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Ah, Yorkshire! God's own country.

Famous for the Brontes, fabulous tea, Yorkshire pudding,

and now the semifinals - it's restaurant week.

Things are getting serious.

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! BELL RINGS

Oh! I thought you were going to squish my head then.

..to test their creative flair...

That works.

That looks gorgeous now.

..and state-of-the-art design skills.

Oh, sorry. Sorry, sorry!

PLATE SMASHES

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.

Welcome to Interior Designer Masters.

It's the semifinals, and after Michelle's surprise decision

not to eliminate anyone last week, all four designers

have another chance to show what they're made of.

Two people in this room are going to be in the final.

That's true. Crazy, isn't it?!

This is where we've got to really shine

and showcase who we are as designers now.

It still amazes me when you put the ideas into practice

and then you're like, "It works!" "It works!" Yeah.

You still surprise yourself.

Being on the sofa has taken me all week to get over,

but I'm back fighting and I'm ready to create an amazing space.

Looking round, I don't think, "Oh, my God, you're my competition,

"you're my competition."

It's anyone's for the taking,

so I just need to go in there all guns blazing and just go for it.

Hello! Hi. Hi! Hello.

How are you all feeling?

Good. Good, thank you. Oh! That's a nice jacket.

Thank you! Harris Tweed. I got this in the Isle of Skye.

Ooh! Very nice! Classy.

But it's not about me, is it, today?!

THEY LAUGH

So, listen, how are we all feeling?

Ready to go. Raring to go.

Cos I know you're all friends, but some of you must think,

"I want to win this"? Yeah, I think we all want to win.

How nice would it be, after all that hard work,

to walk away knowing that you were the top designer out of everybody?

Semifinals. Yeah. Yeah.

After this, there is a real chance.

That's like in touching distance. Not to fall at the last hurdle.

Shall we go over and see what Michelle's got in store? Yeah!

Come on, then.

Hi, Michelle. Hello!

No surprises this time.

Honestly, my nerves can't take it!

Hello, everyone.

Right, then, we're moving on to restaurant design this week.

You'll be back in pairs, but with one restaurant

between the two of you, you'll have a floor each.

And I really need these to be solo projects.

But, at the same time, the restaurant's got to work as a whole.

This is now the semifinal,

so I really need to see you own your designs,

take the client with you

and show me some of that design brilliance

that I now know you can all do.

Working together - Paul and Micaela, and Siobhan, you're with Lynsey.

Yeah, we've not worked together before. Yeah, we haven't.

Deliver us a slap-up design and you're through to the final.

Serve us up a dog's dinner and two of you will be heading home.

Good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you.

Ooh, exciting. No dogs' dinners, eh?!

THEY LAUGH

The penultimate challenge for the competition

is taking the designers to West Yorkshire,

to transform a cafe and a restaurant in the creative hub

that is Hebden Bridge.

It's a tricky challenge because we're getting bits

of everything that we've done before.

There's a bit of the shop experience, lure people in.

Then there's a bit of the hair salons,

in terms of once I'm in there, I need to feel that I look nice,

but then lighting is super difficult because you can get

beautiful mood lighting, so you and I are looking gorgeous,

but then I can't read the menu.

Eating out has become a thing, hasn't it? It's a place to be seen.

You want a little bit of theatre, don't you?

Absolutely! And people eat out for many different reasons.

Sometimes it's the whole family and it's quite casual

and sometimes it's a bit more intimate and you're on a date,

but it's all the same space.

It's hard creating an ambience, isn't it?

It is, but you know what?

I think it has to come from a place of passion.

Only two of them can go through to the final.

With each designer having had access to the brief in advance,

first to meet their client, restaurateur Jack,

are Lynsey and Siobhan.

Nice to meet you, Jack. Nice to meet you.

Could you just talk us through the different uses of the two spaces?

So downstairs we use a lot more during the day.

Brunch in the morning and then sort of afternoon, coffees and cake,

and then upstairs, it's more of an evening space,

it's like a fine-dining type area.

It'd be great to find out how you want your clients to feel

when they come into your restaurant.

The main thing is we want people to feel chilled and relaxed,

like they can come as they are.

There's not a lot of soft furnishings

where you are at the moment.

Is noise a problem when there's a lot of people in there?

Yeah, it's very echoey, yeah.

It's actually something that customers have complained about

in the past. OK. Any other elements that you really want us to focus on?

Storage in the bar area.

There's a lot of glasses just thrown on shelves.

OK, Jack, we look forward to coming up to your restaurant.

Lovely to meet you. Bye! Bye.

So... So! We're in Yorkshire.

Yes! We're on home turf. How nice is that?!

Cos I've been Hebden Bridge quite a few times.

Yeah, I love Hebden Bridge. Quite arty as well, isn't it?

I mean, I'd really like to bring that into it,

as kind of showcasing, like, local artisans or something.

Even though we've got our own spaces,

I'm hoping we can bounce ideas off each other

cos, you know, they do have to be cohesive as well.

There's a lot of things to get right, isn't there? Yes, there is.

Not an easy one at all.

Lots to consider, and make sure it all marries together,

but one I'm looking forward to getting on with.

Next door, speaking to cafe owner Daniel, are Paul and Micaela.

Is it more of a bistro? Is it fine dining?

It's a little family business, great coffee,

simple, traditional home-cooked food.

Towards the casual.

Could you tell us what kind of feel you want from the redesign?

Just something that can bring in some warmth and cosiness,

just sort of adapt from winter to summer.

We do prefer kind of natural, earthy colours.

The duck egg colour is part the brand,

so we are wanting to keep that.

You do like pattern or texture?

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'm a geologist

and I have a few little influences in my ornaments and stuff,

of rocks and things and...

OK. That'd be something I'd like to see, you know,

drawing inspiration from maybe.

Natural and muted aren't really me.

I'm not a real subtle, natural person.

The branding colour, which is the duck egg blue,

it's a colour that I never use, but I'm going to incorporate it.

Yeah, duck egg isn't normally a colour I would use either, actually.

So I think I might just kind of punctuate that in.

Yeah, it'll be great to be together again. It will be.

But it sounded like this isn't really about teamwork.

No. This is just about each of us doing our own spaces.

Yeah, yeah. And then... you must feel the same.

I just want to make sure that upstairs is not

the disappointing bit that you have to go to when downstairs is full,

so I'm going to have to up my game

and make sure it's just as good, if not better.

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Awaiting the teams, a cafe in the town square...

Oh, the stonework's beautiful, isn't it? It's really nice.

..and a restaurant on the main street.

Oh, look at the outside.

Oh, it's a lovely window. Look how big it is.

Oh, it's lovely!

Wow. So what do you think?

It feels really cold.

The white and the icy blue's just not working for me.

The brief said duck egg but this definitely isn't duck egg, is it?

These are going to have to go.

I'm going to eradicate all the purple.

LYNSEY LAUGHS

Look at the ceiling as well. Oh, my gosh.

It's really high, isn't it? You've got gorgeous light. Yeah.

But also you want to create that cosiness as well. So... Yeah.

I'm just going to paint it a really nice dark burgundy

because I just think with it being that stippled effect,

I think a darker ceiling is going to kind of disguise that

and bring the ceiling down a bit as well.

I can't stop looking at the lights. They have to come down.

Those lights looked like... Huge!

..the size of an island. Yeah!

And I was like, "Oh, I'm not taking those down.

And now I look at them, I think, "That looks like a small hat."

Yeah, not a fan. I need to go and get new lights, don't I?

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm quite worried about mine. I think...

I think I've got quite a lot of colour

and it's more colour than I'm used to using.

I've six colours. Yeah. And I've four wallpapers.

And I've got...

SHE LAUGHS

It's going to be like a jumble sale!

Ooh!

Anything in here is going to be an improvement, isn't it,

because it's so bland.

I wanted to split it up a bit

because when you go out for a nice meal,

sometimes you just want to sit and, like, talk

and catch up, don't you? Yeah.

So, I'm going to put in a divider that goes across there,

so the bench seat will wrap round the corner

and look out that way. Nice!

And then the mural's going to go on this wall at the back. Lovely.

But it's a landscape and it's a local artist

and we're opposite the art gallery.

So, hopefully, they'll complement each other really well.

Two different-feeling spaces,

but you can tell that they've been done together

with the tones that we've used. Yeah, definitely. And the feeling.

And I think, as well, the client's getting, like,

two for one, really, aren't they, do you know what I mean?

They're getting a bit of a Bogof deal with us two!

At least you've plenty of windows.

Yeah, there's lots of natural light up here, which is good.

Oh, God, the rocks!

THEY LAUGH

I don't... I can't see that those are going to work in my scheme,

unfortunately, but let's get on with it. Let's go!

They have just two days and a budget of £3,000 per building...

Oh, wow! This is like a Japanese tie dye and this isn't an ikat.

It's going to work with mine. Thank God for that!

..to turn these spaces into fabulous eateries.

Is that full of water?

Yeah!

Oh!

And to help make real their concepts,

the designers have been allocated two decorators

and two builders per team.

Hi, guys. Hello! Hello. Hello!

Welcome to our space, but we need to get cracking.

So, yeah, we've got quite a lot to do, so...

Over at the restaurant, Siobhan's getting stuck in.

I've done some very rudimentary design sketches.

We've got a big Ey Up mural going up here.

Siobhan's vision for the restaurant's ground floor

incorporates natural tones and botanical features.

She's constructing overhead storage for glasses above the bar,

building seating into the window area

and commissioning a hand-painted mural on the main wall of the room.

I've got the mural artist coming today,

so I think the first job -

try and get everything that we can off the walls.

Take it away, Steve, yeah.

I think Hebden Bridge as a whole is quite Boho,

it's quite earthy. You know, Mother Nature type thing,

so I've gone for, like, mustards and browns and burgundies.

And then we've got the olive green woodwork

and these are all the colours of the floral fabric

that I've got in the cushions.

So, hopefully, that'll tie in really nicely.

Now, ideally, I don't want them lights. What's going on here?

See, I'm having the mural on there. You need an electrician. OK.

So I guess the only other thing is to kind of just leave them

and paint them as part of the mural. Yeah. Yeah.

There's no time for, like, um-ing and ah-ing and thinking,

"Oh, I could do this," or, "I could do that."

Literally, it's like, "OK, well, what can we do, what's possible

"and actually what's going to give us the best results?"

I'm feeling so good that I'm in the semifinal - it's blowing my mind.

I just can't believe that I'm still around.

As long as I've known Siobhan, she's always been really colourful.

She's always been into style. I know you've got to stick your bum out!

Whether it's clothes, or...

She always had new designs in the house.

Just hit the ball.

Oh, that was just my practice shot.

She's loud, she's boisterous, she's loving, she's kind.

She's everything that you'd want in a person, really,

and I think that's what makes her special.

Oh! Get in!

It's been the hardest thing that I've ever done,

but it's also been by far the most rewarding.

On the first floor, above Siobhan,

Lynsey is creating a fine-dining space,

and central to her design is banquette seating along the walls

and into the room.

I have seven backs to upholster for the bench seating.

Part of the owner's brief was botanical,

and both Siobhan and I are going to use this fabric within the designs.

So we thought it'd be a really good way to tie the two spaces together.

She's just putting a couple of cushions in

but it's going to be kind of more high impact in the dining area.

3,605.

That's good, isn't it? Yeah, that's good.

She is also putting distressed mirrors on one wall

to bounce the light into the room.

The thought was to make the space feel bigger,

but also the reflection of the fabrics and the wall colours

and the ceiling colour will make it feel quite luxurious, I'm hoping!

Remove gently...

The pregnancy, touch wood,

everything's still going really well.

I found out it's a little girl.

She's kicking loads and stuff.

She was just doing it when I was putting the mirrors up before

when I had my arms up, so it is bonkers to have that going on.

Obviously, that's a big thing for me and my husband and my stepdaughter.

It's an amazing period of time and I'm really enjoying it.

That's just how you like it.

So I'm in the semifinals.

I never, ever, ever thought this would happen.

I know she'd be a good designer,

but it was all about having the confidence to put herself out there.

Want some chilli.

Not only has she got to the semifinals,

she did it while pregnant.

Just get through this one first.

I've seen the design you've got,

and I think it's the best one that you've done, I think.

She's just such a hardworking and lovely, caring person.

Whether you get through or not,

we're going to be really proud of you, but I'm sure you'll do well.

Aw, thank you.

Ahh!

It's mid-morning on the first day...

..and time for me to pay the designers a visit.

Ooh, what a journey!

Right, let's get to those restaurants - I'm famished!

Wonder what's on the menu.

First, Lynsey, upstairs in the restaurant.

Lynsey? Alan, hello!

Oh! We're in Yorkshire.

Yes! Yes! I'm so excited to be up north!

You're home. In Yorkshire! You're home!

I'm so happy. What are you going to do this week to wow everyone?

Well, I've got the bargain of the century

with this banquette seating.

It was on an online bidding site, so I put in my first bid at a fiver,

was waiting for everybody else to bid. Oh, God, the tension! £5?!

£5, I put a maximum bid at 200.

Wow! Nothing happened.

£5. And it just kept going, I was like...

And then I just danced around my house for the rest of the day.

Oh, you're so easily pleased! I know!

The things that excite me now!

Then I went to pick it up, Alan, and it got better cos it's leather!

Oh!

If someone's writing a movie of this...!

It's exciting stuff, isn't it?!

It's gorgeous, it feels lovely!

Fine dining - does it say fine dining? Oh, it does, love.

Oh, it does! Keep up the good work.

Thank you. Bye, love! Bye!

Hi, Siobhan, love. Hiya!

So here we are... Yeah. ..a week away from the final.

Can't believe it, I know!

And you've got a job as well, you must be cream crackered.

Yes, it's hard, you know,

when you've got, like, a full-time job, and...

NHS? Yeah, exactly. That's tough.

We're busy at the moment. Funny that, yes! But I'm loving it.

What are you learning from it every week?

Just really trying to think about what the client wants,

rather than, like, my style.

Like, with this, I'm doing earthy tones.

You know, normally I'm, like, glitter, pink, velvet...

Oh, yeah. Stick a flamingo in there, pink elephant. Exactly!

Yeah. Exactly!

So I think that's like the biggest thing that I've kind of learned.

Well, good for you. See you later, love! See ya!

On the ground floor at the cafe,

the first of Paul's wallpapers is going up.

I'm not afraid to use wallpaper and pattern

and mix and match wallpapers.

It's semifinals and I just have to do everything I can do now

to just be one of those two in the final.

Pressure's on.

I'm not too sure where he does get his love of interior from.

Definitely not me!

It's just his heart and soul goes into it,

nothing is ever too much for him.

If I get through to that final, whether I win or I don't,

it's life-changing.

It's just clarified that this is what I want to do.

It turned out really good. Yeah.

If I say so myself!

THEY LAUGH

I just can't put it into words any more.

You know, if I could go out and scream from the rooftops

how proud I am...

Having that support really means so much to me.

You've proved yourself, you're capable of doing it.

I think to make your parents proud

is a bigger achievement than anything, isn't it?

Level enough. Level enough.

This partition/draught excluder, it's also going to be

a banquette seating area and create more seating.

And then, on the other side, it's going to have a handrail then.

So when you're coming down the ramp, you can hold on to that.

As well as the partition in the entrance,

Paul is also building seating on the divider

and in the window of the cafe.

He's using strong, earthy tones throughout the space

and incorporating multiple different wallpapers and textures.

With lots of chairs in need of re-covering,

Paul's not too big to ask for advice from upholstery expert Micaela.

I think we'll just do it tight,

and then a little bit over at the front.

29 more to go.

I love how I wait till the semifinals

to start learning how to upholster!

Paul and Micaela share a central staircase

that falls into both of their zones.

What colour are you painting this?

Um...this colour.

Lilac? Yeah.

Is that all right for yours?

My only thing is... It's going to be the green wallpaper here.

Yeah. I'm going to paint the banister and the kickboards... OK.

..this colour. OK.

Yeah? Are you thinking of doing the spindles that colour too? Yeah.

I'll paint something and bring it down and you can see it.

It's just so I can see it down there cos I don't know

if the colour's going to sit right against that colour.

And I don't want it...

I don't want it looking bad

and I don't want it looking awful against your colour either.

No, I think I want to do it that colour.

I can't really dictate to Micaela upstairs what colour she picks,

but she's wanted to bring this lilacy colour

down onto the staircase, which I'm not really wanting.

I just don't know how it's going to marry in with what I'm doing

because I have no lilac down here, which is a bit of a worry.

At this stage, I can't bring lilac in.

Micaela's design involves a lively and fresh colour palette,

vibrant wallpapers and the creation of different zones

in the upstairs space.

So we can screw the boards in from the back? From the back. Yeah.

Taking a bit of a risk and I'm being a bit bolder than I normally would.

The client asked for contemporary and cosy.

Just getting rid of that blue feels much cosier already,

and then I'm going to bring some freshness

so that it's not too dark.

My green wallpaper is going to be along the stair wall.

I normally wouldn't have this many colours and this many patterns,

but I just want to go for it.

It's just whether I can marry all of the other colours.

I've got burnt orange, some lilacs and peach.

I just hope it come together, to be honest!

She's planning on having

a range of different seating options in her area.

I bought these bamboo chairs quite cheap,

so I'm just going to go over them with some chalk paint spray

and then re-upholster the seats,

just to make sure they fit with my colour scheme.

I hope the client likes it, but duck egg isn't front and centre.

There's accents coming through in the fabrics

and if he really likes what we've done,

it might be a good opportunity for the client to rebrand.

Right - this is your canvas!

Over at the restaurant, a local artist has been commissioned

by Siobhan to paint her mural.

So literally the bigger, the better, really.

Yeah, it's just how we wrap it around these lights.

I want it to look like it's projecting out the wall.

Just like popping out of the wall? You can paint over the lights or...

If we were feeling particularly clever...

..we can run this bit around the light. Ah, OK.

And sit the light inside.

This is totally different to what I would ever do.

But, at the end of the day, two people are going to go this week

and I don't want it to be me.

So, yeah, I'm going to put everything I've got into this one.

Upstairs, Lynsey is using a printed wallpaper mural

by a different local artist.

I picked the mural because it was quite simple, the landscape,

so it wasn't too patterned, that would jar with the flowery fabric.

I like it a lot, it's nice.

I'm slightly concerned that Michelle might think

that those two are too much because, the last few weeks,

she has said about me putting too much into one space.

But I thought about it a lot and I'm really happy with it.

But the immediate issue is getting her bargain banquette seating

to fit the space.

If we give a bit more... It can go to you a bit more.

This is like a massive jigsaw. Yeah!

I hope the jigsaw has all the pieces.

It's halfway through day one,

and Paul is adding olive green to his earthy colour scheme.

It is just going to be a bit of a backdrop.

There's going to be a lot of wooden crates

and pops of colour in front of it to not only display different items,

but just to shelve and house

some of the products that he's using every day.

But there's still no solution

to the colour of the stairway shared with Micaela.

I think it's becoming clear that our colour schemes are different.

Now that I'm looking at it, bringing this lilacy colour down,

it's definitely... It can't happen.

If I'm going to be judged on this, I need to be happy

and I just need to stamp my ground on that one.

I have no lilac in my scheme,

so because that bottom part of the stairs

takes up quite a bit of my space, I'm trying to think,

"Is there a colour that we could use, just on that front bit,

"that we both are using?"

The only colour would be the one that we're using

for the window frames, the olive. The olive? Yeah.

I'm not expecting you to paint the whole staircase olive,

but I think the olive green paintwork

might tone with your paper.

OK. What do you think?

So, if we do the kick boards and the rails downstairs olive,

and then this top bit that can only be seen from up here,

I'll do the mauve that I want.

Are you sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're still friends?

Still friends for now!

Until we get on the sofa!

THEY LAUGH

In my opinion, the staircase is one area

that is not supposed to be segregated

with two different colours.

Although it would be easy for me right now just to give in

and flow that one colour right down, I just think, at this stage,

a lilac staircase would maybe be enough to send me home.

Back at the restaurant, Siobhan's space is progressing.

Hi, Siobhan, love. Hiya!

How's your Ey Up looking?!

SHE LAUGHS

It's up!

It's up! I'm not being a Debbie Downer...

Oh, no, but you are, aren't you?! No, no.

..but what about Michelle?

Are you worried that she might not "get it"?

Well, I wasn't until... Oh, shut up! ..Debbie Downer came in!

No! All right, I'm Debbie Downer today! I can't help it.

No, but all I'm saying is sometimes these bold things work...

Yeah. ..and they are like, "Hallelujah, they're amazing!"

And then sometimes they don't... Yeah.

..and it's the one thing that puts you in that bottom two

cos it's not just one going home, it's two.

It's just a bit of fun, in't it?

And I think people, you know, like, walking past will be like,

"Oh, right, OK, that's a bit quirky."

Do you think you can get to the final?

I don't know. Honestly, I really don't know.

Oh, my God. That would be just an absolute dream come true, really.

Cos I was worried about you getting to the semifinals

cos I thought you'd run out of wigs!

There's plenty more where they came from!

Don't you worry. OK, great.

Right, Debbie Downer's going to go and have a coffee.

See you later, Debs.

LOW-PITCHED: I'm going now.

I'm going to destroy someone else's dream.

Bye! Bye!

Hello, Paul. How you doing? Hello, Alan. I'm good. You?

Busy, busy, busy, I see!

That final is so close.

I know, I know. What is this? I'm loving it!

You're loving it and you don't even know what it is.

I know! I love this bit of ply!

PAUL LAUGHS

It's so... So... So stylish! So strong.

The owner of the cafe wanted something that would be

like a bit of a divider/draught excluder for customers

that are sitting here having a coffee.

Oh! There's nothing worse, is there, when someone opens the door

and the froth of your cappuccino - pfft! - up against the wall?

Nightmare! Nightmare - I'm sick of it happening!

I'm used to, like, playing about with soft furnishings and pillows.

Yeah. Now I'm like...

..trailing planks of wood in and get all macho.

Well, don't push it! Well, yeah.

In a flamingo shirt! Get you! And your dungarees.

"Sometimes, I'm just too macho!"

So, yeah, just looking forward to seeing it done.

You'll have to come and have a coffee. I will, I will,

and hopefully, yeah, the froth will stay on this time.

Well, good luck. You've got loads to do.

See you later. See you later, Alan.

Upstairs, Micaela is adding peach to her extensive colour palette.

The client wanted earthy tones and I have pushed that a little bit.

They are a little bit more vibrant.

I was a bit worried about the peach with the purple,

but I really like the combination.

So, yeah, I'm happy that I was bold enough to go for it.

I came into this as an upholsterer

who wanted to dabble in the world of interior design,

and now I definitely want to do interior design.

What are you actually making?

Pasta with tomato sau... I mean, arrabbiata.

I'm always in awe of her ability to turn round a design under pressure,

to work as hard as she does.

One more hurdle to get over and then you're in the final.

It would be good, wouldn't it? It'd be great - I've every faith.

You know, you're smashing it.

There's definitely no space now for playing it safe.

Semifinal!

Cheers! Cheers. Here's to you. Good luck. Thank you.

Micaela!

Ooh, look at this!

It's a transformation. Yeah, it's coming together.

Well, the brief with fresh and cosy.

Yeah. Hello!

Fresh and cosy are kind of opposites, I think,

but, yeah, we're getting there.

I mean, and I'm not being horrible,

but I would never imagine these colours going together.

But they work, don't they?

I was really nervous about this peach, actually. Yeah.

Cos I haven't ever put colours like this together.

I normally go for a bit more muted.

But, yeah, I just really wanted to do something a bit different

and just push myself this week.

So, yeah, I've kind of gone outside of my comfort zone a little bit.

Which Michelle loves you to do.

Yeah, if you get it right.

But then equally, you know... We'll have to see what she says.

I can never call it.

I've been on the sofa the most, haven't I?

So I've obviously got it wrong the most, so...who knows?

Good luck, love. Thank you. See ya. Bye!

This brief is really tricky,

cos it's about showing off their individual styles,

but they have to have synergy with the other floor.

And at the minute, Micaela's got a lot of upholstery and pastels,

yet downstairs, Paul's got an intense brown,

lots of wallpaper.

It doesn't look like they've been communicating.

It's going to be really interesting to see how this design pans out.

It's nearly the end of day one and there's still an awful lot to do.

Tomorrow, it's whether I've done enough to get into the final or not.

So I've got to give it my all,

and I'd quite like to not be painting anywhere near the end.

It's amazing how differently Paul and I have interpreted the brief

because we both have such different palettes.

But we both want to just show Michelle

what we're all about at this stage.

I think I've nailed the brief. I think I've nailed it every week.

So if Michelle has questions for me, I'm sure I'll have answers.

It means everything. Like, it really does.

So I just want to feel proud in myself

that I can walk away tomorrow, thinking,

"Right, I couldn't have done any more."

It's day two in West Yorkshire.

Hi, guys.

And it's full steam ahead.

We've had a really wet couple of days.

We don't need the front to be fully dry to paint it,

however, we just can't put it on soaking-wet wood.

We're not... Well, I'm not ignoring the fact

that some of the branding is duck-egg blue.

However, we were going to bring it into, like,

a more earthy moss green.

So the plan is - put the sides of the gazebo up,

get the heat onto it, just to try and make it dry enough

to get a layer of paint on it.

Is this the right way round?

In the cafe on the first floor,

Micaela's constructing her window seat.

There's a lot of condensation that runs down the window,

so I've decided to put my upholstery onto a board,

which will stop the moisture coming through.

Or when you sit on it, you'll just get soggy bum.

And no-one wants a soggy bottom.

It's all coming together, really happy with the colours.

I think the burnt-orange wallpaper

just stops it from looking too sickly sweet

and just brings the colour palette down a bit.

At this stage in the competition,

I think it's really important to not have to compromise.

We all know two of us have to go,

so I didn't really want to design my space with Paul in mind.

So I've just checked on my lighting and they have lost my order.

Oh, no! So I don't have time to sit and worry about it.

I think I'm just going to have to use the lights I've got,

but I'm going to... Spray them?

..spray them to match in with the wallpaper.

OK, we're starting to make our way down the stairs

so you'll see the green coming down soon. Can't wait.

Right, the moment of truth.

Siobhan's starting her day

by fixing the rack she's had made for the glasses above the bar.

The client wanted to take all the glasses from the surfaces

cos they just didn't have enough room

when they were making cocktails.

Oh, wow! Looks good, doesn't it? Looks really good. Don't you think

it just makes that area a bit cosier?

It'll look even different with the glasses hanging down a bit further.

Yeah, I'm chuffed. Did you get it made?

Yeah, I kind of sketched it out and took it to my local ironmongers

and said, "Can you make this?" And they were like, "Yeah, fine."

But I actually bought the actual racks... Right.

..and then we integrated that. Oh, it's looking great.

Right, see you in a bit. See you in a bit, love.

I actually feel like, a real, like, proper designer now.

Oh, I love it when a plan comes together!

Lynsey! Hello! Hello, you!

It looks great there, doesn't it?

I love the colours.

They're toning really well with the ceiling and the walls.

And they go with the tinted mirrors, don't they?

Yeah, so the tone in there

is picking up kind of orangey coppery brush.

Now, be honest, did you know that was going to work?

Yes! Really? I planned this and put it together.

Are you sure? Yeah!

And how important was it for you

to have a nod to Yorkshire in your design?

I think cos Hebden Bridge is so full of artists

and the moors are all around,

and often when people visit Hebden Bridge,

that's what they expect to see as well -

all the artists' studios and the shops around.

And assuming helping out a local artist as well.

Yeah. No, it was great to work with her.

Looking good. Thank you. See you later, love!

See you later! Bye! Enjoy your cake! Where's mine?

Back at the cafe,

Paul is respraying the owner's duck egg blue lightshades.

I had ordered more lighting, but the company have lost my order.

I don't have time to go looking for new lighting,

so I'm resorting back to the original plan, basically.

Inside, he has also come up with the idea of creating a feature wall

clad with reclaimed boards.

So it's definitely down, yeah?

Definitely down. It's going to, like, transform this area

cos that means all of the walls are covered.

Look better already.

Yeah, I don't feel as bad now.

The client asked for natural elements,

and that's why I've brought in some twine and hessian-y things,

It's my own blend of fresh and cosy.

There we go.

SHE SIGHS

It kind of is, like, beachy, isn't it, with all the summery colours

and then, like, that rattan shade?

He wanted spaces for every season,

so downstairs would be, like, the wintery/autumnal,

this would be spring/summer.

It's certainly bright, isn't it?

See, it's not normally my style

to paint, like, every single inch, like, a colour.

Yeah. I've decided that my piece of plain ceiling

underneath the staircase is too plain for me,

it needs added to, so I'm now cladding it.

It's so different to what he had.

Yeah, there's going to be lots of, like, really nice, comfy seating.

That's the most upholstery I've ever done.

Yeah. Well, you did well.

All the banquettes, 12 chairs. Yeah.

I'm happy with mine.

I just don't know whether it could be described as contemporary.

It's halfway through the final day.

Sort of like, yeah, equally spaced on the wall.

A bit higher, maybe. Yeah.

I'm starting to feel the pressure now.

There's loads of little things that still need to be done.

So up against it a bit now.

Are these the same ones that they had originally?

Yeah. Well, they look good! Perfect.

Yeah, that looks good to me, yeah.

Do you want me to push it?

Very nice!

Good. Yeah. Perfect.

So I'm just covering the bar in gold leaf size, which is a glue.

Once it's dried, I'm going to start sticking the copper leaf to it.

After that, I'm going to cover it in resin.

This is something that I've done in my own bar at home,

so I know that it works and I know that it sets really hard.

So if I just hold that there...

Siobhan also plans to clad the front of the bar

with silver birch sheets.

Oh, no.

Just in my head, I just thought, "Oh, yeah, we'll just be able to,

"like, nailgun it, bosh, bosh, bosh, done."

But this is Yorkshire stone,

so it's obviously very good quality cos it's from Yorkshire.

The only thing I can think of is contact adhesive. OK.

Next, she applies artificial copper leaf.

I thought, copper under these filament lights,

and then, you know, like, we've got these dark colours.

I think when people walk in,

it's just going to give such a lovely glow.

Lynsey's working on bringing fabrics into her space.

So I'm just pulling them in to the right size,

and panicking at the same time.

It's just really echoey up here,

so I wanted to get lots of fabric in here.

So there's curtains all across this wall,

there's a curtain near the entrance.

so you can't hear the noise of people coming up

and using the toilet. And all of the seating as well

should hopefully make the acoustics a lot better than they are now.

This is definitely the sort of place

I'd like to come for a date with my husband. Maybe we will!

It's nearing the end of day two.

It's starting to look like a coffee shop.

I think Paul's going to like this.

Paul likes a little bit of bling and a little bit of sparkle.

When the resin goes on, it's just going to give it a real nice gloss.

Aw, that's going to look brilliant! Yeah, love it!

We've got loads more to put up - those three paintings,

the two book things to go up, and the tops of all these benches to go.

I walked in, day one, looked at the rocks, thought,

"There's a possibility I could maybe use this as a bit of a doorstop."

But do you know what? It actually looks really, really good

on those window ledges - I think it really makes that space.

I didn't want to be painting now, and here I am, painting.

Could we have a few tables up as well?

I'm really up against it now.

Will you put that one this way for me?

I can't wait till I can do projects where I have more time.

Done.

Oh, my God!

It's absolutely beautiful, this one.

This is your best one. Do you think? Yeah.

I've just put so much effort and love

and energy into this, it's just...

Yeah, it just really makes you want to get there now.

I just want to get to the final, hope I've done enough.

They're either just going to throw everything at it...

Joining Michelle to judge this week

is celebrated restaurateur Nisha Katona,

who owns 12 award-winning restaurants across the UK.

Restaurant design,

we think it's just about the food, but it's so much more than that.

The food is the tip of the iceberg.

What you have to do is draw those customers in.

The ambience, the decor, the way that you feel,

is of paramount importance.

Then there's also that other thing - practicality.

You've got to be able to read the menu.

That's a complaint that many, many restaurateurs get.

But then it's very important that you feel good in the light.

So it's got to have that level of practicality,

but it's got to look pretty.

A lot of things to juggle.

But then again, this is the semifinals.

So let's go have a look at some restaurants.

First eatery to be judged, the restaurant.

Me design's really come together,

and this whole journey has just been so incredible,

I just want to complete the whole thing,

have the full experience.

You know, obviously, that's the dream, isn't it?

Wow!

My instant feeling is warmth. I love the organic material -

the wood, the kind of copper-esque bar.

This finish is gorgeous for reflecting a warm light.

She's not afraid to build things now, like this beautiful rack,

and I see the rack over the window.

I can't say I love the deep red ceiling.

I think that could have been almost whited out

and it would have made it slightly airier.

It makes it less daytimey.

And we've got some filigree lighting,

which, to me, works with the dark ceiling

because it just drops it down.

So it's unusual, but I think it really works.

What's unusual is the mural as well. SHE LAUGHS

Do I like it? I don't know.

It needed something on this wall, didn't it?

If anyone was going to write something like that,

it had to be Siobhan.

What I am wondering, though, is that when it starts getting darker,

I don't see any lights, actually, on my tables.

That table, to me, completely disappears.

I'm always very conscious about these little tables for two

that are tucked away.

They can sometimes be the most enticing

if you just get the lighting right

and make a little bit of a fuss of those sort of darker corners.

Now, Lynsey has been working upstairs,

and I've asked the designers

that I really needed to see a sense of their own individual designs.

But clearly they've also got to work together.

So it's going to be interesting. Shall we go take a look?

It's a tricky balance, isn't it? Mm.

I think Siobhan and my spaces sit really well together -

the colour scheme and the tones

and that warmth comes across in both spaces.

I would be gutted to go home after getting so close,

but, no, I can't let myself think too far ahead yet.

Wow, Nisha, this is white box to wonderful!

I get such a good feeling when I walk in here.

This feels really plush and luxurious and really classy.

What I love is the bravery of lots of the things she's done.

She's put curtains in, and it's so right for this place -

it warms it up.

Gorgeous smoked mirrors as well.

Really nice.

It's actually making me feel hungry.

There is something about the colours,

there's something about the textures, the lighting,

that leads to real anticipation.

There's not a chair that I wouldn't want to sit at

because my eye is going to be feasting on something.

That's beautiful,

and it opens the wall up.

I am scraping the barrel for criticism

because I do love this room.

The restaurant owner wanted a very different feel

from upstairs and downstairs.

So I see the nod of the fabric, reflection of the colours.

For me, that's enough.

Next to face the judges, Paul and Micaela in the cafe.

I know there's things that aren't perfect and they could have been,

but I've worked damn hard to create that space

and I'm really proud of it.

If I make it to the final, that's an absolute bonus.

If not, I've learned so much and I'll take all that away from it.

Ooh, lots of lovely texture. That always makes me very happy.

He's built seating, he's built screening.

I can see that he's pushed himself a lot here.

It's a beautiful wallpaper.

It's got the duck egg blue in it.

Does all of that justify this dominating this wall?

Because we then have the rocks, we've got the clock,

we've got the plants, we've got the cups.

If this had been a block of colour, perhaps,

or something a little more subtle, those things would have stood out.

This reminds me of the kind of tin ceilings from New York. Mm-hm.

So whether it's right on the wall, I'm not sure.

But I love the kind of cosy sense that he's created here.

I can imagine that being quite buzzy,

and the owner is really into his geology and his stones.

And that's all just naturally put in here with the little boxes,

which he's used as well to make the storage unit.

My question is, is there just a bit too much

from the decor point of view? Gosh. Shall we? Let's go.

Oh, I would absolutely love to be in the final.

I think my space feels really fresh.

It definitely has a cosy element.

OK, they're not that cohesive, but I think we just went for it.

Well, Nisha, you wanted fresh, bright, daytime feel.

I think you've got that here. NISHA LAUGHS

This is peaches-and-cream-fresh, isn't it? Wow!

I quite like it.

And I'm embarrassed, but...

Cos it's peach and it's lilac, it sounds dreadful,

as though a teenager has been able to decorate a restaurant,

but it makes me feel quite happy.

I think it's great to see that she's used wallpaper,

that she's used different colours.

I can see where she's tried to push herself here.

There's very little flow from downstairs.

Downstairs, we have a real display of what matters to the owner.

There's a richness that is completely lacking here.

I feel there's no cohesion.

But then, actually, this is a design of two halves

cos this could go horribly downhill

as being the space in front of the toilets.

But actually, she's really made a different feel here

and accentuated a window with a window seat.

The creation of that little screen is a very clever idea.

It's the bit in front of the loos, and yet she's made it destination.

It's really thoughtful.

I feel that each of the four designers succeeded

in slightly different things.

But then, also, I have to bring into play

the journey that I've seen all of them go on -

who's pushed themselves, who's learned from this whole process.

And the really tough thing, of course,

is that only two can go through to the final.

Before the contestants return to the design studio,

a moment to eye up the competition.

So different for Siobhan, but it's beautiful.

The bronze leaf just shines. Expertly done, actually.

But I wouldn't say it's any stronger than yours or mine.

Oh, wow!

Those pallets, haven't they turned out gorgeous?

I want to buy stuff!

SHE LAUGHS

Just like, "Put that in the handbag." "That looks nice!"

He's a clever little bunny rabbit, in't he?

Wow! There's nothing in here that doesn't work.

I really, really like it. Me, too.

Oh, my gosh, right!

I'm not sure on the colours, but that is just my personal taste.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

If she's looking at, like, a cohesive restaurant,

then I think we've got that bit in the bag.

It's results day, and the designers are back in London.

So close to the end now, I just want it.

I know what Paul's thought.

He's gone, "What am I good at? Wallpaper."

Yes, he'd got a lot of different patterns.

Any one of those on its own would probably have been all right.

It's part of the day when my mind just goes blank. Yeah.

When I saw the peach, I was like, "Oh, OK."

I thought it was kind of the space that teenagers would like to go.

But I love the boldness.

To go all the way and just complete the last project

would just be amazing.

We both walked upstairs into Lynsey's restaurant

and we're just like, "Wow!" Yeah.

You know, you only live once,

so I'm giving this my all to see how far I can go with it.

You OK? Yeah, you? Yeah!

There were some tables there that were obviously

sort of just in recesses without a special light above them.

Yeah. Every table needs to be destination.

I couldn't have done any more.

If I go, I'm going out feeling proud.

Only two people can be in the final.

And you know there's going to be tears.

This means so much to them. I know.

Hello, everyone. ALL: Hi!

Michelle would like to see all of you in her office

to decide who the two finalists will be.

Good luck.

The four designers will be judged on their individual spaces.

Restaurants, eh? Tricky. Yeah, tough.

It's got to be comfortable, you've got to get the lighting right,

then you've got to be practical.

And, on top of all of that, you've got to make it look lovely!

But then, this was about a place in the final,

seeing who had really learned from every single challenge

that we've done so far.

SHE EXHALES

So, Lynsey, you've thrown 1,000 ideas at your spaces before...

Yeah. ..maybe at the cost of coherence.

But, hey, not this week. Was it coherent?

I tried so hard for it to be coherent!

What was the story you hung your design on?

The owner said his restaurant was fine dining,

so I wanted to create a space that did the food justice.

I wanted to use really deep, rich colours and rich fabrics as well,

because even just looking at the space, it looked echoey.

I live quite close to Hebden

and I know that it's full of creative people

and the arts centre was over the road,

so I wanted to work with a local artist.

So that was where the mural came from.

And it kind of had that feeling of, like, a red wine

and that sort of feeling of a fine-dining restaurant.

The fabric was kind of my big gamble. I absolutely loved it.

Did you choose that one or did Siobhan choose it? You found it.

So I found it, and I wanted to tie the two spaces

with autumnal, rich, earthy tones.

There's this obvious collaboration.

But, Lynsey, what I love about you is that, from the very beginning,

you spoke about the consumer journey.

You spoke about the colours in your mural,

that they reminded you of red wine.

And that was something that really struck me, you know.

When I was in there, it actually was making me hungry,

isn't that crazy?

Every single seat in your space

was one that I would want to go and sit in.

I think it's things like that mural,

you know, I could wander across that moor.

It really took your heart out, you know, into the space that we're in.

And yet it was classy.

That's a really hard balancing act -

that luxury, but also all things to all people. Thank you.

You're talking like a designer,

thinking from the detail to the big picture.

So no surprise, Lynsey, you are going through to the final.

Oh, thank you so much. Well done. Thank you.

You may leave and start prepping for your final.

Thank you so much, thank you.

To, like, come this far is just...

..wow! Kind of, how did this happen?

LINE RINGS

Hello? I'm in the final!

Ha-ha! That's brilliant!

SHE EXHALES

Paul, we'll go with you.

Both you and Micaela, I think, had quite a tricky brief -

an owner that wanted to keep their brand colour.

He's also a geologist, so he wanted rocks in there.

Where did you decide to start?

That duck egg blue, not a colour, to be honest, that I'm a fan of.

The client did want really muted, earthy tones.

I looked at rock formation.

I just wanted to replicate the effect of the stone in the fabrics

and I did want window bench seating

because whenever I go into a coffee shop with my friends,

I always want to sit by the window.

It's that nosey thing, that you want to people-watch.

I then wanted to add a bit of pattern onto the wall

with the wallpaper because that is my passion.

Tell me, why did you pick the patterns that you did?

Because the one on that kind of lead wall,

to me that's template New York ceiling.

Because he'd said about earthy tones and he wanted it quite rustic,

I wanted it to look like it had been there for a while

and it was very untouched, and then...

But then you had the wooden boarding as well, and then coffee beans.

I just wanted to really play with texture because he did mention

that he liked natural woods and different tones of wood.

You have so much to offer and your instincts are so good,

but on a murky day in the autumn,

it wasn't giving me the glow that I wanted,

that you might've been better just going duck egg blue with paint,

and I know you don't love it,

so that would have been hurting you with every stroke!

It would've really hurt me cos the room just felt so cold and flat.

I thought I needed to try and bring that balance

to the other side of the room.

And tell me, the kind of last point, a little bit about the lighting.

Did you feel like you thought about it enough?

Yeah, my order got cancelled.

So then I took the light fixtures that the client already had

and then I sprayed them and changed the colour,

just to make them look a bit warmer. Under the canopy,

it was a little bit hard to see what's drawing me in.

You OK, babe? Do you want a tissue?

Oh... Oh, babe.

It's a big deal, isn't it?

It is. It's...

It's a lot...a lot of work.

Sorry. Please, never apologise.

Cos that's the thing about Paul -

you throw everything at it, you're not scared.

And that's lovely to see, isn't it? Absolutely.

I mean, for me, looking at any of the designs,

it's like understanding why you were trying to do

what you were trying to do.

It's the thought that's behind everything, as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you.

Well, talking about pushing ourselves out of comfort zones,

I mean, Micaela, now you're looking at the room as a whole

because I know you'd rather just be kind of upholstering it,

wouldn't you? Yeah.

I mean, how did it feel to be working on your own on this one?

It felt really good to kind of go for it in my own way

and setting myself the challenge of giving people the reason

to go up the stairs.

So I just wanted to make sure that I'd zoned it and that

there were enough interesting places to choose from.

Was it very intentional to have downstairs versus upstairs?

Um, I think we... we felt so strongly this week

that we should just both go for it.

We didn't really want to compromise too much,

and I wanted to have the wallpaper going down the stairs,

just to give a little glimpse that upstairs was different

and something to go and have a look at.

When I went up there,

I felt it was lovely in a kind of ice cream sorbet,

halcyon days of childhood kind of way.

Peach and lilac... Yeah.

..are, in my view, very unusual and very bold colours

to put in a cafe in, you know, 2021.

If you'd have told me that upstairs was a pop-up

run by a completely different owner, I would've believed that. Yeah.

And it's really important that we don't get away from that.

There has to be that unity -

the destination place is the cafe, it's not your upstairs alone.

You did have an owner whose branding was duck egg blue. Yeah.

And I did notice you had two seats with duck egg material on them.

But other than that, it was kind of bereft

of that thing that was so important to him.

To be fair to Micaela, I mean, what a brief, though.

I think, for what she achieved, I think it's brilliant, really.

Thanks, Alan.

Siobhan, talk me through all the kind of textures

and finishes that you used.

I wanted to bring that cosiness in, so I did that with the earthy tones,

but I didn't want it to be too flat.

So that's why I brought in, like, quite a lot of the textures

with the wood, a little bit of a metallic, a little bit of a zing

and I used a local artist to do the wall mural - Ey Up.

You know, it's kind of what we say in Yorkshire quite a lot

and I just thought it'd be a nice touch, a bit of a talking point.

I love the warmth in there, but because it's daytime trade,

I felt that ceiling should have been lighter

because it felt like a very evening space. Yeah.

I liked the dark ceiling because I was like, "Oh, it's cosy.

"It drops the ceiling down, I get what you're trying to do here."

I was thinking about, like, how to bring the cosiness in,

and automatically, I just thought,

paint the ceiling, like, the darker colour.

But, yeah, I guess I just need to look at other ways

without automatically just thinking there's only one way to do it.

Just getting the light to the back of the restaurant.

There was a table for two in the corner

and there was no lighting over it, really,

and tables for two are precious. Yeah.

And that's the bit that needs illuminating -

something to make that little corner...

Yeah, a little table light. ..really pop. I loved the copper bar.

It's got those elements of a cult place, which is a great thing.

And the great thing about Siobhan is she always brings the party.

There's always a bit of fun even when they're going, "No fun!"

You know? I just sneak it in there.

Yeah, Siobhan's like, "Hee-hee-hee! Bit of fun, bit of fun!"

MICHELLE EXHALES

Sadly, there's only one more place for that final.

You have all grown week by week.

One of you, I think, has just inched that little bit further ahead.

So, the person joining Lynsey in the final...

..is Siobhan.

Wow. Well done. Thank you.

All right? Well done.

You just keep pushing yourself, you've tried new things,

you've upholstered, you've built things.

I don't know what to say, honestly, I'm just like...

I'm just so overwhelmed.

Well, you'd better get cracking, then!

LYNSEY GASPS

Hi! Oh, my God! Well done!

Amazing! Can you believe it?! It's so good.

Ooh! I can't believe it. Congratulations!

I could believe it for you, I couldn't believe it for me.

Northerners! We're doing it for Yorkshire, aren't we?!

We're doing it for the North! THEY LAUGH

I usually have something to say for everything,

but it's kind of blowing my mind a little bit right now.

I'm through to the final!

I knew you would! Did you?

Yeah. You always know, don't you?

I always know.

SHE CHUCKLES

You two are winners too.

You both had moments when you're like, "Oh, my God, I can't do this,

"I can't do this," and you pushed through it and you learnt

and you're here and you... are just brilliant.

Such a future ahead of you,

what an adventure you're both going to have!

Yeah, I've learned so much doing this

and it doesn't look like it has cos I cry and, you know,

I've really struggled with it emotionally.

But it's really give me the confidence

to do this moving forward, so, thank you.

It's been...it's been amazing.

You're brilliant, you're brilliant.

The thing that I'll take away is that I can do more than wallpaper

and I've learned so many things and my confidence levels

have just went like that.

So, for that, thank you for the opportunity.

Oh, my goodness, it was so hard to choose

between these four designers,

but design is made up of so many different strands

and Siobhan and Lynsey just wove them all together

with just that much more finesse than the others.

..the designers take on luxury holiday villas...

Gold leaf?! Have you won the lottery?!

There's no plan B, so this has got to work.

..as they go head-to-head in the final.

You don't think I've gone too bold, do you?

Do we have any of that green paint?

I couldn't have given it any more.

So, this year's Interior Design Master is....