{"id":239373,"date":"2026-01-18T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:47:09","slug":"interior-stylist-sarah-twigg-doyle-talks-to-mary-osullivan-about-her-upcycled-home-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239373\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior stylist Sarah Twigg Doyle talks to Mary O&#8217;Sullivan about her upcycled home 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\">\nSarah Twigg Doyle first got interested in interiors when she had to decorate her new home on a very strict budget which she did with the help of her recycling-obsessed father-in-law. Now she has a thriving business as an interior stylist and a delightful home in Bray, Co Wicklow\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Interiors stylist Sarah Twigg Doyle in the dining area of her home which is about 20 years old but which she has managed to fill with character and soul through a mix of upcycled items, plants and paintings by her husband Gavin, who has recently become a full-time painter. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/334098d2-cb69-4613-b742-bb989358c014.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)\">Interiors stylist Sarah Twigg Doyle in the dining area of her home which is about 20 years old but which she has managed to fill with character and soul through a mix of upcycled items, plants and paintings by her husband Gavin, who has recently become a full-time painter. 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)\">This time six years ago in January 2020, few of us knew what the acronym WFH stood for; now it\u2019s part of everyday conversation because it\u2019s still what many of us are doing, at least part-time \u2013 working from home.<\/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\u2019s probably fair to say that tonnes of us have still not adapted our homes to this relatively recent phenomenon and just grab our laptops, screens and a chair, and plonk them in a quiet corner of our bedroom. Our challenge is that few of us have the luxury of a dedicated space \u2013 most home offices also double as space for something else, so it has to work twice as hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Twigg Doyle first got interested in interiors when she had to decorate her new home on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,120890,130545,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-239373","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-life-magazine","15":"tag-mary-osullivan","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}