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‘I’ll never stop updating my home with colour’

Looking at Anna and Tim Stark’s bright Oxfordshire home, it’s hard to believe it was painted top-to-bottom in beige when they moved in. ‘As a kind gesture, the previous owners painted over their orange walls in magnolia for us. They didn’t realise that we actually loved their brave colour choices,’ says Anna. ‘The former owners walked past the house a week after we moved in and saw our decorator unloading tin after tin of paint. They were so surprised!’

After ten years of living with each other, this was the first home Anna and her husband Tim bought together, and Anna had big ideas for it. ‘In 2002, I moved into the previous house Tim owned and it was very white and minimal.

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