Turns out, getting on Room to Improve isn't as easy as having a 150 grand burning a hole in your pocket, there's actually a shed load of people that apply each season, Dermot Bannon has revealed.
Speaking to the Irish Independent at House 2018 in the RDS over the weekend, Ireland's favourite architect said: "We have different clients applying with different needs. We would have maybe 400 people applying for the show and we whittle it down. It's trying to get projects we haven't done before," he said.
"Every time the show comes for recommission, we get the same stuff. Picking them is the exciting bit.
"What you're doing is, you're picking your work for the next year. It takes about a year to make the show and you've got to make sure you're interested enough in the project," he added.
That house looking for a slide must have been a shoo-in.
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