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!

He also has artwork on his Instagram which he has called koala bear

He obviously doesn't know that koalas are not bears!

Just watched it and my thoughts (for what they're worth)...

I like Matt's work but I'm quite bored with the black and white fabrics now.

I really loved Ben's sewing desk (quite envious actually) and I liked the idea of the partition between that and the kitchen.

I also thought his walk-in wardrobe was genius.

I used to own a studio flat although it had a separate bedroom area. I was pretty poor back then. I had a Japanese paper screen in the opening between the bedroom and the living room (which DH has just told me he didn't like 😂). I also had a curtain in front of my nasty second hand white melamine (?) wardrobe and chest of drawers. This was in the 90s - I was clearly ahead of my time 😊

I’ve just noticed that Michelle has reposted Ben’s s story to her story on Insta. Not noticed she had reposted any other contestants… (unlikely to be Domhall now I guess 😂) is this a sign tho? 🤔

I rolled my eyes at the koala bear too!

Oh Domhnall ! ☹️
It's the drawing beside the poem

He must be very bitter as this must have been filmed quite a while ago.

😂you hit the nail on the head here!

As soon as you said that i remember these paint splosh effect mirrors they sold.

He could be making a fortune selling copies of some of the featured prints. But bitter, badly written poems are not going to endear people to him.

Who was the woman on Changing Rooms who was everywhere and now nowhere?

Linda Barker?

Or Anna Ryder Richardson but I think I've seen her on some other things after Changing Rooms. Linda Barker seems to have dropped off screen.

Carol Smillie probably?

DS had that green mirror when he was a child.

He grew out of it by aged ten.

Clowncesca can only make children’s spaces.

Where is the thing that Michelle posted? I've trawled her insta but can't see it.

Was on her stories so gone now, bt asically said along the lines of ‘a quick word in response to unkind comments on social media…’(what I said above). She also explains her reasoning in a reply to a comment on photo of her with the guest judge Shayne of you look down that..

Anna Ryder-Richardson bought a zoo near Tenby about 15 years ago. I didn't go there, but it used to be popular when my teen was younger

There was also Homefront, if anyone remembers that. Presented by Tessa Shaw originally, and with Anne McKevitt as the designer - the ubiquitous Laurence L-B was involved as well. And Diarmuid Gavin - he used to be everywhere at one point.

Wow, what a shitty, bitter post. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for the rest of the sofa conversation. It's a shame as he's clearly a very talented artist/graphic designer and I like his work very much but this would definitely put me off wanting to work with him.

The remaining contestants all seem like lovely people.

Yes, Linda Barker. Off to google

Linda Barker was the one that broke all the teapots! I'll never forget that!

Kevin McCloud was in it too. I loved that programme

Just spent a happy 5 minutes rewatching that. Those poor people!

That programme was brilliant and probably the best of the home programmes.

I also liked the original iteration of DIY SOS too when it was a half hour show showing three segments of hapless menfolk being publicly humiliated for not finishing painting the bathroom or something trivial and we were allowed to point and laugh.

Kevin McCloud was the lighting specialist on that show if I remember rightly? He used to have a lighting design business in London. He would pop up and wang on about ‘task lighting’ - before moving on to GD and wanging on about ‘the vernacular’ 😂

I think there was a young chap called Ollie on it who made everything out of plywood/OSB/Chipboard/MDF?

Loved the show tho.

Blimey I'd completely forgotten about Home Front. IIRC Tessa Shaw spoke as if everything was slightly amusing.