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Gogglebox homes under fire - Changing Rooms' Laurence Llewelyn Bowen lays into 'major design fail' he hates


Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen chats to OK! about his new Channel 4 show Outrageous Homes, how he found meeting "audacious homeowners" and why the "Gogglebox look" is his big pet peeve

From a Nottingham man, Jack, who’s transformed his home into a two-storey fishtank to an “elegant lady” who’s purchased the late Felix Dennis’s pad in Warwickshire, Laurence visits a number of intriguing homeowners. Laurence visits homeowner Jack, who has turned his house into an aquarium (Image: Channel 4)“There’s Trevor just outside Heathrow – he’s been building a Venetian palazzo in an underground bunker for the last 30 years and he’s now 86,” he says. Laurence reveals that one of his pet peeves is the "Gogglebox look" in British living rooms (Image: Channel 4)“If your home is just grey like everybody else’s and you’ve got those three bloody pebbles on the wall from Ikea, you’re doing the job wrong.

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