{"id":424699,"date":"2026-04-30T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:24:32","slug":"self-build-story-my-health-isnt-great-day-to-day-so-creating-a-home-that-feels-calm-functional-and-peaceful-was-incredibly-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424699\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-build story: \u2018My health isn\u2019t great day-to-day so creating a home that feels calm, functional and peaceful was incredibly important\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\">After years spent travelling and working on superyachts, Irish-South African couple Toni and Fion\u00e1n Walsh \u2018came home\u2019 to Kerry to build a contemporary house that is also a thriving micro-farm\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toni and Fion\u00e1n Walsh at their home in Co Kerry. Photo: Don MacMonagle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5f1b7288-e855-42a7-9687-2ea1ffdb6b69.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)\">Toni and Fion\u00e1n Walsh at their home in Co Kerry. Photo: Don MacMonagle<\/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 house that looks like it was plucked from the South African hinterland, with all the easy-breezy elegance of open-plan beach house living, was the initial brief. But this wasn&#8217;t South Africa, nor was it inclined to be privy to sun-soaked days for even half of the year. This home is a brand-new build located between Glenbeigh and Cromane in Co Kerry, the perfect middle ground between the coast and mountains.<\/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)\">It may not have the sun-drenched hills and valleys of South Africa but anyone who has ventured along the Kerry coast will know that similar frontier feeling, where Europe seems to square up to the world beyond, where dramatic cliffs and mountains meet the Atlantic and boreen roads lead to hidden beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years spent travelling and working on superyachts, Irish-South African couple Toni and Fion\u00e1n Walsh \u2018came home\u2019 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,898],"class_list":["post-424699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424699","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=424699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}