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Roll up! Roll up!

Get your ice cream! Get your ice cream here!

CUSTOMER GASPS

There you go, love.

Get that down you. We've got work to do!

It's beach hut week!

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!

CHARLOTTE 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.

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.

Yes, it's Interior Design Masters!

WINDOW SQUEAKS

It's week five, and there are only five designers left.

I mean, we're getting so close to the end now

that we all want to be in the final, you know?

We're all starting to think about it.

I want to be an interior designer.

I want to change my career.

But it's heating up, the competition.

So we've really got to start making our mark now.

After winning last week's challenge,

it's put even more pressure on.

But I want to see this to the end now.

I've got as good a chance as any of the rest of them

of maybe winning this.

They've arrived at Michelle's London studio to hear their next brief.

Hello, everyone. Hello! Hi!

Can I come in your chill-out area? TOGETHER: Yes.

Have a seat. Thank you.

So, listen, one of you is going to be the Interior Design Master.

Who is your biggest competition, do you think, Lynsey?

Ah!I'm asking. I'm going there.

Come on. Everybody's my competition.

Boring! Boring! Come on!

Come on. Come on.

Paul's not been on the sofa.

He's the only one, so... Yeah, I'm dodging the sofa.

Well, let's see what Michelle's got in store.

I think you're going to like it.

Come with me. Dun-dun-dun.

Speak of the devil.

Hello, Michelle.

Hello, everyone.

Hello. Welcome.

Come in.

So, after all the stress and shenanigans of shops,

I thought we all deserved a little break.

So I'm taking you to the seaside.

We're going to have a little fun with beach huts.

I mean, what could be more British?

Winston Churchill having a Greggs at a car-boot sale?

THEY LAUGH

These quintessentially British seafront beach huts in Essex

boast panoramic views.

Each designer will take on an existing hut

and use their skills to transform it based on an individual design brief.

Of course, it's not really going to be a holiday

because, for the first time,

you're going to be working on your own.

Five beach huts, one per person.

That means no hiding behind anyone else.

I really want to see what you can offer me as individual designers.

And the two designers of the best-looking beach huts

will be through to next week.

The rest of you will be with Michelle on the sofa,

and one of you will be going home.

Good luck. Good luck.

The designers have all been given their unique creative specs,

and get together to discuss the challenges ahead.

So, what have you got? My brief is "home from home".

I've got "ice cream sundaes". That's quite fun.

I've got "New England Hamptons...

"..but not Hamptons".

So, like, not classically blue and white, nautical stripe.

So, what are you thinking of?

How are you going to do Hamptons, not Hamptons?

Just stay away from blue.

Living in Devon, I think you do frequent the beach a lot,

but not a lot of people have beach huts,

so I'll have a think.

Yeah.

Designing a beach hut sounds simple.

What's the catch?

I bet there's a catch.

We're not talking huge spaces here. No, no.

The smaller you go, the cleverer you've got to be.

It's going to be tricky, isn't it? It is.

But this is going to be our first chance to see each designer

completely on their own.

I mean, that's the bit that's going to sort of throw

the curveball this time.

They've each got a fantastic opportunity

to just go for it.

Yeah. They can have fun here.

I think, for me, it will be about opening those doors

and just being...

You need that wow moment, don't you? Yeah.

I don't want to open it and go, "Oh, OK. That's quite nice."

I suppose you're right, yeah. But it has got to be practical.

I mean, if those doors are opening and closing every day,

you can't have tricksy bits of design.

What do you mean by tricksy?

Fiddly, overly complicated bits

that I've got to work out how they work.

It's got to be simple. Oh, OK. Right.

Is that clear? That...that's clear.

And I don't like your tone.

THEY LAUGH

The only thing I think I'm going to struggle with

is that, like, fun, quirky element.

My interiors are quite serious.

I don't think we're going to get much time to take in the view

and have a paddle. It's going to be quite stressful, isn't it?

Probably my most stressful visit to the beach ever.

So, Siobhan, tell me about your brief.

So, I got "Tropicana". Oh, nice.

So I'm kind of thinking, like, add some pink this week.

Yeah. Because I've been holding back with the pink.

They held you back! You know, you've been working with other people.

This is the first time you can go crazy.

Yep.I'm just worried you're going to go too crazy with the colours

and people can see it from Google Earth.

It's a definite possibility!

My mind's just kind of going a little bit wild right now.

I'm just trying to, like, be as creative as I possibly can

for this one.

And also, I found it...

I didn't think I would, but I found it quite hard

not being lead designer last week.

So I'm actually looking forward to doing the designing this week.

Being the ice cream boss.

Something like that.

I was on the sofa last week

and it's really resonated with me that I need to work on

not just being, like, as architectural and structural,

and to push myself with the fabrics and materials more.

So I suppose I've got a point to prove this week.

So, Paul, are you happy with your brief?

Yeah, in the past I maybe haven't had the briefs

that I would have particularly wanted,

but this theme I absolutely love.

And what is it? It's " '50s American retro".

And it's got to be practical, that's what Michelle was saying.

Because it feels like an easy brief,

but I think it's a little bit sneaky, innit?

I think it is a bit sneaky because it has to be able to fit

anywhere from two to maybe ten people.Yeah.

So not a lot of space for dancing, Alan.

I think every task now so far,

there's been a bit of me with a bit of dread

and I have in the past held back.

But I just want to keep winning, and this new design,

I'm just going to really push and go for it.

Overlooking the sandy beaches of this small family resort town

in Essex sit five classic beach huts.

PAUL: That must be for you, Siobhan, it's pink!

Oh, my gosh!

3 by 2.5 metres wide,

waiting to get a design makeover.

Oh, wow, this is really snug.

Such a tiny little space!

MICAELA WHIMPERS

I've got to keep this weird stained glass.

I'm not allowed to take it out.

So it does give me a minor headache.

They can choose to use the existing furniture or go bespoke.

I do like this piece of old furniture,

and I think I could make that look quite retro.

As in the other weeks' tasks...

Hi, guys. How are you doing? Yeah, we're good.

..builders, carpenters and painters will help

bring their vision to life.

Oh, it looks better already.

They've only two days, a budget of £1,000

and cramped working conditions to navigate

before they must complete their designs.

First things first today -

I want to get the internal wall down,

if that is indeed possible?

OK.

MICAELA LAUGHS

How's that going on? Fine, yeah.

Yeah? So maybe, like, two coats for that

because it's just untreated wood.

Paul is keen to get started with his ambitious plans.

Thank you.

The brief is 1950s American retro.

And in that era there was, like, so many films and musicals

like Grease that was all based around a '50s diner.

And I think that's been my major inspiration.

So we'll have a really nice chequerboard,

black and white tile effect vinyl going down.

But one of the main features is going to be

the 1950s diner seating,

which is kind of like a banquette seating.

I'm a bit nervous about it because it is a biggish job,

but I really want to show that I'm not afraid

of woodwork and carpentry, and I'm not just all about wallpaper.

And that, yeah, I can do that.

Along the promenade...

I like that colour still. That's good.

..Micaela is preparing a subtle blended paint effect

for her walls.

Can you just splodge a bit on the bottom of the wall?

Just so I can see if it dries much darker.

I'm going for, like, an ombre, so dark pink at the bottom

and then fading up into white at the top.

So four slats per colour is about here.

Yeah.

And then the next will be here.

Yeah, I like that.

For her home from home brief,

Micaela will be opening up her beach hut

by tearing down the interior wall,

painting her kitchenette on the back wall a teal colour,

and treating the other walls and the exterior to an ombre finish.

She's filling the space with vintage pieces and soft furnishings

covered in teal waterproof fabric.

I've just tried to go for quite a warm and inviting

kind of, like, cosy feel.

Colours that aren't too bright and vivid.

And obviously, at home, you do have some upholstery,

so I've been able to work some of that in as well.

But of course, there's a niggle in the back of my mind.

Will Michelle see that as a positive?

Last week, I didn't have any upholstery in the shop.

And I'm not going to lie, I did miss it.

SEAGULLS CALL

Oh, my gosh, that colour's looking gorgeous!

When people walk in, I want a wow.

I want a real, like, wow factor.

Siobhan is putting our own spin on her Tropicana brief.

So, this is my tiki beach hut.

And what we're doing in here is,

we're going to clad all this kitchen in bamboo.

There's going to be grass skirts hanging over there,

in that back area.

And I love bars.

I've got a bar in my own house.

So we're actually having a proper bar,

like a bamboo bar, here, that's going to be on casters.

So you can kind of move it around as well

so it's multifunctional.

I'm kind of just thinking, like, for this beach hut,

it'll be proper, like, for social media as well.

Like, if there's groups of girls coming out

that like to hang out for the day by the sea and have a few drinks.

And, yeah, I think it's just going to be really cool.

For her ice cream sundae brief,

Lynsey is developing an intricate colour scheme.

I found this really nice textured tile

and I thought this was really, like, a swirly ice cream.

And then I'm speckling these pink and green

and mirrored tiles in here,

a bit like sprinkles on top of the ice cream.

Nice and cheesy.

Lynsey's beach hut will be given subtle hints of pastel colour,

creating an ice cream sundae feel.

Her crafty design hides shelves behind a folding table,

and seats on casters can combine to form a day bed.

She's adding vinyl flooring, a changing area,

and finally, her cherry on the top of the sundae,

a waffle-looking wooden pegboard.

The owners like spring-summer pastels,

but I'm not really a pastels kind of girl

and I wouldn't really use them in my home,

so I had a bit of a, "Mm, what am I going to do?"

Because it's not really me.

But then, it's not about you.

It's mainly about you taking the client's brief

and creating something which you feel they would like,

but making maybe a slight tweak on it.

So mixing the coloured tiles onto the white

was getting the colour in there, but quite subtle -

without doing big blocks of it.

But I've got all of this wall to do

and all of that wall over there to do.

So I need to get all the tiles up today

so that I can grout tomorrow.

No pressure.

Further down the beachfront...

We're breaking the hut. It has to go.

..Charlotte is grappling with her Hamptons, not Hamptons brief.

I could keep it. You're going to keep that, aren't you? Yeah.

I've been looking at kind of interior designers

that are kind of doing new spins on the Hamptons

that aren't blue and white.

And there was a lot of kind of curved,

really fun contemporary furniture.

And also a lot of stuff came up about Jackson Pollock,

as he was one of the people that first found the place

and made it cool to have a house there.

And I thought that would be quite nice to inspire my own....

..scheme.

Charlotte's design will have two distinct areas.

In the back is a dark forest-green nook hosting two bespoke benches.

A lighter minty-white colour at the front of the hut

will show off a kitchenette.

And an art piece paying tribute to

abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock

will double as a table.

Green and white striped fabric and pops of orange and yellow

with black accents will pull the Hamptons scheme together.

It's a real mixture,

but I think a good design has got layers and different inspirations.

I just wanted to prove that you can make a cheery, bright space

and it doesn't have to be a garish colour on every wall.

Like, the matte black finish is quite luxy-looking

and is good for wood and things like that,

so it's still beachy.

Probably the worst feedback I could get, like,

"Why the hell did you choose those colours? They're disgusting."

Ah!

Now I just need to do the back.

Unlike the other designers,

Paul has chosen to do the exterior of his beach hut first.

So, once I place all these sticky polka dots on this panel,

we're going to paint over it pink,

and then, when I peel them off, the blue polka dots will be underneath.

So it'll hopefully give a real nice clean edge.

Right.

Oh!

Beautiful. Yass!

So satisfying.

Right, let's get the pink on.

The competition's on.

Midday.

Absolutely love the bamboo cladding.

Doesn't it look good?

The designers are starting to work their magic on their huts.

Just tell me when we are level.

But the hard graft has just begun.

It looks different, doesn't it, to what it was before,

this morning?

I really hope it's not too much pattern.

It's going to take a while to get this right, isn't it?

And Micaela... Hmm.

..is questioning her choices.

I realised, actually, the original hut was pink and turquoise,

which isn't far off the dusty pink and teal

that I've changed it to.

You know when you're like,

"Where did this idea for pink and turquoise come from?"

Ah, yeah, it was already pink and turquoise.

ALAN: # Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

# Oh, I do like to be beside the sea. #

Oh, I can almost taste the candyfloss.

Oh, look at this.

Move! Get a move on!

Oh!

Right, I'm here.

Time to see how the designers are getting on.

Charlotte!

Shall I Baywatch-run to you?

Is that Pamela Anderson?

CHARLOTTE LAUGHS

How are you getting on? It's tricky.

People think, "Oh, tiny space. That's a doddle."

And it's actually really hard.

And I've got Hamptons, but it's not the Hamptons.

Don't do that, basically. In short.

So you're going against the brief, almost?

No, the brief is "don't do blue and white."

Oh, right, OK. Do an alternative.

Yeah. But that's, like, what do you do?

It's one of those things where you could get it wrong very easily.

Yeah, probably.

But hopefully I haven't.

You getting on all right with that, Phil?

SIOBHAN LAUGHS

Loads of fun!

Wow, they look great!

One down, three to go.

Thanks for that, yeah.

In the tiki hut, Siobhan is embracing the challenge

of going solo for the first time.

Are they looking all right, Jo, these mirrors?

Yeah, they look cool.

After last week, it's kind of nice

just to do your own thing and do my own design.

You know, you're managing the trades and all that kind of stuff.

I wouldn't say I've got, like, major concerns,

but I'm looking round now and I'm thinking,

"Gosh, it's really, really bright."

Ooh, we're putting this up? Yeah, putting this up.

Unlike Siobhan...

Want to check that it's in the right position.

..Lynsey is concentrating on function over decor.

OK? Yeah.

We had to build things to be clever to make most use of the space,

and I started off thinking of doing it in wood,

but then the metalwork has made it more elegant

and kind of sit back and tuck out the way

when it's all folded up a bit better.

And it's meant it could be a slimmer profile.

Lynsey! Alan!

What's this about?

Is this something deep and meaningful?

No, it's so when you're sat at the table behind you,

when it's folded down and you're sitting that way,

eating your dinner, you can still see the sea!

Lynsey, you're so clever!

You are! I would never have done that.

Ta-da.

Oh, my Lord.

To create magical spaces that people love to be in,

that's the dream, really - to do that full-time.

And how are you coping away from your other half and everything?

All over Britain.

Yeah, it's tiring.

And I've got a baby coming as well.

Oh, my God!

I thought you'd just eaten too much fish and chips!

Yeah, I'm at that horrible stage

where you just look like you're bloated.Yeah!

Oh, my God. We're so similar!

But anyway, that's wonderful. Thank you.

Probably wouldn't have planned pregnancy this way.

But, you know, I'm fit and healthy.

I'm not having problems doing both.

Yeah, we'll see how it goes.

Seems I'm not the only one having a nose around.

Hi. Fancy bumping into you.

What's this?

SIOBHAN LAUGHS

Have you seen my awning?

No, Siobhan.

I'm thinking these to, like, hold it up.

What do you reckon? I love it.

And what about my kitchen?

I cladded it all in bamboo. Really, really nice.

What do you think of the pink? Do you like it?

Yeah. Oh, that was a bit, "Hmm..."

Yeah. How are you getting on?

Er, yeah.

I'm getting there.

It still looks very empty.

There's no paint on inside.

You're still quite relaxed, actually.

I'm not giving anything away.

I'm trying to hide all of my emotions this week.

Paul has selected a more muted tone of pink for his interior walls.

The paint that I'm using, I've been ambitious and mixed this myself,

back in Belfast,

and brought it the whole way here with me.

You know, it's easy to lift a paint chart.

Already you see the outside, how good it looks

and how strong it looks.

It's a real sharp pink.

I'm not probably the best upholsterer in the world,

maybe the best tiler,

or the best painter and decorator.

But I'm willing to give it a shot

and I think, as long as it shows that I'm trying,

and I can't try any harder.

A hop, skip, jump away in her New England beach hut...

Where's my nail? I was carving with my nail.

..Charlotte is etching flower patterns

into her mint-white paint.

Hamptons interiors are quite famous for having floral prints,

so I'm going to try and bring in a floral element with this wall

and, like, do a base layer of gesso,

and then kind of carve flowers and stuff -

so it feels a bit floral.

Rather than having, like, a floral cushion.

That's the plan.

Now there's only five of us,

you want to be more and more ambitious.

You will get picked apart if you're not managing the time well.

So, yeah, I'm worried I'm not going to finish.

Ooh, it's getting a bit windy.

Throwing a spanner in the works for Paul...

CRASHING

..the British seaside's changeable weather.

Oh, my God.

So, there was a little incident... No, don't, don't, don't.

I can't. I can't. No, no, no, nothing major.

Nothing major.

So, unfortunately, there was a bit of a gust of wind.

You know the lovely little pink retro unit?

It smashed the glass in one of the doors.

I now need to get two panes of glass fitted in the dresser,

so I hadn't really planned that in my time.

Day one is almost over.

Lynsey?

Hello.

I've come to check out your tiling.

Oh, the mirrored ones are nice. Thank you.

You're making me think I should have got more tiles now.

It's gone green, it feels quite dark at the moment,

but we've got benches that are brighter to go in,

so that will cut through that, hopefully.

So these are going to go orange, aren't they?

So, orange and orange.

THUNDER

Is that thunder?

I can't believe it.

Argh!

But a thunderstorm is bringing everyone's day to a soggy end.

Oh, man!

I love the rain.

Woo!

So I'm not going to paint outside just yet, then.

LAUGHTER

This is horrendous.

Has anybody else painted the front of their hut?

Oh, this is wet.

Paul is going to be losing his mind.

He does not like the rain.

PAUL GROANS

I'm over this day.

This is where you want to be in Micaela's.

She's got a home from home, so I bet it's really, really cosy.

In a shed in the rain, it's quite hard to get that homely vibe.

So, tomorrow, when we need to do the outside,

we'll need it to be dry.

Just got to pray to the gods of sun that it's a good day tomorrow.

This is just absolutely disgusting.

Like, listen to that.

And I'm sat in the back of a van in the rain.

The glamour of it all.

Ah-ha, it's not raining!

And it's not too windy!

I've checked the forecast, guys. There's no rain today. No rain? No.

It's the final day of the challenge.

Morning. Good morning.

The main big jobs today, the kitchen area...

The inside looks a bit wet still.

Yeah, the wood was so saturated yesterday that the paint, in places,

still isn't dry.

OK, shall we start on the outside?

And the designers have just 12 hours to get their first solo projects

fully finished before judgment time.

So, I think we'll have this one where the bird's looking in.

And then we're going for the other toucan... Yeah. ..here.

On the right.

Oh, God. I keep killing bugs.

SHE GASPS

Oh, no.

Micaela, love! Hi!

Isn't it lovely to be by the seaside?

Oh, in the sun, definitely. It's lovely today.

We've got so lucky today with the weather, haven't we? Yeah, it's lovely.

So, tell me what you're doing, Queen of Upholstery.

I've made some benches

and I'm just cutting out some back cushions for them...

Yeah. ..which I'm going to attach to the wall. A bit like a headboard.

Now, home from home's quite a generic brief.

How are you going to put your stamp on it?

What's your home like?

I mean, my home's full of soft furnishings, obviously.Of course.

So I'm just trying to find that balance between having enough

home furnishings, making sure that the seating area, the kind

of sofa-y, lounge sections, are nice and comfortable.

And this is such a small space.

I'm not putting too much in. I don't want to...Well, you can't, look at the size of it.

It's like a telephone box. Yeah, exactly.

So it's going to be nice and spacious and open and fresh.

And this is the first time you're working by yourself.

Yeah, it's tough, because you don't really have an opportunity

to make an error.

You know, if you don't manage to pull something together

in the time, that's it, really, so...

We'll see what Michelle says.

At Lynsey's, yet another storage solution is under construction.

I am building some cubes, which will be seats on casters,

or can come together and form a daybed

with the bench that's at the back.

So I've really tried to think about the functionality of the space.

Everything in here is for a reason and a function,

except from that.

Just liked it.

SHE LAUGHS

There's going to be a changing area there that'll fold out.

It's not very ice cream sundae, but it reflects all the colours

from outside into the room and breaks up all the white.

So it's not functional, but it looks beautiful.

Welcome!

While her rivals forge ahead with building and woodwork, Charlotte

has her brushes out, crafting the painting at the heart

of her vision.

Woo! Oh, no, that one was a bit much.

So, I'm doing a Jackson Pollock-inspired table that,

basically, I want it to look like an artwork on the wall,

and then, when it's down, it's a table.

I think people that own houses in the Hamptons are quite affluent.

It's quite an expensive place.

So maybe they enjoy having a nice piece of abstract art on their wall.

Yes. OK, that needs to dry.

I'm loving that bamboo. It's cool, isn't it?

I know a panda that'd like to eat that.

Look how thick that is.

How do you get bamboo that thick?

Well, I think that's just how it comes.Right.

I've got to know you over the weeks.

Obviously I don't "know you" know you,

but I feel this is pure Siobhan.

Oh, absolutely.

And what about the... Now, I'm not being rude, is this the floor you've picked?

No, this is going and I've got a bamboo print liner going down.

Bamboo. Do you reckon there's too much bamboo?

I think with the colours and everything, I think

it'll just kind of balance it out.

And I've got some grass skirts going up here, so I've got these.

Oh, let's have a look. In these cupboards, I've got these.

Oh, can I try one on? Yeah. One size fits most.

One size fits all!

It'd be like a garter on me!

I mean... Oh, there you go.

There you go.

Lovely. Hula-hula.Hula! Woohoo!

Where's those sailors?

It's all hands on deck, as the crew of HMS Design Masters

get down to business.

Right, guys, these are going on the painting list.

What colour? Black. Obvs.

I'm going to start getting these glued up now.

What I'm doing is glueing the base of an LED light

to the record on the ceiling,

and then I'm going to have, like,

an LED spotlight on it.

So it will look like that.

And there'll be 12 of those inside the hut.

I don't try and go completely off the wall in my designs,

but I always like to add in a wee quirky touch.

Wow, this is looking gorgeous.

It's like an artist's beach residence.

Oh, I'll take that.

That's so cosy in there.

I kind of feel like going in and having a sleep.

There are only a few hours left on day two

before the designers have to down tools.

Start there square. Yeah.

But Lynsey has just started building yet another multi-functional

piece of furniture.

So this is like a peg board.

The users of the hook can put these pegs in wherever they want,

so it can either be a hook

or, if you put them next to each other in a row, it's like a shelf.

I'm hopeful everything that I've got planned can get done.

But there isn't a lot of time.

If it's not, it's going to be a bit of a nightmare.

The clock is ticking and Paul is also feeling the pressure.

If I leave more stuff here, could you paint it? Yeah, sure.

And his centrepiece seating booth is only just going in.

Yeah, I have plenty to do.

Hello. Hi.

You're coming now for a little snoop on my crib?

Yeah, it feels very diner-y.

And does that table fold away and stuff? Yes.

That table just lifts up, the leg folds down, and then I have another

seat pad attached to a board and it just slots in the middle

and then that turns into a bit of, like, a daybed or somewhere kids

can go for a nap or read a book. Very cool.

Very smart.

Seeing Paul's hut has shaken Micaela's confidence

in her own build.

You know, I go into all of the other designers' rooms and I think,

"Oh, that was good that they did that and, you know, they thought

"about something in a way that I wouldn't have."

I mean, before I started this competition, if I wanted

to have a piece of furniture, I always would have looked for it.

But now I realise you can just build it from scratch.

But, yeah, there's still a long way to go, I think,

still lots more to learn.

In her tiki hut...

I think maybe just, let's just take it a little bit further that way.

..Siobhan is creating texture by adding bamboo cladding

to her pink wall.

Do you want a little bit showing?

Yeah, a little bit showing, yeah. A little bit of pink, you know,

like, just popping out.

Yeah, perfect, let's get that stapled up.

I kind of tried to use the bamboo in a clever way,

but, oh, I hope people don't think that I've designed this for me,

because I have made sure that I am designing with the client in mind.

It just depends if they think I've gone too far, I guess.

I always, you know, second-guess myself, really,

and have these conversations.

And it's like, "Oh, you know, have I hit the brief?

"Is Michelle going to like it?" And, you know, at the end of the day,

I just want to kind of stay in the competition.

So, you know, I kind of want to make sure that it's right.

I think three up here, the same sort of thing as that.

The designers have just one hour left to complete their vision...

Normally, I'd have all my accessories in by this point.

..and it's a race against time.

I need to get a piece of artwork hung.

The carpenter has to put up the awning here, so...

..yeah, I'm pushed for time.

It's frantic!

Once again, Lynsey's pushed herself about as far as she can go.

Stressed. Just wish I had a bit more time.

I don't know if I can reach.

And it's to give extra shade, I'm guessing.

Yeah, or maybe you could just stand and hold it.

I've got nothing else to do. That would be a good selling point.

My career's down the toilet, I could stand here.

Most huts are close to completion...

Oh, yeah!

..but Paul has to deal with yet another time-consuming setback,

this time with his awning.

Paul, Paul, what's going on?

There's bits of pink wood splattered on the floor.

You can't be happy about that, can you?

I'm OK.

We've just had to rejig how we're going to fit the hinges.

But for every problem, there's a solution, Alan.Yeah.

Well, you're running out of time.

You're going to have to hurry up. It'll be fine.

By the time the judges get here, it will be...Michelle won't even spot

that that's just snapped off and it's all splintered on the floor.

Michelle will never know unless you tell her.

ALAN CHUCKLES

Don't you dare.

Ready to cast their professional eye over the beach huts, the judges.

We've got the five separate beach huts, the five separate

designers, and each one has got a very specific brief.

We do everything from kind of '50s retro to Tropicana.

Helping Michelle this week is Queen of Unapologetic Colour

Sophie Robinson, podcast host and interior designer for over 20 years.

I mean, beach huts really are that perfect combination

between fun, because you want this kind of escapist interior,

but also big on the practicality.

Yeah, I love small spaces.

They present the ultimate challenge, don't they?

And I'm going to want to see loads of clever design solutions.

I mean, there's going to be picnics, beachwear, surfboards.

How are you going to fit all of that in a tiny space

and still make it look fabulous?

First hut to be judged, Micaela.

OK, I think I'm done.

Yeah, I'm happy with everything.

I hadn't designed any rooms before I started this competition,

so I'm kind of figuring it out as I go along, but I'm feeling pretty

good about my hut.

My design has come together exactly as I'd planned.

Definitely feels homely, which is my brief.

Well, my first impressions are I think that's so beautiful.

Shall we go and have a little look? Yes, let's have a look.

I'm loving the colour palette.

I have to say, I really agree with you.

There's some lovely kind of quite warm pastel colours going on here,

the ombre on the wall as well, even the towels,

all the fabrics chosen.

What she has achieved is a feeling of softness, somewhere to

kick back and relax.

And this is where her soft furnishing comes into play.

And I think really clever to use these outdoor fabrics.

And they mirror the view outside.

I'm really loving the connection that I've got inside,

and the outside beach scene as well.

I mean, I imagine that the theme of, like, being homely is simply

to make it feel like a little house.

It's like a little Wendy house.

And in that respect, that is exactly what this is, isn't it?

It's a rather lovely little Wendy house.

I mean, I guess it's quite predictable,

if I was going to be quite harsh... Are you not wowed?

No, I really like it.

I feel very comfortable here.

I think it's really, like, super-pretty.

If I was going to start getting really nit-picky, I guess

I would imagine everything is quite, sort of, the predictable things

you'd do in a small space - put things on casters, foldaway tables,

kind of housing everything over here.

And look at that beautiful wool rug on the floor.

It's quite large.

Can you imagine sandy, wet footprints running

in and out of here?

I mean, that's just going to get dirty and smelly.

We've got candles...

Lynsey is adding her final decorative flourishes.

The budget on this one was difficult.

I got a lot of things from charity shops.

The clock was £1.50.

Done.

I really hope I've hit the brief.

Tried really hard, read it loads of times this week and kept checking

through and picking out the key points.

So, I think in terms of the multifunctional use,

still feeling spacious, feeling light, using the pastels

that they wanted,

I really hope I hit it.

It feels really fresh and modern.

I don't feel like I'm in the archetypical vintage ice cream parlour.

Yeah. This wall, I love it.

I think it's absolutely beautiful.

I love the balance of the pink and the turquoise and the texture

and how this fits and the little bits of mirror.

I'm really impressed with how she's thought multi-function.

I think there's some clever ideas in here.

I am super impressed to see her utilising the ceiling space,

because when space is really tight,

you need to use absolutely every opportunity for storage,

and even, like, paddle boards and stuff could go up there.

There's lots of, like, great practical ideas,

like we've got the storage under my bench.

You've got the little kind of seats on casters again.

Different ways to hold things up.

But I'm finding it very busy.

I'm just so distracted by the sort of

lack of finesse in the decor.

You've got something like that, that's quite sort of pragmatic and clever

and I could pull out the pegs and I could hang my things.

Why, then, have these funny twinky little shelves?

Why not carry that language across? Cos they're two different things.

And like the little trolley with the funny twinky bits on it.

She's over-egged this. Yeah.

I don't feel like you need the gold and the black.

And actually, I would have lost the black because, for me,

it's just quite hard in quite a soft pastel-y space.

And it's a shame because in terms of planning, thoughtfulness,

layout, innovative design details, she's really impressed me.

Next up, Siobhan is feeling the pressure.

I love doing, you know, the final, the styling bit,

but just stressed.

I just wish I had a bit more time.

There's no denying, it's definitely a tiki vibe,

but I must admit, I am the least confident this week out of all the weeks.

I don't know, like, overall,

like, if I've taken the brief too literal.

So, yeah, I'm... Mixed emotions.

This hut has been designed by Siobhan, who I think you are going

to have a natural affinity with.

Well, already I've been transported from the British seafront

and I'm feeling like I'm in some tropical tornado.

Aloha!

THEY LAUGH

Oh, yeah, we haven't quite got the swaying palm trees views

but, I mean, I'm in heaven.

I'm just going to come straight out and say it.

Well, I am compelled to go inside.

Come on.

Pina colada?

It's just so much fun.

I love it.

I mean, look at this brilliant kind of tiki bar thing

that's been set up. At last, a great big mirror

at the back of the beach hut to reflect that gorgeous view.

It might surprise you that I love this, too.

OK? I'm speechless.

Because it's a coherent vision.

It all fits together. It's all about brightness -

from the orange to the turquoise to the pink,

they're all full-fat colours.

One set of materials carried through on every floor.

Even the flooring,

it's vinyl, but it has that kind of idea of bamboo,

which is taken up the walls,

down from the ceilings, onto the walls.

I mean, it's...

Yeah. It's verging on genius.

It's fabulous.

Practicalities - has she answered that brief?

I mean, you have got loads of cupboards, I think, which is good.

I've got storage underneath there.

Yep.

OK, I can't fold my tiki bar away,

but using a kind of curved...

..makes it kind of, sort of not take up too much space.

The chairs fold. Buckets and spades and stuff could go in those.

It's just, it's a complete and singular and coherent statement

that's unapologetic, and I love it.

A few beach huts away, Charlotte is still painting.

Ooh!

I just wanted to finish off things and like, you know,

paint more and make everything like pristine.

I'm done.

I hope Michelle will like my design.

I think it's sophisticated, which was in my brief,

but then I think it's also like my new spin on the Hamptons.

There wasn't a set way to do that

because it was down to me to make that decision,

so I just hope she likes my interpretation of the brief.

I couldn't have done any more.

Now, New England is such a classic, well-known look.

It's that pared-back, blue-and-white nautical,

and I'm so glad she hasn't gone for that.

So instead, we've got kind of minty green, black,

dark green, racing green. Yellow.

What do you think of the colour scheme? Does it work?

It's not...

..got that sort of naturally uplifting kind of feel to it, has it?

This is probably my happiest place. I love this.

I love the sunny yellow, I love how it links with this.

I think that's quite important

cos this is a design detail that had to stay.

But this whole treatment here

is puzzling me, I'm not going to lie.

This is very much something that's become almost a bit of

a kind of Charlotte signature.

I mean, you can see it behind you in the kind of

ode to Jackson Pollock table as well.

Would you really know that's a Jackson Pollock painting,

or would you think someone's dribbled paint on the back of a table?

I don't think she's pulled that off.

No. What works really well is having this minty-green front,

and then, as I go back here, having the darker colour.

It does make this feel kind of quite cosy and safe.

But I feel like it's missing soul.

Even maybe just a bit of vintage wood, something with a bit of patina.

It's all very painted.

There are no natural textures in here. It lacks warmth.

I think that's where the black was quite a tricky choice.

Yes, it helps elevate and make it look a bit sophisticated,

but it's a very hard, cold colour.

And I guess, also, we're constantly pulled and pushed

between that sort of battle between kind of adding the clever bits.

So we have got the foldout table. We've got some kind of poles.

A pole for hanging things here.

Practical flooring. Durable materials.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

But it's very simple.

Is it too simple?

Yes, is the answer to that.

Last but not least, Paul.

Oh, I'm just running on adrenaline at the minute.

I've given it everything I've got for two full days,

but, yeah, I'm finished.

My head's absolutely pounding.

I feel sick.

But this is what I want to do, and if I felt like this every week,

I'd still do it.

So I hope it's clear to the judges

how passionate I am about interior design

and how much I want to be here.

So this is Paul's ode to a '50s retro diner.

Can you tell? I'm really impressed with how he's treated

the outside of the beach hut before I even get

to the inside. The signage,

the typography is totally spot on. And the polka dots.

Yeah, it's fun, isn't it?

And the theme is thoroughly carried out inside, too.

He's absolutely nailed it from the colour scheme,

the chequerboard floor, the chrome furniture.

He's hitting all those 1950s design references.

For me, possibly, this is tipping it a little bit too far.

This is going into bad taste, but maybe I'm being over picky.

Can we talk about the ceiling?

SHE LAUGHS

This is... It's just fun.

You know, some might find it a bit kitschy, but it works.

And it also is of the language of the rest of the design,

because the whole thing is kind of retro.

It goes with the dresser. It goes with this.

But then we've also married in the kind of clever ideas

with the table that folds back completely,

and then there's an extra little bit here that comes out

and can slot in between. It makes this into a whole little bed.

Yeah, well, that's really clever, isn't it?

And I suppose one thing as well I love is there's a place

to put boards, multifunctional furniture,

and yet I don't walk in here and think,

"Oh, this is very practical."

I literally think I'm just in a 1950s diner.

Well, that's it. I mean, that's what we started talking about

at the very beginning of looking at these huts.

It's that marriage between the practicality and the beauty.

And suddenly, here it is in three dimensions.

And that's when I think design and decoration come together

and really, really work.

Before the designers return to the studio,

they take a sneaky peek at their rivals' efforts.

Cooee!

Just in time!

SHE LAUGHS

Oh! Wahey!

Oh, this is fabulous, Siobhan. Wow.

You just get nervous every week when you see each other's designs

and seeing Siobhan's, hers is incredible.

I would definitely, like, definitely hire this one.

So, yeah, I don't think Siobhan has any worries.

Oh, cool, look at the lights! Are they battery?

Must be. They must be, like, LEDs.

Everyone's very much taken a different approach.

Paul's is like an amazing diner that you literally feel

like you're in, like, a beach-side restaurant.

Oh, yeah. This is...

Oh, let's get in. Get changed. It's genius.

She's a very clever bean, isn't she?

And Lynsey's got kind of insane, like, architectural things in hers.

Does that fold up, then? I'm guessing. It must do.

The competition's definitely like amping up now.

I look around and, you know, everybody's really good.

We're all trying to avoid the sofa as best we can, but...

..someone's got to go in there.

There is a career-defining contract at stake

as the designers return to Michelle's studio

to discover their fate.

Well, here we are. Here we are again.

HE SIGHS

That sigh says it all,

doesn't it, really?

I really don't want to be on the sofa, but this week was challenging.

It was such a small space, so...we'll see.

Well, we will see.

You never know with Michelle where she's going to come from or what she's going to pick up on.

So, yeah, I'm quite worried about ending up on the sofa.

Yeah, it's hard. It'd be great to do a Paul, fly through

and not go on the sofa. That would be amazing.

My confidence has now dropped a little.

Probably the most nervous in the whole...

..the whole competition so far.

Hello! Hiya!

Did we enjoy the seaside?

Yeah. We did. It was lovely.

Why didn't you enjoy the seaside?

I'm just not an outdoors person, Alan.

It was not what I expected at all.

Right, enough of this chitchat. Let's hear the results.

The judges both agreed that this challenge wasn't as simple

as it first appeared.

But for Michelle, good design is getting the right balance

between the practical and the decorative,

and that's what the judges were looking for this week.

There are two designers who got this spot on.

The confidence that they showed in their designs

really set them apart.

One in particular added that little extra magic

that wowed the judges.

Siobhan, your hut was universally loved.

It was brilliant. Well done. Thank you.

You're through to next week. Thanks.

Well done, Siobhan. Well done.

And Paul, well done, so are you.

Off you both go.

I escaped it again.

Well done. Well done. Thank you.

Just to think that I'm in the final four

is kind of, like, blowing my mind at the moment.

All I want to do now is get on my flight back to rainy Belfast

and tell everybody, because I'm super proud

and, yeah, it's a big achievement, this.

Lynsey, Micaela, Charlotte,

Michelle would like to see you in her office

where one of you will be going home.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh.

Now, why did you pick those three, then, Michelle?

So the three that we have on the sofa is kind of almost

someone who did a bit too much, in my opinion,

someone I think didn't really do enough,

and then kind of someone in the middle, and that was Micaela.

I quite liked it, though. I felt it was very homely.

It was lovely. But did she push the envelope enough?

Did she try different things? Could she have done more?

Now, Lynsey's again, very clever.

You know, tick, tick, tick in terms of ingenuity

of that multi-purpose design, which is a big part of the brief,

but then, aesthetically, it missed, didn't it?

This is where I started getting the right heebie jeebies

because there was just too much going on there for me.Yeah.

Now poor old Charlotte. What didn't you like about that?

It was just paint. Where was the texture?

Where was the kind of excitement? Yeah. Where was those extra layers?

Where was the real kind of design and decor?

A lot got missed out, I feel.

Well, shall we see what they've got to say?

Absolutely.

Hi. Hi. Hello. Hello.

It was tricky, this one, wasn't it?

It had to be pretty, it had to be attractive, it had to be practical,

it had to have small space ideas,

and you're probably wondering, like, "Why am I here?

"I answered the brief. You know, what could I have done wrong?"

So, Charlotte, if I can start with you.

I mean, you seem to me that you...

..sometimes don't really do enough.

And then the next one, you show me that you can do all this amazing stuff. Yeah.

And this one I just felt, "Oh, the hut was quite plain."

Cos, in the end, the surfaces were just painted.

Yeah. But I wondered if you were distracted

by the fact that you had to keep the stained glass panels?

Because maybe I would have just run with those.

So I could have, obviously, extended the yellow and extended the blue,

but then, maybe the window would have got washed out,

so I chose to use pops of the opposite

to make a feature of the window, if that makes sense.

It does, cos the thing is when you start talking about colour,

you get really excited. Yeah. And I can feel that.

But that's not what translated to us.

And forest green and black isn't the colours

that I would automatically put with a seaside, uplifting...

They're quite heavy colours, aren't they?

So I was surprised at that colour choice.

But green is just... Dark green's quite sophisticated to me,

and that was in my brief.

And then the black made my deck chairs look really expensive,

with the yellow. I really liked them, so...

But then, knowing you, you're all into the pattern and the texture

and prints and artistry. Why did you not, then,

take the sort of Jackson Pollock thing

and, like, Pollock the whole hut?

Cos that would have been a really explosive alternative view.

So that was obviously a choice I had to make.

I could have Pollock-ed a wall versus that,

but then I thought, "I'm pushing it into like a maximalist brief."

Like in the Hamptons, you don't really have

big feature wallpaper walls or anything like that.

OK. If we move over to Lynsey.

By contrast, I feel that you threw

loads of clever ideas and colours,

and yet your brief was just ice cream colours.

So as I was thinking about the different...all the kind of, for me,

the ice cream sundae's got different elements in there,

like the smooth, soft ice cream,

which is what I was doing with the tiles on the back wall,

but then there's like the big dark sauces and chocolate sauce

and the hundreds and thousands

and, I suppose, I've kind of gone down that route of it as well.

I've put in quite a lot of bits in there,

because that's how I kind of see the function...

You know when you put a sundae together and you've got all the pots

of the different elements, you've got all the different sweets and the different jars,

so I tried to think of ways of bringing those ideas in,

but combining them with the practical side of the brief.

I just... There was just too much going on.

It felt overwhelming in there. It felt quite cluttered and busy

and not that tasty, sweet, soft sundae.

And you talked about the chocolate sauce being the dark,

but that's not black, is it?

Can you imagine a beautiful sundae

with jet-black, tarry treacle on it?

So it's that nuance of colour.

You know, that black is - a little bit similar to you, Charlotte -

it's such a hard, deadening colour.

And yes, interior designers love it cos it makes things look

sophisticated and high-end and sexy,

but look, the brief was for something quite soft and tasty.

Yeah.But can I say as well, you wanted clever storage.

You so delivered. It was ingenious.

I mean, if Q, who works for James Bond, ever, like, retires,

you'd be perfect cos there's gadgets, there's things folding up,

there's multi-use. It is amazing to see.

Micaela, your brief was like a home from home.

It felt lovely and sweet and cosy

and had a very, I think, convivial feel is the word I would use.

Maybe if I'm going to...

Cos this is the point where we get super picky.

It was a bit predictable.

Yeah. I guess it was perhaps a bit predictable

but, then, a home, for me,

should be a bit more typical.

I tried to think of it as a small space,

but, you know, how could you change it each time you went there

and move the benches round or take bits outside conveniently,

so I tried to tick those boxes.

I mean, do you think you could have pushed it more?

Could you have had a little bit more of, like, kind of Lynsey's

fold up, flat down kind of thing, action going on?

Yeah, I did really focus a lot

on making things kind of versatile,

like my benches. I wanted them to have storage in,

and I wanted the backs to be also kind of multi-purpose

that you could have them there as the backs or you could take them down if you wanted to.

I made my kitchen area so that you could pull bits out

and I decided to layer some rugs that would give kind of a warmth.

There's nothing warm about a soggy, wet, wool rug...

No, that's true. ..at the end of the day that you're squelching across.

Yeah, yeah. I can totally see that, to be honest.

So...

Loads to love about all your projects,

and in that exotic jigsaw puzzle that is design

of concept, the magic, the colour, the innovation,

two of you bundled it together

better than the other one - just.

So this week...

..Charlotte, I'm afraid I'm going to be sending you home.

OK. Thank you so much.

It is getting harder and harder to draw a line between these designers,

and Charlotte has the most incredible eye for colour,

for texture and for pattern.

It just didn't gel together

as well as I wanted to see this week.

I feel gutted, obviously,

but I'm definitely proud of myself. I really like my beach hut,

so I'm glad to have left on something I really was happy with.

It just makes me want to do

like a whole beach-side hotel in that design, so it's kind of...

Yeah, thinking bigger now, I think, than just the beach hut.

Surprised? Relieved? Shocked?

Really relieved.

I was convinced I was going

cos there was a lot of kind of negatives,

so I'm a bit disappointed in myself for that.

Yeah, I am happy to go through. Quite phenomenal, really,

to be in the final four.

I think we can start to dream now, the four of us,

and think what could be.

If I could give both of you, like, one piece of advice,

it's just enjoy it, OK?

Have faith in yourself, courage in your convictions and just enjoy.

What would Siobhan do?

THEY CHUCKLE

Get yourself a bright red wig and get out there and just have fun.

But I'm going to add, don't take your foot off the gas,

because the competition is hot.

Oh, my God, I'm dazzled.

This is going to be a fun one.

It's cutting edge schemes...

All the hair's coming out of it, as you can imagine.

Oh, you're joking. Ugh.

Oh! Why are you twisting?!

..as the four remaining designers...

Why do we have this problem?

I want a complete change, but nothing off the length.

..take on hair salons.

This is very threatening, Micaela.

Yeah, I saw you coming and I got this out.

Beat the competition?

SHE LAUGHS