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Wonder walls: inside a colourful Kent cottage Serena Fokschaner Look out for my car, it’s quite unusual,” says Lizzie Montgomery, giving directions to her home in a village in Kent. The designer has a knack for vivacious, colourful textiles, so I’m expecting, at the very least, a fuchsia pickup. The reality is more interesting. Montgomery’s runaround is a curvy Nissan, custom printed with one of her cheerful, polychromatic patterns. There’s an equally exuberant feel to the house she shares with her husband, Patrick, and their Bengal cats, Oscar and Hilda. Montgomery, whose clients include the Victoria & Albert Museum and Brabantia, bought the Arts and Crafts-style house in 2017. Since then, this self-confessed “pattern obsessive” has steadily transformed the interior, layering print and texture with intense colour, like a collagist tweaking a composition. ....