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LISA DAWSON

I’ve always been a fan of colour pop. I painted the kitchen walls lilac in our first house, a bold move that didn’t quite work, mostly because the cupboards were a faux wood mint green. In my defence, there wasn’t much of a product selection to choose from when you bought a new-build back in the late nineties. These were the days when they still suckedand I hadn’t yet discovered the joys of interior decorating, being as when I wasn’t on the M4 to London, I was lying on the sofa watching Brian Dowling on and eating takeaway food.

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