Changing Rooms Reviews

Before the days when every show was either centred around cooking, gardening or interior design There was nothing much in the way of reality shows on the television. However one programme which became a massive success and paved the way for interior design esqe programmes was changing rooms. Changing rooms was aired on bbc. It ...  Read the complete review

Changing Rooms. Even though it has been some years since i last saw this I can still recall it very well, It was a do it yourself programme with a twist , the twist being that it was two couples who swapped houses and redesigned a room in each others houses. It was presented by Carole Smille whom I think can be blamed for ...  Read the complete review

Back in the mid nineties this was must watch TV. I had totally forgotten about it until this weekend when I was clearing some books out and came across a changing rooms book I had been given for christmas one year. The idea of the programme was that two sets of friends would swap houses for a couple of days and with the help ...  Read the complete review

I would never in a million years let the Changing Room team touch any of my rooms - not even the guinea pig's hutch. First of all, they must have a team of a hundred workers out of camera view for all the work to be completed in the time they state. Smiley Smiley Carole Smilley - what a silly woman, flitting from ...  Read the complete review

I'm sorry but in some ways changing rooms is ruining my reputation! As a designer myself, I am down to earth but resently people persume that I'm going to rip them off, some think that I would be like Linda barker,Maybe its my hair colour! As for Linda barker she recently did a room in a fantasy theme but when the end ...  Read the complete review

I feel quite conned. When I first heard of Changing Rooms I pictured a girls sixth form swimming gala with hidden cameras. I am not a happy bunny. What I want to know though is why do they do everything so cheap? I think I would rather save up and get the job done properly. Oh yeah, and why do they stencil everything? Seems a ...  Read the complete review

what on earth does the BBC ever think that Changing Rooms is fashionable and gives the publis top tips on DIY. The programme is basically about 2 designers with their wacky ideas decorating (or should i say destroying) 2 neighbours houses. The concept sounds good, but the programme is rushed into the weekend - and surely this ...  Read the complete review

TV Rooms is on as I speak, I am sat here writing about it, as I am watching it. I have watched it over the past year, as I have just started getting in o DIY. It helps me quite alot as it shows me how to do simple DIY jobs such as putting various types of shelves up, and putting curtain rails up! Simple stuff, ...  Read the complete review

Take some nauseous presenters and "designers", add a whole lot of jobs NOT well done and you have the recipe for the disasters that pass as makeovers on this show. If you really think about it, the fact that two of these so-called designers flaunt their double-barrelled names at every turn, and are mired in their own ...  Read the complete review

Come on, now, you really can't hope to get through an entire review of Changing Rooms and not talk about that jerk, Laurence Llewellwyn Bowen, now can you? So, let's get the embarrassing thing out of the way first. As awful television personalities go, Laurence Llewellwyn Bowen (Lewelin, Lewwelynn? Ah, who ...  Read the complete review

Changing Rooms is the grandparent of the current crop of DIY programmes that litter our TV schedules (real rooms, house invaders, better homes, House doctor etc etc). It has made stars of its designers ; Laurence Llewyllyn Bowen, Anna Ryder Richardson, Linda Barker, Graham Wynne et all and made the popularity of Carol Smillie ...  Read the complete review

This is probably the best of the DIY shows, that have taken grip of the country. Along with show's like DIY SOS, Ground force and Better homes, the country has become obsessed with home improvements. I can't critize, due to the fact that I am busily decorating my boyfriends house at the moment. But after ...  Read the complete review

Changing rooms is a program that is shown on BBC 1 at 8:30 on Mondays. It is a makeover show which is presented by Carol Smillie. The program travels around the country to different houses. Where they go to two houses and do them up. Two people from each house swop keys with the other two and help the designer to make the house over. ...  Read the complete review

... you'd have to be insane to go on it. The whole concept isn't exactly sensible. You let your neighbours into your house with some designer, and they completely turn around everything in the chosen room. Almost every single room I've seen redecorated on the show has ended up over the top. Yes, sometimes the rooms ...  Read the complete review

Hosted by the lovelly Carole Smiley, changing rooms gives people the chance to have one of their rooms in their house changed by professional designers. But there is a twist the people helping the designers are your friends, why you ask. Well your friends help re-design a room in your house and you help the designers change a room in ...  Read the complete review

This is a program in which two pairs of friends swap houses and decorate a selected room in the others house in two days. Fortunately the friends are each given a designer to help them come up with some ideas. If it wasn't for the designers I would hate to see what they come up because by the look of some of their houses they have ...  Read the complete review

This an entertaining programme which presented in a light, chatty style. There are lots of good ideas but I do sometimes wonder just how durable the effects are.They are always done so quickly and cheaply. You can always repaint a wall or change the lampshades but I was a bit concerned at a recent project that required a sofa to ...  Read the complete review

Tacks, nails, MDF,fabrics aarrgh!!!!!! Anything to hide the botch jobs they perform! Tonights programme had me cringing. One couple had opted to change their living room the other their bedroom. Fortunately both couples were very strong willed and refused to let the designers bully them. Good for them! One designer pulled the ...  Read the complete review

I feel that Laurence really is the true star of the BBC Changing Rooms programme. Unfortunately, I feel that he is too often pressurised by the programme makers into creating rooms that will shock, rather than please, in order to create a more controversial programme to keep viewing figures up. I was lucky enough to attend a workshop ...  Read the complete review

If you want to redo a room in your house it would be far better to starve yourself in order to save the money to get it done properly, than call in the Changing Rooms 'team'. Whilst the upset and shock of the victims makes this show funny in an other-people's-misfortune-entertains kinda way, anyone who thinks that ...  Read the complete review