HGTV Next Design Star – Season 3, Episode 2

We re-join our aspiring designers at the lake, after having been tossed the infamous paint can, and being told byClive that Challenge One is to build their own home in seven days. Thay all seem to freak out a little as Clive boats away, but get down to business and start talking plans. Someone, Michael I think it was, brings up that you can get these panalized houses, but Matt informs him that you have to order them in advance, there is no way they can do this, just the nine of them in seven days, after two hours of this, Clive returns with an update on the Challenge……JUST KIDDING! Dang! I really wanted to see them try! Alright, all on the boat to the real house.

The real Challenge one:  design the five unfinished rooms of the house in 31 hours over 3 days with a budget of $15,000 total.   The rooms and teams are:

Bedrooms: One upstairs to be done by Scottie, the one downstairs by Mikey V and Matt.  This is actual kinda one team, with each designing a separet room but with them working together on the labor for both rooms. Now, Scottie did the upsatirs bedroom and when Michael walked in to see it being painted, he claimed it was the exact same color as Sparkle’s room from last year, spray-on tan. Humm, someone is a fan.

Dining Room:  Stephanie and Jennifer.  Okay, the two bubbly blondes are doing the dining room, and they think they have the same styles and then they say they are painting the room black, and I am thinking, hummmmm.  On day two, they have 12 hours, and it looked like they spent the whole time shopping, wonder if they can finish at that rate!

Living Room/Sunroom:  DPaul, Michael, Trish and Tracee. Okay, I don’t get this, there are two rooms and four people, unless they were told to do them together, which I didn’t see, but why Michael and Trish didn’t do one room and DPaul and Tracee the other I have no idea, it might have worked out better.  This team fights alot! Michael and Trish seem to be on the same design page, and poor DPaul seemed to spend most of the challenge as the go between for Michael/Trish and Tracee.

Let me just give you a brief insight, or at least my insight into two of the deisgners that drove me nuts last night. Stephanie, okay yeah, so she is cute and bubbly and has great boobs, but what is that worth. Yes, I know she managed to use those boobs to get a couple discounts, and mind you she and Jenn seemed pretty proud of that fact too, but she just dosen’t come across as a designer to me. Then there was the crying, good grief! They didn’t finish their room, and she cried, there was fighting amongst the others and she cried, it was just these big tears all the time, and I have had enough already and it was only the first real episode. Then there was Tracee, what to say, well she comes across as very straight-laced, uptight almost and proper, or at least that is what she thinks she is and she have her opinion, the problem is that she thinks her opinon is fact so much so that she even told Vern in judging that she disagreed with him! What are you thinking? Okay, she annoyed me too! Those are my least favorite two at this point.

Judging:

Living Room: So they judged this as a seperate room from the sunroon, so why the big team with two rooms instead of two smaller teams? Still don’t get it. It had blue-grey walls, white trim and sofa and blue chair. Vern loved the color choice, point one to Michael, thought there should have been more pattern….at this point Tracee becomes public enemy number one by throwing her whole team under the bus saying that she wanted more pattern, but no one listened, at which point Trish and Michael call her out for lying, Tracee it seems, that if she didn’t agree with something, although she compromised and let the team vote rule, she was going to say to the judges that she voted the other way, although if they liked what she didn’t want she kept her mouth shut.

Sunroom: Okay, isn’t this supoose to be a fun room, the pool table was great, but the chocolate room. Tracee wanted chocolate, and after agreeing everyone had second thoughts, but as Tracee was heading for a melt down, DPaul intervened and said we agreed in the begining, lets just go with it. Good job DPaul, although the color was a bad choice. Even Vern said it was dark, of course Tracee didn’t agree and told him so, to the shock of a number of people!

Bedrooms: Upstairs: Well, this was Scottie’s room, rust walls and a rust and brown bedding, and you know what, the judges didn’t like it, called it one of the worst in the history of the show, but I liked it. I thought it looked good and was a good space plan, I mean four beds in a small room, what more can you do.

Bedrooms: Downstairs: This was Matt and MikeyV, and they made a hugh platform bed in the middle of the room, which was actually all four beds there was a big cross-shape in the middle that served as headboards and divider sides, this meant that each bed still had it’s own space. The colors were blue and chocolate, point one and two to Matt.

Dining Room: Jennifer and Stephanie, they painted the room black, then painted this amazing wood table white and a white mantel to look like wood. I think they would have been better served leaving the mantel white and the table wood pure, it would be a much bigger contrast in that room. They didn’t quite finish, there was still painter’s tape around the top of the room, so this is a “failure” in the judges book. Time management is a big deal in this one, and if you can’t manage your time you will be out.

During the delibrations, the designers are in the green room, and MikeyV is explaining, in a really nice tone to Tracee that you know, tomorrow we might have another team challenge, and he would NOT work with her because of her performance in front of the judges tonight. Of course Stephanie is crying, she wants this to be like sorority and they all get along and have lots of fun, and Tracee leaves the room to cry. I sorta feel bad for her, but them again she brought it all on herself.

JUDGES RESULTS:

Trish, Matt and Michael – you were amoung the best tonight, you are safe until next week.

DPaul and MikeyV – you were the muscle this challenge, we want to see more design from you both next challenge, but you are safe until next week.

Scottie – your room was less than impressive, but we loved that you stood up for your design.

Stephaine – time management is a big part of the show, and if you can’t handle it you will be gone.

Tracee – you were outspoken at judging, you need to be that way in the desgin process

Jennifer – your passionate for desgin, we just need to see that come through more.

Scottie your show has been cancelled.  Dang, I liked him. I really did! I wish they would have sent crying Stephanie or Tracee home instead. Oh well, on to next week!