{"id":109983,"date":"2025-10-29T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:38:09","slug":"operation-renovation-every-imperfection-tells-a-story-thats-what-makes-it-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109983\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation renovation: \u2018Every imperfection tells a story \u2013 that\u2019s what makes it ours\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen designer Geri O\u2019Toole and her husband Cathal bought a dilapidated cottage in Limerick in 2010, their aim was to make it liveable and loveable again. A second ambitious renovation a decade later has completely transformed it into a modern yet timeless family home\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geri O\u2019Toole in her renovated Limerick home. Photo: Eamon Ward\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Toole_Limerick_0420.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geri O\u2019Toole in her renovated Limerick home. Photo: Eamon Ward<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s something satisfying about peeking inside the home of an interior designer. These, after all, are the rooms where the best of the design world spend their downtime, surrounded by the things that they love \u2013 every light fitting, cushion and piece of artwork on the walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A home is so much more than just bricks and mortar \u2013 it\u2019s a place where life enters, makes an indelible mark and leaves. Leading designer Geri O\u2019Toole, founder of Geri Designs, makes it her business to know this, creating spaces that reflect and celebrate the life of those that live there, all with her knack for balancing old-world character and contemporary comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When designer Geri O\u2019Toole and her husband Cathal bought a dilapidated cottage in Limerick in 2010, their aim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-109983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}