Which Team Won ‘Battle on the Beach’ Season 5? Breaking Down the Wins
After seven weeks of intense competition, the winners of Battle on the Beach Season 5 have been revealed.
During the HGTV competition series’ Monday, July 13, finale, the teams wrapped up their renovations by transforming their homes’ exterior spaces. After the challenge, the teams were also given 48 hours and $5,000 to fix previously renovated spaces based on comments they received from the judges throughout the season.
While judges Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama viewed each of the completed houses, it was ultimately up to local real estate professionals to decide which home’s financial value improved the most. “They are so different, and they’re all so good, but I think this is the house that has constantly just come back into the forefront of my mind,” Tristyn said during her and Kamohai’s final judging.
Kamohai added, “I think that was the house that we were looking at. So, when we do put the data in there, it lines up exactly with what we thought.”
The series returned for its fifth outing on June 1, despite reports that the show had been canceled after Season 4. Set in South Carolina’s Grand Strand, the new episodes followed three teams as they transformed run-down beachside properties into stunning vacation homes. The team with the highest short-term rental rate took home bragging rights and a minimum cash prize of $50,000. Additionally, each week’s winning team chose between accepting $3,000 or adding $6,000 to the grand prize.
Ty Pennington returned as a mentor for the new season, alongside 100 Day Dream Home‘s Mika Kleinschmidt and Renovation Island‘s Sarah Baeumler, the latter of whom previously served as a judge on Battle on the Beach.
Scroll down to see which team was crowned the winners of Battle on the Beach Season 5.
Battle on the Beach, Mondays, 9/8c, HGTV
Team Ty: Michelle Mueller & Sydney Lorence
WINNERS
Total wins: 3
After losing the season premiere’s design challenge, the mother-daughter duo’s luck turned around in Episode 2 by winning with their kitchen renovation.
“I do feel like the kitchen is one of the main spaces of a house. So, to have won one of the big ones, I feel like I’m very proud of us for that,” Sydney said in a post-win confessional. “And I hope that we can keep it going.” Team Ty chose to take the $3,000 rather than add money to the season’s grand prize.
Michelle and Sydney secured their second win of the competition by tying with Josiah and Anna during Episode 3’s main suite challenge. Both winning teams chose to add their winnings to the season’s cash prize.
Their kids’ bedroom and playroom, complete with a mini lifeguard tower, earned the pair their third win during Episode 6. “This was another committed risk. This one paid off,” Michelle stated after the win. Unlike their previous win, they chose to accept that week’s cash prize rather than add it to the grand total.
Though Michelle and Sydney didn’t win the finale’s exterior challenge, their hard work throughout the season paid off, as they were named the winners of Season 5.
“I don’t know how to feel, to be honest. With this whole competition, I feel like it’s been such a rollercoaster of emotions and just happy and sad and everything in between,” Sydney stated after their big win. “This has been one of the best experiences I’ve had, and I’m so thankful that my mom was forced to do it with me.”
Team Sarah: Steven & Angelina Jacobs
Total wins: 2
Angelina and Steven secured the first win of the season with their living room and entry space designs. “This win is very important because we’ve been going through our own situations, you know, from sleeping on other people’s couches,” Angelina began in a post-win confessional before getting choked up. “This money would literally help us be more comfortable.”
Calling Battle on the Beach a “one in a million” opportunity, Angelina added, “We need to keep this winning momentum going.” The spouses ended the episode taking home $3,000, rather than adding $6,000 to the final prize.
Angelina and Steven failed to secure more wins during Episodes 2 and 3. However, Steven scored money for their team after winning Episode 4’s guest suite design challenge with Josiah. The duo earned their second full win of the season with their guest bathrooms and bedroom renovations in Episode 5.
“When we lost that primary [bedroom] with bathroom because of the layout, I knew that this week, I could not mess up,” Angelina said in a post-win confessional. Steven called the win “redemption” from their previous design flop. They once again chose to accept the week’s cash reward rather than add it to the grand prize total.
Though the couple didn’t win the season, they walked away from the show feeling grateful. “I don’t take this as a loss. I take this as a lesson in what we can accomplish in our future,” Steven stated. Angelina added, “We put out heads together and came up with this beautiful design for this house.”
Team Mika: Josiah & Anna Julian
Total wins: 2
After losing Episode 1 to their fellow married couple, Josiah said he and Anna “did the best” they could with the house Angelina and Steven assigned to them.
The spouses faced another loss in Episode 2, but they tied with Michelle and Sydney during Episode 3’s main suite renovation. Like their fellow winners, they chose to double their cash winnings and add it to the final grand total.
Josiah earned more money for their team by winning Episode 4’s guest suite design challenge with Steven. “I feel like all of our hard work just paid off in that moment,” he said in a post-win confessional. “You feel the blood, sweat, and tears, and it was totally worth it.”
Angelina and Steven won the season finale’s exterior challenge, despite not completing one of their spaces. However, their win and last-minute tweaks to their home weren’t enough to secure them the overall win.
“I’m really proud of our creative ideas. We took some risks in our designs, for sure, and some people liked it, some people didn’t” Anna stated in a confessional. Josiah added, “We’re leaving the beach with our heads high. And although we didn’t get the win, we didn’t everything we could.”
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Winning the opening challenge (a bike race), Steven and Angelina made the smartest move -- picking the largest of the 3 houses to be their project house. Dividing its very long living room into a still spacious living room and a very nice additional bedroom was their mentor's, Sarah Baeumler's, suggestion -- and it won them the episode victory. (I didn't like Angelina's zig-zag molding art treatment of the walls of the stairway and upper hall, and I felt sad for Steven.)
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