House Rules

[JBar]

@JohnsonTV

There was a late twist too, with Lenore and Bradley revealing (during their recount) that bottom two teams would be eliminated after all six houses had their interiors renovated.

Not a twist. That was mentioned at the start of the house renovations.

[Brekkie]

@JohnsonTV

late twist too, with Lenore and Bradley revealing (during their recount) that bottom two teams would be eliminated after all six houses had their interiors renovated.

Seems it has been somewhat streamlined this year with the cut from 6>4 instad of 5 and cutting an episode from each weeks renos.

To be honest I’ve always thought they should skip the final 5 stage and go from 6>4 as just eliminating one team based on the main round of the show never felt quite right.

[JohnsonTV]

Tamara and Rhys’ house is in Margate on Redcliffe Peninsula in Brisbane’s north.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property/74-cutts-st-margate-qld-4019

[littlegezzybear]

Thanks! So there was three bedrooms and there’s now two and a study.

[JohnsonTV]

Here are the old and new floor plans for Laith’s house at Oakhurst in western Sydney.

[JohnsonTV]

@MelbTV

I’ve noticed that Carolyn has not been seen on the show since they renovated the penthouse apartment at the beginning of the series.

Carolyn was back tonight.

@JohnsonTV

Looks like Seven has moved the judges’ reveal to Sunday, making it a 2.5 hour marathon. The new round of interior renovation begins on Monday.

@JBar

Are they trying to kill the show quickly? Dumb move. The judging episodes are the only ones worth watching.

I’ve got it all wrong here. They had extra footage from renovation of Tamara and Rhys’ house that wouldn’t fit inside 90 minutes. So tonight will still just be homeowners reveals, with judges’ reveals tomorrow night.
Next week, the renovation of Lenore’s Sydney home begins. It looks like it will go for four episodes based on the synopsis.

@TV.Cynic

Sunday 17 May
07:00 PM House Rules: High Stakes Lenore and Bradley finally get a rest this week whilst teams get stuck into Lenore’s Greystanes house which is in desperate need of some love and affection.

Monday 18 May
07:30 PM House Rules: High Stakes Teams get stuck into Lenore’s house and are tasked with creating a light Hampton’s styled home with a nursery fit for a prince, AKA her grandson Aiden. Will they be able to deliver her dream home?

[JBar]

@MelbTV

I’ve noticed that Carolyn has not been seen on the show since they renovated the penthouse apartment at the beginning of the series. We’re seeing less and less of her

Carolyn has resurfaced alive and well in tonight’s episode.

[yellow_sock]

How did tonight’s show go being 2 hours long instead of 90 minutes? Feel longer? Or worth the extra length?

[JBar]

Too long. Too much renovation. Too long to wait for the judging.

[JBar]

@anon17157706

And it looks like the judges may not be giving the scores in the same room tonight? I don’t really know why but I don’t like the inconsistency. One of the best parts of the judging is the face-to-face scoring.

It’s happened before because Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen doesn’t livd in Australia. He has to fly in and out to the show and sometimes it’s too much in his schedule.

[MelbTV]

@anon17157706

And it looks like the judges may not be giving the scores in the same room tonight? I don’t really know why but I don’t like the inconsistency. One of the best parts of the judging is the face-to-face scoring.

Might have something to do with the social distancing rules?

Jamie mentioned in a interview on a Sunrise before this season begun, that they last part of the season had to obey by social distancing rules.

[JohnsonTV]

@anon17157706

And it looks like the judges may not be giving the scores in the same room tonight?

Homeowners judging and experts judging are filmed in the same room but on different days.
I think Tamara and Rhys’ house was renovated in January, well before social distancing rules kicked in.

[Seriously]

So have Seven just asked for the episodes to be re-edited to create more episodes (I’m guessing due to Covid-19)? Last night was actually two episodes according to 7plus. So now each renovation is having two renovation episodes and two judging episodes it seems?

It was waaaaay to long last night.

[Tom_TV7]

@Seriously

It was waaaaay to long last night.

It was but it seemed to work better in the ratings. The second episode actually increased on the first (albeit less than 10,000).

[JohnsonTV]

@Seriously

So now each renovation is having two renovation episodes and two judging episodes it seems?

Looks like it. Based on the schedule posted by TV Cynic yesterday, renovation of Lenore’s Sydney home will also have two renovation episodes and two judging episodes.

[Travis]

While last night was a tad too drawn out, It was so nice to actually see some renovating! 2 eps of each work well IMO.

[JBar]

@Seriously

So have Seven just asked for the episodes to be re-edited to create more episodes (I’m guessing due to Covid-19)? Last night was actually two episodes according to 7plus. So now each renovation is having two renovation episodes and two judging episodes it seems?

I think they intended to have three episodes per reno this year and heavily edited the renovations down to fit.

After coronavirus hit, they realised they’d be shirt on content this year so switched back to four episodes per reno.

In hindsight, they might have liked to have done four episodes for every reno wbuthich could have extended the series even further, but they had already completed those early edits.

[littlegezzybear]

It appears that maybe Seven were trying to not let die hard fans who follow the house renos as they are done work out that two teams would be eliminated at the end of the opening round (?) … as they had their crew drive Susan & Anthony’s car.

Margate last week:

Greystanes this week:

Source: Facebook.

[Brekkie]

@JBar

Too long. Too much renovation. Too long to wait for the judging.

Disagree - it’s the first time this year it felt like we actually saw some renovating and the first episode that focused on it rather than zone wars, which dominated the first episode of this reno.

It’s the judging that’s too drawn out - that should be one episode and would largely be achieved by taking out the second recap of the contestants week. They were clearly trying to hook viewers in as the episode including a proposal, which of course it didn’t.

I do think this is the best reno so far but just wish they’d return to us seeing the initial reaction of the home owners rather than split it up by zone. All they need to do is let us see them enter the building and the main open plan area, just like they used too. We’d then see them discover each room contestant by contestant with further critique of the open plan areas done then.

And talking of zones it was nice to see the Master Bedroom and Walk in Robe in the hands of one team this week so they could give a vision of the Master Suite. Far better than two teams designing the space, and no reason really they couldn’t have had the En-Suite in that zone rather than the bathroom.

[Brekkie]

@JBar

Carolyn has resurfaced alive and well in tonight’s episode.

To give her advise about 6 hours before the end if the timeline was to be believed.

@anon17157706

And it looks like the judges may not be giving the scores in the same room tonight? I don’t really know why but I don’t like the inconsistency. One of the best parts of the judging is the face-to-face scoring.

Agree - it’s better face to face and has been nice to see that return this year having been less of a feature in recent years but I agree - do one or the other. Even with the penthouse they were there in purpose one week and not the next, despite having been on site to review it.