Amanda Bone, Hugh Wallace and Sara Cosgrove, the judges on RTÉ's 'Home of the Year'.

RTÉ's 'Home of the Year' is returning this month for ninth series

More than 20 homes in eleven different counties will be featured in the new series of Home of the Year, which returns to RTÉ One television on Tuesday week (February 14).

Homes in Cork, Mayo, Kilkenny, Dublin, Down, Wicklow, Meath, Antrim, Galway, Armagh, Derry and Kildare will be shown in what will be the ninth series of the popular show.

The judges returning to assess the competing homes are architect and founding partner of Douglas Wallace Consultants, Hugh Wallace, award-winning architect Amanda Bone, and award-winning interior designer Sara Cosgrove.

The homes featured in the series will include re-imagined semi-detached homes, renovation projects, architectural homes, restored period homes and new builds.

Looking for individuality, functionality, and clever design, the judges will each score the homes out of 10 and the home with the highest combined score in each programme will go through to the final in April, where the winner will be crowned.

In one of the previous seasons, in 2016, a lakeside cabin in Glasson, Athlone, owned by Egon Walesch and Richard Goodwin, was named as the overall Home of the Year winner.