TV makeover adds £16k to house price

Forklift driver Ronden Etheridge, 34, and Del Evans, 28, had their house in Bayston Hill featured on Channel 4's daytime property programme The Renovation Game, presented by former Brookside actor Simon O'Brien.

A team of designers and decorators spent three days and £3,000 on the makeover in June.

Over the course of the hour-long show, viewers saw the couple's home in Meadowbrook be totally transformed.

A monochrome colour scheme was put in place and the kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom were all given a major overhaul.

And the design team achieved its aim of adding value to the property – deciding it had been pushed up from £131,000 to more than £147,000.

Del, who works for Shropshire Council, said they had been thrilled with how their home was transformed and were amazed at how different it now looked.

She said: "I thought it was lovely. It did feel like a different house. It was a bit of a shock to begin with, but we absolutely love it."

She was at work when the programme was filmed, and the pair threw a party on Monday evening and invited around 15 friends to their home to watch the show go out.

The pair applied for the help of The Renovation Game team after reading an article in our sister paper the Shrewsbury Chronicle earlier this year about producers looking for participants in the area.

Del said: "I saw an article in the Chronicle and I applied, not expecting to hear anything back.

"But we heard straight back from the show – they sent me an application and it went from there."

Del said all of the local businesses who helped with the transformation – including Shropshire Carpets, SDM Electrics and KV Bishton Plumbing and Heating, had been 'fantastic'.

During the course of filming Ronden and Del also paid a visit to family-run lighting shop The Lighthouse in Shrewsbury's Longden Coleham.

Derek Ruddock, whose son Jonathan owns The Lighthouse, said it had been brilliant to feature on the TV programme – adding that the coverage was already resulting in extra sales.

He said within 30 minutes of the programme finishing, the shop had several phone calls from viewers.

"As a result of the programme, a woman came in and said 'I have just been watching it on TV' and she bought one of the fittings featured on the programme," he said.

Mr Ruddock said producers contacted the shop back in June after seeing its website and the film crew visited the shop shortly afterwards.

He said: "They came and were here for two hours. They were absolutely wonderful, friendly people."