Better Homes and Island Living

Better Homes and Island Living
Recurring Survivor Challenge
Description:	A recurring challenge
Appearances:	All-Stars Palau

Better Homes and Island Living (also known as Build a Better Bathroom) is a recurring challenge of Survivor.

Rules

Prior to the challenge, each tribe receives a box containing supplies from Home Depot. Using the supplies provided, each tribe has 24 hours to build a home or a bathroom at their camp. Once the 24 hours are up, a judge will come to each camp and rate the homes or bathrooms on size, strength, and creativity. The tribe with the highest score from the judge would win.

History

In Survivor: All-Stars, Chapera elected Rob M. as their leader as he had experience with construction. Meanwhile, at Saboga, Rupert took the leadership role and came up with the idea of a log cabin. However, things got tense as Jerri disagreed with his design. Mogo Mogo decided to build a treehouse. Colby and Lex worked on Mogo Mogo's home, while Jenna M. and Shii Ann suggested creative touches. However, Colby and Lex weren't interested in the women's ideas, causing a rift between the men and women of the tribe. The next day, Jeff Probst showed up at each camp with Rob, a licensed contractor, to judge the homes. The judge inspected all three homes and decided that Chapera's home was the winner, with Mogo Mogo's being second.

In Survivor: Palau, the tribes were instructed to elect a leader to build a bathroom. Koror chose Ian to be the leader of the project, and Ulong chose steelworker James. When both projects were judged by Probst and Survivor Production Designer Jesse, it was Koror who won a deluxe shelter.

Winners

Episode	Challenge Type	Winners
All-Stars "Shark Attack"	Tribal Reward	Chapera
		Mogo Mogo
Palau "Sumo at Sea"	Tribal Reward	Koror

Gallery

Boston Rob building Chapera's shelter in All-Stars.

Chapera celebrating their win and their new shelter (All-Stars).

Koror's toilet in Palau.

Ulong building their bathroom in Palau.

Ulong's "bath area" (Palau).

Trivia

• This challenge has only been used for tribal reward.
• This is the second recurring challenge that uses an outside party. The first was SOS Signal.
• All winning tribes had one female castaway that quit.
• Both times the challenge was used, the highest placing tribe had the finalists and the fifth placer.
• The tribes that lost this challenge would later be dissolved.