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Colour BALANCE

Despite the whistle-stop nature of her first viewing, Amelia Harvey immediately saw how she could transform this pretty Cotswolds cottage into a colourful bolthole. Her London home, with its bleached oak flooring and Crittall doors, ‘has a pared-back, modern look’, she explains. ‘But here, I wanted to be more daring, to complement and enhance the cottage’s charming idiosyncrasies.’

Having been brought up in the countryside, Amelia has happy memories of halcyon rural days, and although firmly settled in the city, she had long-wanted

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