The Mud and Wood House in Home of the Year - RTE1, 8:30pm, Thursday, 23/04.
20th April 2015
Thanks to Steve Rogers - Steve Rogers Photography - for the great photos of our home looking its best.
If you follow us on facebook, you will have seen a few clues that something was up at the Mud and Wood House in recent weeks. We were doing a lot of tidying and cleaning and finishing off all those jobs that got put on the long finger for the past four years.
Colin was working really hard in the garden (in spite of the awful weather), completing the stone walls for the raised beds. A few new outdoor benches began to appear. Then he lost the run of himself altogether and built a back porch and a new treehouse for the kids.
Inside, the bedroom wardrobes finally got their sliding doors. The glass treads for the stairs were ordered and fitted. The circle of mirror, which had been stored under the basin for at least three years, was stuck on to the broken mirror in the shower room at last. The artwork, that had been lying on shelves since we returned from our travels in 2004, was framed and hung. The house was cleaned to within an inch of its life. And the children were put in straight-jackets.
There is nothing like letting a camera crew, and therefore the eyes of the nation, into your home to force you to tackle all those overdue projects. And not only were we letting a camera crew in, but also three judges who would assess our home and score it out of ten.
Home of the Year is a competition where 21 houses compete for the title. Over seven weeks architect Declan O'Donnell, architect and interior designer Hugh Wallace and homewares designer Helen James visit three homes per episode. The winning home from each heat is put forward to the final. In the final programme, the judges discuss the merits of each week's winner and the ultimate Home of the Year is crowned.
So ... our big moment is coming up this Thursday, 23rd April at 8:30pm on RTE1. We have no idea what the judges will say about our home. So it is exciting and a little bit nerve wracking, but hopefully we will get some positive comments. Follow us on twitter on the night. And hopefully all that hard work over the past few weeks will have paid off. Even if they hate it, at least we now have a finished house.
The moral of the story? If you are tired of looking at all those unfinished jobs, invite three complete strangers and a camera crew into your home to judge it. I guarantee you'll get all those jobs and more done in no time.
Copyright 2015, Féile Butler - Mud and Wood
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