The Block 2025 Episode 41 Recap: A Pig -heading Decision could cost one team large at an auction – realestate.com.au

This week Mat had a series of “cute Little Mental BS”, because he and Robby are confronted with the possibility that they may have to design and style their wine cellar via a precarious ladder.

But with the stairs finally installed with not a moment to save, the couple is about to discover whether their huge gamble has paid off.

But while the boys put the finishing touches to their wine cellar, gym, barn and cover area, Han and can still be in battle city.

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Ben and Emma’s Achterdek.

Han has firmly pushed forward to completely insulate their shed, despite all the opposite, but because the pair is broken flat, she has to do all the work itself.

In the meantime, the girls and their new builder have not succeeded in making a range of their Dekbarbecue possible – a requirement for every barbecue that is placed into a fixed ceiling.

That means that they have to move their barbecue to the center of their deck, where it will be under Louvres, avoid the need for a reach, but display the ugly back of the barbecue to anyone who uses the area.

Britt and Taz are also caught without a remote control, so Taz’s visiting mother gets the rotten task to drive from Daylesford to Melbourne and to collect it.

“My mother drove two days ago in the desert without traffic lights and now she drives through Melbourne City looking for a reach,” Taz notes.

Then it is on to the assessment.

The back deck of Han and Can with exposed barbecue butt.

Emma and Ben have made the best of the only raised house on the block, with an extensive view from their deck, but Shaynna is not a fan of their oppressive black Sugi Bahn cladding and all black devices and furniture.

“It feels a bit heavy,” she says, while Darren Palmer suggests that the space needs an outside rug, without calling his hustle for the outside rug.

In the shed of the couple, Shaynna feels the same way. They have made a workspace on the one hand, where the other contains a golf simulator and bar fridge.

“It’s very Blokey. It just feels very oriented to men, instead of men and women who want to use this space,” she says.

Marty Fox does not agree with that and points out that the golf simulator will probably reach the marketing material, and that is not something that many barns can claim.

Han and can have a Zen garden in Japanese style on one side of their deck that Shaynna loves, but Marty regards a strategic error.

“It’s just to look at, you can’t sit there, so I see this as a loss of facilities for buyers. It takes the deck away and is sitting opportunities to put all that garden in a garden if you have all that garden. I think that’s a big miss,” he says.

They also hate the exposed repeat effects of the barbecue.

Britt and Taz’s took up so much space with a kitchen, there was no room for a lounge.

Their barn no longer gets love from the jury members, who notice that with the insulation, brick paneling and skylights they have spent a lot of time and money in a space that does not really need time and money.

“They have put a lot of effort into beautifying a shed,” Darren notes.

They all love the aspect of Artist Studio, but the workshop section is completely unfinished and uses a different style of brick.

“I am very happy to leave here. It is not a good space,” says Marty.

Britt and Taz have a U-shaped outdoor kitchen with teppanyaki-grill, pizza oven and barbecue, but with so much kitchen there is no room for a lounge.

The jury members note that a lounge of the deck is placed around the fireplace, but that means that it is not usable in the rain or heat.

Britt and Taz’s Speakeasy Schuurbar and possible future Pilates studio when Marty Fox gets his way.

While they go to the barn, Marty in particular hopes that they will find the Pilates studio out of the house.

Britt and Taz have nodded hard criticism for sacrificing one of the two living spaces of the house in front of the studio earlier in the series and were told that they had to be moved to the barn.

So if they find a workspace on one side instead, and a speakeasy style beam on the other, they are equal and impressed.

Marty responds to the Speakeasy shed of Britt and Taz.

Shaynna wonders whether it is even in accordance with, since it disguised itself as a habitable room.

Marty continues to convert it in a Pilates room.

“From a real estate perspective, they have a fundamental error in their map that can consider it impalable,” he says.

Sonny and Alicia’s bent brick barbecue.

Sonny and Alicia know how to lounge.

Sonny and Alicia have reached the stamp with their curved brick barbecue, pizza oven, sink, two stoves, vast lounge and dining table, along with their radical decision to use their shed as a shed.

The size of the residential area on the deck brings the lack of lounge options at Britt and Taz’s in contrast.

“Lounging is a loving. That is what is luxurious,” notes Marty.

Sonny and Alicia made the groundbreaking decision to present their shed as a shed.

But the real showstopper is the rooms of Mat and Robby.

The deck with barbecue, dining table and lounge with a view of their huge fireplace, the tick, together with their shed with workspace on the one hand, is given an excellent gym on the other, but it is their wine cellar with which everyone reduces.

With natural light that flows through a window that frames the view above the stairs, a narrow high table, wine fridge, expensive cupboards and the winning wallpaper of Robby, it is a recipe for perfect 10s.

Mat and Robby in their underground wine cellar.

“This is insane,” notes Shaynna. “The joinery is stylish, it’s elegant, it’s expensive. This is the perfect wine cellar.”

“They waved hard, but this is a home run,” Darren agrees.

“They have brought themselves into a totally new bracket,” is Marty’s assessment.

And so it is no surprise if they win the week, with a point of three perfect 10s.

Mat and Robby’s Shed Gym.

With their own perfect 10 from Darren Palmer, Sonny and Alicia would have won in another week, but that wine cellar was impossible to compete with.

And Han and can at least find a silver lining. With Han’s toil and their almost complete absence of styling, they won the budget prizes, which had been attacked up to $ 20,000 after no teams had earned it last week.

Latest scores

Emma and Ben 26

Han and Can 21

Britt and Taz 27

Sonny and Alicia 29

Robby and Mat 30

Missed an episode? Here are all our summaries so far

Episode 1: Why not NSW applicants were good enough for the block

Episode 2: The worst day on the block

Episode 3/4: ‘Tear Them Off’: Teams forced to tear tiles from walls

Episode 5: Feedback from the jury has one participant surrendered

Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s Hartzeer