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13 Dec 2025

Pippa O'Connor moving into new home designed by Dermot Bannon

Kildare native Pippa O'Connor said she's very grateful to be building her dream home while Ireland is engulfed in a housing crisis.
The popular lifestyle personality (33) has spent the last number of months keeping her thousands of followers up to date with the renovations on her home in Kildare.
She is adding in a state-of-the-art kitchen, a massive walk-in-wardrobe, and a joint bedroom for the two boys.
 
 "I really think the kitchen should be the heart of the home."
 
She and husband Brian Ormond bought the €1.3m pile last year and have been adding their own personal touches before they could settle in with their sons Ollie (5) and Louis (2).     The couple moved from house to house in Kildare, Meath and Dublin in recent years, but are hoping that they've finally found their permanent address, in a home designed by 'starchitect' Dermot Bannon. Pippa has been sharing snaps of same of the renovations on social media.     "Listen, we have been in so many houses over the last few years so I know how difficult it can be to find somewhere to rent or buy. "I know family and friends in the middle of it at the moment and it's very tough and stressful. There is a lack of houses available and that's why I am so excited. I know it sounds cliché, but I am so bloody lucky," she told RSVP Magazine. "I think people love seeing before and after pictures, I am obsessed with them. I love watching American home makeover shows too."

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