My Design Rules Episode 11 Lounge Designs part 2 | Sponsored by Private Property

[Music] my design rules is sponsored by Cy Tech better never [Music] rests previously on my design rules after completing their kitchens the Duos got to work on the final interior space in their Apartments the lounge now at the halfway mark our Duos have their work cut out for them who will impress the judges and win the challenge in only a few weeks the winning duo will be crowned along with the grand prize of 300,000 Rand from capy Tech Plus another 100,000 Rand from capy for the viewers favorites the reason why we making these plants are because we want to create different levels of height in our lounge and also just like an element where we can like display our decor and our vases in our Lounge I don't DIY often but I love DIY you know DIY it's a nice exercise having a good Ryobi power tool always helps especially if it is a cordless Tool uh you just recharge the batteries and then you complet all your DIY projects to finish the plants they're covering them with these small white tiles from ctm and mixing into their progrp grouting from ctm some Durham color Pro stirring paint color to match the overall look the DIY bug has also bitten team fire as Hanna uses her cordless Ryobi drill to put up their shelving I think I have found my new calling drilling drilling drilling is so thrilling Hannah you're definitely the butch one in the team somebody's got to be yay kids Wild d well done She's a Beauty that's incredible shelf problem resolved and well worth the stress this was the first Feast that we bought this is the first Feast we wanted in our home so feels really incredible to have it Up full circle full circle moment yeah to complement the Caesar Stone smoke Stone above their fireplace team fire Pops in at Buco to pick out their perfect paint color from plascon maybe we look for a dark very dark gray I feel like that is charcoal just off enough got a nice feel to it it does these look good okay cool let's go get that mix amazing every good paint needs the base is this the part where I say we're all about that base or are you going to cringe too much I'm going to cringe okay so I'm not going to say but I'm all about this transparent base well here we go with their plason dark Onyx paint and plascon transparent and base Hannah and Katon head back to the apartment where the work begins we have quite a quite a few important statement pieces to tackle today we've got a lot so yeah poor Hannah like yeah send up c yeah cue the music meanwhile upstairs at Team Earth they're in two minds about which color to paint their fireplace and as with any good Brothers there's only one solution to a decision like this I really like the Heritage like I feel like we took so much time bro but I don't know if it's the actual look cuz the black would be fire bro let's go for black d okay let's just make the call now bro rock paper scissors okay if I win you're going black okay if I win keeping it as is ah black bro we're going black it's a day of DIY on my design rules and team fire attempts their next project with handmade Furniture to complement their theme we love a really retro Vibe and I feel like the lounge has been our chance in the house to show that so we wanted to create these coffee tables side tables with these beautiful ctm tiles that I think we saw our first trip there yes for these coffee tables we are so excited that we finally get to DIY something and it's so unique so you we've built these boxes out of plywood or superwood whatever can hold these tiles and we are now sticking them trying to get them as straight as possible and then we're going to graft it to finish it off at the same time team water has landed a similar concept but the question is who did it first Kat you know what to bit of a mystery to me speaking of I feel like I know exactly where this is going just put it all out on the coffee table please I feel like I'm seeing some imitation here best and you know how I feel about imitation some people say it's the highest form of flattery I think it's I find it so offensive I feel like we should just go have a little just a little conversation okay I'm not saying that I'm going to claim tiling we are not the objects and plants and coffee tables and whatever but it's a bit [Music] sus hey swell just a man I'm looking for oh you guys we're fine remember remember we used to be friends are we still friends we're here to find out I thought she so friends really we're just in a little mystery solving mood okay timelines and receipts timelines and receipts we are talking about can you guess the plint oh the tile plants the tile plants when and where did you decide this was long time ago no okay okay okay was this in your mood board yes you can CU it just it seems funny cuz it's such a niche thing I've got the same one in my apartment I feel like everyone has flints though it's like child BL ours is white yours is like nice and colorful my house yes but the one in his house is exactly ex like this I mean great minds think alike I guess was go out for lunch and then discuss this okay I like we're going to Hash this out next yeah we can hash this out because maybe both are innocent yeah you know okay really up next Tia searches for the perfect fabric for their couch and Scatter cushions plus we learn more about lighting [Music] layouts citech do it all on our app just like that [Music] featuring one of the largest collections in the world home Fabrics is South Africa's leading Fabric and wallpaper distributor and their fiber guard range is just what team water is looking for so fiber guard is really a pioneering product in terms of stain-free Technology it has integrated stainfree aspects to the fabric so it's really made for living made for washing made for everyday sort of spills and cleaning and really easy living sort of product it's inherently stainfree with stain on stain technology so you can really clean the same spot over and over again and it's quite a vast range so it's really starts at simple velvet all the way through to recycled outoor quality so it's vast and we're really really proud of being the Distributors of it in the South African Market hi hello I'm Annie I'm Tia nice to meet you I'm looking for fabric for our Lounge we want to wrap our cart in something that's durable and also our scatter cushions okay fabulous well these are great for your sofa and for your scat cushions they decorate as Choice by father God and you mentioned that you're looking at lighter Fabrics so these are great because they have inherently stainfree technology sure that's really impressive yeah this design you're looking at particular is called ambient and ambient's fantastic for your application and it's recycled sure that's amazing the fabber god collection is quite a vast range of product uh so I think let's narrow it down as you can see there's quite a bit of product but I think let's look at the ambient that you were interested in and then I'll show you how it works okay so you can pick your stain it's all the common household stain so what do you think is going to be the problem I think red one wa lots of red wine well that's a proper stain the first thing with cleaning the fiber God stain is Don't panic everything's going to be okay leave it to me Habibi I'm just going to clear up all the liquid and get it off once the liquid is off then we start with a little bit of water so water just really about getting the loosening the stain if I lifting the stain if I can call it that as you can see we're going to need a little bit of soap to get this one out and with the soap to trick as less as more so we really just put a little bit of a soap on with that microfiber cloth you just do a little bit of a circular motion just to really lift that stain out so that's it that's amazing like it's completely gone and that's red wine with red wine that would normally be a lethal stain on any fabric especially velvet quality and here proof is in the pudding it's actually cleared cleaned up beautifully I'll take 20 M of that fantastic I'm so excited I'm here at home Fabrics to fetch the materials for our curtains in the lounge and the bedroom can't wait to see it okay so this is the motion s for your curtaining beautiful your block out lining this looks so much I know well that's a lot of cury awesome but y it's going to make a beautiful thank you so quite excited to see the end results me too I you carry out I mean lighting is one of the most important design aspects to consider in a space and for more than 25 years eurolux has been lighting the way for South African with the latest Innovations one thing I want to talk about obviously is lighting which I think is so overlooked but so impactful when we talking about interior design what are some of the principles that we should maybe be looking out for when it comes to lighting layout well we look at layering of lights and the principles would be accent lighting ambient lighting as well as task lighting so ambient lighting is your general lighting task lighting is for specific tasks if you're studying or that kind of thing and then your accent lighting is highlighting features okay so that makes sense for our deers because there's a lot of designs going on here and you want to really highlight some of the textures and some of those designs absolutely and then you've got your color temperature as well you've got your warm white your cool white and your daylight in your bedroom you want a more cozy light you want a warm white something to relax you before going to sleep in your bathroom you actually want quite a bright light when you're doing your makeup you want to be able to see and what's very nice is your dimmable capabilities that you have nowadays what I'm noticing in many of the design Duos Apartments is this magnetic tracking system I absolutely love it but what exactly is going on here why you seeing so much of it is because it is simple it is easy it is Sleek it's a beautiful design and it's magnetic which means that you literally put your fitting in you can take it out if you want to so it's so versatile I've got some examples here for you as well nice right what we looking at so obviously we've got a really high powerered spot here this one over here is 18 Watts okay and it's dimmable so to create that mood and that Ambiance this is what you're looking abely perfect so obviously um just different designs and you can see here they just literally click in and click out you can move them left right there's so much that you can do the versatility is amazing and it looks so clean and neat how exactly does it work though well as you can see there's magnets here okay and it's a magnetic track so you will basically just hold these two in and clip them in would you like to try definitely okay all right let's see how easy this actually is so you're saying literally anywhere on the track I can use it now just clip these in and then there look at that as simple as that and you can even can I slide it around yes there we go wow so you can position it where you wanted to be oh this is absolutely incredible can I try another one absolutely this a nice pment oh this is beautiful and I can literally see how these will make such a unique opportunity to get creative with our lighting design at home and we can change it as we go Natasha this is getting me so excited I can clearly see why I think all our design Duos are using this magnetic track and with that I think the inside of these apartments have the opportunity to be ambient to be a mood changer a mood Setter but if anything else I think just create beautiful memories and that's thanks delighting the fabric from home Fabrics really makes the space feel soft and warm and welcoming I can see the whole Vision kind of finally come together yeah do you think though should it be lighter or darker if we stain it we're going to keep the wood grain if we paint it we're going to lose the wood grain mhm so I think definitely we should stain it to keep the wood grain and paint it on the inside I think the most important thing is that this is not linking with that piece over there which is also a very big piece of wood so I think if we can marry the two with the same same wood stain yes I think that will compliment each other yes and they can actually work together in this space and with that team air take time out with a cup of Jacob's classic cappuccino to celebrate the progress they've made and how far they've come as a design Duo go thank you Amy you're welcome we've got this cheers cheers up next the Duos start to furnish their spaces plus we visit the incredible new development the rubic in the CBD for [Music] inspiration who says no to a cappuccino Jacobs vundar do it like this it like it move it like this Beast [Music] pooke while the dubos rush to finish on time we visit a beautifully completed space in the heart of K Town CBD located in the rubic a new multi-use high-rise by aband property developers okay Charles I can clearly see what's going on your breathtaking views it feels incredible just being in the space but talk to me more about this development to Rubik what's going on you and what's on offer so we try to create a home in the sky so you're in the city but you're over the city your perspective is entirely different when you're out there you've got these really big expanses of glass the all way around kind of just connects you straight out into the space the views everything is double glazed it's very quiet up here and it's a beautiful place just to come to and relax riding them part of what's going on in Cape Town the rubic development has sort of like this mixed uh sort of residential your living area what are we in right now is this just a basic apartment is this a suite what would you call it so here we are in a penthouse it's a lovely corner unit pent housee so you're looking at the 25th floor all the way to the 27th floor to Triplex layout you come into it big expansive open plan you don't know what to expect but I think it blows your way when you two come in yeah literally I'm seeing lion's head Table Mountain Devil's Peak all in one sort of AR raay that doesn't happen very often man absolutely love this man and I could definitely itely picture myself entertaining out here I think my friends would love me after this eh I think you'll never never be lonely of year there's always going to be friends around I think you're can actually slowly close your door to try and get some peace and quiet sometimes speaking of how many units and Pen houses are there in the Rubik so so the building itself is quite a low density building it's again something we've tried to do different to some other developers we want to make a space which is is not too busy although you're in the city so you got a total of 87 apartments in the building eight of which are pen houses so very unique quite Niche there's not a lot out there gives you something a bit of a bragging right maybe something different to everyone else and I've got three still available for S come let's go see some bedrooms l oh okay all right we have arrived that's right here we are with regards to design obviously this is intentional as well as the entire design of the building how did it come about what inspired the Rubik's design in total we had an incredible design team dhk very well-known Architects put a lot of time into trying to produce something unique but functional everything is like we want to do something special but it also has to work it has to work for the future it has to look good not only today but I want people to make a bit of a legacy building so when people come and they see this they're quite blown away for years to come oh my goodness man it just keeps getting bitter and bitter this is phenomenal so I like to think I said the best philosophy here you talked about you like to entertain is this not the outside entertainment you really want in your life hey hey and of course I recognize this lovely Soul Ashley how you doing hi guys it's good to see you again you too obviously I'm never going to complain when I see you cuz you're bringing excitement and design to the Forefront but what exactly are you doing out here I'm just here to do a little bit of a health check so we had our products installed here about a year ago just wanted to see how our color was performing um in the harsh Sun as as you can see out here and I don't know you can take a look and tell me what you think that's the sample the new piece and this is the decking board that's been installed about a year ago it looks pretty much brand new color difference Charles you clearly must be happy with this right a fantastic product we're really happy with how it's looking and how it's come out well I can't help but get excited from the inspiration I'm seeing out here especially when it comes to the pergler now I know we commissioned you to help us with our design back at our Apartments how's it going it's going really well we've come up with a very tool design that's going to give you both shade so it's going to work on a functional level but it's also going to be really aesthetically pleasing and we're really confident in the makeup of this product you know obviously it's an aluminium Extrusion with a composite capping it's obviously got that 60% bamboo fiber 40% recycled plastic element the aluminium obviously gives it that strength that extra longevity that it needs um so it will be able to span across that length of the pagola we're thinking it's just a phenomenal design we can't wait for you guys to have a look at it look if the private Terrace wasn't enough we've got this which is awesome I can see so many people enjoying these spaces but what exactly is happening AA so here we've come up to the communal terrce so for the apartments so from level 18 and up in the building they can access this space you got Bri areas you got quiet seating down there to enjoy the sun look it's midday on a Monday in Cape Town it's really not awful to be here is it back on site Richard Wallace and Warren espie from Eco oak flooring admire their completed installations you must be standing at like proud parents right now seeing your product on the floor but talk to me about CP and papele with Team Earth and the room that we're in right now are you happy with what you've seen yes I I think they've got it spot on when they came to the showroom they gravitated straight away towards the Herring bone they like the clean look and the fact that you get multiple tones in the premium grade Oak and especially heringbone being a feature product for a feature room like this I think they've done phenomenally well it gives you options in design as well because it's not as busy as the sort of traditional heing bone you'd SE in the past right yeah correct I think the size of the Herring bone the board width the board length the way that it's fitted I think people have got a a misconception in their minds that that Herring bone is very very busy and sort of takes your mind away from other aspects of design but once you see it down it actually looks amazing and beautiful and seamless and it really is a very very popular choice for you can see here you know they've put a carpet down but you still get to see the feature of the board because of the pattern and because I think of the grade that they've chosen and the color scheme they've gone Team Water also chose the Herring bone design and Z is making sure it looks its best with his Samsung bespoke jet plus pet upright Hoover this vacuum cleaner is so light and it has like AI technology and it's rechargeable just feel how light it is yeah that's so comfortable normally they so heavy yeah and it sort of like like tells you like which spots you missed and it has like that light thing that like shows you where you vacuuming and then it will change like the levels when you're like working on a rug this is like like heavy and like has more dirts look that SP is done already this it's feels so good like you don't like slouch you know cuz normally vacuum cleaners you end up like slouching like this and they head to your bag and then this one you just so this one's perfect for you you can just going to make your house yeah you [Applause] know cor underneath things well Z gets to know his new Samsung bspoke Hoover C heads to the Samsung store in search of the perfect TV so have you had a look around yeah man amazing products everywhere making it very hard for me to kind of choose what I want we've got some fantastic technology you've seen the OLED we've got QED which is our higher end and then top end is our Neo QED where do I start where do I go you know what space are you going to use it for it's like a TV Lounge area going for a Sleek look right well if you want a slick look maybe you should consider something even more different than this really we've got a TV called the frame and it hangs on the wall like a painting it's art when it's off or not television and and when it's a television it's a q- television wow it has an integrated mounting so it hangs on the wall with absolutely no Gap so it has that sinless flush not entirely flush and it's got a matte display in front it's got paper-like technology so that when it's displaying art and it can be any art it's got a built-in art store it's the only way to display digital art properly and also that's something that's big right now it's a Modern Trend it's happening where would you display digital art if not on a digal screen right the frame on a frame exactly does it come with different colors of frame oh yes you can customize the frame to your liking so it starts as a basic black there's a white there's a dark and a light wood variant so that you can integrate with any other frame or any other type of Decor that you've got that's actually nice so that that that gives me like room to play with like what colors are dominating abolutely just one thing bear in mind because it hangs on the wall like a painting the last thing that you want is a lot of cable right definitely the frame comes with a another Samsung first called the one connect box the intention with that is that instead of having a lot of ugly cables connecting to the television itself they've got this box it sits elsewhere it connects via a fiber optic cable and that cable cannot be seen and then onto the one connect box you connect your gaming console your thumb drive any other cabling that you need to do can be done there rather than directly to the back of the television so thanks man I think I got exactly what I want so where do I pay BR there thanks brother after reflecting on their design team AAS brought in noyo lmani from lmani Village a local Furniture supplier specializing in oversized mirrors mirrors create light and the illusion of depth and expanding spaces so when you have an oversized mirror that really helps create uninterrupted reflection and light that bounces off the mirror should we hang this mirror or is it all right if we lean it against the wall it's able to be hung with the hooks at the back but I find that people like to lean it against the wall it's more casual and yeah trendy makes the space more relaxed and not so curated in a way yeah the most challenging thing about this room has been manufacturing our products cuz we wanted to include our own custom pieces into the lounge as a statement of closing up the story also balancing it out just making sure that we use our Stones the right way but yeah like over in all like we had a plan we stuck to it and this is what came out no material goes go to waste as the teams make use of their Caesar Stone off cuts and marble from Rudy's Choice installed by contina all the contestants were quite excited to utilize their marble Natural Stone has such uniqueness and every piece of stone is completely different so to try and spread it out across your home firstly it saves Earth number one number two it brings in the color palette and texture throughout your entire home so you have little bits of this beauty scattered across your home which ties back into your feature area which would be your fireplace or your kitchen or even dining room table I love how the contestants really pushed the limits and they thought out of the box in terms of resizing and working with the material they actually had there was almost zero wastage cuz we've utilized every single piece we actually needed more Stone cuz we had so many ideas so yeah almost zero wastage when it came to our National sence Labs up next after completing their spaces the Duos can have a good night's rest where dreams begin but who will impress the judges enough to win the [Music] challenge it's deadline day for the lounge Challenge and the Duos are hard at work putting the finishing touches to their space Es as the judges arrive to deliver their critique contestants ready or not here we come let's get inside well judges this is TI Andy of course as we know representing team water and with that I'll give you the opportunity to talk to us about this beautiful space you created so with our space we actually wanted to like carry through the the FL that we already had in the kitchen we wanted to keep everything clean and white to bring in a bit of depth we sort of like went for the crown molding with our concept of water thought of like having like a very huge visual interest like a very bold one like on our ceiling very good uh Conversation Piece as well and it's quite unconventional that it's in the ceiling so we wanted to take that bold step and then just kind of work with a neutral base around so that that didn't Clash but we've still complemented the cold Blues with rust and orangey tones just to bring some warmth and we've kept some of our gold with our painting and there's LED strips around here so that's actually the lighting in our lounge and another thing we considered was storage you know in the living room like especially like in the modern days like storage is like sort of like overlooked it brings in a bit of form then we taking from the kitchen as well that nice cappuccino color that was um supposed to like make the sand the ocean sand in in our theme so we bringing that back in again I think it's looking wonderful Everything feels very considered can we see your space with the lights on lights lights what yeah Paul any thoughts on this yes I love how the lighting is scattered and it's not from a central um point which is very on Trend at the moment creating because you can up and down your lighting based on your moods and again it's quite agile I love the sand um the picking up of the sand tones clever very gentle gentle no concept with and it just for a lounge is very powerful it is very peaceful yeah I feel very peaceful the key thing I'm looking for in the lounge is comfort and I must say you guys have definitely accomplish that whenever the judges speak I'm honestly like so nervous I'm like shaking so I don't even hear what they actually have to say if someone has to ask me for what the judge's feedback is afterwards I'm a blank so nervous when I I think I have to have like another meeting with him guys please hit me up tell me what's wrong and I will fix it yeah they right about this being a conversation piece because my initial thought was you must be brave to choose this bra this is it's a very heavy like almost overpowering pattern but the way it kind of all comes together through all the white I think works perfectly I think I think the one step too far was the um molding on the walls I don't know what you think me but I love it it just doesn't it doesn't we don't have the style anywhere else I actually think without it though the walls would feel a little bit empty but it's always the balance between too much and too little and how far you push it yeah actually almost seems to be their signature if we draw back to the ctm challenge they had these frame sort of styles in the wall I did notice in the kitchen in the previous Challenge and I almost feel like it's something that they've kept as their style signature um and whether that was intentional or not it is what it is it's part of the style that got them to win the challenge right one thing that's always a bit of a bag bear for me in a lounge environment is is there a place for me to put my drinks when I'm sitting m i see they've done that perfect touches that make the difference and the storage I mean that's a game change in a space like this yeah [Music] well next up we've got Han and Keaton representing team fire and I'd love you to talk to us about your creation here what's happening a lot is happening here welcome everyone um so I'll start off by saying we really wanted to have the full fire Spectrum going on we wanted to take all the boxes of all the colors this is a one-bedroom apartment so we decided you know two adults are living here so this is the adult playroom these could represent Legos you know we kind of thought about how a fire like dances and your eye kind of dances across the room so imagine like you having like a fond de night yeah swapping the tables which we DIY ourselves by the way very proud yes yes our DIY moments um used every last piece as far as we could of all our marble as you can see this is our Caesar Stone here marble there Marble Marble Marble yeah it is so playful and there's something so Charming about being in a playful space and you can see that it's so interchangeable and easy it's an easy living space and and that is wonderful we have to spend some more time and you feel it out and uh get some more discussions going about this room so we'll see you guys outside later there's a lot of taste that needs to be taken into account in this space cuz I look at this and immediately I think my grandmother's place this is like my place but I I think this space captures their personalties they so bubbly and they're so playful and they're so light and you feel that the moment you walk in if you compare to what we've just seen um Team Water their room feels bigger and I don't know if it's the palette or just the placement of everything but it does feel smaller I think it's the proportions of things everything's miniature like a miniature couch miniature thing like this could have been a this could have extended this entire area here the carpet's too small as I walked in I thought my one thing is the carpet's too small especially for these floors well we have arrived at Team Air Josh and Amy love what you've done here but I'm going to give you an opportunity to explain to our judges what you have done and why with this living room challenge this is the first room that we've freely put our blood sweet and tears in we've literally we've DIY this with the help of buo the frame I've did myself as well um nice so all the literally all the hard work that Amy and I put put in here is is what you can see feels so beautiful thank you thank you tell us uh and tell us more about these chairs so that was a a thrift find um along with this table and the drinks cabinet just behind your R all thrifted all thrifted and we we had my aunt she re up Holsted those two little chairs and we did these two pieces ourselves wow yeah and then this TV stand as well we had a leftover piece of veneered Timber ledge from the bedroom that we just makeshift a little TV unit and TI the bottom and yeah it's a really impressive impressive space it feels big it feels elegant it feels elegant got it it feels but also warm andly so it's not too too sophisticated that it feels sterile it feels comfortable yeah it's a perfect balance of comfort but Elegance y I agree some of the feedback that we gave you in a prior challenge was to add more texture into your space and not have your entire room looks so monochromatic and I think you guys have actually nailed it who've listened well you clearly have cuz one of the first things I noticed is I see that texture in all the little moments as well the basket um under the ledge the little stool your rug brings a beautiful texture and even you can see on the fireplace the pain technique you've done um gives it so much warmth hearing the judges saying that it's so comfortable walking in it's so warm it's it's it's you know it's like a it's like a cocoon almost you know getting that response from Belle and Megan and was really really really you know giving us that hope can't believe how big it is it's the same dimensions as all the others but it's big and it just feels comfortable without feeling too precious I don't feel precious in the space and and I like that in a space I enjoyed walking in yeah and getting that feeling of I can kick my shoes off and relax I'm not in a rush to go into another room and I would love to just chill out on this couch and just enjoy the views yeah up next with only team Earth left of view the judges have a tough decision to make who will claim the win for the lounge challenge stand a chance to win a weekend away in the winning apartments with buo dial Star 120 star 62800 HH and follow the prompts to enter begin with buo whether you're looking for a lock up and go or a settle down and grow an office for your booming business or a safe haven we have a space for you well judges the brothers of course representing team Earth and here's the opportunity to showcase your design and what you've created in the space guys Welcome to our wonderful space um first of all to start where your eyes are starting this is our beautiful fireplace we had to kind of take off old paint and apply a new coat so we went with um matte black to pick up the accents that we have that you see throughout the space and then we went with the K out piece this out piece is called to conquer self we are on a journey of Discovery as interior designers yeah so we took this canvas with pride we took this canvas with the theme and we tried to n it as much as we can be consistent with the material Choice certain Aesthetics like the curves and here we are we have this baby here this coffee table it's called called the nuga range our story has always been um centered around our mother so this is a piece to celebrate her yeah in this way speaks supplement and it's a gift from us for the world to experience and we hope you guys love it I love it I I feel like it's come so far since I last saw the space and I won't lie I was worried I told you I was worried about the different elements but somehow you guys have brought it together so beautifully you've toned it down you've made it feel grounded um which is so appropriate and I can feel and see the narrative that you speak about it it really does come together so well in the space I can definitely feel the opulence lots of use of royal colors you know the the tonality that comes out when you're in here rich is another you know word we could use to describe it well boys you definitely put something special together and you speak of an experience so let the judges experience more of this beautiful space before we go and make our final decisions boys well done you can be proud of this one this is almost like art in itself and they've brought that in in the lights and they've also brought it in there on the stand I think they've done I honestly think they've done a good job in terms of color palette in use you know forget the art forget all the accessories that are there looking at the space that hearts come together I think they've done really well and I think the space for me is so great for them as designers because it feels like their personality it feels like their energy but it's also not too much it feels like you or I could be in the space and enjoy it without it feeling too personal to them they've got storage almost seems a little too big I I am so glad you mentioned it it just the width of it is because I'm still trying to figure out how this space feels tiny bit smaller than some of the others it could be a 100 shorter yeah I agree and I also feel there's a missed opportunity over there um I feel like that's dead space which could be utilized so even the couch could possibly have been extended a little bit or it could have been um in L shapes um so I do worry about the utilization of that space they've done well they've done very well they've done well I'm really impressed well judge this is a tough decision at hand we saw incredible intentional design we saw impact we saw connectedness what are you guys thinking o I know my top two I have a top two a clear top two I've got a clear top two I don't have a clear winner oh I think I agree with you I have a clear winner W should we go let our deos know yeah well here we are contestants and judges once again to the final moments of our Lounge challenge now it always is an extra incentive when we talk to you about what you can win for this challenge it's not just bragging rights but officially you'll be winning the iconic lab light and that's from Anatomy design and that's going to be going into your apartment to add so much more value so yep the stakes are high deos contestants officially this is the moment where we announce our positions and starting with our fourth place position for the lounge challenge it goes to team fire what fourth is I mean I don't get it team fire I really felt the theme in your space I mean you guys went 100% in however I believe that you may have gone too much theme being you versus the theme being fire in the spatial design if you were to strip out the furniture if you were to strip out all the different elements in that space before that the design of the space itself was not up to par with what we saw with the rest of the teams thank goodness we are not fourth for once and for our living room challenge in third place we have Team water I mean I mean it's a bit sad I mean but obviously we have to be proud um that I mean we proud of our space and we can't win everything like sometimes you have to lose yeah I'm trying to be positive okay I'm trying I'm trying to keep it together your space was incredible it was very elegant for you I think there was a little bit too much sand there was beautiful warmth but we missed a little bit of the water element it didn't have as much flow as we were hoping to see it didn't have as much depth in the color blue um without being too literal it felt a little bit too clean it just missed a little bit of the water element for us and with that being said it obviously means that our top two teams for this challenge is team air and team Earth team air when I walked into your space it was warm and inviting and it made me want to take off my shoes and relax I got that sense of comfort and that sense of welcoming and I want to be in your space the negatives however in that regard I'd say there's no storage space in your Lounge which something to to be mindful of and perhaps the size of the chairs works really well but you could have used that space a little bit more there's a little bit more you could add into that space Earth we loved it felt so grounded and it felt so thoughtful without being too much and for us one of the negatives was that some of your furniture the scale felt a bit off for example the server under the TV felt bit wide that could have been slightly narrower and there was a corner by the bookshelf that could have had another layer in but overall I think it was such a beautiful thoughtful space judges thank you again this was a tough one but we have to announce our winner right now dos your winner for the living room challenge is Team Air [Applause] congratulations wow Josh and Amy come with the hour I can't believe it but we finally claimed a win how are you feeling about this one overwhelmed a lot of emotions and I mean of you two losses to have a win is like thank you thank you so much will you to maybe doubt your abilities with regards to your design skills up until this point I mean I think not just our design skills but you know our team Dynamic we started to question that and we just keep pushing and saying we need to work on our team of dynamic and listen to the judges that I think we paid good attention to those comments you've ticked all the boxes so it's not a it's not a lucky thing it's not that youve tried harder you just really succeeded it's a deserved thing yeah yeah as Belle said you take so many boxes and you can see it and you can feel it and you experience it the moment you enter your space so you guys can be so proud because it really is something beautiful absolutely judges thank you once again for all the incredible work to our years you were amazing well done again Josh and Amy get some rest and let's carry on making magic the morale of team fire is still like I mean still burning let's just get that straight 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