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Owain
 
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Default New Houses - any good?

"Terry" wrote
| It and some other programmes such as redecorating one room in
| your neighbours house in 24 hours for $1000 or less, called IIRC,
| "Changing places".

Changing Rooms?

The "you don't think they'll mind if you nail some MDF to granny's antique
furniture and paint it to look Egyptian" school of interior des, er,
disaster.

The British version had Carol or Linda or whoever (can't remember which)
design some suspended glass shelves for the house owner's collection of
(some rather valuable) china teapots.

The room was 'dressed' and all the teapots in place on the glass shelves
suspended by rope from the ceiling, and everyone was in another room (the
owner in another house) when

CRASH TINKLE TINKLE

The ceiling fixings gave way and the entire caboodle descended
gravitationally floorwards.

Carol or Linda or whoever had to go round to the owner and say, "you know
your collection of teapots? well, they're *all* gone". More smashed than a
Clyde shipwelder after closing time on payday.

Owain