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My last place was lovely but very neutral, and I’d always held back a bit with decorating. But this home felt different. Although the interior was stuck in the 1990s, it had great bones. The big rooms

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An artist kitted out the bathroom in her 200-year-old home with secondhand finds and a can-do attitude