And Laurence thinks Welsh homes are the perfect canvas to paint your own individual take on maximalism thanks to our wonderful climate. He will also be celebrating bold designs with his new Channel 4 show, Outrageous Homes with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, which is set to air later this year.

Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian ‘Are your clothes there simply to hide your genitals and keep you reasonably warm, or are your clothes there to express who you are? I shudder to think how much an empty glass box costs to heat," adds LLB, who enjoys being back on our screens with the relaunched Changing Rooms show. On Changing Rooms, he is occasionally jocularly styled "Lord Laurence", a play on Laurence Olivier and Llewelyn-Bowen's flamboyance. We shouldn't be feeling that we've got to conform to a fundamentally 20th century concept of minimalism which suggests we should be controlling our interior spaces as if it's some kind of pathogen against nature. It's about making a very spectacular table with an array of china, glassware, cutlery and flowers to make it look really gala.

He also regularly appears on interior design shows across the world including appearing in 120m homes as a judge on The Apartment, Style Edition for Fox Asia. I've never done so much erecting on TV as I have done on this most recent series of Changing Rooms – everything has got bigger and bigger and scarier and slightly more difficult to get your head around.

The intended answer had been "Out of Many, One" which is a translation of the Latin phrase E pluribus unum, which is found on the Great Seal, however it is not actually the current United States motto. Maximalism has almost sprung up overnight; it’s a slightly unwieldy term for what is, essentially, anti-Modernism. For me the takeaway here is: if you want to have stuff, have stuff—but make it really good stuff that means something to you. We want to be suitably, appropriately part of the class we feel we are because if we’re going too far up, people will take the piss.Instead a gorgeous, glorious celebration of the known world's most magnificent, munificent design philosophy – maximalism. Llewelyn-Bowen appeared as a judge on the series of the reality show The Apartment from 2012 to 2019.

Famed for his opulent style and penchant for maximalism, Laurence also has a host of products including wallpaper, mugs, cutlery, and an upcycling collection with Aldi. Immersed in the dark colours of his 17th-century manor-house living room, he sits with enviable poise, one arm cocked and propped on his thigh, as though modelling for a portrait.There's always a long list of things I'd like to do, change, or tweak at home, I just don't have the time to sit down and reconfigure something.