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eccentricity – an unhelpful guide

i am an extremist. When it comes to matters of style, nothing is too eccentric or unconventional for my warped sensibility. How did I get like this?

My decor journey began in a rooming house in the threadbare 1950s. I was a scabby-kneed urchin with delusions of grandeur, desperate to swap our attic hovel for the ground-floor spread occupied by our flamboyant landlady, Miss Burchett. Her moody lair boasted a. Which leads me to tip number one – eccentric decor will lift you out of the doldrums. #antidepressant.

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