Alan Carr hosts the show, while Michelle Ogundehin is the main judge (Picture: BBC)
The latest contestant eliminated from Interior Design Masters has revealed that at the moment that her name was announced, she thought that she’d convinced the judge to let her stay.
The 2023 series of the BBC One competition kicked off last week, with everyone’s favourite chattyman Alan Carr returning to host the creativity-filled show.
During tonight’s episode for week 2, the talented interior designers were tasked with making over three classrooms in a children’s nursery for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
In the end, Busé Gurbuz was chosen to be sent home, after taking charge of the creativity zone for the toddler-aged class – and has since spoken about her experience on the show with Metro.co.uk.
The decision as to who would be axed from the series came down to the main judge, Michelle Ogundehin, the former editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration, as well as guest judge Sophie Robinson, an interior stylist, designer and journalist.
Busé explained that she felt ‘a little bit disappointed in Michelle’s decision’, because she felt that her work on Interior Design Masters ‘showed a lot of ingenuity and a lot of flair of design’.
Busé felt ‘disappointed’ in Michelle’s final decision (Picture: BBC)
Explaining how in the real world, her work in interior design isn’t as limited by time constraints, she said: ‘I was quite disappointed in week two. My approach to design is very much about permanence, which does take time. I do focus firstly, on for example, cladding of walls and trying to really get the robust things built. Then from there I really look at the extra things, for example, the decor…
‘The thing that really let me down was the fact that I didn’t have the time – well, I spent too much time sanding the wood down. I was also trying to really champion sustainable design, which was the reason why I had used secondhand wood in the first place.
‘I think that retrospectively, I probably wouldn’t have used it in the same way. So I was a little bit disappointed in myself in that sense, but I also was a little bit disappointed in Michelle’s decision to be honest.’
The interior designer had a clear vision in mind when creating her room in the second week (Picture: BBC)
Busé outlined that she would have liked the ‘ingenuity and flair’ of her design to have been ‘considered in her final decision’, because she felt that there was ‘a lot of potential and a lot of room for growth’.
‘Honestly, I think it was clear that I was disappointed by her decision because of that, because I did think this is about design mastery, and it’s not necessarily about just getting things done on time,’ she added.
When the time came for Michelle to reveal who had been eliminated in the second week, Busé recalled giving an ‘impassioned speech on the sofa’, where she ‘justified a lot of the reasons why I had made the decisions that I’d made’.
The contestant had designed a creativity room for toddlers which took inspiration from a woodland theme, with dark brown walls and tree trunks on the floor, with the colour scheme contrasting with the areas designed by the two other members of her team.
The woodland theme in full effect in the completed room (Picture: BBC)
‘It seemed for a second that I’d swayed her,’ she added. ‘I really did think – I think everyone thought after talking to them later – that actually I’d swayed her decision. So when she did say my name, I was shocked because of that, because of the fact that I felt really that I justified everything and that she was going to give me a second chance and she ended up deciding against that. I think it was touch and go there to be honest.’
Stressing that she has ‘no regrets’ over her time in the competition, Busé shared how she and the other contestants felt as though they’d known each other ‘for years’, which allowed them to be very open and honest about their opinions regarding each other’s work.
The interior designer, who’s rebranded by studio to be called Studio Busé and is launching her own concrete range, promised that viewers ‘haven’t seen anything yet’ with the remaining contestants on Interior Design Masters.
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‘Every week they just go above and beyond and everyone’s just done so well this season,’ she teased.
While she may have only been on the series for two weeks, Busé ‘discovered her true style in the process’, leaning towards warm colours and cosiness in interiors, embarking on a ‘more personal’ direction with her studio.
Interior Design Masters returns next Tuesday at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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