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PHOTOS: Take a look around Dermot Bannon's home

The Dublin property is on the market for €649,000.

DERMOT BANNON’S DUBLIN home is on the market for €649,000.

The architect has become a household name in recent years thanks to the success of RTÉ’s Room to Improve. The show follows Bannon as he helps members of the public create their dream homes.

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The house on Bantry Road in Drumcondra is listed for sale with auctioneers DNG.

The listing for the property describes it as “a simply beautiful family home complimented by a wonderfully designed extension to the rear overlooking a mature west-facing garden extending in excess of 65m”.

Check out the property below:

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Images of property via DNG/Daft.ie.

Read: Irish homeowners have spent €1.7 billion via renovation scheme

Read: The outrageous extension on last night’s Room to Improve certainly divided viewers

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    Mute Me_a_monkey
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:09 PM

    It’s a bit plain…..

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    Mute Conor Heffernan
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:13 PM

    Nothing to write home about really…

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    Mute Sinead Hanley
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 12:09 AM

    @Conor Heffernan: I’d live there. As long as Dermot is with me. He has so much charm and charisma. Beautiful man.

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    Mute Shane Cusack
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 3:59 AM

    A lot of people complaining about the chap and his house. A hint of jealousy in some of the comments. It’s most like my he’s upgrading himself. Especially the box extension out the back. Who’s to say the walls aren’t pumped or possibly dry lined together with external insulation? High performance low emissivity glazing? Not a bad U-Value then!

    Secondly you can only do so much extending onto the back of what’s essentially a terraced house. Maybe he was confined to a budget at the time like everyone else? What were people expecting? A lake with a pier that runs down to an anchored speed boat? The area is quite nice as well which accounts for the the price tag. It’ll go for more than that.

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    Mute Sean Baylon
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:19 PM

    I wonder is the show gonna follow him when he buys a doer upper and he’s architect and client and he has Lisa the QS annoying the b*lloxs of him..

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    Mute Augustus hoop
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:35 PM

    @Sean Baylon: and comes in 50k over his own budget but ‘the gothic columns are essential’

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    Mute Sean
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:55 PM

    @Sean Baylon: I missed Patricia from the last series but I’ve now warmed to Lisa. She is not a bad lass.

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    Mute Niamh Baylon
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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:01 PM

    @Sean Baylon: That would be full Dermot Bannon…. you never go full Dermot Bannon

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    Mute George Salter
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:31 PM

    Giant windows. Check. Ugly extension box with poor u-values. Check. Overpriced. Check. It’s his alright.

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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:19 PM

    @George Salter: it’s his obsession crisp clean lines and glass walls that are the problem with his designs. They’re sterile, unoriginal , unimaginative in their use of texture and materials not to mention that it’s like he’s never heard of an interplay between light and shadow.. Here he’s gutted a 1960′s (?) style home stuck on a flat roofed extension(they’re not bad in themselves) at a slight angle with a few skylights, plaster boarded,hard walled the sweet bejesus out of it and slapped a E650,000 price tag onto the place. The guy’s supposed to be a top architect yet this place looks like it was bought for 200K by a first time property buyer and updated just enough to flip it for a profit…

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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:32 PM

    @Vigo the Carpathian: Yep. And, as an engineer, I’m the profession called in to correct the leaking flat roof, to reinsulate underperforming exterior walls, to redesign undersized columns etc.

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    Mute Vigo the Carpathian
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 12:15 AM

    @George Salter: And after the engineers I’m sure someone else will claim to be called in to fix your “mistakes” and so on and so fourth down the line until someone eventually either decides to spend a fortune getting it fixed by a specialist team from Germany or somewhere or just says fu#k it and replaces it with an apex roof for a few grand..I think we all know what’s going to happen there…

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    Mute Gareth Cooney
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 9:56 AM

    @George Salter: He’s a TV presenter with a few years work experience in interior design.
    He’d be eaten alive by the likes of Johnny Ronan or Paddy McKillen.

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    Mar 23rd 2018, 10:23 AM

    @Gareth Cooney:
    He isn’t. He’s MRIAI which means he’s trained as an Architect, is a member of the Institute and has professional practice insurance.
    Stating your opinion as a fact based on basically nothing does not make you particularly smart.

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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:31 PM

    Every room looks like it has a doctors surgery clinical vibe going on.

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    Mute Colette Kearns
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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:55 PM

    Good photography I must say. Every photo made to look like the place is much larger than it actually is!

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    Mute Matt F
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:10 PM

    crisp clean lines

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    Mute Patrick J. O'Rourke
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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:35 PM

    @Matt F: light airy spaces blah blah. Effing hell..life is too short to look at straight lines and bland nothingness. Prisons are designed to do that.

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    Mute Matt F
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 6:35 AM

    @Patrick J. O’Rourke: he certainly loves his catchphrases does that lad Bannon.

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    Mute 6ljJQRRU
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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:00 PM

    Every home this guy does looks the exact same. Boring white walls with usual generic accessorieswitha bit of glass. Looks good if you like that and want your house to be like the one he just did last welek. You could say he’s one dimensional.

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    Mute ed w
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:50 PM

    Soulless

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    Mute Benny
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:34 PM

    Well if the price is anything like budgets in the show it will end up going for a lot more

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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:14 PM

    I’d have expected more windows

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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:14 PM

    Upgrading…

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    Mute Vigo the Carpathian
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    Mar 21st 2018, 10:51 PM

    @Bi88les: Selling to cover the cost of a lawsuit ? http://www.thejournal.ie/room-to-improve-9-2937075-Aug2016/

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 10:19 AM

    This is a pretty house on the outside but an asking price of 649,000 ,mortgaged for life for a terraced property with no driveway, not for me. I do understand a lot of the comments as the house relies heavily on the extension and the garden, for a home with three young children , not a piece of lego or a picture on the fridge, a home less homely, if it were not for the garden playthings, why I would imagine this is the home of an architect, a show home, staged for sale.

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    Mute Rachel Hororwitz
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 5:07 PM

    Those houses on Bantry Road date from the 1920s. Sometimes I think it is better to preserve original interiors rather than making houses open plan, which is a modern obsession.

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 4:09 AM

    He is restricted to budgets ,give him another 50-80 grand and then comment

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    Mute Gerry Fallon
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 8:32 AM

    Who designed the interior for him?
    649k?
    Very basic looking given the fact he’s an architect.

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    Mute Jun Stone
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    Mar 22nd 2018, 6:50 AM

    All his refurbs are exactly the same, like his house bland and boring, be like living in a doctors surgery, soulless.

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    Mute David_G
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    Mar 21st 2018, 11:02 PM

    Ridiculous price ! I am sure is not even insulated! As almost of houses Bannon’s renovating !

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 8:18 AM

    Every room has light which is lovely as in most houses theres always one or two rooms that are very dull.. can’t say i’m crazy on open plan unless one has underfloor heating as there so big they don’t heat!

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    Mute Aidan Russell
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    Mar 23rd 2018, 7:13 AM

    650 grand for a 3 bed in Drumcondra? Hear the Celtic Tiger roar I want more!

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 9:15 AM

    It’s not great nice but not great

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 1:19 AM

    Kip

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    Mar 22nd 2018, 8:15 AM

    A lot of nice ideas in there. Not a big fan of that couch though.

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    Mar 24th 2018, 5:50 PM

    Kitchen is still only plywood .

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    Mute Emer Mitchell Macadam
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    Mar 23rd 2018, 11:05 AM

    rental!!!

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