{"id":55278,"date":"2025-10-01T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55278\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:08:10","slug":"operation-renovation-we-wanted-to-create-a-feeling-of-warmth-function-and-comfort-so-when-you-come-back-from-a-long-hike-you-feel-at-home-straight-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55278\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation renovation: \u2018We wanted to create a feeling of warmth, function, and comfort, so when you come back from a long hike, you feel at home straight away\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\">\nAfter 12 years renting a two-bed apartment, buying and renovating this woodland retreat was a dream come true for two avid hikers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martina Mahady in her Co Wicklow home. Photo: Mary Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dc123f73-452c-4170-91b2-54e97684fc59.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)\">Martina Mahady in her Co Wicklow home. Photo: Mary Browne<\/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)\">Like many rural Irish villages, Rathdrum in Wicklow, could be described as a one-horse town: a handful of pubs and shops dotted along its one long main street.<\/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 no cosmopolitan vibe here but rather a sleepy one. But anyone fond of the phrase \u2018one-horse-town\u2019 might be missing the point entirely. It is exactly this sleepy, otherwise \u2018removed\u2019 mood that\u2019s part of its charm and makes so much of Wicklow prime real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 12 years renting a two-bed apartment, buying and renovating this woodland retreat was a dream come true&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-55278","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\/55278","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=55278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}