Right back as far as 1923, the genius Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) described a house as “a machine for living in”. Slowly, as the 20th Century progresses, this vision became more of a reality. First came convenient electric power which gradually stripped away the drudgery for household chore; washing machines and dishwashers, vacuum cleaners all began to find their way into our homes as…