The Block 2025 Episode 7 recap: Big problem with the Block house designs

Daily Telegraph

2 days ago

It seems Han and Can have learned precisely zero lessons from their failure to complete their first Block room last week.
This week Han is insisting on making last minute changes to the layout of their kitchen, mud room, laundry and pantry area.
With kitchen and benchtop suppliers needing contestants' designs in this week in order to meet the deadline for cabinetry installation later in the series, it's a bad time to flip flop, but Han described the layout created for all the teams by architect Julian Brenchley as 'completely f***ed'.
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Her main issue seems to be the fact that in order to reach the pantry and laundry from outside the house, it's necessary to walk through the mud room.
'I think that's a hygiene issue and cleaning issue for me. You're walking through the mud into your butler's pantry. It just doesn't work,' she complained to Can and the impatient supplier. 'You'll traipse mud through a food area.'
Is it possible that Han thinks that a mud room is in fact a room full of mud?
That can be the only explanation for her bizarre belief that possession of a mud room makes it compulsory to also walk mud through the house.
'I'm refusing to do this because I'm playing the long game and I know the floorplan in my head will make it a lot better,' she persisted.
'Freedom (kitchens) said you have to make a decision there and then and I said no, I'm not going to because I know in my head I have grander plans than that. I just hadn't worked out the nitty gritty,' she explained.
Han's plan was to add a doorway directly from the outside into the laundry and pantry, next to the door into the mud room, meaning there will presumably be two outside doors beside each other.
With time getting away from her she enlisted her builder dad to redo the layout, promising to get measurements in by the end of the day.
Twenty-hours later, and with no appearance of the new plans, and foreman Dan was getting frustrated, particularly when he discovered Han cleaning out the dunny at her and Can's caravan instead of cracking on.
'I love cleaning,' Han said. 'That's the processing time for me, when I'm doing something that at the same time is making me feel better.'
But aside from not understanding how hosing out a stinking dunny could make anyone feel better, Dan was frustrated at her flawed prioritising.
'I don't think she understands the urgency,' he said. 'The more I think about it the more I'm actually getting aggravated about it. The girls have not learned from last week when they didn't finish a room. Now instead of being in the room every second making sure everything gets done, they're up there cleaning.'
Elsewhere, the race was on to secure an auctioneer, with both Ben and Emma and Mat and Robby believing they had locked in Block regular Tom Panos from Sydney.
Emma and Ben's real estate agent — Aaron Hill from Ray White Sunbury — assured them
Tom would only work with him, but Mat and Robby believed Tom had already agreed to auction their house, despite the fact their real estate agent was Daylesford local Kim McQueen.
A meeting between the boys and Mat and Robby didn't go well.
'He was trying to measure his D … against Ms McQueen's,' was Robby's assessment.
'I hated him,' was Mat's.