The Block 2015: Luke and Ebony win living room week

Stop, hammer time.

This week on The Block, fan favourite Dean accidently whacks his head with a hammer, as he and wife Shay fail to finish their living room.

It’s been the hardest and worst week so far and the teams are exhausted.

So Luke refuels the morning before the reveal with some Swisse vitamins, because Swisse is really good and healthy if you are feeling very rundown, Swisse. #freeswisse

Check out of the hipster tradie. Fitzroy called, South Yarra, and wants its chippie back.

Uncle Keith takes a green-looking Dean to the hospital, because Shay is having breakfast. She isn’t having any of this man flu business.

Dean’s melon is not the only sore point at Hotel Saville. The neighbours in genteel South Yarra are narky and have been making noise complaints.

Dean’s hammer head.

But if it’s this guy the producers are showing as we return from an ad break, they shouldn’t worry. Very strange.

Whitney decides to snoop and films some late night hanky panky in Suzi and Vonni’s level three apartment.

No, not that sort, but it’s just as incriminating. The tradies have been using power tools after the noise curfew and the Gold Coast mums are fined $1000.

Vonni and Suzi front Whitney, who says she is bitter about Suzi’s comments about her weight.

(Reminder: Whitney and Suzi were arguing two weeks ago and Whitney said something about Suzi’s three kids and Suzi said “have another burger, darling”.)

Suzi apologises again and Whitney responds by throwing some serious shade.

Judges arrive, bringing with them the promise of even more pain and upsetting comments.

Kingi and Caro are cashed up, baby, and the producers take Caro to Collins Street and film her peering in the window of the high-end shops. She’s so excited when she sees “Goo-ki” (which is Townsville speak for Gucci, obvi).

Caro and Kingi.

The judges don’t like the couch facing away from the view, or that the couch itself is yellow.

“It dates the whole room, it doesn’t feel cool,” says Shaynna Blaze.

Neale Whitaker says it feels like “a 1970s Travelodge” (harsh, but free plug for Travelodge, so I doubt they are offended).

However, their rugs wins the dubious honour of Best Rug of This Series So Far, says Neale. Eeek. It means he mostly hates this room.

The wall mural in Whitney and Andrew’s bright, breezy living room divides the judges. Old-school Neale almost needs to dab his forehead with his hanky, he’s so overwhelmed with dislike. But Darren Palmer thinks it’s cool and young, to which Neale says it better suits a studio apartment in hipster haven Fitzroy.

Fitzroy hipster artwork has no place in genteel South Yarra, quelle horreur!

But Neale really likes the hipster tree in the corner with the artisan jam jar hanging off it. Go figure.

Neale digs the twigs.

Whitney and Andrew.

Suzi and Vonni have installed an LED light fireplace and a full-sized wine fridge, for that touch of Jupiters Casino we have come to know them for.

But the judges are not raising a glass to the girls’ design choices. It’s going down like a corked shiraz.

The wine fridge has left a bad taste in the judges’ mouths.

“I am sorry, that is probably the most hideous thing I have seen in this series,” Shaynna says of the LED fireplace. How quickly she has forgotten last week’s Rose Porteous-style chandelier in the toot.

Vonni and Suzi.

Those Swisse vitamins must be working because Luke and Ebony (mostly) have their mojo back. Their sweeping open living room puts them in another league, says Neale, but their bar is cheap, nasty and from the 1980s, complains Shaynna.

But the 80s are back! Bidets and Rose Porteous from last week! Gah! These judges are fickle.

Dean and Shay decided to flip their kitchen and living room and it meant they were not ready to reveal.

Shay and Dean.

They spray painted some flames to denote the open fireplace, and Darren fires a salvo. “It might be a drawing on the wall, but it is still more beautiful than apartment three”.

This povo attempt is still better that Suzi and Vonni’s.

The verdict? No team has nailed it this week and the scores are all pretty low.

But someone has to win, and it’s comeback kids Luke and Ebony, who snare victory by only half a point.

Winners Luke and Ebony.

That’s it Ebony – you worked for that!

The teams will be feeling the heat during kitchen renovations next week.