The Block front yard reveals: Who won Front Yard Week?
We did say that “Al Fresco and Shed Week” doesn’t roll off the tongue, but “Front Yard Week” might take the cake for the worst-named reveal on The Block.
Not that it can be helped. This week, the teams are finally finishing their homes by doing up the – you guessed it – front yard! Does what it says on the tin.
Some of these front yards are pretty jaw-dropping. Let’s take a look, shall we?
A quick recap of the week leading up to this year’s front yard reveals
Robby and Mat were pretty salty about Emma and Ben’s sneaky backyard win, especially since there were plenty of unfinished bits. They really didn’t have a leg to stand on, though.
Had the boys forgotten that they won a room reveal thanks to Dale S. Ford, the one-point gnome? A game is a game, and The Block’s nicest team just played it very well.
Britt and Taz punked everyone by putting a giant decal of their faces over their garage door, pretending it was the Grafico print they’d chosen to finish their front yard. This was not the case – they were just using the print to cover the real artwork they’d commissioned from local Indigenous artist Troy Firebrace.
Budget issues were everywhere. Robby and Mat were $35,000 in the red, meaning they had to get their hands dirty and do a lot of their own landscaping. They joined the poorest team on The Block for 2025, Han and Can, who drained their bank account so badly, their front yard seemed like it would remain unfinished. But they pulled it together and got things done.
The Block front yard reveals: Judges’ scores and comments
House 1: Emma and Ben (spent $149,903)
Last week’s winners are hoping for another wave of support from the judges with their quintessentially Australian front yard. Once again drawing inspiration from the rolling hills of Daylesford (they even named their house The Hills, Daylesford), Emma and Ben’s front yard is all about the landscaping.
Marty’s first observation is the way their driveway bends and curves through the space. “It’s so grand,” he says, loving its distinctiveness.
Dave Franklin is back to lend some landscaping expertise to the judging panel, and he is all about the plant choices from Emma and Ben. Specifically, he loves that they have chosen cedars. The colour of their leaves perfectly complements the native bushland surrounding the property, and all of their plant choices will grow tall enough to provide ample privacy to the home. “It’s been planned perfectly,” he says.
Shaynna thinks it’s really smart that Emma and Ben went for a pared-back garage door, allowing their garden to shine. The focus is on the plants and landscaping, not the exterior of the house. Still, Marty says their facade will be “popping” on the Domain listing. He thinks they’ve nailed it.
Darren does notice a lack of front gates. Emma and Ben did have some, but the white paint they applied the night before the reveal came off overnight in the freezing Daylesford temperatures.
Darren thinks it’s an oversight not to have gates, but Marty couldn’t care less. It’s not a 10, but it’s close, and at this stage in the game, having a real estate agent on your side is probably what you want, right?
See all of Emma and Ben’s room reveals here.
House 2: Han and Can (spent $51,132)
Poor Han and Can! The girls have had big dreams for their Japanese-inspired front and back yards, designed by landscape god Christian Jenkins, but they really haven’t had the finances to pull it off without a lot of drama.
Still, they made it to the end of the week with a finished front yard, unlike last week’s half-finished mess. It’s an impressive feat, given how much work they had to do themselves!
We can’t talk about Han and Can’s front yard without talking about that enormous torii gate. It certainly was a choice from the girls, and was the butt of jokes for everyone who walked past it all week. Would the judges like it?
Well, sort of.
Dave says that while it’s A LOT, it gives their house a bit of a “Hollywood-esque” feel. He thinks it works, kind of.
Marty does not think it works. He says it’s a considerable risk, given there aren’t many buyers who are in the market for house with a gigantic, in-your-face gate that dominates the landscape for miles around.
Shaynna’s also not a fan, but not because she doesn’t like the torii gate. She does, but … what has it got to do with the rest of their house? Han and Can went for pop art with their interiors, but now they’ve created a Japanese-inspired exterior. The home may be named Flow Estate, but it doesn’t make any sense to Shaynna.
But, putting aside the clash of styles, everyone agrees that the front yard has been well executed. Marty adores the craftsmanship and detail that’s gone into it, and while Darren made fun of the long, winding path that leads to the front door, Shaynna says it taps into the slow living feel of the property, which is exactly what Daylesford buyers will be looking for.
See all of Han and Can’s room reveals here.
House 3: Britt and Taz (spent $116,920)
In a way, we wish Britt and Taz really had put a garage door-sized print of their faces onto the facade of their house, but the real artwork by local artist Troy Firebrace is pretty spectacular. The judges love it, but aside from the art, Britt and Taz’s front yard is really lacking for them.
“This looks like an industrial shed,” Marty says of the plain corrugated walls and garage area, which is all devoid of greenery. Dave doesn’t understand why they haven’t put any plants along these areas to soften them.
Marty comes through with even more snark as he looks around. “This is essentially a large kitty litter covered in mulch,” he says of the front yard, giving us possibly the best one-liner for The Block 2025.
Shaynna agrees – it’s completely barren, and she’s confused as to why, given Britt and Taz’s interiors are the height of luxury and opulence. Where is that feel in their front yard?
Dave doesn’t even have anything to say – there is literally no landscaping for him to talk about!
When the judges head down the side of their house, however, they understand why.
Britt and Taz have funnelled a lot of their budget into creating an outdoor cinema space next to their shed. Darren thinks it’s a great use of what is otherwise a bit of a dead area, and Marty agrees, likening it to Alicia and Sonny’s bocce court in the same space.
However, was it worth the expense at the cost of their front yard? Everyone agrees – no, it wasn’t.
See all of Britt and Taz’s room reveals here.
House 4: Alicia and Sonny (spent $131,551)
Alicia and Sonny have a lot riding on their front yard reveal. The couple have not won a room reveal, and if they don’t win for their front yard, they’ll be the first team ever on The Block to finish a season without a win. They’re definitely cut up about it, and determined to nail it with their front yard, which has a distinctly Aussie feel to it, complete with a giant kangaroo sculpture.
You might have thought the judges would find that giant kangaroo a little divisive for buyers, but they all love it. Marty especially loves how the colour ties nicely with the Hampton bricks on House 4’s exterior, and Darren loves it so much that he’s leaping about and clapping like he’s turned into a kangaroo himself. He says that sculpture can be clunky if not done right, but this is brilliant.
Shaynna is all about the rawness of Alicia and Sonny’s front yard. She loves their rustic fence and the brickwork, and says the maple tree by the front door adds romance to their facade, because its leaves will change with the seasons.
Dave points out that while Alicia and Sonny have gone light on trees, they had an extra $10,000 to spend on mature ones, thanks to winning a challenge back in week 9. This has put their front yard ahead of the rest, as they already have a mature garden, while the others will have to wait for their younger trees to catch up.
Sonny and Alicia also have an oversized, expensive caravan to plonk in their driveway and have added a second driveway, which Shaynna and Darren both agree gives great versatility.
Marty is by far their biggest fan, though. He feels they delivered not just an impeccable front yard, but one brimming with emotion. It feels like an established home to him.
See all of Sonny and Alicia’s room reveals here.
House 5: Robby and Mat (spent $66,356)
Robby and Mat had their share of dramas this week while finishing their front yard, including a few fish murders when their fish pond didn’t really work out. After giving the perished fish a proper burial (we assume), the boys managed to pull off a finished front yard, and the judges are really liking what they’re seeing.
Dave loves the way Robby and Mat have created an undulating landscape that mimics the rolling hills of Daylesford, and thinks the (fishless) water feature is in the perfect spot.
Shaynna points out the randomly placed boulders, saying they become sculptural in their placement, “like they fell from the sky and landed as meteorites”.
Dave points out that it’s probably the most sustainable front yard on The Block this year, because Robby and Mat have chosen local plants that won’t need excessive watering. It’s really low maintenance, and that will appeal to buyers.
Darren just isn’t impressed, though. Well, he’s not impressed yet. He knows he’s not seeing the whole picture because Robby and Mat had to choose juvenile plants due to budget restraints. As a result, it feels unfinished and barren, but eventually it will be breathtaking.
“But what are we judging?” Marty asks. “We are judging ‘today’.”
See all of Robby and Mat’s room reveals here.
Who won Front Yard Week on The Block 2025?
Sonny and Alicia won Front Yard Week, scoring 38 points and breaking their room reveal drought at the best possible time. They also scored a 10 from Marty, which means $10,000 in their pocket.
| House | Team | Score | Place |
| House 1 | Emma and Ben | 37 | 2nd |
| House 2 | Han and Can | 35.5 | 3rd |
| House 3 | Britt and Taz | 31 | 5th |
| House 4 | Sonny and Alicia | 38 | 1st |
| House 5 | Robby and Mat | 34.5 | 4th |
The pair took home other massive prizes, including $50,000 off their reserve plus two MG vehicles.
That’s it! No more room reveals. Now we – and the contestants – anxiously wait for auction day. Who will come out on top?
Catch up on The Block 2025 room reveal recaps
- ‘I feel completely lost’: Week one on The Block and a team fails to finish
- ‘What have you done?’: Block judges unleash in kids’ bedroom week
- ‘An upmarket abattoir’: Marty dishes brutal criticism in The Block’s main en suite reveal
- ‘I want to vomit’: One team bombs in Main Bedroom Week on The Block
- Judges declare ‘dark horse’ team ‘could win The Block’
- ‘One of their worst rooms’: Top teams last week bomb in Rumpus Room week on The Block
- ‘I really don’t like this room’: Marty Fox slams Sonny and Alicia in Kitchen Week
- ‘So disappointed’: Disaster on The Block as three top teams fail to finish their guest suites
- The Block houses are finished, and the judges declare there’s one they’d ‘love to buy’
- One team smashes the competition with a perfect score in Al Fresco and Shed Week on The Block
- ‘Nicest team on The Block’ play dirty to nab a win
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