Changing Doom ; As Changing Rooms Is Axed, How Four Distraught Victims Redecorated (with a Lot More Taste Than Laurence and Co)

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'WORST OF ALL WAS THE HUGE TOY BOX THAT LOOKED LIKE A COFFIN' JO THOMPSON, 41, works part-time for her local GP. She lives with her husband, Steve, 46, an engineer and their five children in an eightbedroom house in Benenden, Kent.

Jo, whose playroom was made over in 1999 by Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen, says: IT'S a good thing I have a sense of humour. For some reason Laurence interpreted my wish for an Australian beach-hut playroom, full of whites and blues and muslin, as an Aboriginethemed design, painted 23 shades of brown. I had to laugh or I'd have cried.

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Changing Doom ; As Changing Rooms Is Axed, How Four Distraught Victims Redecorated (with a Lot More Taste Than Laurence and Co)

I applied to go on Changing Rooms because I thought it would be a giggle.

My husband and I had slowly been renovating the rest of the house, so I thought it would be nice to have someone else do the work for a change.

Friends thought I was mad. 'What if they wreck it?' they said. But I genuinely didn't think they could make it any worse. There was woodchip on the walls and a blue carpet. And besides, we could change it if we didn't like it.

The moment I got wind of there being something...

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