What lies beneath: the smart home that wears its technology lightly

Hi-tech features concealed throughout this 50s seaside house in East Sussex make it highly energy efficient – and make life easier for its ownersPicture a tech-savvy home and you will probably envisage a slick, white cube where the blinds whirr up at a preset hour and sensors turn on the shower. But a smart home doesn’t have to be robotic and flashy. “We wanted to use technology to make life easier,” says Gigi Sutherland of the home she and her partner, Matt Sellers, rede