The most recent Interior Design Masters elimination has stated that when her name was called, she felt she’d convinced the judge to let her stay.
The BBC One competition’s 2023 series premiered this Tuesday, with everyone’s favourite chattyman Alan Carr returning to host the creativity-filled programme.
The skilled interior designers were charged with turning over three classrooms in a children’s nursery for newborns, toddlers, and preschoolers during last nights show for week 2.
After taking command of the creativity zone for the toddler-aged class, Busé Gurbuz was picked to be sent home, and she has since spoken about her experience on the show.
The primary judge, Michelle Ogundehin, the former editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration, and guest judge Sophie Robinson, an interior stylist, designer, and writer, decided who would be removed from the series.
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’.
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.’
Busé indicated that she would have liked the ‘ingenuity and flare’ of her design to have been ‘considered in her final selection’, because she believed that there was ‘a lot of promise and a lot of opportunity for development’.
‘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 it came time for Michelle to tell who had been eliminated in the second week, Busé recalls delivering a ‘impassioned speech on the sofa’ in which she ‘justified a lot of the reasons why I had made the decisions that I had made’.
The competitor built a toddler creative room inspired by a woodland theme, with dark brown walls and tree trunks on the floor, with the colour scheme contrasted with the spaces designed by the other two members of her team.
‘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.’
Busé, who stressed that she had ‘no regrets’ about her experience in the competition, said how she and the other candidates felt like they’d known one other ‘for years,’ allowing them to be extremely open and honest about their judgements on each other’s work.
The interior designer, who has relaunched her firm as Studio Busé and is introducing her own concrete collection, has guaranteed that fans ‘haven’t seen anything yet’ with the remaining Interior Design Masters finalists.
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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 was only on the show for two weeks, Busé ‘found her genuine style in the process,’ gravitating towards warm colours and cosiness in interiors, and going on a’more personal’ approach with her studio.
Interior Design Masters returns next Tuesday at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.