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‘I chose full-on COLOUR INJECTION’

We’d been in our previous home for 19 years, so it took quite a long time – together with countless decor changes – before I felt truly settled in our new place. In fact, I cried for the first year! I felt heartbroken; it just didn’t feel like home at all.

I’d wanted to move house before my youngest daughter, Daisy, started school. I had set my heart on a lakeside estate a few miles away, which

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