A good home is quiet infrastructure: efficient, calm and easy to live in. We cover design principles before products, energy before gadgets, and buying decisions that favour longevity and repairability over novelty.
Treat eco-friendly smart home design as a system rather than a shopping list, choosing the platform and Matter-ready kit first, adding solar and a battery next, and only then writing automations that bring down the energy you can measure.
From storage lifted off the floor and colours drawn from one family to lamps at several heights and furniture that leaves gaps, here are seven ways to give a compact living room a minimalist feel so that each square metre seems bigger.
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