Interior design masters new series - let the battle commence

[Chrysanthemum5]

The next series starts on the 21st April. Looking forward to banquettes, and bizarre paint choices, and upcycling of old junk. DD and I are rewatching the old series and I’d forgotten how crazy some of the rooms were!

In past series, probably Interior Design challenge, rather than this Masters one, they did have the home or business owner look around and their comments helped towards the decision of who went. Though I am sure some of this Masters series have had the business owners look around

I did think the comments about how much was in the mezzanine space, because it is being used for all those things. Maybe they could have made less of a division between spaces and not have the half arches, I don't know.

Totally agree with you I’ve really gone off Michelle and she absolutely is inconsistent.
Also re the Instagram thing maybe the issue isn’t the designers faults it’s that we are all oversaturated with beautiful/ maximalist/mid century modern etc interiors and hacks and make overs on instagram so it is all just a bit boring and no wow anymore.

I’d love to see Michelle come up with an additional design space as a benchmark that everyone can hold up and criticise too. She’s so wildly inconsistent and subjective every week.

She told the guy in the employment suite that he shouldn’t have filled a corner with a ‘badly made’ banquet seat and yet waxed lyrical about that awful huge OSB cabinet in the other room. And she’d have criticised him if he’d left the corner empty. Pfft. I don’t rate her as a judge at all. She’s been awful since the first series.

I’m a bit bored by all the “different” spaces. Beach huts have been done a few times now, how many people have a beach hut? I’d rather see bedroom/living room/home office type makeovers.
Really not interested in football ground boxes or rooms for the RN.

@Screamingabdabz yes that’s a perfect example!

hard agree. But doing up mrs miggings front room (relatable) is just changing rooms I guess - plus the fact the crew and contestants are in one location makes the cost lower. The original formula was excellent - actual ID’s with wildly different tastes (Dan and Sophie) brought an expert element and had walked the walk.. Michelle (although has a lovely wardrobe )is a taste maker via her magazine experience but is a bit ‘tin foil hat’ (IMO) about ‘making your home healthier’ (whatever that means - see also ‘clean beauty’ nonsense) which means you end up with a dogs dinner of a space using materials which do not bring comfort rather than one carefully thought out to enhance life (see the tiled headboard in own last house). I want to see the contestants given £3k and limited to the high street or a local sale room or wrestling with a pax wardrobe system - something that us mere mortals do…

I’m not a fan of Michelle either, bring back Sophie!

I agree and am wondering if they misunderstood the brief rather than simply failing to push back on unrealistic asks.

I originally thought the ask was for flexible space which could be used for eg classes, quiet space etc but not necessarily at the same time.

The idea of one or two people doing yoga right next to three tables of people eating and chatting seemed disjointed. Trying to cram a designated space for everything in just resulted in a lot of little spaces rather than maybe dividing it in two with one half for eating and sitting and the other for classes by use of wheeled storage.

I agree about Michelle. I have always found her very inconsistent in her judging, and a guest judge is pointless, as they may love something but she will still send that person home. Design is very subjective, so she at least needs to take into account the thoughts of the guest judge.

Yes please to all of this. The prize is such a weird thing too. Interior design is not product design. I'd rather see real homes being done with realistic budgetams and the prize is a year of advice foe their own business. Interior advice, but also business, accounting, marketing etc. Would be much better. Most of the past contestants seem to spend their time going to launches of products, design fairs and very little time actually designing.

The Art Room was the easiest brief out and I felt no one could really go wrong with it.

Some of the castle rooms last week had really odd lay outs and that never seems to be take into consideration.

It's not a level playing field unlike another Interior Design show I've seen where they pick a row of houses that are all virtually identical.

It's not really doing it for me this time out, not seen anything to inpsire

Gosh, I’m glad I’m not the only one to question that decision. I thought Ben, especially, could have gone on to win.

I too find Michelle very inconsistent.

I’m so sad that Ben went home! I’ve loved his designs each week and thought he should’ve got a lot further. I hated Sophie and Joanne’s space, the cobalt blue was hideous and if i was homeless I would’ve hated being reminded I didn’t have a home in such giant letters.

The charity's slogan seems patronising to me.

All of those rooms looked better before !!

It really wasn’t

I accidentally started watching series two for a couple of episodes.
The micro tensions at having to share a carpenter or work on a project together with another contestant is missing here, but still very enjoyable.
The judges are so polite. No one says “Oh my eyes!” When it’s hideous. That one painting the carved headboard a horrible vomit orange and placing a load of sledgehammers on the hotel room wall was an absolute travesty.

So tonight is the redesign of some Royal Navy Mess rooms - how will Emmerly fit papier mache into that?

The shape of a wobbly anchor?

Nelson's hat maybe?

Here we go! Just adverts first

Oh it’s bbc2! Quick change of channel

Let’s set sail!

Alan looked quite handsome there