he once joked that his only phobias were magnolia paint and woodchip wallpaper but it appears that famously flamboyant interior designer laurence llewelyn bowen has had to swallow his pride after his garishly decorated cotswolds farmhouse failed to find a buyer in more than a year while the hated woodchip is nowhere to be seen, the walls have now been painted a bland but inoffensive shade of what looks suspiciously like magnolia garish prints: laurence and jackie llewelyn bowen at their former family home, which has been toned down in their attempts to find a buyer  ornate: dark colours and heavy furnishings gave the drawing room a baroque feel but it was not tempting anyone to make an offer  modern: now the llewelyn bowens have stripped back the furniture and have given the room a lick of magnolia paint to open up space  the couple's cotswolds farmhouse failed to find a buyer in more than a year, but the makeover may help sell the £16million home  meanwhile the price of the father of two’s former family home near cirencester, gloucestershire has also been dropped by more than £150,000 to £159million llewelyn bowen, 50, rose to fame with the bbc1 home improvement show changing rooms in the late 1990s, in which his unmistakeable handiwork did not always meet with the client’s approval famously, he once decorated a room entirely in animal print to which the shocked homeowners responded by calling it ‘a tart’s boudoir’ his own six bedroom house is an elegant, grade 2 listed 16th century farmhouse, but the interior – a riot of clashing prints and brightly patterned wallpaper – is certainly not to everybody’s tastes, and has led to it being dubbed ‘poshington manor’ before: the price of the father of two’s former family home near cirencester, gloucestershire, has also been dropped by more than £150,000 to £159million  white and bright: the kitchen and dining area now has a much more modern feel, making the room seem far more spacious  the walls of the six bedroom house have been painted a bland but inoffensive shade of what looks suspiciously like magnolia  before the makeover (pictured), a riot of clashing prints and brightly patterned wallpaper led to the home being dubbed 'poshington manor' designer: llewelyn bowen, 50, rose to fame with the bbc1 home improvement show changing rooms in the late 1990s  the grade 2 listed 16th century farmhouse is on the market for a cool £16million and has been on the market for more than a year  yesterday he admitted that after several prospective purchasers pulled out ‘at the 11th hour’ due to ‘the shifting sands of government policy’ he had opted to whitewash the interior – although he insisted it wasn’t because buyers did not share his trademark style ‘devoid of furniture, our house looked a tad tired and scruffy,’ he explained in the sunday times ‘and we discovered incidents of “i hate dad and mum” graffiti and puppy chew marks’ he added: ‘my long held faith in selling your home with llb character and design personality intact remains unbroken’ llewelyn bowen, who is now working on a 10,000 sq ft barn conversion nearby along with his wife, jackie, and daughters cecile and hermione, said his advice for fellow vendors was that first impressions mattered far more than individual taste ‘if you want to attract the right sort of buyer, make sure the property looks as good as possible,’ he added in a 2007 magazine profile, llewelyn bowen said his twin phobias were ‘magnolia and woodchip wallpaper’ explaining how he had received such bizarre briefs from clients that there was little which could now shock him, he added: ‘i think the most outlandish thing they’ve ever asked me to do is paint a room magnolia’
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