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MUSIC: Our House by Madness

Ice and a slice, love?

There you go, darling. Enjoy.

It's been a gruelling seven weeks, and it's the final.

Our designers certainly deserve a drink or two,

but it's not over yet.

To win, they're going to have to give us a few drops of ambition...

..finesse...

..and a whole lot of pizzazz!

There you go, love.

It's not what I ordered.

Get outta my pub!

PUNTERS JEER

Shut it! Shut up!

Shut up!

It's pubs week.

For seven weeks...

Look at this!

..a group of ambitious interior designers...

I am going to come out fighting.

I can't stand it.

Oh...!

HEAVY THUD

..have made over everything from luxury apartments...

Oh, my God!

Is this the Ibiza room?

I love this. Whoo!

..to nurseries...

You look like a little cherub. All you need are some wings.

Where is this place?

..and five-star hotel rooms.

How much more wild do they want?

Done!

..all in a bid to impress the biggest names in the industry.

Amazing!

That's rather lovely.

This gold works beautifully.

You're in the final of Interior Design Masters.

It's surreal.

Now only two designers remain...

I just need to be like, bam, bam, bam, bam.

You think you could win? Yes.

You're such a big-head, Monika. You're so arrogant!

..both competing for a career-defining opportunity...

..to design one of London's top cocktail bars.

It's going to be emotional, isn't it? Always.

Having survived seven tough challenges,

finalists Jack and Monika await their ultimate brief

at Michelle's design studio.

Can you believe this? I know!

It's just the two of us. I know. It feels really, really weird.

So winning is this final hurdle. It's around the corner.

And if I'm honest, I'm still in, like, this, like, dreamy haze

that I got here. So I'm bringing my A-game this week.

Remember, in the beginning, you were so stressed, so nervous.

I was, like, shaking at everything. I was like, "Ahhh!"

And now look at you. Oh, I know. Look - I'm, like, lounging.

It's the final. And I'm in it!

And I'm so excited and I'm pumped and I'm buzzing,

and I will give it 100%.

This is it.

ALL: Hi.

How are you feeling?

It's just a crazy feeling.

There's only two of us, and we're in the final.

Have you got anything creatively left in the tank for this final?

Oh, my God.

I have been, like, holding crystals all night,

hoping that they will give me something.

Oh, have you been grabbing some crystals?

No, can you lend me a crystal?

Hello! Hello. Hello, hello, hello.

Gorgeous dress. Thank you very much.

So this is it, your final briefing.

And I do think I may have kept the best till last,

because your final challenge is going to be right here in Brighton,

cos I am entrusting you with two of the city's much-loved pubs.

Both of these establishments really need your help

to stand out from the crowd.

MUSIC: Right Here, Right Now by Fatboy Slim

Brighton, the UK's most popular city by the sea,

with its iconic pier and vibrant beaches.

The Fountain Head Pub must appeal to a younger clientele

of daytime and evening crowds,

and the two-floor Earth & Stars gastropub

needs upscaling and a total rebranding.

The winner will receive a career-changing commercial contract

to make over a central London cocktail bar.

So the gloves are off, right?

We're playing dirty.

THEY LAUGH

Great, I love it. This is going to be a good final. Oh, yeah.

Well, the best of luck to both of you.

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

Oh, my God! Oh...my...gosh!

I have to say, this is a competition,

and it's only two of us left, so...

And I want to win.

That's what I was supposed to say!

I want to win.

It's been great seeing them evolve.

Monika's got more confident,

and I think Jack's sort of trusting his gut a bit more,

isn't he, when it comes to design?

Oh, it's just the best thing to see them kind of blossom and flower

and kind of ease into enjoying what they're doing.

Cos they start off with, like, oodles of talent,

but it's just believing in themselves

and then having the courage to try something a little bit different.

Now, it's pubs this week.

What do you look for in a pub, apart from a large Jagerbomb?

Not sure that would be my choice of tipple but, apart from that,

I look for somewhere I can just sort of tuck myself into a corner.

I want to feel like I'm in a sociable, warm, comforting place.

How important is functionality?

Cos obviously a gastropub is going to be very different

to a trendy hang-out, isn't it?

Well, I think it's everything.

So you've got the gastropub, which does amazing food,

and it just needs its interior brought up to the same level.

And then you've got another pub that's on a very busy part

of North Lane, so it's really got to stand out from the crowd

and it wants to appeal to a kind of slightly younger, trendier audience.

Do you want to see taxidermy and antlers and things painted black

in Monika's and do you want to see panelling and chandeliers in Jack's?

I do want to see their interpretation of each pub.

And I'm really excited to see what that could be.

You know, Alan, what do you look for in a pub?

A nice pink gin and a dogfight.

Oh, God.

You could say I'm a traditionalist.

The finalists are checking out their pubs for the very first time.

Oh, what a big space!

Oh, this is overwhelming.

And then the ceiling is way too low.

I'm not going to lie,

the sheer size of it is intimidating a little bit.

Hi, there. Hey, Monika, lovely to meet you.

Nice to meet you too, Libby. Hi.

Monika's meeting Libby, manager of the spacious, traditional pub,

the Fountain Head.

We want to be more attractive to a younger customer.

We would like to be a bit more lively, a bit more current.

Like a complete rebranding, kind of? Yeah.

It should feel like one big, happy family having a great time.

Nice. That's how it should be. Nice, nice.

That sounds really exciting.

Cos of the low ceiling, it can feel quite dark.

We've got a lot of exposed brick. A little bit's great,

but, like, we've got quite a lot of it.

The whole pub is one big open-plan space,

and so it's definitely going to be a little bit tricky

to zone it out, to figure out what goes where.

I love where the bar is placed.

If this is transformed into the wow factor for people,

they just grab their phones and they want to take a picture of it.

They want to share where they are.

Anything will be a breath of fresh air here.

So, yeah, looking forward to it.

Because this is the final,

this is honestly my last moment to prove myself

because I really want to win at this point. I really do.

Just up the lane,

Jack gets his first look at the split-level gastropub,

the Earth & Stars.

Oh, my gosh!

Wow, this is big.

And I've got an upstairs space to think about as well.

Ah!

He's meeting manager Rishi.

So we won the best pub award,

and we also won an award for our gastro food.

Everyone used to talk about the Earth & Stars,

and I do feel that, over the past few years,

it has lost its way.

I want this to be an award-winning pub again,

and somewhere which people talk about and want to go to.

Downstairs should feel like a relaxed pub.

So upstairs is a bit of an awkward space,

and I think that's really where you could make a lot of impact.

So more of like a relaxed daytime feel maybe down here

and then upstairs maybe more for party,

and deliver something that even you might not think could be achieved.

Ooh, wow, exciting. Yeah.

There's an immense amount of pressure for me to get this right,

but I'm not going to play it safe with this design.

Not this week, not in the final.

No, no. There's going to be some risks taken.

# Turn up the music, turn down the lights... #

After eight days to prep their plans,

the designers are back in Brighton

to embark on their greatest challenge so far.

# It's about damn time! #

With a complete rebranding of two prominent pubs,

Monika and Jack have three days

and double their normal budget of £3,000.

As it's the final, they've each chosen an ex-rival to help.

Hi, Monika! Hey, Tom! Hello!

Semifinalist Tom has made a return to help Monika.

If Monika needs me to clean the toilets,

if she needs a foot massage, whatever she needs, I'm her wingman.

What's the plan?

Basically, you're like my upholstery guy, which I think you knew that.

THEY LAUGH Yeah, I brought my sewing machine.

Let's get to it. Yes!

And Jack has chosen his great mate, Buse, who left in week two.

Ah!

Hey! Are you OK?

Oh, it's so good to see you. You too.

So, the final. I know! It's a crazy thought to be here.

You need to win.

Ah, just keep telling me that.

I think that we're going to work really well together

and we communicate really well, and I think that we get each other.

What am I doing?

You're seamstress queen. Amazing.

As in all the other weeks, a team of trades are on hand to help.

TRADES: Hello! Hi, guys! I'm very excited.

It is going to be a big transformation.

Everything is going to be painted in one colour.

Oh, great. Whoo! OK, let's do this!

Brilliant. Let's do this!

The reason why I'm painting all the walls and the ceiling

in the same colour is to disguise how low it actually is.

It just becomes one space.

With everyone assigned to their tasks,

Monika can focus on the enormous bar.

This is going to take me longer than I expected.

It's really gross and, like, it really needs a proper clean

cos I need to prep it really, really carefully

so I can copper-leaf it. Going to be here, cleaning.

Monika will give a fresh, youthful twist to the open plan-space,

painting from floor to ceiling in a contemporary dark blue.

The bar will be centre stage with its front and sides

completely covered in copper leaf.

The ceiling section will have floral wallpaper,

and behind the bar will be decorated with distressed mirrors.

Each new zone will have tables with fresh tops

and the chairs painted in dirty pink.

Orange velvet banquettes and new multifunctional benches

will make cosy areas and be movable to make room for dancing.

So we have a curved banquette. That's there and then that's there.

To create a day-to-night pub is definitely tricky.

I need to play with multifunctional solutions,

lots of different furniture and zoning.

Zoning, zoning, zoning is something that I really need to focus on.

Just a few streets away...

Morning, morning. Morning!

..Jack's ready to reveal his plans to his team.

So it's called the Earth & Stars.

We're going to go Zodiac themed.

Jack's celestial vision for the gastropub's downstairs space

will see the ground walls painted a dark blue

and the lower panelling, a rugged olive.

The floorboards will be painted black,

and the little nook close to the stairs

will be painted mustard yellow.

The new circular tables will be decorated

in a gold leaf finish.

He will enhance the bar by creating a bespoke wraparound golden shelf,

and the front and sides will be cladded with metal piping.

I actually have a little present for you all.

Hooray!

So Team Jack for the win. You all look stunning.

Let's do this. Yeah.

Interior shop owner Jack has also chosen

to make the bar central to his design.

On the bar, I want to do this extended ledge,

which is going to be coming all the way around.

Enough to put a drink on that you can sit under

with some stools.

I think the biggest worry is I need to create a bit of wow

and I think there's this bar to really think about

how to make it a focal point.

Then there's going to be a circular bit here,

like a little circular table.

There's just, like, a lot of pressure hanging on this design.

I want it to be, like, the best it can be.

Don't panic, finalists! I'm on my way.

MUSIC: Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf

# Get your motor runnin'

# Head out on the highway... #

Thanks so much for the lift, love.

It's so lovely to be back here in Brighton!

Ooh, I think I've got a fly in my teeth.

# Born to be wild... #

Monika.

Hello!

You look like Big Bird from Sesame Street.

Full of compliments today.

What are you doing?

I am currently bleaching these mirrors

to make them look like they're antique.

Do you feel like a chicken? Two ducks. Yeah, two ducks! Yeah.

Is that yours with a skull on it?

I needed to put bleach somewhere. ALAN LAUGHS

You go for it. OK.

Take a mirror. Spray.

Now we dab.

Is this good dabbing?

Very professional dabbing.

What the bleach does, it eats through the layer

of the actual mirror. OK.

Oh, you've eaten a lot of your mirror.

Oh, is that bad? Have I messed it up?

No, that's just, like, super distressed.

Look at that. Yeah, I can see you through it!

I need some oxygen.

Speaking of distressed, how are you getting on?

It's actually very stressful and I find it very overwhelming.

A large space.

So many people that I need to be in charge of.

Cos your brain's quite scatter-gun, isn't it? Yeah.

You think of things all the time. Yeah. How are you coping?

So this is why I thought to help my brain calm down

and be more organised, I can do the to-do lists. Yeah.

I just keep on forgetting to actually look at them.

And I can't believe this, you've never won a challenge.

I know! You've never won and here you are in the final.

How did that happen? I don't have a clue!

I'm as surprised as you that I'm here! Oh, don't.

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

I'm loving this. Thank you. Thank you.

Bye, love. Bye, bye, bye.

As the hours tick by on day one...

There's a lot of banquette seats to upholster.

..grafter Buse is feeling the heat.

We've got armchairs to upholsterer, we've got back cushions to make,

so it is a big challenge for me to get through these

in two to three days.

Yes, Buse! There you go!

Upholstery queen.

BUSE GASPS

There's some paint on my bum!

No!

And at the trendy hang-out...

Stephen, Ian, Karen...

..Monika has made a last-minute change

from her original master plan of painting everything in one colour.

We are not painting this fireplace.

It's staying. I love it too much. I love it. OK.

I know that the manager is quite vocal on covering it

and not having so much of the brick,

but when it's done right, I personally love brickwork.

So just letting you guys know - don't paint it.

MUSIC: Atomic by Blondie

I think that this competition helped me figure out

how to best utilise my ADHD brain,

because it is the butterfly brain

that comes with so many ideas so fast,

and that's why it's sometimes difficult,

but it's also a good thing.

I have a lot of ideas and I change my mind a lot,

but it helps when you're creative.

So what kind of tattoo do you want next?

So I was actually thinking of maybe having, like, a bird's claw.

A claw is such, like, a symbol of confidence.

Monika is very unique and I think that all of her tastes come out

through her interior design work, which is what makes them so special.

I'm just very proud of her.

That is really beautiful.

You're welcome.

The biggest difference between Monika in week one

and Monika now is confidence.

I've learned to listen to a client.

I was naive before in thinking that being an interior designer

is literally doing what I want to do.

That's not always the case.

I would actually really love my signature style

to become the next trend.

I want people to get their homes decorated

and other people to come and be like,

"You're doing the home like Monika."

I think that's the ultimate dream, honestly.

Wow! Oh, my God, Jack. Look at the difference!

It's the end of the day,

and Jack has only just started painting the wooden floor black.

Now it's a bit different, isn't it?

Yeah, it looks a lot better.

Your eye isn't darting around at all the dirty bits any more.

It was a really sorry-looking floor,

so I think painting it was worth the risk.

So let's just hope it dries by the morning. Yeah.

There's been, like, points today where I've been...

In the back of my head, I'm like,

"I wonder what Monika's doing. Something better."

And then I'm like, "Stop it! Stop thinking like that."

Right, shall we get out of here? It's time to go, yeah.

MONIKA: Day one, over.

I want to throw this. Ugh! No! OK, fine.

I am almost, like, consumed with my bar.

The whole pub is ginormous.

I don't know if I'm on schedule, because I don't have a schedule.

I think this is what stresses me out the most,

just making sure that we finish and that we finish to a good standard.

Day two and the finalists have woken

to some classic English seaside weather.

It is raining, it is cold, so the weather needs to change.

This is not a good sign. Not a good sign.

The first couple of minutes are always a little bit hectic.

There's just so many people.

With the painting in hand,

Monika can turn her attention to her ambitious rewiring of the pub.

There is so much to be done electrics-wise. OK.

I had the plans for a lot of new ceiling lights

and some of them I want in places

where there is no existing ceiling light.

I'm not an electrician.

If there's no plug-in, then I can't do it, right?

Jack is making a start on transforming his newly-designed bar.

So me and Buse, we're putting on the first layer

for the fabric to go on the bar.

So basically we're putting, like, a velvet on top of this.

What's the official way of measuring, do you think?

A finger? But your finger's bigger than my finger.

That's not far off. Yeah, that's not far off.

OK, yeah, you use your finger.

Biggest job are the benches.

Monika is getting the rest of her trades

to begin zoning the cavernous space...

This is a new bench

and then this is, like, a triple bench,

so it, like, closes this corner.

I want this to be a bit more private.

..while she is left to start copper-leafing

her massive showstopper bar.

I wish I was faster.

I've never leafed this fast before in my life,

and yet not fast enough.

I'm stressing about the bar being copper-leafed.

I want to finish the bar and I want to do it myself

and I need it to be looking better than whatever Jack is doing.

Back at the Earth & Stars,

the walls are being given a two-tone paint job.

Hey, Jack, I have a thought that I want to run by you. Go on. Go on.

But architect Buse is troubled by Jack's colour palette.

It might elevate the space a bit more

if the blue was running from the floor all the way to the ceiling.

All the way to the top? Oh, OK.

In my mind, the panelling should be a different colour

to what the masonry or the plasterwork should be,

cos there's already loads of blue upstairs

and I just didn't want loads of blue downstairs.

So if this went all the way to the floor,

the yellow would pop more.

I think so, yeah. OK.

I'll sort of think about it a little bit. Yeah.

Oh, no.

If this is already being difficult,

I just know that the other ones are just going to be difficult.

Ugh!

Sparks are flying with Monika's new lighting layout.

We're not going to be able to fit these two in here

because they're coming a bit close.

We've got, obviously, that one on the corner. Yes.

This one coming up here.

Urgh, I hate symmetry. You know that! You don't like this? No.

Time is getting away from us. All right, OK.

Well, then, you should have started with that.

I don't want to pay any extra,

so if you're saying that you can't put it

because we're going over budget...

Can't you focus on this so that you're not...?

That's what we're doing. Yeah.

What worries me is working with so many people,

constantly surrounded by so many people.

Yeah, it's very stressful.

SHE SIGHS

At the gastro-pub,

the paint quandary has been put to one side.

Upstairs, Jack's with the gold leaf gilders,

zoning in on his zodiac theme.

This is going to be your canvas with some, like, really faint clouds

and then the stars are going to be, like, the main attraction.

Jack is creating a private, more intimate upstairs space.

He will continue his celestial vision

by featuring a night sky cloud mural on the ceiling

with a gold star constellation.

There will be vintage zodiac prints on the walls.

The tabletops will be gold-leafed,

and upcycled chairs will be covered in a striking horoscope material.

A spider light will fill the booth area

and new velvet curtains and vintage table lamps

will enhance the dining spaces.

The brief was to put this place back on the map again

and it's a gastro-pub,

so it's got to be practical for eating, drinking, socialising,

but I think it's really tough, you know, trying to be, like, earthy,

but they want this, like, sophistication and glamour.

It's definitely quite hard to tie together.

Jack? Hi, Alan. You all right? Hello, love.

Yeah, good, good.

Did you put these stars up here? Yeah. It's brilliant! Thank you.

So where's the gastro-pub part?

That part is probably downstairs, so that's a bit more, like, daytime.

And then up here's a bit more, like, night-time

where you'd probably just have drinks.

And time's ticking on.

Have you done everything on your to-do list?

There's still lots to do on the to-do list.

I want it all finished,

so I'm going to be cracking some whip on people.

Oh, no. Buse.

THEY LAUGH

Are you exploiting Buse?

I might be exploiting her a little bit, yeah.

Is that meant to dangle like that?

Don't start. Course it is. Yeah, it's going to be tightened.

You don't want that dangling in your soup

as you're having a meal. No, no, no. OK. All right, then.

Good. Well, tighten it up and change your attitude. I will.

Just cos you're a finalist now, you think you can give me grief!

Get on with it! OK!

36 hours left until judging,

and Monika has only copper-leafed a quarter of the bar needed

for its full transformation.

The bar is being leafed.

I just wish it would just go a little bit faster.

She has given Tom the Herculean task of tiling the back section.

The effect that I'm going for is an old, aged mirror.

So, then, do you want me to go right up to the ceiling, then,

into the corner? Yeah, yeah.

Monika is stressed.

She feels like she gets overwhelmed by stuff

and maybe because she's trying to manage all the things

and she doesn't think she's doing a good enough job,

and I think she needs to focus on the bigger picture

and let us worry about the little bits.

It's lunchtime on day two,

and Jack has asked Buse to take a quick snoop on the competition.

Oh, look who I can spy!

Hi, Tom. Look who's here.

So is this it? Is this all the space you've got? Yes.

You don't have an upstairs? No, we don't have an upstairs.

What the hell? I know. What colours are you doing?

We are... To be honest, it's not far off from this colour.

It's blue.

And we've got some green panelling down. Yeah.

You know, Jack's classic. Gorgeous. Classic panelling.

I won't give too much away. No, no, no, no.

You know, you are still my competitor.

Exactly.

It does make me nervous, whereas I was...

I was really confident that Jack had, like, got it in the bag before.

I do think he might need to reconsider that green.

I personally feel quite strongly about that.

In terms of colour, it is quite similar to our blue.

OK. She's literally painted everything blue.

That's bold.

I just think that consider tonight to see if you want to enhance it

even more and make it pop out, similar to what she's done.

Going with a full colour might be a good option.

Then the split green.

Yeah, maybe sleep on it and think about it tomorrow. OK.

That's my feedback. Hm. OK.

In Buse's wonderful brain,

it should be streamline and contemporary

and, for me, I find it a bit boring.

I think I'm going to stick with my guns.

I told her I was going to sleep on it,

but I think I've already slept on it without closing my eyes.

So my design style is over-the-top, a little bit dramatic and opulent,

and I think I have had a sprinkle of that

in every single challenge so far.

I hope you're hungry.

My biggest cheerleaders are my boyfriend and my family.

I just know you're going to win.

Alex has kept me very motivated.

Every time I come home, he's like, "You've got this, you've got this."

I can't wait to be a stay-at-home husband

and you can bring in the bacon.

There's definitely a part of me which thinks I can win,

but I've always just downplayed everything that I think I could do.

So I might just need your help just a little bit,

cos I know how particular you are.

I get it from you.

What, partic? Being particular.

When we found out that Jack had cystic fibrosis,

he was 16 years old.

As devastating as it was,

it really helped because when you don't know why your child is poorly

and then you're given a diagnosis, we knew with all the drugs available

that we could look after Jack as much as possible.

You need to be eating, drinking, looking after yourself.

Listen to your mama.

I'm doing all the things you want me to do. Good.

That's looking fab. Thank you.

I'm keen to create a legacy for myself.

I'd love to, like, create some beautiful spaces which people admire

for years and years and years and years and years to come.

Each week, you just bowl us over even more

and we're just so very, very proud of you, Jack.

Oh, thanks, Mum.

Jack won't let anything beat him.

I could see him winning it.

Taking a break from the copper-leafing,

Monika sneaks a peek at her rival's progress.

Hey, Jack. Hiya, Monika.

Hello. Are you OK?

What are you doing with the bar?

There's going to be, like, a gold leaf ledge in front of it.

So there's going to be, like, a drop ledge.

You're extending it? That's very fancy.

I'm also, I'm doing velvet as well.

Not on a bar, but I have velvet as well. Are you?

Velvet seating? Beautiful.

Yet again, we have some similar vibes.

You're right, actually. There's been a lot of weeks where

we've done very similar things, but in different ways.

Hey, that's why we're in the final, right?

That's why we're in the final, babes.

So this is your new colour scheme? New colour scheme.

Buse would like to go blue, the whole thing.

I just wondered what you thought.

Well, I don't want to say what I think.

Say what you think. No! Buse did.

We're supposed to compete. What if I give you good advice

and you will listen to me, and then you will win?

You do you, hon. OK.

And I hope it will be a bad decision.

I'm half-joking, half-not.

I know that I always do this to myself,

where I go and see someone else's space

and I immediately start hating my own design.

I love Jack's bar, the velvet.

So clever, so innovative, and I have never seen it before.

Jack wants to create a signature visual moment

for customers entering the pub.

I'm drawing planet Earth.

This is England.

This is France. This is Africa.

If Michelle loves my mural this week,

it's going to make my world.

Taskmaster Jack is making Buse's world a nightmare.

I've been sent to the basement to upholster.

I have to.... The truth is now, though, it is a time pressure thing.

We are on a crunch.

These do need to be done pretty fast.

Whereas upholsterer Tom is in his element.

I'm very happy in this situation, quietly beavering away.

As time runs out on day two,

Monika still hasn't completed her bar.

Oh, it's going awful because I'm rushing.

Really, this is not my best quality job.

Not my best quality job.

And a new problem has popped up.

The chairs are taking so long, they're fiddly to paint

and I think everyone is secretly hating me

for making that decision.

If you're planning to have all the chairs painted,

we might struggle to get them finished.

I really didn't realise that we needed to prime

all of the chairs before painting.

Take a minute and have a think. I will continue with this

and if you could continue priming all the chairs. Cool, no problem.

Thank you.

I was worried about having so many people

and now I wish I had more people.

Just so you know, Monika, we have ten minutes left.

I want to do this in ten minutes.

That's my goal.

Not happening.

And things are taking a turn for the worse at Jack's, too.

Right, we have a problem.

Do you know when you said you wanted this paint for the outside? Yeah.

Well, this paint, the pigment in it's awful.

You'd need at least five coats. OK.

And we've just not got time for that.

Just finished raining, so I was like, "Brilliant!"

So then we get a tester coat on and it's so translucent,

which means I need to get a different formula

for that pigment of blue.

Yeah, so we're basically painting the whole of the exterior

on my very last build day.

Great idea, said no-one ever.

Monika, how is the copper leaf going?

I wish I had more time to get there.

Hey, Jack. Is it time? It is, yeah. We're done.

Fingers crossed it all comes together.

I mean, it's going to be close to the bone.

It's going to be probably the closest one yet.

That's us done.

HE EXHALES

Come on.

I'm the bearer of bad news.

It's the end of the day.

How are you feeling? Um...

I'm just so overly conscious about the copper leaf thing

and about the chairs.

It just worries me. I know.

I think the chair situation,

one of the decorators telling me that she is unsure now,

like, I feel like she planted the seed of, like, worry.

I'm just really worried now.

Let's go to the to-do list,

try to find stuff that we can cross out

and then let's just call it a day. Yeah.

OK.

Why is there nothing to cross off?

I'm just really, really stressed that we're not going to finish it

and I'm just so upset with myself that I started all of these tasks

instead of... I do this to myself.

And I'm angry with myself that I did that.

Day three...

Oh, something's already looking very beautiful this morning.

..and it's one last push before judging time.

I'm cutting the backs for my club chairs, which are going upstairs,

where it's going to be a bit more lounge-y and cool.

This is really beautiful fabric.

Buse, could I have you for a minute?

Thank you.

I think the pink and the blue go so well.

Right? This is pink?

The pink and the blue.

I'm colour-blind, babe. I can't see no pink.

You figured that...

You figured this whole thing out without really realising

that you can...that this was pink? That's amazing.

I'm partially colour-blind.

I can't really see pinks very well, or, like, reds.

There's just certain hues, and it frightens me a little bit

to work with broad spectrums of colour.

I can't see that's pink. Swear down.

You didn't realise that was pink? No, I thought it was cream.

I'm just winging it with the colours.

BUSE CHUCKLES

Boom!

MONIKA: Hi, guys. Good morning, good morning.

Good morning. ALL: Morning!

This is looking absolutely beautiful, Sofia.

It's really, really cool.

Today is a new day. It's a fresh start.

Yeah, I feel a lot better, more positive and just ready to go.

At Jack's pub, his Earth ceiling artwork is complete.

I'm really happy with that.

And the second batch of exterior paint has arrived.

I'm just relieved because the paint's going on

just in the nick of time.

Three done, three to go.

Buse and Tom are nonstop upholstering.

Remain calm under pressure.

Oh, lovely.

Monika, let me tell you, it is thirsty work

going from pub to pub, checking on how you're doing.

Cheers.

Copper-leafing, am I right?

Yes, correct.

Copper-leafing the whole bar.

Are you going to do it in time? I hope so!

Yeah, cos the owner, she wanted memorable moments.

It's definitely going to be a talking point.

If I finish it, it will. Yeah, you will finish it.

You will. But it's so huge!

It's even round here. Yeah, all the way around.

And look how great those mirrors look.

Oh, my God. I think I can see my one, the really distressed one!

So have you seen Jack's pub?

I have,

and I think I'm really feeling confident about what I'm doing here.

And Jack can do whatever he wants. Yeah?

And I just hope he does a really awful job.

We're seeing the real Monika now.

I love it, though. This is the fire we need.

It's the final. I am here to win it. Yeah!

Cheers. Thanks, Alan. You carry on with this.

Yeah. This ain't going to copper-leaf itself.

After 12 hours of huffing and puffing,

Monika's showstopper bar

is tantalisingly close to completion.

I'm out of breath from all this scrubbing!

It's so shiny! Very shiny.

I'm super, super, super stressed about the judging.

It's making me so nervous.

But if I nail the bar,

then I'm going to be, yeah, very proud of myself.

Hi, Jack. Hello.

When I went to Monika's, I had a pint.

What kind of a bar is this? It's not finished yet.

Why are you putting a radiator under the bar?

Cos it gets chilly in here. It's only single glazed.

What are they?

These are just metal bars which have been sprayed gold

and then this is, um...

Wood? Wood.

You're so opulent and decadent,

you can't even remember basic... Basic wood. This is so boring.

God, until it's covered in gold leaf, I don't care what it is.

Are you behind schedule with the painting?

With painting outside, definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Basically, the paint was being really funny.

Paint has one job, to go on a surface. Exactly. Yeah.

And are we getting a different Jack in the final than Jack week one?

I feel like I've grown loads since week one.

Your hair has. My hair has definitely grown.

It's got bigger and bigger. It has, yeah.

One more week and you'll be like Bonnie Tyler.

And do you think you could win it?

I'm never that confident

until it all comes together at the end

and I can see every last detail.

Listen, I'll leave you to it. Thank you, Alan.

Bye, love. See you later. Happy screwing!

Bit to me.

What's going on here? It's got to go more.

The wallpaper is absolutely beautiful.

I know that they are struggling with it.

At Monika's, her vision of upside-down wallpaper

is giving her cause for concern.

With the ceiling being only 220 metres,

I can't hang, really, anything off of it,

so that's why the wallpaper is going there.

You like it? It's looking really good

and I know that you guys are not really enjoying it.

I've reminded myself why I always say no

when people ask me to do ceilings. Yeah.

Well, I'm happy that you're not really allowed to say no.

I really, really feel like I am fulfilling every bit of the brief -

elevating the space, making it contemporary, making it luxurious.

Back at Jack's, the new thicker blue paint is still being slapped on.

Well, it's covering really nicely. You're happy now? Yeah.

I feel like dreams are coming true last minute.

It looks amazing. Thank you.

Knock-knock. Special delivery.

25 of Monika's chairs have been painted and primed

in the nick of time.

Gorgeous! For your delight.

Thank you. A few more.

Benches!

B-E-autiful.

Build benches, upholster cushions, yes.

One piece of paper done.

What a transformation!

Oh, hi! You like it?

I love it!

I feel like if my dad walked into this pub, he would be like...

Yeah, something like that.

# I ain't worried 'bout it... #

One hour to go and it's a sprint to the finish line.

It's a bit nuts today.

# I ain't worried 'bout it right now

# Keeping dreams alive... #

Just one final push...

She's gorgeous!

..to make these pubs fit for judging.

It looks beautiful, guys. Thank you.

Oh, yay! Awesome, awesome, awesome.

I love it.

Just need a table now.

THEY CHUCKLE

We still have half an hour.

We still have half an hour. It's doable.

I'm seeing the vision now. It feels good.

Chicka-chicka-choo!

Welcome to Fountain Head, Fountain Head, Fountain Head...

Time's up.

# I ain't worried 'bout it. #

Done!

Amazing.

It was a huge project.

I think the fact that it was split between two floors also didn't help.

You've pulled it out of the bag.

I'm really, really proud of myself in this design.

It's been, like, a crazy, crazy moment of my life to get to here.

It's just the best thing to end on.

Yeah, I'm really proud of it.

Yay!

To the final, final challenge. Yes.

I really hope that the judges will love my space

and I hope that they will see that I can do it.

I can be an interior designer and I can create beautiful spaces.

Helping Michelle judge the finished pubs

are influential tastemaker and queen of design Abigail Ahern

and hospitality expert and the driving force

behind the successful Mowgli Street Food chain Nisha Katona.

Welcome to Brighton for the final with our two remaining designers,

who both have a pub to overhaul.

But Brighton has a lot of pubs,

so what we're really looking for is for them to have made something

that's going to stand out from the crowd

and have a real design signature.

Being in a pub is all about that customer experience.

It's got to be inviting, but also very captivating,

so there's a lot to juggle there.

So I'm looking for swoon-worthy interiors

that make me want to linger longer.

It's a really tricky brief. But it's the final.

We can't make it too easy for them. THEY LAUGH

I am so excited to see what they've done.

My heart's a bit in my mouth, I have to say.

MONIKA: This pub is my personal best transformation,

my personal best design, and I feel very proud.

This whole competition and me taking part in it,

I did it to kind of prove myself that my passion for interior design

is something that I could do as a professional.

So, yeah, it's up to the judges now.

MICHELLE: This looks new.

It gives a little hint of something going on inside. Doesn't it?

Ooh, wowser.

I am, like, drawn to this sparkly and yet slightly subdued bar.

It's pretty cool.

She feels like a designer with a very bold heart,

cos you can feel the power of her vision when you look at that bar.

One of the key parts of the brief was that the owner wanted,

like, the bar to be a focal area for social media.

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling that this delivers.

The bar is absolutely iconic. You just put the picture up

and your friends will know where you are.

That's what makes something cult, and she's nailed that.

She aged these mirror tiles herself. Did she? So clever!

I love the fact that she's taken this print up on the ceiling,

but also kept within the same palette of colours.

I love this, where it sort of dribbles into the copper,

so it feels so unified and super harmonious.

She came in with a very strong signature style

of quite gothic, dark, decadent,

and I have seen her really learn to modulate it according to the brief.

I love that she's taken the colour of the walls onto the ceiling

so the ceilings feel grandeur.

I'm slightly in two minds about the pastel with the dark.

I think it's a little bit of a disconnect. Yeah.

And I also wonder is whether the tables are a little bit small.

I'm imagining I've ordered some extra fries.

I've got my salt and pepper, I've got my ketchup, I've got my wine.

It's all going to get a little bit kind of chocker on there.

This feels cafe to me.

We could have gone slightly larger tables.

But there isn't an area that's sort of been forgotten

or is a bit sad.

I'm quite compelled to investigate this lovely nook.

I think I'm already booking my birthday party.

Can we come? Well, I'll think about it.

THEY CHUCKLE

Well, the bar has been set high, but we have one more pub to see.

JACK: I'm really proud of what was achieved.

It's been, like, a complete transformation

from what it was to what it is now.

# Love me, love me, love me, love me... #

I really love my design

and I hope that Michelle understands the elevation of the design

and bringing it a bit more classy

and not this sort of grungy pub that it was.

They asked for sophistication, so I hope she sees it.

I hope she gets it.

Wow. Such an arrestingly deep colour.

It stands out.

Oh, how nice is this?

My immediate sense is of elevation.

It is beautiful. The colour palette is very soothing.

Greens and blues are quite earthy

and they feel quite restorative and cocooning, so I'm loving that.

And then all of these quite glamorous touches that he's added.

I mean, this is very clever. He's clad the bar.

He's then upholstered the bar,

then he's added the kind of pole detail to the bar.

Very drawn to this.

You want to kind of gather there.

Really beautifully considered.

And this was a pub that had no clear design signature at all,

it had no identity, and he's given it that.

It's almost restaurant level.

This pub is renowned for its sort of gastro food.

I just wonder if there's a point

where we've elevated it beyond what it was.

This is supposed to be field to fork.

It's not very rustic,

and I think it's, almost, you'd want a little bit more of that.

But there's no question it's very beautiful.

And we have another floor to see.

Oh, wow.

This is a very different feel.

Beautiful.

I actually really like it up here, Michelle.

Wherever you look, there's something interesting.

I like the mural and the stars and the plants hanging

and the lighting. I think it's really lovely.

The deep, inky colour palette kind of grounds you

and makes you want to just sit down and linger.

I also think, in such a small space,

it's really clever to not be scared of pattern,

cos pattern adds pizzazz.

These chairs are a thing of absolute beauty. Astonishing.

It feels like a gastropub, which is the brief.

So it's actually upside down.

Well, I have a lot of questions for both our designers, though,

to really understand the nuts and bolts of their design decisions.

But this is not going to be easy.

Toughest decision ever, I would say.

Whilst the finalists head to the Brighton studio,

the managers get a first look at their reimagined spaces.

Wow, this is phenomenal.

Love this - little drinking shelf.

It feels more restaurant-y.

This is brilliant.

This is way more of an inviting space.

I think he has gone slightly off-brief,

but I really love what he's done.

Oh, my goodness.

This is incredible.

And the copper is just fab.

It definitely is more attractive to a younger customer.

The only thing is, I think we might need some more chairs,

because I think it's going to be quite popular.

After eight weeks and eight commercial challenges,

who will take the prize?

Hey, Jack. Monika.

Hey. You OK?

Oh, exhausted.

There's just so many emotions.

I'm excited, I'm nervous, I'm stressed.

Everything all at once.

I'm so glad it's the end of pubs week.

I was still painting, you know, like, up until the last minute.

It was so close.

I can't put into words how much I would love to win this.

It would be...

..outer-world experience. Yeah, it would be phenomenal.

Are you proud? Yeah, I'm really proud this week.

I'm really, really proud. Are you? Oh, yeah. Good. Yeah.

I think it was my personal best.

Were you impressed by the two pubs?

So impressed.

I really felt, with both of them, that it all came together.

I think both of them threw everything at it.

You had upholstery, you had copper plating, you had gold plating.

Both were breathtaking, weren't they,

in such different ways?

Mm. I mean, we've got to talk about Monika's bar.

She spent literally a day copper-leafing that bar.

You can't take your eyes off it.

I was obsessed with that bar,

and I felt a real sense of excitement when I walked in.

It lifted my spirits.

You feel that there is this boldness and this courage to her design.

And you feel her passion.

That is absolutely the conclusion of where we've seen her grown from -

someone who was actually really lacking in confidence

to start off with.

And then, as she grew, thinking, "I can do this."

Let's talk about Jack. Was you impressed?

With Jack, he's had a kind of consistency to his design.

And he used, like, all these glorious materials.

I mean, we felt it was very glamorous,

it was very sophisticated.

And he delivered something incredibly polished.

You walk into it, and it's kind of Gatsby meets gourmet.

Then you went upstairs, I thought it was gorgeous upstairs.

Really lovely. You see his real flair there.

How are we going to pick a winner?

I mean, they have both done incredible transformations.

But the final is absolutely about,

what did they deliver, to the brief, on this occasion?

Hi, guys. Hi, Alan. You all right? Hey, Alan. Whoa!

This old thing?

Mmm, nice!

Well, it's the final. You've got to get dressed up.

Look at you, Monika, you look great, and...

JACK LAUGHS ..you've put some trousers on.

But anyway... This is the first time

and last time you'll see me in trousers.

And you've seen each other's spaces.

Did you like what you see? Did it fill you with dread?

Did you think, "Ha! I'm going to win this now"?

No. I personally found both of our spaces on a very similar level.

We're giving the judges a little bit of a hard challenge.

You've both been on such an amazing journey.

And listen, whatever happens today, you should be so proud of yourself.

Thank you. The judges would like to see you first, Jack.

You ready?

Yeah.

You're not, are you? No! Come on!

Good luck. Thank you. And you - good luck, Monika.

Hiya. Hello. Hello.

You made it. You've done it.

You've finished that final project.

So, first off, absolute congratulations.

Thanks so much.

Your pub has a field-to-fork ethos.

So how did you feel that you represented that

through your design?

Some of the greens and stuff,

I wanted to introduce a bit of nature that way,

and some of the blues just, I know it's silly,

but even, like, just the sky and bringing the outside in,

and just leaving some of the natural materials in there just still raw,

like the wood upstairs and the table tops.

I didn't want to go too cliche with it, though,

and have like pictures of fields and pigs and stuff like that.

I felt your pub oozed a lot of glamour,

so I'm wondering where those references came from.

The owners wanted just a complete change,

and what they had wasn't working for them,

and they said they wanted maybe a bit of glamour.

And that's what I wanted to try and capture.

I think you were very clever with the palette,

because it was very edited,

so you didn't use lots of different colours,

so it automatically felt incredibly harmonious and sophisticated.

But then you kind of ramped it up

and covered the backs of the chairs.

So it was adding this finishing touch,

a herb or a spice, if you like, to the final look.

And I thought those details were super clever.

Thank you.

And you wanted the drama and the theatre,

and that is absolutely what we felt when we walked in there.

It was breathtaking.

Where did you get the idea for the gold extension to the bar?

I thought it was beautiful. When I go to a bar,

I like to sort of sit and have a drink at the bar.

So I just thought about extending it out.

I quite like the idea of, anything that I did around it,

maybe there could be some tactility, something solid that encased it.

There was a real drama to the downstairs,

I described it as sort of a Gatsby, kind of, gourmet feel to it.

Upstairs, quite different, more pubby almost. Mm-hm.

We loved upstairs.

There we really felt that that kind of palette came together

and it was very earthed by that floor.

Definitely. Oh, awesome.

OK, so, final question for me. Why should you win?

I think it would just give me, like, confirmation

that what I'm doing is good enough for other people

and not just myself.

I think it'll be a massive boost in confidence

and a shift in my life.

From the first project, I mean, you showed us some magical designs

all the way through,

but there was always that little bit of, like,

you didn't quite believe in yourself.

Yeah. And you absolutely should now.

Yeah, I do feel a ton more confident now.

Thank you, Jack.

Will you let Monika know that we'd like to see her?

Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Bye, Jack.

It's just in the judges' hands now.

That's all I can do, you know?

And I know that... we'll find out soon, so we'll see!

Hello! Hi.

Hi, Abigail.

So your pub wanted to attract a younger demographic,

it wanted to go trendier,

it wanted that real kind of day-to-evening vibe... Yeah.

..which is not easy to pull off.

So how did you begin to kind of represent that in your design?

What I tried to do is play a little bit with colours

and, like, darkness and light, in a way.

So I've put a lot of new lighting to create ambience,

to create more, like, zones and spaces.

I wanted people to, when they walk in,

I wanted them to feel...the space to feel inviting and warm

and almost like a little bit private in some areas as well.

And then the bar, I needed the bar to kind of just speak for itself

and be, like, the wow factor.

You really feel that about you, though, Monika.

There's a lot of wow factor in you,

and I could almost feel that force of nature that you are.

You know, you're like a tame lion in a way, which is a compliment.

Your bar was clearly kind of a central feature.

I mean, talk me through the decision to copper-leaf it,

cos that was no small endeavour.

When I spoke to the manager,

she straight away kind of wanted the bar

to almost be like a statement piece in itself.

So I went with copper, which is warmer,

and it just also felt right for me with the shape of the bar itself.

The thing that I loved is how you mottled

and antiqued that mirror.

So it felt like it had been around the block a few times,

just like the pub.

And, Monika, you did my number one thing that I'm obsessed with -

you carried the paint into the ceiling.

Yes! Gold star.

I loved how you chose certain areas to leave the bricks raw... Mm-hm.

..and then other areas were painted out.

Originally, every single surface was to be painted in that colour.

I just thought, "No, I have to pause for a second, stop the brushes."

And then it was just that one fireplace

was just too beautiful to paint.

So, challenge eight, you did it.

You stopped... I stopped! ..amid the chaos and took a moment.

This challenge especially, I...

..I really felt that I listened to my own gut,

and I personally am proud of...what I've done.

And you sort of had an epiphany, didn't you?

It was, like, week six, you sort of went,

"I'm going to follow my gut,"

because there was a lot of flapping going on.

There was so much flapping,

I thought she was going to take off at one point.

The beginnings were rocky, and I definitely would love

to incorporate interior design into my future.

Monika, thank you so much.

It's always so brilliant to kind of hear about the designs

from you and understand your process.

I need to kind of get these guys off

and have a good old discussion and debate.

But thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.

While Michelle makes her decision,

some familiar faces are welcomed back to the design studio.

The bar, how gorgeous is it?

That's phenomenal.

I am Team Jack, but Monika's bar was really good.

And you know what I love the most is the Jack panelling.

Like, that's a Jack room.

I have to say, Jack's delivered something that, as a professional,

was what you'd be demanded to do by a client.

I think my favourite's Hotel Week.

It was so maximal,

and I remember thinking, "That is Monika."

I feel like Monika, she has fought and fought.

She absolutely deserves to be here.

Monika unleashed. It does, "Monika unleashed" - I like that.

I just can't call it,

and I'm really excited to see what the judges think.

Ah, it's lovely to have you back.

Hi! Hi!

Look at all these lovely colours. Green, yellow, browns, blues.

You're like a talented rainbow of runners-up.

You are!

Well, listen, you both have come so far.

Let's find out who the winner is.

Michelle.

Jack,

Monika,

you have both blazed an amazing trail through this competition.

I feel privileged to have watched you grow

through every challenge that I've thrown at you.

Jack, you've shown me craft, consistency,

and a real dedication to do your best.

Monika, what a joy it's been to see your energy, enthusiasm,

and fearlessness.

And interior design mastery,

that's what creates the magic that makes those spaces

that affect how we feel.

And in truth, you both absolutely delivered on that

with your final challenges.

So well done.

Of course, there can only be one winner.

So this year's Interior Design Master...

..is Monika.

ALL APPLAUD

Well done, girl. Well done.

Oh, my God. Thank you so much, Michelle.

I'm so proud of you.

To go this far and to win, nowhere in the wildest dreams.

I never, ever thought that this would happen.

CORK POPS, THEY CHEER

Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!

This is the start of something new,

of something exciting and something big.

Monika in interior design world!

Well done, you. Thank you.

I'm feeling, like, so chuffed for Monika.

She's absolutely smashed it. I'm so proud.

I've grown so much from week one to where I am now.

It's just been bonkers.

So if I can do all that, I can do anything.

I have loved watching Monika grow, seeing her enjoy her talent,

but always with an edge of bravery

and a complete dedication to fulfilment of the brief.

And that is what all came together in this last challenge.