‘Rock the Block’ Season 4 Stars Reveal the Home Trends That Are In and Out—and the New Room We All Need

HGTV’s hit house renovation opposition “Rock the Block” is back for Year 4, with four new teams of all-star designers likely head to head transforming residences in Berthoud, CO. This time, no expenditure will be spared, as they’re using the greatest budgets on the biggest houses in the show’s historical past!

Just about every group gets $250,000 and 6 months to renovate one of 4 identical 5,000-sq.-foot houses the house that fetches the greatest appraised price at the close wins.

No doubt, it will be a limited race concerning Bryan and Sarah Baeumler from “Renovation Island,” Michel Smith Boyd and Anthony Elle from “Luxe for Considerably less,” Jonathan Knight and Kristina Crestin from “Farmhouse Fixer,” and Page Turner and Mitch Glew from “Fix My Flip.” In the meantime, Ty Pennington has returned as emcee/referee.

We had a chat with the “Rock the Block” host and rivals to listen to what the opposition was like driving the scenes. Here’s what they experienced to say about their ordeals, as well as which design traits are all the rage today (and a couple of that are on the chopping block). Reward: Pennington introduces a new sort of room he thinks each and every property need to have, notably when you are renovating.

Renovations are stress filled no matter the situation. What is the ideal information for keeping your awesome through building?

Bryan Baeumler: Really don’t perform with your partner!

Kristina Crestin: Just preserve smiling. That’s it, just preserve smiling.

Jonathan Knight: Spiked coffee.

Michel Smith Boyd: I’d say do it with your best close friend. That allows.

Anthony Elle: Be Alright with pivoting. You know how men and women say adversity builds character? It seriously reveals character, mainly because you have to show up in those moments.

Ty Pennington: If you’re really sensible, you’ll place in your approach a minor home, it’s possible it’s beneath your staircase, but it’s a position to cry [and] scream. It is called the “pivot area,” wherever you pivot emotionally, and you allow out every single solitary little bit of strength you have. Then you come back and you’re like, “I’m ready.”

With this kind of hard competition, what did you try out to get an edge and make your property stand out?

Boyd: We were building from a bachelor, pretty, escape type of stage of see. [With] Anthony’s vogue history and my style and design qualifications, we considered we could have an edge with that POV.

Elle: On “Luxe for Much less,” I lead in the Diy house and which is some thing we did a lot of—although it does not look like it!

Webpage Turner: For us on “Fix My Flip,” we enable battling flippers save their flips, so we experienced that identical superpower: Let’s go in, and we are likely to conserve this home and give it the most additional price. If we can conserve everyone else on our present, we can certainly help you save ourselves for the win.

Mitch Glew: Functioning in significant-conclusion true estate and construction, we know what men and women want, so that was a bit of an higher hand coming into the level of competition.

Sarah Baeumler: Colorado is all about the landscape, and I believe that has been what we concentrated on: how crucial it is to get pleasure from the outside and provide that inside of to have a snug surroundings indoors and out.

And on the hospitality side, we like to create spaces that sense calming and welcoming. We think our house is not just how it appears to be like, but how it smells, how it feels—all of the various senses coming alongside one another.

Crestin: I’d say amount of group and preparedness is fairly massive for us. I really don’t know how I shifted current purchasers all around, but we hit it so really hard that the weeks prior to leaving, there wasn’t just about anything else to come to a decision or do simply because we actually obtained all of our ducks in a row, each individual very last point. I got there being like, “Oh we’re good!”

Knight: Of course, we had to decide a whole lot of factors upfront and have them all set to go. I imagine organization was huge [and] pre-arranging.

What approach did you use to add price to your attributes?

Glew: We lived by operation. Almost everything we did had to be practical, had to be spouse and children-helpful. We took extra of a smart tactic to it.

Boyd: It was like forensic information. Naturally, all factors have to be useful, but we often land on a little something lovely. It was how are we introducing benefit in this room? How is this having us closer to that earn? It’s a diverse solution to style and design. We’re all distinctive designers for owning experienced this experience.

Sarah: Who is likely to be that long run home-owner, and what would they locate a worth include in that space? We all experienced to have on that hat. We really don’t are living in Colorado, but we had to go into each task and actually dig into what that particular person would want in their very own property. I think that would go for any individual, where ever you are carrying out a challenge, to definitely know the surroundings and the community that you’re creating in.

Bryan: When you are building and building for sale, you simply cannot build your desire residence. You have to check out and have [the] point of view of the prospective purchaser, and some emotional design and style components as very well that you set in there.

Pennington: That is the serious obstacle of “Rock the Block.” You’ve bought to add one thing that any Realtor® or any purchaser can look at and be like, “That’s truly likely to insert worth. Which is heading to be far more high-priced than a property across the street.” But it’s also a style exhibit, which implies you have received to be genuinely intelligent and come up with something unique that none of the other homes have.

Crestin: It was an fascinating point of getting by the layout just before we received there, in which we have been so concentrated [on] what do we need to have to do for benefit? And at a sure stage, we were like, we just want to do fantastic design. We’re heading to do the ideal we can with box-examining. But whether or not we gain or not, I nevertheless want to current a unified, wonderful project and enable go a minimal little bit about the authentic estate aspect. At that stage, it became far more enjoyment.

Turner: I’ve been a broker for 20 years, so I did a deep dive with comps in the spot as before long as we identified out where by we were being heading. I pretty much needed to fly there! We did a deep dive on that purchaser.

Let us discuss about some house developments. Some style forecasts say purchasers no extended favor open up floor options. What is your opinion?

Turner: All these dining rooms you guys are making an attempt to put back, they’re likely to acquire the wall down anyway, so I’m even now open up principle.

White marble counter tops were a point of rivalry in Year 3. Exactly where do you all stand on them?

Pennington: It’s a tiny essential.

Sarah: Marble is safe and sound.

Knight: It has to be common, not dull white.

What’s your just take on common subway tiles?

Bryan: Get rid of them. We’re in excess of it! They’re completed.

How about stainless-steel appliances?

Boyd: Completely ready to move on.

To what?

Turner: Black, white, pink!

“Rock the Block” airs Monday nights on HGTV and streams on discovery+.