{"id":81842,"date":"2025-10-15T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:09:09","slug":"operation-renovation-when-youre-an-interior-designer-people-assume-its-going-to-be-perfect-but-this-is-our-family-home-not-a-showroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81842\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation renovation: \u2018When you\u2019re an interior designer, people assume it\u2019s going to be perfect. But this is our family home, not a showroom\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\">\nWhen Moya Farrell and her husband Andrew bought their dream home, striking a balance between its 1930s heritage and modern family living became their focus\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moya Farrell in her renovated Dublin home. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6ed675df-5a2b-4e4d-98c8-768b2fc18051.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)\">Moya Farrell in her renovated Dublin home. 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)\">Designing for oneself is a paradox. It\u2019s both a dream and a test \u2013 of instinct, discipline, and emotion.<\/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)\">For Dublin-based interior designer Moya Farrell, the opportunity arrived in 2022, while she was pregnant with her second child. For 10 years, Moya and her husband Andrew Frazer had been living in a home owned by Andrew\u2019s family, but they weren\u2019t \u2018tied\u2019 to the area. In fact, they were open to living just about anywhere in Dublin. And then the perfect house came on the market just a few streets away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Moya Farrell and her husband Andrew bought their dream home, striking a balance between its 1930s heritage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81843,"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":{"0":"post-81842","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-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81842","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=81842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}