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Barry Du Bois ‘EVERY DAY WITH MY SON IS A BLESSING’

Barry Du Bois often has the sagest of advice. Not only has he provided renovating tips to Aussies in his 11-year stint on The Living Room, but he’s also a New Idea columnist and a dad of two kids who often turn to him for answers.

Yet overcoming dark thoughts, or a brush with the “dark dog” as Baz puts it, and providing guidance on

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