Sonny and Alicia, House 4 on The Block Daylesford

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Sonny and Alicia from the Gold Coast are the yellow team building House 4 on The Block Daylesford.

The Queensland parents are ecstatic to be heading to The Block. They’ve applied for the show in the past, just missing out last year.

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Check out every room from Sonny and Alicia's house on The Block 2025

Backyard and pool
Alfresco and shed
Laundry, pantry, mudroom, water closet and garage
Guest suite
Kitchen
Rumpus room
Living and dining
Main bedroom
Main bathroom
Kids’s rooms
Ensuite bathroom
Meet Sonny and Alicia

Looking for more? Check out every room reveal so far from The Block 2025

Sonny and Alicia’s backyard and pool reveal

Score: 36 ¾, fourth place

“Textbook backyard” was Marty’s summation, while Darren said it was a “good, proper, Aussie backyard.”

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The expanse of lawn impressed Marty, while Shaynna loved the handmade brick paving.

Dave said it was a garden that will be ever-changing and had been well-thought out and would look fantastic come auction day.

The sauna with a toilet and kitchenette was hailed as “the best pool cabana” Dave had ever seen.

Marty said it was like a little hotel suite.

“It's very, very beautiful – design, materials, even the decision to paint the ceiling black and that they've honored the contour 3D form,” Darren added.

The Bocce pitch and fire pit area was also applauded.

Sonny and Alicia’s alfresco and shed reveal

Score: 29, second place

Just one point separated the married Queensland couple from this week’s winners, with Marty hailing the alfresco as the most connected outdoor area he had seen all day.

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“This actually makes me love the inside more because it feels like one, one, big space,” he said.

“They've really, really done the exterior of this house proud. It works so beautifully with the palette, and it still feels soft and inviting and functional,” Darren added.

The “sheddy-ist shed” was how Marty dubbed the shed, who thought the pool table looking like a workbench was clever.

Sonny and Alicia’s laundry, pantry, mudroom, water closet and garage

Score: 26.5, third place

A drying cabinet set the laundry apart from all the other homes, as well as a fridge in the pantry, though judges thought they missed on the layout. The mud room with the addition of a dog area, was well received and Marty said it worked well.

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The WC left Darren utterly speechless and Shaynna said: “That is just something you'd see in a high-end house, or a high-end boutique hotel. That is hot.”

“They've delivered far more than I would expect is appropriate,” Darren said.

“We're judging them on the five different spaces this week, and that is carrying what we've just seen - because this is unfaultable,” Marty added.

The photograph used across the garage wall and door was the area’s hero, the judges believed.

Sonny and Alicia’s guest suite

Score: 28, second place

Wallpaper designed by Alicia was highly praised by Shaynna who said it was something she would buy as a designer.

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Marty said the suite evoked a lot of emotions from the carpet, the cabinetry, to the beautiful bedside lights.

“There's a lot happening in here, but it works,” he said.

While there was no kitchenette, there were amenities such as a bar and coffee area in a corner, which Marty approved of.

“They've really picked up this week,” he said.

“It's a really hard one to beat because of just this size. It feels big.”

Minimal styling in the ensuite worked, and Shaynna said the duo had “really stepped up” this week.

“I finally feel Sonny and Alicia have got their groove,” she said.

Sonny and Alicia’s kitchen reveal

Score: 27, third place

As bland as a piece of bread was how Marty summed up the blue kitchen.

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“I really like the layout, but from a marketing perspective, there's nothing that stands out,” he said.

“It's not evoking a massive emotion. It's a very basic feeling space.”

Darren disagreed with Marty that it did not feel Daylesford and said: “I think what is missing is a layer of drama and a layer of impact.”

“What is important is that they have got the spatial planning and built environment so very right,” he said.

Shaynna said in order to sell “the dream” the kitchen needed to get to that “next level”.

Sonny and Alicia’s colour drenched rumpus room

Score 27.5 , third place

The couple’s decision to colour drench the room was a hit with Darren.

“This is what I've been looking to see this entire season,” he said. “It’s so on trend, and it's so perfect for Daylesford, and it's so perfect for a private space, especially a living space. I am besotted.”

Shaynna said it was perfect: “This is where you call it a nook room.”

“I love these second rooms, where they're not vast, but they want to envelop you, that's what the colour does, because we don't have any breaks in the ceiling, the walls. So it feels like one big space. It feels larger.”

Keeping the light switches, air vents and speakers white was a mistake, and should have also been painted in the same drench of colour, the judges noted.

Sonny and Alicia's living and dining

Score: 20.5, fifth place

The brick feature fireplace was an instant hit with the judges, with Darren loving its link to the exterior façade.

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But their pair’s spatial planning once again let them down, with the living area space measuring just three metres wide.

“A small apartment has the exact same space as this. That is tiny, tiny. It's fascinating that they've got the exact square meterage, and yet we feel like we're in a smaller space,” Marty said.

“They have really, really stuffed this room up.”

Shaynna said the space was the “most confused room” Sonny and Alicia had done, with the styling all wrong.

“I'm really concerned of their design direction, because at the moment I don't see one room connecting with the next,” she said.

Sonny and Alicia's main bedroom and walk-in wardrobe

Score: 21.5, fourth place

While Darren hailed their lighting plan as the best seen so far, he particularly liked how the spotlights were aimed at artworks.

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Marty described the room as “calming” and homely and different from the other rooms.

All judges noted that while the timber veneer wall was beautiful, one part of the staining showed roller marks, while the grain on one side was upside down.

The walk-in wardrobe also drew criticism, with the spatial planning seen as a failure.

“I don’t feel like I am in Daylesford at all,” Shaynna said.

Marty agreed: “You're standing 17 floors up in a Southbank two bedroom apartment that sold 15 years ago to someone overseas that's never visiting it – ever,” Marty said.

Sonny and Alicia’s main bathroom

Score: 26.5, fourth place

Deeming the bathroom as home to the best styling she had seen all day, Shaynna said the space was relaxing, calming and beautiful.

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She loved the green poured concrete solid bath, but the room layout was a letdown, she said.

“This should be bathroom of the day if you look around,” Marty said, noting their change of layout left a massive wall wasted.

But Marty said if Sonny and Alicia chose not to act on their recommendations to remedy the layout, buyers will still like it.

“If we were to bring 10 buyers through all four houses that we've seen, there will be a very large proportion of those buyers that will say that this is their favourite bathroom because of the palette, because of the quality and because of their choices that they've made,” he said.

Sonny and Alicia’s kids’ rooms reveal

Score: 24.5, third place

The wallpaper and gallery wall had Darren enamoured, while Shaynna adored the stuffed toy terrier dogs sitting on the beds.

“I just stand here and I just think this is the most beautiful picture, the equestrian, modern sort of country feel. It's absolutely gorgeous,” Shaynna said.

However, the other wall with a TV on it was like being in a “really bad motel.”

The second room did not feel like a kid’s room Marty noted, to which Shaynna agreed but said she liked the colour palette.

“The use of colour is divine in both rooms, and I think that's worth really mentioning for them, because it's something we’ve asked for and they're delivered,” she said.

Sonny and Alicia’s bathroom

Score: 25.5, second place

“Besotted” was Darren’s reaction to the design which was heading in the “right direction.”

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Shaynna noted once again the vanity was too high but despite that Marty said the space was appropriate for Daylesford.

“The more I'm in here, the more I like it,” he said.

While Shaynna also critiqued some tiling issues, she said the pair’s execution and planning was strong.

The pair took home the $10,000 budget award.

What is the address for Sonny and Alicia's house on The Block?

Sonny and Alicia's house is a brand new build at 2 Cedar Lane, Daylesford, Vic 3460

Meet Sonny and Alicia

Together for 14 years and married for ten, Sonny and Alicia made the shortlist for The Block Phillip Island last year but just missed out.

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Finding out that they had made the cut for The Block 2025, was an “amazing feeling” Alicia said after being left really upset when they missed out in 2024.

The couple, who have three children - daughter Aria (12), sons Boston (11) and Koa (8), have built their family home and they have some renovation experience under their belts.

Sonny, 44, small business owner

Working as a plumber for the past 25 years, Sonny is a hard worker who leads a very active lifestyle so he should be up to the task of The Block’s weekly challenges.

During the build process, Sonny will mostly be on site while Alicia tales care of the shopping but they are happy to share the roles.