article_snippet: — the neon-hued kitchen, the gravy-coloured drawing room, the tree-painted bedroom, the giant peony print wallpaper, the stone lions by the front door
article_snippet: ‘dark, drab and depressing’ homes.
article_snippet: This usually involved the great man insisting that they threw out they neutral, ‘suburban’ colour schemes and replace ‘suburban’ colour schemes with blood-red walls, furniture made from repurposed fruit crates painted in Liquorice Allsorts colours and perhaps a dado-height glitter frieze of unicorns and dodos.
article_snippet: But the flamboyant designer has been forced to tone down the decor of the flamboyant designer home, in a bid to appeal to buyers .
article_snippet: What could be nicer than a cool, quiet room in pale cream, a Swedish-style template of white and grey, a ‘greige’ — grey-beige — horizon on a rolling wallscape of Farrow & Ball’s eternally popular paint shade Elephant’s Breath?
article_snippet: Perhaps it was the orange and pink Manuel Canovas toile wallpaper in the kitchen?
article_snippet: it came with a matching fabric, with which LLB had covered the seven lampshades in the kitchen.
article_snippet: There was matching orange shelving, ornate mirrored sconces and a kitchen table covered with a red daisy Marimekko print.
article_snippet: The bathroom was black, the bedroom had trees painted along the wall, their dining room looked like a passageway in a country house hotel called Flouncy Towers.
article_snippet: The bathroom was packed with heavy, shiny drapes, chocolate walls with a nude over the fireplace, burgundy leather chairs, knick-knacks on radiator shelves and elaborate branches of faux coral used as curtain tiebacks.
article_snippet: The fancy-shmancy has been ripped out, replaced with acres of cool beige and some John Lewis Berkley hotel lamps.