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The pandemic house

How coronavirus changed our sense of home

16 September 2020

  • Dylan Jones at the London home he had to learn to love.

    Going out was my life. But lockdown forced me to reconsider what matters

    After more than two evenings on the sofa, I usually experience a kind of manic claustrophobia. But in lockdown, things had to change

15 September 2020

  • ‘Even though most places have reopened, I still think its safer to make like a sardine and work from home.’

    One stifling, soulless room has become my whole world – but I'm dreaming of much bigger things

  • The view from the courtyard of an apartment block in Vienna.

    During the pandemic, I retreated into my shell – could DIY help to pull me out?

14 September 2020

  • It was just me and my daughter at home – but I appreciated it more than ever before.

    As an NHS psychiatrist, my pandemic summer was shockingly busy. Home became a mess – and a haven

  • A fully loaded dishwasher

    How was lockdown living with my partner? So good I missed her when she went to the balcony

11 September 2020

  • A baby girl in a cot reaching up to a colourful mobile

    The unconscionable cost of housing has brought me an unexpected joy. My baby grandson has moved in

  • Max Walker homeschooling his daughter, Aster.

    Home schooling drove me to despair – but it also taught me a valuable lesson

10 September 2020

  • Jenny Stevens and Andy Welch at their home in south London

    I was happy living alone in my studio flat. But the long, dark solitude of lockdown changed everything

  • Practising daily gratitude helped me through.

    I was terrified lockdown would send me back to the bottle. The reality proved fantastically different

9 September 2020

  • Joan Burnett in her back yard in Wavertree, Liverpool.

    Why transforming my scrappy backyard into a 'yarden' has been life-changing

  • I’ve always been happy in my dishevelled council flat.

    My dishevelled flat felt like a cage rather than a cocoon this summer. I finally decided to do it up

  • Family life is now shot through with work pressures.

    I've spent years working at home on my own. Now the whole family is toiling alongside me – and I love it

  • Cate M Ruane (right) and her upstairs neighbour, on their shared porch in Asheville, North Carolina.

    I had hardly spoken to my neighbour before lockdown. Now he's my constant companion

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