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VISUALISE THIS…

There’s an appealing whizz-bang-pop about the recent raft of home design visualiser apps and online planners. They promise to take away the awkward, ‘What would that actually look like?’ questions when you’re talking to a builder or kitchen fitter, and give a sense of pro-in-the-know empowerment to your paint and fabric choices (These aren’t just mood boards, these are curated mood boards featuring the finest fabrics and a co-ordinated palette of seasonal colours…). But as someone who can lose hours pushing furniture around a room simulator app on my tablet, yet has had the sofa in the same position for at least six years, I

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