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Emma Magnus

BIZARRE: Magnolia is the uk s most hated paint colour making a comeback - You Need To See This

Wild Wonder is Dulux’s colour of the year for 2023

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Natalie Louise Burrows lives in military barracks in Bedfordshire with her husband, who has served in the armed forces for 20 years. Her home is almost perfect: there is a river outside with a weir and resident swans, ducks and deer. But there is one problem: the magnolia walls. And it’s all of them.

“It’s just a nothing colour,” says Burrows, who is a nutritional therapist and functional medicine health coach. “It’s not a colour that gives character and it’s not white, so the place feels dull, a little dark, and not very fresh.”

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