Monday, June 17, 2013

HGTV Design Star: Lofty Ideas

Deisgn Star Season 8 Cast (photo courtesy of HGTV.com)
The contestants in the second episode are given the task of transforming an old industrial warehouse loft into a multi-functional space for living and working in.  Each designer must creatively update a vintage item and integrate it into the space.  The contestants teamed up and each took a different section of the loft.  They all have to agree on who the loft is going to be designed for (rock/glam client) and it needs to be cohesive.  They'll have their first camera challenge of the season!

The four distinct living areas are: living, eating, sleeping, and working.

The teams are:

Brooks and Jeribai - workspace

Jessie, Boris, and Abby- Kitchen, dining, and foyer

Tylor and Cris- Living area

Tiffany and Anne- Bedroom space


  • They all agree on using cooler tones since it's a warm space.
  • Brooks and Jeribai are going to create a drum space.  They take off and have the crazy ideas.
  • Anne starts off bossing Tiffany around, sounding like a total B!  They want the bed to be the focal point.
  • Tylor doesn't want to work with Cris, he thinks he has to babysit her.  It's the oldest with the youngest designer on this one.  
  • Jessie is going to work on the kitchen, Boris on the dining, and Abby on the foyer.  Jessie has bragged about how much she has worked on kitchen spaces and she's the master.
  • Boris wants a large backette, a seating area against the wall.
  • The camera challenge is taking a vintage item and refurbishing it for something new and then they will have 45 seconds to explain what they're doing with it.  More on this later.
  • Tylor wants to take an old VW bug hood and he's going to make into a piece of wall art.
  • Jessie sends Abby home to paint instead of allowing her to shop for her furniture.
  • Abby is painting 4 or 5 twenty foot walls.
  • Jessie is trying to find a bunch of accessories for the kitchen.
  • When everyone comes home, Abby has painted most of the walls, everyone loves the colors.
  • Boris and Jessie decline to help Abby with painting, leaving her to work on the walls alone, again.
  • Cris is taking an old camera and making it into a floor lamp.  I wasn't sure what she would do.
  • Brooks and Jeribai are playing the drums and dancing, totally carefree.
  • Brooks wants to have a coffee cup with old coffee in it and used up whiskey bottles.  Jeribai talks him out of it.
  • Jessie is taking old safety deposit boxes and refurbishing them into spice racks.  Actually pretty cool.
  • Tiffany is taking an outdoor sign to make into a headboard.  She wants to paint it but Anne talks her out of it.  She's the "expert".  She slept on it and decided not to paint it.
  • Tylor is outside banging on his hood and Cris sees it, and is not impressed.  She pretty tells him that is on him.
  • Jeribai is putting corrugated metal on one wall and it looks pretty cool.
  • David comes and immediately hates the paint.  Calling it juvenile.  He also makes it known that they should be appealing to the HGTV audience, because they should want to do this to their own home.
  • Camera challenge time.  The best camera challenges: Anne, Abby, Cris  The worst: Brooks, Tylor, Jeribai.
  • Brooks was surprising at how bad he was.  I think he'll step it up in future episodes if he survives. (He does)
  • Tylor talks about his cigarette machine table, it sounds clever, but he sucks.  He really does.
  • Now Abby is helping sew for Jessie, so she has yet to work on her space.
  • Brooks is hanging 500 feet of rubber making it into a chandelier, and everyone is loving it.  He then hangs lightbulbs in the spaces.
  • Cris hates the hood, she says it looks cheap, Tylor doesn't care because he is so arrogant.
  • Tiffany hangs blue string lights throughout the headboard, I think it takes away from it, but what do I know?
  • Abby lays down the curtains she has been sewing on the counter, but Jessie had painted that counter.  I feel bad for Abby, she isn't getting any help here.
  • With five minutes left, Abby starts to arrange her furniture.
  • TIME IS CALLED, time for judges.
  • I love Genevieve.
  • The judges aren't in love with the foyer.  The dining room doesn't get a lot of love either.  The kitchen was a fail, she didn't stock the shelves.
  • The bedroom got some kudos for the side tables and the bedding.  The blue lights in the headboard were pointed out but otherwise they liked it.
  • The space of Brooks and Jeribai had all good responses.
  • They liked the living space, except for the stupid car hood.  The refurbishing of the camera was praised.
  • Tylor and Cris were saved.  So, they were in the middle.
  • Anne won the competition, so Tiffany was saved.  Brooks and Jeribai also were safe.  The trio was held back, but then Boris was safe.
  • Taylor Swift, I mean, Jessie was kicked off.  Thank God, in my opinion, she was over confident, to the levels of cockiness, which was unfounded.
MY TOP 9 DESIGNS
1. Brooks
2. Anne ^
3. Cris
4. Jeribai
5. Tylor
6. Tiffany
7. Boris
8. Jessie*
9. Abby (Just because she didn't get to do anything)

MY TOP 9 DESIGNERS
1. Brooks
2. Jeribai
3. Cris
4. Abby
5. Anne^
6. Tiffany
7. Tylor
8. Jessie*
9. Boris

^-Winner *-Eliminated

Share your thoughts below. Who's your top designer at this point? To see some pictures from this week's challenge visit the HGTV Design Star blog by clicking here.

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