It's the Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge.
[Egypt] You gotta know, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
[Mike] We got this in the bag.
[Ashley] It's the renovation competition the entire planet
has been waiting for.
For the first time ever, we are building a real-life,
fully functional Barbie Dreamhouse.
Eight teams of HGTV and Food Network superstars,
the largest group ever assembled, will battle it out every week.
It's the biggest build of all playtime.
We don't like losing, especially when it comes to Barbie.
I am the most competitive person, fact.
Shut the water off!
We need to knock down this wall.
That wall is holding the house.
Game on, guys!
They'll create eye-popping spaces.
At the push of a button.
-Oh! -She done, she done, she done.
Yes!
Inspired by the history of the world's most famous toy house.
And just in time for the mega blockbuster movie, Barbie.
-Hi, Barbie! -Hi, Ken!
Do Barbie proud!
[exclaims]
Top design and renovation experts and celebrity judges
will decide which teams make it to the pink carpet finale.
It was bananas.
That was genius.
Where only one team's space will be crowned
the dreamiest of them all.
And the winner of the Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge is...
Her official name is Barbara Millicent Roberts,
but we know her as Barbie.
She and her iconic dreamhouse landed on the scene
over 60 years ago, influencing generations.
And she's still turning the world Barbie pink today.
But now, we are bringing her most important accessory to real life.
No, not Ken.
The Barbie Dreamhouse.
[announcer on TV] Here it is.
Barbie's Dreamhouse.
The wonderful new house for Mattel's famous Barbie doll.
[Kim] The Dreamhouse is a little bit of fantasy
and a little bit of reality brought together.
The Barbie Dreamhouse has always been a representation of
what is cool and modern in culture at that time,
in that era.
When HGTV originally approached us with this idea,
we were like, finally.
[Ashley] First, we had to find a Barbie-worthy home to renovate.
It had to be in Southern California,
of course, where Barbie lives.
So we searched the area high and low.
Our real estate agent has literally looked at hundreds
of houses, and it needs some very specific qualities.
Two dreamy stories to fix up, magical views,
a Barbie-rific pool, and maybe even a space for Ken.
-I feel like this may be the one. -I agree.
4,500 square feet and the perfect blank slate to renovate.
And of course, we had to include Barbie's legions
of fans, so we had a massive nationwide outreach.
Thousands of applications came in.
Who's the best Barbie?
It was really hard for us to narrow it down to our finalists.
It would be like winning Miss America.
We found eight lucky contenders,
and one lucky Barbie fan will have a chance to stay in the completed home.
But even our superstar designers can't do it alone.
[Blake] Over the next four weeks, we're going to have
over 500 people working around the clock to bring
Barbie's dream house to life.
We're going to have framers, drywallers, plumbers, electricians.
Every square inch of this house will represent
everything that Barbie is.
This is a real-life Barbie dream house.
-Don't mess it up. -The pressure is on.
The pressure.
[Ashley] We've got the house.
We've got our amazing competitors.
Now it's time to get to work.
* Looking for the fire Looking for the sign *
[Mike] Oh, wow. This is cool.
[Egypt] Oh, they got all the dream houses.
To be in the Mattel headquarters,
the inner nine-year-old Egypt is geeking.
-Yeah. -Like, ah!
-This is pretty amazing. -This is dope.
Wow.
Oh, my God. I remember this.
This one's monstrous. Is this an elevator right here?
Seeing where it all began is such an amazing experience.
A lot of people wouldn't even have the chance to be able
to experience, so I feel super grateful.
I wonder what year this is.
I don't know, but I love any home
with a balcony upstairs is my friend.
Yeah, I love the A-frame.
It's really cool to step into your nostalgic childhood past,
because everybody has Mattel in their childhood.
-This must be... -One of the original ones?
I mean, maybe we're talking '60s.
-Ooh, 1973. -Ooh, it's got the palm tree,
though, with the outdoor lighting. That's totally our vibe.
Oh, I love the swing.
-Oh, it's so fun! -Look at this.
I don't know a lot of the HGTV stars because I'm in food,
but I do know competition, and I can sort of, like,
smell it on everyone.
There's something up, y'all. I feel it.
There's something going on here.
-Hello, team. -[all cheering]
-Ashley Graham, are you serious? -Welcome to Mattel.
The epicenter of Barbie.
Your mission is to transform one real
but very ordinary home into an extraordinary,
fully functional, life-size Barbie dream house.
Wow.
And like most people all over the world,
each of you has a personal connection to Barbie.
I know I do, and I don't mean to brag or anything,
but Mattel did make a little Ashley Graham Barbie.
Herbie Barbie.
I love that she's chosen as the host because
she represents today's woman, you know?
-And that's super cool. -That is really cool.
All right, so here's how the competition works.
Each week, two teams are going to go up against each other.
-Okay. -And each team is going to be assigned
a different space in the house to renovate.
Okay.
And since the Barbie Dream House has been around since 1962,
-Wow. -you will each be assigned
a different decade as inspiration.
-I've lived them all. -Yes, you have.
[all laughing]
And of course, we know you're going to bring
your own expert design point of view.
Just like we see in all your shows, you'll also need
to include a toy-etic feature.
So you know how every dream house
has those playful, toy-like elements?
-Mm-hmm. -They can be a surprise or they're dual purpose.
You need to create at least one of them in your spaces.
So let your imaginations run wild.
Each week, our panel of judges will choose only one
of your spaces to advance to the pink carpet finale.
That's where a select group of Barbie lovers
and influencers choose one of
the four finalist spaces as the dreamiest space
of them all.
The winning team will earn a charity donation
in their name to Save the Children,
which provides access to education and learning tools
for hundreds of thousands of children.
[all clapping]
One more important thing, and the best part, each pair
of you will be playing for a devoted Barbie fan at home.
[all cheering]
And if your space wins it all,
your fan also wins the grand prize,
an incredible vacation stay in our real-life Barbie dream house.
No way.
Wow. That's nice.
Ready to find out who's competing this week?
-Come on. -Let's do it.
This week? Bring it on.
[man] Let's go.
Let's see who's up first.
-Oh! -Is that you?
-We're in the box! -That's right.
It's Egypt and Mike versus Jasmine and Antonia.
That's our friend from the Food Network,
who's also designed some of her own restaurants.
Antonia, Jasmine, you guys want to say anything to Egypt and Mike?
-Oh, it's on. -Good luck.
What are you going to do, Antonia?
-Fry some drywall? -[all exclaiming]
[Ashley] All right, all right, all right.
I'll meet you guys at the house for all the details.
-See you later. -Okay, let's go.
-Bye, guys. -Bye, girls.
It's on. Good luck.
See you, guys.
All right, so the rest of you can stick around here.
You can do a little bit of Barbie research.
And I'll see you all very soon.
-Whoo! -Good luck, teams.
Do Barbie proud, okay?
Bye.
[upbeat pop music playing]
-Look at this neighborhood. -I know.
-This is nice. -It's gorgeous.
Right? Wait, is this it?
-Two stories. -Oh, my gosh.
There's never been a project that
I've been a part of that's this big.
-This is Barbie Does the Hilts. -Yeah.
Right?
Barbie is a staple, like baseball and apple pie.
It's just a part of everybody's childhood.
-Whether you were a girl or a boy, you knew Barbie. -Yeah.
Three-car garage. Oh!
-[Mike] Oh! -Woo!
This is so good.
You travel in style.
-Me and Barbie, baby. -[all laughing]
Well, hello there, team.
Welcome to our future Barbie dream house.
-Okay, okay. -[whoops] All right. We got this.
Egypt and Mike, you have the first spaces
that everyone is going to see, the entryway
and the living room and dining room.
Antonio, you and Jasmine are going to be tackling
the kitchen and the family room.
-Surprise. -Shocker.
Shocker.
-Here are your plans. -Okay.
-Pink prints, huh? -That's mine.
-Oh, I'm sorry. -Yeah, see?
Antonia being a chef, if she gets a hold of that stove,
it might be game over for us.
I'm not worried about them, because whoever comes
to that door, they're going to be so blown away.
They're going to be like, you know what? Competition over.
So you're going to discover what
your decade is when you go inside.
Okay.
Also, right across the street is our Walmart Dream Studio.
It's the research hub for all of our teams,
where you can help your designs reach their full potential.
[Jasmine] Egypt and Mike are the real deal.
We have to really step up our game.
We want our fan to win.
I will do anything to win, though.
That's just my thing.
I mean, if you know me or you've known anything
I do, I mean, obviously, I can compete in food,
but competition is one of those things where,
like, I don't even let my daughter win at Scrabble.
Both teams will have support staff to help you build,
and you'll have design assistants
to help source items.
But... The judges, they're going to arrive in one week.
-What? -One week?
-Whoa. -That's really fast.
-Have fun and be fantastic. -All right.
Now go, go, go, go, go.
I'll see you guys in there.
I got to try this.
Mike, step away from the supermodel.
-Why? -I was going to the car.
But you're too close to the supermodel.
-Go step over. -Come on.
-Get out of here. -All right.
We're going to get you tired. We have work to do.
-[all exclaiming] -Look at this space.
-Look at these ceilings. -Wow!
-Oh, my gosh. -This is it.
Hey, the steps are giving me life.
Y'all have your work cut out for you, though.
This is a lot.
[Egypt] I love the space we got.
-Yeah. -I think I was trying not to let on before.
I didn't want the kitchen.
This is amazing!
I had every Barbie dream house from 1984 to 1989.
-Really? -That was, like, my primetime Barbie time.
-Okay. -It seemed like every Barbie dream house
I had had these steps.
These stairs are gonna give us a leg up on the competition.
Okay, I love the positive, the positive from you.
-Jasmine is amazing. -You're like, yes, I was like, oh...
-You know, I mean, it's very dated. -Yeah.
I mean I feel like in there Mike and Egypt
they have these like high ceilings
-Yeah. -and all this light and then we kind of got like
it's kind of like a cave, but...
If we rip everything out, I think we can do a really good job.
Oh, without question.
I build houses every single day.
I love whimsical elements. I love hidden things.
And I love to have a little bit of fun with my houses.
There's a whole other level that we get to do
and kind of create and ideate
and come up with for this house that
you just can't do in a regular house.
-You ready for this? -Okay, look at this.
What? Do we figure out what decade we have?
Because that'll determine what we actually do.
Let's see. You ready?
-Yeah. -You ready?
-Mm-hmm. -Let's see.
-[gasps] -'90s, baby.
I'm gonna let it rip. The '90s were phat.
P-H-A-T.
Color-blocking and acid-wash denim
were the height of fashion.
And it saw the launch of a certain home and garden TV channel.
The Memphis style of design was also popular
with its mix of colors and clashing patterns.
You see that reflected in what was going on
with Barbie and fashion.
Hot skating Barbie totally rocked that
and inspired the Barbie movies, Venice Beach look.
Neon and big brick platform shoes.
The '90s has a lot to answer for, frankly.
[trills]
Let me go back in time.
'90s, everything in my closet was stonewashed of every color.
The biggest thing is I had cut this really crazy hairstyle.
It was like an asymmetric hairstyle.
[Mike] Flat top. I was wearing gold chains.
Oh, the style doesn't matter. You had a flat top.
I had a flat top and a Gumby.
I kind of want the '80s.
I want the... There's something about the '80s.
-Like, very, like, Madonna Barbie for some reason. -Yeah.
-Like, that's what I'm into. -Okay, I like that.
-Are you down? Push. -Yeah, I'm ready.
[both exclaiming]
I'm excited to find out.
-1960! -[both exclaiming]
-Okay. -We weren't even born in the '60s.
No.
[rock 'n' roll music playing]
The '60s were a groundbreaking decade.
The miniskirt was all the rage.
The Beatles recorded their first song
and the civil rights movement began.
The youth quake, the new emergence of women's rights
was just such an inspiring decade of change and new thinking.
[Ashley] The 1964 World's Fair focused on the future,
showcasing innovations for the home.
And mid-century modern design was the popular home style of
both the period and the iconic original
1962 Barbie Dreamhouse.
It was made of cardboard, which is unique within
the history of the Dreamhouse.
And it has a very Mad Men -esque vibe to it.
So it's very quintessential of '60s homes.
The decade ended with an epic space race
that sent the first man to the moon.
Although, insiders know astronaut Barbie
went galactic four years earlier.
I think there was, like, an actual kitchen in the original.
No, so the first Barbie Dreamhouse didn't even have a kitchen.
Exactly. When you think about it, it's, like,
all of the coloring wasn't sort of, like, the bright pinks
that we, like, know and love.
It's, like, more of, like, the browns and retro.
-Isn't retro... -I love retro Barbie.
We'll do, like, very '60s, but then we'll also bring in
some of that pink and everything so it still feels really Barbie.
Yeah. The integration, yeah, yeah.
[Mike] Okay, this is first impressions.
-We're good at first impressions, aren't we? -Yes.
We got to do something dramatic on the steps.
That sets the tone for the whole room.
-Okay. -Barbie pink.
[Mike] What if we took the fireplace all the way up,
but it doesn't have to be straight?
We can make it asymmetrical.
[Egypt] Maybe we can color block it.
And we've got these big windows.
You know what? What if we add stained glass to them?
Just like the Barbie Dream Houses have.
The 1998 Barbie Deluxe Dream House
had stained glass windows.
So we're right there in the '90s.
-What if we did a denim sofa? -Okay.
Right? With a really cool '90s shape.
So arch sofa, maybe some really
-funky, bright chairs here. -Okay.
The stretch, for me, is I'm always looking for a way to add value.
It's always like from this real estate perspective
where my brain starts going. But that is a moot issue here.
[Mike] We can do whatever we want here.
This is where we get extremely creative.
-I feel like TV dinners are really best, right? -I'm telling you.
We should do some TV dinner trays.
-That you would fold up and put next to the television. -Yes, yes.
-I love those. -Right.
We should remove the carpet and replace it
with black and white checkered flooring throughout
the family room and kitchen.
We could add wood paneling around the fireplace
and a bench for extra seating.
And then we can add some mid-century modern furniture.
The original Barbie Dreamhouse
had mid-century modern furniture
and black and white flooring, but it's our take on it.
Yeah, we get to have some creative freedom.
In the kitchen, we should leave the layout the same,
but update it with flat panel cabinets, which are very 1960s.
We can extend the island and bring in some
retro appliances.
I think we got this covered. What are we doing in here?
I wanted to really feel toy-like in here,
like some plastic-looking furniture.
Definitely some neon signs.
And where can we put a toy-etic feature?
-Everywhere. -Everywhere. Everywhere.
It was always about, you open up something
-and you get a surprise. -Exactly.
-You know, I'm thinking a cupcake carousel. -Ooh.
-You like that idea? Right? -Yeah.
To make this work, we'd have to rig up some type of conveyor belt
and cut two small holes in the wall so it can travel
from the dining room into the kitchen and then back
into the dining room with a cupcake on it.
The only thing that I'm thinking is that...
[Antonia] It's so closed off in here.
But what we could do is we could open up this wall.
But keep the lower cabinets for storage.
That opens up the entire energy flow in here.
And since the dining room's right here...
How about... Wait, don't let them hear us.
-Excuse me. -This is part of our space.
Here's the thing. So on our side, we actually have,
like, a cabinet attached to the wall.
-Right. -So technically, this would be our wall.
-No. -But you can take the cabinet off and leave the wall.
Okay, I think if we just, like, close this room.
-Yeah, I think that's fine. -If we just close that.
-If this wall was missing. -We're going to put it back up.
-I've got a GC over here. -We got to take this wall out.
We have to take this wall out, right? Without question.
-The flow from the kitchen to the family room is great. -Mm-hmm.
But the flow from the kitchen to
-the dining room, there is none. -There isn't.
All the Barbie dream houses always just,
like, it always felt, like, circular.
Like, you could walk from, like, the family room
to the living room to the kitchen.
There were really, like, no doors that kind of stopped you.
Yeah.
The paint prints that Ashley gave us
show that this wall is not load-bearing.
So getting rid of it actually isn't going to be that big of a deal.
It's just going to take a little bit of muscle.
I'm going to be the muscle, so.
Should we just do it right now?
I am so into a sledgehammer right now.
All right, let's go get our tools.
You're gonna be construction Ken.
That's right, baby.
Whoo!
We have to get the wall down before they can stop us.
We're through.
-Hi. -What are you doing?
[overlapping chatter]
-What are you doing? -Why are you coming to our wall?
This wall has to come down.
I had a whole plan.
On their side, there really is no use to their wall,
so, like, in theory, it's our wall to do what we want with.
I'm not sure it'd hold up in court, but yeah.
In the court of Barbie, it's on there.
This is wrong. Our toy-etic is gone.
This is ridiculous. We're going to remember this.
-We've got to regroup. -We're going to come up with
an even better toy-etic feature.
Listen.
-Next time, ask. -Fair enough.
Fair enough. We've got to figure something else out.
[Mike] All right, let's get to work.
-Oh, my goodness. -Hey, Ash.
-Welcome. -I have a present.
-Okay, so this is totally hair Barbie from the '90s. -Okay.
[woman singing] Totally hot, totally cool, totally hair Barbie.
-She's colorful. -Yes.
A little psychedelic, a lot of pattern.
-Ooh. -The staircase for us is what's going to be our money.
We were thinking, let's go with the classic Barbie pink.
-Oh. -However, now I'm looking at this hot pink, babe.
And I think coming in that door,
that could be a moment to just kind of have electric pink.
It's bold.
-Like, the '90s was that, and Barbie was that. -Right.
Maybe if we use a high lacquer paint,
-it gives the effect of plastic. -There you go.
This is why you guys are the professionals.
-Did you play with Barbies growing up? -Yes.
Black Barbie came out, and I got so excited.
It was really important to go in the store
and actually find a doll that looked like you.
-Yeah. -She had, you know, some of the features
thicker texture hair.
What came to my mind automatically was my daughters.
I have three girls that I adore,
and I want them to see themselves in our space.
I'm going to give you guys Totally Hair Barbie,
because she is going to bring you so much inspiration.
Bye, Totally Hair Barbie. I love you, and I'll miss you.
Okay, see you guys in a week.
All right.
-Hello. -Hi.
What is happening?
-So we're in the family room, and we just got this. -Yeah.
1962 original Barbie Dreamhouse.
-Yes! -No pressure.
This is a huge deal.
This Barbie Dreamhouse is over 60 years old,
and it's the only one that Mattel has in their possession.
And nobody gets to borrow it, so we really have to take care of this.
So what are you taking from this house
and bringing into this space?
All of it, really. I mean, the thing that jumps out at me
are the walls.
-Nothing's neutral. -Right.
-Nothing is neutral here. -No.
In the '60s, everything had some color,
and there was a lot of, like, mixed patterns.
So, I mean, this sofa is just so quintessential '60s,
-and I feel like we have to remake this. -100%.
-And Antonia, thinking about the fact that you're a chef, -Yes.
-Mm-hmm. -what are you gonna bring into it,
just from your perspective?
There has to be utility to everything.
You know, because she was a cook as well.
You know what I mean? There's always, like, the heart waffles
and things like that.
And I'm also thinking about sort of a food component.
-You got this. -Yes.
-We do. -We do.
-See you later. -We feel good.
-Thank you. -Bye, Ashley.
Bye!
Guys!
Where are you?
Your favorite part. Get out the aggression.
I think they got it.
-Yes! -Oh, my goodness!
-Look at this studio! -Epic workspace.
Like, this is where I want to do my work.
[Jasmine] I don't think you can make a bad decision as far as,
like, building the Barbie Dreamhouse in the Dream Studio.
It's amazing.
So, there's one thing we haven't done.
-Barbie fan. -Let's see who our fan is.
[speaking in English]
-Stop! -That's her car?
Speechless right now. Completely speechless.
Her story's amazing.
There's so many people who have a brush with death.
And when that happens, they're like, I will do
what I want to do for the rest of my life and run after that passion.
And that's what she did. We need to meet her.
-Please get her on. -Let's see.
-Hi. -Hi.
Hi, Azusa.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
I'm super excited.
We're in charge of designing the entire kitchen and family room.
Obviously, Barbie, but it's also the 1960s.
What would you suggest for, like, cabinets in the kitchen?
I mean, almost like her cabinets.
Yeah, your cabinets are such a great inspiration.
-I used five different shades of pink. -Mmm.
So I feel like the color that's in the inside of her
back cabinets and on the trim of her bottom cabinet.
-Yes, I think that would be amazing for our kitchen. -Yeah.
We're going to get to work, and our goal is to win this for you.
I'm so happy to be on this team.
Yeah, I think our team is awesome, very awesome.
[both cheering]
There's no way that any other Barbie fan
-comes close to Azusa. -Oh.
-There's no way. -Zero way.
I love her. I do have to go to the restaurant.
-Obviously, I have to take care -Okay.
of, like, some stuff in my world.
But are you going to work on our menu?
-Without question. -I will keep things going here.
-Yes. -But hurry back.
I will.
[Mike] We still need to meet our Barbie fan.
But first, we want to get our new fireplace built.
But with just a week to finish this project,
they'll have to work through the night
to keep us on schedule.
Today, we're adding wallpaper with the Memphis design
to the entryway.
And we're painting our whole space.
Okay.
This is feeling good.
What we want is for you to come in
and just have sensory overload.
-You turn around and say, oh, that's so Barbie. -Yes.
-Oh my gosh, I remember that. Ah, the fireplace. -Mm-hmm.
Ah.
It's still not giving the power punch we need.
I need more of that '90s infusion of just crazy, wild.
All the rules are out the window.
The way it looks is just not working right now.
You know, I just feel like it's still not
giving the power punch we need.
Yeah, I agree.
It needs to feel like a real, true-life Barbie house.
-Uh-huh. -What about Memphis?
You see how I've got the squigglies?
Oh, so you want, like, geometric shapes and patterns?
-Yeah, on top there. -I like it.
-But what is going to be our toy-etic element? -Okay.
Well, since we can't do the cupcake carousel,
we need to come up with a new toy-etic feature fast.
We're going to come up with an even better toy-etic feature.
-We are not defeated. -Nope.
Let's do a life-size elevator where it goes right up here,
and they'll be able to get off.
And when I say they, I mean Barbie's pets.
And we could double it.
So it can be an elevator, or it can be a phone booth.
Do you think we can make it out of purple Lucite?
[Mike] I'll make it happen.
Every great Barbie dream house had an elevator or a lift.
I want to make it out of Lucite,
because it's very '90s, you know?
And it'll also play nicely off of the stained glass windows.
We nailed that.
There is no one else that can be more connected to Barbie.
I think it's going to be an extreme moment
-that takes us over that hump. -Yeah.
Come on, give me the '90s hand shake.
[whoops, grunts, laughs]
[Jasmine] We have just five days left to finish everything.
And I can't find fabric that looks even similar
to this cardboard couch.
But I know a shop that does custom fabric printing.
-Hi, Lauren. -Hey.
If we were to create, like, a custom fabric,
something like this, is this something that can happen pretty quickly?
Yes, you can walk out with it today.
-Yes, that's the best news I've heard. Okay. -Yeah.
Where would we start?
I think that we would probably start with a plaid that
we have.
And we can adjust the layout and the colors
to make it look the most like this guy.
That's really cool. Okay.
We're so close.
But I know that Egypt and Mike came here to win.
And the only way that we're going to beat them
is not just to be close, but to have it perfect.
That's great. I'm loving this.
-Let's print it. -All right.
Oh, my goodness. Are you guys seeing this?
This is so cool.
This is the first time in 60 years that a cardboard couch
is actually becoming fabric.
This project is beyond unique.
Like, if I can pull this off, it'll probably be one of
the coolest pieces of furniture I've ever worked on.
* There is champagne *
-Wow, this is so cool. -This is great.
The Dream Studio is like a magical place.
It's like a walk in the park through Barbie land.
This, this is what I want.
I want to show diversity and inclusion.
I want to show that everybody counts.
I'm excited. It's time for us to find out who our Barbie fan is.
Let's do it.
My name is Ruby.
I joined the military in 1994.
I served eight years.
And, you know, it was tough.
There's definitely no Barbie there.
I owned a Barbie house when I was a child,
and my mom sold it at a yard sale.
-So I was traumatized. -Oh, no.
That's why.
I decided, you know, I'm going to collect my Barbies.
I got into vintage Barbies from the '70s,
from the '80s, and then it became an obsession.
-For me, it's just a passion. -Right.
To win this Barbie experience would mean a lot to me.
I would be so grateful to God, to everybody, to Barbie.
-She is fun. -I like her.
-She is adorable. -I like her.
All right, so let's call her.
-Hi, Ruby. -Hey, Ruby.
Hi, Egypt and Mike.
We heard you're an Army vet.
Hooah, yes. U.S. Army veteran.
I was the only one in my battalion that was a sharpshooter.
-Wow. -So, yeah.
-I'm scared of you. -You know, at first glance,
you see Ruby, and she's got her bright pink on,
her mascara, and you're like, oh, she's so dainty.
And then you find out she's an Army vet.
Oh, yeah. That means she's strategical, right?
-She knows how to plan. -Strategical or strategic?
-Both of those. -[both laughing]
Her era is 1990s.
-Mm-hmm. -That's my era!
What is one thing you definitely will want
to see when you walk in those doors?
Like, fluorescent green, fluorescent yellow, fluorescent pink.
Okay, that's what I'm thinking.
We had the stonewashed jeans, the ripped jeans.
You know, we were all rockers.
-Right. -Ruby actually threw out some good advice.
She's our third team member, and we gotta win it for her...
-We're doing it for you, Ruby. -...and us, okay?
-So, game on. -Oh, yeah!
[all cheering, laughing]
Our team is putting the flat-panel cabinets up in the kitchen,
and I need to talk to Scott about a toy-etic idea
for the island.
-Oh. -Hey.
This kitchen's looking great.
A little different?
-Right. -We made some good progress.
Yeah, so the thing that Antonia and I
have been working on is this island
This is an opportunity where we can have
a toy-etic feature, okay?
-Okay, cool. -I mean if you think about the Barbie dream house
They always have these like hidden things or things
that pop up or like you push a thing
-and it flips or something like that. What if we... -Yep.
We did a lift that was hidden in the countertop.
So one of the countertops here just looks like a countertop.
Yep, yep.
But we, like, push a button, and up pops two separate lifts
that can hold our small appliances.
Yeah, I think definitely doable.
For the kitchen, we have our toy-etic idea,
-and it's good. -Awesome.
The '60s were all about introducing the atomic age
and showcasing the house of the future.
So we thought of doing a toy-etic that's hidden
and automatic as a nod to that time.
-It's so good. -I'm really excited about it.
-So let's cut this cabinet out. -Let's do it.
There she is. I'm stoked.
Now, we've got a lot of work to do.
-So we have to run power. -Hmm.
And then we need our countertops.
We need our backsplash. We need our appliances.
We need our cabinet hardware.
-We need two faucets. -We need lifts.
We need lifts. We need so much stuff.
-Thank you. I'll let you keep working. -Yeah.
I'll get back to it.
* They know who I be I be so fly *
* I, I, I, I, I *
* I be so fly I, I, I, I, I, I be so fly *
[laughs] What do you have on?
Are you painting or fumigating?
Really?
Can I protect my lungs from this lacquer?
-You look like you gettin' ready to fight a wasp nest. -[both laughing]
-This is keeping it real. -Okay.
It looks great, though. I love the lacquer
because it's making it look very plastique.
-Uh-huh. -Oh, you missed a spot.
I saw a spot you missed.
-Right there. -Get out of here.
-It's right there. -Where?
[both laughing]
Pink cabinets.
We've got some design details to work out in the kitchen.
We decided to go with wallpaper instead of tile
for the backsplash because that's what the Barbie Dream Houses had.
They didn't have tile.
They had a sticker.
And in my mind, a giant sticker is basically wallpaper.
This is our flooring.
I'm thinking this is the perfect pink
to go with maybe the teal backsplash.
The white countertop.
And then this flooring.
I've got the wallpaper. I've got my curtains.
I've got my floor.
[sighs]
We have a lot of pattern. We have a lot of color.
But looking at this wallpaper and this flooring,
there is a such thing as overdoing it.
And I think this would be overdoing it.
I don't think this is going to work.
I've got to call Antonia.
Sometimes things look good on paper.
They look good on a design book.
They look good in a small little model.
But looking at this wallpaper and this flooring,
I'm really concerned that it's just too much.
Hi.
I know I need to be there, but just between the restaurants
and the events, I've been running all over.
I have one little thing that I have to go over with you.
It's not that little, actually.
This floor, when you pair it with our drapes,
I'm concerned that it's too busy.
-Too much. -It's too much, right?
I think so, too.
Let me figure out what our options are, what else we could do.
But I need your help, so get here soon, okay?
I am coming.
[Mike] For the dining room, we wanted to do something
synonymous for Barbie.
So we're doing banquettes in the corner area
where they took our wall out.
[Egypt] When you think about Barbie, there was a banquette
or a fold-out almost everywhere.
-Mm-hmm. -In the dream house, in the kitchen.
If you had the Barbie van, it folded out,
and there was a banquette in there.
And then you could do your little grill.
Barbie, banquette, synonymous.
-Good. -I definitely would like to
bring pattern up to the ceiling.
Oh, no. This is screaming for pattern.
Oh, my God.
Hello?
I'm looking for Egypt and Mike.
-Barbie sent me. I'm Kitty. -Kitty.
-How are you, honey? -[all exclaiming]
Miss Kitty Black Perkins was the first black chief designer
of fashions and doll concepts at Mattel.
I would never have had a black Barbie growing up
if it were not for you.
Oh, that is so sweet. Thank you.
Miss Kitty Black Perkins and her team were responsible
-for ushering Barbie to become inclusive and diverse. -Yeah.
Being a mom of three girls, that means a lot.
-In 1980, when you introduced the first black Barbie, -Yes.
How was it received?
It was really scary for me to give her short, natural hair
and a shade of skin that belongs just to her.
-It was either, "Okay, is this going to go over or not?" -Right.
Little girls, when they saw the doll, their reaction was,
"Oh, she's black like me."
And little girls have the opportunity to really
style their hair so much differently than
-we did with just the white Barbie. -Right.
Mike and I wanted to do something that represented all the different faces.
Mm-hmm.
All the diversity, all the inclusion of Barbie.
And I had the idea to, in the living room,
you see we have those four windows on the side of the fireplace?
Put stained glass there, but create a silhouette
of different hairstyles of Barbie.
-What do you think? -I think it's fabulous.
-You like it? -I do.
-Thank you so much for being here. -Yeah.
Hey, Scott!
Can you help me kind of finagle this around
so that I can put the seat onto the frame?
-Yes. -We believe that this couch is going to be the thing
in this family room that gets us the win.
Anybody that had that original Barbie dream home,
this is going to be that piece of nostalgia
that gets them right off the bat.
I'm super excited with how this couch turned out.
But this is an awesome opportunity for us
to bring in one of those toy-etic features.
Antonia's all excited about serving TV dinners,
because that's what they ate in the '60s.
So if I'm able to add arms that fold down
and then fold into a TV dinner tray,
and then Antonia's gorgeous TV dinner goes there,
I think she'll be really excited about it.
Oh, Antonia, where's my dinner?
Hey, babe, you got my pieces?
Yeah, I'm coming.
Ooh, we're really down to our last.
-Yeah, we're getting there. -It's called progress.
Yes, baby.
-Hi. -Hi.
-Welcome back. -I know.
-Okay. -I went over to the house.
-You weren't there. -No, I know.
I had to come over here to try to figure out this flooring situation.
Is it like the order takes too long, or it's just
you're not finding anything that you like?
-I... Both. -Okay.
We should ask Mike and Egypt if they have extra flooring.
They're installing their floors today.
-I don't know what else to do. -Okay.
But we knocked the wall down.
I know where this is going. [exhales]
So we need to apologize and ask for their flooring.
So we'll go back.
Okay.
[both] Say we're sorry.
And then we'll get the flooring.
-Well, yeah, so I figured... -Hi, guys.
-Hey.
We just have a... We have a small question for you.
-Okay. -Jasmine?
[laughs, exhales]
I don't like the sigh.
-Your floor looks really lovely. -Mm-hmm.
So what we had planned for our floor ended up
not working out from the design standpoint.
So we were wondering if, since your floor
is now done, you guys have any extra flooring
that we might be able to use since our spaces all kind of connect.
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What we had planned for our floor ended up not working out
from a design standpoint, so we were wondering if,
-since your floor is now done, you guys -Okay.
have any extra flooring that we might be able to use
since our spaces all kind of connect.
Tables turned, suckers burn and learn.
[both laughing]
Please forgive us.
-Here we are. -Here we are.
-The time has come. -We're nice people.
-You are. -Right, and we are done our floor.
-We do have some left, but it's not enough to do -Mm-hmm.
your entire space.
But you can have whatever's left.
Thank you, and we're sorry, and thank you.
I have never seen you like this.
-I just feel bad. -[all laughing]
Never, ever. [laughing]
I think that we start in the family room,
install the floors coming this way.
-Hopefully, we make it to here. -Yeah.
And then in the kitchen, maybe we do, like, a linoleum
or something that's just easy to lay.
-Right. -That's very '60s.
Very '60s.
But I think it could be a solid color.
I do, too. With the blue, the light blue.
-We have the teal on the backsplash. -Yeah.
Maybe we do something in that family on the floor.
-Absolutely. -Beautiful.
-Yeah. -No.
-Oh, my gosh. -I know.
[exhales]
[hip-hop music playing]
I feel like the style of this is perfect.
I'm obsessed with the color.
The 1960s, it was a little, like, understated.
It was very much like the browns and sort of the beiges.
So I love that it's kind of like this neutral color.
Barbie's got it going on.
Oh, they just sent me a sample of the elevator.
That's going to kill it.
-Yeah. -That is going to kill it.
The judges are going to love it. They better love it.
Look at that.
It's your secret door.
Secret door?
We really want to win this for our fan, Azusa.
This would be amazing for her to be able to come to the Barbie Dreamhouse.
So we're adding one more toy-etic feature.
So the idea is, is that there'll be shelves.
-Right, right. -And this is a bookcase.
Right. But then you push it, and there's a pantry.
-Pantry. -A pink pantry.
-We're going to try to get your corner in first. -My corner?
-Oh, my God. -I know.
-It's actually, like, fun. -It is.
-It looks great. -Being able to use vinyl to wrap all
of the cabinets will transform what is otherwise just,
-like, a light kitchen into this beautiful Barbie -Yeah.
kitchen in one day.
The kitchen is coming together as the sun sets on another day
of Barbie dreams.
Right there.
Yeah.
We've got two days left. We have to get this done.
And so much to do.
We sourced a vintage TV from a local thrift shop.
Because you can't have a TV dinner without a TV.
Oh.
-It's cozy. -I love the couch.
Absolutely perfect.
I feel like this is a win.
We still have to make the silhouettes
in the stained glass in the window.
We're going to cut four different silhouettes.
Maybe one has a bouffant.
One's got an afro.
One has a ponytail.
-This is going to be good. -It's one.
Mike, come help me.
When I pull this back, I need you to hold it in place.
To create a stained glass effect,
our team helped us source custom colored cling,
stickers that we'll add to plexiglass.
Lift it up, baby, the white paper up a bit.
We did a '90s color-blocking pattern using the same colors
as Totally Hair Barbie's dress.
It's one thing to talk about a vision,
but then to see it come to pass, I instantly saw
my daughters in the puffs and the poofs.
Young girls are gonna see this and feel proud.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm Maureen McCormick.
You may know me from a little show
that I did called The Brady Bunch.
And when I was very young, I did Barbie commercials.
So my friend Barbie sent me here to check in
with the designers.
-Hi, Jas. -[all exclaiming]
Hi! Hi!
Oh my gosh, it's so good to see you.
What are you doing here?
Well, I thought I would just pop by.
-This is so exciting. -Do you know my friend Antonia?
Hi, it's so nice to meet you.
-Hi, it's so lovely to meet you. -I love Maureen.
We work together on the Brady Bunch house,
and we worked together actually quite a bit.
-Yeah! -Look at you!
I love it!
Before Brady Bunch in my life, there was Barbie.
-Yeah. -I did a commercial years ago for the Twist and Turn Barbie.
[announcer on TV] Barbie's new and different.
Trading your old Barbie today while you can still get
the new Barbie for less than half price.
I had the '60s cardboard house.
And this, the paneling is perfect.
-Yes! -I had this cardboard couch.
You did?
And I played with it all the time.
-Do you want to see the kitchen? -Yes.
Okay.
I love the backsplash.
-For me, sort of the checkers with the teal. -Oh, I...
-Love. -Yeah.
This is so beautiful.
What exactly... Would you call this
some of it mid-century a bit, right?
But yet, this isn't.
As soon as Maureen came in and said that,
I was just like, there goes the faucets.
Like, that's all Jasmine needed to hear.
How in the world am I supposed to find new faucets
when judging is just two days away?
I'm gonna go.
-Okay. -I really hope that I get to see you guys again.
-Yeah. -Oh, my gosh.
-Good to see you. -Careful, careful.
-You don't want to... -Nice one.
-These came out great, babe. -I know.
[vocalizing]
-[laughs] Is gonna set it off. -That right there is a moment.
[vocalizing]
Oh, my. Hey, how are you?
-Oh, my God! -Oh, my God!
-[vocalizes] -Oh, my God!
[overlapping chatter]
Marsha Brady herself, Maureen McCormick,
is in our living room, like, right here.
Look what we just made.
These acrylic stained-glass windows.
Those are gorgeous.
-Everyone's different. -Oh, my gosh.
-And they have different hairstyles. -These are brilliant.
These are so good.
This is our dining room.
Such a rainbow up there of color.
And we kept with the color blocking.
Didn't we also used to, like, take paintbrushes
-and, like, splatter it? -Yep.
Splatterpaint.
-Maureen had the bomb.com idea. -Mm-mmm.
Splatterpaint is so '90s.
I used to do it to T-shirts, jeans,
everything, like our baseball caps.
-Right. -We are totally doing it.
Thank you so much. We appreciate it.
They have no idea that I'm going to be back
and be their judge.
I wish you guys the best of luck
and love to come back somehow.
So we'll see if they listen to the advice I gave.
-Have fun. -Thank you.
Okay, I'm ready, I'm here.
Looking good over here, looking good over there.
The judges will be here in less than two days,
and we still have so much more to do.
I mean, the list is just growing by the second.
So, baby, this is ultimately gonna look like a grid.
And then up top, we're actually gonna do
the black squiggly lines.
So good.
So now we're going to take the shelves,
-and they simply go right over that cleat. -Right across.
-And then you lock them in. -And we'll just screw them in, yeah.
I'm excited about these shelves because we're adding
just one more little wood element in this kitchen.
The kitchens of the '60s had a lot of wood paneling.
They had a lot of wood elements.
But I have to make sure that we keep adding them in
so that the ones we have don't feel random.
-Done. -Nice.
-Looks good. -All right.
Our team's going to add the Memphis-style pattern
to the top of the fireplace, while Mike and I add some
'90s flair to the whole dining room.
Okay, baby, ready for this '90s splatter situation?
-Oh, yeah, this is going to get messy. -Oh, no, that's good.
Go for it. Don't be scared.
[laughs]
-Ah! -That's a little gloppy.
Ah! Whoo!
-That's looking good already. -Listen, I think we need more.
I feel like our strategy is to make it well-balanced.
We want to take all the colors from both rooms
and let it reflect on that wall in a very balanced way.
-Boom. -So no one color leads.
-Correct. -The spider paint, set it over the top.
I'm loving this.
We still have to get the elevator in.
All right, babe, I need you to head over to the flywheel.
I'm gonna get this going through the wheel.
-Okay. -What is that?
It's a pet elevator.
-Stop. -Yeah.
I mean, here's the thing, right?
Every Barbie Dreamhouse, like, you'd be able to, like,
put the little pooch in and kind of, like, up to the side.
-Oh, yeah. -You want to do the honors?
Okay.
-Mm-hmm. -You literally just crank it.
-Okay? -It has to be that noisy?
What do you mean? That's the toy-etic aspect of it.
Okay. Let me try it.
Ready?
Hold on, because this has the tendency to want
to slide this way.
I love the idea of the elevator.
-I know you really wanted it. -Okay.
I'm happy you got it in, but the way it looks
is just not working right now.
Okay.
Come on. We can't let it go like this.
This is a competition, and we got to do whatever it takes to win.
Are we going to have an elevator or not?
Judges are coming today, everybody.
Let's try to hustle up.
My team and I got rid of the crank,
and now this elevator is operated with a button.
I think my wife was doubtful that I was going
to be able to pull off this elevator.
And, yeah, you see?
We got two hours before the judges get here.
And we've got to get all that furniture in, set up,
-and make it look fantastic. -Yes.
All right, we're in.
We've been asking our teams to source accessories
for days so that we can really decorate these rooms to the max.
It's like a round, it looks like a ball,
and it's a black and white pillow.
Do you have the milk props from the Barbie movie?
I do.
Flax drink, hemp drink, cow.
I think we did our very best. Oh, we definitely did.
And, you know, that's all we can do.
I just, I don't know how this is going to turn out.
How did you get this?
This is the actual outfit from the movie.
This is Margot Robbie's outfit she actually wore
in the Barbie movie.
-Barbie came through. -Yeah, baby.
We're as close to perfection as we can be.
I'm afraid to touch another thing.
We're looking good. We're looking good.
Let's change.
Hello, teams.
It is time to judge the very first faces
in our Barbie dream house.
-Yeah. -All right, so remember, only one team here
is going to win in advance to the finale.
That winning team's fan is going to win the chance
to stay here.
Those fans are going to be watching us as of right now.
-Hey, Ruby. Hey, Azusa. -[both] Hi.
-You guys ready to meet your judges? -Oh, yeah.
Our head judge is an interior design legend.
He is known for his modern American glamour.
He's also a major Barbie collaborator with a signature doll
and a collection of furniture and accessories.
The one, the only, the amazing Jonathan Adler.
Oh, my God.
Hello. Hello.
I've worked with Jonathan Adler before.
I am a huge fan. This is amazing.
I have been all up in Barbie's grill for 15 years.
So to be here is so exciting, a little bit nuts,
and I cannot wait to see what you guys have perpetrated.
Perpetrated.
So our next judge is an Architectural Digest
top 100 designer and a very familiar face on HGTV.
But what you probably did not know is that
she is our own resident dream house expert.
So here she is, Tiffany Brooks.
-[all exclaiming] -Yes!
-Whoo! -[exclaims]
Hey, y'all.
I own nine dream houses, and I got all of them
in my dining room to prove it.
I am obsessed with Barbie, and I'm so excited.
-[whoops] -It is on, Duchess.
Ooh, Tiffany, she is a Barbie diehard.
They're going to be tough. They're going to be tough.
So Jonathan, Tiffany, what are you guys going to be
looking for when you're judging these two spaces?
I am going to be looking for design that is chic in real life.
But I also want to be transported to a fantasy land.
I am basically looking for how you guys played up the era.
All right, so this week's special guest judge,
she's an actress with a special lifelong connection to Barbie.
She starred in three Barbie commercials as a kid.
You met her this week already on her surprise visit,
the fabulous and sneaky Maureen McCormick.
-Maureen's back! -Surprise!
I love seeing your previewed spaces,
and I cannot wait to see them finished.
All right, Egypt and Mike, your '90s living
and dining room is up first.
Good luck!
-Oh! -Yeah!
-Oh, my goodness! -Hey!
-What's up, guys? -Hi!
-Take it in. -Wow.
-Take it in. -Welcome!
This is amazing!
Oh, wow.
Welcome to the neon '90s living room and dining room.
Yeah. Mind-blowing, I saw.
All this color.
[all exclaiming]
[Egypt] ' 90s was all about throwing design rules out
the window, having fun expressing yourself.
-It was about neon. -Bright colors.
Bright colors, color blocking.
We chose the lacquered paint to make sure
it looked like plastic.
We have our Barbie fan, Ruby, to thank for this.
-Uh-huh. -She said, more colors.
It's never too much, especially when we're talking about the '90s.
More, more, more.
And this is the actual outfit Margot Robbie wears
in the Barbie movie.
Are you kidding me?
-Literally. Yes. -No.
'90s were also about denim and acid wash.
So you see the denim incorporated as well.
I got to give you props for just hardcore design chops.
Like, the scale of color blocking
and patterns is all on point.
Let me draw your eye over to our fireplace wall.
We went for Memphis inspiration,
the geometric shapes, the hard angles.
We also brought it over into the wallpaper here.
-That's incredible. -That's insane.
That's amazing.
Please take a look at our stained glass windows,
which, by the way, channel Barbie Dreamhouse
-from 1995 and 1998. -Oh, yeah.
The art.
I had one of those puppy paint shirts
all through elementary school, baby.
-Okay, so you're going to see a lot of splatter paint. -Uh-huh.
And we have Maureen to thank for that.
Your furniture looks like doll furniture, but it's totally chic,
totally stylish, and everything is functional.
You know, there's so many, like, loud neon colors.
And the soft blue in the denim couch just softened.
I think one of the misses, when I walk in,
that fireplace is incredible. It's such a focal thing.
But you have that big swath of blue that is begging.
Begging. Begging for a piece of art or a mirror.
Mirror.
-We could have done that better. -Definitely.
The challenge was to incorporate a toy-etic feature.
-And we thought, what does every Barbie dream house have? -Wow.
-An elevator. -Yes.
Oh!
This is Barbie's elevator where she can put
her shopping bags or her laundry or her snacks.
The working elevator, that was a staple, especially in the '90s.
-Come through with that. -Thank you.
Who wants to do the honors? Maureen, you want to come press the button?
-Yes. -Ready?
And, go.
[all exclaiming]
So it goes all the way up.
Wow.
-And it comes down. -I love it!
The fact that this is an elevator
and a telephone booth is brilliant.
It really feels like a livable space.
And you also made it a Barbie fantasy of color.
Well done.
-Egypt, Mike, we got to move on. -Okay.
Kudos to the '90s vibe, everything.
-And we will see you on the other side. -Peace out.
Okay.
-Okay. -Hey.
-Okay. -Ruby?
Okay, we wouldn't have done it for anybody else but you.
-I think we got this. -Yes!
-Fingers crossed. -Fingers crossed.
-We're gonna get this. -Whoo!
-I'm so excited. -I'm so excited. I feel like Jordan's gonna love this.
-This is literally... -He loves it.
-If he hates it, I'm gonna cry. -Shh, shh.
Holy smokes.
Yay!
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
-Wow. -Wow!
Welcome to the '60s.
Holy smokes.
-Welcome to the '60s. -[all exclaiming]
We are definitely in the OG dollhouse.
Yeah.
-There was a wall here. -Yes.
No.
Barbie needed to be able to see
into her dining room so that she wasn't stuck in the kitchen
by herself when her friends were over.
This is a very attractive suite of appliances.
-I love the ceiling. -Oh.
The ceiling and I know it matches the floor.
The ceiling matches the floor,
-which is like a really cool detail. -Yes.
Is this a wallpaper?
This is a wallpaper. Wow.
-Okay. -We definitely wanted to keep it toy-like.
And tile just didn't seem, it seemed too real.
So I'm noticing different kitchen faucets
-than the last time I was here. -Yay, you noticed.
I would like to know where the toy-etic feature is.
Yes, the 1960s was all about futuristic appliances.
So, Ashley, if you don't mind, right behind you,
you're going to see two buttons.
-[gasps] -This is cool.
-Right? -Barbie was an entertainer.
And if you needed a pink banana smoothie,
it was available for you.
Ha!
[gasps] Wait, I need this in my kitchen, like, today.
I was thinking that.
I sincerely want that feature in my life.
So, Jonathan, go ahead and just push on that bookshelf,
if you don't mind.
-Oh, no, she did not. -She did.
Yes, she did.
-Yeah. -You took it to 11.
So, that backsplash, is that backsplash functional?
Can somebody really cook some spaghetti in here
and expect to walk away unscathed?
That's fair.
All right, thank you so much for seeing our kitchen.
And I can't wait to show you our family room.
Ooh, let's go.
Welcome, welcome.
Welcome to our family room.
-Wow. -Wow. This is cool.
I look at this and just feel such warmth.
I mean, this was a house that I played in all the time.
It was all cardboard.
-Like this. -Wow.
-I mean, this is the couch. -That is the couch.
Look at how perfect you guys did that.
-That's clever. -Yeah.
-Really clever. -Thank you.
So good.
Mad props for astronaut Barbie.
I love how she's graphic and poppy and simple.
We have one more really important thing to show you,
-and that is... -Well, I'm gonna excuse myself,
and why I'm in my chef outfit, will make more sense to you in just a second.
So please, have a seat on our cardboard couch.
So what we have is a fully functioning TV dinner tray.
-Shut up. -Yup, so it's that easy.
And here's our chef, Antonia.
-Oh, are you kidding me? -Life's dream house.
This is insane.
The mashed potatoes, I'm just warning you,
they're going to change your life. They're so good.
Bravo.
Mmm.
It is time for us to deliberate, so let's go.
Antonia, Jasmine, you guys did a good job, but we love you.
Thank you. You want to take your dishes?
No, I'm gonna finish them.
-Bye. -Good luck.
-Bye. -Thank you.
-Thanks for visiting. -I'm completely lost.
I don't know if they love it or hate it.
I mean, I think they love it, but how do you really know?
Azusa, I have to say, like, your story is so inspiring.
-I hope we win it for you. -You two girls did awesome.
We're gonna win.
Nice. Do this.
Hello, team.
-Hello. -Hey.
The tours of your spaces were incredible,
and they were so much fun.
The judges and I were so blown away by your creativity.
As a reminder, today's winning team is
going to move on to the big pink carpet finale,
where their space is going to compete against
the three other winning spaces.
Only one team is going to take the title of dreamiest space.
All right, so let's start with Egypt and Mike.
Your living room and dining room was incredible.
To me, it felt like being inside a kid's mind.
It really captured the fantasy of Barbie.
It was bananas.
I thought that was a magical, magical job.
What I absolutely loved was the use of color.
You guys were ballsy with those moves,
and I really, really appreciate that.
Thank you.
Maureen?
Well, the staircase just looked plastic, which I love.
Everything in Barbie is dual purpose.
I was searching for the bench to flip up
and it be some Barbie pillows in there.
Egypt and Mike, you guys had a beautiful space.
It's incredible.
So next up is the '60s kitchen
and family room of Antonia and Jasmine.
As soon as I walked into the kitchen, my equilibrium
was off because I felt that I was in a '60s kitchen.
The cardboard couch and that fireplace just took me back.
Your toy-etic blew my mind, and the colors were on point.
The TV tray, it felt like a kitchen cutting board
that was put on.
So I would have loved to seen something
-that looked more like a TV tray. -Yeah.
Okay. It's time.
The winner of week one of Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge
is... [inhales]
-Jasmine and Antonia. -[both cheering]
Azusa, it's for you!
The way that you live, like, the Barbie lifestyle,
that's been, like, the most inspiring thing to hear.
You can do anything. You can be anything.
And that's how you spoke to us.
This one's for you, Azusa.
I just want to say thank you, Jasmine.
Thank you, Antonia.
Egypt and Mike, is there anything else
you want to say to your fan right now?
Ruby, we love you. You rock.
We tried our best, girl, didn't we?
I love you guys. You guys did a great job.
-One, two, three... -[all] Barbie!
This season on Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge.
Game on.
We have some extremely stiff competition.
Oh, yes!
-It's like three-dimensional. -This isn't a disco.
It's a competition. We're here to win.
Ooh, so we're disassembling the side now?
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You see that?
-If this is structural, we're in trouble. -[exclaims]
I can feel the tension, but if we can get this up,
it will wow the judges.
-Yes! -Hey, oh, we're stuck now.
Bye, guys. Hey, see you later.
When do you need this?
Two days would be ideal.
-Good luck. -The future of the Kens depends on you.
What?
Mika, I just don't see how it's gonna happen.
Moment of truth.
No way.
Hey, guys.
-Crazy. -Yeah.
That was awesome.
That is as '80s as it gets.
You're moving like we don't have a deadline.
Oh, we got so much to do, Mika.
We are scrambling. The judges are about to come in.
Bingo. The moment of truth.
-Hello. -[all cheering]
What?
Welcome to the '80s.
-What? What happened? -[laughing]