‘The cottage was devoid of colour but before long I was painting every wall and noticing how the colours lifted my mood and reignited my creativity’
s Emma Diaz lights the festive candles on her oak table, lovingly laid for Christmas dinner, she reflects on just how far she has come since first setting foot in this once-neglected 18th-century cottage. “If someone had told me 10 years ago that my husband, Serafin, and I would be dining with our little boy at a table that I’d designed myself, in a cottage bursting with colour, I
