Family bathroom week was always going to end with $250,000 worth of e&s kitchen appliances on the line, plus another $10,000 cash from Chery. What nobody quite banked on was one team’s family bathroom disappearing entirely overnight, or another team striking a truce with the house they’d already burned once. Family bathroom and powder room week turned into a genuine scramble, and reveal night sorted out who actually pulled it off.
Lisa and Rosco went from “relaxing spa retreat” to what Scott Cam might call panicked concrete chic in about twelve hours. Chantel and Wyatt quietly finished stronger than anyone expected after nearly walking off the show the week before. And Courtney and Sev found their cheapest tiling help on the street, from a team they’d already had one deal go sideways with. Grab a coffee, there’s a lot to get through.
Key Moments This Episode
- DISASTERLisa and Rosco’s bathroom tiling collapses completely overnight when their tiler’s rushed, out-of-square work forces them to rip it all up, and they abandon the family bathroom altogether to save what they can of the powder room.
- ARGUMENTRosco tries to call in a favour from Courtney and Sev, the same team whose last deal with him fell through, and gets knocked back cold: “This will be the last time I make a deal with the devil.”
- DRAMARick and Tayla step in to help Courtney and Sev finish their bathroom, in exchange for Courtney and Sev covering their own tiling bill if they win, an eleventh-hour alliance that pays off for both houses.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEThe stakes peak at $250,000 worth of e&s kitchen appliances plus $10,000 cash from Chery, on top of everything else already riding on the week.
- DRAMACourtney and Sev win week two by just one point, their second week running on top, and take home the entire e&s and Chery haul.
- ARGUMENTDarren Palmer can’t even get through Chantel and Wyatt’s bathroom door: “It’s ajar. Can’t get in.” Shaynna Blaze isn’t kinder: “It’s amateur hour.”
- DRAMADespite the panning, Chantel and Wyatt take home the CommBank Better Budgeting Award, worth $10,000, for the tightest budget of the week.
- DISASTERLisa and Rosco’s week ends with Shaynna Blaze pointing out they “haven’t laid a tile, haven’t painted a ceiling,” and Marty Fox calling it a bathroom that’s “cost them a chance of being in the game.”
Courtney and Sev win week two (by one point, again)
For the second week running, Courtney and Sev topped the judges, though the margin barely moved: just one point separated them from the field, only this time the prize was recalibrated to $250,000 worth of e&s appliances plus $10,000 cash from Chery. Marty Fox liked their layout walking through the rest of the house, calling it “the perfect spot,” while Shaynna Blaze praised the storage tucked into the vanity and shaving cabinets.
“They’ve literally pulled everything out of their repertoire and thrown it in here, and it’s landed perfectly.”
Darren Palmer
Their real win might have been the deal struck days earlier. Rick and Tayla helped finish their bathroom when Courtney and Sev were staring down the clock, and Courtney and Sev repaid it by promising to cover Rick and Tayla’s own tiling bill if they took the win. They did.
Chantel and Wyatt: budget queens, style villains
A week after nearly walking off the show entirely, Chantel and Wyatt pulled off the comeback Scott Cam promised, at least on paper: they took home the CommBank Better Budgeting Award, worth $10,000, for the tightest budget of the week. The judges were considerably less generous about the room itself.
“It feels like a room that, as soon as we leave, we’re going to forget. It’s amateur hour.”
Shaynna Blaze
Darren Palmer couldn’t even get through the door for his walkthrough: “It’s ajar. Can’t get in.” Between the budgeting win and the design panning, it was the strangest kind of good week.
Adam and Jolene: so close, and yet, no powder room
Darren Palmer handed Adam and Jolene the closest thing to a perfect score of the night, running through their material palette with “tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.” Marty Fox agreed the finish and materiality were “actually quite beautiful.”
Then came the catch: no powder room. Shaynna Blaze put it plainly, warning that an incredible finish means nothing “if you’ve got the floor plan wrong.” A brutal reminder that in family bathroom week, the brief matters as much as the tapware.
Rick and Tayla: memorable for the right and the wrong reasons
Down a tiler for most of the week, Rick and Tayla still managed to impress. Marty Fox called their approach genuinely different from the rest of the field, the kind of decision-making that “will be memorable” if they keep it up, while also flagging “things that are just a total miss.” Shaynna Blaze agreed there are still details needing a redo, but reckons they’re “on a much better trajectory.”
Their week paid off in more ways than one: helping Courtney and Sev finish their bathroom bought them a fully covered tiling bill of their own once the votes were counted.
Lisa and Rosco: the week the family bathroom disappeared
This is the hardest recap to write kindly. After their tiler’s rushed, out-of-square work turned into a full write-off overnight, Lisa and Rosco made the brutal call to abandon the family bathroom altogether and save what they could of the powder room, at one point sending Rosco to beg the Cursio brothers, already fully booked next door at Chantel and Wyatt’s, for a spare hour.
It didn’t help that the last time Rosco cut a deal with Courtney and Sev, he didn’t hold up his end, and Courtney wasn’t in a forgiving mood this time around.
“They haven’t laid a tile. They haven’t painted a ceiling. This is devastating.”
Shaynna Blaze
Marty Fox agreed it had “cost them a chance of being in the game.”
Wrap-up
No numeric scores were read out on air this week, just the placings that mattered: Courtney and Sev on top for the second week running, Chantel and Wyatt salvaging the week with a $10,000 budgeting win, and Lisa and Rosco left counting the cost of one very bad Wednesday. Grab a coffee, get comfortable, and we’ll see you back here once the next room starts taking shape.
