I saw the programme - the house was truly hideous before the designers got to it, but it was completely featureless and impersonal once they had finished.

My idea of hell would be to go away and come back to find someone who doesn't know me had redecorated the house or ripped up my garden. Absolute hell would be if I was sent away on a cruise.

Oh, and they spent 10 minutes arguing about the colour of the kitchen units. They'd ordered cream but got banana milk yellow. Instead of getting onto the suppliers, they bitched and whined at the poor design assistant who had the job of doing the actual work whilst they sat around in a show home style pad, doing the sum total of f*&k all. In the end, they got a cream, yellow and chocolate brown kitchen with tiles that looked like a Victorian privvy and had as much charm and warmth as one.

One suspects that these designers have never been to a folk event and would be horrified if they did - those tents just have NO style, and WHO thought mud would be a good colour for the floor, with all those rainbow skirts and arran sweaters?

LTS