Howdy! Last week I didn’t get around the blogging about The Block and the bathrooms. I wasn’t sure I felt like I could commit to it all, but then after seeing all the comments on how no one liked the bathrooms and now these bedrooms I felt like I had to check it out!
Woah, though. Back up. How come everyone is saying the bathrooms and guest rooms are boring, bland and same-same? The teams are still finding their feet. I’ve actually liked a lot of them. I would kill to have their budgets! In real life and when I was back on the show. I am giving these new contestants lots of credit and praise. It ain’t easy. Plus I don’t think the show should always be about “coming up with new ideas”. I just want to see appealing and functional rooms. I don’t need to be blown out of the water with new ideas all the time. They aren’t designers, just regular people who like renovation. So I think I’ll go back to the ensuites and add that to my blog and keep updating with the new reveals.
I’m still learning about the couples, but here are the winners from the guest room reveals Karlie and Will…
This is a great guest room. Love the style. The natural elements, that feature wall and the deep yellow tones are gorgeous. The exposed brick wall is great. The blind may have needed a touch of softening, but overall I’d be happy if this room was in my house!
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This is Chris and Kim. I can see where they are heading with the overall styling of their house. I like the subtleness and indirect styling. Not everything has to be ‘wow’. The brick wall is good. Love that. The bedhead is on trend for 2017 (as they say). I am not keen on the glass top desk, but glass always crates an illusion of bigger space and a solid one would have taken up more space visually.
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Here is Ben and Andy’s guest room. Straight away I knew it was their room before I saw the tags on the photo – very masculine… haha! Their room looks smaller than some of the others so they must have been struggling to get everything in. Love the sheer curtains and while I am not a fan of the diamond boxes, I could see they were trying to create a feature and open up the space. Not my favourite room, but the art deco feel is coming through in here. I’ll wait to see how they bring the rest of the house together.
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Julia and Sasha produced a pretty safe room this week. Which is not bad at all. They didn’t push the boundaries in here. The bedhead is gorgeous and so are the karate-chopped cushions. Love that. Some soft flowing curtains would be be fabulous though. Can’t wait to see what else the girls do.
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Dan and Carlene were last on the scoreboard this week. I didn’t think it was so bad. I love the sheer curtains, I really like the wallpaper and the burgundy throw – that is cute! I probably would have not painted the wall that colour, and I would have taken off the wall sconces and the big bed pillow. The room would have been more easy on the eye.
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There you go! What do you think so far? Let me know in the comments below…
