The Great Interior Design Challenge

[Davros]

New series starts tomorrow, 7pm on BBC2. Anyone else in?

Last year's winner was Fiona Wilson - the one who painted a fabric chair (it seemed to work, surprisingly). She was miles ahead of everyone else in sheer confidence and unflappability. She seems to have some sort of interiors business now.

I'm on catch-up, just wincing at Craig's hideous mint-green'n'wallpaper combo. Awful.

For those wanting to see the judge's work here is Sophie's living room...

Too cluttered for my taste.

Oh, I remember Fiona. She was very good.

Sophie's room is ... eclectic.

SheHas That would drive me over the edge. I freely admit I am not the target market for this programme even though I appreciate interior design. I would love to have my house done in a minimalist style even though I haven't managed that yet I can't be doing with too much stuff dotted around.

They were all shit tonight. I detested Tally's naff "hotel glamour", just cheap and tacky like a crap nightclub. And the owner at the end was wearing an Asda kimono top which I also have and did love. But if it's a toss up between painting my living room aubergine and champagne [vomit emoticon] or binning the top.... My style is more like yer man's Paris boho. Eclectic basically.

I like Sophie's room too and I'd put money on that grey wall being Farrow & Ball Downpipe which I have in my bedroom and love. I like interior design but I find it v stressful and my ideas have to evolve over time, making quick decisions about a scheme for one whole room makes me shudder.

It's coming to something when the second round rooms are just ugly. i liked Anne's basic paint colour though, hers was the only room I could actually have lived with, at all.

What was with the wallpaper top half/paint bottom half though. Horrible 1982 flashbacks for me, though perhaps it's OK and contemporary because in 1982 it would have been wallpaper on the bottom and paint on the top.

Dear God, this lot are really pitiful compared to the first couple of weeks; would far rather have seen the Geordie lad go through than any of this lot.

Tally's, tried and tested colour combo for opulence, finish appalling on chimney breast and fabric-covered stool. Good eye for colour combos, not an all-rounder.

Craig, just wtf? Not sure I know what "Parisian bohemian" is like but would bet a penny to a pinch of shite that hideous green and wallpaper from Vymura's 1989 archives don't really feature. Or slices of branch stuck onto a white MDF cabinet. I think having books on display would have been preferable to the musical notes on Argos kid's wardrobe doors.

Anne had improved in terms of not making it up as she went along; her room looked like what her board promised. Liked the shelving she did in terms of shape and copper trim. The best of tonight's rooms imo although should have jettisoned the Morris wallpaper

I think Tally should of went. Again, nothing great from anyone but at least the other two took some risks. Anne room was nice. I quite liked the little fairy garden.

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I am so glad to have found this thread
My family keep trying to make me go on this show because I like to decorate and make crafty shite,having read the posts on here though I may be in with a chance as my house is very similar to Sophie's and SHE dresses like me (ahem, I do believe I am older than her) ha, this lot are chancers. I'd skip the middle man and just throw the paint pot trophy at Frankie.

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Frankie has been the best of a bad bunch. I didn't really like his designs much though.

Yes you should apply! You're bound to have been better than any of this week's designers! Craig's room was like a piss take, why on earth did the home owners like it? What would prevent a kid from just fiddling with the bottom of the wallpaper, essentially in the middle of the wall... So impractical. That green was lurid.

I think this week has quietly morphed into Changing Rooms.

I think the judges are a bit of a weak link tbh. Particularly the bloke who says very little.

And God knows what the point of Breton Top Boy. Surely the other two could do the links just as well?

Annarose it must be hard to get any conviction into the long series of scripted snippets they must have to record for this - presumably they record negative and positive comments in an hour of hell for everyone, then just edit in the ones that fit the story they've decided on.

All the rooms were hideous and I noticed that the paintwork in Tally's room seemed very badly done. I'm sure I could see marks where the paint was just not thick enough on the walls in various places. I don't understand why she couldn't just have bought another pot of paint, because the decorator was really unsure about coverage at the start and he was right by the look of it.

Also - a gold frame around a TV is hideous no matter how many other gold frames are near it - that is truly awful and just for that Tally should have gone.

Still at least this programme has made me finally start painting the kitchen, strangely enough in a blue very similar to one in one of the kitchens last week (I bought it before I saw the programme)..its erm..very bright, but rich

It has morphed into a farce!

Does anyone remember that programme that was on just before this series - it could have been the very first episode of this I suppose, where someone decorated the downstairs hall and toilet in fake grass.

It's an abomination I tell you, an abomination.

I like the stuff that I do but to be perfectly honest with you I'd just not have the brass neck these people have- they're very confident aren't they? I like my home but completely get that other people wouldn't (it's nothing groundbreaking by the way- I'm just quite crafty and seem to have all these colours painted quite a while before they are in vogue-Im unfashionable for years before I'm back in

the ones from this week hurt my eyes, nothing glued together- I don't do matchy matchy stuff but something had to hold all the colours and patterns and textures and shapes together . That guy Craig? We all shrieked when we saw his room - god it was a mess- looked like a home corner in a community centre !

As you can see, I'm a dimwit and cannot write for a mento but I can paint walls and make nice pictures

Oh I have just noticed Soph has the same wallpaper as me - ha! (It's beige)

I like Anne. I'm amazed on £1000 they manage to make ONE room look so cheap!!!!! I'd die to have a builder and a decorator help me on a room!

I completely agree, this week it has turned into Changing Rooms!

Tally is very stylish I love what she wears.

God they were all awful this week. Though Ann surprised me the most by coming up with an actually almost okay scheme - I thought here 'Japanese' bedroom was beyond horrible. But Tally's 'opulent' sitting room was beyond naff, like something designed by a Russian oligarch's mistress on a Next Catalogue budget, and I just have no words for Craig. I liked his room best the day before but he clearly only has one style and just couldn't drag that style round to mean 'Paris boho' without creating some utter abominations. His room looked like an unholy cross between an old lady's sitting room and a Steiner kindergarten

And I agree with a poster upthread who said Frankie is the best so far. I'm rooting for him to win the overall competition.

Well Anne seemed more disciplined last night I actually LIKED her room. but that weird fake grassed child play area was for a 2 year old . The actual child looked about 5 fgs .

Paris Boho ??? WTF is that then? Maybe the black chesterfield chair was neatest to my idea of it. As member said NOT the shit mdf wardrobe that's for sure

Craig's room looked much better before he got his hands on it.

I wouldn't let any of this week's lot get to work on my house.

The expression on the faces of the painters and decorators' faces may just be the best thing about this programme.

I scream at the tv every time Sophie Robinson - the "designer" off 60 minute makeovers - makes negative remarks about their creativity.

Her "designs" we're PURE SHITE on that show. And I know it's "60 minutes" but she had a lot more time and money for the make over and other designers manage quite well. (We'll ignore quality of actual work carried out)

Here's Sophie unleashing her creativity on redesigning a child's room: pink paint. Butterfly print stuck on wall, nailed it.

Doreen, was that the one where one did good, one did meh and one was just horrid -- and they showed the owners angry reactions!? Was the presenter some heavily painted mid age woman in tacky leather outfits and high heels who had some interiors connection and Dragons Den connection?

There was a particularly wacky kitchen one woman did that was JUST HORRIFIC. Clashing tiles on each wall - it just needed to be ripped out again. And you felt so so so bad for the owner, staring in horror and kept thinking well it's not sooo bad when they did close up... And then the camera pans out to show the chaos clash as a whole... I thought the bloke was going to take a swing at a producer.

Sophie's own living room looks like one of the scenes from a 'spot the hidden objects' game imho