{"id":387031,"date":"2026-04-19T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:08:10","slug":"my-favourite-room-mary-osullivan-meets-interior-designer-sarah-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387031\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite room: Mary O&#8217;Sullivan meets interior designer Sarah O&#8217;Neill"},"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 O\u2019Neill enjoyed her work in the travel business until life threw a few curveballs. To deal with them, she bought a new house, discovered a love of interiors, changed career and took on two fur babies\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Interior designer Sarah O\u2019Neill in the kitchen of her home in Firhouse with her beloved Cavapoo Coco. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ARAH O_NEILL ROOM 5.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)\">Interior designer Sarah O\u2019Neill in the kitchen of her home in Firhouse with her beloved Cavapoo Coco. 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)\">People usually go to events like the forthcoming Ideal Home Show to get ideas for the interiors of their homes, and if you\u2019re passionate about home decor, this annual event is always an enjoyable and useful outing.<\/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)\">Sarah O\u2019Neill got even more from her visit there some years ago in the form of much-needed encouragement from fellow professionals; they told her to get over her nervousness at presenting herself as an interior designer and start her own business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah O\u2019Neill enjoyed her work in the travel business until life threw a few curveballs. To deal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387032,"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-387031","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\/387031","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=387031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}