The Block bathroom reveals: Who won Bathroom Week 2025?

Block fans, rejoice! We can finally settle back into our couch grooves with a bag of chips and some light “I wouldn’t have used those tiles” judgment as we watch the latest bunch of Blockheads take on some big-time renovations. Yes, The Block is back, and this time, there’s a pretty big twist.

We’re back in the countryside once again, this time in the picturesque Victorian town of Daylesford, but instead of embarking on a big, messy reno, each team will be working on properties that have been built from scratch. Each house has the same layout, designed by The Block architect, Julian Brenchley, so contestants will have to wow judges with their interior design talents to get ahead.

Another huge change? No chaotic all-nighter sessions, with the building site locked up tight once the sun goes down. Time management on The Block?! Never heard of it.

Some things haven’t budged, though, like our favourite hosts, Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, being back on the tools for another season. If you want to feel old, Scott’s been hosting The Block for 19 years, and Shelley for 18. This is information we really didn’t want to think about, to be honest. Remind us to pick up a new eye cream from the chemist this week.

We’ve also got returning judges Shaynna Blaze, Darren Palmer and Marty Fox, but before we dive into any room reveals, let’s quickly catch up on what went down this week.

A quick recap of the week leading up to this year’s bathroom reveals

To kick things off, each pair had to design a float for the annual Daylesford ChillOut Festival, a long-running pride parade. The winners would get first pick of the properties, and with Houses 1, 3 and 5 being hot commodities, this meant competition was tight.

Britt and Taz, a cop couple from remote Western Australia, won the challenge with their fancy float. Shocking all the other contestants, they jumped on House 3 – right in the middle of the property line-up. Some would say it’s an odd choice, but they felt the exterior perfectly matched their “modern organic luxury” style. Expect to hear “modern organic luxury” at least 30 more times this season.

Runners-up were childhood sweethearts Emma and Ben, who nabbed House 1, disrupting the plans of basically every other pair. It was clearly the most coveted due to its position, pitched roof, elevation and views. Best-friend duo Robby the barber and Mat the hairdresser quickly jumped on House 5 after winning third place, devastating West Australian couple Han and Can (best couple name ever?), who were set on a pitched-roof home. They had to choose between the two houses with flat roofs, 2 and 4, and decided on 2, which meant Queensland couple Alicia and Sonny were left with house 4.

The Block bathroom reveals: Judges’ comments and scores

For Bathroom Week, each pair worked on the same bathroom in their house. Given that the layouts of these are identical across the board, decision-making on tiles, decor and design has never been so intense. We saw Alicia and Sonny snap up the vanity Mat and Robby were set on, and more stress than you’d ever imagine over a well-placed light fixture.

It’s also been very tense on the building front, with Robby and Mat racing to secure the go-ahead for their secret weapon – an underground wine cellar. They needed plans drawn up and council approval, all while keeping it under wraps from the other contestants.

Han got into big trouble, school-principal style, from Foreman Dan for attempting to waterproof her bathroom without a professional present.

Plus, a tile glue debacle meant Britt and Taz in House 3 and Sonny and Alicia in House 4 had to take their tiles off the wall, scrub the “wrong” glue off them and re-lay them using the right glue. Talk about a rocky start. Alicia sitting alone, scrubbing each tile in a bucket like a farmer’s wife doing the laundry in 1885 was a real highlight.

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House 1: Emma and Ben ($22,552 spend, score 24)

Emma and Ben went with “spa vibes” – think green subway tiles, mood lighting, and plenty of curves.

Shaynna feels like they’ve really nailed the Daylesford bushland energy, and is a huge fan of the curved green basins and the textures used throughout … But! What does she see? Vertical towel rails! Shock, horror! If you’ve watched past seasons, you’ll know vertical towel rails are Shaynna’s kryptonite.

Marty’s eyes go straight to the curved nib wall and its messy finish.  To him, “the craftmanship is not 10 out of 10”. To be fair to their tiler, he had about 0.2 seconds to finesse the tile cuts, given they only had a week to build this bathroom. But he does “really like the layout of the room”.

Meanwhile, Darren loses his mind over the bathroom. For him, it’sa “cracker” – he can clearly see their experience in renovating (these guys have done multiple house renos over the years).

House 2: Han and Can ($19,711 spend, score 19.5)

Han and Can have absolutely had the roughest week on The Block 2025.

At first, they were flying with easy design decisions. However, their choice to use just one tiler when they went with floor-to-ceiling tiles? Not the best move. Foreman Dan did try to warn them.

On the morning of the room reveals, the pair still had to finish tiling, paint the ceiling, fit the lights, showerhead, toilet and cabinets, as well as do the styling and cleaning.

In a shock to no one, they don’t make it across the finish line, and ended up with a bit of an “unfinished symphony” situation.

They were going for tranquillity and used curved walls and soft edges to nail the feel. Darren finds it “calm” and “soft”, which the ladies are pleased by since those are definitely synonyms for “tranquil”. He praised the finger tiles and curved edges, and is “in love” with the bath.

Aside from the obvious criticism (“It’s not finished”), Shaynna feels the vanity is too high.

Marty is not a fan of the framework on the shower screen, and feels their skylight makes the bathroom feel smaller, too. He also criticises their curved doorway, saying “it’s a waste of money … and doesn’t look right”. Time will tell if the pair take that feedback on board.

Darren’s not convinced by their styling direction,  and feels the design is “not what the Daylesford market will respond to, aesthetically speaking”.

Shaynna comes through with the best advice: Han and Can need to let go of their original plans, and design their rooms based on the exterior of the house, which is easily the most modern, setting it apart from the other designs. “The only way is up.”

House 3: Britt and Taz ($21,350 spend, score 24)

Mr and Mrs Organic Coastal Luxury hit some roadblocks along the way with their bathroom, like having to move their shower head closer to the wall and the infamous tile glue debacle, but they made it through, and their neutral tones are a hit.

Marty and Darren are in love with their French pattern tiles, and Darren also adores their wallpaper, both from a money-saving perspective and for its aesthetic.

Shaynna loves the skylight placement, and thinks the bathroom is “beautiful. But there are a couple of things I’m going to pick on”. She’s spotted another vanity that’s too high! She has decided that this year, her personal vendetta is against too-high vanities. Wait, we lie – she’s also sticking with despising vertical towel rails, which Britt and Taz also unfortunately picked out. Whoops.

Marty critiques the size of the shower screen, which he feels is too small in relation to the size of the bathroom – not to mention that he clocks how far away the shower head is from the shower taps. They’re also criticised for not going “Daylesford” enough with their design choice, which feels like it’ll come up again and again for these two if they stick to “organic coastal luxury” given Daylesford is, erm, not anywhere near the coast.

House 4: Sonny and Alicia ($14,739 spend, score 25.5)

“This is different,” Marty says when he walks into the “earthy and organic” room. Not missing a beat, Darren chimes in, “That’s what my grandma says when she doesn’t like something.”

But it’s not bad news because Darren thinks the bathroom is beautiful. He’s loving the colour palette and is “besotted”.

Still, there’s always room for criticism. Guess what? Shaynna is once again offended by a vanity. Stop making Shaynna Blaze look at high vanities!

She’s also, once again, outraged by some vertical towel rails.

She does adore their colour palette, though, and believes that down the track this would be a couple to watch, saying, “They could blow it out of the park.” A frontrunner has been marked already.

House 5: Robby and Mat ($25,394 spend, score 26.5)

The funniest team this season (if you disagree, you’re lying), Mat and Robby, got the other bookend property and were going for “contemporary country”.

Even though these two have the least experience in home renovations, they nailed the week, with just one setback of a water leak that was swiftly cleared up with – in a golden Block moment – their personal hair dryers.

The boys get a round of applause after Marty points out their horizontal towel rails. Shaynna couldn’t have been more delighted. Finally! A towel rail she can enjoy.

Darren gives them the highest praise:  “This is the Goldilocks room.” It’s everything the judges have seen working in other rooms, all together.

The boys get another round of applause because their vanity is actually at the right height! In fact, all the judges love this bathroom. Marty says that for a week one room, it is “some of the best work I’ve seen” on the show.

Who won Bathroom Week on The Block 2025?

Robby and Mat take out the win for Bathroom Week with an overall score of 26.5, narrowly beating Sonny and Alicia by one point.

Han and Can, understandably, came last, with their unfinished bathroom scoring 19.5.

But there’s also $10,000 up for grabs for the pair who budget the best each week, and that goes to Sonny and Alicia.

Given Robby and Mat are trying to hoard as much cash as possible to fund their secret wine cellar, they might want to cool it on the bulk Linen House buys next week. They spent the most on their bathroom by a mile.

Next week – the kids’ bedrooms! Marty already describes one as an “upmarket nursing home” in the trailer, so you know the judging is only getting spicier this season.

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