-bannon","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-melanie-finn","19":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115909538785319569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}