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5 unusual facts about Changing Rooms


Changing Rooms

The show has been franchised and variations of it appear in several other countries, sometimes with a different name - such as Trading Spaces in United States.

In one episode, a Linda Barker room was being built to accommodate a large collection of teapots.

DIY SOS

Launched in 1999, after audience figures showed interest in other home make-over shows such as Changing Rooms, DIY SOS is a weekly full builder and designer level renovation of a section of a viewers home, taken on by a team of professionals after a viewers DIY project has gone wrong and not been finished.

Suzie Wilks

She was recruited to host Changing Rooms (1998–2005), the Australian version of the very successful BBC lifestyle program, which premiered on the Nine Network in September 1998.

Trading Spaces

Anna Ryder Richardson (one episode; from Changing Rooms; rebroadcast as "British Invasion" on The Best Of Trading Spaces episode 17, January 18, 2011)



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Abildsø IL

The club owns a large football field, and a club house with four changing rooms at Østensjøvannet.

Andy Kane

Ty Pennington, equivalent on Trading Spaces, the US derivative of Changing Rooms

Anna Ryder Richardson

When she heard that Anna had finally pierced her ears, fellow Changing Rooms designer Linda Barker gave her a pair of large silver hoop earrings.

Belle Tout lighthouse

The glass round room which once housed the light itself was featured on the popular BBC television show Changing Rooms, wherein it was re-designed by celebrity interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Borough United F.C.

A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Slovakian ŠK Slovan Bratislava.

Cherry Willingham Community School

A new sports complex, complete with dance studio, weights room and gymnasium, changing rooms and a large main sports hall, was officially opened on 10 October 2001 by Princess Alexandra.

Duns RFC

The ongoing construction of a new Berwickshire High School with integrated sports facilities (including rugby pitches and floodlighting together with changing rooms, training areas, a gym and an all-weather pitch) beside the old Berwickshire High School on the Langtongate (between Clockmill and Duns), has led to talk of the rugby club selling Hardens Field to the developers of the housing estate that surrounds it, and moving to the school fields.

Launceston RUFC

By Spring 1949, the club had its own ground that it rented from the council (now a factory site of its main sponsor DS Smith Plc), with scaffolding poles for goal posts and ex-army huts for changing rooms and a clubhouse.

Portsmouth Rugby Football Club

After the end of the hostilities Portsmouth was left with no ground, as Rat Lane had been taken over by the War Office, and found temporary accommodation at a pitch in Denmead with changing rooms being provided by the Fox and Hounds Public House.

The Parvatibai Chowgule College

ft. which is equipped with sports and recreational fitness facility featuring: cardio equipment, selector machines, free weights, indoor running track, plyometrics platform, dot drill mats, Jacuzzi, steam bath and changing rooms for men and women.