The Block 2026 living and dining reveals have aired, and week nine’s redo rooms gave three teams a second shot at the spaces the judges panned the first time. Here’s how it all landed.
Five teams are building from scratch on Mount Eliza, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, for The Block 2026: Lisa and Rosco (yellow), Adam and Jolene (red), Rick and Tayla (green), Chantel and Wyatt (blue) and Sev and Courtney (pink). The season premiered Sunday 2 August on Channel Nine and 9Now, and is now well into guest bedroom week.
Living and dining rooms are the spaces buyers walk into first, so they carry more pressure than almost any other reveal. Open-plan flow, statement lighting and whether a team can resist an accent wall will all be on show once the season gets underway.
Reveal: Scores and Winners
The living, dining and alfresco reveal aired Sunday 6 September 2026, and it was Adam and Jolene who finally broke their drought, taking their first room win of the season by a single point. Full recap: The Block 2026, Episode 21: A View, A Mirror, and a Win At Last.
Adam and Jolene (1st) won on the strength of a huge Christian Cole dining table and a talking-point feature mirror the judges argued over live on camera. Lisa and Rosco (2nd) missed out by just one point overall, with judges loving the room bar one easily fixed furniture orientation issue. Courtney and Sev (3rd) split the panel: the best terrace of the week paired with a living room the judges felt had been visually cut in half. Rick and Tayla (4th) impressed with individual pieces, especially the fireplace and colour palette, but were marked down for a room that felt rushed after Rick’s mid-week hospitalisation. Chantel and Wyatt (5th) took home their second consecutive CommBank Better Budgeting Award, but the room itself was panned by all three judges as flat and backwards.
Week Nine Redo Rooms: Second Chances
Three teams went back to their living and dining rooms in week nine, and the results were all over the shop. Courtney and Sev added a marble-inserted fireplace, a bronze mirror wall and the biggest coffee table of the season, and Darren Palmer called the result “one of the best living spaces in block history.” Rick and Tayla earned goodwill for better couches but lost ground to the comparison with House Four’s fireplace, while Chantel and Wyatt still hadn’t flipped the TV toward the view and copped the toughest verdict of all: “This is a big, big, big miss.” Full recap, quotes and scores: The Block 2026, Episode 37: A Perfect 30, a $50,000 Night and a Brand New Insult Called the Askhole.
Catch up on the build week that led into reveal day: Day One, Day Two, and Day Three.
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