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Home Design for Our New Reality BY SHANE LUECK | PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARTINPATRICK3 Working from home is here to stay (at least for many of us). The ongoing pandemic and labor shortage forced companies to come to terms with it and home design trends are starting to reflect this reality. In the beginning, when we optimistically assumed we would be heading back to the office “soon,” we had makeshift home offices: the kitchen table, TV trays, folding tables. Now, as people are accepting the new normal, more permanent home office solutions are in the works. The housing market over the past year shows that some people are changing homes in order to accommodate the new reality, but many people are updating their current home to suit their needs. The design team at MartinPatrick3 has been constantly busy with renovations to adapt homes to incorporate a designated workspace (in fact, there’s currently
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