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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness

the coming together of eight interior designers

and a wedding venue.

With the power vested in me,

the makeovers can commence.

Ten aspiring designers are putting their lives on hold

in search of a dream.

Yes, I am talented,

and it's a great opportunity for me to showcase my talent.

To break into the competitive world of professional interior design.

You only live once, and what I absolutely love

is being creative.

With interiors guru Michelle Ogundehin at the helm...

Everyone with a passion for design thinks they can be

an interior designer,

but I'm looking for someone who has authentic talent

and sees this as a real opportunity to learn.

..they'll need to impress some of the biggest names

in the industry.

Hello, '80s.

I've missed you.

This feels like an idea that should have been instantly put aside.

I am scraping the barrel for criticism

because I do love this room.

This is what we're looking for - fearless decorating.

Each week, the designers will be challenged to transform

a commercial space...

Open the door! I'm coming in!

BIKE BELL RINGS

SHE GASPS

I thought you were going to squidge my head, there.

..to test their creative flair...

That looks gorgeous now.

..and state of the art design skills.

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Whoa!

SMASHING

Sometimes, when you're trying to do too much at once,

accidents happen.

I think you've sabotaged me!

You've ruined that beautiful carpet!

It's harder than it looks!

They'll be pushed to their limits...

I think the only thing holding me back is probably myself.

..as they compete to win a major career-defining contract

with a luxury hotel in the Lakes.

That would definitely be my absolute dream.

It's Interior Design Masters.

After last week's office challenge,

the remaining designers gather in Michelle's design lab

to receive their next brief.

I think the stakes are really high this week.

There is eight very talented designers.

Now that I have done so well and really surprised myself,

it now means so much to me.

Last week was a tough week.

This week, I'm sure the bar is going to be raised,

and I'm going to raise my bar even higher

and show Michelle that I am the right person for the job.

I think people have raised their game.

It's just about maintaining it no matter what the brief.

Hello, everyone.

Hiya. Hello.

What do you think of my outfit? Best yet?

Gorgeous.

So that was a tough brief from Michelle.

How did you all cope with it?

We didn't, really. You didn't?

A lot of gin.

It is terrifying, the sofa, isn't it?

Bit overwhelming, yeah.

Hello, everybody.

Hi. Hello.

We were just talking about you, Michelle.

I felt my ears burning.

Are we ready for challenge three? Yeah.

OK, you're going to be designing hotel bedrooms,

but this is no ordinary hotel.

This is a destination wedding venue.

So the new owners want luxury bedrooms

that are fit for a bride and groom, and all of their guests.

You're going to be working in teams of four.

One team has been asked to design to a brief

of understated glamour and subtle luxury.

And the other team, I'm looking for a more decadent

and maximal finish.

But whichever brief you have,

I really need to see your individuality this time.

And we're ramping it up this week,

because we're sending home two designers.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God.

Yes, it's getting tough now.

Good luck.

Good luck.

This week, the designers will be taking on

a 19th-century manor house in East Sussex -

once home to romantic poet Percy Shelley,

now a wedding venue in need of an update.

Each designer will have a bedroom to transform,

and both teams will need to deliver glamorous schemes

that will appeal to wedding parties celebrating their big day.

This is such a tricky challenge.

Oh, no, I think this is a great one.

This is where they can let rip and let fantasy fly.

This is a dream brief for a designer.

What do you expect to see in a maximalist bedroom, though?

Well, a popular move is pattern clash,

but there must be some story that links the pattern.

You have to the same language across the whole room.

So maximalism doesn't have to be bonkers.

You want a big statement, but it can also be elegant and refined.

And what do you think about the subtle elegance

and understated luxury?

Understated glamour can still be really full-on,

but you just dial it all back down a bit and pull back on the colours.

You don't want it to be too bland, though,

because that can just be a bit forgettable.

Yeah. You have to go to a hotel and feel escapism.

To me, it's all about the ceiling.

Well...

It is. It's all about... Michelle!

..the bed and the ceiling.

When you're lying in bed... Yes, thank you.

We get the picture.

Oh, is it hot in here or is it just me?

So, maximalist.

How's everyone feeling?

With their individual room schemes already prepared,

Team Maximalist share their plans with their team-mates.

So I'm literally going to clash patterns,

but the patterns I go for are geometric patterns.

I wonder whether those block patterns

might be too blocked.

Because we're talking about maximalism -

it's loads and loads of pattern.

Maximalism is about saturation of colour.

It's about clashing patterns.

And it's about being bold.

I think I could do all of those,

it's just doing them all together.

My challenge, I think, is going to be how I deal with

all these kind of awkward little elements of the room.

I'm definitely going to be looking to pull a colour

from the wallpaper onto all of the woodwork.

I am feeling a little bit nervous about this brief

because it's not my style.

Maximalism is not something that I am comfortable with

or have ever done before.

For me, maximalism is also about, like...

Detail. I know Michelle always says I think about the small detail,

but, like, I definitely want to do really embellished headboards.

With trim, maybe with studs.

That's going to be my kind of focus in the room.

I've never done anything in that style,

so I'm going to have to really try and think,

"Where can I add all of this extra-ness in?"

It's a challenge.

I want to do something to readjust the proportions of the room.

I'm going to drop the ceiling height with colour,

because that will redefine the proportion of the room

a little bit, visually.

This is really tough for me because I don't tend to use

pattern very much in my interiors.

I use bold colours and saturated colours,

but not with that much pattern in it.

So it's about me pivoting my style a little bit

to make sure that I answer the brief.

# Dun-dun-dun. #

Hotel.

Sharing their room plans, Team Understated Glamour.

I have looked at just a neutral palette,

because sometimes I think, when you hear luxury

and understated elegance,

all those words around that,

sometimes I think it can be quite neutral

and not a real bold, brave pattern choice.

I'm so excited about doing the hotel scheme this week

as it's something that I think might be one of my strengths.

I do want to smash it.

I haven't come the whole way to do this,

to maybe not win it.

So I've gone for some papers and fabrics

that are inspired by, like, Japanese kimonos.

I know this probably doesn't look that subtle at the moment,

but I think it's looking at where things are going

and how I can, like, pare back my usual style, I guess.

So our team's got subtle glamour this week.

I'm about as subtle as a brick, so that's going to be hard.

Michelle did say she wanted us to inject

a little bit of personality.

So maybe not so much, but just in little touches.

Subtle.

I think that's something to think about as well, actually.

Places within the room that aren't just the beds.

In mine especially, the toilet's in this weird box

in the corner that looks like a shoe box

that's just been shoved in, with a sink on the outside of it

that I've got to do something with.

I think there is an opportunity to really play on that. Yeah.

The rooms are quite difficult.

They're difficult shapes.

But that's just something for me to get my head around.

I think it's key to this brief

to create a space that people walk into, feel, like,

"Wow, this is something I couldn't have created myself

"and I'm really excited to be here."

The main feature in my mine is hopefully going to be the ceiling,

because you should be kind of lying down

when you're in the bridal suite. Oh, yeah.

So I want to create a really romantic feel

with some really nice lighting.

I've never done a hotel makeover.

It's my first one and it's a bridal suite!

So, I mean, that's, like, the main room

you can get in a hotel, isn't it?

So it's a bit daunting.

In the heart of the Sussex Downs...

..the wedding venue with a romantic history...

This is us. Oh, my gosh, it's lovely, isn't it?

It's like Beauty and the Beast.

It's very Romeo and Juliet.

..is about to be transformed.

My room is going to look completely different.

It's going to be a slap in the face.

With one bedroom each...

So much to do!

..the designers have a budget of £1,500...

CHARLOTTE GASPS

I thought you were going to squidge my head, there.

..a team of tradespeople...

..and just two days to complete the challenge.

I hope yous are ready cos I want to transform this.

Game on for me now.

Morning, team.

Taking on the bridal suite for Team Maximalism is Jon.

First page is the colour scheme.

So, chevron wallpaper there, chevron wallpaper there,

tropical wallpaper there, tropical wallpaper on those two.

On these panels here,

there is a different tropical wallpaper that's

going in that has got animals on it.

Jon's design will involve moving the bed to the centre of the room

to create space for the bridal dressing area.

The centrepiece headboard will be decorated

with individual upholstered panels.

The walls will be adorned with a mixture of patterned floral,

geometric chevron, and animal-print wallpapers.

That's the pattern that we're aiming for.

Essentially, I want to create the look as if the ceiling

is another fabric print.

Yeah. I've gone for the colour saturation, so I've used primary

colours and I'm not sure what Michelle will think,

but it's my take on maximalism

and it's the contemporary twist that I wanted. So we'll see.

I'm looking to go over the top of this wallpaper.

Cos it's textured paper and this is fine paper. Yes. It won't go on.

We need to take it back to the plaster.

First challenge for maximalist Barbara

is getting her new wallpaper on old walls.

We probably wouldn't be able to do all of it.

It's too adventurous for your timeframe.

This week is all, like, soft furnishings

and patterns and wallpaper.

But I've spoken to the decorator and she suggested that we don't

wallpaper some sections of the wall.

So I'm going to have to adjust my plan slightly

and paint sections of the wall.

It's not exactly how I'd like it,

but I think I'll be able to make it work.

So don't be scared, but, basically, because I didn't like the corner

void that is above where the en suite is currently,

I thought of doing something a bit more of a statement -

so therefore building kind of like an arch that would draw your eye

down and through that space of the room.

And that would create kind of like a little dressing area

in that end of the room.

Peter is dividing his room into three sections

using colour and pattern.

The ceiling and top third of the walls will be painted pink,

the floral wallpaper in the midsection of the room

will give way to a curved wooden headboard,

decorated with a chinoiserie design.

Peter's also planning to install a wooden arch

between the bedroom and dressing area.

Do you have any wood to make the actual structure of the arch?

It doesn't need to be structural,

it just needs to create a beautiful kind of curve.

We just need to pin it in so it holds itself.

We're going to try and pin it one end, one end, and in the middle?

And hope it holds itself. Well...

it's not how I would do it, but I say... Of course.

But if it's how... Yeah, we can give it a go.

With this space, I feel a lot more within my own comfort zone -

rather than an office space, which is completely

out of my wheelhouse - so I am a lot more confident

in my design this time,

and that my solution for this space is actually the right way to go.

Personally, I definitely do not want to be on the sofa again.

OH!

Paul! I've had a disaster.

What is it?

SHE CHUCKLES

Oh, please. I think... I think you've sabotaged me!

You've ruined that beautiful carpet.

On Team Understated Luxury,

a less-than-glamorous start to the challenge.

Come on, get out.

Let me get cracking with that paint.

I need to be painting furniture, not carpets.

This was not... This was not on my plan today.

To fulfil their brief for more subtle room schemes...

Right.

..both Paul and Siobhan are reigning it in.

I'm the only designer out of the eight

that have no colour in the room.

But I think it's going to look really expensive

and I think sometimes it doesn't need to be really bold and colourful

to be elegant and luxurious.

I can't remember any of the measurements.

60 for your thing, 43 for your wardrobe.

You're like Elephant Man, you.

Oh, it's Rain Man, actually, isn't it?

Sorry!

She called me Elephant Man!

This is not my day today.

I found the whole paring back...

..really difficult, but the briefs are always so exciting

and challenging and out of my comfort zone that I'm just learning

so much and I just... Yeah, I just don't want it to end.

So, guys, one of the main jobs is the floor.

Tasked with making over the bridal suite

for Team Understated Glamour - Charlotte.

The piece of carpet I've got

is a really lovely, like, light sage colour,

but it's deliberately 40 centimetres shy around the whole room,

so making it almost like a giant rug but it'll very much

feel like carpet also.

It's a little bit overwhelming, the fact that we've been given

this giant manor house, which has an amazing history.

I feel a bit of responsibility

because the building itself is really beautiful,

so you want to do it justice.

So I'm hoping my design will definitely do that.

Before Charlotte's carpet can be laid, all the exposed floorboards

will need to be sanded.

Sanding a floor -

you'd be better to have a proper floor sander

than just a belt sander, but as we don't have one...

..this is what I've got to use.

It's going to be a huge job.

SANDER WHIRRING

So, doing quite a lot in this room.

Really don't like this, so idea is to try and hide it,

hide the big radiator and the sink that's in the room.

Next door, team-mate Lynsey's priority is to hide

the washbasin area by constructing an ambitious wooden partition

with 48 individual slats that form a curve.

The headboard is also made of wooden posts fixed to the wall.

A pale colour palette, bespoke lighting

and two framed pieces of artwork complete the look.

Do you think it's realistic in the time we've got?

It's going to be a hell of an achievement if we finish it all.

Yes, it is.

I'm a bit worried about their reaction to getting it all done.

So I'm hoping once they see that and get into the swing of things,

it'll start coming together and moving and it'll be less daunting.

But right now, I'm pretty scared about actually finishing it.

Where's Michelle sent me to now?

I'm looking for a blummin' wedding venue down a country lane.

All I can smell is manure.

COW LOWS

Oh!

I mean, lovely day for it. Look at this. This is beautiful, innit?

Let's hope the rooms are as beautiful as the scenery.

Ah! Perfect. There it is.

Oooh! This looks nice.

Very fancy.

Time to see how the designers are getting on.

Hiya, Barbara. You all right?

Oh, did you do Paul's face this morning?

I didn't. He did it himself.

He can borrow it any time. I'm being mean! I'm being mean!

So...maximalist. Mm. That's not your natural habitat. No.

I'm definitely in a strange place right now,

spraying a peacock chair orange.

So can I have a little go? Yeah, of course you can.

That's it. A bit more, a bit more.

Nothing's coming out. Need to keep going.Nothing's coming out.

SHE LAUGHS

It looks like it's broken, actually.

What have you done? Yeah, it's going... OH!

I didn't do anything! Right, you're not allowed to do any more.

I don't want to do it - it nearly bit me.

I'll leave you to it - to the professionals. Ohh, bless him.

Wow.

Well, if you're going to go green, you may as well go green, eh?

In Team Maximalist's bridal suite, Jon's bold design is taking shape.

I do like it. Yes, I like the green a lot.

It's just when you're faced with it, it's...

It's green, isn't it?

I am being really brave with this,

I don't know where the bravery's come from.

I just want to keep going in the competition

and I genuinely love the room that I'm creating.

It's really, really challenged me to think what I can do.

Well, there you go. At least it's going to take...

It's going to take that much, isn't it?

That's an impressive dressing room, isn't it?

Down the hall, Micaela's opted for a black ceiling

for her maximalist bedroom.

A black ceiling is not something I would normally even contemplate

for a design.

But this brief said opulent, dramatic, decadence -

and that, for me, conjures up the image

of quite a dark and sultry space.

Micaela?

Hello.Hello. Hi!

Look at you up there with your paintbrush.

So, how are you getting on? Yeah, good.

You are the upholstery queen. Yeah.

How do you translate that into maximalist?

I'm just trying to think of everything on a grander scale.

So I've made my headboard,

which is bigger than I would normally do.Oh, look at that.

And then in the entrance area, that's going to be all aubergine

and with a tented ceiling, so quite theatrical.

And then this whole room's mustard.

I'd never put mustard and aubergine together, but it's making me hungry.

Mm! Sounds tasty. Yeah, I might eat your room.

You're able to paint the ceiling? Yeah, I'm going to do it.

OK, do you want me to bring in the paint for it, then?

It's not white. It's not white.

It's going to be, like, a blue - a light blue.

Concerned her bedroom ceiling might not be bold enough,

Barbara's had a rethink.

You know, we've got this really colourful, like, amazing,

sort of vibrant paper.

And I just think if I ignored the ceiling,

it would be a bit of a shame and a bit of a mess.

The thing from maximalism for me

is that you just have to be a little bit brave.

I would never normally use these kind of bright, bold colours,

especially on the ceiling, but I just think that it warrants it.

She's also not compromising when it comes to her walls.

I have been having a think about the wallpaper. Yeah?

I think we should go for it.

OK, so you want to go on top of the paper first of all? Yes.

I just think if we can get it up there,

it's going to be much more impactful in the room

and it's going to look amazing.

The way that I normally work

is that I would never change anything halfway through.

But this week I'm a little less confident.

So I have to work on my instinct a little bit.

Got to do it.

I mean, this is not ideal outside, is it, really?

There's leaves everywhere.

On Team Understated Luxury,

Charlotte's been delayed by the sanding in her bridal suite.

God, I've got so much to do.

Whilst that's being done,

it means that no-one can be in the room doing any painting

or wallpapering or anything.

So I need the floor to be done.

So, wallpaper-wise, three hours?

Let's not put a timer on it.

I will, cos I need it to be three hours.

I definitely need to be done by the end of the day.

To avoid falling further behind schedule,

Charlotte gets her lighting design under way.

This is definitely an element of Cecil glamour.

It's a bridal suite, so I wanted the seating and the lighting

to be really romantic.

In a bit. It needs to go that way.

As you can see, it's got loads of cables.

So, once they're pinned up,

it will create almost like that chandelier vibe you get,

but a more contemporary version.

And, with the drapery, that will kind of mimic

all the fabric that's going to be in the room,

so it should blend in when everything's together at the end.

That's the plan, anyway.

As day one draws to a close...

I have the wood panelling in the room

painted three to four times.

Picture panels on the main feature wall up.

The sockets nearly in for the lamps.

I said that I was coming to smash it and that's what I'm going to do.

..some designers are feeling confident with their progress...

Looks good, doesn't it? Wow. Yeah, that is looking gorgeous.

My concern is I've got nothing to stop this flexing.

Ideally we would have ribbing made from much thicker wood.

I didn't realise. Obviously, I've never built an arch before.

..while others are feeling the pressure.

Because it's a bit like go big or go home.

I just hope that by going for it, I haven't gone 150%

and it looks awful.

I'm definitely not out of the woods yet.

There is an awful, awful lot to do.

How long do you reckon...?

I will do my best and try and get it done for you now.

But, like, it needs to be finished by the end of the day.

If this eats into tomorrow morning,

I'm not going to finish what I've got to do tomorrow,

so I'm just slightly concerned.

I want to get it finished to the standard in my head.

Hmm. There are a few things that ran over from yesterday.

So, this morning, I'd like it

if you could concentrate on the radiator cover.

It's the final day of the challenge.

We've got a lot of painting and sanding to do today,

but we have lists and plans.

I've just had not a lot of confidence

in all the decisions I've made,

but I've really, really got to pull it out of the bag today,

because there are two people going this week

and I really don't want to go.

Whoa.

In Jon's bridal suite...

JON LAUGHS

..his bold patterned scheme is coming together.

Hey. My mind blown.

I'm like, "Oh, my God, it looks how I thought it would."

I absolutely love it.

I love the green, the ceiling.

The wallpaper inserts into the panels look even better

than I thought they were going to look...

..against the chevron and against the tropical lemur paper.

Jon! Heya!

ALAN LAUGHS

Wow!

My God, you have been a busy boy!

So, explain yourself.

I've gone maximalist.

I can see that, love. Yeah.

I'm going to be devil's advocate.

Do you think a bride is going to want these kind of colours?

I think a certain bride is going to want these kind of colours.

Bride of Frankenstein. But they exist.

I think I've been out with a few.

And what's this? I mean, this is the bridal suite.

You're doing a Punch and Judy show?

Yes, I'm going to try.

This is the headboard.

This entire wall is going to be upholstered.

And the bed here makes benefit of both of the views.

Oh, and you can see the cows out the window.

Right, I'll leave you to it, Jon.

I'm going to and have a Migraleve now. See you later!

With the arch under way in Peter's room,

he's turned his attention to the walls.

It's good to start seeing colour go on,

because it instantly starts transforming the room

from the peach box to the white box,

and then the white box and now it's the dark blue box.

But it's not going to be just a box,

cos it's going to have some sexy curves in it.

Peter.

Oh, hi.

Hi, love! How are you?

Love the wallpaper.

Thank you.

That wallpaper is going to go against this wall as well behind it.

And then we also have a third wallpaper there,

which is painted dark blue, this is a textured wallpaper.

So that's the third paper in here,

so there's a lot of stuff going on in here.

So why have you done that with the headboard, the curve round?

Is that like an optical illusion?

Well, just, when you're in bed, you can still see

a little bit of the wallpaper coming out from around you

and giving you a bit of a hug. Oh, that's nice!

You old romantic, you. It is the love hotel.

Well, listen, I'll love you and leave you.

Keep up the good work. See you soon.Bye-bye, Peter. Bye.

Next door...

Let's spin it around. It just goes here.

..walls finally painted,

time for Micaela to install her bed centrepiece.

Finally seeing the pattern go in is really satisfying.

I have still got a lot to do, so I am still quite worried.

I think the ceiling height has thrown me a little bit.

So I'm worried now that maybe my things in the room

are going to feel quite small.

It still looks insanely plain in there.

I need to finish upholstering a chair.

I need to sew and hang my canopy for over the bed,

and then all the dressing of the room,

which is going to take a while as well.

So, yeah, there's lots to do and not that much time to do it in.

In Siobhan's room...

This is going to be gorgeous.

..the Japanese-inspired mural is ready to mount on the wall.

So it's the first time that I've seen it out,

because I knew I wouldn't be able to put it back in the tube.

Wow.

Oh, this is going to be a statement, isn't it?

SHE SIGHS

A lot of my budget went on the mural and the fabric,

so I didn't have any budget for new furniture

or anything like that.

So the risk is I've not really done a lot of painting of furniture.

And also black as well, you know, like in a hotel

that's going to be predominantly for weddings and things like that,

I guess that's a little bit of a risk.

Also willing to take a risk for her design, Lynsey.

Progress has gone slowly,

but I think I'd rather be too ambitious

than, like, holding back and wishing I'd done more.

She's yet to install the 48 slats

that will form a wall within her room.

So this will be the shelving to do with the sink,

and this will be the walk-in wardrobe, kind of dressing area.

I've got to try and get as much of it complete as possible.

I'm petrified of being on the sofa,

but all I can do is give it my best shot.

I've finally finished all the wallpapering on the window wall,

so we can hang the curtains. OK.

With wallpaper still going up in Charlotte's bridal suite...

Are you coming up? Yeah, I'll come up. OK, thank you.

..she's falling further behind schedule.

I haven't had things gone up as quickly as I wanted.

I don't think I'll be relaxed until the carpet's in.

And mine isn't happening halfway, it'll happen right at the end,

so I'm just concerned, because I don't know how easy that job is.

I've got a lot of fabric to my room that hasn't even entered yet -

and my curtains, all that stuff.

So I need all the messy stuff done, like, last week.

It's just taken so long to get the wallpaper up.

It should have been done yesterday.

When you know that, like, really important people

are going to see what you've done,

you want it to be finished to a really high standard.

It's frustrating when you can't get it done how you want it to be done.

So I don't think I'm going to finish.

Unlike Charlotte, Paul is making strides on his design.

Yeah, that's better than I expected.

I've shocked myself.

The wallpaper king has done his thing.

I had this knocked out pretty quick,

and I'm pleased with my alteration of the bedside cabinets.

That was genius, if I say so myself.

Hello, just checking...

Oh!

It's looking really good.

You're really ahead of schedule. And you took the legs off them.

I wanted to play with the scale, you know, the size of the room,

and I think it's actually made a room

that looked quite poky and small appear a lot bigger.

Oh. What are you going to do about that?

I'm not going to do anything about it.

I don't think I can, because it's a fire door.

But it's ugly. Just because something's ugly, Alan,

doesn't mean you just get rid of it.

Don't look at me like that!

On that note, I'm leaving. You'd better.

Some ugly things you can get rid of.

In Barbara's room...

SHE GASPS

No! Please tell me that is not some knickers.

Are they not yours?

They are not mine.

THEY LAUGH

No!

That is so funny.

OK.

With just two hours to go...

This is going to go down to the wire.

..both teams race to get their room designs completed.

OK, it's done. I'm really happy with the way it's turned out,

actually, surprisingly so.

I've actually managed to get more than I thought

I was going to get done, so I'm really happy with it.

I mean, the finish isn't 100%,

but I do think it's the right solution for this space regardless.

At least like this, the proprietors

will be able to tell what they should do in the other rooms.

You've nearly got it all up, wow.

Oh, it's so incredible, isn't it?

I wanted this to still have the beautiful design,

but pared back in terms of the colour palette,

so hopefully I'm hitting the brief with that.

I'm delighted.

It's lovely to see this finally go in.

I love it. It's exactly how I had it in my head.

I'm painting because we're up against it.

This is what I'm like when I'm near a buffet

and I can see it

going down quickly as well.

LAUGHTER

OK.

I need another pair of hands and I want a tradesperson.

Good news for Charlotte.

Papering's done. Beautiful.

Her wallpapering is finally complete...

It's in the building.

..and she can lay her carpet.

It's on the wonk.

Needs to go out that side. Pull that side.

It needs to go into the centre a bit more.

Stop. This ruffle needs to go out. I'm going to push it out.

Get that ruffle out. I'm going to get to carpet burn.

Yeah, perfect.

God, I'm going to throw up.

So a lot of design, for me, is all about the location.

And you can do design on paper, but then you come,

and how do you respond to this kind of amazing building?

Yes, it's very imposing.

Helping Michelle judge this week is Kit Kemp, award-winning designer

and owner of one of the country's leading luxury hotel groups.

So here we are in Sussex, at this kind of splendid wedding hotel,

and they've each got to design a bedroom.

And, for me, it's all about the impact I see

as soon as I open the door.

There has to be something that just captures your imagination

or something that makes you feel

that you want to return back to that room

and just take another look.

I'm really interested to see how they interpret maximalism,

cos it could just be kind of full-on, absolutely everything.

But, in my head, maximalism is actually quite elegant

and very kind of beautiful and quite refined.

You need to be quite clever to do big well.

On the other hand, understated elegance

can sometimes be so tasteful, it's completely forgettable.

And I want to see from the designers

their personality as well coming through.

SIOBHAN: I hope this is the right size.

Siobhan, don't start that.

SHE LAUGHS

First up for the judges, Team Understated Glamour.

I've been full-pelt ahead,

got everything done in, like, great timing.

Even though this isn't the bridal suite,

I think even a bride would probably be happy with this.

Come on, hurry up. Haven't got all day.

Three-man job, eh? I'm happy with how things have come together.

I was a bit worried about painting the furniture black.

You know, I thought,

"Oh, God, is that going to look really dark in the room?

But I think those pieces look really nice now.

Hey, we've got light!

The partitioning is a big part of my room.

I was really worried, but I think it's all come together.

I just hope Michelle likes it.

You've, like, minutes left now.

I'm either going to faint or cry.

Do you think like that?

Yeah, that looks perfect.

Done.

So I think my room is definitely glamorous.

I think I've really smashed that.

I think it's impeccably finished,

and, like, I would stay there tonight.

Oh, this is certainly an incredible transformation

from the kind of rather dingy rooms that they were before, isn't it?

50 Shades Of Grey.

I can absolutely see what he's done and the simplicity of the room.

He's kind of hidden the ugly stuff,

made a little seating area, made the bed the focus,

but it's just that extra dive into the next level of detail.

It's all about scale and balance.

And I just feel that it's a little bit out.

The bed feels a little bit low.

They feel a little bit tall and too high.

That's what I would say from my professional eye.

Whether I kind of love it or like it myself,

I can see what he's done and I think he's done it really well.

But it's just that extra level

of understanding that the design is a tool, isn't it,

to allow you to make the room work better.

I'm really, really pleased with my room.

I think somebody going into that room will be like,

"Wow, OK, I want to stay here,

"I want to spend some time in this room."

This is quite a maximal version of understated glamour, is it not?

It is. I was wondering when I came in,

but it's certainly got character.

I mean, it has a wonderfully luxurious feel to it.

It's that Hollywood glamour, very Jean Harlow.

It does have a really coherent sense to it,

particularly, I think, in the colour palette

with that sort of lovely pink that comes through in the side tables,

the curtains and just some of the little details.

It kind of strikes you in a nice way.

And then painting the existing units black,

which absolutely transforms them.

I love this kind of black lacquer.

The black lacquer, yeah.

So lots of ideas happening here.

Really nice palette, but do you like it?

I do think it is refined.

There is an elegance about it,

as you say, with the colours that she has used together.

And it is quite courageous, I feel.

I'm feeling pleasantly surprised with my room.

Seeing it all come together

and then being able to put all the soft furnishings in there

and finish it off, I do think it works.

How clever!

These vertical wood poles are actually hiding a sink,

the wardrobe and another little cupboard behind.

That little curve also leads you in

to a seating area in front of the windows.

So the room, in effect, feels bigger,

I think, because of that.

It's just a very, very simple device that's been really effective.

I mean, overall, Lynsey's taken what is a really awkward room

and made it feel quite spacious and quite contemporary

and very fresh.

The person who's done this room, I think,

shows a huge amount of talent.

What a success. What a triumph.

I'm really pleased with my room.

I love the feeling of it - kind of how calming and romantic it is,

and that's what I wanted.

I feel like it's glamorous and, like, luxurious enough

to be a bridal suite.

Ooh, we've walked into a taffeta sorbet, Kit.

I love the ceiling.

I love the fact that she's added these roses,

but then not felt compelled

to actually hang the bulbs from the roses.

It's brave and it's clever and it's quite fun.

I think there's moments of real creative genius here

where I think I see the real Charlotte.

But then she's suddenly kind of thought,

"Oh, God, it's a bridal suite, so I need to kind of add

"all this sugar coating over the top of it."

It's like, I wish she'd taken the bravery that says,

"Leave the floorboards exposed

"and let me just put a sort of small custom carpet on top of it,"

and carried that all the way through onto the bed.

I almost wish that she had taken many of the swags away

and just left this beautiful stripe on either side.

Overall, are we feeling understated glamour in this room?

There is a sort of magic to the room.

Next to face the judges...

That's the open wardrobe.

..Team Maximalism.

This is styling frenzy.

So, hopefully, it'll look nice and lush.

I'm hoping that Michelle can't look at this and go,

"Ooh, he didn't think about the space enough,"

cos I think I've learned from my critique last week.

Come on. Come on!

Ugh!

What do you need, a decorator or joiner or both?

I just need...anyone.

Half of us are going to be on the sofa this week,

so I really don't want to make the same mistake twice.

I don't want to be pulled in again for layout.

It does feel like maximalism, I think.

Yeah, I really love it.

I can't believe my brain has done this.

I stuck to what my original thought was

of using saturated primary colours, crazy furniture,

lots of fabric, lots of print and threw it all together.

And I think I threw it together in a really beautiful, creative way.

And I'm really pleased.

Oh, my goodness.

Every single surface is covered and coloured and patterned.

And my goodness, there is a point where too much is just too much

because it doesn't allow you to focus on any one thing.

No, it's very worrying for the eye and it looks a bit frantic.

This is a kind of amazing ceiling

and it absolutely did not need to be kind of Crayola-coloured all over.

The issue is Jon has gone so bonkers with all the pattern,

it makes you overlook what are some actually really clever things

that he's done in this room.

Because I think it's really super that, because of the size of it,

he's been able to pull the bed forward

and pop a kind of little dressing table area behind here,

which is really super effective cos it allows that whole thing

to stay focused on the window and the view.

When you have that exterior,

you don't have to be quite so frantic with the interior.

I really like that room.

I would want to stay in it if I stayed in the hotel.

It's opulent, it's decadent, it's striking.

I definitely think it hits the brief,

but I don't know whether I've added in enough.

Now, Micaela is brilliant with her upholstery and her fabrics.

That's her comfort zone.

And I see all of that in this little ensemble here.

What I would say is the scale of the bed treatment is too small.

Bigger and grander,

and kind of behind both of the side tables as well

would've sort of really made that into a big statement.

I mean, at the moment,

it looks like an oversized dog bed for a Great Dane.

And then you go to either side

and this has absolutely nothing to do with this.

It's not even the same colour palette,

which means it just doesn't fit together. It jars.

It doesn't even pick up the purple of the little sort of canopy.

There's got to be some sort of dialogue between the patterns,

but there's just nothing that links it.

And then a black ceiling.

I do think that some of the details are very nicely done.

She finished off the bed by making a valance

and then putting the fabric in the kick-pleat,

which is the same as the headboard.

It's a really nice detail.

So, apart from the balance, I think that the craft of it

is actually quite neat and quite good.

I'm really happy with my room.

It looks pretty much how I hoped it would.

I was very scared, actually,

the first time I saw the maximalist brief,

because I don't naturally gravitate to multiple patterns

and multiple clashes,

so it's something I had to learn very quickly.

It's another awkward room with a sort of box of a bathroom

sort of squashed into one corner.

And I do think that is a really clever way

of making more of a feature out of this side of the room

because the archway just naturally leads you

through to that window.

Shame it's not been finished very well.

I don't like the way that he's broken up the walls.

There's too much going on

in the height of the room.

You have the dado, which is a chair rail,

then you have this very large pattern

and then this sort of pink colour that only goes up to a picture rail

and not to the full height of the room.

And I think now it's so bitty.

If you were going to use this very bold wallpaper,

which has a large repeat,

let it sing and let it go right up to the top of the room.

To me, maximalism is about creating, like,

a jewel box of a room, isn't it?

So you feel like I'm kind of surrounded by plush velvet

and it's a bit padded and it's a bit cosy and it's rich and ripe,

and it's all those kind of adjectives.

You can talk about a jewel box

and you can talk about a shoe box,

and I feel this is more of a shoe box.

I think it looks OK.

Like, I think it looks good.

I hope my take on the brief

and my sort of, like, idea behind it carries through.

I don't know if I've done enough.

Ah, and breathe.

Finally, I feel like someone has done maximalism properly.

I feel it's your idea of the jewellery box,

and this works in here.

Peter's room was a little bit bitty,

but Barbara, who's done this,

has taken the wallpaper all the way up to the ceiling,

taken the softer blue over the top,

so it's not too heavy and oppressive.

She's got the dado in, which is in a kingfisher blue,

which actually picks out the colour well.

And then you've still got that blue of the carpet,

so you have got that jewel box effect.

What she's really got right for me

is she's taken her lead for the palette from here,

but then been brave enough

to throw in a contrast,

and a really kind of vibrant contrast, but consistently.

We see the same language through the whole room.

And I just love this funny little peacock chair,

which she's painted bright orange

and added an odd cushion on it.

Do you know, it shouldn't work, but it does.

It is the kind of, like,

OK, if we were doing a How To Do Maximalism,

it almost feels like what we've learned in seeing these four rooms

is, yes, you can have a bonkers wallpaper,

but then let that lead.

Yes, you can throw in more patterns,

but they must have some kind of, like, story link,

a narrative link to them.

She's actually created, from a very difficult space,

somewhere that I would be very happy to spend a night in.

Ooh!

Before heading back to the design studio...

Wow.

..a chance to check out the competition.

Ooh. Oh, glamour.

Oh, wow.

Oh, my God, she's made it feel so much bigger.

Oh, my gosh. Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

This is bonkers.

I'm still just taking it all in.

I absolutely love that arch

and how you're more drawn down to the view. Yeah.

The only thing I probably would have done is just filled in the edges

with some filler to try and hide the gap.

It's a little bit bridal. Way more bridal than mine.

Yeah. But it's not maximalist.

No, and mine's a different kind of bride.

If I was to go home this week, yes, I would be upset,

but I'd be upset with a smile, cos I am really proud of myself.

I miss the bed a little bit.

You think it's too hidden, maybe? It possibly feels too hidden.

This is pretty, isn't it?

Oh, look at the headboard. That area just kind of seems

a little bit bare compared to everywhere else.

I don't feel like it has made mine look really, really bad.

I'm still pretty confident.

With two people being sent home this week...

It's like deja vu.

..the designers assemble to hear their fate.

I'm really, really nervous today,

cos I've just not been very sure of my design.

So I'm mentally preparing myself for being on the couch.

I believe I have hit the brief from my perspective,

but it'd be interesting to see what they think.

I focused a lot this week on the statement area of the room,

which is the bed.

But I think Michelle might say

I could have just done a little bit more on the other side of the room.

I've slept on it, thought about it,

and I'm concerned that my room might not be bridal, romantic enough.

Hello, everyone.

ALL GREET ALAN

How are you all feeling?

Nervous. Scared. Amazing. Is love in the air?

THEY LAUGH

Now, listen, you know this is tough for me.

I always hate this bit.

And it's even tougher this week, cos you know two of you are going home.

Kit and Michelle were really impressed with your designs.

Siobhan, Charlotte and Lynsey...

..they thought you had "understated glamour" written all over them.

But, Paul, they thought your room was a bit TOO understated and subtle

and wasn't imaginative enough.

However, as a team, well done, you're through to next week.

SHE EXHALES

Off you go. Thank you. Well done.

I might pass out.

Go, go, go, go. Wow.

See you in a bit.

Here we go.

Peter, Barbara, Micaela, Jon,

the judges thought that only one of your rooms

fitted the maximalist brief, but that room smashed it.

Barbara, congratulations, you're also through to next week.

Are you joking?

Well done. Oh, my God. Well done, Barbara.

Thanks.

The rest of you, Michelle would like to see you in her office.

Good luck.

HE EXHALES

Here we are again.

I know, it's the three of us.

Gutted, but do you know what? We took a risk and did it.

Now, maximalist, would you have Jon's room in one of your hotels?

Well, I thought it was like Salvador Dali's wedding night

and a sort of disco explosion.Yes!

It was kind of spectacular, wasn't it?

Yeah. I mean, unbelievable.

But, my goodness, you just have to know when to stop.

It is what it is. It is what it is.

We'll have a conversation.

Absolutely.

And see where they go.

So why did Peter get it wrong and Barbara got it right?

Did he use too many prints?

Barbara, she had her carpet, the walls and a very pale blue ceiling

so that the outside of the scheme all worked together,

and then she could just have those bolts of orange,

whereas Peter had the same navy.

Then he added pink above the picture rail and across the ceiling.

Then he had this sort of imperial yellow headboard,

which had, I thought, little relevance to the room at all.

And I thought that arch was a little bit shoddy, weren't it, love?

It's that extra mile that I'd expect from a designer

to just want to finish every single thing off beautifully and perfectly.

And that's what was needed.

Michelle just doesn't like our style. Two weeks in a row.

Yeah, fair enough.

I'm all good.

Each to their own.

Now, let's talk about Micaela.

It's all about balance and scale,

and the scale and the balance of the room was wrong.

If she just made it more munificent and grand,

it could have been very nice.

She's got such an amazing eye for detail.

I mean, she just needs to take the confidence that she has

to match all those fabrics and just go with it,

have the courage of her own convictions.

Have you got in your mind the two you think are going to go?

Kind of need to hear from them how they understood the brief

and why they did what they did. And then we'll go from there.

Heya. Hiya. Hi, Jon.

Hiya. Hi, Peter. Hi, Micaela. Hi.

Your brief was decadent maximalism,

which now that I'm getting to know your work,

I kind of feel really pushed you all out of your comfort zones.

Peter, I'm going to start with you. OK.

Your room was very similar to Barbara's.

It was a tricky room. Yeah. It was an awkward shape.

Why do you think that she is not sat here on the sofa with us?

I mean, in my mind, maximalism is about mixing and clashing

multiple patterns and colours and then making

a really kind of cosy and layered look in the space.

I did think my space was layered and cosy

and had those clashing patterns in it.

The trouble starts when you think,

"Right, maximalism is, 'I must have clashing patterns.

" 'I must have this, I must have these colours,' "

cos I feel that's perhaps where you went.

And if you'd allowed yourself to step back a bit from that

and just think, "OK, I'm going to start off with this wallpaper,

"where does that lead me?"

What you've done is you've divided the room into three

and it's a very small room. Yeah.

Very long and narrow. Yeah.

So you've given yourself immediately a very big problem there.

The only reason I did do the three dividers

is because I thought in my mind,

if I kind of brought the ceiling down a little bit,

it would kind of make the room proportions

square out a little bit. That's what I was trying to do.

I mean, the most important thing

when you're coming into a small, long room like that

is to feel at ease.

And immediately you felt sort of uneasy

when you came into the room.

Overall, it didn't work.

OK.

Jon. Hello.

Let me talk about enthusiasm for design. Yes.

I mean, what an extravaganza of excess.

Was this appropriate for a deluxe wedding venue?

I wanted it to be a grand statement because it was the bridal suite.

I've got in my head what a stereotypical bride looks like.

But what kind of bride and groom

would choose the room that I was doing?

But there was just so much. I know.

I mean, was there a point where you sort of did the first layer

and then thought, "No, no, I must add more and then more"?

I think if the bride went up there

and said, "Not tonight, love, I've got a headache,"

you'd say, "I don't blame you." Yeah. Yes, absolutely.

Although the ceiling, I did pare that back.

I only did touches of green, to make it look like a print.

To go in there, I felt, was a surreal experience.

You had so many really fascinating details in there. Sure.

And I loved the sort of furniture

that you had painted in the yellow and white.

I didn't know where the line was

between Maximalism and gaudy and too far.

And there was part of me at one point that thought,

"I have gone too far," but it was a lot of fun and tears...

I can imagine! ..and all things in between, yeah.

Micaela. Yes.

When I zoom into your bed, I see all of your skills -

you're in your comfort zone, you're doing your upholstery, your fabrics.

When I start to zoom out,

it's almost like I feel you get the wobbles a bit. Yeah.

That's where I was really struggling to think what I could do that side,

cos I knew I wanted to make the bed the focus

and that I would be able to do that.

But balancing it with the rest of the room,

and I had such a big room as well, that I struggled a little bit

to think, "What could kind of balance it out?"

And I think I did fail a little bit at that.

Well, it's just you made the bed the focus of the room,

which I think is correct.

And then the panels on either side were kind of black and white.

And those panels, that print had nothing to do

with what was going on in the bed. Yeah.

And I didn't make the link as well

between, then, a black ceiling and the mustard walls.

And then you had purple behind the bed.

It seems like you kind of had this joyful little moment right here,

and then the more that you went out,

you kind of lost your nerve a little bit

instead of maybe sticking with that kind of one narrative arc again.

I loved the shape of the headboard and the detail that you went to,

but I was so disappointed that your bed treatment

didn't go right up to the ceiling and come over a little bit more,

just to give that really opulent feel to it.

Because I was trying to work with the size of the bed that was there,

I thought it would be better to bring it in

so that it felt more intimate.

But, yeah, I kind of closed it down a little bit.

It seems like you feel like there's a rule sheet

of dos and don'ts with every room. Like, you had this size of bed,

therefore you were not allowed to do bigger, but you're the designer.

Be courageous.

But, yeah, I think my comfort zone is always to retreat to the detail,

and I really want to learn to push myself more.

I think I'm gradually, baby steps, doing that,

but not quite in the leaps and bounds week on week

that would be more helpful.

Jon. Yes.

Your openness to learning and evolving

has just been so evident through this. Thank you.

It's just...it's been a pleasure, really, to see.

However... Yeah.

..this was just not appropriate for a really deluxe wedding venue,

so I am slightly heartbroken,

but you are going to be my first person to go this week. OK.

Thank you so much for the opportunity. This has been...

..immense and amazing in so many ways,

and there's some phenomenal people around.

So thank you so much.

And, yeah, watch this space. You never know.

Thank you.

PETER: We love you, Jon. Take care.

I've enjoyed every single minute, and it's been really hard work,

and I wouldn't swap it for anything.

So you two, as well, have both been on the sofa already.

Micaela, you have this brilliant eye for detail,

but you have got to stand back and see the room as a whole,

cos sometimes it's not all about the details. OK?

Peter, I just have this slight sensation with you

that you're not going for it in that sense of that,

"I'm just going to keep going until I've got this

"absolutely the best it could possibly be."

I'm afraid, for that reason,

you're going to be my second person to go this week.

OK, thank you very much for the opportunity.

You're amazing.

It's been lovely to show people what I can do

and show my passion for interior design.

And this is not the end.

I will definitely pursue this as a career.

I'm not going to go anywhere.

One more chance. I know. Yeah.

We're giving you another shot, because you can do this.

It's a confidence thing.

Just do a massive chaise lounge.

It's going to be tough next week,

but I'm definitely going to have to prove to Michelle

that I've learnt and I've taken her feedback on board.

I'm giving Micaela another chance

because the quality of what she does do is so good.

I just want to see her stretch that round the whole room

and just really have the courage of her convictions to give me more.

Next time...

I can't wait to see the shop.

Oh, wow.

..it's off to the high street...

This needs to get start painted yellow.

..as the designers take on shops in Tunbridge Wells.

The counter will be here. Yeah, but in real life... Yeah.

CLATTERS

This is somebody's business.

You know, it's got to be right.

SHATTERING

Accidents happen.