10 Things I Hate About You (My House) No 1 - How To Make A Dark Room Lighter

A slightly wordy title but one of the commonest questions I have been asked recently so I thought I would tackle it here. Since - as someone said to me the other day - many of us are seeing our homes in daylight for the first time and realising, now that we're all in them all the time, all the shortcomings that we hadn't had time to notice or weren't in long enough to care about.

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And now that we are home Le Corbusier's notion that a house is a machine for living in is perhaps proving that for many of us that machine is a little bit run down, not quite firing on all cylinders as it were. So let's tackle some of these issues over the next few weeks and do raise your own questions in the comments below too.

The number 1 issue is that rooms, which you previously saw only at night under electric light, are proving sadly lacking when it comes to using them to work rest and play (as it were). Now this is a question I have dealt with in…