Lorna Luxe revealed she was preparing to revisit the sprawling Warwickshire home she shared with her late husband John Andrews on Thursday, weeks after his death to cancer.
The couple moved out of their £2.5million home in sleepy Moreton Paddox, famously referred to as Ghost House, in 2025 while extensive renovations took place.
But Luxe, 43, was forced to return for a progress report with builders alone after Andrews tragically lost his battle with stage four adrenal cancer in February, aged 64.
The millionaire banker was originally diagnosed with a rare form of the illness in 2023, but after a period of remission his cancer returned the following year, spreading to his brain.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Luxe told followers that the prospect of returning to their three-bedroom Warwickshire home without her husband was ‘bittersweet.’
She wrote: ‘I’m having to be John today and head to Ghost House in a bit for the quarterly site progress meeting.
Lorna Luxe revealed she was preparing to revisit the sprawling Warwickshire home she shared with her late husband John Andrews on Thursday, weeks after his death to cancer
‘All the contractors working the site are going to walk me through their plans, and then I get to share anything I want changing.
‘We were both so excited to get back to there. Very bittersweet this.’
In a second post, Luxe appeared to fight back tears while outlining her plans to return home for a site visit, with work on the home currently months over a planned six month time frame.
She said: ‘I’ve got a busy day today. I’m going to Ghost House shortly, and there’s a big meeting happening today where all the people that have been working together on the rebuild are coming together to just explain what they’ve been doing, what we’ve got to do next, and how on track are we?’
‘I’ve been told it’s going to be August that I get the house back, so it’ll have been a year since John and I moved out. It’s meant to be six months, so massively over the time frame, but I think I’m going to get a house back that I’m really happy with.
‘And yeah, be really nice to be home. I’m really missing it now – I don’t know what the next few months are going to look like for me, so I’m not going to think about it, but the game plan is moving back in August.’
Andrews was rushed back to hospital with organ failure following a complication with his chemotherapy and fell ill with sepsis shortly before Christmas.
Lorna was told to ‘prepare for the worst’, but he was home in time to spend Christmas Day with Luxe, before passing away on February 11.
The couple’s distinctive Warwickshire property is cantilevered over a three-and-a-half-metre-high slope, meaning the home is barely visible from the long private lane on the approach.
The house, which includes a home cinema finished entirely in concrete, was once described by estate agent The Modern House as a ‘minimalist assemblage of geometric forms and natural materials.’
Luxe was forced to return for a progress report with builders alone after Andrews tragically lost his battle with stage four adrenal cancer in February, aged 64
The influencer appeared to struggle with her emotions as she updated social media followers on Thursday
The influencer met Andrews when she was 25 and in the midst of an eight-year stint as a Virgin Atlantic air hostess, before marrying in New York City and going on to live together in Hove, East Sussex, and later Horsham and Warwickshire.
She previously admitted the couple kept the romance alive in their 16-year marriage by using separate bathrooms at the rural home, telling social media followers: ‘I don’t know if this is an “us” thing, but me and John don’t share bathrooms.
‘Maybe this is why we’ve lasted so long. He’s not even allowed in my bathroom. Just kidding.’
She added: ‘One dynamic in our relationship that has never changed is that he organises everything. I just have to turn up and ideally look cute.
‘He’s been treating me like a princess since the day we met. I’m very happy about that. He will always find a way to surprise me, I could write a book on how John gets hotel upgrades.’
