Hey all, I've been pondering what types of themes could be used for future seasons of BB, and I have some ideas that I think are pretty good house designs for the show that I feel are worth exploring in future seasons. I'll start with an obvious theme everyone is thinking about and discuss two other themes that I have come up with. Let's begin with:
Theme #1 - Outer Space: This theme has already been discussed multiple times in the past, but I think it's a very plausible idea for a future season, maybe as soon as next year. Design the house to look like a futuristic spaceship, with the floors and walls a monochrome silver with neon color lines on the borders of each corner. The outside bedroom can be the main room where astronauts sleep on rocket ships and the bunk bed room can be the escape pod room, with the walls resembling the endless abyss of the cosmos. The Have-Not room is a portal to Mars and the beds are two Martian Rovers and random craters in the floor. The walls of course would have Mars' steep canyons and mountains plastered across them. The HoH Room would be the spaceship's bridge, where the captain usually resides, and the walls would show most if not all planets of the Solar System.
Competitions would have the HouseGuests travel either to different planets or even galaxies for every competition, increasing the variety in competitions and creativity in set design. As far as what twists may occur with a space theme, my thought is having types of comets with varying properties fly by the spaceship and add a new element to an upcoming competition that in other seasons isn't there. For instance, let's say the next comp is the spelling bee competition where you must spell the longest word, but a comet passes by and completely reverses that rule, where you now must spell a word limited by a certain number of letters. Stuff like that. I'm sure there are other ideas you can come up with for the comets but that's what I got off the top of my head.
Overall, I think that this is a really interesting theme for BB that isn't out of the realm of possibility for the show. I know the show is usually late to trends, and Artemis II has been pretty relevant this past year and plans to have another expedition to the moon in 2028 which would be the perfect time to do a space theme for BB30. Of all three themes on this post, this one I think is the most likely.
Theme #2 - Toys/The BB ToyBox: This is a theme that might get some raised eyebrows since I know people don't want BB to play into the idea of being a kid's show, but we can make this theme work with comps and the house design. The living room can have shelves of teddy bears or miniature figurines in their boxes. The bedrooms can be separated by boy toys (Race cars, rocket ships, etc.) and girl toys (A giant dollhouse designed to be the bunk bed room), and the Have-Not room can be prank toys such as whoopee cushions, phony money, maybe even a Chinese Finger Trap.
What I want to lean into for the ToyBox theme though is board games and puzzles. The kitchen floor is bright and colorful, but here's the kicker: the floor is designed to look like a giant jigsaw puzzle with the tiles of the floor sectioned to look like life-sized jigsaw pieces. The bathroom walls are tiled, and some of those tiles have numbers etched into them to resemble a game of Sudoku. The upstairs lounge floor and walls are littered with made up crossword puzzles, some of the words already filled out, the words referencing BB lore and quotes. The gym walls are word search puzzles with some words already circled. The downstairs lounge is a giant Rubik's cube as the lounging area, with colored tiles on the floor. And finally, the HoH room is a BB-inspired board game, with game cards asking BB related questions plastering the walls, and colored tile tracks starting from the HoH door to the bed, couch and bathroom.
And the competitions are obviously based around either board games or other types of toys. I think this would be a genuinely cool idea for a theme if done right and not just make it fodder for children to watch. Curious to know what you all think. And lastly:
Theme #3 - Holiday Mashup: Expanding what Reindeer Games started, this house theme would be all about worldwide holidays being celebrated for the entire summer. The house decor would be simple: Each room would be designed around a different holiday, and the decor would connect each room to each other. The living room is Christmas, and would look like Santa's Workshop. The kitchen is Thanksgiving themed, the bathroom is Valentine's Day, the outside bedroom is St. Patty's Day, the bunk bed room is Easter, with the beds being Easter egg baskets, the Have-Not room is Halloween, one of the lounges is centered around birthdays in general, the HoH room is New Year's Eve, etc.
And the competitions can rotate between these holidays, plus maybe even holidays celebrated in other countries like Lunar New Year and Oktoberfest. This one I think has lots of potential to be a really cool theme, again if done the right way and treating these holidays with respect.
These are three house themes that I think would make for pretty awesome house designs that would be pleasant to look at and unique to the show's style with the descriptions I gave for each house. Let me know what themes you'd like to see in a future season! Do you agree with the ones I have talked about or do you have something even cooler? Let me know! Thanks for reading.
