At 58, and with her three children having now each reached adulthood, Susan Bonner might have expected to be downsizing from her five-bedroom home in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire.

Instead, the entrepreneur is actually extending her home further.

Susan says the move is a “legacy of Covid”.

“During that time, we all loved our homes a bit more. We’ve been looking for a bigger one for a few years – I really wanted to have a bigger kitchen space at the back going out on to the garden,” she says.

The family had initially looked at moving homes before settling on extending their current one.