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The BBC home renovation that left woman sobbing 'I hate it!' - and horrified viewers jeering 'it's like something from a horror film!'

The BBC home renovation that left woman sobbing 'I hate it!' - and horrified viewers jeering 'it's like something from a horror film!'

Daily Mail​07-06-2025

Your Home In Their Hands follows a group of amateur interior designers as they set about providing their services to homeowners across the UK.
However, things aren't always smooth sailing, as teenage guest Jess Daley found out in the final episode of the series.
She was left crestfallen and tearful, admitting 'I hate it' as she was presented with her cartoon-themed bedroom, brought to life by the show's design apprentices.
The show debuted in 2014, staying on air for one series total, and followed homeowners who, unsure of where to begin on their design ideas, request the help of the show's amateur designers.
The designers get to work, under the watchful eye of interior designer Celia Sawyer, but this particular episode ended in disaster when the Daley family were left unimpressed and sobbing following the big reveal.
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Inside Jess' room, the amateur designers took the Cartoon theme to the next level, painting the teen's bedroom a stark white, before pencilling black crayon outlines on the windows, walls and wardrobes.
The room looked like a 5 year old's drawing book, and the young Ms Daley couldn't hold back her emotion, saying 'No, I hate it. I think it's just more childish than I wanted it to be, a lot more childish than I want it to be. In all fairness.'
Attempting to shine a positive light on the situation, the host intervened, suggesting, 'Nobody, none of your friends are gonna have a room like this. None of them.'
However, Jess's father responded, noting that the room's abstract uniqueness was probably why Jess didn't like it,
Viewers seconded his opinion, commenting on the room's obnoxious extravagance: 'The cartoon sketches on the walls didn't even appear to be properly painted nor did it have like a style. It just looked like a random bloke was given some paint and a brush.
'That girl's bedroom looks like something that you find in a serial killers house where he keeps his victims. Absolutely horrendous.'
'Come on that girl's room was terrible. Looked like my 8 year old wrote on the wall.'
'What theme did they choose? Horror? The bedroom looks like a poorly equipped Spooky House-Escape Room. The girl's room looked like something a psychotic little ghost girl would inhabit and paint in, before she lures you somewhere else and murder you. And who could sleep with that creepy lamphead-mannequin at the end of the bed facelessly staring at you.'
'The teenager's room looks like they've stepped into a version of the Take On Me music video.'
Jess wasn't the only member of the family facing a difficult reality that day; her father also experienced a harsh reality stepping into his own bedroom.
'I think it looks smaller!' he exclaimed, before admitting that there were many elements of the room that rubbed him the wrong way: 'I don't particularly like the case. I really don't like the squirrel.
'Not a big fan of the pearls. I don't like the drawers, I don't like the mannequin. And I really, I'm very undecided about the curtain effect.'

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