A couple who have bought an old farmhouse and agricultural outbuildings in Rathrum Co Wicklow will need extensive restoration work to become habitable.
Meeting people transforming derelict properties into modern home, beginning with an Australian cabinet maker restoring a Co Mayo house with 110 rooms.
Architect Hugh Wallace oversees restoration of an elegant old townhouse in North inner-city Dublin. The homeowner, Murray Rees, has ambitious plans but, with a dwindling budget.
A couple is transforming a derelict 19th-century schoolhouse in Cavan into a new home by building a timber-clad extension, but find that it was made for functionality, not comfort.
A Donegal woman wants to renovate the derelict historic cottage on the Inishowen Peninsula, once owned by her great, great, grandmother, but is faced with a collapsed roof and wall.
Meeting a couple restoring Belvelly Tower House in Cobh, Co Cork, a building that has not been lived in for 400 years; the first challenge is damp-proofing the structure.