The Block 2025 Episode 37 recap: Going all out for a win one team comes unstuck

Britt and Taz have staged an almighty comeback, snatching victory by half a point from an enraged Han and Can thanks to a perfect 10 from judge Shaynna Blaze.

This time it was Can who blew her lid over coming second for their garage, mudroom, spare toilet, laundry and pantry.

Letting fly with a string of expletives, she moaned: “We have the wrong style for this season. We’re dykes on bikes. We are retro, urban, eccentric, fun, lux, expensive rich girls. We don’t do country bumpkin.”

Han added: “They can kiss my country a***.”

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Han and Can’s powder room.

Han and Can’s pantry area.

With a paltry $20k to spend on five spaces, everybody blew their budget – Han and Can to the tune of $20,455 – so there was no prize for money management this week.

Instead, the prize for the most budget savvy build will jackpot next week, with $20,000 up for grabs instead of the usual $10,000.

Shaynna and fellow judges Marty Fox and Darren Palmer had been impressed by Han and Can’s thoughtful and stylish spaces (except for the rug in front of the toilet which made them all retch at the thought of what it would look and smell like after regular use).

“I love that they haven’t just burned this floorspace,” Darren said as he walked into the girls’ pantry, where the entryway had been transformed with benches and shelves along one side. “It isn’t just a walkway it’s a visual and functional connection to the kitchen.”

Han and Can in their showstopping garage.

They were also taken by Han’s striking black and white garage that Marty said was “the car enthusiast’s and home improver’s dream”.

“This is showroom quality in a residential setting,” he swooned. “This could be the dark horse on auction day. Han and Can on the back of their Harley, revving it hard.”

Unfortunately for the girls, Britt and Taz did it better, adding a shallow shelf along the pantry walkway wall to mirror the bench space on the other side.

“Now that I see it, this is what it’s meant to be,” Darren said, approvingly.

He also declared their laundry “sexy”.

Britt and Taz made use of a long corridor to the pantry for extra shelving.

Shaynna said the couple’s home had her heart and buyers would feel the same.

“This is the first house that all three of us would say: ‘I’d live here. I’d want to buy it,’” she cooed.

Marty felt the house was like a warm hug. And they all agreed the garage was the only one on The Block which felt like an extension of the house.

“Is that a garage or a gallery?” Marty said taking in the garage with its two Bromley paintings on the wall.

“It’s sexy AF,” Darren added.

Britt and Taz’s gallery/garage.

Britt and Taz were elated with the feedback after failing to finish last week and yet another dust-up with Sonny and Alicia.

A sheepish Sonny earlier said he was happy to wear the title of the Big Bad Wolf for dobbing in Britt and Taz for getting a head start on alfresco week.

Owning his role in their punishment (they would be penalised a day’s labour next week), Sonny explained to Taz that he was compelled to report it to foreman Dan.

“I’m sorry, I feel bad for you but I have to think about what we are doing,” Sonny said. “How could it be fair that we are getting guys in on Monday to do that (and you’ve already done yours ahead of time)?”

Unimpressed, Taz said Sonny’s actions were frustrating and flattening. Britt added that she wouldn’t want to hold people back because she wanted to win on her own merits.

“I think they are just trying to do whatever they can for a win,” Britt shrugged.

Although their strategy hadn’t involved any dobbing, Emma and Ben had also worked hard in the hopes of securing back-to-back wins.

That wasn’t to be, with the judges declaring their combined laundry and pantry impractical. And so, in keeping with the trend of this season, Emma and Ben went from winners to wooden-spooners in the space of a week.

Ben and Emma’s laundry and pantry space.

“The reason you have a butler’s pantry is to have a second kitchen area to make a lot of mess and there’s not a lot of space to do that,” Marty pointed out.

And everyone wanted to know where the second fridge was. Spoiler: there wasn’t one.

“There seems to be no strategy to the way they have planned this room,” Marty said.

There were more functionality issues in the mudroom (which didn’t have any hanging space) and the garage (where the black floor would show up dust and dirt).

“You’ll be mopping every day,” Shaynna said.

Sonny and Alicia’s laundry area.

Sonny and Alicia won powder room of the season thanks to their deep concrete basin.

Although they felt Sonny and Alicia’s room was executed better, they had similar complaints about the couple’s hybrid laundry and pantry space.

But they approved of their drying cupboard and pantry fridge.

“The fridge saves them,” Marty said.

The judges did, however, love the mudroom nook for a dog and were rendered speechless by their “faultless” WC that was “so high end, it’s ridiculous.”

They likewise loved the commissioned photograph of Daylesford on the wall of the garage.

Mat and Robby’s divisive European laundry.

Unfortunately, Robby and Mat’s garage seemed very plain by comparison to everybody else’s efforts.

And all those hoops the boys had to jump through to make their euro laundry cupboard come to life were a waste of the time. With nowhere to fold or sort laundry, and cupboard doors that were a hindrance, Darren complained: “it’s form over function”.

FINAL SCORES

Britt and Taz: 28

Han and Can: 27.5

Sonny and Alicia: 26.5

Robby and Mat: 25.5

Emma and Ben: 22

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Episode 1: Why no NSW applicants were good enough for The Block

Episode 2: The worst day on The Block

Episode 3/4: ‘Tear them off’: teams forced to rip tiles from walls

Episode 5: Judges feedback leaves one contestant vomiting

Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s heartbreak