How Not to Decorate

{{Short description|British television series}}

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How Not to Decorate is a television series which aired from 1 August 2004 to 27 April 2006 on Five in the United Kingdom.{{cite book|author1=Gerry Smyth|author2=Jo Croft|title=Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JoN0Z2K09YC&pg=PA94|accessdate=17 August 2013|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-1969-0|pages=94–}} Designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan helped redecorate notoriously ugly or unstylish homes, in a format similar to the What Not to Wear series. The series centred heavily around McAllister and Ryan's trademark banter and fussiness.