More More More: Making Maximalism Work in Your Home and Life

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You do need to curate what you got. Mark it out as being incredibly special and very particular to you," says LLB, who advises people to seek out and visually celebrate their personal treasures, heirlooms, family photos and souvenirs. The 'Owen' suite, inspired by Victorian 'patternista' and architect, Owen Jones, using patterns from the Llewelyn-Bowen Fabric Collection, and featuring LLB wallpaper available from wallpaperdirect.com (Image: Steve Thorp) I've always said right from the beginning of Changing Rooms (in 1996) that celebrating existence through objects is basically the factory setting of humanity. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in the 'May Morris' suite at The Dial House, Bourton-on-the-Water (Image: Steve Thorp)

Next year, he’ll be presenting the long-awaited new series of Changing Rooms for Channel 4, this time alongside Davina McCall. His aim for the show is simple: colour. Of course LLB advocates for your home to be exactly how you want it to be. And if minimalism is what you yearn for then go for it – LLB is with you all the way regarding his desire for people to surround themselves with an interior that they love. However he doesn't think it suits the majority of Welsh homes or his mantra that your home should cocoon you, make you feel safe and warm – surely a white box just doesn't give off that vibe? Laurence's new book rides on the crest of a maximalism wave that is currently flooding the interiors world, creating unique homes across the land, some of which are likely to be featured in Laurence's new and up-coming Channel 4 show Outrageous Homes with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. And from there, the results vary but a maximalist could easily Kondo their surroundings and remain maximal. Llewelyn-Bowen appeared as a judge on the 2010 series of the ITV reality talent show Popstar to Operastar as a critic alongside Meat Loaf, and classically trained mentors Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazón. The series was hosted by Myleene Klass and Alan Titchmarsh.

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Maximalism is not clutter. It’s a celebration of life, the world around us, culture, nature, people etc. It’s a way to display and honour the things that make us smile, remember happy moments, and feel warmth and love. More, more, more is a wonderful explanation of why maximalism is the way forward and realistically the “norm” without realisation in a society that want to make a house feel like a home and lived in. LLB's new book can help you navigate away from the danger of journeying towards cat lady to instead arrive at the destination of curated loveliness. He said: "The book is not a style file, it's not a prescriptive way of doing it, but what it does do is show you why and how maximalism works. I'm not a huge fan of minimalism but I do like when it's done well and enhances an environment rather than creating a sterile feel. In 2017, he joined Australia's Seven Network reality renovation series House Rules as a new judge. [15] [16] In 2020, Llewelyn-Bowen designed a furniture collection with British furniture manufacturer, wholesaler and dropshipper Artisan Furniture, consisting of handmade, solid wood furniture designs showcasing carving, painted and dark stained furniture pieces. [32] The LUX collection by Llewelyn-Bowen is set to be available for both dropship [33] and wholesale. [34] Personal life [ edit ]

In 2009 Llewelyn-Bowen released two ranges of papercrafting products in conjunction with Trimcraft, called Retro Rose and Venaissence. [26] In 2017, he was co-presenter alongside Neville Knott on the Irish TV3 lifestyle program Showhouse Showdown (Vision Independent Productions).Although there are no Northern Ireland homes featured in the current Changing Rooms series, he very much hopes to bring the show over here in the future. Dolenec, Nina (8 April 2022). "Pilgrimage: The Road to the Scottish Isles cast – meet the celebrities". Radio Times . Retrieved 11 October 2022.

I wanted to make a very strong link between the Cotswolds and the Arts and Crafts movement,’ he continues. ‘It was people like Ashbee, Owen Jones, Walter Crane – and we all know about William Morris, of course – who all used the Cotswolds as a real springboard for all that we love about the movement; its chunky integrity and ‘Britishness’.’I did enjoy the introduction. It felt cheeky and fun, a tongue-in-cheek poke at the worship of griege and the cult of Marie Kondo and her decluttering advice.

He describes his childhood as wonderfully suburban. “All my memories look as though they are hand-painted illustrations from a Ladybird book,” he says. “My father had a hat and a bow tie, and my mother wore gloves. It was very much of its time. It seemed to slide very implacably through the 70s without actually engaging with any of that excitement.”Britons think that good taste is somehow unobtainable because you have to be ridiculously posh, and bad taste is to be feared because you will be judged.’ Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Llewelyn-Bowen is also a patron of the children's charity MERU, co-founded by his father Trefor Llewelyn-Bowen with Bill Bond in 1970. The Magical Journey: Llewelyn-Bowen Christmas park shuts down". BBC News. 16 December 2014 . Retrieved 25 September 2015. Maximalism can combine items from any era, not just the distant past (Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne) It could be a childhood memory or a memento from a boozy lunch you spent with someone. These are literal souvenirs of a life well lived, and they should not be confined to 'storage', but celebrated in the space that you inhabit."