The Block 2026‘s Lisa and Rosco scored their first room reveal win with an impressive 27 out of 30. However, their glory was short-lived, with some fans dubbing their victory “unfair” because the entire room wasn’t designed by them.
The first week of The Block saw teams design their own rooms, with the results determining the order in which they got to pick their houses. During that time, Courtney and Sev designed a luxurious walk-in robe that became part of the house Lisa and Rosco inherited, and that area was judged alongside their master bedroom, contributing to their win.
“80% of that win was because of the girls’ wardrobe,” one person wrote on Reddit, while another said on Instagram: “Oh, the irony! Courtney & Sev chose the wardrobe for Rosco and Lisa and they won!”
However, Lisa and Rosco told Chattr in an exclusive interview that they made a lot of changes to the wardrobe, but those efforts weren’t shown on TV, making it look as though they’d simply cashed in on Courtney and Sev’s design without putting in work themselves.
“They didn’t show that, but we actually did change that robe quite a lot to suit our style. So we had to have all the faces of the drawers remade, which took a lot of convincing. But, in the end, Freedom actually agreed that the handles they’d picked were too chunky, so they remade all the faces so they could rescrew in the handles, and we put the curtain behind the main provision. That was never there, yeah. We reconfigured the lighting plan, the electrical plan,” Lisa explained.
“The artwork and the lime plaster that was in the walk-in-robe, that was all done by us,” Ross added. “We had to change a bit with the cabinetry; all the faces got replaced because the handles that were chosen were way too big for the drawers and things like that… I guess there are things you don’t see.”
Lisa and Rosco said that while elements of the girls’ design remained, they put a lot more work into the walk-in wardrobe than viewers may realise.
“It didn’t really show it, but aside from the cabinetry, colour and the stone, which is what they chose, there was still a lot of our input into it,” Lisa said.
The Block’s Lisa and Rosco considered the walk-in robe floor plan when choosing House 3
Lisa and Rosco pointed out that another reason their win wasn’t unfair was that they chose House 3, knowing its floor plan included a large walk-in wardrobe, which they said was one of its major drawcards. Meanwhile, Courtney and Sev had an earlier house pick but opted for one with a smaller wardrobe space.
“It’s not really unfair. They chose to give it away, which we still can’t fathom why they decided to leave this house,” Rosco told Chattr.
“When we first walked through the floor plan, we couldn’t figure out what that walk-in robe was,” Lisa said. “Before we got the full plans, it felt like another bedroom or a retreat.”
“You can’t compare the galley path walk-in robe; you can’t compare it to a massive bedroom-sized room with an island robe. You just can’t compare them,” Lisa added. “But they chose to give up this house and this view and that and that robe, and I still don’t know why. But their loss is our gain,” she added.
The Block airs Sunday – Wednesday on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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