As return-to-office mandates begin to bite, defunct home offices are being repurposed as pilates studios, wine rooms, hangout spaces for teenagers and even cigar rooms, Sarah Rappaport writes for Bloomberg. Our Partner Mark Lawson talks to her about the rise of the hobby room.
An office turned cigar room by Banda. Photograph: Ben Anders
When Mark Lawson, our Southern Counties & High Value Residential & Rural Estates Partner, converted the garden office he’d had built during the Covid-19 pandemic into a teenage party room for his children, he realised he was part of a growing trend. He tells Sarah Rappaport of Bloomberg how clients are reimagining their home spaces to suit new lifestyles.
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