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Hello, love, what do you want? Do you want a cappuccino?

Cappuccino, do you want sprinkles with that?

Coming up, love. That's great.

If you're in a rush, why don't you make it yourself, love?

It's Cafes Week.

Ten aspiring designers

competing for one life-changing contract -

to transform a luxury hotel apartment in Cornwall.

Last time...

It's like watching a Diet Coke advert.

..the designers put the glam into glamping.

You can't send me home. I've done a fun gypsy wagon.

Paul and Banjo sailed through.

This is the boat that rocked.

Amy fell foul of the judges.

All you're doing is looking at the dead magpie.

But it was a dark day for Dean.

I am going to go straight in for the jugular on this one.

Yeah, thank you for having me. Take care, guys.

It's Week Six and the remaining designers have arrived

at Michelle's Brighton studio

to hear their next brief and battle it out for a place in the semifinal.

This is it, four. Feeling kind of empty.

We're here! Final four. Honestly blows my mind.

To enter the week as a winner

is a feeling that I actually haven't had before.

Are you ready for it?

Kind of. Are you?

I stepped it up last week,

so I'm nervous that I might have to step it up even more.

Everyone's really, really good, so it's anyone's to lose, I suppose.

Oh, here they are, the fabulous foursome.

Hello. Hey. Hi, Alan.

How are you feeling? Good. Excited. Good, good, good.

Does it feel a bit eerie now everyone's gone?

Yeah. They're haunting us, though. Yeah.

So, who's going to win?

Who's got their eyes on the prize? Come on.

I think we all do at this point. I say it every week, so...

You say it. And I love your outfit.

Is your horse tied up outside?

He's Zorro. Yeah, Zorro, isn't it?

And who knows what Michelle is plotting this week.

Dun, dun, dun!

Oh, speak of the devil, here she is.

Hello, everyone. ALL: Hi, Michelle.

For this week's challenge,

we are heading to the coastal town of Margate.

Oh, wow. Oh, cool.

I've got two high-street cafes that need to be brought up to speed.

Margate - Kent's seaside capital of cool with a mile of sandy beaches,

Turner's Contemporary art gallery

and the retro Dreamland amusement park.

It's also home to two much-loved cafes

that the designers must transform with their skills and vision.

The owners want the spaces to be multifunctional,

so that's attracting really solid daytime trade

but being able to be used in the evening

for maybe more relaxed drinks and dinner.

Once again, you're working in pairs

and teams will have to design a cafe each.

Fran...

..you'll be working with...

..Amy. Yes!

And, Banjo, you'll be working with Paul.

Eh. Yes, it's battle of the sexes.

Woohoo. And, of course, I have to be impartial cos I'm the host,

but, come on, lads. Yeah! Yeah!

You can do it!

Ladies, you know what to do.

Indeed. So, I'm expecting you to collaborate,

but at this stage of the competition,

I need to see clear ownership of the design decisions.

What I'd suggest is you give each other clear zones

to take responsibility for.

And you need to bring your A game

cos only three of you can stay in the competition.

WHISPERS: Oh, God. We'll see you at the seaside.

Yes. Yay. Good luck. Good luck.

Thank you, bye. Thanks, guys.

Going to Margate. Come on, Banjo.

Yes. We can do it.

We can beat the boys.

Paul and Banjo are first to meet their clients, Eli and Heather,

owners of live music cafe Olby's.

So, we'd really love to know a little bit about the space

and what you are expecting from us.

It should be a space, where diverse communities come together

cos that's what happens here.

Cool, kind of soulful, a bit jazzy as well.

This is Margate with a Caribbean twist.

Are you open to colour? Where are you at with that?

I think we're open to colour,

because in the day, sometimes it was just a little bit too dark.

It does need a refresh. It does need to be more comfortable.

What we need to do is look at how you can appeal

to your daytime Margate passersby.

Exactly. The daytime, we need to survive.

We are just literally a stone's throw away from Turner.

We have to find a way to get those people, instead of walking past,

get them to walk in. Yeah.

What kind of food do you guys serve?

We're known for the best roast on the coast.

We were voted second best in Kent by locals.

We feel the heart and soul, so we're going to bring it for you.

Bring the heart, brother. Bring the heart. Yeah. Bring the heart.

We'll see you in Margate. See you soon.

See you. Bye.

Bye-bye.

It's such a nice space. They're so invested in it.

No pretence. If we keep it a welcoming space,

I think that's the key.

Sort of French Caribbean could attract

a bit more upmarket kind of customer. Yeah, yeah.

You get those sort of brass curtain rails

that you just draw around the entrance,

and then the little kind of French cafe curtains

that soften the space during the day.

I want to make sure it has, like, heart and soul. Yeah.

So, it's about taking that Caribbean vibe. Yeah.

So, I want to pop bright, fresh blue on the walls

but adding a cool, homely twist on that.

If Paul and I can meet somewhere in the middle with his style and taste

and my heart and soul,

I think we might make some magic.

So, pressure's on. I think this will be good.

Margate with a Caribbean twist. Yeah, here we come.

We got this.

We both want the same vision,

but I don't know how Banjo works, he doesn't know how I work.

We can only guess at this stage.

Next door, Fran and Amy are getting insider info from cafe owner Roy

on his family-run cafe, Charlie's.

We are right on the most prominent place in the seafront

and our prices are very reasonable.

Probably the lowest price in the town.

You know, you can still get a cappuccino for £2.

Oh, we can't wait to visit, then.

You can get anything from beans on toast to T-bone steaks.

In terms of the space, where are you with it?

Well, we didn't want sort of nets and fish hanging from the ceiling

and things like that cos we're on the seafront. We don't want that.

Yeah. We want it sort of...

..like coming to somebody's comfortable lounge.

It was an old Indian restaurant before.

Oh, OK. So, all mosaic tiles.

You can do whatever you like.

You know, if you want to rip it off, rip it off.

If you want to cover it, cover it.

You can trust us. Yeah, you're in safe hands.

Yes, thank you. Bye, Roy. See you, thanks so much. Bye.

What are you thinking? Sounds like a family place.

Not coastal, not cliche. Yeah, not coastal's really good.

I think one of the main things is to get rid of that mosaic.

And that bar. The bar at the back looks pretty messy.

It's a toughie. You've got that awful mosaic tiling.

But I think Amy and I really understand colour and pattern,

so I'm hoping our collaboration will just make us both really strong.

Art Deco is so key in terms of it being on the British coastline.

I took that reference from Dreamland.

I've got, like, really contemporary colours,

maybe with, like, panelling.

And also just making the back area just more inviting

cos you imagine it would be like

everyone wants to be at the front for the view,

but I think we could give someone a reason to go to the back. Yeah.

So, my idea for the colour palette

was just to kind of reference Turner,

who did loads of lovely beach paintings of Margate,

sunrise and sunset.

So, there's some oranges in there,

some teal, a bit of aqua. Not too bright.

I think Fran and I have a lot of instinctual creativity within us

and we are also quite harmonious,

so hopefully that will continue this week into the next challenge.

Now, Margate's dubbed Shoreditch-by-the-sea.

Do you reckon they should cater for these trendy London types like me,

who come down on a skateboard with a Hoxton thin?

I know what you mean

and I think Margate has found its cool by being Margate.

Just in the same way that you have found your cool

by just being yourself. Aw.

So, our designers just need to interpret it in their own way

and not try and replicate cool from anywhere else.

That would be a real mistake.

Are you expecting them to have a few nods to the seaside

or do you see that as tacky?

No, I think...I think good design is always about the location,

but they have to come up with their interpretation of that.

These cafe owners, who have probably had these cafes for years,

have just poured their heart and soul into their business,

so you really don't want to mess it up, do you?

And often they have very clear ideas

about what they think is right

cos they're very passionate about their businesses.

I think it's going to be very tense at this seaside, I do.

# In the summertime when the weather is hot

# You can stretch right up and touch the sky... #

Each designer will be responsible for separate zones

within their Margate cafes.

For the boys, just off the seafront,

in the heart of the town's creative quarter, lies Olby's.

Soul cafe. Soul cafe.

Ooh!

Da, da, da! Oh.

Wow.

I'm suddenly nervous that we're going to ruin it.

It's beautiful already.

I think we're amplifying.

And for the girls, situated directly on the beachfront is Charlie's.

Hello. Hello, mosaics.

Hello, mosaics.

What's your thoughts?

There's a lot to change, isn't there?

The thing is you come in, right? Yeah.

And the first thing you see is the entrance to the toilet.

So, what are you doing? Talk me through it.

So, fancy doorway, big entrance moment. Yeah.

All of these lights are being replaced.

Paul will be redesigning the front of the cafe

and Banjo - the bar, the mezzanine at the back,

as well as the DJ booth.

DJ booth, I'm turning it into a DJ cabana. Yeah.

And then I want to ply that back wall full of shutters.

So, this is going to be kind of more relaxed dining.

In their cafe, Fran will be taking care of the front dining area...

Whoa!

..and Amy has taken on the back section and the bar.

The back wall of the bar is a bit terrifying.

Look at that. OK, I will put some doors on that.

We just don't want to see it.

This is also my little area. I quite like this for evening.

It actually feels quite nice and intimate.

But it feels like a cafe run by boys. What do you think? Perfect.

It's a cafe run by boys being transformed by a team of girls.

By two girls.

May the men win. May the men win.

The teams have only two days to complete their designs.

You can't have a Caribbean bar without coconuts.

SHE GROANS

Don't laugh!

What are we going to...what are we going to do?

And to transform their cafes into day and night destinations.

This is my hand-printed, hand-blocked, designed by me,

Caribbean, tropical, British, French fusion.

What is this paint? This is Chestnut Flame.

Maybe this is like the gods of interior design saying

Chestnut Flame wasn't the way to go.

This is my...

..mad table that's an old cable drum.

There we go.

Whoa. Whoa!

As always, a team of artisans, builders, carpenters and painters

will help bring their vision to life.

Hi, guys. ALL: Morning.

Welcome. We've got a big job.

Hey, guys. Welcome to Charlie's. ALL: Morning.

So, decorators, we're going to start with

just getting all the ceilings painted.

Yep. We're getting rid of all of these lovely tiles. Yeah.

All need to be covered.

I don't really want to be in competition with Amy,

but at the same time, I am.

But we're both coming at it as, "Let's ace this space together."

We're doing a kind of British pub with a Caribbean twist.

I'm taking the bar area and the mezzanine and this DJ booth

and Paul... French Caribbean cafe, welcome.

So... French.

French, don't forget French. Don't forget French.

That's Paul's. So, shall we get cracking?

I think Banjo thinks I'm obsessed with French bistros,

as if that's my lifestyle somehow,

but we were both referencing this kind of French Caribbean...

..glamour.

We didn't want it to just be a jerk chicken cafe experience.

We wanted it to be more elevated.

But at the end of the day, it's Margate and it is a pub,

so you've got to get a fine balance of the two.

I think Paul is trying to live out, like, his Parisian fantasy

of designing, like, a French bistro and, like, I'm so happy for him

and, like, I'll accommodate and I think that's beautiful,

but nowhere in the brief it said French.

In his mezzanine area, Banjo has a vision for his refurbed shutters.

This is my shutter wall, my crowning glory at the end of the space.

So, when you walk in, you're going to see this full of shutters.

So, I'm wanting to be place it like Tetris.

It will be a bit of a fiddly game,

but I'm wanting this whole blue space to be covered in shutters

in different kind of ways. Yep.

When I thought of the Caribbean

and all these different colourful, musical places

that are full of history and soul,

all of them kept coming back to shutters.

With accents of Hague blue on the walls,

Banjo will give a timeless Caribbean charm to his zones.

The DJ booth will become a cabana.

The mezzanine will show off his oversized table,

as well as a shutter feature wall.

Inspired by a rum shack, the bar will have new storage.

Paul's bespoke fabric will be used on the banquette window seating

and as a wow factor entrance drape.

French cafe curtains will dress half of the windows

and an upcycled reception desk will sit

in front of a wall of Caribbean photographs.

Rope lighting will sweep through both of their areas.

This is the light. OK.

So, we've got 15 of these. Yep.

So, essentially, over every table. OK.

Paul's creating purpose-built light fittings for the tables,

giving a sense of continuity throughout the cafe.

We wanted this faded Caribbean glamour,

punctuated accents between cafe, bar, mez,

so therefore you anchor the zones.

This is definitely going to be a winning design.

The creative process with Banjo and I was really easy.

I don't use the word very often, but it was really organic.

Neither Banjo or I are about ego,

so it's actually just a really, really cool design

that works for us both.

Along the seafront, at Charlie's,

Fran is creating an Art Deco feature wall to disguise the toilet.

Currently, the toilet is the main feature

as you walk in through the front door,

so I am going to build a toilet door

and there's going to be lots of batons to paint,

lots of MDF shapes to paint.

When you go into a space, you want to be hit with something like,

"Oh, wow! I've arrived", as opposed to,

"I'm going to have a wee."

God, they've used enough staples.

And she's on a mission

to reupholster the existing banquette seating.

I haven't done it before,

but I feel like it's just like wrapping a Christmas present.

To be honest, the brief was quite confusing.

They told us not coastal.

Oh, there you go.

If you don't take inspiration from the seafront,

where are you going to go?

I came up with Art Deco kind of off the back of Dreamland

and Art Deco being on the coast.

I wanted initially to do, like, a scalloped effect,

but if I start cutting into it, I think I could mess it up.

So, I'm thinking I'll cut a channel in the back, and then along there.

The whole thing is quite time-consuming. Yeah.

So, it's just whether the gains of putting the extra detail in...

..are worth it. I've got to.

I can't leave it cos it looks too '50s diner.

Art Deco motifs will pull together Fran and Amy's vision

with the space painted in peach, aqua and red tones -

their tribute to artist JMW Turner.

In Fran's zone, a 1920s feature wall will hide the toilet and cupboards.

And there will be upholstered banquette seating

and chairs with bespoke gold studs.

The bar in Amy's section will show off painted Anaglypta wallpaper

and new stools.

She will transform the forgotten rear section

into a modern-day speakeasy,

with a vibrant ceiling and photographs on the wall.

So, I've basically got a door

that I want to use as a bit of a nod to the speakeasy.

When you would come to the front door,

they would have small holes in them to identify people

with a little kind of eye swing. Yep.

When Fran suggested doing 1920s Art Deco,

I just immediately thought a speakeasy

at the back would be so cool

because it's something that draws your attention.

You know, it's not something predictable

like an Instagram wall or...

You know, it was a bit more considered as a space.

Amy's colour scheme is inspired by Turner's painting,

Sunset Off Margate Pier.

I thought that was a perfect idea

was pick up on the colours from the painting

and it's more about the aquas that we have in there,

the kind of sea foam colours.

As well as project managing the bar and speakeasy,

Amy has taken on the task of re-covering the tables

throughout the entire cafe.

I'm doing the communal jobs right now

that are going to elevate the whole place

rather than focusing on my area.

There's just so much to do.

So, we just need to get it moving, basically.

Oh, perfect.

Around the corner, Paul is adding fine detail to his tables.

Cool. Loving your work. All right.

So, plan on track - get all the woodworking for cafe tables,

shutters, lights done this morning,

and then, essentially, Banjo's got bigger builds,

so the carpenter should then be able to jump onto those areas.

Paul. Yeah?

So, with the carpenters... Right.

..I'm just making my own plan.

I want to do all the woodworking this morning.

OK, I've got, like, my banquette to do, my shutter wall.

Yeah, you've got a lot more carpentry...

I've got a table. Yeah, I've got...

..which is why, basically, if I get mine out the way...

But yours will be all finished, and then maybe mine won't.

It's literally cafe tables and a shutter. Yeah. And that's it.

He's got the carpenters doing all of his stuff first,

but I need stuff done, too.

So, like...

Literally, like, I don't know what to do.

I've asked him. I said, "Can I borrow the carpenter?"

And he's like, "Yeah, sure, but let me just get

"this really complicated thing done first,

"and if I can finish mine, then he's all yours."

# When I'm with you, baby I go out of my head

# And I just can't get enough And I just can't get enough... #

This takes me back.

Oh, holidayed here in the '80s.

Oh!

Sucking on a strawberry split, wearing a kiss-me-quick hat,

riding on a donkey.

Oh, the best!

# And I just can't seem to get enough of... #

Taking off your sandy trunks behind a towel,

the sea air, the smell of batter.

Kids today haven't lived.

Who needs to go abroad when you've got Margate?

With the cafes buzzing with activity,

it's time for me to check in with the designers.

Fran! Hi, Alan.

Oh, what are you doing?

I am covering my banquettes.

I am dead chuffed that it's come out so well,

but it's taken me forever.

Why, what's up? It's just taken... I had to take off all the upholstery.

Oh. And I was like, "It can't take that long.

"Surely, it's just a bit of stapling."

No! Like, it is hardcore, but we're not going home.

It's down to one of the boys.

Oh. Girl power!

Girl power, I love it. Exactly, yeah.

Which Spice Girl would you be?

I think Scary. I'd say that. Yeah.

Especially with that stapler in your hand.

All right, well... Which Spice Girl do you think I'd be?

Baby.

It's hardly going to be Sporty, is it?

You could've said Posh. Really?

In Olby's basement, the master of haberdashery reigns supreme

as he musters up a grand entrance piece

with his bespoke Caribbean fabric...

I am making Cafe Columbia.

When you go into a French bistro,

and this being a French Caribbean bistro,

you go through the door, curtains come around the entrance,

and King Street here is really windy,

so basically they'll be able to close them.

It keeps the wind off the street.

All right, let's mark these out.

..whilst upstairs, Banjo is having to negotiate

a mountain of design decisions.

Banjo, do you want the picture hooks taken down?

Picture hooks gone. Caribbean peach on the corner there.

Are you vibing it? Yeah. Yes!

There you go Banjo. Yeah, she fits.

So, Banjo, colour-wise, you're going to go with the white outlines,

red centres, dark blue on the bottom.

It feels like Paul and I are kind of riding solo.

Like, I want our whole space to be perfect, not just mine.

So, I do want us to talk a bit more.

And it's like, "Paging Paul. We have a space together."

Oh, stunning!

That is gorgeous.

One upholstered bench...

..four to go.

That was easy.

No wonder Paul does lots of upholstering and fabric.

Hark, I hear a sewing machine.

Oh, here he is. Paul's in his happy place.

You all right, Alan? How are you doing?

Yeah, great. Now, what's this hessian?

This reminded me of coming last in the sack race on sports day.

It gives me the ick looking at that.

I can feel my psoriasis flaring up.

It's coffee sacking.

So, the idea for me was mixing Caribbean coffee sacks,

but using it as a French curtain.

So, it's turning it round.

You think French bistro - sophisticated,

but you use coffee sacking, which is really quite...

It's such an organic, natural material.

So, the main challenge for me was basically

how do you create this entrance moment

that during the day, you are a cafe,

but then at night, you're a really cool soul bar?

Oh, it's a bit like me, isn't it? Exactly.

Boring Alan during the day. At night...

..Cider-Man.

And then, basically, the lining of that...

Yeah. Dun, dun, dun!

Oh, hessian on the back. Yeah.

What a twist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go.

Well, I'm off to get an antihistamine. See you later.

Charlie's owners want to retain their original chairs,

so all Amy can do is tart each one up with a pop of black paint.

I would think that tables and chairs are the most important part

because it actually fills the entire space.

The rest of the stuff on the walls and everything's nice to have,

but, like, if they've got nowhere to sit...

We just need to get these done.

It's also beneficial to both of us.

It needs to look good as a whole and not just individual spaces.

You never really necessarily think that you'll be in the final four,

and then you get here and you're like,

"Damn right, I want to be in the semifinal."

It's, like, focus on the goal.

# And the man in the back said, "Everyone attack"

# And it turned into a ballroom blitz... #

Three hours left of Day 1.

I like that you're my Debbie McGee. This is good.

Yeah, thanks, love.

Are you ready?

Yep. Down we go.

Amy has added the exterior to her extensive workload...

I want to take the sign down to see what is under it

because it might be quite nice.

If not, we're going to take the existing sign,

flip it, repaint it and put the new branding up.

Oh, OK. Hello.

I think we call that a day under there

and flip them over and put them back up, right?

I can't believe it's going to actually take me

a whole day to do these.

Like...

..it's just such a huge amount of time.

..while Fran's still battling her banquettes.

Maybe the second one will be quicker.

I did try to say, "Upholstery is hellish. Don't do it."

But we all make our own decisions.

And it does look lovely, it's just is it...

Does it look lovely, and then there's less done elsewhere?

With time running out, the boys are having an urgent tete-a-tete.

I'm going to give you the score, right? Right, OK.

I've got to say. Yep.

Like, I am really nervous about how much I've got to do, so I'm, like...

..I'm kind of freaking out.

I really need to get the carpenters this afternoon.

Well, forget the curtain rail.

The shutter wall is practically done.

Reception counter tomorrow.

Yeah. Have the carpenter for the rest of the afternoon.

You're a gentleman. I know.

I just... Maybe I just had to plead for it.

He's all yours, baby. Right, that is good.

I feel much better about that, so, like, let's do it. Cool.

Minutes remaining until they have to down tools,

and although Amy is furiously working, the girls are miles behind.

This might go well or badly.

OK!

Now we're talking.

Oh, God! He's a bit heavy.

This is like boot camp.

I think I've done a lot of the communal areas.

I've taken that one for the team, I guess.

But tomorrow, I need to focus probably more on my own area

to make sure that it's exactly as I want it

because I don't want to sacrifice any of that

for all of our communal jobs.

I wish we had, like, a time machine.

Totally. We could do tomorrow,

and then we could, like, go back a little bit and do some more.

Rewind. Yeah, that would be good, but we don't.

I'm conscious I've been staplegunning all day.

I don't want Amy to feel

the pressure's been on her shoulders more than mine.

So, tomorrow, I need to step up a bit more and get more involved.

I think tomorrow will be about managing our trades.

Basically, it's one space.

It's not my space over your space, darling.

That's what I want to hear. Yeah, sweet.

I'm concerned about having lots of big stuff to do on a second day.

I would've loved that big stuff to be done today

and do the fluffy stuff tomorrow,

but as it turns out, I've got lots more to

do than I bargained for on, like, the last day.

Banjo isn't worrying for no reason. There is a lot to do tomorrow.

There is a lot to do. It's as simple as that.

Day 2 at Charlie's, and the girls are behind schedule.

Where's my drill? Where's my caffeine?

Fran and Amy have re-divided their individual zones.

As Amy has taken the lion's share of the communal space,

Fran's now taking responsibility for a part of Amy's bar.

They look great.

Amy will be styling the front, and Fran, the back.

We're going to re-use the existing lighting

and just reclip it back in.

But it means that the...

..shelving that we're putting in needs to obviously match

the length of this LED strip light.

Yesterday, I was just stuck doing that banquette

and it just took me out of the game a bit,

so, today, I need to keep my eye on the bigger picture.

Fran doing the back of the bar is great

because I don't need to worry about it

and I'm still finishing off the rest of this stuff that's for both of us.

With one less job to do,

Amy is concentrating on her 1920s speakeasy partitions,

made from pine doors she rescued from a bargain bin.

These are amazing.

Yeah, they'll need a couple of coats to give them a bit of depth.

So, these are the partitions that will go in between the tables.

So, I basically want to use the owners

as characters for the speakeasy.

Black and white pictures.

Like, in the old days, you would have pictures of Frank Sinatra,

so we can kind of differentiate each area.

Lift all the way up, yeah? Yeah.

She's also designed the bar frontage to cover the mosaic tiles.

Hi, Amy, love. Hi, Alan.

Oh, my God, are you doing a banner for me, Alan Carr? Yes.

This is the new signage for outside.

Do you reckon I could have a go?

Yeah, if you pull this side...

That's it. God, this designing's hard work. I know.

I thought it was just mincing around with a blooming paintbrush.

Oh, my God, this is so good.

Alan, you've hit a nine, easy.

Nine? Yes, look at that.

I can retire from showbiz.

Now, can I be a bit Debbie Downery.

It depends. What have you got?

It's very daytime, isn't it, this minty green?

Do you think?

And we're looking for somewhere that goes daytime into night.

Fran and Amy's colour scheme has has been inspired

by a Turner painting, which is all well and good,

but is it a bit too niche for holiday-makers coming to Margate?

I do wonder whether those vibrant pastel colours maybe are too much,

especially when you're trying to create a night-time ambience.

# Hello, darling

# Hello, good looking

# Hello, darling... #

Blue, blue, blue. Yeah.

Blue, blue, blue, blue. Yeah.

Blue, blue, blue.

That and this, all blue.

Blue, blue, blue, blue.

Blue. Does that make sense? Yeah.

At Olby's, Banjo is taking full advantage of the carpenter's skills

to enhance his section.

In the mezzanine,

he finally gets his maze of shutters fixed to the wall.

The shutters - just magic.

And it is actually pretty crazy what you can achieve

with an entire team of skilled labour.

Paul is adding finishing touches to his light fittings...

These are basically going to be fixed to the walls...

..by the electrician, there,

and then basically hang down with a rattan pendant.

..and working on his reception counter in the main cafe area.

This actually defines the space.

So, you come through the doors,

you'll have the curtain with the cafe entrance,

and then immediately in front of that,

you will have this counter with a reception area to take bookings.

So, it's obvious from the minute you walk in,

"Oh, right, I'm in a cafe now."

The plan was it was going to have plantation shutters on the front,

but we'll have to review progress, basically.

The priority is today to get the mez and the bar done.

I love that.

That is gorgeous. Whack her up.

As well as the addition of some handmade signage,

Banjo installs extra storage for the bar.

So, I'm cladding it with chicken wire...

..cos she's a rum shack.

So, that's going to go chicken wire inside,

and then she'll be full of coconuts.

I'm seeing progress, so that's good, and Paul has come to the party.

Like, he really has.

Like, we're communicating more, we're sharing our trades.

I mean, I'm still doing the outside

and he's still just doing his little space but one team, one dream.

Banjo, I've just putting the finishing touches

on the window signs if you want to come and check them out?

Ta-da!

You are a magician. I think they're going to be so chuffed with this.

Cool, I'm glad you like it, man.

# B, A, N, J, O... #

Bingo!

# B, A, N, J, O

# B - he's bonkers

# A - Australian

# N - nice

# J - come and join me

# Ooh! #

Oh, you hit that note.

I did hit that note.

There's dogs out there baying, coming to the door.

I loved it. Alan on the decks. I know!

HE MIMICS SPINNING DECKS

Listen, I'm in shutter heaven.

Are they going to open?

Yeah, one... A couple of them open. Try that one.

Ooh! What's under here?

Maybe it will be like a pop of colour or some plants spilling out.

It's like a Caribbean advent calendar, isn't it? Yeah.

Well, I can't sit here chatting, I've got to drop some fat beats.

Go for it.

Margate, scream!

Woo!

Thanks, Banjo.

# D-I-S-C-O

# D-I-S-C-O

# D-I-S-C-O

# Ooh! #

Still so much to do.

I think we're, like, past the point of doing custom...

..like, shelving for bars.

So, let's just do a square shelf.

Yeah. Yeah?

Still running behind time,

Fran and Amy are forced to compromise their original designs.

The bar is now turning into a bit of a drama.

We've just got no time, so we need to just think on our feet.

I think we're doing the smart thing and just ditching jobs.

I think we're both concerned about all of it.

I think it's hard not to be.

I want the big main bits done and I feel like that's the focus.

# Ca plane pour moi Ca plane pour moi... #

Meanwhile at the boys',

Paul is mounting his curated collection of Caribbean images...

Club Tropicana, Dramarama.

I feel like I'm making an entry in a ball gown.

..and unveiling his big showpiece...

Part of the brief was that they wanted to get

that passing Turner crowd.

Well, they'll all want to come in here.

That's just genius, isn't it?

Release the board.

That's it. Yep, got it.

..as Banjo frees up the concealed mezzanine window.

This has been boarded up for years

and this has got to be a daytime cafe, so I need that gone.

Let there be light.

I can imagine coming up here, light streaming in, jerk roast...

Yum.

Here he is.

For a minute, I thought you were holding up a ra-ra skirt.

It doubles up, it doubles up.

I'll take it down and we can both have a go. I've got two.

You can even use your maracas.

Oh, look at these!

Well, it's the whole... You know, the whole...

I'm like Bez from Happy Mondays.

"All right, all right."

Cos that's the look you wanted, Bez from Happy Mondays.

It is. I was thinking Bez, yeah.

Not Havana, not Cuba.

This is you, isn't it? Yeah. Dressing everything up,

making it all look lovely and pretty and everything. Yeah.

You've had problems in the past where you weren't completed.

Are you going to be ready?

Well, do you know what, Alan?

I'm going to invite you for a rum and coke

and I'll tell you when I'm done.

You're getting cocky. You better be finished in time.

I will be, I will.

Less than two hours remaining.

I'll block you out where I'm going to do.

As Amy oversees the Art Deco detailing to the front of the bar,

Fran is puzzle-solving at the rear.

I have run out of time to do the back bar as we had hoped.

So, now I'm just freestyling somewhat.

Just whacking up this vinyl,

and then I'm going to put up the existing shelves,

which I gleefully took down.

The back of bar has been left a bit to the last minute.

I want to help but I'll just try and get through all my jobs first

to make my space look OK, and then I can go back.

We are in a competition.

I love Fran and we're good friends and we work well together,

but I'm not going to sacrifice my own area

over stuff that Fran's not factored in.

Because, like, we're down to the final four,

and I don't want to be the one that goes this week.

I need to finish my space.

I'll whack a coat of paint on it, but...

..I just don't know what else I can do, really.

I've got to just focus on just dressing my space a bit,

cos at the moment, it's a complete disaster zone,

and I'll have to come back to the bar.

Like, I just don't have the time.

Paging Paul Alfred Andrews.

Paul Alfred Andrews.

Oh, that would be me. One hour to go. Get a wriggle on.

Absolutely, darling.

It's a race against time as both teams work flat out

for a place in the semifinal.

Up against it. It's just trying to work out...

..what goes where.

I can see the ocean, and literally I can just get my drink.

Wrong door.

Almost like where it is now, I think.

Up a bit. I mean, it will have to go higher.

No! It hasn't smashed, has it?

Just a little crack.

That's my favourite thing.

Nothing else is finished, but at least the banquette looks good.

Are we overachievers?

I think we might be.

I might just get you to do partitions

and hang these bits in mine.

At Charlie's, with Amy's full attention now on her own section,

Fran's frustration is mounting.

I've done that, I've done that.

I've done my bit. I think she's got to do the curtain now.

I have got a cafe that's nowhere near finished.

I need to get my mirrors up.

So, I've painted that. I'm out.

Worried about the bar, dude.

We've got to get that curtain up to hide this cupboard.

I've done the marbling and I've done the painting.

If you can sort out the curtain section.

It's not mine, Fran. I've done the front, babes.

I said I'd take care of the back bar bit. Yeah, that's the back.

Yeah, but I can't...I can't...

I know, babes, but literally I've done all communal jobs for two days.

I've done all the tables, I've done all the chairs.

I vinyled all the chairs at home.

Like, I need to obviously just get my own bit...

OK, well, I don't have time to do it. OK, cool. We'll just leave it.

I just don't like,

"This was yours and you were supposed to do it like that."

I just feel like we're supposed to be in it together

and when you're like, "Well, I've done all the tables,"

I'm sorry, but I was doing the banquette.

I couldn't not do it, and if this was your area,

you would've had to do the same. I just...

Did Fran brief you on anything

that was happening with the curtains?

No. Well, come back and help. Cool.

We just need to basically work double the speed.

I've got to move on cos that's the only option. Shall we chat?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

No, I didn't mean to...I didn't mean to, like... I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, too. I didn't mean to snap

and I didn't mean to say anything...

Why don't we just regroup and do the curtains together right this minute?

Right this minute, come on. OK.

This looks amazing. It's so beautiful.

Feels total daytime. This feels night-time.

Like, we've done an amazing job.

Stop for ten seconds. We've done an amazing job, OK?

Just, I'm sorry if I've BLEEP up on the bar.

You didn't and I'm sorry... I thought I just had to do that bit.

I didn't realise I had to do that bit, too.

We're doing it together now. We're doing it together now, OK?

# Yeah, yeah, yeah You can send a forget-me-not

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# But I'll still reach up to the top... #

Oh, Banjo. Oh, I'm gagging for a drink.

Oh, have we got a fixture?

This is my elephant ear.

# To the left, to the right

# Keep it goin', keep it goin' It's all right

# To the left, to the right

# Step it up, step it up It's all right

# It's all right, it's all right... #

Stunning.

Fantastic. We did it!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh.

Darling. Make it a double, Eli.

Ready to cast their professional eye over the restaurants - the judges.

First time for both of us in Margate, then.

Helping Michelle this week is retail space entrepreneur Ross Bailey,

responsible for a growing number of pop-up cafes

under the umbrella of his global business, Appear Here.

So, here we are in Margate.

Two cafes to look at and you'd think that would be quite straightforward,

but you've got a lot of very different customers here

cos you've got the cool crowd going for the art,

you've the locals, and then you've got the day-trippers.

My view is, think about who your crowd is,

create something for those individuals.

What I really want to see is those little bits of detail,

the thing that feels like it's speaking to you,

the little obsession over every inch so that it comes together.

Cos in a way, kind of the colour of a cafe is the people that come there

and everything else just has to be

really, really well thought through and considered.

The boys' cafe is first up to be judged.

Every single note on that brief...

..is basically articulated from the outside, through to the windows,

entrance, cafe, bar, mez, DJ.

Done.

You want them to feel the passion that I felt doing this.

I'm sure they will, but you just don't know.

It's honestly everything and a little bit more.

I can hear the coconuts swaying in the breeze, the sun on my skin.

It's beautiful.

Like, I'm really chuffed with it.

My heart and soul is in this place 100%,

so I will fight for it.

MICHELLE: It was a very just mundane navy blue,

and now that pingy sky blue, loving it.

Oh, I love those signs. Love the signs.

It makes you want to go in, doesn't it? Totally.

Ooh!

First impressions, I love how that sky blue on the outside draws you in

and there's little pops of it around the space,

so I'm feeling warm, convivial.

Yeah, do you know what, Michelle?

I feel they've really thought about as well the journey.

Like, you've got the curtains, you open them up.

You've got this piece sat here

where you know that someone's about to greet you.

And then the little touches like the shutters are beautiful.

It feels very cohesive, doesn't it?

I think the way that they've done the little lights in each corner,

I think this could work really well in the evening.

The owners of this place are Jamaican. I'm half-Jamaican,

and you certainly instantly get a feel of being in the Caribbean.

There are the elements like the print

where I don't get that same connection.

It feels a little bit that it's been just placed in.

I struggle a little bit with the fabric, but...

..I mean, I'm very pleased not to see something

with sort of parrots and pineapples all over it

but it's a slightly different language to me.

It doesn't scream out Caribbean to me.

Well, I feel compelled to go up and see what's going on there

cos that feels like a sort of prize table.

That just fits perfectly in a space like this.

There are so many glorious details to dive into here,

like mismatched raffia shades over the table,

which looks like it's reclaimed planks.

So, the decor bit, getting lots of big ticks from me.

But this place started off with fantastic bone structure

and it was a gift, really, but it's also about that story.

I mean, we haven't seen a portrait of the owners here.

Yeah, they've done so much well,

it makes elements like the vinyl images on the walls,

in my view, seem lazy.

It's just generic pictures.

Yeah, that's a bit of a shame, isn't it?

Now, this is clever. I mean, they've repeated from this up there,

where they've just snuck in a little shelf to eat at.

I mean, I'd love to sit there.

But I think I'm going to sit here.

But I think, Michelle, with what they have done,

like that little table there, like the seats here,

it feels like they've sat in every single chair

and they've really made every area a little moment

and I think that's the bit that makes it just seem so professional.

But it's also, you know...

Not only have they decided to put a plant there,

but they've made a little box for it,

so I'm not actually looking at the plant pot. Yeah.

I mean, I think that's the level of detail

that at this stage of the competition

I really am looking for. Yeah.

At Charlie's, the girls are adding their final flourishes.

I hope they like it.

I hope they get an overall feel for the place

and see that it's a cohesive space

and that we've used colours bravely, but also in a good way.

I so desperately want to be a semifinalist.

I don't want it to finish.

I think the owners are going to love it.

I think they're going to be well shocked

because it's not what they're expecting, is it?

I think we hit the brief.

I think we hit the brief.

I do love the colour. A pop of colour. I like it with the black.

It feels quite sophis for a caf.

Yeah, this little element works outside.

Oh, gosh.

It's quite a juicy burst of flavour

coming straight at you from this one.

It's a massive transformation. It definitely feels very fresh.

They started off with a difficult, difficult space

and this is certainly...

..a transformation.

And when you saw what was in this area before

and how they've come up with a creative way to cover that up,

they've certainly put their imagination to the test.

This, I love. That's clever. That really works.

We've screened off the loo.

I would love to have seen some writing or graphics

or something on there.

We know that they had a challenging design brief.

Having to keep things like the chairs make it much harder.

Though I feel like what they've designed is then sort of...

..pretended the chairs weren't there

versus going, "How do these things that we've got to deal with

"become part of the design?"

They've darkened the legs, which I think really helps elevate them

to a bit more sophisticated.

But then to have paired them with these colours.

Yep. And I'm just going to come out and say it,

I really dislike this kind of cheap gold colour and...

..this pink. Yeah.

There's a mismatch there, which is like, urgh.

We do slightly begrudge having those there.

We spoke about detail,

and to me, when you go into it,

you can see that just the way that it's been covered,

the way that the curtains have been put up,

just these little elements, it just doesn't feel finished.

Trying to give them the biggest benefit of the doubt,

their client didn't want them to paint the tables,

but why go fake marble?

Let's just go with something completely different

cos these are never going to be marble tables.

But you know what? The thermometer behind you

and the kind of weather gauge,

I love that colour wood against the Tiffany walls.

That feels real and authentic and of the owners as well.

Shall we back up a bit and check out the bar?

Let's have a look.

Cos I like this as a design feature.

I do like a good bar, where you can sort of sit.

I feels a little bit more kind of...

Oh, my word.

..casual, but I normally prefer to be a bit higher

when I'm at the bar. I feel like I'm, like, a child at my kind of...

It doesn't feel like they've sat in the spaces. No.

But I wonder how they've made that back space

into somewhere that's interesting.

Let's go have a look.

Well, it very much continues the theme.

We've spoken a lot before

about bringing in the owners and that story.

I think you can see that they've tried to do that here

with the pictures.

We've got a lot of very different languages going on

from the table decor to the lighting,

but I can really feel how much hard work has gone into this.

Yeah, the effort.

I think we've got a lot of questions to think about.

Yeah, lots to think about.

Whilst the designers head to the Brighton studio,

the owners get a first look at their reimagined spaces.

I think it looks beautiful. Very nice.

I like the front of the bar, too.

I think our locals will love it.

I think they'll love it. Finally got rid of the...

Mosaic tiles, we got rid of all those.

Chin-chin.

Cheers. Cheers!

Very nice. Very nice.

Unaccustomed as I am.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

HE LAUGHS

God.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

It's beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful.

I love it.

They've made a really special place even more special.

It's really nice.

There is a career-altering contract at stake

as the designers return to Michelle's studio

to discover their fate.

I've got endless amounts of fight left.

I've thrown new things at it every week,

and hopefully Michelle can see the growth in me.

I hope that between the two of us, we've done enough,

cos I don't want Amy to go home

and I don't think she wants me to go home.

The final's still a whole other space away.

I can smell it, but I can't taste it.

I couldn't have worked harder,

and, personally, I've smashed it, so that's good enough for me.

So, we billed it as a battle of the sexes.

Did the girls do you proud?

Well, you know what?

Amy and Fran have blazed an amazing trail through this competition.

I was really hoping I'd see something kind of incredible

when these two minds came together... Yeah.

..but it was a little confused, really.

Although it did have a very coherent feel.

It didn't have the same amazing bones that Banjo and Paul's did,

so I felt they were sort of on the back foot before they started.

The walk through to the toilets, they managed to actually get rid of.

It did take some imagination,

but I think the colours and the detailing was lacking.

On to Banjo and Paul.

There was a lot of influences in there. Did it work?

It felt that they thought about the person going in there. Yeah.

I loved the old shutters, the chicken wire

and those things instantly took me back to the Caribbean.

The curtains in the window connect maybe more to something you'd see

in a Parisian cafe.

It's about that interpretation of the brief, cos like you said,

some bits felt a bit is this now French or is this Jamaican?

And I think you have to decide and stick with it, really.

Yeah, one person's got to go home today.

I know, and they've worked so hard.

WHISPERS: Oh, gosh.

Hello. Hey. Hi, Alan.

Michelle decided that

as you are fighting for a place in the semifinals,

she'd like to see all four of you on the sofa.

Best of luck. ALL: Thanks, Alan.

How nice to see you all again. Hello.

So, you should all really congratulate yourselves

on fantastic transformations.

Both owners were just thrilled.

Banjo and Paul, the concept of the reclaimed shutters,

where was that from?

That was me. I wanted to inject a bit of texture and patina in there.

The round table at the mezzanine.

I sourced that and it was an old cable reel drum from Highways...

Oh, wow. ..and it was cut down to fit.

We loved the mezzanine area and the bar area.

It really captured...

..the essence of the brief

and that was very clearly driven by you, Banjo.

So, congratulations, you are through to the semifinals.

Oh, thank you. Yay, it was brilliant Banjo. It was brilliant.

So, well done, you can go and relax.

Thank you. Good luck, guys. Well done. It was brilliant. Thank you.

I'm really excited that they loved the spaces that I created.

Being on the sofa, like, brings you back down to earth

but, like, I'm riding high now.

I'm so chuffed they loved it.

Paul, tell me a bit more about the fabric choice.

It was actually inspired by a textile print

by Josef Frank from 1936

and it allowed us to introduce the colour palette.

The hessian curtains were lovely and textural,

but I do think of those as French bistro.

It was French Caribbean,

so this idea of the Caribbean being this kind of, like, faded glamour.

I could see what you were doing with the curtains

to bring that intimacy.

But, you know, the owners are Jamaican... Yes.

..and the Caribbean is a big place, right? Yeah.

And it's sort of like someone being British

and creating a French cafe, they're very different cultures.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I...

Yeah, I didn't really think of it as being interpreted as French.

These clients were kind of pivotal members of the Margate community.

Yes, yeah. But we didn't see any pictures of them.

So, we were both a little confused by the photo library posters

chosen to go on the wall. Yeah, yes.

Those images were coffee shops in Barbados and...

But they're generic. Yes, they are. Anyone could get those. Yes.

This idea of understanding a theme.

It's so fascinating because both Fran and Amy,

this is where you both stumbled last week.

I mean, my goodness,

you had a restaurant full of cliches and tiles,

so a lot to deal with.

But, Amy, there's not a single Turner painting that I've ever seen

that has the colours that appeared in your restaurant.

There's a sunset at Margate painting

which is predominantly mustards and marigolds and browns,

and then it has hints of peaches and corals and mints and a teal.

And I took that as a starting point.

The brilliance of Turner is his balance of colours,

but your colour palette was full-on.

I really wanted to be bold and I took to heart your advice last week.

You know, we don't need more wallpaper.

And that's a massive jumping off point for me normally,

so I started from a reference to a painting.

I think I was just really keen to make the space fun and exciting.

You had such a tough job, didn't you? So rough. A nightmare.

I mean, you had to get rid of all that awful mosaic.

It was an uphill struggle.

In terms of transformation, it was out of this world.

I think outside, the colouring,

I think, is very what you're seeing in East London right now.

The simplicity of the font, I like that.

It is all about how it feels,

and then you could've started with a Turner painting,

you could've started with '20s,

but what you then did with both of those things, it didn't work.

It was saccharine.

And then you chose faux marble for the table tops.

Why faux marble?

We just wanted to cover them with something and we couldn't paint them

and the budget wouldn't allow us to get... But why faux marble?

It felt quite luxury, the faux marble.

Faux marble, plastic?

Really?

Maybe if you squint, Michelle.

Let's talk about the sort of '20s theme.

I took Art Deco and wanted to present it

in quite a contemporary way, so it wasn't obvious,

but I felt like it was elegant, it was homely.

It feels like a comfortable environment

that you could sit from the day into the evening.

I think it's really hard

when you've got a brief that works for everyone.

But I think the job of the designer is to find what is that commonality.

Yeah. And I think probably the theme of Art Deco wasn't that.

Yeah, yeah. I'm giving you the massive ticks for all the...

You sorted out the loos, all of that stuff. Brilliant.

But at this level, when I hear you kind of say,

"Well, we had to cover it with something,"

that's not enough.

What about the bar, then?

Did it get a bit forgotten cos the front was nice but...?

Yeah, it got forgotten.

We ran out of time a bit for a few things, but...

The banquette seating took me 100 years,

and then suddenly we're like, "Argh, the bar!"

The stools, if you'd have tried sitting in them,

you were about halfway up the bar,

so you actually couldn't see over it.

It just felt like no-one had thought about the customer.

It is the details that make the difference.

But, Paul, I'm going to let you off the hook straight away, OK?

You did enough. Thank you.

You will be the second person going through to the semifinals.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

So, Fran and Amy...

..which one of you should go?

Fran, why do you think you should go through?

I feel like every challenge I can just get a little bit better and...

Sorry.

Like, I just want to be able to...

..make a difference to the spaces that I'm walking into.

And, yeah, I tried my best in Margate and I know we both did.

I know we both did.

Amy, why should you go through to the semifinals?

It genuinely means so much.

I think I've come from having had no confidence to start with.

I'm just desperate to stay and show how much more I can do,

because I think with each challenge, I'm growing.

I think with each challenge, I'm developing.

I'm really, really, really torn.

Fran, you had some big problems to overcome,

but you really messed up on the back bar.

Amy, you made that front bar look really good,

but did not like the colours. They didn't come from Turner.

And...

..and it's... Oh, God!

If that's where you're at, and I'll probably regret saying it,

Amy chose the colours with me.

We chose the marble together.

I didn't finish the bar.

I don't think it should be...

It is.

We just worked the best we could in that space together

and we supported each other this week.

Amy, you've blossomed and you've flourished.

You both have, but for...

..just that sliver more, I'm going to give you the shot

to go through to the semifinal.

But by saying that, Fran, you've also done an amazing journey,

but I think that bar was really crucial,

to have just left that back bit...

Yeah, totally. That's...that's totally fair.

I love you. I love you. You're amazing, OK? Go and smash it.

I didn't finish the bar, and at the end of the day,

at this level, you've got to finish things.

And I can hold my head up high and know that I did the right thing.

What a roller-coaster...

..and back to real life.

Fran is just a one of a kind

and to feel like she would want to defend me was incredible.

We did make a lot of the decisions together.

She's just, like, a remarkable human. I'll miss her.

That was incredibly hard because Fran has shown me

some really creative design thinking through this competition,

but this week, she was just pipped at the post by Amy.

Next time...

Oh, I love it.

..the competition is hotting up...

No pressure.

..as the designers hit the Cotswolds.

Oh!

With a place in the final at stake...

I'm nervous. I didn't come here to play.

..it won't be all plain sailing.

There's no time. We have like 50 minutes!