Lily Waddell

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Lily Waddell

• None DT teacher John Cooper won Interior Design Masters after his colourful Mediterranean-inspired cottage in Portmeirion, Wales impressed the judges. • None The dad got the opportunity to design his own John Lewis homeware collection with the retailer's in-house design team. • None After the BBC show, he had planned to quit his 20-year career in teaching for a job in interior design but has yet to make the leap. Here is his story.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Lily Waddell

The runner up shares all about her experience on the Alan Carr BBC show• None Interior Design Master finalist Rita Millat narrowly lost out to winner John Cooper in the final of the BBC show. • None The finalists were tasked with designing holiday cottages in Portmeirion, in Wales and the winner won the opportunity to design a home wear collection with John Lewis.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Lily Waddell

Rita Millat's floral wallpaper was the focal point of her funky cottage in Portmeirion. (BBC)Walk around inside the runner up's Interior Design Masters' cottage in Portmeirion. Rita Millat narrowly missed out in the final as John Cooper was named the winner of Interior Design Masters. Her cottage received warm praise from the judges. It was the bright orange paint in the hallway in particular that really caught the attention of the judges.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Lily Waddell

This is winner John Cooper's Interior Design Master journey in pictures. Here we take a look at each of Cooper's designs from week one at the youth hostel right through to week seven where he was designing The Royal Dick events space with the Edinburgh Fringe festival in mind. The teacher learned a lot along the way. He told Yahoo UK of his journey: "It was learning to design in a slightly different way. I described it as designing in layers.

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Lily Waddell

Interior Design Master finalist Rita Millat narrowly lost out to winner John Cooper in the final of the BBC show. The finalists were tasked with designing holiday cottages in Portmeirion, in Wales and the winner won the opportunity to design a home wear collection with John Lewis. Freelancer Millat — who was born in Iraq and raised in Lebanon — has performed consistently well throughout all of the challenges but she missed out on the winning title. Here is her story.