Changing Rooms Reviews

I must admit, the idea behind Changing Rooms seems to be pretty sound - until you see them in action and realise that most of what they do is like a cheap fix, a lot of it is tacky and that some people have actually disliked the new look so much they've actually had to redecorate all over again. Carole Smillie, all teeth and smiles, ...  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 of a ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Two couples re-decorate each-other's houses with the help of cutting edge design experts such as Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Hosted by Carol Smilie, the show more often than not changed an ordinary house into a hideous house, thanks to the MDF cutting skills of Handy Andy. The show was on the BBC and lasted half an ...  Read the complete review

Well...what can I say about Changing Rooms? A makeover show on the BBC. The presenters/decorators were Carol Smilie; Laurence Lewellynn-Bowen; Linda Barker; Handy-Andy Kane and a few others. The designers created some classy and memorable designs. However they were also guilty of creating some horrendous and revolting desings and many mishaps ...  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 house to ...  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 results ...  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 bit weird ...  Read the complete review

Changing Rooms is a well know television program where two couples (usually family, friends, neighbours etc) swap houses and decorate a room in each others house. They are given a budget (£500 I think?!) and have two days to completely change the room. They are each ‘given’ a designer to work with. These designers are ...  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 isn't ...  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, but it ...  Read the complete review

Time for a winge I think. I do try to alternate my ops from outrage to wonderment. It keeps me sane and you lot guessing. Changing Rooms. Is it still going? Yes, I'm afraid it is. Do I still watch it? Yes, I appear to. Why? No idea, but probably the comedy factor. There is something quite vindictive about ...  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 self-importance, ...  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 cares, Lozza ...  Read the complete review

Changing Rooms is perhaps the best known of the current suite of home makeover programmes currently on television. Presented by Carol Smillie, the basis of the programme is very simple. Two couples - who know each other as friends or family - agree to nominate a room in their house which the other couple then have two days and a budget of ...  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 soar. ...  Read the complete review

Changing rooms has got to be taken off the TV. Why?, you may ask....Well I will tell you. Changing rooms has spawned many different versions of itself throughout satellite, cable and terrestrial Television both here and abroard. There are Better homes on ITV, Change this and various other house improvements on Sky and the Living ...  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 watching such ...  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. Designers ...  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 are good, ...  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 your ...  Read the complete review