Article: A suburban house that shouts out LOUD; GROOVY: The dining room with its intense colours and, far left, the home the Shaws have transformed HOWARD WALKER STANDING OUT: James, Donna and Grace with her vivid bedroom, left, and, above, that nun.

Byline: LOWRI TURNER

Some people will do anything for their children, but it is certainly stretching things a bit for James and Donna Shaw to abandon their Twenties home in Newcastle upon Tyne so they can move to America to be nearer Donna's daughter, Amber. Especially as they have put so much effort into it.

Since moving in four years ago, the Shaws have completely restyled the house, injecting Donna's favourite bright colours into almost every room. The kitchen is a hot fuchsia, the dining room an intense turquoise, there is a coral hall and a cyclamen-pink bedroom.

'I don't like cream, I think it's really boring,' Donna, 44, declares, as if ...

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