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Tesla Powerwall batteries. These are charged via solar panels on the roof, and when additional power is needed, for example over the winter, they pull from the grid via Octopus Energy, a green energy supplier. ‘Even when we need more power than we produce via solar, we are still on the lowest flat rate in the country, and it’s 100 per cent clean energy,’ says Katie.They sold their London flat, and most of the furniture in it, so that they wouldn’t have to pay to store it while they were staying with Katie’s mother, but very few pieces for their renovated home were bought new. ‘About 80 per cent of what we have in the house is second-hand, antique or upcycled,’ says Katie.

Tesla Powerwall batteries. These are charged via solar panels on the roof, and when additional power is needed, for example over the winter, they pull from the grid via Octopus Energy, a green energy supplier. ‘Even when we need more power than we produce via solar, we are still on the lowest flat rate in the country, and it’s 100 per cent clean energy,’ says Katie.They sold their London flat, and most of the furniture in it, so that they wouldn’t have to pay to store it while they were staying with Katie’s mother, but very few pieces for their renovated home were bought new. ‘About 80 per cent of what we have in the house is second-hand, antique or upcycled,’ says Katie.

you never quite know whether you’ll be allowed to go?This - combined with the fact that working from home is now the norm for many, allowing you to spend longer periods in your country pile and really get your money’s worth - means having a bolthole on home turf has never looked so appealing. But how do you do it right?“For a start, you have to be brutally honest with yourself about who will use your second home and how,” says designer Rita Konig, whose recent projects have included LA’s most exclusive private member’s club San Vicente Bungalows, a beach house in Martha’s Vineyard and a country house in Cheshire.“If you have young kids, remember they will grow into teenagers.

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Maddux Creative. “We’ve needed to adapt our homes to perform so many more functions: schoolroom; Zoom-ready workspace; home gym; meditation space; movie theatre; romantic restaurant; hairdressers - and, perhaps most significantly, our safest place.