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The Great Interior Design Challenge

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The search for Britain's best amateur interior designers.

The search for Britain's best amateur interior designers. Working in a variety of architectural styles, the contestants have three days to impress both the judges and the homeowners.

Great Interior Design Challenge

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Tom Dyckhoff

Kelly Hoppen

Daniel Hopwood

Tim Harcourt

Alannah Richardson

Misbah Alvi

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The Great Interior Design Challenge: Series 4: Episode 6: Streatham Art Deco Flats

Streatham Art Deco Flats

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Episode 6: Streatham Art Deco Flats

Series 4

BBC Two - The Great Interior Design Challenge, Series 4, Streatham Art Deco Flats

In the last of the quarter-finals, two designers transform rooms in 1930s art deco flats.

In the last quarter-final, the designers transform rooms in 1930s art deco flats. A possible asbestos outbreak means work is halted for one designer.

In the last of the quarter-final heats, two designers go head to head for that coveted place in the semi-finals. This time, the amateur designers have two rooms to transform in rather glamorous 1930s art deco flats, and they are each handed a living room and a guest bedroom. The designers both have £2,000 and 48 hours across three days in which to complete their challenge. They see their workforce doubled to two decorators and two builders, and they find out how hard it is to have one room finished and judged on day two.

This is particularly challenging for one of the designers for whom a possible asbestos outbreak means work is halted in one of the rooms. Will they complete their rooms on time, and how will they adapt their design plans to comply with the art deco brief they have been handed? Will a black skirting board be a step too far for the clients and 'mock croc' be too feminine for the 'Gentleman's Club' they had asked for? Meanwhile, the other designer might be going too far off brief with a butterfly-inspired effect which dominates heavily throughout the living room.

Both designers are given a creative challenge to cleverly incorporate into their overall schemes, and architectural historian Tom Dyckhoff takes us back in time to show that 1930s Streatham, meaning 'Hamlet on the Street', was one of London's most forward futuristic glamorous neighbourhoods.

The Great Interior Design Challenge: Series 4

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