{"id":396936,"date":"2026-03-21T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:34:09","slug":"how-an-interior-designer-expanded-her-house-to-accommodate-her-growing-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396936\/","title":{"rendered":"How an interior designer expanded her house to accommodate her growing family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been known for what\u2019s called my rock \u2019n\u2019 roll aesthetic; but it\u2019s not rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, it\u2019s earthy glamour, that can be lived in,\u201d says interior designer <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joberryman.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Berryman<\/a>. It\u2019s a look which is exemplified by the Victorian house in Frome, Somerset, that she shares with her husband, Philip Bergkvist, 54, the owner of digital animation company Encycle Studios, and their children, Nico, 19; Romy, 11; and Elijah, three. The house, which they bought in 2018, recently underwent <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/interiors\/home\/how-to-give-your-period-house-new-life-without-a-planning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a major renovation<\/a> that, she says, has vastly improved the space and flow of the interior, and the way the family live in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve been known for what\u2019s called my rock \u2019n\u2019 roll aesthetic; but it\u2019s not rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,180632,366,18,117,19,8081,17,3521,180630,180631,1702,46523,14545,172075],"class_list":{"0":"post-396936","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-buying-property","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-interiors","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-lifestyle","20":"tag-period-property","21":"tag-somerset","22":"tag-standard","23":"tag-top-story","24":"tag-uk-property","25":"tag-us-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116268372119276411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}