Interior Design Masters S5 part 3 - Stay off the Green!

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Ready for next week’s final….yay!

Oooooh is there something I've missed?!

I've just caught up and watched the final.

Matt's design was more corporate (again) and Roisin's looked like it belonged in an old farmhouse. Roisin's style isn't to my taste personally so I was trying to be objective. Her outdoor furniture was definitely better. I really disliked the scallop edging. I like straight lines though. Her curtains in the living area were poor. Her bedrooms were well decorated (if a different setting).

I noticed Matt's lamps with the trailing leads and wondered why but I suppose he had to plug them in somewhere? It would have been picked up if they didn't switch on. I thought his living room and kitchen looked quite bland and 'holiday rental' ish although I far preferred his black kitchen to Roisin's canary yellow one. I liked his bedrooms and hallway. But the living area looked a bit cheap make over than anything particularly memorable. I don't know how gold leaf works - it looks like the old chocolate foil wrappers are somehow pasted on so I can't imagine how they will stand up to being in a rented holiday home.

I was surprised Roisin won. Did Michelle say anything positive other than exclaim non committedly? I don't think its Michelle's style at all so the other judge must have been the bigger vote?

But Roisin is better suited to designing 'cheerful' homeware. I imagine Matt's would be more sculptural and probably too high end for La Redoute to be honest whose customers want family friendly and brighter. (I have decorated my kid's bedrooms from La Redoute).

All over for another year. Matt's disappointment was clear to see but so was Roisin's joy. I'm glad for her that she won because she can now leave working in a travel agency to design whereas Matt was already designing so they are now both in the field. I'm not sure Roisin would have had the confidence to make the leap otherwise.

Domhall’s instagram rant - via the medium of graphic print. Quite the read…😳

He’s quite the sore loser isn’t he!

I’ve loved this series of IDM, I thought the final was great but had a feeling that Roisin might win because her style kind of aligns with LaRedoute..hopefully bath she and Matt have bright things ahead of them

Does anyone have a link to Roisin’s stuff on La Redoute. I’ve looked but I can’t find it.

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I didn't like Matt's dark hallway because it just looked depressing and his sofa was nowhere near big or squishy enough but, other than that, I like his lodge. I really liked his bedrooms.

I am a fan of colour and wallpaper but thought Roisin's was absolutely awful. The colours in the hall made it look like a child' s bedroom. That wallpaper over the ceiling looked, to me, tacky and the bedrooms were just horrible.

I think all those colours would give me a migraine if I stayed there and it's anything but relaxing. I also did not think it fitted a Blenheim theme unless the theme is childish and tacky.

Roisin's would have been better if she hadn't papered the ceilings. It was just too much for a space that isn't a personal one.

I do think Matt's had flaws but I don't think you can criticise it for being "corporate" when a holiday lodge has to appeal to a broad range of people. I think he thought about the client and use of the space rather than just doing what he wanted to his own personal taste.

I agree about holiday lodges having to appeal to a broad range of people. If they were kept as Matt and Roisin did them I would love to know what guests thought of them.

Last night I pictured myself walking into each of those lodges and while with Matt's I thought "oh this is a bit gloomy", with Roisin's I was "good grief, just no".

love or hate roisin, she really is a one trick pony and just does her own thing every time. Only people with exactly her taste will
choose to use her, and maybe that’s fine, but agree with pp who said that the programme used to focus more on meeting client brief and taking your own taste out of things a bit more

“I did struggle to like Roisin's designs because I don't think it's not really innovative, you could recreate almost every look she's done at Dunelm (or any mainstream home shop) and that's because it's already an on trend look, bobbly mirrors- check, scalloped edges check, bright deep colour- check, velvet, botanicals ....”

I thought exactly the same. She’s a decorator rather than a designer.

Yes I thought the programme used to show more discussion with the client, incorporating feedback. Surely the point is for a designer to bring ideas the client won't have thought of but always keeping the client first.

Inasmuch as we get to know them as individuals from a few edited shows - both came across as likeable. Style wise - Roisin's decorating had me thinking I don't like colour when in fact I do but not the exhausting in-your-face combinations of colours and pattern.

Its much easier to augment a quiet space than to tone down an over decorated space. I think the dressing room was Roisin's best space and showed her progression but I'd still have taken Matt's and given him time to incorporate the feedback to "finish off".

It’s interesting also the fashion element of these designs and designers. I was looking at most of roisins designs, thinking that the client would have to redecorate the entire space in a couple of years when roisins style
is not in fashion anymore. Maybe that’s not a problem, I don’t know. It reminds me of those instagrammers like Lisa dawson who redecorate rooms every year (or more often!) because they’ve gone all out with the latest fashion then need to keep up to date. I think Matt was better overall from this point of view, I felt his designs had a bit more longevity

Yes, they definitely needed to show the designers having a proper consultation with clients. What if someone had said to Roisin ‘I hate green and I don’t want it in my shop/house, and I’m not keen on pattern either'? How would she cope then? That would be a test of her abilities.

In the real world, paying clients will have things they’ve specifically asked for (or forbidden), and you’d have to pay attention. So far, as Roisin admitted herself, literally the only designing she’d done was to turn her parents' entire house into a green, wallpapered, pattern-filled example of what’s in her head.

I just could not cope with that acid yellow in her lodge, the wallpapered ceilings and those godawful pink curtains. Too much and everything clashing. Sorry because she seems nice but the 'throw everything at it' approach isn’t for everyone!

Isn't Blenheim just glorious.
Breathtakingly beautiful.

Well Twitter comments are all saying Matt was robbed and what a useless judge Michelle is.

Twitter is a cesspit. If matt won they’d have been saying roisin was robbed and Michelle a shit judge. Those comments are nothing to do with the result, and everything to do with the fact twitter is a cesspit of people attacking.

I think the fact that Domnall didn't even show up in the final speaks volumes really. Fran wasn't great and I wouldn't have wanted to lose against her, especially when she measured the benches wrong. Maybe given last night's result he knows something we don't and the winner if very much fixed from the outset.

I think three of the guys had quite similar classic styles and there was a bit of an attempt to keep certain people in so they provided some contrast, even though that contrast was pretty shit. I would have been happier to keep Domnall, Roisin, Anthony and Matt in as the final four, even though they have a bit more similar styles. To me they have design ability you would actually be prepared to live with. Ben had some good moments too, he just got a bit carried away with his theatrical stuff sometimes.

Hmm. I think it's more of a statement of power and wealth than beautiful.

I loved what Roisin did at Wembley Arena but what she did with the lodge was much too garish. As a guests I'd ask to be moved to one with more soothing colours!

Probably burn it down with a chandeliers and taffeta incident.

I can't see anything on Domnall Starkie's instagram page that says why he wasn't there? Did he fall out with someone?

I think his nasty little poem shows why he wasn't there.

DH and I were reflecting on the final this morning. I was very much in Team Matt because his style reflects my own; even though I love colour I can't live with too much and certainly not 'in your face ' patterns a la Roisin. DH, on the other hand, felt that Roisin's was more cheerful and he definitely felt he could relax more in the lounge area which interested me as I said it would give me migraine!

We both felt that it would have been interesting to see their consultation with the client and see how they worked to a brief. Again, it would be good to see if those designs have been retained in both lodges.

I do think that the winner was chosen with an eye to the end prize. I've just had a quick look at La Redoute and the range is hardly extensive - blackout blinds, cushions, tablecloth and a throw all in bright florals. I'm not sure how Matt's style would have translated to homeware.

I think Matt will do well with corporate design - hotels etc. Refined luxe if you like. That's not to say that Roisin won't have a career, but I think it would be more specific. Matt's designs seem to be more classic and have longevity.