Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, known for his bold fashion and unique interior design ideas, is no stranger to the term 'outrageous'. His new show, Outrageous Homes, celebrates eccentric homeowners who, like Laurence, dare to defy traditional decor. The 59 year old designer, who lives in the Cotswolds and is famed for his role in the BBC's Changing Rooms during the Nineties, cheerfully admits that the concept of the show "quite obviously came out of a very boozy lunch".
He explains: "We made it a bit like Eurotrash so it was funny, rather than being all about how much or how little your house is worth, and whether people need to decorate in a certain way. Why not just make a celebratory series about the fact everybody is a bit different? "There are some people that are so different, and so happy about being so different, that when they come to decorate, they want to just do something that nobody in their right mind would ever want to do, that would take the concept of flying a freak flag into a completely different stratosphere. "It's the home design equivalent of Naked Attraction.
Yes, it's all a bit giggly, it's all a bit, 'Oh, goodness me look at that look how that dangles! '". One of the highlights of the four-part series is a couple whose entire home and wardrobe scream gothic vampire fantasy, complete with a black lace four-poster bed, a bathroom decked out in red tiles, and a walk-in wardrobe that's simply to die for. "We hang out with a couple who want to be 14th century Tra.
