'Patina Modern' book helps redefine how to use our living spaces and what to put into them

Much has changed since COVID-19 arrived in 2020, including how we use our homes. After quarantining in them, working in them, and home-schooling in them, many people decided they needed changes. There was a surge in retrofitting, re-designing spaces and making our homes into our cocoons from the outside world.

It’s not the first time pandemics have affected home design — powder rooms were invented during the 1918 flu pandemic so people could wash their hands when they entered a house.

Host Robin Young talks to and , the authors of a new design book “,” about different ways to alter your space, including