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COLOUR therapy

After 19 years in her previous home, it took a long time and countless décor changes before Elisha Utley felt truly settled in her new place. ‘I cried for the first year,’ she says. ‘In fact, I felt heartbroken – it just didn’t feel like home.’

Elisha had wanted to move before her youngest daughter Daisy started school and had set her heart on a lakeside estate a few miles away. Constructed in 2004, it had

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