HGTV Design Star

Hi Friends & Bloggers!

Now that prime tv has had all their finales the summer shows on cable start...HGTV Design Star started its 5th season Sunday night. It is a reality based show with 12 designers with different designing backgrounds & levels competing for the title and their own show on HGTV. The 3 judges this year are: Genevieve Gorder, Candice Olson and Vern Yip who each have their own show on HGTV. The first challenge was to design a white box bedroom space inspired by the personality of a fellow designer who they were matched with. They were required to find all their items at an Asian market and a $500 budget, the designers scrambled to find items to describe their teammate. In the end, one designer was eliminated from the competition.

The winning room is to the right and the losing room is to the left. I do not have a great eye when it comes to colors and design. My husband and I painted our dining room and it took us 3 months to pick out a color and you really cannot even tell we painted it. On a positive note, the man at our local Sherwin Williams was really helpful and gave us lots of tips. We were tempted to pay him to come and paint the room! (I believe we actually hinted it to him a couple times in our conversation!).We have lived in our home for 4 years and this was the first time we had ever painted a room! We lived in our other house for 5 years and never painted...Now that we have the hurdle of our first room done, I am getting a little bolder to play with color and maybe even paint another room!

http://my.hgtv.com/design-star-judge-the-designs-2010/multigallery.esi is the link to all the rooms.

Mandy

Sun Prairie, WI