{"id":160251,"date":"2025-11-26T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160251\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:42:10","slug":"operation-renovation-my-home-is-a-big-experiment-anything-goes-if-it-feels-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160251\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation renovation: \u2018My home is a big experiment \u2013 anything goes if it feels like me\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\">\nPlayful colour, clever DIY and surprising vintage finds has turned Joanne Mooney\u2019s Dublin semi-d home into a unique and quirky handmade haven\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanne Mooney in her home in Swords, Co Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JOANNE MOONEY 10SH.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)\">Joanne Mooney in her home in Swords, Co Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">When Dublin creative Joanne Mooney bought her four-bed, semi-detached home in Swords in 2003, she wasn\u2019t thinking about architectural statements or design manifestos.<\/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)\">The house, then painted wall-to-wall in magnolia, was simply her family\u2019s next move \u2013 a step up from their former small three-bed in the same area, to a bigger space that could grow with their two young daughters. What she didn\u2019t yet know was that this house would become the canvas for two decades of creativity, colour, craft and ever-evolving DIY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playful colour, clever DIY and surprising vintage finds has turned Joanne Mooney\u2019s Dublin semi-d home into a unique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-160251","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\/160251","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=160251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}