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“Top Design” Recap: Decorating Triathalon

By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET

At the beginning of last-night’s episode, Eddie Ross says he wishes they would be given some individual challenges now. So do I! I understand that group challenges bring on the interpersonal drama, but it’s hard to know what someone’s style really is if they’re always working as part of a team.
Tonight our [...]

Design Star Episode 8: You Be the Judge

Oh, boy, you guys. We’ve been through a lot together these past 8 weeks, haven’t we?
Let’s see. We witnessed fake-out challenges (”Build a house by the lake”–just kidding!), fake hair, and fake travel (”Pack your bags and come to the airport”–then design a room inside the hangar to look like Mexico!). There were missing sofas, [...]

Design Star Episode 7: And Then There Were Three

Well, guys, here I am, broadcasting from my vacation because I just couldn’t stand to miss the second-to-last recap of the Design Star season. I’m not sure how well I can pull this off with “live TV” (I usually use my DVR to pause the show and take photos and write notes). But for you [...]

Design Star Episode 6: The Dreaded Kitchen

Well, now that I have your attention with this screen shot of Mikey V, let’s start this week’s recap. In episode 6, our Designtestants must face The Dreaded Kitchen Challenge.
If you watched the first two seasons of Design Star, then you know that no team has ever completed a kitchen challenge in the time allotted. [...]

Design Star: The Case of the Missing Sofa

Another week has flown right by, which means it’s time for another Design Star recap! Are you ready? Grab a bowl of popcorn and settle in.
Tonight’s episode starts with Clive making his entrance through a regular set of doors inside the house, which is kind of disappointing after seeing him arrive on boats and planes [...]

Design Star: Taking the Plane to Nowhere

Okay. So lots of you wrote in last week and insisted that you are still watching “Design Star” with me and faithfully reading my weekly recaps. You know what that means, right? I will keep recapping and you have to keep reading.
Tonight’s episode was the fourth one of the season and it started out with [...]

Design Star: Stand by Your (Haunted) Mansion

Well, you guys, I was totally going to skip this week’s recap because I’ve been working all day on this week’s Fantasy Open House series (coming up next!), and I was just too tired to write another post tonight.
But then I watched the episode and couldn’t stand NOT to talk about it. It was all [...]

Design Star: Clive Was Just Kidding, You Guys!

It’s time for our weekly Design Star recap. Tonight was Episode 2, in which we learn that host Clive Pearse likes to joke around, so you might not always want to take him so seriously.
Remember how Clive told the contestants at the end of the first episode that they would be building a house together [...]

The Design Star 3 Premiere: Guts. Glory. Goofiness.

So who was watching “Design Star” with me tonight? Can I see a show of hands?
Does anyone else think the show’s slogan should be changed from “Guts-Glory-Glam” to “Guts-Glory-Goofiness”? There wasn’t much glam on display tonight. But that’s okay. The goofiness of this show is part of its charm. It doesn’t take itself too seriously.
After [...]

HGTV Green Home 2008 Winner: Marsha Coulthard

Just in case any of you were wondering, this is Marsha Coulthard. She lives in Bradenton, Florida. She just won the HGTV Green Home 2008, and I did not. This is not me answering the door tonight.

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