
When the Covid lockdowns curtailed all normal activities, the owner of this newly renovated kitchen spent their time at home wishfully thinking about how to enlarge their living space with a side-return extension.
Like many of us, she and her husband were desperate for something to look forward to. ‘All the usual markers of time passing – meals out, days out, holidays – had all gone,’ she recalls. ‘Planning future changes to the house was a kind of escape mentality.’