Little Greene) were supposed to make the room feel cosier, but despite this and my smattering of furniture and rugs, there is still a lack of cohesion.
Having lived in the house for five years, I now regret going open plan for many reasons. With an autistic 10-year-old, it’s an echoey, sensory nightmare and it is hard for him to find a quiet corner.
Visiting kids charge around the sofa and the heat and smells (and smoke when I burn toast) from the kitchen billow up into the sky lights.
But the other factor is temperature regulation. This is obviously timely given the fact that heating bills –along with mortgages – are at the forefront of all of our minds, even with a pledge from Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, to cap the price of a unit of gas or electricity in the face of rapidly escalating costs.
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