Starting this one as I finished last one...
So, Daniela I think will win as it looks like it's been written/plotted that way since the beginning..
I don't think Daniela is either outstandingly good or bad - she's fine, she's okay.
That's why the mega enthusiasm of the judges is so weird.
The first time she appeared, Daniel and Kelly bigger her up so much, I thought - 'Does she know them?' - it was just like ridiculous.
But here she is in the final - quelle surprise!
Saw it coming from her first appearance and it had nothing to do with her design - and everything to do with what the judges were signalling in the voiceover.
'Hey viewers, Daniela is good, good good...'
Bit brainwashy without ever really explaining why she is better than the others.
I don't think she's bad - but there is not enough discernible difference to justify the bigging up that she gets.
Written in the stars eh?
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evrybuddy · 18/01/2017 10:39
I agree that Richard had the odds stacked against him, with shite rooms and an interfering owner. She needed a decorator, not a designer!
The mural (she did say 'muriel'!) was rubbish. Amateurish. I'd imagine it's been promptly painted over.
I liked Richard's rooms more than some seem to have! I like his oversized headboards.
Bluehouse's living room felt like it had had all the furniture and 'objets' pushed up against the window so you couldn't see the view. I don't understand Kelly's approving comment that you don't just come into the room and look out of the window – what's wrong with that? 
But I do note that Bluehouse has since put the chaise in the window, which is a lovely idea.
I don't get why Daniela thought the chaise was utterly indispensable and 'nothing else would possibly do' in that spot, though. And I think she's got a big ego.
Daniella's flaw, to me, is that her rooms don't look 'pulled together'. There may be good things in them - I actually rather liked that wood-strip wall, even if it looked like a million corporate spaces - but taken together, for me her rooms just don't blend in a way that pleases my sense of 'rightness'. And I don't personally think that a collection of design pieces put together, however good they are individually, necessarily makes a pleasing whole unless you have the right eye.
Her own house is exactly the same, what we've seen of it. Bits and bobs of 'design statements' scattered about and the godawful bulldog lamp! Bloody hell!
But for me, Richard and Oliver DO have that knack of being able to create harmonious rooms. So yes, it's a great shame they've ended up in the same round and one will have to go out.
However having said all the above, I think I'm hopelessly old-fashioned and Daniella's helter-skelter-ness is what the judges like. So what do I know? 
They may as well have kicked him in the nadgers and pushed him down the stairs too.
Yes I think the homeowner would have kicked Richard up the backside like a naughty puppy if she'd got the chance. She wasn't impressed with him at all.
But did Blue/ felix tell us whether she's painted over the mural ???
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DS(11) asked last night if Daniella was related to the judges 'because they're just all about her'. 
Just to want to quickly ask if anyone else is annoyed by Nicholas' voice? He really reminds me of the blonde woman off the previous series, in the end I had to put subtitles on and turn the sound off when she was speaking, it was impossibly grating! Now Nicholas has a very similar manner of speaking , it hurts my ears!
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