Trevor and Lynn Day let their daughters transform their home for a TV makeover show - and came back to find a Jackson Pollock-style explosion of paint splats.

Bright colours were liberally splashed over the lounge walls, floor, ceiling and furniture.

The transformation - which appears to owe more to a riotous party than art - proved too much to bear.

Lynn burst into tears while her husband simply put his blindfold back on.

But after taking a few moments to get used to the new-look room, the couple say they are proud of the creation and have no plans to change it.

The transformation started when the couple's daughters signed-up to ITV1's Home On Their Own programme.

While mum and dad were sent packing for three days, a film crew, designer, inventor and presenter moved in to help the children decorate their home at The Highway, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, with their own special touch.

The Day daughters, Zabrina, 11, Soshana, ten, and twins Tatiarna and Yohlanda, six, were going to apply to the programme last year but changed their minds because they thought they would have little chance of being selected.

But when Soshana, who goes to Downs Junior School, picked up an application form from school this year, they decided to give it a go.

The girls plotted and schemed and, to their surprise, were accepted to be filmed for the show at the end of March.

Last night the wraps came off and the Day family threw a party for 120 of their friends at the nearby Lectern pub, where everyone gathered to watch the television screening of the programme.

Zabrina, a pupil at Falmer High School, and Soshana, decided to use the abstract artist Jackson Pollock as their inspiration after learning about him at school.

The artist is famous for his paint-splattered style and the girls decided to focus on an artwork called Myth and Reality.

Soshana said: "Dad would sit in here with magnolia walls and it was really calm. Now we have changed it. We got really fed up with magnolia."

So, while Trevor, 39, and Lynn, 35, took a relaxing break at the luxury Amberley Castle, Storrington, the girls got to work with the help of presenter Tess Daly, inventor Jem Stansfield and designer Kerry Sewell.

The whole room - including the floorboards, lampshade, a coffee table, bench, deck chair and television cabinet - were painted "TV white", which looks grey to the eye but comes out white on television.

The girls then splattered every imaginable colour around the room, on the accessories and wooden furniture.

As well as the paint job, they now have a gadget to change the channel on their downstairs television from their upstairs rooms and there is a camera which allows them to see what their parents are doing.

Trevor even had a special invention made for him in the dining room - a flying saucer which releases gas masks for when Trevor, well, releases gas.

When their parents saw their new-look living room, their daughters correctly predicted the look of shock on their faces.

Soshana said: "Mum started to cry. She went bright red. Dad put his blindfold back on."

Lynn said: "I was shocked. There was not a lot we could say."

Trevor added: "I looked and did not say much. I was lost for words for a change."

But despite the initial shock at seeing their orderly lounge transformed into a 3D abstract painting - which the girls named The Webby Splat - Lynn and Trevor have no plans to change it.

They have simply moved in a comfortable sofa and chair which matches the colour scheme and taken off the window boards to let in light. They also plan to lay a carpet to match the blue splashes of paint.

They are even going to paint the window frames and air vent with the splatter effect.

Trevor said: "It is different, it is original. No decorator, however good or bad they are, could copy what we have got. We have got an original room. It is good to have a one-off. It grows on you."

Lynn said: "The girls are really proud of it. You can see them sitting there looking round at bits they have done."

Each daughter has a favourite piece of the room and a favourite colour.

Zabrina said: "I think it is the best. We did not think it would come out like this. It is much better than we planned."

Soshana added: "We thought it would be a little bit of paint on the wall but it was all over."

Their parents have no regrets about letting their daughters take over the lounge and said they would let them do it all over again.