CHANGING Rooms fans were left stunned when Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen made over a home using fistfuls of pasta. The designer, 57, wanted a Japanese gong for the bedroom - but baulked at the fuss of getting a brass one.
Instead he knocked out an elegant-looking disc with gold paint, wood - and fusilli. Laurence, who had been challenged to make over a ten-year-old's bedroom and study space, ordered in a huge pot of Artex - textured paint.
But he raised eyebrows when he also pulled out a packet of dry pasta from the family's kitchen. He said: "I know you're going: 'I can't believe he's sticking pasta to Artex on MDF [wood] and apparently it's going to end up as an oriental gong.'" More on Changing RoomsRETRO FAIL Changing Rooms viewers rip into designers for 'destroying' property'BEAUTIFUL' Changing Rooms star breaks down after seeing emotional surprise in bedroom The star reassured Changing Rooms viewers: "It will, it will.
You trust me." His companion in interior design told him: "It's very 'primary school art project'." Laurence replied: "That makes me love it even more." But viewers were not convinced, with one tweeting sarcastically: "What ten year old doesn’t want their own artex Japanese gong above the bed? "With extra pasta." Most read in TVKEEP ON MOVING X Factor legend unrecognisable out jogging - but can you tell who it is?HOUSE THAT FOR RUDE Place in the Sun's Scarlette Douglas lost for words as buyers storm outDAN WITH IT Danny Dyer reveals real reason he quit EastEnders, confessing 'I would've died'CORRIE-OAKS Corrie star joins Hollyoaks as shock newcomer - and it’s his THIRD soap role Others wrote: "Pasta on top of Artex?!" while another insisted it "wasn't OK".
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