The Great Interior Design Challenge 2017

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Anyone watching!?

Loved the last thread, wonder if we'll have a Mumsnetter on the show this year??

GREEEEEEEN!!!!!!
At least the glare blinded me from the stencils!

And those trousers?

I never did understand themed rooms

Kelly makes Voldemort look like Sooty.

V-Wahhhl till I die!

Poor Daniel. Kelly just looks blankly at him when he talks.

Do we ever get to see the inside of the judge's houses?
I'd love to judge the fuck out of them.

I know she's not a main judge anymore but Sophie puts a lot of her house on her instagram. I've certainly missed the interaction between her and Daniel as they obviously get on really well. I think Kelly's appointment as main judge was a bad decision, she doesn't seem to like any other style than her own.
I think a lot of last year's designers were bad, too! Weirdly the series before that had a good load of creative people in it.

oh I do enjoy this programme but the judges are such wankers, as is the presenter.

That's harsh, I like Daniel and beardy man, they are both experts in their fields.

They look down their noses so much.

Love Daniel and beardy man - could live without Kelly...

NormaSmuff, that's because plenty of the rooms have stuff wrong with them! They're just being honest! It's a competition!

They have a bitchy attitude imo

I think they're remarkably pleasant, given how awful some of the rooms are

Yes I agree Felix and Kelly's shaping up nicely IMO!!!! I like that she isn't a yes woman to Daniel's, sometimes unreasonable, negativity.

She was spot on about the strange green stencils all over the older lady's room. That box of sand made me choke, it reminded me of a cat's litter tray, or where we used put sand on our ballet shoes at ballet school!!!! Sorry I haven't read the whole thread!

Good god my eyes! That green, those cork biard cupboards...the car boot lion trio. The right person went out but again, really questionable designs.

Cork board obviously. And how could I forget the litter tray

Zebra, then I stand corrected! If I ever had any gaydar, it's obviously on the fritz.

Next we'll find out Daniel is straight...

The weird thing is that the presenter (beardy man) talks about the previous decor of the rooms as if there's been an improvement after the contestants have effed them them up!!!!

Those gothic styleee buildings\houses were amazing they didn't need idiots 'doing them up' !!!! Those lumps of black mdf over beautiful original doors was a crime ffs.

Gay or straight, if he likes dressing like The Winslow Boy he's almost certainly celibate!

The lions were a really strange choice, for the challenge, I thought - really difficult to do anything particularly inventive with, and whatever you did, you still had a concrete lion garden ornament. I liked Shaida, but thought her lion was appalling - I would not give it house room.

I liked the Scottish lady - I am fond of bright colours and paisley patterns myself (though, shamefully, I had lived near Paisley for several years before I put together in my mind the connection between the town, its weaving industry and the pattern ), but her room was the worst of the three, and she had to go. The scalloped edge on the sand box was a particularly low point.

Oh - and I really want to know where the fabric for Scottish lady's dress for the announcements at the end came from. I would love to make myself a skirt out of that.

Funny I thought Daniel looked quite good in the denim outfit he wore on the first programme of this series. Those strangulating trousers did nothing for him (apart from from make him look like a twit fashion victim)

I think this programme is like a road crash, impossible to take your eyes off the potential disaster. The Holly flats / houses were gorgeous, I didn't think any of the designers added to them in any way, though mind you some of the rooms at the beginning of the process were hideous, and the owners should be made to sell ( for peanuts) to people with better taste. Like me.

and what is it about headboards, do people ,real people, ie fellow mumsnetters ,have huge towering wobbly chipboard covered with badly stapled fabrics lowering over them every night. I wouldn't sleep a wink waiting for those monstrosities to fall and crush me. I have a sensible wooden headboard which is just enough to support my pillows for reading and is firmly attached to the bed. dust catchers are not good design.

I quite liked Scottish lady too but she just got it soooo wrong. I'm very jealous she lives in Loch Lomond. I didn't know you could actually live IN Loch Lomond. Maybe she has an air pod like the squirrel in SpongeBob.

Lois :)

They're all awful so far. Of today, I liked black-cupboard man's the best, and the day before, James (?). Even though he didn't finish. Are they normally this crap though? I thought last year's were pretty crap but I still remember bits of the previous series. I LOVED that painted chair. I haven't forgotten it.

And I like Kelly Hoppen. There, I've said it. She's a consummate professional and takes her work seriously. She must be doing something right.