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The couples are excited by their challenge room this week - the master bedroom - if only because it means they will no longer have to sleep on the floor on air mattresses after it is completed. The things they will not have to shop for are the mattress and box-spring, which are provided for them. They have a $4,000 budget and twenty-four hours to complete the renovation, with the winning team receiving a spa getaway to Kelowna. Charlotte and Sean are aiming for a calm west coast styled oasis. Disa and Russell are continuing their Scandinavian theme, with their major piece being a wall to wall and floor to ceiling wood headboard. Crystal and Ray are going for sophistication, and for the room to stand out from the other rooms in the house. Nina and PJ are going for function and simplicity with glamor, with their featured item being a wallpapered headboard that will extend onto the ceiling over the bed. The twist Cameron throws at them is that they must incorporate four items, two from two different groups of knick knacks with one person from each couple going to a different group of items, and choosing without communicating to their partner. As the twenty-four hours counts down, the questions are whether the bigger projects, such as Disa and Russell's wood wall which requires over nine hundred pieces of wood to be cut, or the items which some couples ignored, such as Charlotte and Sean's meringue ceiling or Crystal and Ray's floor, will come back to bite them in the end.

With their last few challenges having such tight time restrictions, the competitors are happy to learn that they have seventy-two hours to complete their bathroom renovation, which arguably is one of the more difficult rooms in the house to do. The winning team will receive one year's free house cleaning services. Charlotte and Sean want to continue their west coast modern theme with a surf feel. Disa and Russell want to do whatever they can to make what is probably the smallest of the four bathrooms seem larger. Feeling the criticism from the judges in the past, Crystal and Ray are going to scale back their spa inspired design, with an existing claw foot tub one of the benefits already there. And Nina and PJ want to create a zen feel, which they may not be feeling themselves as they work on the reno as they have decided to rearrange the room fixtures. With the renovations well underway, Cameron throws them what may be their biggest challenge to date: they will have to complete one other room renovation within their remaining time, namely the laundry room. Throughout the process, Disa and Russell run into two major issues which could throw them out of the running. The other couples may see Disa and Russell's problems as karma for Russell's actions regarding communal tools. In the end, a decision by one team for function over style and a decision by another team for style over function may not sit well in the eyes of the judges.