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After 16 years in the same house, Debra Davidson-Smith was more than ready to make a change to her living room. When the family first moved into their five-bedroom Edwardian semi in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, their needs were very different. ‘Our boys, Max, now 22, and Oly, now 19, were little and there was a separate small living room and dining room, which we made into one space and blocked in

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