SCOTT CAM: Previously on The Block...
We're very well aware that there's a clique
amongst Kristy and Brett and Leah and Ash.
They are like this.
..the alliance, aka houses two and three,
have become a force to be reckoned with.
PRODUCER: You're not really friends with anyone.
Oh, Ash and Leah. Oh, Ash and Leah are genuine.
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
The rest of it's fake.
Let me just tell you that you've won three times.
Yeah. Yeah. So you're in front.
Steph and Gian! (APPLAUSE)
How do you think the alliance is coping with it?
KRISTY: Don't fall for their sympathy trip.
It's fair to say that there'd be a pretty big divide.
(MOCKINGLY) "I love your room." That's actually hideous.
Yeah, I think we both just stay in our lanes.
And the alliance even had their conspiracy theories
about the rest of the houses.
We see things play out or we predict that things are happening
and then they come true.
Like the one where sisters Eliza and Liberty are Channel Nine plants
who get everything done for them.
It kind of does seem like
the girls are getting a little bit of an extra hand.
Every time there's a camera, they're, like, "I'm so silly!"
(LAUGHS)
I know they're having a hard enough time as it is.
You don't need anything... Well, hang on.
We are all having a hard time.
Well, house five have been having a particularly hard time,
with their relationship with their builders deteriorating daily.
What are our other options? Nothing.
And tonight it's crunch time.
You've got no alternative. Mmm.
You have to let your builders go. Yep.
You've got new builders coming on Monday. Yep.
Then everyone's got to finish the heart of their homes,
the kitchen, butler's pantry and laundry.
Check this pole. (SMASH!)
Oh, my god.
And the results... Yum!
..are amazing.
SHAYNNA: Whoa! NEALE: Wow!
Neale Whitaker is back...
This I've never seen before in a kitchen.
..and judging heats up.
Sexy. Look at this absolutely gorgeous...
It's almost like they've been listening to every season. (LAUGHS)
Oh, my god, this colour, no way.
But it's the house alliances going head to head that steals the show.
Are you guys pissed about something? KRISTY: No.
It was a struggle for me to hold back,
but she kept antagonising to start this conversation
and then I'm, like, "Well, here we go."
Are we saying that you do get an extra hand?
100%.
Well, I'm kind to people, so they're kind back to me.
Yeah, special treatment.
Definitely not the case, Eliza, so calm down.
I think they were quite shocked to have someone stand up to them
and take them on at a level that they take other people on.
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
There's 24 hours to go until tools down on kitchen and laundry week.
# Live, baby, live... #
It's the heart of the home,
the room that could make or break the whole house.
And so, as the deadline approaches,
teams need perseverance, they need stamina
and above all else, they need to be caffeinated.
Mate, couple of pick-me-ups for house one, please - Kyle and Leslie.
They've got a big day, so let's get them fuelled up.
Thanks, mate. WOMAN: There you go, Dan.
Have a good one.
Foreman Dan isn't above doing the odd coffee run,
which is good news for Kyle and Leslie in house one,
who have a kitchen, butler's pantry and laundry to finish
by this time tomorrow.
Good morning, gang. LESLIE: Good morning. How are we?
KYLE: Good, mate. Good.
I thought I'd get you a little pick-me-up from McCafe.
Oh! Oh, that's so nice of you.
Dirty chai almond, dirty chai full-cream.
Look at you go. Yeah.
Knowing the order and everything. I do, mate.
Yeah. Well, get into it. Big day.
Thank you. Thank you.
And house four's Gian has stopped by for a sneak peak at the competition.
GIAN: I've said it all week. I like it. It's really nice.
I haven't seen the stone.
Similar to what Steph and I actually have at home.
Oh! That. Nice.
I just love the feeling. Yeah, I really like it.
I'm digging it.
I think the main sort of kitchen hub area where the island is
and that natural light coming in through the Velux,
that's the sort of eye-catching picture for that home.
I think that's the picture I'd put on the brochure.
Gian has also got coffee on his mind this morning
in the form of a machine for house four's kitchen.
GIAN: It is a work of art, isn't it? So nice.
Architect Steph made the call to swap around the positions
for the living room and the kitchen on the floor plan
to give the kitchen and butler's pantry more space
and access to the outdoor area.
They also have a laundry to complete before judging.
House two also have the kitchen, butler's pantry and laundry to do,
including a coffee machine...
Thanks, mate.
But it's a far cry from Steph and Gian's neutral-tone version.
Oh, wow. This is epic!
Came up really nice. Yes.
It's pink.
The guy said, "I've never, ever done a pink coffee machine."
I was, like, "You wait.
"Those things are gonna be flying off the shelf."
So, 9:00, the stone's gonna be coming in.
KRISTY: Oh, I'm so excited.
And just gotta give him a bit of space.
I can potentially go do something else.
In house three, Kristy and Brett are swamped,
with four spaces to complete in the next 24 hours,
the kitchen, butler's pantry, laundry and dining room,
because they didn't deliver it two weeks ago.
They're also still waiting on their stone benchtop.
Friday night, we get a text message
saying that our stone's not gonna arrive until 9:00am in the morning.
I need to wait till I see the stone to get the stools.
Yeah. I've been pretty adamant on that.
Now I'm going to be shopping for furniture on a Saturday.
Panic start to set in.
It is what it is.
We're here now. There's nothing else we can do.
We've got so much that we need to do today
and we're just gonna have to crack on.
In house five, the kitchen, butler's pantry and laundry
are all in a good place.
Less so is the sisters' relationship with their builders.
Over dinner on Monday night,
we discussed the issues they've been having
from both a team morale and budget standpoint.
You've gotta change your team.
And the new team that comes in, you need to be in charge of them.
And they subsequently locked in new builders for Monday.
That's exciting. Great.
ELIZA: Dave was meant to be coming in without Mark
and so, I had to actually say, "Can you both come in?
"We want to have a chat."
There's just one thing left to do.
The sisters need to break up with their builders.
Did you guys want to come down here... MAN: Yep.
..when you have a sec?
Let's actually enjoy this couch. It's actual heaven.
Lounge room.
I'm worried about standing on the rugs.
I know.
Things are, like, really bad.
We're sort of at a...
yeah, point where we have zero dollars and, like, I don't...
Can we afford next week?
Basically, at the end of this week, we're at zero. Like, zero.
We're essentially at a point
where we have been given a company that has very...
Just apprentices, essentially. Mmm.
We don't really have a choice.
So is there a way we can stay to finish the project,
because that's more important to us than...
Yeah. ..the money side.
It's being here, you know, from start to finish.
Mmm. I don't know if there is.
Yeah. Yeah.
ELIZA: I feel bad that we were sort of, like,
deflecting a bit on the budget,
but I think we need to follow through with our decision.
We don't see it as, like, you guys not finishing a job.
We see it as we've got ourselves in a situation that, like...
We don't have a choice moving forward.
OK, they will just have a couple... a few apprentices, I guess.
Yeah. Two or three trying to complete the rooms for you. Yeah.
Assuming they're offering you two apprentices,
is that an option, that we would have two apprentices?
Yeah, because if they're bringing in apprentices at one rate
and we're willing to match that, you know...
An apprentice is an apprentice, so...
Also, as well, like, I just know that patience is wearing thin.
Like, I know it's tough working with us.
You know, then we're doing 12-hour days and we're... (BLEEP).
Then you're, like... You guys are sad when we're not finishing...
Like, it's a vicious cycle that we've now got ourselves in.
And we don't want it...
Like, we feel like we're constantly letting you guys down
because we're so, you know, inexperienced.
No, not at all.
I didn't realise how much, I guess,
beside the build you needed support, so apologies...
Yeah. ..that I didn't see that.
But if we were to move forward, you'd have my support, Dave...
Yeah. ..whoever's around...
We're willing to do whatever you need us...
Yeah. ..to do...
Yeah.
..so that we can get through it as a team.
Yeah. I mean, I guess... Yeah.
I mean, we can have another discussion.
Yeah. Yeah, well, maybe let's do that before...
Yeah. ..we sort of finish this conversation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's see if there is an alternative.
Let's just reassess at the end of the day.
Thank you. Thank you.
It's just too little too late.
Like, you know, now we're finding out
that all these things can be done.
Why haven't we gotten that from the start?
(SIGHS) (BLEEP). (BLEEP).
SCOTT: Now, how did you go this morning?
Oh, my god, Scotty. Um...
(GROANS) I don't want to...
I don't know. There was an answer and a solution for everything.
Alright. Well, let's discuss that after we discuss this.
We're gonna sort out your accounts. Yeah. Amazing.
OK, so... Thank you.
..into the inner sanctum. Oooh.
Oh, is there a password? Yes, there is.
(WOMEN LAUGH) No photos allowed.
Oh, my god.
If the girls are going to take on a new build team,
they need to know where their budget stands
for the remainder of the build.
The girls currently have $23,000 in their account
and that will be used up
by the time all their current trade invoices are paid.
Now, there still is 80,000 coming for everyone for their landscaping,
so the sisters will have to stretch that out across the next five weeks.
It'll be tight, so I've brought in Carla from CommBank
to organise the budget
by establishing separate accounts for each week.
If we can set something up in the CommBank app...
Of course. ..that would be amazing.
We've got your back. Thank you. We'll do it now. Thank you.
Alright. Let's do it. Let's do this. Let's do it.
Yeah, we were pretty transparent with our budget with Scotty,
which I think everybody was quite shocked
about how dire it actually is, but we move forward
and Carla actually helped us to create
some buckets for all of our money.
Create account. (LAUGHS) And then we're good.
And so... Mmm.
..we can just open up now.
That is very easy, isn't it? Yes.
You don't have to call and speak to anyone?
Absolutely not. Oh.
This was a really fantastic session.
We've had the CommBank app for a while but in terms of utilising it,
we probably haven't known how to utilise it to its best ability.
But now we've got three accounts,
so what we can do is you can name one your total renovation account...
Mm-hm.
..and then your weekly and then your landscape.
Right. OK?
Thank you. That's so, so helpful.
Good luck. Yeah, that's great. No worries.
'Cause when you're looking at it as a whole figure
and trying to, like... Yeah. ..it's confusing, but that...
It can be hard. ..breaks it up so much more.
Now that we've got that information,
I feel good about going to our trades and being, like,
"This is what we have to spend,
"so what can you give us for that amount?"
Now, next bit of business. Mm-hm.
You've got no alternative here. You have to let your builders go.
Yeah. You've got new builders coming on Monday.
Yeah. Make the next five weeks...
Yeah. ..successful.
Yep. Yep. We have to do it.
And even though they're overpromising now,
they've had opportunities... Yep.
..to come to the party.
You've asked them that way back in week two. Yeah.
Now, get in there and fix this. OK. Great. Thank you, Scotty.
Well done. Rightio. Thank you, Carla.
Thanks, guys. Good luck. Appreciate it.
Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Thanks, everyone.
Do not pass go. Go directly. We won't, we won't, we won't.
(LAUGHS) We won't.
Collect $10,000 on Sunday. Correct.
Oh, god. What a day.
I know, but we need to... It has to be done.
Yep. And we can do it. We just have to be firm.
Yep.
Good life lessons.
MAN: How did you go?
We have to move forward, like, with a new team.
OK.
We really appreciate your guys help. I'm so sorry it's come to this.
We just, like...
The quality of work that you guys have produced for us
has been, like, second to none and we love you guys as people so much.
Yeah, and your team... Yeah.
..so if you can, like, make sure that they know that.
And, like, look at this room... Yeah, like...
..for example. You girls...
I genuinely... This is purely all you guys.
You've designed it. We've just put it together.
Yeah, but also, we needed to work...
You guys needed to work hard to get it to that point, so...
And we feel really confident going into Sunday night.
Yeah. Every time we say that, I feel like something happens.
But this is the most confident I've ever felt, so...
Sensational. ..hopefully this can be our week.
Fingers crossed. Yeah, I know.
I'm shattered, so...
MARK: We wanted to see it through. Mmm.
I've always, to be honest, wanted to be on The Block as a contestant
but this is probably the best we're gonna get. Mmm.
KEITH: You're great builders. DAN: See you, mate.
Thank you very much. Yeah, you.
Sorry to see youse go, to be honest.
We really wanted to see it through
but unfortunately it's not our time, so...
And it's so, like, awful for them
having to pack up in front of everyone...
('STRONG' BY LONDON GRAMMAR PLAYS) # Excuse me for a while
# While I'm wide-eyed and I'm so damn caught in the middle... #
All the best, man. Thanks.
Good hanging out and getting to know youse. Thank you.
I'm sorry. No, you're right.
MARK: I want them to be successful,
so whatever our situation is is different.
Yeah.
They're happy, that's all that matters.
(BLEEP) good of youse, man.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
LIBERTY: We'd have loved to start and finish the build with them.
They're amazing, what they do.
They're great people and to see them be quite upset about it
was really, really hard
but selfishly, this is our experience on this show
and we have to do what's right for us
and give us the best opportunity to have the most incredible experience
for the rest of this five weeks
and that is the right decision in order for us to do that.
# Yeah, I might seem so strong Yeah, I might speak so long... #
And, like, they'll be OK, won't they?
(GULLS CRY) (THUNDER CRACKS)
SCOTT: This year's kitchens are really starting to take shape...
MAN: One, two, three. Let's go.
..with the fashionably late arrival of the final piece of the puzzle,
house three's benchtop.
We have quite a few hero pieces and one being our stone bench.
One, two, three.
It's such a hero piece.
BRETT: What's the name again? Lasso Rosso.
MAN: Go down.
One, two, three. (MAN STRAINS)
It's styling in itself, just this piece of stone.
So, because we do have this feature piece,
we try to keep the rest of the palette very neutral
to be able to let them, you know, shine.
Framing them. Yeah.
Oh, my god. That is unbelievable, isn't it?
Wow. That's a work of art, mate.
Kitchen's coming alive now. Oooh! Totally.
Everything is put into frame...
If you had have put any more in, it would've been too much. Honestly.
That is unbelievable, mate.
(CLICK!)
Love it.
How unreal is that! LEAH: Oh!
Dude, how unreal. Unbelievable.
Holy... Yes.
So, Kristy now has to find stools for her island bench
before close of business today...
right after she and her bestie stock their new kitchens.
Oh, my god. I haven't had... We need salami.
..a cheese platter in a long... I know.
Oh! I really love a cheese platter.
Oh! Dead.
My wine fridge... Is massive.
..is massive.
Have you got a budget in mind? No.
They have to be loaded so it's, like...
Yeah, OK. Fair enough. We need alcohol.
Lots of it. Oooh.
South Australian too.
A lot of wine.
House party, 16 and 18 Charming Street.
Be there or be square. Yeah.
Party! Party, party!
Now, with the wine fridge stocked, how about those barstools?
PRODUCER: Did you find barstools?
She hasn't been a great day, guys.
PRODUCER: How did that go? Horribly.
SCOTT: Alexa, play the Kristy barstool shopping scene?
The condensed version, please.
Hello. My name is Kristy.
I'm a contestant on The Block this year
and I'm just seeing if you have stock items in that I can get today.
MAN: (ON PHONE) No.
OK. Thanks for your help. Bye-bye.
OK. Sorry.
Hey, I'm really hoping for a miracle right now.
Any chance you've got four of them?
MAN: (ON PHONE) Sorry, mate. All good.
I'm after four and it's like a rounded bench,
like your kitchen bench.
WOMAN: (ON PHONE) I only have two in stock.
Oh, my god.
I called everywhere.
(RINGING TONE)
Couldn't get any.
Honestly, even these at this point.
No way!
Nadia from the Block Shop,
oh, she should have, like, a halo around her.
WOMAN: (ON PHONE) OK. What colour stools are you after?
Let's start with basics.
So I sent her my mood board for this week
and she came back and she was, like, "I can get you these
"but it's gonna be 8:30 tomorrow morning from the warehouse."
And I'm, like, "Oh, my god."
('TAINTED LOVE' BY SOFT CELL PLAYS)
KEITH: No more power tools.
SCOTT: And that's power tools down for kitchen week.
Yeah, yeah, the front's here.
But it looks like it's going to be a big night all round.
LEAH: Getting ready to clean.
I don't know why they use vinyl stickers.
Hello. Hello.
So we've got globes, downlights... Oh, my god.
Amazing. ..and these spotlights.
Well, now you can see... Yeah, I know.
It looks good. How cool is it!
I love it.
# I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night... #
KYLE: I don't particularly enjoy rolling, let's be honest.
In house four, architect Steph's made the bold move
to put the cooktop with the built-in rangehood in the island bench
and feature lights on the wall over the sink,
where you would normally expect to see a rangehood.
A lot of people put feature lighting on top of their island.
This is another way of creating a feature piece in terms of lighting,
by popping it on the wall.
My job as an architect
is literally to make you think about things differently
and it's, like, the biggest compliment when people say
that I'm doing things in a different way
'cause I have to challenge form and function.
That's what I do.
LIBERTY: We actually feel quite good
because I think we're just excited about our space.
And everyone also has to finish off
their butler's pantries and laundries...
plus one dining room in house three.
Getting there.
Hey, mate. Morning, mate.
Did you sleep? No.
What a mission, hey? Yeah.
Oh, well... See you, mate.
All the best.
# I'm telling that sun to come back... #
There's no such thing as bedtime... (LAUGHS) ..on Saturdays anymore.
You begin to lose your mind.
I underestimated how much painting there was, just such tight areas.
KRISTY: The cleaning was a huge one this week.
It's just, like, so many stickers, so much styling.
Essentially, having to style all the rooms this week was huge.
BRETT: Check this pole.
(CLATTERING) Oh, my god.
You know what, I'm so glad that happened now.
Could you imagine if that happened the day before midnight?
Dude, is that not the right size?
It must not have been in properly.
KYLE: Time just goes so quickly in the morning.
LESLIE: There were still, like, the stems of the pampas
that I wanted to cut down because they were too high...
I had to put two pictures up. You had to put two pictures up.
I had to make margaritas... Yeah, tons of...
You had to make margaritas. (LAUGHS)
Hello, hello. Good morning.
Oh, my little lifesaver. OK.
Aren't you?
Nadia from the Block Shop came and saved my arse big-time this week.
Are you right with that one? Yep.
I'll grab the artwork. Thank you very much.
She flew in at 8:49 and we were putting stools together.
BRETT: Just start doing one bolt front and back.
The rest are a gift.
A gift? You know what I mean?
Yep. (GASPS)
We were, like, spinning. She was, like, chucking things.
We were, like, putting up...
Brett was, like, putting a painting on the wall.
100 miles an hour.
# You keep saying you've got something for me... #
One more to go.
# Something you call love but confess... #
I kind of think that looks nicer.
ELIZA: You can still do lime.
# You've been a-messin'... # What difference does that make?
I just think these bowls are nicer. I think they look cheap.
# And now someone else is getting all your best
# These boots are made for walking and that's just... #
That looks weird too. I don't know anymore.
Maybe we shouldn't do it too matchy-matchy.
# One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. #
Oranges in there? Just do what you did originally.
(BLEEP) hell.
Well, I don't know. I just don't know.
You just have the one bowl with oranges in it.
Just this bowl with oranges. No.
You need height. But a fruit bowl is stand-alone.
When have you ever seen a fruit bowl...
So you want that alone? Maybe.
Is that weird?
(WHISTLES) Tools down!
# I feel glorious... #
Well done. Another week.
Oh! That was a big week.
BRETT: Thank you so much. Well done!
Oh, we couldn't have done it without you.
Thank you so much.
Everybody was, like, "Oh, do you think it's gonna happen?"
I'm, like...
The Block Shop always makes it happen.
Come on. Always makes it happen.
Oooh-wee.
I walked away from that happy and there's not anything
that I probably would've have done differently.
And the bowl of oranges. I mean... Mmm.
..star of the show, as it should be.
(GULLS CRY)
SHELLEY: How would you like to win $30,000?
Yep, 30 grand, thanks to Disney+.
Head to the Block website now
and vote for the couple you think has created this week's best room.
The results later in the show.
# I can feel it coming in the air tonight
# Oh, lord
# And I've been waiting for this moment... #
WOMAN: Scotty. Hello.
# Oh, lord... # Wow.
# Oh, lord. # Wow. Wow. Wow.
Watch your heels now.
(MAN LAUGHS) Wow.
Don't you all look spectacular! MAN: G'day, Scotty.
Wow! WOMAN: Hey, Scotty.
Everybody has done an absolutely outstanding job this week.
We've all heard the saying 'kitchens sell houses'.
And I'm telling you, if your kitchens that you delivered today
don't help you sell your houses,
then I'm not standing here.
I'll be very surprised.
And I'd like everybody to give a round of applause
for the fantastic team at the Kinsman kitchen group
for the work that they have done this week.
(APPLAUSE) (LAUGHS)
And our judges, Shaynna and Darren,
were joined by their old mate Neale Whitaker today.
He loves a good kitchen on The Block! You can't keep him away.
('SUPREMACY' BY MUSE PLAYS)
So let's get stuck into it and find out who's gonna cop the coin.
(LAUGHS) Here we go. House one.
PRODUCER: Summarise this week in a sentence.
(BLEEP)house. (LAUGHS)
SCOTT: House one's kitchen is situated at the back of the building,
with the butler's pantry overlooking the backyard.
The laundry is at the opposite end of the kitchen.
You come last and you go, "Is this worth it?"
Like, you're away from your kids and you're kind of just going "Come on."
Like, the feedback that we got in our room being too pretty
at the fact that it was, like, all near perfect execution,
that didn't reflect in the scores.
There wasn't gonna be a lot of natural light.
We're just having a conversation
about the possibility of putting some Velux in here.
DAN: You're allowed to have two skylights.
Yes! Two Veluxes.
I feel like I was just asked to come to carry (BLEEP).
Tea towels. Cutlery.
Plates. Bowls. Servingware.
Anything and everything, we bought it.
We've just come in today to put two Velux skylights in your kitchen.
LESLIE AND KYLE: Yep.
Because you've got a rolled beam with your plaster,
we would like to put the skylights a little bit lower...
LESLIE: Yep.
..and actually roll the plaster back into the Veluxes.
KYLE: OK.
We think it'll look fantastic and we haven't done that before,
so it'll be great for us to do it as well.
Amazing. Yeah.
# Kiss me out of the bearded barley... #
For me, I hope the judges take away the fact that we have considered
the functionality of the kitchen... Yep.
..and utilised the space that we were given.
PRODUCER: Are you ready for judging?
I'm never ready for the judging comments. (LAUGHS)
# Oh, kiss me... #
SCOTT: Shaynna walked in and she had one word to say.
SHAYNNA: Sexy.
And she didn't stop there. "Look at that ceiling." She said...
It's the house of curves, isn't it?
DARREN: It's the house of whoever plasters everything
doing an amazing job.
Mmm. It's phenomenal.
NEALE: That is really beautiful.
I don't think I've ever seen skylights used in that way before.
No. No. It's stunning.
Neale Whitaker said straight away he totally gets where you are going
with the kitchen and the build.
I love the use of the curves,
because to me, there's a lot of reference in this kitchen
to the '60s, but in a really good way.
There's a lovely sort of retro vibe...
Yeah. ..going on in here.
The judges thought layout-wise
the cooking zone, the cleaning zone and the location of the refrigerator
was all very well thought out in your kitchen.
Bin. Yeah.
It's almost like they've been listening to every season.
(LAUGHS) That's the correct...
Yep. ..layout for here.
Yep.
And the queen of storage herself... Mm-hm.
..will be very, very happy because they are drawers...
Oh! ..drawers...
Drawers for days. Drawers for days.
..on cupboards...
Storage galore.
And although it was still early in the morning,
they were all tempted to have a drink of the margaritas...
(LAUGHS) ..on the kitchen bench.
Shaynna believed it was excellent styling.
And that's without a drink - she didn't have one.
(LAUGHS)
NEALE: I love the eye for detail
that is matching the margarita glasses with the shades...
Mmm. ..in this gorgeous oven.
Yes. How lovely is that! It's beautiful.
The indigenous artwork by Kamilya White from the Block Shop
complemented everything in the kitchen.
After being very impressed with the kitchen,
our judges then stepped into the butler's pantry
and a discussion ensued...
I think there is definitely some unlearning to be had
around butler's pantries
because they so quickly became de rigueur...
SHAYNNA: Mmm. ..the must-have item...
and we saw people with really small kitchens
making small kitchens even smaller
because they had to have a butler's pantry.
Me personally, as a designer who does design kitchens,
I wouldn't have one at this size in this location in this house.
To me, it's not even a sense of real estate.
They've given over this indoor-outdoor access,
which could've sold this.
..and questioned whether it would've been better to put a doorway there
to the backyard.
That's what it was, isn't it? Yeah, it was initially.
SHAYNNA: The floor plan is their kryptonite, unfortunately.
It brings them undone each week.
Onto the laundry
and Neale wanted the cupboard with the vacuum in his house,
he loved it that much.
That is the... Yeah.
..utilities cupboard I need in my life...
Yeah. ..that's for sure.
That's perfect.
The judges were full of praise for your effort this week.
Aesthetically, they're very good. Yeah.
Styling-wise, they're very good.
It is far from a disaster. Oh, absolutely.
There's a lot to like in this kitchen and this laundry.
In this instance, less than perfect is still exceptionally good.
That's it.
I'm still of the opinion that people are expecting a pantry
and it hasn't, though, really limited
the functionality of the kitchen.
I don't think it's limited it at all, to be honest... No.
..having the pantry, so...
(GULLS CRY)
(APPLAUSE)
SCOTT: OK. House two.
This week was outrageously annoying.
At just under 16 square metres, house two's kitchen is the smallest.
It flows through to a butler's pantry.
Their laundry is accessed through their downstairs bathroom.
I had a really tough time designing this kitchen even back in week two.
We wanted to delete the butler's pantry.
We believe that the main kitchen was just too tight, too small
and probably not very functional.
I just quickly jumped on my computer, re-figured some layout
and I'm super, super happy.
I have a butler's kitchen... butler's pantry in my kitchen.
The island cabinetry goes in and I immediately hate it.
Takes up way too much room.
Are you reducing your island now? Just making it smaller, mate.
I just want to get it right.
I really... (CRIES) could...
completely stuff it.
You won't stuff it. It's fine.
(MAN SCREAMING SOUND EFFECT)
Hang on. I've just had a message.
Oh, bugger.
"We cannot do the waterfall.
"Zero material."
Hmm. OK.
So I had to design something on the spot.
This is something that I could do.
All of the underside would be a feature tile.
And it's one of the tiles that's on my stairs.
Yeah, I think it works perfectly.
Oh, so much sets this room apart.
Just the personality, the flair.
The judges might come in and say... No, I don't care.
.."This doesn't work at all..." No.
But...
I think they'll say the island is proportioned to the kitchen and...
Yeah. ..to the house.
I think they'll froth over... Froth. (LAUGHS)
..over the coffee machine.
NEALE: Ah-ha.
Look at these tiles.
Absolutely gorgeous benchtop.
Oh, wow.
DARREN: Yep. It is so beautiful.
You will remember, Neale gave you a ten
for the living and dining space two weeks ago.
He was really impressed
with the fact that you have taken the aesthetic
from the living and dining spaces and run with it.
This aesthetic they've chosen for themselves,
not only is it polarising but it is interesting.
Shaynna agreed with him wholeheartedly.
SHAYNNA: I think the dark, the metallic, that quartzite,
so many different materials.
Even little stools are quite beautiful in that burgundy.
Up until this point, Darren was very quiet
and sitting back and taking it all in.
When they asked him what he was thinking,
he just had one word for them.
Besotted.
Oh. Oh!
Everything in here is bold and courageous.
But... And it's a big 'but'.
Is this enough island bench
for a multi-multi-million-dollar home?
Well, this is the only island bench
and you've got a sink right in the middle.
Yep.
I mean, sinks in island benches are very divisive.
I want to pick this sink up and move it kind of further down here
to at least give me more prep space
because unfortunately what that sink has done in that position
is it's really diminished the usefulness of the spaces
either side of it.
Your island bench wasn't doing it for them,
but there were still many positives in your room this week.
The coffee machine was definitely one of those.
Not many people are bold enough to do that.
(LAUGHS)
Did you know you can actually powder-coat your coffee machines
to whatever colour you want?
Well, that's amazing.
So, they've had that specially coated?
Yeah. Yeah. OK.
Well, that shows that commitment to the aesthetic
that I was talking about a couple of weeks ago.
The issue they had in house one came up again.
Did the butler's pantry take up too much real estate?
Oh, wow. I reckon this is a big mistake.
Having a butler's pantry, when you've got this size kitchen.
Yeah.
And I just feel that kitchen feels really tiny...
when it's actually not a small space.
LEAH: We don't really do butler's, but I don't know.
Should've stuck with your guts. ASH: Yeah. I know, but...
Melbourne, I don't know, the general consensus was butler's.
Yeah.
Into the laundry and another planning issue came up.
Neale only realised today
you had to go through the bathroom to get into the laundry.
SHAYNNA: Mm-hm. Yes. NEALE: It's kind of weird.
It's a big, contentious discussion we were having
when they revealed this bathroom.
OK. So...
And you thought that was weird? You agree with me?
Yeah. We were sort of feeling like, "Mmm, how does that work?"
The laundry had great features, great amenities and great taps.
Lots of actually good usable bench space too and a hanging rod.
Look, time was when it was perfectly normal
for a laundry and a bathroom to be connected in this way.
But we're talking about a luxury home
at a very luxury price point,
where the expectations will be that much greater, that much higher.
I think it's a disadvantage to this house
to have a laundry that is so snug,
where you have to walk through that bathroom to get to it.
Final word goes to Shaynna.
She had been reserving judgement on this laundry
because she thought the decision to put it here
was because you wanted to deliver a much larger kitchen as a result
and today she doesn't think it has paid off for you
as well as it might have.
SHAYNNA: We didn't see the payoff in the kitchen
and now we've walked into a laundry
that doesn't feel like a payoff either.
NEALE: Mmm.
So, to me, in my mind, I've got two rooms today
that are a bad decision in the floor plan layout.
It didn't pay off. Yeah. Yeah.
That's it. LEAH: Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
ASH: We're not unhappy with the judging tonight.
We're not mad, we're not upset. Yeah.
We're building for an unknown buyer at this point.
We sort of have to tick as many boxes as we can
to attract the bigger market.
So we've still got the endgame in mind. Yeah.
And we think we're on track with that still.
(GULLS CRY)
OK. House three. Kristy and Brett.
This week was our hell week.
KEITH: Big week. BRETT: Yeah.
Wow. Massive week.
Huge week. It is.
It is essentially doing kitchen, dining, butler's and the laundry.
But to be able to complete all those spaces,
we also have to do our hallways, our subfloors
for all of our existing house to be able to get us there.
SCOTT: I want to see the secret weapon.
Secret weapon?
It is... SHELLEY: What am I looking for?
Oooh, hello. Hey, wait for it, wait for it.
(HOSTS EXCLAIM)
No way. What do you call that, love?
(LAUGHS) Rise and fall, apparently.
Rise and fall. Yeah, rise and fall...
KRISTY AND SCOTT: Splashback.
('MORE THAN THIS' BY ROXY MUSIC) # I could feel at the time
# There was no way... #
I'm just proud that we completed
that many spaces in that amount of time.
# More than this... #
But it feels like a house now, so, yeah.
# More than this... #
"Ba-boom..." (LAUGHS)
..said Darren on entering today.
Yum! Yes!
Do you like it?
(LAUGHS)
I want to blend with it.
Mind the candle. I want to meld with it.
"I want to meld with it," he said.
(LAUGHTER) WOMAN: Meld.
Meld.
SHAYNNA: You actually...
He does meld with it. You work with it.
I do. You know what...
(GASPS)
..five years ago, even three years ago, people were going,
"Oh, my god, this colour, no way." Mmm.
But this is so now
but will be now for quite a long time in those warm times.
This is not going out of date quickly.
Oh, look at the thickness of that. I can't...
Feels like you could cut a slice through it.
Shaynna thinks this proves what they were saying in house two
regarding the functionality of the island bench.
An island bench with a sink in the middle doesn't work
when you have a disadvantaged size of your island bench.
Mmm. This is a massive island bench.
Yeah.
It does not matter that the sink's in there
and it's off to the side as well.
"You have shown incredible restraint with everything else
"and made the island bench the hero."
That was the aim, so that's good.
All was white except for the bench. Yeah. Yep.
"The other hero today was definitely the wine fridges."
Look at the wine fridges!
Like, excuse me?
(LAUGHS) The fact you said wine 'fridges'.
Wine fridges. That is absolutely high-end luxury.
Please tell me there's fridges here.
Well, I'm thinking...
Look at this. NEALE: Oooh, yes.
OK. Look at that.
And very beautifully styled fridges as well.
Oh, and look. We've got... Yes.
..a pantry here. That's a tandem pantry.
Yeah. Yes, you know the names of them all.
Love those ones. Oh!
Wow. And another one there.
And then we got cutlery, we've got drawers, we've got a bin,
we've got dishwasher, we've got...
We've got everything! We have everything in here.
Oh!
Darren then demonstrated the James Bond functionality
of the Hafele rise-and-fall splashback.
(LAUGHTER) I love a little secret panel!
Wow. Hot. That is really cool.
And I have to say, it is really refreshing
to see an all-white kitchen - we rarely see it these days.
But I think it's absolutely beautiful
and combined with these metal handles,
which, you know, it's such a subtle detail...
But you feel that. Mmm.
Crosshatch, are we calling that? Yeah. It's stunning.
I love all of that.
But I think they've made a big mistake
with the other things in this space.
I'm afraid, to me,
everything else is fighting the scale of those dining chairs.
They're way too big for this space.
Cream wool boucle for a kitchen stool?
(IMITATES BUZZER) Come on.
I mean, it might look lovely for a moment... Mmm.
..but how quickly is that not gonna look lovely?
To me, that is the most impractical solution for a kitchen stool.
But boy, oh, boy,
those little things are quite minor, because this is...
Yep. ..a huge success.
Oh! Oh, hello!
This time, it's a butler's pantry that makes sense.
The space is here. It's not compromising anything.
We know, functionally, this works.
And we haven't even seen the laundry.
Oh! Dog bed.
Love a little dog bed.
(CLOSES DOOR)
But the laundry wasn't really doing it for Darren today.
Functionality-wise, it doesn't deliver enough bench space.
You've got a sink and you don't have a flat usable area
just to let everything land.
NEALE: It's a shame because it looks great in here.
And I do love these doors.
I love those doors too.
Well done, guys. That's it.
(APPLAUSE)
One thing they pointed out that I've been nervous about the whole time
is the white cupboards and the white up against that stone
and I think all three of them said it was the correct choice,
which, yeah, we think was the right move
and it was good to get that reassurance.
(GULLS CRY)
(APPLAUSE) SCOTT: OK. Steph and Gian.
Kitchen week was full throttle.
To increase the size of their kitchen back in week two,
architect Steph made the bold move
to swap the location of the existing kitchen and living room spaces.
The butler's pantry sits behind the kitchen wall
and their laundry is at the front of the house.
I'm thinking a key reason as to why we've designed the kitchen
the way that we have is to sort of not make it feel kitchen kitchen-y.
Just, again, a spin on minimalism and a spin on 'Japandi'.
Oh! Very exciting kitchen. No, it's gonna be good.
I think we've got the winner here. I think we do. I think we do.
I don't think anyone's ever seen something like this before. No.
KEITH: Did you build this whole wall? Yeah.
Wow!
And I'm really proud of Gian's journey on this
because obviously he's not in this field at all.
That's the nicest thing you've ever said.
SCOTT: This... I love this.
And that is an extraction fan, isn't it?
Yeah. Yes, it is.
So you've got an induction cooktop
and that's basically your rangehood in the middle.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Because obviously it leaves this as a beautiful open space.
Mm-hm. Yes.
('ELEPHANT WOMAN' BY BLONDE REDHEAD PLAYS)
# Angel I can see myself in your eyes... #
I'm really proud of the feel.
You see the kitchen, you see the connectivity with the living space.
STEPH: I'm most proud of the finishes.
Our materials palette is super in-depth.
SHAYNNA: Oooh.
NEALE: Wow.
The judges all loved the look of your kitchen today
and Shaynna once again praised your eye for design, Steph.
STEPH: Thank you.
I keep thinking in my mind she's only 26.
NEALE: Wow. Really?
In ten years, she's gonna be phenomenal...
Mmm.
..with all that life experience behind her.
She's amazed at what you turn out each week
and thinks you have an amazing career ahead of you.
Darren noted it was a better kitchen
for being moved from the original plans.
If you look at the available square meterage in this space,
it is actually a bigger, better kitchen
for being moved to this location.
I have to say, this marble top is divine.
I actually normally wouldn't like this, but together...
Oh, it's beautiful. ..it's stunning.
I can't knock one aesthetic look.
Aesthetically, it's absolutely exquisite.
It's that really clever mix of Scandinavian meets Japanese,
even meets a little bit of sort of Tuscan there,
with the urn and the foliage.
It's so gorgeous
and there's so many really beautifully balanced influences
in here.
This, I've never seen before in a kitchen...
Mmm. ..so, all absolutely beautiful.
And if we were judging on aesthetics, it would be a winner.
But... And it was another big 'but' for the judges.
..they all had issues with the functionality of the kitchen.
Could you cook me a lovely smoky, smelly piece of salmon, please?
Oh, and I'm sorry, you wanted salmon?
(IMITATES OIL SPITTING) My point exactly.
You're gonna do a stir-fry? Psschheow!
Correct. It'll spit. It will have... Mmm.
It will have smoke. It will have aromas.
It will have all sorts of sensory... Yeah.
..input here if I'm sitting at this spot.
Yep.
"Imagine if you were frying a piece of salmon on that island bench.
"The person sitting on the island bench with you
"would be fearing for their lives."
STEPH: It was justified to the side.
They would have to wear one of those hazmat suits.
(LAUGHS) It's justified to the side.
The seating is not in front of the cooktop.
Mmm. But you know when the oil sprays everywhere...
Yeah, yeah. They're on, like, the other side completely.
(LAUGHTER)
Darren wondered,
would it function better if the cooktop was on the other side?
And he came to the conclusion it probably would.
Now I want to know what's around it.
So we've just got a couple of cutlery, we've got...
OK, we've got a bin. We've got a dishwasher.
What's underneath that? Double dish drawer.
Double dish drawer. OK. What's in there?
Pantry. Pantry.
Fridge. And...
And that doesn't move.
Oh. Right. OK.
Where's your pots and pans go?
Where do your plates go that you're cooking in, serving with?
Mmm. Yeah.
It's all in the butler's, by the looks of it.
So, the idea of a butler's pantry is to hide the mess.
This is going to be full of mess
'cause you want to make sure that you have everything out,
ready to go, so this is full of stuff. Yeah.
Which is gonna impact on the living space
'cause a lot of the time you'll be sitting there in the living room
staring at piles of dishes.
Mmm.
While he loves your now-famous Japandi style...
(STEPH LAUGHS)
..his biggest problem with this kitchen, and it is a big one,
it feels to him like it was designed by somebody who doesn't cook.
Do you cook, Steph? I do cook. (LAUGHS)
'Cause you've gotta have all your stuff around you
when you're cooking, don't you? GIAN: Mmm.
Or you've gotta go back to the butler's pantry to get your pots
and then back to the butler's pantry to get your plates... Yeah.
..and stuff like that.
"The butler's pantry seemingly had it all."
NEALE: (GASPS) Wow.
SHAYNNA: Mmm. It looks exquisite.
Everything visually in here makes me very happy.
I feel like we're suddenly
in some gorgeous Japanese ryokan or something.
Yeah. It's stunning!
But it's doing all of the functional work
that the main kitchen should be doing.
The layout has come at the cost
of the idea of the ubiquitous butler's pantry
but what that has cost them is a functional kitchen
and that's the thing that should be doing all the work.
Yeah.
The judges then entered your laundry
and were delighted to find a large and very functional benchtop.
This is a brilliantly functional laundry.
We've got a connection to the outdoors through a door,
it has lots and lots of bench space, uninterrupted.
All the appliances you could need. Mmm.
I love this French pattern on the floor.
It's beautiful. Like flagstones.
Yeah. I love it.
In a final comment, Neale summed up the kitchen in two words.
Beautifully dysfunctional. Yeah.
Because that's what it is. Let's get to house five.
OK. Hopefully it's up. Yeah. I'm expecting great things.
That's it.
(APPLAUSE) Thanks.
It's, like, really positive comments, really bad comments
but positive...
Like, which ones should be dwell om? Yeah.
Which ones shall we dwell on? Let's dwell on the positives.
(GULLS CRY)
Oh... Are you ready?
No. I'm gonna vomit. No.
Can we get some buckets, please? Yeah.
This week was empowering.
House five's open-plan design continues this week,
with a 24-square-metre kitchen,
butler's pantry, laundry and walk-in linen cupboard.
You need to be in charge of your builders and tell them what you want,
not them telling you what they want.
We got some hard truths at dinner from Scotty.
You've gotta change your team.
Scotty had kindly set us up with a couple of new builders.
The experience should be fun. Yeah.
For that to be top of their agenda,
like, for me, that was really the clincher.
Your stone's about to come in. I know. It's a very, very...
Like, my heart's racing... Why?
..a little bit.
'Cause look at the size of it.
Our island bench is 4m long and there's two pieces,
so there's, like, six or seven people
having to bring it in from the truck and place it on the bench.
(SQUEALING)
So incredible. I know.
Oh!
So beautiful.
# It's a new dawn, it's a new day
# It's a new life for me
# But I'm feeling good... #
Regardless of the judges' feedback, we need to remember how happy we are
and how stoked we are with the space
but we also very much need to win, so...
# But I'm feeling good... #
Whoa.
(NEALE LAUGHS) SHAYNNA: Whoa!
(LAUGHS) Hey, look at that orange oven!
Wow. (LAUGHS)
Neale thinks it's brave and it's awesome.
It's a very bold move to make.
I personally love it because I love orange.
It's a colour that makes me so happy.
It's such a vibrant, positive colour.
Not for everyone,
but good on Eliza and Liberty for doing it and taking that risk.
And as they've been talking all day
about sitting around the island benches,
they then sat down at yours.
So, grab a seat on this end. Yeah. Mmm.
You just move just a touch here, right?
Yep.
So, right where that is, that's where your dinner plate is.
Right where that is is where yours is. Mmm.
This is where mine is. We are a family.
We're having a lovely morning conversation,
we're having a beautiful evening at night, having a chat,
we're sitting around, all able to see each other
and interact with each other... Mmm.
..without turning our heads like owls.
(LAUGHS)
This is the correct way to do an island bench.
Wow!
But this is the first bench, Shaynna, that we've seen today,
isn't it, that doesn't have either a cooktop or a sink in it.
Mmm. It's just pure unadulterated bench.
Hallelujah. Yeah.
(LAUGHS) This is incredible.
Oh, my god, the girls must be so happy.
Shaynna then went on her functionality tour.
We've got a bar. How cute is that little nook!
(LAUGHS) Oh!
Double fridge. Storage for days.
Oh, look. Oh, look.
Unique to have your plates where you're going to plate up.
Oh, my god, who would've thunk it!
Basically, you've got everything. Everything.
You've got everything you need and pretty much where you want it.
Where's the dishwasher? OK.
So we've got sink, we've got the dishwasher, dishwasher there.
Have either of you played with AI generated by text?
Not yet. No.
No? Right. So, as you write, it creates things.
It's a little bit like
house five's kitchen has just been listening to us...
(LAUGHS)
..what do we want from every single one of those kitchens
and then it's built this...
Mm-hm. ..in response.
(LAUGHS)
And that's a gorgeous artwork as well.
I absolutely love it. Yeah. It's beautiful.
The way it picks up, you know...
It's like the one focal point in here
and the way it works to the oven, to the orange, it's just beautiful.
Shaynna had very high praise for your styling too.
"The simple bowl of oranges on the bench..."
(LAUGHS) Yes! We spent half an hour on it!
(LAUGHTER)
I haven't said whether they liked it yet.
Oh. (LAUGHTER)
.."are a nice touch, connecting the artwork to the oven.
"Very effective."
Oh, thank god.
Into your butler's pantry
and it's a cute little space that's very functional.
NEALE: They've taken butler's pantry in here
really back to what butler's pantries were originally,
just a pitstop to put things out of the line of sight.
Yeah.
Onto the laundry. They felt it was compact.
It's got washing machine, dryer.
It does have a small bench but the overflow could use those benches.
Yeah. Yeah, you could.
I really like the flow... Yeah.
..of these spaces, I really do.
I love the way that the kitchen flows into the butler's,
flows into the laundry. Mmm.
It kind of feels logical.
And then Shaynna discovered
it also flows onto a fully fitted out walk-in linen cupboard.
She literally said,
"Oh, my god, we have been crying out for functionality all day
"and here it is in spades."
Oh, my god.
(LAUGHS) This is...
It's what you need. It's very good.
Oh, my god. This is incredible.
Go, girls! Go, girls.
Fair to say you had a very good day with the judges today.
The judges had seen five very different kitchens today,
all filled with breathtaking selections of stone
and some truly amazing joinery.
What a day. Good to be back.
I was just about to say, great to HAVE you back.
And what a day to be on kitchen week.
You love the heart of the home.
I would not have missed it for the world.
ELIZA: We felt good, didn't we? LIBERTY: So, so good.
How was your styling! How was my orange bowl!
That's it, girls. Scores. Here we go.
It's fun when you get nice comments.
It's so fun. We've never experienced that before.
OK. Darren Palmer. Kyle and Leslie.
DARREN: I think this is an amazing kitchen.
Everything looks bloody wonderful.
Oh.
Leah and Ash.
Everything in here is bold and courageous.
Kristy and Brett.
Do I like it? I want to meld with it!
KRISTY: Yeah.
Steph and Gian.
The layout has come at the cost of the idea
of the ubiquitous butler's pantry.
Eliza and Liberty.
It's a little bit like house five's kitchen
has just been listening to what do we want
from every single one of those kitchens
and then it's built this in response.
Oh, God Almighty.
(WHISTLES)
Neale Whitaker. Kyle and Leslie.
NEALE: That is really beautiful.
I don't think I've ever seen skylights used in that way before.
Leah and Ash.
This benchtop, it is so beautiful.
Kristy and Brett.
It is really refreshing to see an all-white kitchen.
We rarely see it these days.
ELIZA: Oh, my days!
Steph and Gian.
NEALE: A lot of the time, you'll be sitting there
staring at piles of dishes.
Eliza and Liberty.
They've taken butler's pantry in here
really back to what butler's pantries were originally.
Oooh. Neck and neck.
Oh, my god. Bit tight.
Oh, don't you wish you had the gnome!
Um, Scotty? Yes?
Are people allowed to use gnomes?
Yes.
We would like to use our gnome, please. Can we please use ours?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Girls, you can explain that to everybody later.
It's a secret gnome that you've had for quite a long time
and you've been hiding it and holding it for a long time since you won it.
Can we get a bit of a recap on this story?
Oh, god.
Coming up...
Bottom line is, we've all got secrets, obviously, don't we?
..Eliza and Liberty's big secret...
Secret gnome? Seriously?
There's some trust issues going on, I think.
..changes everything.
This is not OK, so you need to talk about it now.
It was a struggle for me to hold back,
but she kept antagonising to start this conversation
and then I'm, like, "Well, here we go."
(GULLS CRY) (THUNDER CRACKS)
Um, Scotty? Yes?
Are people allowed to use gnomes?
Yes.
We would like to use our gnome, please. Can we please use ours?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Girls, you can explain that to everybody later.
It's a secret gnome that you've had for quite a long time
and you've been hiding it... (LAUGHTER)
..and holding it for a long time since you won it.
You think you know someone laying in the bed next to you...
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my gosh. This is actually happening.
Yeah. They have a secret gnome.
Can we get a bit of a recap on this story?
We were all tied up with house five, so both getting 9.5s each,
which is massive
and then Eliza chirped up
and announced that they have a secret gnome,
to which, I think, both Kristy and I thought, "Of course you do" and...
I think we said it word for word.
Secret gnome, you reckon?
Who cares?
You knew that they would've had one anyway.
They get handed everything...
Why did you think that they had a gnome?
They'll explain it to us. It's all good.
Shaynna Blaze. Kyle and Leslie.
SHAYNNA: It's almost like you don't need a butler's pantry...
NEALE: No. ..in this house.
Leah and Ash.
This is the only island bench
and you've got a sink right in the middle.
Kristy and Brett.
This is so now but will be now for quite a long time.
This is not going out of date quickly.
Steph and Gian.
Where's your pots and pans go?
Where do your plates go? Where does anything go?
Eliza and Liberty,
plus one for the secret gnome.
This is incredible. Oh, my god. Go, girls!
OK.
Winner of week seven on The Block, kitchen week
and taking home 10,000 bucks from Ford is...
Here we go.
It's the girls!
(APPLAUSE)
Happy, happy, happy as clams.
(LAUGHS) We won.
And we won off our own merit, even without the gnome.
LIBERTY: And literally, like, no negative comments. Yeah.
You also get some Big Bikkies from Arnott's.
So it's a 20 grand a week for you. (APPLAUSE)
You'll also be heading away with me on the Ford getaway
to the magnificent Peninsula Hot Springs.
Yew-hoo!
As for everybody else, we'll be heading back into bathroom mode.
We're doing the master ensuite,
another very important room to reveal next week.
Good luck, everybody. Goodnight. See you later.
CONTESTANTS: Thanks, Scotty.
Congratulations! Oh, thanks!
LEAH: Second gnome steal.
KRISTY: (BLEEP) (BLEEP). That's what I say.
I'm gonna need my hat.
It turns out you can run that budget down anyway to get spades...
Oh come on. So don't worry about it, sweetheart.
ELIZA: When we departed the stage after judging,
everyone said congratulations except Kristy and Brett,
who stormed off in front of us
and they looked around and they saw us and they chose to say nothing
and Kristy stormed into a studio and said,
"Get my hat" to one of the producers.
Um... (LAUGHS)
We're not shocked, by any means.
The fact that they won and got the ten, good on them.
I'm so happy for them that they got a win.
Yep. But the secret gnome, seriously...
LEAH: Look, bottom line is,
we've all got secrets, obviously, don't we?
(LAUGHS) Guys, I know what it is.
What? I reckon it was the ultimatum.
Mmm.
"Get rid of your builders and we'll give you a gnome."
(LAUGHTER)
Eliza and I went for a massage together this week.
She's had ample opportunity to talk about some deep, dark secrets.
There's some trust issues going on, I think.
I don't have a problem with it. I do. And they look guilty as.
I don't really have a problem with it.
They look real guilty.
It's a game, they're playing it, so...
Everyone was in uproar about this secret gnome.
I mean, we didn't even need to use it, so everyone can calm down,
especially because we did win fairly.
But there was a lot of rage coming from house three.
I'm not gonna have a bar of it, I tell you what.
Oh, absolutely. If it's any way directed to us...
No. We deserve every single point of that.
That we do.
Are you guys pissed? Are you guys pissed about something?
BRETT: No, not at all. KRISTY: No. OK.
LIBERTY: So we won the breakdancing challenge, won the medals,
had to rip off a medal and it had secret gnome underneath
and they basically just said to us "You've got a secret gnome.
"You can use it whenever you want to but you can't tell anyone.
"If you tell anyone, then you lose it."
Fair enough. It's as simple as it is.
Fair enough. No conspiracy theories.
I know there's chat about that.
What Eliza was getting to and understandably so
was, like, there's nothing to get to.
"Get this thing out of your head..." Yeah.
"..that we're winning because of this assistance."
Yeah. "It's not the case."
"Why can't we win on our own merit?"
And I back that.
STEPH: Actually, you would've won regardless but...
Yeah.
We couldn't risk it because we've got no money, so we had to play it.
Yeah, absolutely, you had every right to use it
and you also had every right to also win and, yeah, my god...
Thanks.
But I know it's legit that you guys think we get special treatment,
which we don't.
BRETT: Mmm. KRISTY: Yeah.
Well, you disagree? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Definitely.
OK, we'll have a chat about it. Like, say what...
It doesn't need to be now. This is your platform...
No, this is not OK, so you need to talk about it now.
We can chat one on one but focus on your win.
You've done fantastic. Don't take it away from you guys...
Well, you've already done that. Like...
From what? Well, you just stormed in there.
You haven't said "Well done." Haven't had a chance to.
We got separated straight away. Anyway, OK. That's fine.
Obviously Eliza was frustrated. Like, something was brewing.
GIAN: I think it was a lot of kind of pent-up emotion
hearing the sly comments week on week.
KRISTY: It was a struggle for me to hold back
but she kept antagonising to start this conversation
and then I'm, like, "Well, here we go."
This was not anything tonight but a joke,
so let's just make that clear about the "Get the hat."
We are very happy that you got a ten.
We walked out of our interview saying,
"We're really happy that they got a ten, they deserved it
"and I'm happy that they won."
The gnome thing was definitely something that we were, like,
"Of course it is."
But are we saying that you do get an extra hand?
100%.
So you have...
Well, I'm kind to people so they're kind back to me.
Yeah, special treatment.
Definitely not the case, Eliza, so calm down.
ASH: In the moment, when Eliza was like that,
I didn't think it was a bad thing.
I thought it was cool, 'cause I like that.
I like someone that, when they have a problem,
they fully express themselves.
Whereas I felt deeply uncomfortable. Yeah.
KRISTY: Can you see it? ELIZA: Everyone gets little things.
Like, you guys... We don't! We don't get things!
You first-hand said that if you just hold a bag of insulation
that Nine In Six will come and do it for you if you just stand there.
Your words, not ours.
OK, well, good thing it's all on camera, so it's gonna be fine.
I just feel like you're in no position to be giving us direction
on what we should be doing,
where we're coming to you being, like,
"You're getting stuff done for you"
and you're, like, "Be nicer to people."
It boiled over for me
and I just think it's really important for people
to call out bad behaviour.
And some people don't feel comfortable doing that.
Steph said to me after Sunday night, you know,
"That's something I should've done, what you did, long ago
"when I was witnessing things and experiencing things"
and, you know, she's, like, "Good on you for, like, being the voice,
"kind of thing, for everyone."
Yeah. Yeah.
Not here to make friends.
Wow-(BLEEP)-ee.
(LAUGHS)
Leah, Ash, Brett and Kristy talk disgustingly to people
and so they might not get that much respect in return.
That's the only difference.
They play the whole, "Hey, it's too heavy,
"I'm a cooked tuna, I'm a cooked tuna"
and then they get it done for them.
"No conspiracy." They generally do it...
They're playing a strategic game.
I try to hold my tongue
and then as soon as I seen that nobody was actually going to
(BLEEP) take account for what everybody has been saying...
I don't know why that got like that. I really don't.
I've never seen Eliza like that.
Because that's the real (BLEEP) Eliza and we've only just seen it
because everybody's just paid into the "Woe is me" (BLEEP).
Yeah, strap in 'cause it's been friendly...
We've been friendly with everyone mucking around, but now...
I was very nice...
But, like, yeah, she won't just walk in and be, like, "Oh, cool."
Yeah, but I'm with you by association.
So what? You don't have to be.
VOICEOVER: Tomorrow...
SCOTT: You did win, and then the bloody gnome got involved.
..it's gnome...
It's not fair.
..sweet gnome.
Are you joking me?
Special treatment...
They essentially insinuated that we're cheating
'cause we get extra help and special favours.
..gets Block feathers ruffled.
I don't know how come they can do it and we can't.
This week is going to be cataclysmic.
The VIPs with Block dreams in their hands.
You pulled out all the stops for the biggest prize in Block history.
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
And Charming Street shakes to the core.
Kristy stormed over, she was fuming.
A friendship crumbles.
It's on fire, it's ashes, it's dust, it's gone.
Brace yourself for the great Block bust-up.
Jokes have gone way too far.
Your wife is dead to me.
Master Ensuite Week goes off like a bomb.
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