ALL those hours watching designers wreak havoc on innocent families' living rooms. All our failed attempts to follow their lead by creating disastrous mock-Gothic radiator covers out of MDF. Now, finally, we have a chance of revenge.

We need the new owner of South Lodge near Dunnington to help. She should invite Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and the Changing Rooms team, House Doctor Ann Maurice and the rest of the property makeover army to South Lodge and ask them to make it nice.

One look at the shabby, cluttered, unlit house would send them screaming into the night, vowing never to pick up a stencilling kit again.

Updated: 10:46 Thursday, April 17, 2003