Merle - Merle chooses to upholster his chair with duct tape (and is the only contestant to choose to upholster their own chair), believing that it will get his job done faster.
Jeannie - Jeannie chooses the bar stool to reupholster, but also chooses to discard the old fabric instead of using it as a template for a new one, opting instead to guess at the fabric's dimensions.