{"id":121531,"date":"2021-08-19T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/changing-rooms-review-design-so-dreadful-youll-be-scarred-for-life\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T03:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:10:45","slug":"changing-rooms-review-design-so-dreadful-youll-be-scarred-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/changing-rooms-review-design-so-dreadful-youll-be-scarred-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Rooms review \u2013 design so dreadful you\u2019ll be scarred for life"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen, the king of the MDF makeover, returns to our screens with Anna Richardson to create more spray-painted, gold-leafed visions from hellI remember the time Linda Barker put up shelves to house a woman\u2019s beloved teapot collection and they collapsed overnight, shattering every piece of china and the woman\u2019s heart into a thousand pieces. I remember Anna Ryder Richardson framing unmistakeably French underwear to decorate the walls of a revamped room and the owner shouting, \u201cWhy would I want this shit in my room! I\u2019ve got children!\u201dHowever. Those few minutes represent the full yield of genuine entertainment provided by 17 series of the makeover show Changing Rooms, which dominated the airwaves (a concept I\u2019ll have to explain later, O infant roamers of the fragmented contemporary TV landscape) from 1996 to 2004. It was presented by Carol Smillie, who was tall and beautiful and owned all of Scotland\u2019s teeth. Two sets of friends are allowed to redecorate a room in the other\u2019s house with the help of designers such as the aforementioned Barker, Ryder Richardson and \u2013 above all \u2013 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, along with \u201cHandy Andy\u201d, who led the carpenters, painters etc who did the actual work required to transfer the pure stupidity in their heads into three-dimensional stupidity that could be spray-painted and used to sit\/sleep\/cry on. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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