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Away! Away! Get the sheep! Get the sheep!

Good doggy, that's what I like to see!

Come on. This is so easy.

What's all the fuss about? I love it.

What's that? Five designers doing up shepherd huts in North Wales?

It's Interior Design Masters.

Come on, we've got work to do.

Come by! Ra!

DOG BARKS

Ten aspiring designers

competing for one life-changing contract

to transform a luxury hotel apartment in Cornwall.

Last time...

CRASHING

BLEEP!

..the designers hit the high street.

It's retail theatre, darling.

Banjo and Amy impressed.

I love this space.

Fran was all over the shop.

You did it! But...

So fiddly! My God!

..it was closing time for Molly.

You went for theatre. It was too much.

Thanks.

No, no.

Guys, we're in the final five.

Feels quite empty, doesn't it, now?

It does. It feels really empty.

In Brighton, the five remaining designers have gathered

to hear this week's brief.

Last week was scary on the sofa.

Sucks. But it was good to get feedback.

Are you going to bring it this week? Yeah, definitely.

Being on the sofa last week has been, like, a rocket.

I'm down to the last five. I could win this.

Michelle said, "Push yourself, push the brief,"

and that's exactly what I intend to do.

I'm, like, itching to go wild. Yeah, yeah.

I hope it's a good brief. Mm.

I think I've definitely got a chance of getting to the end.

You know, I've got two wins under my belt now,

but I just need to keep pushing.

I need to bring just more to the table, basically.

We have to dial it up. Yeah, we have to.

Yeah, this is turn up time. Turn up time.

Hello, fab five. Hello. Hi, Alan.

Oh, how you feeling?

Good. Good. Good, good.

And well done for surviving shop week

because I think that was tough.

A survivor.

You are a survivor! Yeah.

# Survivor I'm a survivor...

Yeah! # I'm not gon' give up. #

We're all Destiny's Children. Yeah, we are.

And listen, we're all friends here,

but do you prefer working in teams or alone?

Cos you never know whether Michelle's going to

stick you with someone, do you? No. Solo.

It's nice to go solo because I think,

if you design and Michelle critiques you,

she'll critique you on your own merit and what you've done.

Yeah, yeah. "I got sent home cos I was rubbish."

Yes. That's it. "I did it all myself."

Yeah, "I was really rubbish all by myself."

Right, I think it's time to see what Michelle's got

up her sleeve, don't you?

Yes, please. Yeah, let's do it.

Right, let's go. Let's hope it's a good one.

I'm loving this.

So, Michelle, tell us all.

Well, I thought we could all do with a bit of a break

after the stress of shops.

So, firstly, you're all back to working solo.

Ooh!

And I'm taking you all glamping, Alan.

Ooh!

Yeah, we're going to a brand-new site in North Wales.

But I want to test your design skills on something

a bit different.

So I have five brand-new shepherd's huts.

Wow! Which the owners are very bravely handing over to you

for you to do your magic on.

Oh, shepherd huts.

Oh, remind me to pack me crook.

THEY LAUGH

On the picturesque Llyn Peninsula

near the border of Snowdonia National Park,

these quaint shepherd huts have been built from scratch

for a brand-new glamping retreat.

Each hut has an open-plan living, dining and sleeping area

and an en-suite shower room.

Plus, the designers will have the option to dress

the outside space.

Now this site is in a fantastic location.

So I'd really like to see you reflect

that amazing landscape in your designs.

But I also want you to up the design ante.

Less buying, more bespoke.

Give me something a bit special.

And helping me judge this week

is someone who's got a little bit of Welsh in his genes.

It is of course Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Oh!

Oh, let's hope it stays in his jeans!

And you know the drill - the two strongest designers

will be through to next week

and the rest of you will be on the sofa

fighting for your place in the competition.

Good luck. Good luck, everyone. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Wow.

Wow! I'll tell you what, this is made for you.

Yeah. Oh, I'm excited.

I've never been glamping before.

I'm a boutique hotel kind of a girl.

Pack your wellies, guys.

THEY LAUGH

Back to flying solo.

That's where it's at for me.

Like, I'm my own boss, I can make my own rules.

So it's good.

I like the bespoke element as well. Mm. Yeah.

This is the challenge. Yeah, it is.

This challenge is also about showing your true breadth and range.

Not spread yourself too thinly,

but actually be creative and resourceful.

Is it an opportunity to just go completely wild?

I think we can go wild, but then go commercial at the same time.

Because obviously it is a business so it has to be profitable,

but I'm looking forward to this one.

I can see the finish line.

I need to get my act in order and really start pushing it.

We've got some really strong designers there.

I need to show why I'm still here and why I'm the best.

So, shepherd's huts this week.

Now, you really stressed bespoke. Why did you say that?

Well, I just think we've got this far through the competition now,

these designers are showing us some real talent.

Don't just go shopping.

I really want them to design now.

And glamping's become a really big industry

so you can't really cut corners.

You want the glam in glamping, don't you, really?

Absolutely. I mean, I think, you know,

we all want to get back to nature and out in the great outdoors,

but, you know, no-one really needs sleeping on the ground.

So we want that kind of feeling of that boutique hotel

but it's in a shepherd's hut.

And it's a beautiful part of the world.

How can you incorporate that into a shepherd's hut?

I think anyone that's going to rent one of these

is going for that location,

but do you literally get a wallpaper with flowers

and coastal scenes on it

or do you say, well, I'll just sort of pick up on the colours,

the textures?

But each of the huts has been given a slightly different theme.

They're not huge, but it's an opportunity

to be really clever.

So what about you, Michelle?

I can't really see you in a cagoule halfway up a mountain.

You know what, I love camping. Cos it's just... No way!

Yes way! Cos it's about forgetting all your kind of troubles

and the daily schedules.

How about you? A little bit of camping?

Oh, I mean, when you're camp all day,

you just don't want to do it at the weekend.

Ah, isn't this beautiful?

Smell that poo! Country air.

Nestled at the foot of the majestic Rivals Mountains in North Wales

are Brook Cottage Shepherd's Huts.

Whoa! It's quite small, isn't it?

Ay, caramba.

The largest measuring just 6 by 2.5 metres,

they are the smallest space our designers have faced.

So this is going to be my first time trying to do tiling -

in such a small space, on a pressurised time limit.

I'm glad I'm not tiling.

Cos how would you even tile in here?

Like...

I suppose you wouldn't have a backpack on.

Each hut has been given a distinct theme.

I can't see any sea, which is awkward

because I've got coastal retreat - that's my brief.

And as usual, each designer will have a skilled team...

Hey, hey, hey! Morning!

Welcome to the romantic love hut.

Is that what we're calling it?

..to help them create their vision.

I've never built a bed before other than, like, a flat-pack.

Me neither. So...

Have you...? Don't say that now!

They've only two days,

a budget of £1,000...

That's going for a start. That's awful.

..and cramped working conditions to navigate...

I'm breaking in. Do you want some help?

Yes, please. I feel like I should be like...

Urgh! ..before they must complete their designs.

Where else can you do a poo and have that view?

COWS MOO

Oh, wow! Can you help me?

It's not heavy. It's just, like... Are you sure?

Amy is diving straight in with her rustic chic brief.

So, you get in. I'll get in. Let's test it out.

Let's test it out! Let's get in.

Well, let you get in.

Oh, how cool is that?

I think it's really important this week

to show Michelle my design credentials.

I would hate for her to think that I did well in the last two challenges

because I was with a partner.

Amy plans to make her mark with a mountain-scape mural

painted across three walls.

Behind the bed, a feature wall will display

her trademark bespoke wallpaper.

Echoing the tin bath outside,

Amy will clad her shower and fireplace

with corrugated iron sheet

and dress the windows and doors with a French toile de jouy fabric

on twig curtain poles.

So, the bed will come here -

out as far as it needs to. Yep.

The designers have each been asked to create a bespoke bed.

I just want to have it a bit higher than a normal bed frame

so there's space for storage underneath. Yeah.

And Amy wants her weary guests to climb onto

a mountain-inspired design.

Two of these is probably the highest point you want it.

Yeah, cos otherwise you're going to be vaulting onto your bed. Yeah.

I'm confident of all of my design choices,

but rustic and chic is almost like two different things.

So I think it will be a definite challenge getting it right.

I've just realised it's not diamond, is it? It's harlequin.

Harlequin, that famous Welsh pattern.

Amy isn't the only one making a splash with colour.

After playing it safe last week,

Fran's going bold with her bohemian brief.

I'm doing a design that I really love,

that's really me.

I looked at traditional bohemian travellers

and then kind of came across circus designs.

Cos they're, like, travellers - gypsies, bohemians.

Where you're on the road, quite nomadic.

T-That's, like, kind of circus life, isn't it?

As well as her harlequin mural,

Fran is planning to show off her creative side

with a paint effect bathroom

and bespoke hanging art installation.

A foldaway table and patterned bedding

will complete the look.

I feel like I need to trust my instincts.

Almost maybe forget about the brief a little bit

and just run with what I think is great.

So I'm doing bohemian with an artistic flair,

but I am doing it Fran's way.

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

OK...

Next door, Dean is sticking to familiar territory.

So, I've got the romantic stay here in this shepherd's hut

so, for me, this is all about romance.

I want it to be, like, a luxurious boutique hotel.

So, romantic hut, what colour are we going?

So we're going black and we're going to go dark burgundy.

So it's going to be a black flooring up to here,

all the way up to these cabinets.

The roof is going to be going completely gold

all the way through the roof in here.

It's going to go wallpaper from this side up here.

OK. Black.

Black.

Black is sexy.

You're looking at me like you don't think black is sexy.

It's not just indoors that Dean wants to get pulses racing.

I want there to be spaces on the outside as well as the inside

where you can enjoy that romantic, that quality time.

So there'll be, like, a seating area with a fire pit,

and then on the other side there'll be a bath.

It did say in the brief it needed to be somewhere you get a wow factor

and somewhere completely different, and blows your mind.

So I want it to be a hidden gem.

A bit like what I did at the hotel, but sexier.

Are you feeling sexy right now? I'm always feeling sexy.

Yeah?

HE LAUGHS

It's working. It's working.

So, my port holes are going to go here.

Tick.

Tick.

Banjo might be missing a sea view,

but he's found a way to bring the coast to the country.

I'm making a little day bed here.

And I've got a cute little table flip-down set up

with some lovely chairs.

I'm weaving pendants,

I'm doing an original oil painting.

I'm also turning it into a boat, so that's a thing.

Boats are tiny so, I mean, we're good.

So this is the boat that rocked.

Or the boat that sinks.

We'll see.

I know, you know, it's not about throwing the entire kitchen sink

at that space. It's about using every little inch

really cleverly.

You know, I've won a couple now,

but it doesn't matter how good you were last week.

If you drop the ball this week, it's game over.

Oh, gorgeous! Love it!

Next door, Paul has the largest of the huts

and his plans are also plus-sized.

My brief was heritage

and all the materials that I'm using are all either salvaged,

reclaimed, sustainable.

So everything is build.

Everything is build.

Herein lies the challenge.

HE LAUGHS

Paul's ambitious design centres around a daybed

that opens up for storage.

It will be clad with individually stained scaffold boards,

and matching banquette seating will continue the look

along one wall.

His fireplace will be tiled in Welsh slate

and reclaimed brick,

and natural window dressings and an upholstered wall

will pull the heritage scheme together.

Can I do it?

Can I basically deliver the vision

with all the raw materials that I've got?

Cos, at the moment, it all looks like a salvage yard,

so how do I turn that into a luxury glamping experience?

Banjo?

Wahey! Big boy!

There you go.

So just use that...

Actually, might be better having somebody...

Maybe I should give you a hand.

In his coastal hut, Banjo is in virgin territory -

attempting tiling for the first time.

For the first one... Yeah.

So, you offer it up. Yep.

On that line, bottom line. Yep.

At the bottom, and come to the edge where you're finishing. Yeah.

And then push it to the wall and, yeah, bob's your uncle.

Away you go. She's beautiful. Only, like, 70 more to go.

I mean, that should only take me four days.

Oh, I like it, it's looking good.

The mountain's had two coats. Uh-hu.

We're going to need to get some greens mixed up.

Yeah.

In the next hut, Amy is centring her rustic chic theme

around a wall design representing the nearby Rivals mountain range.

So, I'm wondering if there's too many peaks.

At the moment, it feels a bit like drippy cake situation.

Yeah.

She's also found another unusual way to bring the outside in.

I might need a little platform for him.

That's proper taxidermy, isn't it? Yeah, I do taxidermy.

Wow.

It's probably a bit of a bold move,

but I'm trying things that haven't really been done before.

Oh, my God! Look at this!

Mountains to the left.

You've got cows. You've got sheep.

Slightly spoilt by the smell of petrol.

Oh, where the hell am I now?

Turn left at Mount Snowdon.

What's that supposed to mean?

Oh, cattle grid! Ow!

Oh, that's not done my piles any good.

Time to see how the designers are getting on.

Dean?

Hey, Alan.

I hear you're bringing sexy back.

# Yeah! #

I am bringing sexy back. Welcome to my love hut.

Oh, love hut. Love hut.

Black is back.

Black is back with a vengeance.

I thought I'd go back to my natural habitat.

But I need your help, Alan, actually. Oh, my God.

I've got three lots of wallpaper

and I'm undecided on which one to use.

All right, then. Cos your brief is romantic. It is.

So what's this, then?

This is my crocodile wallpaper.

So this is the one I'm kind of leaning more towards

cos I think it's a bit more sexy. Brings out the animal in you.

But it's romance, not sexiness.

There's a thin line between being romantic and sexy.

I cross that line all the time.

I think you should come back once it's all laid out nicely. Yeah.

So you can tell me if it's romantic or too sexy.

Well, I can't wait to see it, Dean.

But remember, it's a shepherd hut,

not a knocking shop.

All right? Big difference, OK?

HE KNOCKS THEY LAUGH

Oh, I'm so worried!

I'm just looking for videos of an idiot's guide

to how to tile.

I don't have tile spacers.

They look pretty integral.

As part of their design brief,

the designers have been tasked with creating a bespoke,

fire-retardant setting for their log burner.

The briefs are getting harder.

There's, like, really small finite details -

you have to do this, you can't do this.

So then if I...put it on the wall.

I don't think I want to do that.

I think I'm going to keep...

I feel like I started quite confident and,

as I've gone along, I've got a little bit more

"ah, ah, ah," along the way.

So I think being on the sofa was actually a good thing

cos it's made me go, "No, you can do this."

Oh!

This is a disaster.

OK, do that.

This is bad.

This is...

Oh, no, now he's coming off, too.

It's definitely not as easy as it looked in the video.

Zhuzh it in.

Oops.

Banjee!

Hey, it's the wife.

Oh, I like it in here.

On Banjo's boat, Amy's getting her first glimpse

of her competitor's coastal theme.

SHE GASPS

They look amazing.

You like? That's one of my little willow baskets,

and I'm going to weave some rope through it.

Oh, I love them. They're a good height as well.

They're not too low. Well, for us.

But I think... This looks fun, too.

..Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen might be tall.

We'll see. I've actually designed this place for his sister.

Oh, I see. Florence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Is this your character this week? Well, she's... Yeah.

Talk to me about her. I want to know.

She's a rough fisherwoman. She's like...

She loves sea shanties and, like, getting on the beers

with the girls by the campfire.

And has she got, like, tattoos? What does she look like?

Yeah, she's got, like, sailor tats. She's weathered.

She's a salty sea dog.

I love it. And, like, she's the opposite of Laurence.

Uh-huh. But they're twins.

And they probably complement each other?

No, they hate each other.

So he's going to walk in here and be like,

"Urgh, my sister would love this place."

Love it!

Everyone's bringing their A-game. Completely.

I've got a couple of, like, tricks up my sleeve.

They'll come in and be like, "Oh, what's happening?"

What's your trick? Or are you not revealing it yet?

It's, like, a bird song box that's on a sensor,

so when they walk in the bird song's going to like gently start.

Aw! It goes for, like, a minute and then it fades away.

And you can switch it off.

HE SQUAWKS

That kind of bird? Yeah, it's like that.

It's the wow factor.

Push in.

OK.

OK? So hold it strong in that hand and turn it on with that hand.

Yeah, OK? Yeah.

So we'll get you some goggles.

Whoa. Careful.

HE LAUGHS

You don't want to have an accident. And that's your health and safety.

You don't want to have an accident. All right?

At his heritage hut,

Paul has swapped his usual sewing machine

for an angle grinder,

to prepare the base for his fire surround.

Nobody seems to realise there's a hidden genius here.

You have to pull out a few moves and everybody goes,

"Oh, God, you're really clever, aren't you?"

It's taken you this long to work it out?

I am naturally modest.

Nobody wants an egomaniac, but I need to win.

I haven't won, so this is my week to win.

Not setting my sights too high, I don't think.

Paul!

Paul!

Paul!

Look at you, being all butch!

HE LAUGHS

It's like watching a Diet Coke advert.

So what's brought this on, then? Oh, dear.

Because Michelle was very much,

"Come on, everyone needs to pull their finger out."

They're looking bespoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My brief is heritage this week.

Yep. And everything is handmade.

So I'm building a small fire place,

so once I've cut the bricks...

Have you ever done this before? Building your own fireplace?

Never.

Wow, that's amazing though!

Turns out I'm really good at it. Really?

You know when they say never judge a book by its cover.

Oh, I'm very judgmental, me.

Well, so I am.

THEY LAUGH

But it's true. It's like I...

The best way to say it, I've got lots of different covers.

Well, listen, this is great.

I love it that you're using new skills and everything.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait to see it a bit later.

Yeah, all right. Cool. Take care, love.

See you later.

Well, tiling is a bit more complicated

than I thought.

Midday...

The shutter's next, yeah? Yeah, shutters, please, next, yeah.

I need Usain Bolt speed, so I'll see how you get on.

..and the designs are starting to take shape.

That is a beauty.

Maybe I was a brickie in a former life.

You haven't got any bog roll, have you?

Did that frighten you? Yes.

I think we should be bringing back sponging.

Hopefully Lawrence is going to go for it.

I mean, this was really fashionable in, like, '95.

Ooh, black! You know how I do, Banjo.

How unexpected.

You wouldn't expect...

HE LAUGHS

The dark lord is... The dark lord is here.

Man, I love it.

Black in the countryside. It works.

I know.

I wouldn't have done it, but it's...

It's a bold move.

From a bold guy. Right, I think this is it.

Yeah. How are you getting on with your tiles?

I haven't started those yet. Have you started yours?

Yeah, I've done half my wall.

Yeah? And I'm literally coming down here cos I'm avoiding

doing the cuts.

It's that bad?

But now you are a professional by the sounds of it.

I'm coming to see you. I'll come and mentor you.

I'm in number two.

All right, mate. I've got to get back to the HMS Banjo.

OK. Tide's going out.

Tide's going out? Yeah.

I'm with you.

Right, I'll see you, dark lord. See you later. Good luck.

It's hard, this week, cos I think, you know what,

we're now the cream of the crop.

There are no weak players on the squad.

For me, this is not just a competition just to win.

This is about being a full-time interior designer

and doing something I love to do day in, day out.

I just want to be able to show my kids

that if you want to do something,

if you're passionate about doing something, have a go.

So I have to push myself every day

to make sure that they do that for themselves.

The designers are approaching the end of day one.

Literally, we're on countdown now.

I need to get out of here and get this floor painted.

Obviously we're in Wales, so I've got a Celtic pattern

I'm just stencilling around the edge of the door.

A little bit concerned that mine is the kind of lairy,

colourful hut.

That could work in my favour or work totally against me.

It's 50-50.

OK, that feels a bit softer.

In her rustic chic hut,

Amy's mountainscape is now mountain-shaped.

Paper's lovely. Oh, do you like it?

So good! So clever! Good quality? Oh, amazing!

And her hand-designed wallpaper has pride of place.

Looks cool!

Meanwhile, on his boat...

Yes, son!

Yeah!

I'm a tiler!

..Banjo has achieved a personal best.

Yeah, my dad...

Oh, I'm going to cry.

He will be proud.

Yeah...

Like, he would have tried to show me this when I was younger...

..and I just wouldn't have listened.

Like, I wish I listened now

cos I could have knocked this up in half a day.

But, yeah, he'll be proud.

My parents have always, like, encouraged me

to just, like, go for it.

And, like, it wouldn't matter if I did a really terrible job.

Like, they're not looking at that shoddy craftsmanship

in the tiles, they're just beaming with pride

that I just gave it a go.

At the love hut,

Dean has finally started on his tiling.

I'm trying to move as quick as I can cos I know there's

loads of things to do.

But there's a lot of cutting and it's time consuming.

I am stressed because I feel like I'm the most behind.

But for me, I talk fast, I move fast.

So, tomorrow, it just means I've got to go twice as hard, twice as quick.

I've got this far by doing what I need to do

so I have to do that tomorrow.

Ah!

It's not finished.

I thought the little Welsh fairies would come and finish it for me.

It's the final day of the challenge...

So we need to build the box for the bath for outside

and we need to make a fold-down table to eat as well.

It's a big list so far, right?

We've got to make a boardwalk.

Oh, that's a new addition.

That's a new one - yeah, yeah, boardwalk.

..and the designers have just 12 hours

to get their shepherd's huts fully finished before judgment time.

This is such a nice environment to work in.

I've just not got to get too complacent enjoying myself.

HE LAUGHS

Ooh, I'm having a lovely time with my wood.

Hiya, Amy. Hi, Alan. How are you?

Great. Who's your friend?

I think his name's Malcolm. The decorators named him.

Oh, OK. He's a magpie.

Where did you get him from? Is it road kill?

Basically, yeah. Oh, my God.

It's free. The budget's tight.

I suppose that's one way...

But how big do you go with taxidermy?

What's the biggest one? Have you done an elephant? A rhino?

Six foot...

Oh, no, not...

Only a small mammal. Oh, you want to stuff me now?

Well, you know, I'll wait.

I can wait. We could just put you...

Hello!

So what are you doing here? What is this?

This is my outdoor tin tub.

A bath?! Yeah, I'm going to have coals under there

with some kindling wood.

You just light it in the morning,

by the afternoon it should be hot.

So basically it's like a caldron. Yeah, it's like a giant caldron.

I don't know if I'd like to be naked

and watch Malcolm the magpie eyeing me up.

Well, we'll see. If you're still here at the end of the week,

we'll try it out. Stop threatening to kill me!

Bye, Alan.

Amy's really going to town with her rustic brief.

To me, corrugated iron feels a bit more rusty than rustic.

But this is glamping.

Where's the glam in that?

Amy isn't the only designer who's decided to dress

the outside of the hut.

Hi, Banjo, what are you doing?

I'm making a beach.

I'm going to get my bucket and spade and I'll be back in five.

See you then. See you, Banjo. Bye.

But at his romantic hut...

That looks sexy. I like that.

..Dean's focus is still on the inside.

I'm nowhere near where I needed to be right now.

I'm worried that I won't get those finishing pieces done

and that will really change the effect

and the aesthetics of what I'm trying to do

to make it luxurious.

I still want to put the bath outside

cos that's where I want the romance to be.

I don't want to forfeit anything by losing that,

but if I can get it all done, it could be a show stopper.

Oh, can I just use your loo?

SHE LAUGHS

Oh, I love the colour.

Yeah. It's nice, innit?

You don't look like you think that. No, no.

I mean, listen, you're pulling out all the stops.

Yeah, we're going for it. And I can see that.

Look at this - colour, colour, colour.

It's a confident room.

I do feel quite confident in the design.

I just wanted this week to be fun and cheerful.

And she can't say this week that I'm neutral or plain.

Definitely not.

Have you had a look at some of the other shepherd huts?

Er, love Amy's wallpaper.

That bath tub.

What about the bird?

Malcolm the Magpie? She's even named it!

No, I love it. I just worry about her picking road kill

off the floor. Do you?

I would help her, happily.

You're both witches. We are witches.

You are! And I'm going to go before you put a spell on me.

We will indeed. "I'll get you, Dorothy!"

THEY CACKLE

You see? You've even got the laugh!

I'm terrified.

Across the glamping site,

everyone is getting stuck into Michelle's bespoke brief.

Lift it up.

THEY LAUGH

That's genius!

And on HMS Banjo, it's plain sailing.

What I'm doing is I'm going to get these portholes

and I'm going to put them on the wall,

and then I'm going to paint a picture

of a stormy horizon.

So, when you walk in, you'll kind of feel like you're on a boat.

Michelle said avoid the typical coastal cliches,

but to me this is classy.

When I got the brief for coastal,

I wanted to understand what the coastline was like here.

And it's beautiful here, but it changes in an instant.

You know, the coastline of Wales isn't all white sandy beaches

and blue skies, so I wanted it to be moody.

I wanted it to be rugged.

I wanted it not to be like a typical seaside holiday kind of theme.

She might think it's a terrible idea,

but...I love it.

Pivot! Pivot!

Come on over. We go in... Do you want a hand?

Do you want a hand? I can do it.

It's OK. Do you want a hand?

Oh, you almost got there.

Is it a bit big, the bed?

Er, I don't think so.

As the designers race into the last few hours of the build...

I'm crying internally.

Right now, I need more hands and I've only got two.

Oh, Tom, this looks amazing!

Yeah, that's good.

..some are already nearing the finish line.

Yes!

Oh, this is when you need to be an octopus.

Every single week, I just focus on what I'm doing.

I never, ever look at what my competition's doing.

Oh!

This has got a lot of hand-built elements.

So even though it's a small space,

there's no less work involved.

I literally don't get a millisecond to think,

"Well, what is somebody else doing?"

Paul! Hi!

Wow!

Far out! That's stunning! Do you like it?

I love this. And what, are you upholstering the whole wall?

Yes, so this is going to be my fabric wall.

Yeah. Matches the ottoman bed.

And then you've got your slate fireplace. That's gorgeous.

So the slate, the brick, the timber.

I mean, this is beautiful. Man, OK.

It's nice, isn't it? Well done. I'm going to go.

I'm going to go home now. You've won. I just really like it.

I've never been this far forward and this happy

by lunch time on the second day. Yeah.

So we just need to do a bit more staining.

And then I've got loads of fabric to go on the bed.

All right, stop bragging. I'm out.

All right, guys, I've just been next door to see Paul's space.

I need to pull my finger out. OK.

Never go and visit your neighbour cos it will just freak you out

that you're not that far along on day two.

Make sure it's a standard table height. Yeah.

So, there. But it's probably the kick up the butt I needed

to, like, really pull my finger out and work at a faster pace.

This is just creative genius, right?

A few huts away,

Fran is creating a bespoke hanging art installation

for her Bohemian design.

I have got some plaster of Paris and I am mixing it

so that I can get plants, like, that I've foraged

around the local area,

and then I dip them in and then they kind of go hard -

like this ceramic kind of feel to them.

It's like the centrepiece when you walk in,

so it needs to look good.

But you have to work quickly because this will set.

It's already setting.

Ah, it's already setting!

Oh, no.

Basically got rocks.

We'll try again.

I do think I've hit the brief.

Yeah.

Oh, no! Have I?

Yeah, I mean, I think I hit the brief.

I've hit the brief.

Put in enough glue gun to basically glue the whole world.

It's the creative hut, it's the happy hut.

And I'm going to own that.

Oh, bend at the knees!

Oh, missed it!

Bend at the knees!

Ha!

WHEELBARROW CREAKS

The designers have just one hour left to complete their vision.

What's brown and sticky?

Stick. A stick, yeah.

Yes!

Woo! Oh, ace. I like them.

And just so free.

I'm always really nervous at this stage of the challenge.

I'm calling the shots on my own design

and I'm answerable for all of it.

Oh, no, did you drop your painting?

HE LAUGHS

You've got the river that runs through the mountains,

which is this. I thought it was the opening of EastEnders.

I know, yeah!

Hello, mate. This tongue and groove is the worst thing

in the world to paint, isn't it?

Tongue and groove's just...

SHE LAUGHS

In his romantic hut,

Dean is refusing to let the bathroom get the better of him.

Do you want a really thin brush to go in the bits?

If you've got one spare, I would love to have it.

I've got loads. I'll get you a few. Hold on. Thank you, darling.

I feel like I've spent my whole day in this bathroom

and I think, at this stage, that sacrifices have to be made.

If outside doesn't go as I want it to,

as long as I can get the inside done and get the look that I wanted,

all I can do now is just hope for the best -

that when Michelle comes in, she really sees my vision.

Meanwhile, Paul's vision is nearly complete.

So, I've marked those tiles

and then there's just one more piece to go up there.

Where did you put your fire board?

So, the fire board is underneath the base.

What about the back of the wall?

I didn't do it behind the back.

I understood from the brief that you could use

any fire-retardant material,

ie, slate, tiles, ceramic.

It did specify that you should speak to your carpenter before fitting

about your design.

I didn't do that.

I went straight ahead into this. I didn't discuss it with you.

So, what do you want to do? Like a bull in a China shop!

I went straight into it.

You did, love. I was cutting, I was axel grinding,

I was mortaring.

Where were you?

Where were you? Eh?

OK, I haven't got time for that one just right now.

There's some bits I need you to screw.

Bring your screwdriver and your drill.

All I can hear is Dean running around outside like a lunatic.

Sorry, buddy.

It's the final push to complete the designs...

Oh, lovely!

He's probably, like, least offensive as high as he can go, isn't he?

Oh, Paul, there's the new curtain king.

Queen.

I'm not sold.

Maybe I'll spray a bit of gold on it.

Spray a bit of gold on anything, it looks great. Ask Dean.

This is the first time where I've been in a situation

where I am not only rushing, but things haven't been completed.

Need more. One more.

Urgh!

We need to hurry! Come on!

My carafe! My carafe! Where's my carafe?

Is it bohemian? It might be a bit too much,

but I think this is the "too much" shed.

Three minutes to go.

I've never moved so fast in my life.

Yes! Perfect fit.

Ah!

Well, that was a stressful day.

I can't believe it. It's beautiful.

I'm absolutely chuffed to bits.

As Judgment Day dawns,

it's not just the Welsh weather that has swept in with style.

I love the way you've gone for the shepherdess look.

I think that's great. Thank you for that.

Helping Michelle judge this week is '90s interiors legend

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

Here we are, Laurence, in deepest, darkest Wales,

and our designers have got to LURE people

to come and stay here. Lure.

It is a little chilly.

But, you know, this is what it is to be in Wales.

It's brutal.

It's, you know, literary. It's romantic.

It's rugged. It's Laurence.

It's so me! That was all the things that I normally put in my profile!

What, as far as you're concerned, are the dos and the don'ts?

They need to be practical.

They need to embody a sense of escapism, I think.

You want to embrace the outdoors.

I want to feel the landscape. Mm.

Because they're not conventional spaces,

all the kind of the Welsh cliches -

sheep, tweed, red dragons - it's not going to work.

It has to be about attracting sophisticated, wealthy,

potentially urbanites into a rural kind of context.

It's a lot to juggle in a small space.

On wheels. On wheels.

This week, Paul got well and truly hands-on with his heritage hut.

I've finished. I've finished.

It looks amazing and I'm so proud.

I think I've nailed it. I think I've nailed it.

LAURENCE: Holy, holy, holy.

So, this is Paul's shepherd's hut,

and his theme was heritage, so embracing Welshness.

Do you think he's achieved that? Well, exactly.

I'm now going deep down into my Welsh heritage.

This is exactly what my grandmother's mansion looked like.

Lots of rufty-tufty timber and sacking at the window.

Er, it's powerfully textured.

You know, and it definitely feels very, very rural.

I am missing a bit of colour, I have to say.

It's like a meal entirely made of carbohydrate.

I'm quite soothed by all these lovely sages and greens,

and it's all about what's outside and this just mirrors that.

I mean Paul has a visual merchandising background.

In previous challenges, I've felt he's leant a little bit too much

on just styling.

I see a different level to him here.

I think this is commercial. I would pay money here.

To me, it seems to hit the brief.

I feel kind of soothed. I feel relaxed.

And you want to feel as if you've, you know,

had a hard day's shepherding.

Onwards, then. Onwards. Shall we?

Let us shepherd some more. Yeah.

Do we get a pie out of this?

Next to be judged is Fran's bold Bohemian hut.

This week, I feel confident. I am really happy with it.

I've pulled out all the stops.

And I've not played it safe,

so I don't think I'm going to be on the sofa.

I don't think I deserve to be.

Oh! Ah, you wanted colour, Laurence.

Here it is. I did.

The colours are joyous.

There's something quite fairground about the way

that the painting's been done.

See, I think of that as being more gypsy caravan

rather than shepherd's hut.

I like that. And I like the simplicity of this.

The styling's a bit irritating.

We've definitely run out of steam on this wall.

Yeah, we could easily have just lost those extra shelves, couldn't we?

Well, I think this is Fran's piece of handmade art.

Yeah, less successful.

I think if we were going to do this - bigger.

They should just have been bigger. Bigger, bigger, bigger, bolder.

She was given a brief and I think she's answered it.

My commercial head, though, is saying,

"Well, how would this let?"

You know, "Would this be as popular with some of the other statements?"

I can't wait to see the next one. What is the next theme?

We have a little romance, Laurence.

Come, let us run hand in hand to the hut of romance.

Heavens above.

I can feel my sap rising already.

Adding some spice to the Welsh countryside

is Dean's love hut.

I've finished, but I'm not over the moon.

Things that I wanted, these grand ideas,

just didn't get time to do them.

But I have to be happy with the bits I have done.

I think, when you go into that room, it makes you feel a wow moment

and you wouldn't expect it out here, to go in there and see that room.

Ah, the hut of romance.

Oh, wahey, whoa, hee, oh, ah!

Gosh! Now, this is Dean's hut.

Can you guess his favourite colour? I was thinking it might be black.

I know. I was really rather hoping that he wouldn't

have used black in here.

It's not something you often see in a shepherd's hut,

the mock croc and the crystal and the gold and the black.

It feels almost as if it's come off the shelf

from somewhere else and been applied here.

I love the gold ceiling.

I love it with these lamps and the way that it kind of reflects.

And that makes me feel quite kind of special and jewel boxy.

And then, yes, we drop into the kind of mock croc wallpaper.

I don't like these.

I don't like the furry things.

I don't think those are going to be terribly practical.

Also, there's a fine line between romance and sexy.

This is a snog really, isn't it?

It's not a peck on the cheek.

What's the bathroom like? Let's have a look.

Is there somewhere to put your flake?

SHE LAUGHS

The bathroom is a triumph of tiling.

Lovely glossy black tiles.

I guess this hut is all about the bed

cos I can't see a table anywhere, unless this counts.

Are we not eating on our romantic break away?

No, obviously. Just sort of peeling each other grapes.

And it does look a little like he's not quite finished,

which I'm wondering, if he didn't finish,

what it was that sort of took all the time.

I don't think it was the styling.

But the more you stay in here,

kind of the contrast to the outside is actually kind of wonderful.

I like the hutzpah of it all.

You know, I love the Bond villain of it all.

You could have, you know,

the world's most wanted shepherd sitting in here

with a large cat on his lap, kind of chuckling maniacally.

Or maybe a small sheep.

Come on, Laurence, before you get too carried away.

It's full steam ahead to HMS Banjo, the coastal-inspired design.

Something kicked in that I didn't know I had.

And I'm, like, stoked.

It stretched me and it lit something in me.

MICHELLE: Oh, I see that Banjo's introduced a little bit

of the beach theme right from the outside.

I like... This boardwalk is obviously

a very practical solution.

The theme is very hard-wired into the design.

Oh, so this is Banjo's hut.

Are you feeling coastal?

I'm seeing little kind of peg things and oars.

There's a lot more design in here.

I think this is very interesting.

So he's integrated the table.

He's got a flap-up table as part of the headboard.

Show me how it works.

Is it easy to flap up?

Oh! Yes, you see, I did that in a very brusque way.

And generally, the way that the bed feels is quite happy.

I love the way that it's looking straight out

to the mountains like that.

Now let me tell you about the bathroom.

I think it might be Banjo's first time at tiling

so he might need a little bit more practice on that.

I love the materials and the colours that he's used.

There's something much jollier about this space.

There's something a little bit more Captain Pugwash about this space.

What you can really tell about Banjo is he develops a story

behind his designs, which I think is kind of

the ultimate, pure way of designing.

That works. That really works.

So, OK, onwards, rustic chic.

I do feel slightly overdressed for rustic, but what the hey.

Last but not least, waiting to wow the judges

is Amy's rustic chic hut.

I've not done a mural wall before,

I haven't used corrugated steel before.

You know, we needed to push ourselves this week,

so I'm just going to hope that it works.

Now, I love that.

That's my favourite bit of exterior styling so far.

That's powerful,

love the textures and it's terribly amusing as well.

I'd have that thing full of gin.

Ah, look, and we've repeated the corrugated inside.

Haven't we just! So I do like that.

We've got more of the tin around the shower.

It's very much the same language.

Oh, it's a bit high for me to perch on the bed.

Did you try and do that casually?

Yes, well, I'm not going to get up on there.

I feel as if I'm being watched.

There's a sort of presence behind me.

There is a malevolent presence above your head, indeed.

And is that where the birdsong is coming from, I wonder?

From beyond the grave? Yes.

Now, Amy, can you tell, is a print designer.

Yeah. So I think in almost every single one of her challenges

so far, she's created a bespoke wallpaper.

So, how does this relate to the theme?

Did she Google rustic, do we know?

I'm not sure, but I mean I'm kind of feeling

a bit of children's playground going on here.

But then you've got kind of toile de jouy cottage core

with these little frilly curtains.

Possibly a little muddled.

And everyone else so far has quite rightly worked out

that when you've got a bed it can also be a sofa.

But not if even the great and - let's face it -

incredibly leggy Michelle Ogundehin can't get on it.

And considering the view is there,

you know, actually you're lying that way

and all you're doing is looking at the dead magpie!

Come on, we've got some hard decisions to make.

I thought we were having a bath?

Oh, later, Laurence. Later.

Before the designers return to the studio,

they take a sneaky peak at their rival's efforts.

Oh, wow!

Yeah, this is nice.

She's done so well, right? I want to jump on this bed.

That looks so cosy.

I honestly think we've all smashed it this week.

So you can have a really great room but you could still be on the sofa.

And that is scary.

Wow! He's pulled it out the bag on this one, hasn't he?

I love the mosaic. I love that.

That's beautiful.

People have gone for it this week.

I'm not too sure about the hessian curtains.

But it kind of fits in with...

Babe, you really want a velvet. Yeah, I want a velvet.

Whoa!

Love shack. It's not what I expected in the countryside.

Is that crocodile? It's crocodile, yeah.

It's not my romantic.

It reminds me of, you know, like, one of those

you rent by the hour. Oh!

I'm hoping she sees what I've done, she likes it

and she's happy with it and I get to go through.

But right now, I'm like this.

Leaving the Welsh valleys behind,

it's back to Michelle's studio

to find out who is still in the running

for a career-defining job contract and who will be saying goodbye.

I might be very proud of what I've done,

but I think we're all very proud of what we've achieved.

So you just don't know.

Oh, guys.

Good luck, everyone. Love you all.

Here he is. Hello!

G'day.

So, did you enjoy Wales?

Yes, yeah. Holiday. It was lovely.

But weren't it wonderful weather?

Oh, it was beautiful. Gorgeous. I actually got a tan.

Well, I think it's called a muscle top you were wearing, Paul.

I think it might have been Alan, yes.

Yeah, but normally people have muscles.

But anyway.

Listen, it's getting tough now, isn't it?

And can I just say, the judges felt that you all delivered

on your designs this week, so well done.

But Michelle felt there was two designers

that really stood out from the rest.

These shepherd huts were bang on brief,

both inside and out.

Well done...

..Paul...

Oh, wow!

Thank you.

..and...

..Banjo.

Both of you are through to next week.

Well done.

Good luck, guys. Thanks, guys.

Winning feels great.

Winning is a good feeling.

I like this feeling. I'd like more of it, please.

Top four. Like, wow.

I don't know if I can keep pulling it out.

This is hard!

Sadly, the rest of you are on the sofa

fighting for your place in the competition.

Good luck.

# Dun dun dun! #

I feel a bit sick. Yep.

But OK, bring it on.

Yeah, dig deep. Come out fighting. Look at your brief.

Look at your design. Own it.

Maybe mine was too sexy.

Babe, you could never be too sexy. Oh, thank you.

Well, let's start with Dean.

If that was romance, there was no small talk, you know?

It was literally just, you know... Wham-bam, thank you, Dean.

You know, you just feel there's a button somewhere

and the music starts.

But the funny thing was the more time you spent inside it,

the more you kind of thought,

"Oh, actually, this is kind of cosy and lovely

"and a big contrast to what was outside."

But I'm just not sure it was really kind of nailing the brief.

Well, let's move on, then, to Amy.

Didn't you like the mountains drawn on the...

Her brief was rustic, Alan. ..shepherd's hut?

We'd got what I thought looked like a kind of

children's nursery playground thing going on.

We had her kind of very urban print. No rustic.

And then can we talk about the magpie?

One magpie brings sorrow.

And she's here on the sofa!

She just threw too much at it.

Dean, I think, kind of didn't throw enough at it.

And then I think what Fran threw at it

wasn't really what we were looking for.

I felt it was a bit too gypsy hut...

Yeah. ..somehow.

So I just want to understand how she kind of translated that.

I mean, at the end of the day,

there's a commercial contract on offer for the winner here.

And the two that we've sent straight through just nailed that.

The three on the sofa just didn't quite.

Hello.

Hello, everyone. Hi.

So, every week I am adding another layer

to your understanding of what makes a really successful

and commercial design.

So, Amy, if I can start with you,

what is your understanding of rustic?

Because I was a little confused by your interpretation of it.

Oh, I think, do you know, I didn't want to really necessarily

go for, like, a cliche rustic chic.

I wanted to bring some colour in,

and a lot of the materials that I used I perceived as rustic.

We loved the tin bath and the corrugated metal.

That was wonderful. That was wonderful.

And it was cheeky as well.

Well, I would've liked more screening

cos I'm a very private person when I'm...

As would everybody else, you know?

Yes.

I think the thing that I sort of slightly struggled on

is just the delivery of the colours, because it was so graphic.

And I've loved the way that you've created a bespoke wallpaper,

but it felt a bit more urban sophisticated

than kind of glorious Welsh landscapes,

so was this the one challenge

that perhaps you shouldn't have done that?

I think because it is my brand identity,

I just didn't want to not do it.

It felt just like another layer that I could add.

Again, though, it was in the delivery.

The pattern that we ended up with from you was quite sharp.

It's quite precise, yeah. Yeah.

I would've loved it if you'd taken more of a key

from the toile de jouy that you used elsewhere.

You need to bring them together.

There needs to be a language that they share.

I think that's the lesson I'm sure we've talked about before.

It's like, take that one strong line and follow that through.

Dean. Hello.

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

What is it with you and the colour black?

Would another colour have been an option for the hut this week?

I think, yeah, I wanted to give them that wow factor,

so when someone walks into that room or books it they're like,

"Wow, I've never been here before. Where are we?"

I do think it just gave that bit of drama that it needed.

But it is about the bigger picture though, isn't it?

Cos, I mean, this was a couple's retreat. Yeah.

Where was my table for two?

Cos all I saw was a solo stool at the end of the kitchen.

Yes, yes, yes. It's like, "Oh, did we already have an argument?"

There was a few things that were meant to happen

to make it really romantic.

There was supposed to be an outside bath.

There was supposed to be a table where you could sit

and eat your dinner.

I think it was just the time efficiency of certain things.

So what was it that took up all the time?

I wanted to push myself so I think, when it came to the bathroom,

I did the tiling, but it took a long time

and I think that's where a lot of my time was left

where I could've left the tiling and maybe moved onto something else.

This is one of the most difficult lessons to learn.

Ultimately, you've got to make money as an interior designer,

and if you give too much of yourself,

if you give too much time, you're not going to do that.

And actually, I think you should have been firmer

about calling some of those shots.

Because if you don't, you lose the important other bits.

Yeah.

So, Fran... Oh...

..your theme was bohemian.

What was your understanding of it in design terms?

So, I initially thought kind of shabby chic,

very pretty and delicate.

But I had kind of this echo from last week in shops of, like,

"Don't go neutral, go strong, challenge yourself."

So then I started to look into, like,

medieval history from Wales

and then traditional kind of traveller huts and wagons.

So I decided to go that route and just make it a bit more punchy.

And we did really love all those colours,

but for me what I saw was very much sort of gypsy caravan,

which they have their identity as they roll through

different landscapes. Yeah.

Here you are so firmly routed to one spot in North Wales.

It didn't feel Welsh.

I think I did kind of take a risk,

I went a bit off-brief and I thought,

"I'm going to go with the artistic and just go for it."

Now, can we have a little bit of a chat about the suspended hedgerow?

We had all this kind of splendid palate

and then we've got, I don't know, broccoli in glue in white.

I think I'd invested so much time into making the plants

that I felt like to walk away from it

I'd have been disappointed in myself.

But you see what all three of you have done

in slightly different ways,

you get distracted from the main thing

that you were supposed to be doing. Yeah.

And what's a shame is it then took away from what you did do.

And that's the difference -

the other two had very clear what they were going to do,

one liner, and they did it.

And that is one of the biggest lessons

that you've got to learn.

And it's about confidence.

So, I'm afraid that the person that I'm going to send home this week...

..is Dean. Yeah.

I mean, can I just say, though -

you have blazed a spectacular trail... Thank you.

..and you were just pipped at the post

by your colleagues this week.

To get this far in the competition is a big achievement.

So, thank you. It's definitely filled me

with lots of confidence.

Somewhere in North Wales, there's a very sexy shepherd

with a big smile on his face.

I know. Waiting for my hut, yeah?

Take care, guys.

I've followed my dreams. I've had a great time

and I have to look at the things I've done really, really well

and be proud of that. I may even change my name to Dark Lord.

So this is just the beginning. Look out for me.

I've loved watching Dean develop his design skills

and really push himself with every challenge,

but this week I feel he just defaulted a bit too much

to his comfort zone,

and that's always a dangerous place for a designer to go.

A lot to learn for you ladies, though. Yeah, I know.

Come on now! I'm not saying the same stuff again.

I've got a one in four chance now. Like, it could be me.

This is now an actual real possibility.

And I've got to be stronger, be more confident,

be tougher, nail it.

I think this challenge has definitely taught us

that there's no room for errors now.

You know, Michelle is looking for everyone

to tick all the boxes, and it's definitely scary

to think that we're getting closer to the final.

Who knows what's around the corner?

Margate, scream!

Next time...

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

..it's girls versus boys...

Whack her up. OK.

Now we're talking.

..as the designers are challenged to transform

two family-run cafes on the Kent coast.

Are we overachievers? I think we might be.