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??

I bet five golden pounds Ropeshelf man will be future wildcard.

Give me 2k and 3 days and I reckon I could uglify someone's house just as well as Ropeshelf and Theatrejobby did tonight.

It is a lovely town with a very lovely boutique hotel. Probably the only way they got Kelly into West Wales😁

What on earth I'm starting to suspect they just pick people off the street to be contestants, nobody genuinely into home design would think cobbling crap together is appropriate, I didn't like any of the rooms.

I loathed the pink dressing table - I would have vetoed that colour at the presentation.

I don't think the seaside themed study was particularly well done. I am no designer, but I am pretty sure I could have come up with something better than that - and I would have put up new curtains too - the old ones really didn't fit with the scheme. It was far too childish, in some parts.

I thought he did an OK job of re-upholstering that chair, but the choice of fabric and paint were both a bit daft. The chalk paint is going to get grubby very quickly, especially where people will inevitably put their hands to push themselves up, and it won't be washable at all - and the hessian isn't intended to be a furnishing fabric, and I think it will wear out far too fast.

I did rather like TheatreGuy's fabric art for the bedroom - the colours and design were lovely.

I totally agree about the unusable bedside tables - that is just daft. My bedside table has a phone, a clock radio, a light, a pile of books, a bottle of water and my tablets on it - I need all of those in reach, and I can't see how they would fit around the daft bottle-lights.

But if all the rooms were lovely and impeccably designed, this thread wouldn't be half as much fun!

I just thought it was peverse that he chose to re-upholster a chair (when he'd never done it before) and make chalk paint. Agree with the above post that hessian is a wrong choice to upholster with, it made me feel stratchy just looking at it. Plus chalk paint on arms of a chair. So impractical.

I think he had to keep the curtains because the woman's mother made them, or something. They weren't nice, though, and it was a tough ask.

I thought Nicholas's bedroom was awful. The 'teal' wall was in fact a cheap-looking aqua like a 70s bathroom, and the lamp with the fake bronze base looked like something from a jumble sale.

I noticed the previous contestants appeared to genuinely want to break into interior design while this season's bunch are using the show as a vehicle to promote their current trade. Richard, the stencil artist. Nicholas the theatre staging guy, Daniela the photographer (who kept showcasing her photography in every client makeover).... I'm expecting someone to announce they also sing in their local pub and start belting out their original songs to 'keep the troupes entertained as they work' as the production staff try to drown them out with power tools.

I think that's why I was rooting for solicitor woman, who looked like she was genuinely looking for a new career direction.

Oh and Richard lost me when he massacred that chair renovation (please don't chop up a family heirloom if your only experience is a couple of you tube videos you wanted the night before and you're not great under pressure). And then announced chipboard is his favourite material and suggested it was luxurious. I choked on my bloody wine when Little Beady Lad called it a wooden surface. Yes, it's as wooden as that ikea mdf

Isn't Nicholas retured, tbf? I don't like him though. I think he's arrogant. In an earlier episode he snapped at an electrician or someone and was very condescending to him.

retired, not retured...

Hes 63 so might not be retired yet. And he seems a young 63 at that so might not relish it.

I thought they actually introduced him as 'retired', I'm not just saying it off my own bat.

sapphire I noticed that too! Arrogant b...d.

He'd be stumped if he didn't have those tradespeople to do things for him. Grrrr....hate that attitude and breathe.

I liked the concept of the bottle/jar lights though not as bedside lights for all the reasons previous posters have already said.
Maybe over a dining table though it would work well?
Off to B and Q now for a big bulb and some old fashioned electrical flex!

Oh maybe so Sapphire, I missed it if so.

To be fair, I think Nicholas was better last night.

I got the impression too that the judges really liked Richard and were desperate for him to get through. mind you, I found him very easy on the eye.

His baskets at the foot of the bed and the round lamp were Ikea-wonder where the nearest Ikea to Aberaeron is?

I loved the bluey-grey colour on Richard's cupboard (the unfinished one).

To be fair to Richard, it appeared he had to keep two giant wardrobes, two cheat of drawers, huge to, and a dressing table in that tiny room. If he was allowed to get rid of half of it, it would have given him lots of options. Nicholas' owner, on the other hand, allowed him to rip out an entire wall of storage in that study (doubt even he could make that look nice if it had to stay)

Chests. I corrected back the autocorrect twice and it still overrode me.

Here we go...

Reporting for duty.

Ready to be underwhelmed...

Hola! I've been away for a week, just caught up.

How gopping will the rooms be today then....?

Evening!

What did they say in the intro - something surprising happens, or something dramatic?
Something, anyway.

Ooh.

That's true troll- Richard had an incredibly hard task with all that furniture. There's only so much you can do when you have a mountain of ugly furniture working against you.

I read what it was in the listings in the paper

I won't spoil the surprise, though.

I still like the colour of his front room woodwork juxtaposed with the pop of the orange chair.

Yes.