Reveal night was supposed to happen on Sunday. It didn’t, because apparently even Channel Nine’s own scheduling gets swept up in rumpus and laundry week chaos, so Blockheads had to wait an extra day to find out who actually built a room worth a drink and who built a room you can’t even put a drink down in. Turns out that wait was worth it: two teams walked away with perfect tens, one team walked away with a room the judges compared to a holiday rental, and the whole thing wrapped with a twist that makes next week a forced $20,000 do-over.
Before the scores, Scott Cam topped up the grand prize pool with $50,000 of original art courtesy of Chery, Manyung Gallery and Artist Lane, pushing the total sitting inside that Plungie pool past $320,000. Lisa and Rosco also picked up their second consecutive CommBank Better Budgeting Award, coming within 51 cents of their estimate this time. Then it was straight into feedback, and Darren Palmer wasted no time warning everyone this was “not a horrible week, but not a great week” for at least one team in the room.
| Rank | Team | Score | Judges’ Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Courtney and Sev | 29.5 | “Is this the best room we’ve seen this season?” |
| 2nd | Lisa and Rosco | 28 | “This could be a contender.” |
| 3rd | Adam and Jolene | 26.5 | “They’ve played it really well.” |
| 4th | Rick and Tayla | 23.5 | “It doesn’t invite you and engulf your emotion.” |
| 5th | Chantel and Wyatt | 23 | “They’re not selling the dream.” |
Key Moments This Episode
- DISASTERChantel and Wyatt’s rumpus room is torn apart for having no coffee table, no side table and a lamp Shaynna calls cheap, with Marty summing it up as a space that isn’t “selling the dream.”
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEAdam reveals the side table in his rumpus room is real marble, at a cost of roughly three grand, just to shut down a stray “you what?”
- DRAMALisa and Rosco unveil a self-cleaning, self-draining robotic vacuum and mop nicknamed Hans, a laundry first for the show that even the judges get excited about.
- DISASTERRick and Tayla’s rumpus room is compared to a “holiday home” and called wrongly laid out, with Darren pointing to an undersized rug, table and artwork throughout.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEScott Cam tops up the grand prize pool with $50,000 of original art, taking the total sitting inside the Plungie pool past $320,000.
- DRAMACourtney and Sev come within a strip of missing skirting of the season’s first perfect three tens, with Darren visibly trying not to notice it on his way out the door.
- ARGUMENTWyatt confronts Adam over a plumber allegedly sent to take tools from his garage, and the pair trade “coward” and “pinhead” before Rick steps in to settle it down.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEA Domain twist hands every team an extra $10,000 to redo a room the judges panned, rejudged next Sunday for another $10,000 on top, making next week a forced $20,000 week.
1st: Courtney and Sev, 29.5
Court and Sev didn’t just win the room, they nearly broke the show. A 3D-rendered layout turned their rumpus into a genuine theatre and entertaining zone, complete with a glass washer tucked into the kitchenette and a bronze mirror the judges had been begging every other team for all night. Darren didn’t hold back: “Is this the best room we’ve seen this season? This is, hands down, my favourite room thus far on The Block.” Marty agreed on the spot, and Shaynna called the whole thing “a calling card for why they wanted this house in the first place.”
The laundry kept the momentum going, with Marty declaring it had “all the amenity you could need” and ranking it above House 3’s laundry, which up until that point had been considered untouchable. The only blemish all night was a strip of missing skirting Darren spotted on the way out, prompting a full team chorus of “plausible deniability” while he pretended not to see it. It cost them a clean sweep of tens, but 29.5 was still enough for the win, plus an Arnott’s Big Bikkies bonus that pushed their week’s takings to $30,000 and a stay at the Lancemore Lindenderry Hotel in Red Hill.
2nd: Lisa and Rosco, 28
Second place has become a familiar postcode for Lisa and Rosco, and this week’s rumpus and laundry combo kept the consistency streak alive. Their laundry, complete with a self-cleaning robotic vacuum and mop the team nicknamed Hans, drew a flat “there’s no notes, none” from the judges, with Shaynna calling it a genuine contender for laundry of the season. Marty was equally taken with the dark cabinetry and stone, and Darren admitted he was “rubbing on it like a cat.”
The rumpus itself leaned on the same rich, textured palette the team has built the whole house around, earning praise from all three judges for the consistency of the look. Shaynna went further, telling the pair they’d “grown a lot throughout the competition,” a nice line for a team that came in as the season’s self-declared underdogs. A 9.5 from Shaynna alone tells you how close they came to matching the winners.
3rd: Adam and Jolene, 26.5
Adam and Jolene’s rumpus opened strong, with Marty singling it out as exactly the kind of room that “jumps out of the screen and attracts the buyer to come and inspect.” The custom Freedom sofa and continued feature wall treatment tying the room back to the main bedroom upstairs earned genuine praise, though Darren wasn’t sold on the artwork choice for the Grafico wall, arguing it didn’t “elevate the room” the way real art would at this price point. Shaynna’s verdict landed kinder: “I feel their consistency is just right on top.”
The laundry fared better again, with Marty calling it a “textbook laundry” and praising the handles he’d been lukewarm on elsewhere in the house. The one hiccup: a small plant Shaynna spotted in the corner, the exact crime she’s been warning teams about all season. “Did you put that there with the intention of pissing her off? Because it worked,” was Scott Cam’s read on it, and he wasn’t wrong to wonder.
4th: Rick and Tayla, 23.5
Rick and Tayla’s rumpus copped the sharpest scale critique of the night. Darren sat down on the sofa and told the room it felt like “a holiday home, which is not what this market is,” pointing to an undersized rug, an undersized table and artwork hung both too high and too small for the room. “It’s wrongly laid out. It really is,” was about as blunt as feedback gets, and his score wobbled from a six to an eight live on the spot before he settled on it.
The laundry told a different story entirely. Upgraded Speed Queen appliances, blonde oak Kinsman joinery and a benchtop the judges called “the largest sink we’ve seen today” had Darren declaring “this has trumped it again,” referring to House 3’s laundry just minutes earlier. Only the finishing touches, unfinished caulking and paint scraped back to bare gyprock, kept the week from being a genuine high point. “Not a horrible week but not a great week” was Darren’s final word, and the scorecard agreed with him.
5th: Chantel and Wyatt, 23
Chantel and Wyatt’s rumpus drew the most direct feedback of the night, and none of it was kind. No coffee table, no side table and a single lamp left the judges unable to find anywhere to put a drink down, which is a genuine problem in a room built for lounging. “You don’t feel welcome in here,” was Shaynna’s opener, and Marty followed with the line that’s going to haunt this room’s listing photos: “They’re not selling the dream.” The team defended the empty floor space as a deliberate choice to avoid clutter, a case the judges weren’t buying.
The laundry rescued the week from total disaster. An ECOVAC robotic vacuum plumbed straight into the cabinetry had Marty “sold” before he’d finished the sentence, and the stone, copper and open shelving combination drew a rare “there’s no notes” from both judges. It wasn’t enough to lift the total off the bottom of the table, but it kept the gap from Rick and Tayla to half a point rather than several.
Reveal night is done, the extra $50,000 of art is sitting in the prize pool, and next week is officially a must-win for everyone: a kids’ bedroom, a forced $10,000 room redo courtesy of Domain, and $20,000 in total prize money on the line before anyone’s even picked up a paintbrush. Back for whatever “classy and posh, but tattoos” is supposed to mean.
