Changing Rooms, a TV show that began in 1996, showed couples redecorating each other's houses, and was the first reality show with a self-improvement or makeover theme.

The British show Changing Rooms, beginning in 1996 ( later remade in the US as Trading Spaces ) was the first such renovation show that added a game show feel with different weekly contestants.

The format of the show was based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms.

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

* Andy Kane ( 2002 – 2003, 2007 ; a. k. a. Handy Andy of Changing Rooms )

In the early days, the channel focused on repeats of popular lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.

Smillie is well known for presenting the award winning BBC series Changing Rooms, which won her a National Television Award for Most Popular Factual Programme in 1998.

However, it was the DIY programme Changing Rooms that really established her name, and led to her presenting other primetime shows for the BBC, such as the National Lottery and her own morning chat show Smillie's People.

Smillie ’ s earliest memories are of having her nappy changed and, when put in her pram to go to sleep, being frightened by the wallpaper, which she finds amusing considering her later fame with the television programme Changing Rooms.

In 1996, Smillie became the original presenter of BBC Two's new DIY show Changing Rooms.

During her time on the show, Smillie and the Changing Rooms team won A National TV Award and an INDIE Award and were BAFTA nominated.

Michael Aspel, surprising her with the Book at a recording of Changing Rooms.

In 2003, after leaving Changing Rooms, Smillie departed the BBC for the Channel five show Dream Holiday Homes.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen ( born 11 March 1965 ) is a successful homestyle consultant best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme Changing Rooms.

On Changing Rooms, he is occasionally jocularly styled " Lord Laurence ", a play on Laurence Olivier and Llewelyn-Bowen's flamboyance.

His wife Jackie ( born in 1964 ), an author, had heard through her agent that a production company was searching for a designer and in 1996 he appeared on the first episode of Changing Rooms.

He has also made a guest appearance on Changing Rooms American counterpart, Trading Spaces.

They specialise in inexpensive programming that is appealing to television executives in the modern multi-channel world, and other Endemol programmes in this vein include Changing Rooms, Ready Steady Cook, Ground Force, International King of Sports, Space Cadets, Fear Factor and Wipeout.

* When Changing Rooms Met Ground Force: 12 February 2000

* When Changing Rooms Met Ground Force 2: 24 October 2000

The format of the show is similar to TLC's Trading Spaces ( which, in turn, is based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms ).

In addition the sportsfield complex comprises full size Gaelic games, soccer and rugby pitches as well as a modern pavilion with Changing Rooms, First Aid room, Weights Room and facilities for officials.

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In 1996, had success writing the theme tune for BBC One's DIY series Changing Rooms.

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* Changing The Times, is an Alternate History Electronic Magazine written and maintained by alternate historians.

Changing the balance of serotonin and norepinephrine would help the brain cells send and receive messages, therefore boosting the mood, which also is the main reason why these types of medications are called dual reuptake inhibitors.

Changing the parameter a is equivalent to a uniform scaling of the curve.

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

Changing between ride and hi-hat, or between either and a leaner sound with neither, is often used to mark a change from one passage to another, for example to distinguish verse and chorus.

Changing the coordinates of a point set referring to one datum, so to make them refer to another datum, is called a datum transformation.

As part of University Museums, the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall is the home of the Christian Petersen Art Collection, the Art on Campus Program, the University Museums ’ Visual Literacy and Learning Program, and Contemporary Changing Art Exhibitions Program.

** Hysteresis: Changing or reversing the magnetic field in the core also causes losses due to the motion of the tiny magnetic domains it is composed of.

Changing the order of stitches from one row to the next, usually with the help of a cable needle or stitch holder, is key to cable knitting, producing an endless variety of cables, honeycombs, ropes, and Aran sweater patterning.

Groups opposing certain generally accepted scientific views on evolution, second-hand smoke, AIDS, and other politically contentious scientific matters argue that PC is responsible for the failure of their perspectives to receive a fair public hearing ; thus, in Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, Assoc.

Changing the lithography wavelength is significantly limited by absorption.

* September 13: The ' Star-Spangled Banner ' is played during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.

Changing to single user run level mode for updating is not recommended.

This is when a Taoist with the pen name " Purple Coagulation Man of the Way " wrote the Sinews Changing Classic in 1624, but claimed to have discovered it.

Changing the payout percentage after a slot machine has been placed on the gaming floor requires a physical swap of the software or firmware, which is usually stored on an EPROM but may be loaded onto non-volatile random access memory ( NVRAM ) or even stored on CD-ROM or DVD, depending on the capabilities of the machine and the applicable regulations.

Changing the current in the primary coil changes the magnetic flux that is developed.

Changing the grid voltage will change the plate current ; by suitable choice of a plate load resistor, amplification is obtained.

Changing nomenclature can confuse: in current American terminology a " switch " now frequently refers to a system which is also called a " telephone exchange " ( the usual term in English )-- that is, a large collection of selectors of some sort within a building.

Changing climate is expected to alter the relationship between cloud ice and supercooled cloud water, which in turn would influence the microphysics of the cloud which would result in changes in the radiative properties of the cloud.

Changing those programs in ways that reduce the growth of costs — which will be difficult, in part because of the complexity of health policy choices — is ultimately the nation ’ s central long-term challenge in setting federal fiscal policy.

Changing the system to eliminate the balance between public and private service providers to a completely public system is one such alternative.

Changing radio propagation for long-distance communications due to the 11-year sunspot cycle is a factor at these frequencies.