The Block 2024: Ricky and Haydn’s House Reveal

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Ricky and Haydn have been best friends for 20 years and are taking on The Block as their next adventure.

These two had a dramatic start to The Block. Ricky’s wife gave birth during the very first week on The Block, leaving Haydn to take charge of the site by himself.

Check out every room from Ricky and Haydn’s house on The Block 2024

Ricky and Haydn’s winning rumpus and games room

Dubbed the “most Phillip Island house” of the five homes, the boys finally won a room reveal.

Their Phillip Island wall grafico and a sofa bed to accommodate more guests were praised.

Darren said the home will have strong appeal to a buyer who wants a “relaxed, less uptight style,” despite not personally being excited by the room’s aesthetic himself.

The next space – a games arcade with a pool table – was a massive hit.

“This is what you call a league of your own. This is genius,” Marty said.

“The boys have been so smart, and the agent representing this would be sitting back, rubbing their hands together going: ‘We have something that none of the others have, which is the fun factor’.

“This is the fun house. This is the fun factory.”

Ricky and Haydn’s living and dining

The scale of Ricky and Haydn’s living and dining room was likened to a football oval by Shaynna, while Marty said it was about 5m bigger than the other houses.

Marty found the furniture placement jarring and Shaynna said the dining table needed to be at least double the width for the size of the room.

The fireplace in the living room was a hit, and Darren said the area felt intimate despite the vast space.

“None of the other homes have this amount of square meterage within this living space, and being a lower ceiling, it has that anchoring feeling where I don’t really want to leave,” Marty said.

While it was not “high on the detail,” or “sophisticated in its styling,” Marty thought the space for a buyer’s “bang for buck” was incredible.

Score: 25

Ricky and Haydn’s yellow bathroom

The team’s circular theme, layout and design choices were a hit with the judges this week.

Shaynna said she was proud of the boys for their style and taking on their feedback from previous weeks.

“I feel like they’ve upped the ante in their shapes, their connection and layout,” she said.

“I think there’s a lot of good, good things in here.”

Her only criticism was the clashing of yellow hues, which could be fixed by repainting the door.

Marty praised the layout and said the bathroom might not be an amazing bathroom that gets the senses going but it was marketable.

Darren liked the boys’ natural style that had a sense of play, which they needed to embrace.

“And I think they could have something really fun and really popular and really saleable,” he said.

Score: 25

Ricky and Haydn’s kitchen

While this week the team finally presented a completely finished room, the judges’ criticisms were fierce with Shaynna describing the styling as too basic.

“It’s not a functioning kitchen, and it doesn’t get the heart fluttering and we always say the kitchen is the heart of the home, and this heart just needs a little bit of a defibrillator,” she said.

It was not functional either, she said, with a single sink and appliances situated on top of another in a major walkway was a big “no no,” she added.

“Being in a thoroughfare, is one of the biggest faux pas that you can do in designing your kitchen,” Marty said.

The size of the kitchen, and the ability to sit up to nine to 10 people for entertaining, was praised by Marty.

Score: 23

Ricky and Haydn’s main bedroom

Once again, the judges were presented with an unfinished room, with Marty saying he wished he could give them a good score but the craftsmanship let them down, but he did praise the direction they were heading.

“I can see in my imagination what this looks like resolved and complete, but I’m disappointed that I have to use my imagination to do that,” Darren added.

Their walk-in robe was lauded as grand, but Shaynna was confused why carpet was used straight from the ensuite bathroom.

“I’m a bit concerned at the attention to detail,” she said.

“I feel panic in these rooms. I really do.”

She said an unpainted wall, a lack of sheer curtains, among other elements, highlighted the pair needed to step up their planning, organisation and attention to detail.

“This is a competition, not a game,” she said.

Score: 21.5

Ricky and Haydn’s guest bedroom

So impressed with the room – particularly after last week’s empty bathroom – Shaynna questioned whether she was actually standing in Ricky and Haydn’s bedroom.

Darren praised the shadow line between the ceiling and the walls, and said the bedroom was “streets ahead” of every other room they had done so far.

“I think that they’ve delivered a room that a buyer will walk through and really appreciate, and it will shoot well,” Marty said.

Shaynna did express concern over their colour choices but praised them as being the first team to take inspiration from the palm trees lining the street.

“That is their look and feel now. I think it should be holiday resort,” she said.

“We are in a resort. No one else has done it. It’s theirs.”

Score: 26.5

Ricky and Haydn’s main ensuite

You’re kidding me,” Marty said as he walked into the empty room.

Darren said it felt like a tradie left the team in the lurch, and if that was the case, he felt sorry for them.

But looking for a positive, Marty noted the layout was great, and from a planning perspective, everything was in the right spot.

“That would have been a double feature shower, double vanity over to the left, toilet tucked in behind the right,” he said.

“What’s quite annoying is that if this was say Monday or Tuesday, and we walked in here, I would have actually felt quite excited for them, because this skylight is amazing.”

Score: 4

Ricky and Haydn’s kids bedroom

While a grafico world map print on the wardrobe doors drew praise as being appropriate for a holiday home kids’ room, the room layout and bunk bed orientation drew some criticism.

Marty also identified issues with the rough ceiling painting, while Shaynna felt off centre upon walking in the room.

“When you’re walking in, you’re going to trip over the beanbag,” she said.

“The door doesn’t close. The plastering is an issue. This feels like a retrofit of a Phillip Island home.”

Meanwhile, Darren did not see problems with the room stating he liked the bunk beds and its colour palette.

“I don’t even mind the layout. You’ve got lots of open space to get to the robes,” he said.

Marty said from a real estate perspective there was no major issues but it was a “flat room.”

Score: 22

Ricky and Haydn’s guest bathroom

With one man down while Haydn left the island for the birth of his first child, the judges commended the floorplan and layout.

However, Shaynna said the lines of the tiles, panelling, bath and vanity were impact for impact’s sake and it needed to “slow down,” with the colour palette also mismatched.

Darren said the pair’s efforts were a “bloody good start.”

“I mean, this is a cracking bathroom. Week one hardest bathroom ever, in the hardest location ever in 20 years,” he said.

Meet Ricky and Haydn

The two larrikins from Victoria are poised to become this season’s resident pranksters; the pair have been seen wearing fish shoes instead of work boots multiple times around the island. Though the unique footwear is probably not up to health and safety standards, we’re sure these two will bring plenty of laughs this season.

Ricky and Haydn were also caught loading a kayak onto the roof of a car – hopefully, these two won’t be too distracted by Phillip Island’s famous surf beaches and manage to complete their house on time.

Ricky, 34, Plumber

Ricky is a plumber, so we’re expecting to see him on the tools this season. He runs his own business, so looking after multiple projects is easy – but we’ll be interested to see how this plumber goes with styling, especially if Haydn has to step away from The Block.

Haydn, 37, IT manager

The Block hasn’t come at the perfect time for Haydn, but it was an experience too good to pass up. The IT manager will need to step away from The Block for a bit – with his wife due to give birth just weeks into filming.