{"id":289751,"date":"2026-02-18T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289751\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:58:10","slug":"interior-designer-suzie-mcadam-we-were-filming-and-i-was-having-a-major-wobble-hugh-took-me-aside-and-gave-me-a-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289751\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior designer Suzie McAdam: \u2018We were filming and I was having a major wobble. Hugh took me aside and gave me a hug\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 former \u2018Home of the Year\u2019 judge talks about the freedom of working on her own \u2018mishmash\u2019 home, her recent revamp of the historic Armada House in Spanish Point and her fond memories of working with the late Hugh Wallace\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suzie McAdam. Photo: Ruth Maria Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ArmadaHouse_SuzieMcAdam_RuthMaria_04.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)\">Suzie McAdam. Photo: Ruth Maria Murphy<\/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)\">\u201cSome people say I\u2019m like a swan. Floating calmly on the surface while the legs are going a mile a minute underneath,\u201d Suzie McAdam says. She\u2019s sitting in the living room of her recently renovated Regency-style Georgian home in Dublin with views of the coast, looking very calm indeed despite her mammoth workload. It\u2019s a home some might recognise from the pages of Arch Digest, having recently made quite a splash.<\/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)\">As a designer, she is known for taking big swings, none more so than her own home. There was definitely freedom \u2013 no client briefs pinning her down \u2013 which allowed her to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former \u2018Home of the Year\u2019 judge talks about the freedom of working on her own \u2018mishmash\u2019 home,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,17753,111,139,69,146940,160757],"class_list":["post-289751","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-latest-news-ticker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shp","tag-signature-human-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289751","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=289751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}