And so, the season draws to a close the same way it began: with Jolene fuming at Adam and Wyatt having a massive sook. Despite threatening it for days, Adam has still not closed off the wheelbarrow av...
And so, the season draws to a close the same way it began: with Jolene fuming at Adam and Wyatt having a massive sook.
Despite threatening it for days, Adam has still not closed off the wheelbarrow avenue through his yard.
With Chantel and Wyatt and Lisa and Rosco still carting loads of landscaping material through Adam and Jolene’s property, they can’t get started on planting out the area and building a shed at the access point.
With the prize at the end of this week $50,000 off the reserve price, Jolene (and Foreman Dan) think Adam is squandering a crucial chance to gain an advantage.
“It’s like talking to a brick wall,” Jolene says. “It’s not good enough. Fifty grand off your reserve’s massive, Adam. We’ve just wasted an entire week. We’ve just given someone else a week.”
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Adam and Jolene’s yard with the water feature they bought from Lisa and Rosco.
Adam eventually relents, closing the access just an hour and a half before tools down, leaving them just that evening and a few hours in the morning to finish their yard.
A disgusted Jolene walks off site, leaving Adam to soldier on in a mess of his own making.
With all Adam’s generosity you’d think his neighbour Wyatt would be grateful and happy that he hadn’t been forced to wheelbarrow dirt and pavers through his own house. Think again.
As his relentlessly cheerful and upbeat landscapers/tilers the Cursio brothers try to gee him up, Wyatt is behaving like a spoiled child, telling anyone who will listen how much he hates The Block, and it doesn’t even seem to be because he and Chantel are about to set a Block record for being the only couple to complete the show without a single room win.
“I hate it here, ay,” he tells the Cursios.
“Hopefully when you sell it it will be a good day,” one of them responds.
“Money’s not worth anything to me,” Wyatt shrugs. “I’m over pushing barrows, I’m over the rain, I’m over the mishaps.”
Sulky Wyatt and Chantel in their final week.
Not even Chantel escapes his hissy fit.
When she excitedly tells him to go and check out the freshly laid tiles in their side yard he responds with “I don’t give a f**k”.
About the only time he manages to seem anything like a spoiled manchild is when he agrees with Chantel that they will miss the Cursio brothers.
“It’s so sad saying bye to our Cursios. They’ve been our backbone through this whole thing and it wouldn’t have been the same without them,” she says.
Then it’s on to the judging.
Adam and Jolene’s front yard.
Adam and Jolene have installed huge steel rings over their path, which will eventually be covered with greenery. They’ve made the most of their giant gums, and have also created a side garden with sculptural firepit, stone and wood outdoor table and screening plants.
Shaynna Blaze doesn’t like their choice of sand between pavers leading to their door, reasoning it will get tracked through the house, and guest judge, landscaper Dave Franklin, points out that on a wet day the vegetation draped steel rings will shower people as they walk through them. Shaynna also thinks they block the view from the street to the house and pool.
The judges do love the stone water feature they bought from cash-strapped Lisa and Rosco, however.
Chantel and Wyatt’s front yard with outdoor fireplace.
Chantel and Wyatt have a Japanese maple in their atrium and an incredible wellness zone, with sauna, outdoor shower and huge stone bath that Darren Palmer calls “a water feature and bath in one”.
“This is absolutely beautiful,” he says.
The judges all admire the Cursios’ tiling and design, including their work on the outdoor fireplace, but Dave points out that their choice of plants could use some finetuning, saying the magnolia will eventually suffocate the plants around it.
Chantel and Wyat’s wellness area with stone bath and sauna.
But Shaynna is finally happy with what the pair have presented.
“It feels like home, and I have not said this about any of their spaces,” she says.
Lisa and Rosco’s space includes a shed containing an Argentinian barbecue, beer taps and TV, a mature tree in their atrium and a kids’ picnic table in an expanse of lawn.
The judges don’t love their birdbath (“Like something that should be in my nan’s house” is Dave’s assessment) and they think it lacks screening trees, but Darren admits they were wrong to have criticised for squandering the space last week.
“They knew what they were doing, we didn’t,” he says.
Lisa and Rosco’s yard with shed containing barbecue, TV and beer on tap.
Courtney and Sev have added a parking space for a boat or caravan at the front of their yard, which the judges agree is practical, but also detracts from the kerb appeal.
They also have some steep steps with badly painted concrete sides and no handrail which Shayanna struggles to navigate in heels, and a cheap looking water feature that Dave says is “just plonked there”.
Lisa and Rosco’s front yard.
“If you told me this was House 4 I wouldn’t have believed you. It doesn’t feel elegant, it doesn’t feel finished, it doesn’t have an impact on me at all. They’ve had a lot of money and the fact this is their entry, this is where you should create a lot of wow factor. The fact is, they haven’t allocated the money for it,” Shaynna says.
Courtney and Sev’s front yard.
The girls aren’t surprised given the stripped back budget they’d given their landscaper Troy Lovett to work with, which hasn’t just cost them the win, but has also cost them the record of having the highest number of room wins in the show’s history.
Courtney and Sev’s side yard with water feature and steep steps with no handrail.
After struggling to finish a single space all season, Rick and Tayla bring it home strong, not only finishing, but winning the week, largely thanks to a bespoke handmade concrete water feature with giant bonsai tree in the middle.
Rick and Tayla’s water feature.
They also have olive trees and plenty of lawn, though they lose points for it being unfenced so unsuitable for pets and kids, and for also lacking a handrail on some steep steps.
Still, “this is amazing,” Shaynna says.
And so the pair take out the prize of $50,000 off their reserve, and given richlister Danny Wallis’ comments about their house during the open for inspections, they might need every penny of it.
Rick and Tayla’s winning front yard.
FINAL SCORES
Adam and Jolene 26.5
Courtney and Sev 26
Lisa and Rosco 26
Courtney and Sev 22
Rick and Tayla 27.5
MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE’S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR
Episode 1: First tears shed on season 22 of The Block
Episode 2: ‘I will shut you down’
Episode 3: ‘I won’t help them again’
Episode 4: ‘You will only last five weeks’
Episode 5: Block couple ready to quit after scandal
Episode 6: ‘Everyone is in on it’: Chantel and Wyatt cry foul
Episode 7: Gloves are off as Courtney accuses Rosco of treachery
Episode 8: Dan fuming as Tayla barely lifts a finger
Episode 9: A huge prize causes bitterness in one contestant
Episode 10: Jolene and Tayla fume over controversial bathroom win
Episode 11: Lisa and Rosco fall behind again
Episode 12: Block star’s sad health update
Episode 13: ‘Like a high end coffin’
Episode 14: ‘Should I call an ambulance?’
Episode 15: ‘That s. t’s got to stop’
Episode 17: ‘Like I’m sitting at a bus stop’
Episode 18: Adam’s dirty tricks leave Chantel and Wyatt high and dry
Episode 19: Tayla’s bad decisions leave Dan angry and Rick stressed
Episode 20: ‘Horrible ‘80s dance studio’
Episode 21: ‘This is dead’: teams botch their living rooms
Episode 22: ‘Screwed up their entire house’
Episode 23: ‘They’re cheats’: scandal erupts
Episode 25: ‘Like a bad hotel room’
Episode 26: Wyatt and Chantel’s sloppy habits are grinding their housemates’ gears
Episode 27: Wyatt can’t take Mat’s ribbing as dishesgate continues
Episode 28: Cheating scandal erupts after secret video recording
Episode 29: Rick finally snaps at lazy Tayla
Episode 30: Tayla and Jolene at each other’s throats in embarrassing spectacle
Episode 31: Jolene furious at Wyatt for being in her carport
Episode 32: A Wyatt and Chantel prank backfires badly
Episode 33: Adam and Wyatt erupt in nasty feud over intimidation claims
Episode 34: Jolene throws out Wyatt’s protein powder amid fury over dishes
Episode 35: Dishesgate continues as Sev braces herself for Jolene blowback
Episode 36: Block theory sweeps the show
Episode 37: Tearful Lisa points out double standards in judging
Episode 38: Ugly feud erupts on The Block over perfect 10s
Episode 39: Jolene gets wind of Courtney and Sev’s secret rooftop terrace
Episode 40: Courtney accuses Dan of conspiring against her
Episode 41: Winning isn’t enough for Jolene
Episode 42: Girls’ are threatened with disqualification over spending
Episode 43: Courtney calls out Jolene’s claim Wyatt stood over her
Episode 44: Courtney apologises to Jolene as Lisa breaks down over huge bill
Episode 45: Jolene’s fury reaches new heights as girls exploit a loophole
Episode 46: Courtney and Sev battle their landscaper and Jolene
Episode 47: Courtney and Sev’s battle with their landscaper gets worse
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