This season of HGTV’s Design Star has flown by. Hard to believe last night’s episode consisted of only five designers and even harder to believe Butthead look alike Jason was still one of them. With such a small group it was about time we got another individual challenge and even more importantly about time we got these fools in front of the camera.
The challenge itself was redesigning rooms for kids and you knew instantly that some folks were going to struggle. Despite their reputation for being difficult clients Torie was predictably excited. Strangely the odd children were the older ones. Nico, Lonni’s client, was a 17 year old baseball player who apparently never wants to get any action as he wanted a baseball themed room. Meanwhile, Jason gets a 17 year old girl who wants a princess room…17 years old. The younger kids were more grown up as Dan’s wanted a green room and Torie’s wanted an artist’s loft. The designer’s were given carpenters to complete their designs and you could just see Antonio not give a crap. Jason fired his carpenter on the first day which I didn’t even know they could do. David Bromstad visited the designers as they worked and offered some pretty boring advice. That didn’t stop Dan from jazzing his pants a little bit and giving us a preview of how he’d be in front of the camera.
The top rooms were from my expected final two. Antonio had a five year old and did a great job creating a fantasy room full of dinosaurs. His description of the room as a "little man cave" was spot on and while his on camera performance was just ok he certainly showed promise. Lonni is quickly becoming the dark horse of the competition despite her uneven performance. Her on camera was great and she managed to make a passable room for Nico despite taking his love of baseball so literally. Torie fell in the middle as she had a strong camera performance but a horribly uneven design. She had a huge dead spot in the room and had some poor fabric choices hanging from the wall. On the plus side her bed set up truly accomplished the artist loft feel her client wanted.
The bottom two included one predictable contestant and one surprise. Dan who has been strong throughout fell apart a bit. First off he admitted he’d never designed for a kid which clearly intimidated him. His green room had some nice touches but he tried to work too many colors into the room. I thought his repurposed gumball machine was a daring move since his client said that was her favorite part of the room. Luckily that turned into a success but Dan’s on camera performance was not. The nervous energy the guy put out there made him almost unwatchable. His giggling was just annoying. Jason meanwhile was ok on camera but once again failed miserably in his design. From his poor choice to leave the room pink to the reliance on a rug he didn’t have, Jason made poor choice after poor choice. Perhaps the most egregious design piece was using placemats as a headboard and holding them up with multicolored pushpins. His design was also once again unfinished with tape stuck to the walls. Predictably he went home and now we’ve got a final four where anyone…except Torie has a chance of winning.
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