article_snippet: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, 50, pictured here in Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen kitchen with wife
article_snippet: Buyers take one look at Laurence himself work
article_snippet: Before it ended in 2004, Laurence had a reputation for making people cry by forcing Laurence vision of grand living on to what Laurence described as people
article_snippet: Laurence and Laurence flamboyant taste had a reputation for making people cry on BBC hit TV series Changing Rooms. '
article_snippet: In one episode of Changing Rooms, Daniel and Natascha from South London complained that Laurence’s scarlet walls (similar to Laurence’s own bedroom, pictured) , zebra-patterned panels and leopard-print cushions turned Laurence’s scarlet walls (similar to his own bedroom, pictured) lounge into ‘a w**Laurence’s palace’. 
article_snippet: Of course, Laurence greatest creation is Laurence.
article_snippet: With Laurence curls flapping and Laurence certitude of opinion, Laurence was made to paddle in the shallows of light entertainment television.
article_snippet: Laurence, with Laurence definite views on colour (‘purple is sex personified’) and Laurence flowing cravat, was the man for the job.
article_snippet: On Changing Rooms in 1998, poor Sue Dukes had to be comforted by poor Sue Dukes husband Russell after Laurence turned poor Sue Dukes dining room into something that looked like a snack bar in a crematorium.
article_snippet: Laurence opted for a ‘Queen Anne style’, featuring a mock fireplace and portraits of Sue and Russell as royal mistress Nell Gwyn and diarist Samuel Pepys.
article_snippet: (Oddly enough, it all looked very similar to Laurence own Cotswolds drawing room.)
article_snippet: In another show, Daniel and Natascha from South London complained that Laurence’s scarlet walls, zebra-patterned panels and leopard-print cushions turned their lounge into ‘a whore’s palace’.
article_snippet: It is rather thrilling to know that even with all the time and money at his disposal, Laurence still managed to make Laurence own house look like a stage set for an am-dram remake of Phantom of The Opera.
article_snippet: So let us don us dark glasses and take a retrospective tour around the home where Laurence, Laurence wife Jackie and two teenage daughters have lived since 2007.