Changing Rooms

[catorman]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "alyeskakc" <alyeskakc at n...> wrote:
> I love Changing Rooms and am hopelessly addicted to watching it and 
> Ground Force. Of course it may have something to do with Handy Andy 
> and Tommy Walsh, I really like them both.
> 
> I do like most of the rooms, however some of them are just really 
> foul. The prepertrator of most of these foul rooms is, IMHO, 
Laurence 
> Llewelyn-Bowen. Every once in a while he pulls of a nice design but 
> for the most part his rooms are just hideous beyond description. 

I think I've mentioned this before on this list, but Laurence 
Llewelyn-Bowen used to live round the corner from me in Blackheath.  
His house was on the market a couple of years ago, and looking at the 
interior shots gave me the impression that he doesn't follow the same 
rules when his own living space is involved - everything was in 
soothing, muted shades of lilac and pale blue (which I wouldn't like 
either - too cold).

He moved to Greenwich (into a house that my husband and I looked 
at).  I know the couple he bought it from, as they are members of my 
gym, and they were quite interested in what he was going to do with 
the place, as it's a very nice Georgian house.  However, he seems to 
be going through a lilac phase, because that's what he's done again.

I really don't like his Changing Rooms stuff, but I do like some of 
the things he's done with a much bigger budget - such as those on the 
Home Front programme with the Irish gardener whose name I always 
forget how to spell.

Catherine