Inspiring a whole generation of DIY home designers, Changing Rooms showed you how to transform your home with a limited budget but a lot of imagination.

Launching onto our screens back in 1996 the show featured friends or neighbours swapping homes and decorating a room in the other person’s house.

Originally presented by Carol Smillie, there were also a host of talented designers featured and, of course, Cockney carpenter, "Handy" Andy Kane.

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After eight years and 17 series, the original run finally came to an end in 2004.

How to apply for Changing Rooms

After 15 years away, the much-loved programme is back, bringing with it colour, patterns, textures and imagination.

The series promises to be packed full of interior design tips and DIY suggestions to add ingenious design solutions to unloved corners of UK homes.

Production company Shine TV are looking for new participants, asking: “Is your bedroom bland, living room lacklustre, dining room dull or office space overcrowded?

“Would you love to give your neighbours and friends the ultimate makeover?”

 If you are interested in a free makeover for one of the rooms in you house, apply via the Short Audition website.

To maximise your chances of being chosen, fill in the application form with as much detail as possible.

You will also need to record a three minute video all about yourself, the room you want made over and who you want to swap home with - they must live within a five minute walk away.