{"id":335244,"date":"2026-03-08T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:58:10","slug":"mary-osullivans-meets-home-of-the-year-couple-esther-loynton-and-robyn-anderson-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335244\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s meets Home of the Year couple Esther Loynton and Robyn Anderson for my favourite room"},"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\">\nEsther Loynton and Robyn Anderson are from opposite ends of the world but were on the same page when it came to renovating their redbricked home, honouring its two periods and giving it a grown-up yet fun vibe\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robyn and Esther in the older part of the house with its original fireplace. Paint colours are sombre, however, the pair lighten the mood with their artworks. Esther describes it as a masculine\/feminine vibe. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3da6d969-b4a2-4489-b691-4268ea20f8cd.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)\">Robyn and Esther in the older part of the house with its original fireplace. Paint colours are sombre, however, the pair lighten the mood with their artworks. Esther describes it as a masculine\/feminine vibe. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/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)\">How you decide to view the unexpected is an important lesson of life and indeed of home renovation. If you can succeed in changing your mindset, something that seems like a huge mistake can turn out to be a treasured feature as Esther Loynton discovered when the much-anticipated concrete floor was poured in the terraced home she shares with her wife Robyn Anderson and toddler son Finn.<\/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)\">Esther is a self-confessed perfectionist so was appalled when she saw the finished result \u2013 to her horror, a tiny screw had become embedded in the concrete, in fairness it\u2019s so imperceptible, few others would have noticed. \u201cI came in really excited. Then I saw the screw. My first thought was, \u2018It\u2019s ruined,\u2019\u201d says Esther in such a way that it\u2019s obvious the word \u2018ruined\u2019 was screamed in her head in capitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esther Loynton and Robyn Anderson are from opposite ends of the world but were on the same page&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,6085],"class_list":["post-335244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335244","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=335244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}