The teams are to decorate the master bedroom in just 15 hours.
It’s a brand new week, and the remaining 7 teams gather at the Dulux Supply Room with Jamie Durie, as he reveals this week’s challenge - The Kitchen and Dining Room. This week, the teams are told to focus on light as a pillar of design. As part of their challenge, the teams are told to prepare their space for a special occasion with only 15 hours to complete it.
Jamie gathers the teams to reveal this week’s challenge - The Kid’s Room! To the shock and potential horror of the contestants, they find out that this week they will not just be designing for themselves, but for a seriously judgmental and brutally honest group of clients, children under the age of 14! The teams will be judged not just on their designs, but how their designs will translate 5 years from now for their respective clients.
It’s a brand new week and the teams are tired but by no means beaten. Jamie reveals this week’s challenge, his personal favourite area to design - The Great Outdoors. While some teams cringe at the thought of getting their hands dirty and soaking up the sun, Jamie as a qualified horticulturalist will be there at every step of the way, offering valuable insights and advice.
It’s a brand new week and with only 5 teams left in the competition. Jamie announces a huge surprise, Mera and Kish from team Glue and Glam are returning to the competition! As the returning team step forward, their is a collective intake of breath from the contestants, and they leave for shopping feeling very uncertain of their place in the competition. Jamie reveals this week’s challenge before they go - The bathroom challenge. The theme this week is ‘Zen’, and the contestants face their biggest challenge to date, designing not one but two bathrooms in a rapid design challenge. The teams must as always, design their bathrooms without compromising the ever present ‘Glam’ factor, or face the wrath of Judge Laurence.
Jamie gathers the teams together as he reveals this week’s challenge - The Study or Wellness Room, and the teams discover to their dismay that another 10 hour rapid challenge awaits them. The teams must incorporate environmentally friendly ideas and sustainable materials in their designs.
The 5 remaining teams meet Jamie for the announcement of their next challenge - The Guest Room, incorporating Fashion into their designs to be completed within 12 hours. Jamie really works the teams into a frenzy, telling them that 6 hours in the challenge, everyone will lose their team member and have to work with one of their competitors! Execution is key in this challenge.
Jamie reveals that the teams will be designing a leisure room, with film and cinema as their theme. Jamie then gives the teams a very glamorous helping hand from a mystery celebrity, who has donated several of her own personal pieces to help inspire their designs.
Jamie meets with the teams to deliver their final challenge, that will guarantee them a place in the finale, or end their dreams to become an instant home owner. They will be designing the living room this week, however with no theme assigned they are free to do go creatively wild. Jamie then reveals that they are allowed to purchase items from the eliminated contestants’ homes at half price and will be driving the next generation Ford Focus to shopping!
The exit of Bros United last week left a bittersweet atmosphere in the competition, however the two remaining teams, The Opportunists and Dali, are ecstatic and are wasting no time in celebrating making it through to the grand finale and one step closer to the ultimate prize!
Nine pairs of amateur designers from different walks of life embark on the journey of a lifetime. With the opportunity to win an apartment and be free of rent and mortgage for the rest of their lives, they are prepared to do whatever it takes.
The second week of the competition kicks off with a rapid challenge that rattles the contestants! They will only have twelve hours to complete one of the most visited rooms in a house, the bathroom. And to test their creativity, they have to base their designs on various eras like "the roaring 20's" and "the groovy 60's".
Glamour is the name of the game for the third week’s challenge, as contestants get ready to design an entertainment room fit for a star. Fashionistas Yvette and Sonya had the wind knocked out of their sails by Laurence’s cringe worthy critique last week, and are struggling to find their groove right from the get go.
The fourth week kicks the competition up a notch, with the challenge brief delivering a double whammy to the contestants. Not only must they embody the style of an iconic artist into the hub of their home, their living rooms, they have to do the entire design paired up with another team? Is this tethering of teams going to help or a hinder them when every decision counts?
The teams were taken out of their comfort zones for this week's challenge and thrown in the great outdoors. Amidst the sun and soil, they have to design a garden from scratch, testing their ability to adapt to an alien environment!
This week’s challenge is to create the heart of the home: a fantastic family room. In order to throw the teams out of their comfort zones, they are restricted with their colour choices for their sixth challenge. With each team being assigned a specific colour palette, they have to adapt swiftly and design a family room that is able to cater to the needs of three generations.
It's down to the final four teams and their next challenge is unlike any other! This week, the contestants are assigned the monumental task of creating a luxurious guest room fit for a queen, on a peasant’s budget of only $2000!
After their joy at being surprised by the appearance of their family and friends in the last design court, the final four teams got a much needed break from the competition to spend time with their loved ones. This emotional moment reminds each and every contestant of their purpose in joining the competition, to provide a better future for their families.
This week, The Apartment takes a trip down memory lane and looks back at the stand out moments thus far this season. Get ready for some unmissable, outrageous, hilarious and never before seen footage of the vibrant contestants and the usually pristine judges!
This stage is set as the last two teams standing battle it out for their dream home. Yvette & Sonya and Deankie & Tiara take on a mammoth final challenge of completing an entire apartment from scratch in just 72 hours! Not only do they have to please the judges, they also have to impress VIP guests in an open house party. The stakes are at their highest.
