Interior design masters s5 part 2 ‘Rise of the Bonk Ets’

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Here we go ready for next week as the thread moves quickly across the hour!

The problem why shop week is you are so hampered by the stock. I shop full of lovely homeware and the like is much easier to make nice than a shoe shop.

I really need someone else to read Domnalls poem on Instagram 😂

Thank heavens Francesca was eliminated at last. I rent my flat and if I’d have been faced with that atrocity when I moved in I’d have been saving up money that is already in short supply, to get rid of the nursery decoration. It was absolutely dire. Bens bedroom was also horrific and I felt for that alone he should have been on the sofa. Again, I’d be saving up to get that and the yellow and blue walls covered up Asap. Roisin needs to stop doing what she keeps doing. I could in hers but would feel hemmed in by all the bits of weird furniture in weird places and too many colours. Really liked Anthony’s and Matt’s. The only two I’d not have a heart sink moment when I walked through the door.

I liked her breakfast bar but it did seem like she had seen the tiles and fallen in love with them without considering how they fit

roisins was the only bedroom I liked

It was a confusing brief, because I'm not sure if they were supposed to be designing a flat that would appeal to a generic rental audience, or were they supposed to be showcasing how a renter could make temporary changes to their own rental?
I think it was the latter but it wasn't clear.

I think the latter too MichaelandEagle . But whoever moves into those particular flats are pretty unlikely to go “Oh wow, this is so good. We can move straight it, put our pictures straight up, our duvet covers will look fab and luckily our bathroom towels are egg yolk yellow and bright blue.

An you post if for us to read I don't have instagram

That poem of Domnall’s does seem oddly pointed.

Also just caught up. To be frank I don't think anyone did terribly well this week. Why everyone but Anthony felt the need to remove all the perfectly good furniture and put awful cheap vinyl wrapping on the kitchen cabinets, instead of accepting what was a fairly inoffensive neutral backdrop and spending 2k on painting the walls and adding really stylish accessories, instead of wasting most of the budget on cheap furniture, I do not know.

2k would have gone a long way in classy paint colours, lighting, nice rugs, blinds, bedspreads, pot plants, funky cushions and interesting shelving. Not one of them just put a simple, well made slip cover in an amazing fabric over the existing dull headboard. They all wasted time and money replacing it altogether with something made from scratch.

True to form, Francesca delivered something cheap and tacky, poorly executed and only likely to appeal to four year olds. That green cork workspace that wasn't even finished neatly, and that tatty fabric hanging monstrosity that she hadn't even bothered to iron, I mean WTF was she thinking?

Her 'sitting room' reminded me of the sort of office space/family therapy space a children's social worker would have. Truly awful. I'm glad she's gone.

Roisin's was inspired in parts but there was still too much going on for me. If she could learn the Coco Chanel mantra of 'when you get dressed, before you leave the house look at yourself in the mirror and take one thing off' she'd be much better than she is. The little table attached to the wall daft and why she removed a perfectly good dining table and chairs only to wedge some scruffy looking folding thing behind the arm of the sofa, I do not know. She also needs to rein her colour palette in a bit. Too many paint colours in one room and the gold breakfast bar didn't work with the very bold geometric wall tiles.

Anthony's was the best. His was the most practica,l the most versatile and the most liveable.

I liked most things about Matt's and I didn't find it as cluttered as the judges seemed to think. I wouldn't have covered the kitchen units with sticky crap, but other than that I think he did a good job. He has a real talent I think.

Ben. Ben just seems to go downhill week on week. Those primary colours were awful against the very warm orangey-pine colour of the interior doors. That blue mid-century desk unit thing looked like he'd dragged it out of a skip. His bedroom was beyond awful. I struggle with bright red used in interiors anyway, but a whole bedroom of it was like being trapped in some awful nightmare. I don't understand why he was put through when Matt was on the sofa. The only good thing I can say about Ben this week was that he was better than Francesca.

I haven't been to Ikea's kids section for years, but Francesca's apartment looked how I remember it.

Yes, in about 2002.

I can’t find Domhnall on Instagram.

He’s “smartswagdesign”.

I've just read it. It's a really bad poem and he can't spell "whipped"

and yes, it's obviously deliberate. it's just spiteful and full of sour grapes

The only good thing about Francesca’s was the electric blue which I’ve seen look amazing in hallways. But it didn’t work with what she did

I did find Francesca, and noticed she seemed to tag in everyone except him! Yes, terrible poem but clearly pointed.

I don't understand why none of them didn't put a proper front on the wardrobe. Matt could have just put a stronger wood frame around the panels of his useless screen to bring it up to size and mounted it as a really cool pair of doors for very little cost.

Yes - I wondered why Michelle hadn’t suggested that

It’s an awful poem isn’t it and so pointed. I don’t understand why he’d do it as most past contestants seem to make a career of some sort out their associate with the program and each other.

Haha yes, I expect they were all probably returned to grey. Even the good ones.

Wow that poem. Francesca annoyed the life out if me, but this is immature, unprofessional and spiteful. I’d not hire either of then with attitudes like this. They both need to grow up. Quickly.

HeadDesk. I totally agree with your post.