In this country we’re not usually known for shriekingly loud wall paper designs or flambouyant soft furnishings. As our houses tend to be much smaller than in some countries, we have let past generations influence us with their reserved colourways and lack of inspiration when it comes to ‘doing up the front room’. It’s quite refreshing to be able to watch the many home style daytime tv programmes – I particularly like make-overs where a team of ‘experts’ get to work on somewhere small and tediously ghastly. I have to say that some of the results at the end of the programme are equally ghastly, but it would be a boring show otherwise! However the point of the programme is to encourage people to take chances, make a splash and get out there and decorate – Doing up one room at a time, from ceiling to floor can be utterly exhausting and it takes practice to get each task done but it will be worth it.