Ideal Home

‘Three generations live under our roof ’

Mars Webb, 51, lives with her husband, Patrick, 54, their son, Tom, 19, and daughter, Poppy, 15. Their other daughter, Tess, 20, is at university but comes home in the holidays. Ten years ago, they relocated from London to Belfast, buying a property with outbuildings and converting it into a seven-bedroom home to accommodate Mars’s parents. According to a survey by eBay, nearly a fifth of UK households now consist of three or more generations, like the Webbs’s.

‘Mum was diagnosed with dementia 12 years ago. At the time, Patrick and I were living with the kids in south London, which is where I grew up – Mum and Dad had

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