Interior Design Masters - Series 2 - THE FINAL!

[LemonViolet]

Fresh new thread ready for next week as we’re nearly filling up our main series 2 thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4153896-Interior-Design-Masters-Series-2?msgid=105633333#105633333

The Final is on next Tuesday 23rd March 8pm BBC2, and looks like our favourite Sophie Robinson is back as a guest judge - along with a bloke I don’t recognise
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tj0y

Siobhan and Lindsey will each be designing a 2-bed luxury holiday villa..... can’t wait!

Maybe Siobhan will be better designing wallpaper than spaces.

Glad lyndsey won.

Just seen there's a new series coming up for jewellery designers. I'm sure there'll be a new thread for that one!

Lyndsey’a curved island was pure brilliance and definitely helped fulfil the brief. She has a talent for making spaces more practical, like in her beach hut with the changing area, or in the hotel cornering off the sink. The right person won.

hurrah!

I lost the new thread!

Really happy with the winner. I thought Siobhan's wasn't really meeting a family brief, the sitting room was cluttered and she's blocked off the patio doors. I hated her bedroom as well.

I agree with PP that if you liked Siobhan's style you'd get her in, but Lyndsey is more versatile and I think has clever storage solutions.

I think they'll both have a platform to do well from here though.

I've been a bit disappointed with this series in terms of the design ideas. I don't know if I've been on IG too long but there wasn't anything really new or exciting in any of the designs in the show. It's all a bit 'samey'. Dark colours and loud, clashing prints, which don't get me wrong, I like, but I would expect to see something a bit different on a show like this. None of them really wowed me.

And Siobhan just did the same thing every week, no matter what the brief was. If you're a fan of maximalism, great, but she's not versatile. I definitely think the right person won. Even though Lynsey's decoration was nothing new, she thought about the space more and took it into consideration.

@Whatsnewpussyhat

Maybe Siobhan will be better designing wallpaper than spaces.

Glad lyndsey won.

Just seen there's a new series coming up for jewellery designers. I'm sure there'll be a new thread for that one!

I agree. Plus - jewellery design! Looking forward to it.

So glad Lyndsey won - definitely the right choice. Interesting to see the three judges; they all clearly loved Siobhan's but it didn't meet the brief at all & both Sophie & Matthew had to keep reminding Michelle of that. Plus the very pointed remark from Sophie that who ever won had to go on to do a corporate contract & follow the brief of that - I guess their (the production company & Michelle) reputations are on the line in a way too if they award the wrong person.

There’s actually a decent selection of puffin cushions on Etsy

(In my defence, it was in Iceland, and sold to me at the time as a sustainable local delicacy).

I think Lynsay deserved to win but I was disappointed that Siobhan didn't tell the judges her thinking behind doing something different for a family and just concurred with them. I agreed when she said why go and stay somewhere that looks just like home. I didn't think she was aiming it at families with very young children nor do I think those families would want to stay near other lets that were also catering for hen parties or girls' weekends.
I thought it would be great for families with children of high school age.

Twin beds in one of the bedrooms for children would've been better with a lighter, more gentle decor. (No bunk beds with those ceilings)

There was nothing at all in place for little ones in that place.

@LemonViolet

There’s actually a decent selection of puffin cushions on Etsy

(In my defence, it was in Iceland, and sold to me at the time as a sustainable local delicacy).

Fucksake you should just have stuck to the frozen Gregg's things

@Lavanderrose

Lyndsey’a curved island was pure brilliance and definitely helped fulfil the brief. She has a talent for making spaces more practical, like in her beach hut with the changing area, or in the hotel cornering off the sink. The right person won.

Agree, I loved all those features that she added. She always thought about where she was and what the end users would be doing when not in the space.

I'm glad Lynsey won.
She listened to the brief.
I think Siobhan could get a contract for designing bedlinen, cushions, textiles and kitchen accessories. Also lots of people would love her maximalist style.
I hated that sloping headboard. I'd be fearful it would fall on my head in the night.

I also think Siobhan lost out because her design didn’t fit the brief. If she were designing for a ‘couple’s weekend away’ it would have been perfect.

The big wooden piece of Artwork Lyndsey made was truly awful but I think she deserved to win. Her designs are user friendly.

Took me a second there with Iceland/Greggs!

I think designing pattern/textiles is quite a different skill from selecting ready-made items/colours/parterns and putting a room together. And I do think there’s a demand for Siobhan’s style. I’d watch a show just of her doing maximalism room makeovers; you could call it More Is More! Maybe she should get herself on YouTube as well as insta.

Lynsey is more commercial and flexible for sure and I do think she deserved the win. Some clever ideas with the curved kitchen island (stashing that for future consideration) and the screen being benching one side/tv the other. I’ve thought about the tv on the slatted screen: you could run the power cable along one of the slats up into the ceiling, and have an on/off fuse switch somewhere else on the wall. Then you could build a false wooden trunking to fit over the cable and it wouldn’t be noticeable at all. It would require a fair bit of mess and holes in walls/floors up upstairs to do though.

When I saw the judges, I thought Siobhan had it in the bag. I didn’t like the dark colours in Lindsay’s but she is more polished in design. When she said she’d left her job, I thought that may swing it too.
Siobhan’s been my favourite throughout. Her design just didn’t follow the brief. I would have been worried those angled headboards would fall on me or my dc in the night. It was like she’d done supermarket sweep in Dwell.

I loved the photo of Lynsey's baby Poppy at the end.
When was the show filmed ?
Poppy was born in early March.

I was really disappointed with both, what is the point of doing holiday homes in Cornwall near the sea without referencing that at all(without being a cliche) , they didn't even discuss it on camera and choose to do something different. Lindsey put photos up but I am not sure they went with decor. They both looked like the designs in their own homes. It was lovely to see Lindley become more confident as the weeks went on though. The island was a good idea but didn't like the dividers because the design of the house was about the big windows and light and communal space.

Marking my place , I'll watch later I love reading all your comments before seeing it and making up my own mind.

The only thing I will say is that that bronzey stick on stuff would annoy the shxx out of me if I had to live with it! Impossible to clean for a start!

I too thought there would be more of a nod to the sea in their designs.
Were the holiday lodges near the sea or in the country side ?

@APurpleSquirrel

So glad Lyndsey won - definitely the right choice. Interesting to see the three judges; they all clearly loved Siobhan's but it didn't meet the brief at all & both Sophie & Matthew had to keep reminding Michelle of that. Plus the very pointed remark from Sophie that who ever won had to go on to do a corporate contract & follow the brief of that - I guess their (the production company & Michelle) reputations are on the line in a way too if they award the wrong person.

I agree with all of the above - I was shocked that Michelle seemed to veer so much towards Siobhan when I was screaming - you could not put a child in that second bedroom with the monkey lamps .

I also agree with the poster who said none of the contestants in this series had any wow or innovation - they are just trawling Insta for ideas, which is fine, but it will not set you up as the next big thing in interiors. To build a huge brand like Kelly Hoppen or Abigail Ahern you have to have a signature style that also happens to be in the right place at the right time - as opposed to taking ideas that were "novel" about 5 years ago and are now already a bit passed. And I say this as someone who has navy walls in my sitting room, dining room and playroom .

But the best person won - I would be annoyed if I was the owner of the hotel where they get the design brief and I was landed with someone who never listened to what the client wanted. That is the No.1 key to success in commercial design - give the client what they want (and add something they didn't even know they need but now can't live without).

So, is anyone applying for next year? DH said to me - are you going to apply ? And I laughed and said that 10 years ago I would have but I have since retrained in a completely different area and am busy gaining experience and working in that industry.

I didn't manage to watch live last night, so finally caught up here with all the comments. Completely agree with lots on here.
As far Siobhan copying the slatted wall, I did think it was interesting that they both seemed to borrow designs from each other as Lynsey also had fabric that was very similar to the wall mural that Siobhan used in the hotel week.

I really loved Alan Carr this week and hope he will be back next series.

I think the right person won, but I think Siobhan will definitely do well out of the series.

I had a look at Siobhan's on Insta, theres alot going on it it when you have a proper look.

Oh and totally agree they should have been given the same brief! I don't know why they weren't.. however, I have since learnt that the producers were being a bit sneaky in my opinion..

So I found the lodges online, and they've kept the designs, now both lodges actually had 4 bedrooms! When you look at Siobhans lodge on the site you can clearly see the two extra bedrooms were more set up for children with single beds.. so I think it is possible that she obviously knew there was 2 extra bedrooms for potential 'children', and you wouldn't have 3 out of 4 bedrooms set up for kids IMO.

So she's it seems like she's designed it for two sets of adults then the children would go in the further two bedrooms, however I don't think this was communicated AT ALL in the show, so we are just left thinking that she completely ignored the brief! Is that fair?

This is Siobhans lodges listing -

www.togethertravel.co.uk/destinations/england/trewhiddle-nr-mevagissey/accommodation/villa-3-4-bed

www.togethertravel.co.uk/destinations/england/trewhiddle-nr-mevagissey/accommodation/4-bedroom-villa-villa-5

This is Lynsey's lodge, again with 4 bedrooms.