Grand Designs

Kevin catches up with Thomas and Dervla O'Hare who built a spectacular home on a hillside in Belfast.

Six years ago Thomas and Dervla O'Hare set out to build a remarkable split-level home cascading down a practically vertical hillside in Belfast.

No one in their right mind would have built on such a steep slope; but ambitious young architect Thomas believed he could do anything as long as he put his mind to it. He set up a fast track building programme to complete this enormous, contemporary home in record time, with his wife Dervla - who had never built anything before - project managing the whole circus.

As the building reached its final stages, Thomas and Dervla had the opportunity to buy an adjoining garden which could radically change future plans for the house. Now, with all the deals done and new work complete, Kevin returns to see the reshaped house to find out how life has changed in this, one of the biggest Grand Designs of them all.