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Lydia Patrick, SWNS & Stephanie Wareham

Mum turned her home into a pastel pink palace - painting every room and saving £10k by doing DIY

Meet the woman turned her home a pastel pink palace - painting every room a shade of the colour and saving £10k by doing her own decorating and DIY. Sophia Ferrari-Wills, 35, bought her 1960s cottage with husband, Chris, 42, a sales manager, in October 2019.

The mum-of-two set to work painting the magnolia walls pink and creating her fairy-tale vision for a "pastel whimsical home". In March 2020, she started uploading photos of her pastel home to Instagram and was able to leave her full-time job as a midwife in April 2021 to pursue interior influencing after gaining 310k followers.

The home is now a pastel pink paradise - kitted out with a mermaid bathroom, forest playroom, ice cream office and tree house for her daughters, Clemmie, four and Minnie, 20 months, to enjoy. Sophia, a content creator, from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, said: "I'm a magpie for pastel and candy style things.

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