Interior Design Masters #2

[DoreenMachine]

None of those football boxes were any crack - Emmerly has finally shuffled off to exhibit some more of her papier maché tatt in the Saatchi gallery.

Who knew she was a renowned ceramicist!? I thought she was some dodgy arts and craft enthusiast. I wonder if she is a nepo baby.

As much as the two remaining ladies both seem really nice and I'm sure they'd be a good laugh, neither of them are finalist material.

For once I actually feel sorry for Michelle, she'd tried so hard to look the part with tonnes of blusher and that ghastly yellow/blue coat to match, just a shame she couldn't find a belt and had to grab the webbing strap off a kit bag to suffice.

Who on earth was that human thumb who'd poured himself into a jacket fashioned from some military camo net? Oh dear, oh dear.

They need to radically rethink the show for next year, it's been absolute pants!

 

[Tippingpoint23]

This show annoys me, in the same way bake off does, that they clearly just don’t give enough time for ‘entertainment factor’ but it’s actually just annoying to watch

 

[AngryBird]

Clearly the budget is shyte. They seem to have to make some terrible choices with materials and just knock up MDF crap. Some of it was terribly finished. I really thought they'd engineered for Emmerly to win when they started listing her artistic achievements but no, the brown and the childish room took her out. The others were just as bad. The whole thing felt like they were padding out the episode with boring football cameos and old colorblind Norman!

 

[beaurivage]

This has been a dire season. Its hard to tell if the overall standard of the candidates have been poorer when every single week I felt the wrong person was sent home. You could have given those football boxes to the first 3 who were sent home and they would have done as good a job if not better.

It was such a boring episode having them doing two stadium boxes. Essentially they are the same shape/size space and used for a similar purpose. No idea why Michelle was criticising them for doing things on the cheap and not managing to source antique table tops - when they have naff all budget and a tiny timeframe to get the work done.

 

[DoreenMachine]

old colorblind Norman!

was the best thing in the episode

 

[thegirlscout]

when they have naff all budget and a tiny timeframe to get the work done.

This is what really frustrates me. They were saying that if you can’t afford it, don’t do it. And we shouldn’t be expecting the Danny Wellbeck to eat his food off an MDF table like other povos. How can you expect premium standard when you give them 24 hours and £4,000 over two rooms. It’s really ridiculous.
Michelle saying in her opinion brown furniture will never have its moment even though wooden furniture has been a staple since the dawn of time and brown furniture is massive in mid centre design???
In the video with her friend to me I felt that Emmerly looked a bit sad. Maybe it was just me as usually they have their family around them and you see their homes whereas Emmely jusr had her small design studio and a friend. I actually began to like her as the series went on. I think her corporate box was really well done. I don’t get why Sophie got in.
Does anyone know who the corporations were? Sophie’s is magenta pink with lots of flowers in their photography?

 

[DollyPlops]

I lost the will in end so didn’t see if any of the box owners were asked for their opinion. Massively agree on the tit budget. It’s like changing rooms with haughty guest judges

 

[SarcasmSpecialist]

Sponsors - so several candidates for the gopping pink.

 

[Jelly Bean]

This is what really frustrates me. They were saying that if you can’t afford it, don’t do it. And we shouldn’t be expecting the Danny Wellbeck to eat his food off an MDF table like other povos. How can you expect premium standard when you give them 24 hours and £4,000 over two rooms. It’s really ridiculous.
Michelle saying in her opinion brown furniture will never have its moment even though wooden furniture has been a staple since the dawn of time and brown furniture is massive in mid centre design???
In the video with her friend to me I felt that Emmerly looked a bit sad. Maybe it was just me as usually they have their family around them and you see their homes whereas Emmely jusr had her small design studio and a friend. I actually began to like her as the series went on. I think her corporate box was really well done. I don’t get why Sophie got in.
Does anyone know who the corporations were? Sophie’s is magenta pink with lots of flowers in their photography?

I know - it made me laugh how horrified Michelle was at the idea of Danny Welbeck eating off a substandard table. The horror!!!

 

[girlinbrum]

They should have had the one room.

I was just in my local Chinese takeaway and looking around thinking how much Michelle would hate the decor as there's no "story" being told, but the place has been there forever and always busy.

 

[girlinbrum]

Were those footballers rooms existing footballers rooms? Cos they all looked awful in the before bit so if the millionaire players were ok with that....

 

[Ursaarctosarctos]

Perhaps they could have made the small budget work by being really minimal and modern. Instead of leaning heavily into painting, decorating and big builds, invest the limited funds in some really solid, good quality pieces, and arrange them cleverly. Instead of trying to decorate the whole room, focus on smaller details ("moments") in the room which can tie it together. Ultimately the people using those boxes need it to be functional and neutral I would think. I can't help but think of the guy who got kicked off on the first ep?

I still can't believe Sophie has gotten this far.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Perhaps they could have made the small budget work by being really minimal and modern. Instead of leaning heavily into painting, decorating and big builds, invest the limited funds in some really solid, good quality pieces, and arrange them cleverly. Instead of trying to decorate the whole room, focus on smaller details ("moments") in the room which can tie it together. Ultimately the people using those boxes need it to be functional and neutral I would think. I can't help but think of the guy who got kicked off on the first ep?

I still can't believe Sophie has gotten this far.

I sometimes think of the one who was kicked off first. He was literally about the only one who thought of practicalities and storage.
And yet Emmely got through who put the kitchen so it blocked the whole bloody view

 

[beaurivage]

The first guy never should have gone. Michelle’s main criticism was his sliding cushions. I’d love to have seen Ajeet’s remodelling of the boxes.

 

[jenmarks]

But surely they always have a small budget. I don't think that's changed at all? In case anyone's interested, Michelle's feedback on the retail episode is on her Substack now.

 

[Don'tlookEthel]

Emmerlys' players room was ikea blue and yellow, it was nasty. I thought the room that had the high table at the window was a poor idea as it blocked the view for those elsewhere in the room?

 

[BearOnChair]

Emmerlys' players room was ikea blue and yellow, it was nasty. I thought the room that had the high table at the window was a poor idea as it blocked the view for those elsewhere in the room?

I'm sure I remember a previous series where someone did exactly that, blocked the view in a hospitality box and Michelle didn't like it.

 

[theweekend]

I just don’t understand what I am seeing this season? It’s gotten noticeably worse as the episodes have gone on, but all the finished rooms are so, pedestrian?

They’re not innovative, but nor are they stylish? Everything is so simplistic, largely what they’re adding to rooms is just based on paint + wall decorations and that’s it. Where is the actual design? In previous series I found it 50/50 as to whether I’d like the final product as they were usually a LOT. Now they’re not doing much at all! And the lack of (and/or quality of) furniture is just making everything 10x worse.

 

[panda_eyes]

Definitely should've had more Norman in this episode, he is a joy (I might be biased being from down that way). If I was Monica I would've probably kept all three in as they were so tit, and you can't send them all home.

 

[Ursaarctosarctos]

I sometimes think of the one who was kicked off first. He was literally about the only one who thought of practicalities and storage.
And yet Emmely got through who put the kitchen so it blocked the whole bloody view

Yeah I didn't think his had anything really wrong with it. Compared to the hideous plastic flowers, the animal patterns, weird paper mache and placement. Poor guy.