Your Home In Their Hands (BBC1): TV Review

HOST: Celia Sawyer on Your Home In Their Hands.

YOUR HOME IN THEIR HANDS BBC1

"WOULD you," asks interior designer Celia Sawyer, "hand over your keys to complete strangers in exchange for a makeover?" No need Celia. We've got kids. Every wall comes with an individual hand mark.

Your Home In Their Hands sees desperate householders allow ambitious amateurs to redesign their homes. "Will it be tears of joy," asks Celia, "or just plain tears?" Depends how badly you want a day-glo orange toilet.

First up were Kelly and Andy, whose own tastes varied so much they'd compromised by allowing one another a wall in each room. okay, so long as one of you isn't into Glee and the other Hammer Horror.

They'd been given Kirsty, a fashion designer from Canada. "My style," she revealed, "is a maximalist, opulent, psychedelic fairyland." Or a migraine as it's otherwise known.

"It's a walk on the wild side," she added. I'd suggest she redesigns the lion enclosure at Longleat while they're still in there.

Kirsty was charged with transforming Kelly and Andy's bedroom. She came up with a red ceiling, leopard print carpet, and pink flowery walls. Someone should have told her it was for a middle-aged couple from the Home Counties, not Dorian from Birds Of A Feather.

"Now this," sighed Celia, "is what I call a mess. We've got purple, we've got red, we've got black, we've got blue, we've got leopard skin." That reminds me, when is the sale at DFS?

"I always think interior design should be like getting your clothes out the wardrobe," Celia noted. "You put them on and you have an outfit and it kind of goes together." Kirsty's template appeared to be Rod Stewart's stage gear circa 1978.

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