The Block 2025 Episode 25 recap: Britt and Taz make a major blunder, but Mat and Robby cop the worst criticism

While all the teams were happy for Sonny and Alicia at finally taking out a win – for the challenge treatment room at the Hepburn Springs Bathhouse – they were equally sorry for Ben and Emma for just missing out on a win yet again.

“We were stoked that they won it,” Mat said.

“They had the week from hell. Do I think they should have won it? No, I think Ben and Emma’s was much stronger than theirs.”

But there was no time to linger as the teams put the finishing touches on their rumpus rooms.

Can, with what has become her trademark dry wit and deadpan delivery, pointed out that the rooms could be whatever the teams wanted.

“It could be a playroom, an extra bedroom or an all-out sex room,” she said.

Which should mean they took extra care getting the measurements right.

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Sadly, neither Han nor Can seemed able to operate a tape measure with first their trademark arch, then their TV, then their entertainment cabinet, then their couch, then their velvet sound proofing panels all failing to fit their assigned spaces in the girls’ theatre room.

The lesson, according to Can?

“Measure twice, thrice, frice, scythe. Keep measuring. Just don’t stop measuring.”

It’s a lesson Robby’s floor installers should have heeded. In his determination to avoid using breaker boards on the herringbone pattern floor boards he and Mat are laying throughout their entire house, they ran out of boards for their rumpus room, leaving Mat shocked.

Mat’s reaction to the loss of his floorboards.

Robby left a note on the exposed sub-floor for the judges that the situation was out of their control, but it was a note that came back to haunt him at judging time.

Alicia had decided to go for broke in her and Sonny’s rumpus room, painting the walls and ceiling the same moody colour.

“It’s as good a week as any to give it a crack,” she said.

“We’re getting used to negative feedback.”

Emma also made a bold move, making a last-minute decision to paint her ceiling the same sage green as a feature wall in her and Ben’s room.

Then it was on to the judging.

Ben and Emma were unlucky not to finally take out a win for their second living area.

Emma’s colourful ceiling was an immediate hit with all the judges, along with a timber feature wall, built-in book shelf, leather couch and sheer curtains.

“This is everything that we would have hoped from last week,” Shaynna Blaze said, referencing the pair’s lacklustre living and dining room.

“The question is what’s going to give the contestants the best bang for buck, and this is a second living space,” Marty Fox said approvingly.

“The only issue is this room is so good the buyer will walk out of here and into the main living area and think I wish that area was like this area.”

Han and Can’s curved sofa in their theatre room.

The judges were equally enthusiastic about Han and Can’s theatre room. Once they’d resolved all the measuring issues, they’d fitted in a mammoth curved couch, those velvet sound proofing panels, a coffered ceiling and built-in shelves on either side of a huge TV.

“Bloody brilliant” was Darren Palmer’s assessment.

“This is so marketable,” Marty said.

“I love almost everything in here.”

The judges loved almost everything about Han and Can’s theatre room except the choice of styling items in the shelves.

It was a similar lovefest in Sonny and Alicia’s room with its deep brown walls, ceiling and built-in book shelves and couch oriented towards both the TV and the view.

“This is what I’ve been looking for all this season. It’s so on-trend. I am besotted,” Darren said of the colour-drenching.

“Yes, it’s so on-trend it will be out of trend,” Marty observed, before he was corrected by Darren.

“Mate, it’s only paint and it’s going to look great in photographs, and it’s so appropriate for Daylesford. It’s a near perfect room.”

The judges loved the colour drenched room presented by Sonny and Alicia.

The only quibble was that Sonny and Alicia hadn’t also painted the air-conditioning duct and ceiling light fittings the same colour.

It was clear it would be a three-way battle for first place when it came time to judge the remaining two teams.

Britt and Taz were confident their wellness room with pilates machines, TV and giant fridge would give them the point of difference they needed. The judges had other ideas.

“Everyone else is going to have two living rooms and it will definitely impact them because at the end of the day you have one living space when you’re spending more than $3 million,” Marty said.

“They have reduced the value of the house. They need to change this. This is fundamentally incorrect.”

“It’s so niche,” Shaynna agreed.

Taz and Britt missed the mark by making what could have been a second living area into a wellness zone.

Darren said the best way forward was to move everything from the wellness room into the big shed the teams would be creating later in the competition, and redoing the room as a second living space.

But if the judges were critical of Britt and Taz’s choice, they had no issues with their style or execution.

The same couldn’t be said about Mat and Robby’s boring room, with half a floor. The boys had always said they were going to do the bare minimum in the room to try and take out the $10,000 budgeting prize, but the judges were positively irritated at their attitude, as well as the note claiming the missing floor was not their fault.

An unfinished and uninspired room from Mat and Robby failed to even take out the budgeting prize.

“It’s not inviting, it’s not warm, it’s not Daylesford,” was Marty’s assessment.

“They have dropped the ball because they were winning and they got cocky. They haven’t understood the value or a second living space. It’s sucks. They’ve done nothing.”

“This is terrible,” Shaynna agreed.

As expected the other three teams fought it out for first, with Emma and Ben once again just missing out, with a second place, but at least they took out the $10,000 budgeting award, which given Mat and Robby’s deliberate lack of effort must have stung.

Han and Can won, and received a perfect 10 from Darren Palmer, giving them an extra $10,000.

Can’s assessment?

“As always, I’m most proud of myself.”

FINAL SCORES

Han and Can 29.5

Emma and Ben 28

Sonny and Alicia 27.5

Britt and Taz 20.5

Mat and Robby 18

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