House Of The Year 2024

The search is on to find Northern Ireland’s House of the Year.

The new six part series, airing on BBC iPlayer and BBC Northern Ireland, showcases 15 very different homes each with very different stories, competing for one of five places in the grand final where they could be crowned House of the Year. Design expert and TV personality Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is joined by three expert judges who will decide which homes make the final shortlist. They are award winning architect Jane Larmour, James Fairley who runs an interior design practice with his partner, and Patricia McGinnis who, alongside her sister owns a Belfast based interiors boutique. A decade on from presenting House of the Year for BBC Northern Ireland, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen returns to once again lead the search. Speaking to IHIL he tells us how things have evolved over the last ten years and how the show reflects this.

Read more in the November issue…