{"id":406029,"date":"2026-04-19T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:49:09","slug":"dermot-bannon-houses-now-are-too-over-polished-too-generic-embrace-the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406029\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot Bannon: \u2018Houses now are too over-polished, too generic \u2013\u00a0embrace the chaos\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\">The architect on his new series where he visits celebrity houses\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Architect Dermot Bannon is back on TV screens. Photo: Tom Honan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c18666a6-25b5-4f8b-b84e-8eaa98c8e8fe.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)\">Architect Dermot Bannon is back on TV screens. Photo: Tom Honan<\/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 is an idea in environmental psychology that suggests you can understand a person more quickly by walking through their home than by sitting across from them in conversation.<\/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)\">Dermot Bannon and I meet at the InterContinental Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, so unfortunately I\u2019m not going to get to size him up through the prism of his own soft furnishing choices. But he thinks its an interesting idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The architect on his new series where he visits celebrity houses Architect Dermot Bannon is back on TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,29575,93,61,60,6992],"class_list":{"0":"post-406029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-donal-lynch","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406029","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=406029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}