Katharine Pooley, respite lies in an old horse box. Pre-Covid, Pooley was keen to encourage her sons, Jack and Charlie, now ages 11 and 8, to read more.
Inspired by a Rice horse trailer she saw at Soho Farmhouse, which was used to house chickens, she bought a similar trailer at auction for £600 and – once installed in the garden of her converted coach house in Bicester in Oxfordshire – turned it into a children’s reading den whose very appearance inspires Narnia-esque flights of fantasy. “Our sons love to switch between working online in the house and reading in the calming environment of the horse box library.
It helps them to keep focused on their studies,” says Pooley, whose innovative library features a glass roof panel, bespoke.
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