#Gifted Shout out to all the amazing brands who contributed to our Kings Trust Award Winners Goody bag 2026!
I've tried the cleansing oil from @paiskincare ! Waterproof mascara has no chance of staying. I'm excited to try the bronzing drops and add rosehip bioregenerate into my skincare routine.
Setting spray from @lorealparis lasted the entirety of the awards night!
Sweet treat post awards from @lovecocoa
Chocolate toads, so cute! @chocolategiftco
Self-care & skincare evening with @elemis and @charlottetilburyskincare . Well needed after a busy week.
Gift vouchers from @tesco & @jdsports
Merch from @octopusenergy & @natwest
Feeling grateful 🌞
Octopus Energy have made keeping on top of our gas and electricity so much easier — easy usage tracking, amazing customer service with actual humans, plus Octoplus rewards and Saving Sessions that help you save even more 🙌
I always try and get extra washing done around Saving Sessions and it honestly feels like such an easy win ✨
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There’s something quietly fascinating about early attempts at “future-proof” living.
This house arrived with a surprisingly sophisticated energy setup for its time: solar thermal panels feeding the hot water cylinder, a separate feed-in tariff PV array generating electricity, and electric underfloor heating running beneath the original tiled floors.
On paper, it sounds wonderfully forward-thinking. And in many ways, it was.
But systems like these also reveal how quickly ideas around sustainability evolve.
The solar thermal still makes a certain kind of sense — using the sun directly to heat water is simple, elegant engineering. The PV panels too, especially under older feed-in tariff agreements, can remain financially beneficial long after installation.
The complication is the electric underfloor heating.
Back when electricity was comparatively cheap and the grid less scrutinised, electric UFH beneath large thermal-mass tiled floors probably felt modern and efficient. Today, running resistance-based electric heating across a whole house can be eye-wateringly expensive unless paired with significant on-site generation and storage. Even then, it’s often far less efficient than contemporary wet underfloor systems fed by heat pumps.
And that leaves us in a slightly emotional architectural dilemma.
Because we absolutely love the tiles.
They belong to the house. They’re tactile, grounded, unmistakably mid-century. But keeping them may also mean accepting compromises in thermal performance and future heating strategy. Retrofitting sustainability into modernist homes is rarely straightforward — sometimes the most beautiful materials are tied to systems that no longer make environmental or economic sense.
It’s one of the more honest realities of restoring houses like this: sustainability isn’t always about preserving everything exactly as it was. Sometimes it’s about deciding carefully what survives, what adapts, and what quietly becomes part of the story of its time.
#sustainability #renovation #midcentury #singlestoreyhouse #architecture
Your neighbours are busy getting solar and heat pump quotes. They're over renting energy from the grid 👀
Solar enquiries were up 54% in March, heat pumps up 51%, and it was the busiest month for new UK solar since 2012 ☀️
They've seen that energy bills are going up from July. Could your home be next?
🏆 Celebrating the winners of Which? Awards 2026.
After a rigorous process grounded in our testing, customer feedback, investigations and expert analysis, these brands have proven they truly deliver for consumers.
Congratulations to each and every one!
#WhichAwards2026
Another install completed for an Octopus Energy customer 🐙☀️
As a trusted partner of Octopus Energy, Energy Store helps homeowners take control of their energy bills with expertly installed solar systems 🔋
Looking to make the switch to solar? Reach out now for a free quote ☀️
#energysaving #solar #octopusenergy #solarenergy #energybills
*Independent companies selected, vetted and monitored by Octopus Energy against
safety, quality and customer-service standards. Not Octopus employees.
Something special happened in London this week 🚗💡
We were proud to be a founding partner of the very first Empowering Auto UK event — a movement dedicated to driving greater inclusion, mentoring and opportunity across the automotive industry.
A huge thank you to @octopusenergy for hosting such an inspiring evening. This is exactly the kind of change our industry needs and the best part? This is just the first of many ✨
Exciting times ahead. Watch this space. 🙌
#EmpoweringAuto #Automotive #AutomotiveIndustry #Inclusion #Diversity
