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The Great Interior Design Challenge 2017 ... CONTINUED

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evrybuddy · 18/01/2017 10:39

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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supermodel · 19/01/2017 23:50

Gutted that Oliver didn't win, I think he kept to the brief more and was much better at dealing with home owners.

fairycakecentral · 20/01/2017 06:50

I've been following this thread (and the previous). I agree with everyone here (mostly everyone). Daniela did not deserve to go through. As mentioned, she wasted the floor, not just by staining it that awful dark colour, but the paint splatters that were left- awful. But surely this was the decorators fault? She should have managed that bit better. I do wonder if the producers get folks in to fix all that up after everyone has left and it's not mentioned by the judges in the hope that the viewers don't notice.

The tv unit looked like the walls in the public toilets where I used to love. She ruined that painting with the graffiti and I bet the owners had to go out and buy new sofas pdq - their bums would be aching sitting on that sofa.

Oliver - I thought he did a great job in all his rooms. The blue in the bedroom was a bit stark and needed some art as sophie said, but the client loved it.

I had a look on Twitter last night, Daniela seems to be getting a little defensive about tpbeing tagged into 'Oliver was robbed' tweets. I think that's a shame that she has to be really defensive about it. She won, for whatever reason, the judges gave her the award, she should avoid Twitter just now.

MrsJamin · 20/01/2017 06:59

I agree, Oliver should have won. I didn't like his study but the bedroom and kitchen were great, and the owner liked it. I felt really sorry for Daniela's homeowners with that incredibly uncomfortable low sofa, I won how much they sat on it before it was thrown away? Similarly with the kitchen cupboards, that room looked amazing but was so impractical, it'd be a nightmare to cook in.

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evrybuddy · 20/01/2017 07:25

Well, there we go - another great victory for BBC's commercial merchandising arm.

Quite clearly, an attractive, young, single mum is a much better commercial marketing prosepect than a middle-aged man.

Why, she'll be battling with Nadia's Buns to see who tops the bestsellers lists.

Expect a new 'design show' co-presented with Kelly Hoppen next year.

As so many people on here have suspected the series has been fixed from the off to give Daniela a win.

It was obvious to anyone watching with a critical eye.

Right from the off Kelly Hoppen 'favoured' Daniela in her 'narrative' and I suspect that part of Kelly's deal with the BBC is to be allowed to 'co-operate' with the show winner on lucrative merchandise contracts.

Kelly could smell the money with Daniela but not with Oliver or anyone else.

If a show is 'Constructed Reality' then label it Constructed Reality!!!

Fecking BBC - don't waste my time with undisguised commercial projects - say what it is on the tin.

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NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 07:36

exactly evry,
Danielle had the USP

Honaluuhuu · 20/01/2017 07:41

Those clients she had on the show would never be her real clients, of course her work won't appeal to them.
I also think that the style was beautiful for the castle that had masqueraded as a hotel for the rich and now become residential with modern day opulence.
Her work is intelligent, whether you like it or not.
I don't think Daniela needs to avoid twitter at all, she is a highly accomplished woman and can only grow and learn from criticism. Finishes on a show where you have 3 days to complete 3 rooms in a highly tense atmosphere? Hire someone to help with finishes, boom. It's about the design itself, if she had had more time it would have been impeccable like her own home.
She is going to be extremely successful and rich clients are going to love her ability to use luxurious materials in an elegent and fashionable way.

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 07:58

Those clients she had on the show would never be her real clients, of course her work won't appeal to them.

Surely that was all part of the BRIEF Shock

show off your work but work to the client's brief

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 07:59

what a unbearable attitude otherwise, This is stylish, not what you want, but it is stylish, eergh

NormaSmuff · 20/01/2017 07:59

i do remember this snotty attitude from the thread last year. I know best, I am a designer. Angry

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evrybuddy · 20/01/2017 08:13

@Honaluuhuu - ha ha - I call shenanigans!!!

You are either Kelly Hoppen's PA or Daniela's best mate

She is going to be extremely successful and rich clients are going to love her ability to use luxurious materials in an elegent and fashionable way.

I love that!

It's like on Masterchef where they make the contestants go and cook for barristers or army officers because their palates are soooo much more discerning. But Mainly because 'they're better than you'.

So Daniela and Kelly will design together for Rich People because their tastes are so much more sophisticated and they're better than us.

Have a listen to yourself.

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evrybuddy · 20/01/2017 08:17

It's a programme, a TV show --- a giant merchandising opportunity.

Good luck to her.

Just don't lie about it.

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tothesideoftheirlives · 20/01/2017 08:34

She is going to be extremely successful and rich clients are going to love her ability to use luxurious materials in an elegent and fashionable way.

I imagine a stamp of the foot and a bottom lip protruding out when I read this....next I think she may scream and scream until she's sick unless we believe.

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evrybuddy · 20/01/2017 08:56

It was obviously a fix (for commercial merchandising reasons) but it was a really, really badly done fix.

Because everybody knew.
We all spotted it.
How many people on this thread called it out?

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Brokenbiscuit · 20/01/2017 09:06

I think if they were going to fix it, they should have chosen worse designers to go up against her. It was evident last night that Oliver's rooms were much better and that his clients were much happier.

Daniela's lounge was one of the ugliest rooms I've ever seen, and I bet the home owners hated it. I'm afraid the term "designer's designer" just smacks of Emperor's new clothes syndrome to me. What's the point of having designers at all if the only people who like their work are the other pretentious idiots just like them?

Cosmicglitterpug · 20/01/2017 09:17

She is going to be extremely successful and rich clients are going to love her ability to use luxurious materials in an elegent and fashionable way.

Nouveau riche maybe.

fairycakecentral · 20/01/2017 09:27

honoluuhuu I only meant she should avoid Twitter because of the nasty tweets. Constructive cricitism is one thing, being just nasty to someone and saying they shouldn't have won is quite another. No one grows from being told they robbed someone else of a prize. They grow because they are told, here's what I don't like, here's why I don't like it, here's how I think you could have done it, and as in life, we all take that criticism and work with it, or toss it out the window and do it our own way. Sometimes it's a bit of both.

Some people like her living room, but not as many as those who hate it, judging by here and Twitter. Putting strips of black tape on mdf to make a tv unit look like a public toilet, that is not design, or clever, or intelligent thinking. And she should have left that picture as it was. It wasn't my taste, but I could see it looked good in tha big room, really striking and a good focal point. There was no need at all to graffiti it.

And you do come across as overly invested in helping Daniela's career.

Brokenbiscuit · 20/01/2017 09:29

What this programme has really highlighted for me is that many designers care much more about their "art"Hmm than about the satisfaction of the clients who pay them.

The fact that the judges allowed Daniela to win, despite her complete disregard for what the home owners wanted, just shows their complete contempt for the client and their assumption that they know best. But the people who really know best, of course, are the ones who have to live in it.

Nobody would want to live with that monstrosity of a TV cabinet in their house, for example, but that didn't seem to matter. Daniela was being "daring" and "creative" and so the fact that it looked crap wasn't considered relevant.

I really can't imagine that the programme has done much to drum up business for interior designers.

Cocolepew · 20/01/2017 09:30

Blimey honaluuhuu, you do realise this is Changing Rooms updated? Nobody is going to have a 5 star career on the back of appearing on it.
It's like winning the interior design version of The Voice.

Dillite2 · 20/01/2017 09:35

I just had a snoop on the show's FB page and everyone there is of the same opinion about Daniela as we are- that Oliver should have won. There's also a unanimous verdict that her living room looked like a public toilet.

Daniela is right up Kelly's street because just like her her design is all about style and not substance. It is Rich People's design where houses and interiors are for showing off and not actually living in. After all, that kinda audience treat their homes like hotels, so they want to live in homes that look like hotels. They don't need to cram 4 people's belongings and shit into a crappy 2bed terrace and try and make it look stylish at the same time.

MsSampson · 20/01/2017 10:46

I think if they are looking for a really innovative and out-there designer they need to change the format of the show a bit. At the moment the designers are tasked with responding to a client brief, and decorating/updating/designing an actual room for real people, with real tastes and lives (who require chargers for their phones, and comfy places to watch TV and stuff). So, the winner should be the person who does that best?
Otherwise they should either find homeowners who are only interested in style over function, or be given stage sets or something. I understand a designer should push you to consider things you might not have thought of yourself (otherwise what's the point?) but if you go back into your room and don't like it, that designer has fundamentally failed, surely?

Brokenbiscuit · 20/01/2017 10:50

Exactly, MsSampson. Given that they don't really take the views of the home owner into account anyway, I think it would be much fairer to give both designers an identical brief, and let them work on identical studio sets, and then judge which one has done a better job.

ElspethFlashman · 20/01/2017 10:53

Yes, the show has caught itself up there. Cos they can't bang on about"fulfilling the owners brief" and in the same breath criticise the designers for not being more out there. Whilst then bitching about it being "theatrical". Hmm

So what do they want? It's very confusing.

They should have done a show with two blank room sets and told the designers to go to town and please nobody but themselves.

ElspethFlashman · 20/01/2017 10:55

Btw, I seem to be in the minority but I didn't like Oliver's rooms at all tbh. Confused

Delatron · 20/01/2017 11:02

If Kelly hadn't been judging I think Oliver would have more of a chance. Daniela panicked when she saw Sophie had come back for the final and knew her designs wouldn't appeal to her. Sophie even said so herself. It's a shame the clients' comments about Daniella's rooms weren't fed back to the judges..

bibliomania · 20/01/2017 11:13

Am only emerging from lurkdom to thank fairy for the wonderful typo (I'm assuming):
The tv unit looked like the walls in the public toilets where I used to love.

Team Oliver here too. I didn't warm to Daniela much, except when she emerged at the end of one day, a few shows back, and announced she hadn't sweated as much in childbirth.

Completely agree that it's horribly condescending for the presenters to talk about needing to push the homeowners so that the designer can "respect the integrity of the design". It if was my home, I'd be outraged if the designer put their taste and priorities above mine.