ON LAST NIGHT’S Room to Improve the country’s favourite jumper wearer Dermot Bannon proclaimed that surely nobody dreams of a great big utility room.
Dermot, my good man, how wrong you are.
Kelly, who was building a house in Moate with her husband Dessie Dolan (GAA star, aka Room To Improve royalty) wanted a utility room to die for. At one stage she was willing to lose a bedroom for it.
Dermot thought she was cracked. And viewers were kind of with him:
Mostly though. There was envy:
You could almost smell the utility room lust as people eyed their tiny kitchens with washing machines crammed under counters and fridges on top of tumble dryers:
Or the pure green-eyed monsters who do have their own utility room, but without the ironing bar Kelly demanded:
And in the end, we could all admit that a good utility room is worth its weight in gold.
Even Dermot, despite his snideyness, was won over in the end:
I think we underestimate how easy they actually make your life and Kelly was damn right to insist on it because I think it’s great.
