The Block main bedroom reveals: Who won Main Bedroom Week?
Main bedrooms on The Block are arguably among the most important spaces to get right. Despite knowing that, one of our 2025 teams has gotten it so horribly wrong – with Marty Fox exclaiming, “Oh, I hate it!” – that we know we’re in for some piping-hot messiness.
A quick recap of the week leading up to this year’s main bedroom reveals
As usual, there have been a few curveballs leading up to the room reveals. Mat and Robby originally wanted a textured seagrass wallpaper for their main bedroom, but unfortunately, there wasn’t enough stock in Victoria, so they’ve had to add texture to their walls using painting techniques. It’s been a lengthy, tedious process – will it pay off?
They also started digging the hole for their very secret wine cellar, but keeping it hush-hush is starting to become a challenge.
For their custom-made bedhead, Britt and Taz scored an upholsterer who had worked with the Queen (!!!), and Emma and Ben proved they’re the nicest team in The Block history when Emma did a trip into town and collected supplies for everyone else, saving all the other teams’ precious time.
Alicia and Sonny were – you guessed it – at loggerheads again, this time sparked by a 17-hour painting session, which Alicia says resulted in “17 fights – one an hour”.
Han and Can also had a tiff after Han called Can’s blue feature colour “Smurf City”, and Han was read the riot act by host Scott Cam after she had a pretty rude blowup at Foreman Dan over a laundry floor-plan switcheroo she suggested was a stitch-up invented to make good TV.
There was also a kind-of-random-but-also-great cabaret performance at Shaynna’s house, and a shooting challenge that surprisingly wasn’t won by the cops, but by Emma and Ben.
Overall, it was far more drama-free than the bathroom weeks with all those waterproofing mishaps.
Well, drama-free if you don’t count some of the room reveal criticism. Let’s get into it, shall we?
The Block main bedroom reveals: Judges’ scores and comments
House 1: Emma and Ben (score 28, spend $24,575)
The nicest couple on The Block are rolling with their love of burgundy, which saw them take second place for their main-bedroom en suite.
In the bedroom, the colour is used on a custom bedhead with curved timber edges, a miraculous feat from their chippy. How did he manage to curve timber? We want in on those secrets.
All of the judges are shocked by how huge this main bedroom feels. Darren is particularly enamoured by the double skylight (seriously, he should marry it, he loves it so much). He says it’s a really beautiful architectural treatment of the Velux skylights, but he also thinks Emma and Ben let their room down with some tacky bed styling.
He doesn’t find it sophisticated, and Marty agrees. They both fixate on a particular throw pillow that has a kookaburra on it. Honestly? It’s a pretty terrible throw pillow. They’ve got a point.
Marty also flags how low the pendant lights hang over the bed, and their position too far forward to be of use for any nighttime reading (or phone doomscrolling). He demonstrates this by bonking his head on one, possibly giving himself a mild concussion.
Everyone, however, loves the curved bedhead, and Shaynna is a massive fan of the way Emma and Ben have made the burgundy hue work through their main bedroom, walk-in wardrobe and en suite. She says it’s a difficult colour to make work, but they’ve created a “beautiful, modern den – and nailed it”.
Darren also notes how the couple have used multiple wood types and made it work. “You can put as many [wood types] as you want, as long as you tie them back to something,” he says, gesturing to how Emma and Ben have tied theirs seamlessly through various areas of the main bedroom and walk-in wardrobe.
It’s an early call, but Marty says, “This could be the room of the day.” He’ll no doubt dock them a point for the GP visit he’ll have to make later that day for the concussion.
Overall, the judges say Emma and Ben are building a very memorable house, and they should keep up the good work.
See all of Emma and Ben’s room reveals here.
House 2: Han and Can (score 20, spend $18,643)
The girls won Main Bathroom Week with a little help from their gnome friend, and their chaotic see-through amber bath played a huge part in that. The judges loved their risk-taking, which Han and Can are running with for their main bedroom, choosing a lurid blue tone as their feature colour, hoping it gives Wes Anderson vibes, and not “Smurf City” as Han initially coins it.
Well, they’re not in luck. “Oh my god. I hate it,” Marty says as soon as he spots the blue. “I actually want to vomit.” He tells the judges that he is excellent at selling, but even he couldn’t sell this main bedroom. YIKES.
Darren calls the Santiago Blue shade “abrasive” and “intense”, adding that it throws off everything else Han and Can have going on in their space. “Thankfully, it’s very easy to fix, and I would absolutely change it.”
Shaynna and Darren even have an impromptu styling session, showing how the girls can improve the space with some simple changes.
Shaynna plays devil’s advocate and says she can see their thought process, noting how the Bromley artworks the girls chose have tones of gold and blue in them, which Han and Can have continued throughout the room. She also recognises how they’ve provided house continuity with the feature arch, which was also seen in their kids’ rooms. It’s good thinking, but it hasn’t paid off.
Still, there’s hope. Marty says if they change the blue, he could sell the room – and everyone loves the walk-in wardrobe with its marble handles, and the interior detail in the cupboards.
Shaynna sums it up nicely, saying Han and Can have an “identity crisis” going on throughout the main bedroom, walk-in, and en suite. She prefers the “sixties and early ’70s pop culture retro” feel of their main en suite, and wants to see that styling echoed throughout the rest of the house going forward.
Han is kind of miffed about this feedback, and she has a point. The judges have spent every week encouraging these two to be bold and brave, but, as she says, they then “get shut down for it”.
See all of Han and Can’s room reveals here.
House 3: Britt and Taz (score 29, spend $15,074)
Mr and Mrs “organic coastal luxury” are back at it after some pretty brutal criticism of their main en suite (or, as Marty called it, upmarket abattoir) last week.
This time around, however, it’s all positives. “I travelled in on a cloud, it’s so serene,” Darren coos, loving the grasscloth wallpaper and reed panelling, which he says makes the room look elevated and sophisticated, particularly when paired with pops of gold.
Shaynna loves that these two have turned their electric fireplace into something resembling the real thing, placing firewood underneath and installing a flue. She also likes that they didn’t go matchy-matchy with the artwork, but if Shaynna’s kryptonite was vertical towel rails in bathrooms, it’s now plants in living spaces. “Just stop the plants,” she says, pointing out a few sad ferns the couple have dotted about the room. “It doesn’t enhance anything.”
Darren is in love with the layout Britt and Taz have created, which features walkways on either side of a central bed, with the bed facing floor-to-ceiling windows that look onto the garden. “It’s so connected to nature,” he says.
Darren’s thoughts on their walk-in wardrobe? “Yum.” Next week, Darren starts licking furniture.
Shaynna feels the walk-in robe is almost a perfect 10, but the ceiling paintwork is “terrible”, and all the drawer handles are upside down. Britt tells us that it was actually intentional, as she liked the curved look, but acknowledges that it’s probably a little impractical.
“This is so far the most marketable, luxurious and easiest sell we’ve seen,” says Marty.
See all of Britt and Taz’s room reveals here.
House 4: Alicia and Sonny (score 21.5, spend $19,172)
The spiciest team on The Block this year had another week of sparring in the ring (well, sparring in the scaffolding), and that chaos has flowed into their main bedroom and walk-in wardrobe.
Darren feels their lighting, including spotlights for artwork, is “spot on”, and Marty finds the room comforting and homely while still maintaining an air of sophistication, thanks to heavy velvet curtains and custom pinstripe wallpaper that Alicia designed herself.
It’s all very positive for Sonny and Alicia at first, but that’s where the compliments end.
Shaynna hates the entryway. She describes it as a “dated hotel” aesthetic and says it feels corporate. No one wants to be reminded of boardroom meetings and “just circling back on this” when they’re about to go to bed.
She also notices some other serious flaws with the execution. The wires for the table lamps hang outside the bedhead and the grain on their secret walk-in wardrobe door is upside down, not to mention that the staining of their wood panelling is shoddily done overall.
Darren adds that there’s way too much empty space in such a huge room, and they could have rectified this by adding more storage in the walk-in wardrobe, which is its own disaster.
Everyone hates the structure, which includes glass-fronted drawers, meaning – yep – your knickers would be on full display. Alicia and Sonny see no issue with this, which makes me think they are not the kind of people who, ahem, hold onto undies until they are full of holes and fall to pieces.
What else is a mess? The makeup table blocks access to the wardrobes. It’s also in the darkest part of the walk-in, which is a surefire way to wind up with far too much blush on your cheeks and a wonky cat-eye flick.
Marty dubs it “a disaster”.
But the worst criticism comes from Shaynna once again. “I don’t feel like I’m in Daylesford at all,” she says, which, in a season that loves to mention 500 times per episode that we are in Daylesford, and that the Daylesford “vibe” is essential, basically makes these guys Marie Antoinette and their main bedroom the guillotine.
Sonny and Alicia are, understandably, devastated by the judges’ responses. “We put a lot into that room,” says Sonny. “So it’s a bit upsetting.” Yeah, no kidding.
See all of Sonny and Alicia’s room reveals here.
House 5: Mat and Robby (score 25, spend $17,933)
Each week it feels like the boys are just taking a quick break from tearing their hair out over their secret wine cellar to quickly pull together a room, and aside from their less-than-covetable kids’ rooms, they kind of operate like cats – always landing on their feet, even though they usually have no idea what they’re doing, at least from a technical standpoint. This week lands somewhere in the middle, between their showstopper main bathroom and their mediocre kids’ rooms.
As soon as she walks in, Shaynna spots the double skylights, and she’s besotted. “It sings; it’s celestial,” she says, and no, we have no idea what that means either, but it sounds great.
Their textured paint finish also, thankfully, pays off. Darren adores it, saying it was “well worth the effort”. He also loves the giant four-poster bed and “Australiana” colour palette.
Still, there are some lows. Shaynna is fixated on how the bed is slightly off-centre, and we have to agree – this is a weird decision by the boys. She also feels the rug is too small for the space, and the team got a bit too excited at the Bromley gallery, adorning their walls in a few Bromleys too many for Shaynna. She feels their effect is diluted, especially since the boys have also used Bromley-designed throw pillows.
Not having a fireplace is also an issue. “It’s an inclusion that matters,” Marty says.
For their walk-in wardrobe, which Mat and Robby converted to a full-on dressing room by making it oversized, they almost completely nail it. But Marty’s one gripe? No island in the centre for throwing your clothes on at the end of the day. Given that they designed such a large space, everyone feels it’s a bit of an oversight.
Still, combining their main bedroom, walk-in and en suite, Marty is in love. “As one room, it’s really hard to fault,” he says. Considering these guys have to sell this place at the end of the day, that’s kind of the highest praise you can get.
See all of Robby and Mat’s room reveals here.
Who won Main Bedroom Week on The Block 2025?
Britt and Taz win main bedroom week by just one point, snatching victory again from Emma and Ben, who seem to love coming second every week (not).
Britt and Taz secured a double victory, also taking the budgeting crown from Alicia and Sonny and landing an extra $10,000. They scored an additional $10,000 for their perfect 10 score, given by Darren. Thirty thousand all up for their main bedroom? These guys will be laughing all the way to… well, probably Bunnings for landscaping supplies.
| House | Team | Score | Place |
| House 1 | Emma and Ben | 28 | 2nd |
| House 2 | Han and Can | 20 | 5th |
| House 3 | Britt and Taz | 29 | 1st |
| House 4 | Sonny and Alicia | 21.5 | 4th |
| House 5 | Robby and Mat | 25 | 3rd |
Next week! A comedy roast (surely Mat and Robby will be winning that), and everyone delivers their living and dining rooms, which is the big one – and for a certain team, it’s also a big mess.
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
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