house & home
LIFE AFTER LOCKDOWN
Local award-winning craftsman STEPHEN GRAVER reflects on the changing requirements of our homes post-lockdown...
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he clocks have gone forward, the days are getting longer and there really does seem to be light appearing at the end of the long tunnel we’ve all been in for the last 12 months. Coming out of the fog brings with it an opportunity to think about what the future brings and what good
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habits we’ve been forced into will come with us and which bad ones we can get rid of.
"Many large businesses are now considering working from home as the key to happier staff"
Taking pleasure in the simpler things in life and gratitude for what we normally take for granted have been very prominent. The space around us, textures, colours, light, a view from a window, the ability to sit together as a family, a space we can all retreat to, an outside space we can breathe, a plot to see flowers growing. All what ordinarily might have seemed