{"id":48944,"date":"2025-09-07T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48944\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:12:10","slug":"my-favourite-room-its-amazing-how-an-architect-can-bring-to-life-a-dream-you-didnt-even-know-you-had-john-and-constanzes-cork-bungalow-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48944\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite room: \u2018It\u2019s amazing how an architect can bring to life a dream you didn\u2019t even know you had\u2019 \u2013 John and Constanze\u2019s Cork bungalow bliss"},"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\">\nJohn O\u2019Sullivan and Constanze von Randow have bought a house, produced a family and created a stunning home \u2013 all since the pandemic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Constanze von Randow and John O\u2019Sullivan pictured with their daughter Skyla and baby son Sol outside their recently renovated home in Cork. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G VON RANDOW ROOM 2.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)\">Constanze von Randow and John O\u2019Sullivan pictured with their daughter Skyla and baby son Sol outside their recently renovated home in Cork. 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)\">The kitchen table is always an important part of a family home \u2013 it\u2019s where families eat, work, do homework, laugh, cry and tell each other stories so thought usually goes into its acquisition. The kitchen table in Constanze von Randow and John O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s home in Douglas, Cork, was in fact specially made and already has a story of its own.<\/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 put together from scaffolding boards and metals used in the renovation of the couple\u2019s home and, unusually for building work, it was such a happy, stress-free experience that they are thrilled to have this permanent reminder in their house, created thanks to the collaboration between themselves, architect, James Crowley of foley + crowley architects (FCA), and builder John Cronin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John O\u2019Sullivan and Constanze von Randow have bought a house, produced a family and created a stunning home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,4746,4850],"class_list":{"0":"post-48944","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-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-life-magazine","18":"tag-mary-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48944","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=48944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}