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The Renovators: final keyholders

The final six keyholders for The Renovators have now been decided after this week's concluding challenges.

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The final six keyholders for The Renovators have now been decided after this week’s concluding challenges.

They are:

Weatherboard House: Melissa
Half Done House: Peter
Inner City Terrace: Luke
The Shop: August
60’s Suburban: Natalia
Fibro Cottage: Michael

One of the six will walk away with all of the profit from all of the homes, initially teased by TEN as potentially being over half a million dollars -but will it get close?

Yesterday there were possible auction results spoilers on Twitter and Facebook, this time for all 6 houses.

There’s one more episode tomorrow night before the Auction final on Wednesday night.

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  1. The Program Manager at TEN should be shown the door for his messing up a great show…what happened to Sunday Nights Final?????, how about at least advising at 8.30 that the show has been?????.
    John Phillips
    Former asst production manager TEN 1965-1967.

  2. I have enjoyed the series too.

    Apart from the things already mentioned, I struggled with what seemed to be a huge amount of waste in things like White Room challenges. Why not reno rooms in real ppl’s homes, schools, community centres ala the Qld eps. At least it benefits someone then.

  4. I disagree with a couple of comments:

    I don’t like or dislike Natalia, felt bad for Nathan, but she has lasted through the competition as long as Nathan has. It’s not about being the keyholder – it’s about lasting through all the challenges and then having the winning final house at auction. She’s worked just as hard as Nathan (and she had to deal with August and dimples!) and is just as deserving.

    The thing about the final challenges is this: They’ve all been challenged on everything from styling to design to contstruction. In the culling process, if someone was a one trick pony only in one area, they’d be out. It was pretty clear why people went out in the challenges – especially the last elimination ones. Keenan and the fireplace, for example, was very obvious. And Nathan’s room was neat – but not very inviting.

    I’ve *greatly* enjoyed this series. I like the judges a lot – they seemed fair, were encouraging, and the series wasn’t about conflict BS (Jason’s outburst to Natalia seemed the only overt display). The challenges were interesting, the houses interesting, and the contestants weren’t bland but also not over the top (Australia’s next top model, anyone?).

    I was surprised to read this didn’t do well, especially compared to the Block. I didn’t even bother to watch the last episodes of the Block and just read who won on a news feed at the end. But I’ve watched every episode of The Renovators!

  6. After agreeing with every decision on every challenge all season, I cannot believe some of the final decisions. Smells a bit like the producers wanted to even up the genders and get some ‘feel good’ moments of young mums winning.
    I am OK with Melissa staying in – I just think Keenan was silly taking the larger task on. But giving one of the front-running houses to a self-involved fly-in? Blergh.

  8. What I don’t understand is how any of them can really be called ‘Australia Best Renovator’ when not one of the teams has been able to stick to a budget of 20% of the purchase price and renovate on that. If they hadn’t won things like furniture, Bunnings vouchers, white goods, a Pool etc none of the houses would be any good. Will these prizes be taken into account for the final price??? Then last night Mellissa says that she is more than $2k over budget!!!!

  9. The contestants in this show are less phoney than those in The Block but I find the judges in this show such posers (with the exception of Baz the Builder).

  10. I like the show and I think the judges are far more down to earth than Masterchef. Nathan should have kept the keys. Natalia gives me the heeby jeebies. I hope Peter or Michael win.

  12. Gotta feel for keenan too but however fair or unfair it seems you got the sense they were going to try and keep a gender balance. Challenges are different so the producers can pick who they want. Completely unfair. Even whiteroom challenges are different enough to be subjective (ie city kitchen v country kitchen – why not make it same v same to be fair???) biggest suprise was keeping august when they could have easily kept dimples but suppose he is the only real villain in this game. Bad luck nathan but natalia has been a favourite and they needed another girl in the mix – so transparent producers i’m sorry to say.

  13. @JB – I hear what you’re saying but you have to admit that Nathan would not have done as good a job with that house if it weren’t for Natalia. He’s good at getting his hands dirty and building ect but when it came to design and styling, he was way behind. That was obvious when Tina was still in the competition with him. Just look at the bathroom challenge for the 60s suburban, it was the best bathroom due to Natalia calling out that he wasn’t using the space properly and to rethink the design. I think they both have worked hard throughout the competition and both deserved the keys.

    @Gary – Yeah the producers definitely made the rules up as they went along. The houses that still needed plenty of work such as Half done House, Weatherboad and Blacktown cottage were the center of the ‘decider’ key holder challenges. Whereas the other houses that were more progressed like the City Terrace, the challenge was to remake a kitchen in the warehouse. It’s obvious the producers didn’t plan well enough with all the eliminations that some of the houses weren’t going to be completed in time.

  14. I have to say I agree with both Number1 and JB. It seems highly unfair that Nathan puts in the majority of the work and loses the house to somebody who has only been there 2 weeks. Given that the challenge was a style challenge Nathan was disadvantaged in the first place. I’ve really enjoyed this show but I refuse to watch the rest.

  15. Oh, forgot to add that I do love the show though. And as it stands, I agree with the outcome of all the eliminations (except for Natalia, wtf?). I’m rooting for green, orange and dark blue! 😀

  16. I agree with JB. The fact that teams work on the house while only one person can win is quite stupid. And it’s not even one person from each team, it’s one person in the entire competition – the rest of the head renovators get diddly squat. They should ditch eliminations and split the prize money between the winning team, which would make sense since they’re pooling the profit from all 6 houses so there should be enough.

  17. The whole concept is kinda flawed.
    The challenges haven’t been very consistent either, some people got help for their rooms, others had no help (white room challenge).

    They need a total rework of this because they all put huge amounts of effort into these houses with little to no benefit in the end. Unlike Masterchef where it’s basically a individual competition, having teams and only having one eventual winner just seems unfair.

  18. The keyholder challenges were inconsistent and unfair. Jarrad had a much bigger room than Michael and couldn’t even choose his own furniture. Michael was able to get theirs delivered, all others had to go get it. Peter got to do a room, while Sam had to do a garden. Four of the houses got rooms completed through the challenges, while two were held off-site and contributed nothing to their renovations. Not to mention the dwindling number of helpers each challenge.

    Judging was also inconsistent – Light Blue challenge was judged on craftmanship, while the next Green Team challenge judged on design, and won by the person who spent 3 hours away shopping while her helpers did all the work, and lost by the one who stayed and did all the work himself.

    The most unfair treatment has to be to Nathan – when Peter was left alone, he was immediately given a new team member while Nathan was left to battle on his own for weeks. Then right at the end when most of the work has been done, they given him a new team member who takes the keys off him.

    It should have been white room challenges for all.

  19. @JB it wasn’t Natalia’s fault she got foisted onto Nathan. She and the annoying girly dimple chick from the Shop both wanted to stay with August because they (a) they thought they could beat him and (b)they’d also put all their efforts into the shop and didn’t want to change. August got rid of Natalia because he saw her for the threat she was. It’s a game and it’s all game play.

    The show, however spent its entire run trying to figure out its own rules, it was being tweaked from beginning to end with many arbitrary decisions being made by producers in particular to the way people got switched around. If Ten does give it another run next year they have to think it through and have fair, hard and fast rules and stick to them.

    they could:

    – dump the idea of key holders and make the teams figure out their own structure/leadership
    – keep the key holders but not have teams, just a pool of contestants who get to work on all the houses until they win a set of keys
    – make it easier for the keys to change hands more often so that no-one has the whole sense of entitlement “I deserve it because I’ve had the keys since day one” thing

    There’s a good concept in here somewhere, but they didn’t nail it by any means (pun unintentional)

  20. I’ve been watching the show since day one. To me it seems they made the rules up as they went along. If you missed last night’s episodes you missed a lot too. Two contestants gone and the houses basically finished. And all on a friday night when not a lot of people would be viewing.

  22. What happened last night with Natalia getting the keys to the 60 suburban was absolute crap. And that’s why if they bring it back next year they need to change this. Nothing against Natalia, but it ridiculous that Nathan does everything at the house from the very start, Natalia is there for 2 weeks, but now gets the keys and could get the reward for all Nathan’s hard work.
    Previously i’ve said that they should just have teams of 3-4 that stay there the entire time meaning no eliminations, and the winning team splits the profit between them. But it’s a reality show, so doubt that would happen. So perhaps they should just say last person standing gets the keys at auction. No switching teams.

    60 suburban was my favourite property but i kinda hope Natalia doesn’t win now just on prinicple in fairness to Nathan who worked on it for so long.

  23. Nathan’s room was better and he deserved to be their more as he has been at that house for the whole time and deserves to have taken the house (he renovated) to auction.

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