Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

HGTV Design Star: Real People, Real Kitchens

The Challenge: Contestants must transform the kitchens and dining rooms in two neighboring home within three days, from start to finish, which involves renovating flooring, cabinet hardware, back splashes, and more.  The houses are similar in look and structure.  The teams are Anne, Brooks, and Abbey vs. Boris, Jeribai, and Tiffany.
Remaining Contestants


INTRO MUSIC MAKING ME DANCE!

I immediately think that Anne, Brooks, and Abbey have the advantage, I mean, they've shown how good they can be.  These teams have 3 days to finish, with 2 handymen to help them.


Meet With Clients
Couple with 3 Kids
The family is "transitional", Boris goes crazy again.  He's full on creep early on.  Jeribai focus' on the tile he wants to put up.


Foster Family
Sweet kids right away.  The couple explains what they like, with Anne and Brooks asking most of the questions.  They want modern with warmth, not too traditional or contemporary.   They want seating on the inside of the bar and a potential herb garden.

First Steps
Anne always thinks everything is her expertise, perhaps the show should already be hers!  Brooks wants to paint the exposed wood beams ceiling to make the room look bigger.  Brooks doesn't like the whole cream color, all over.  He's making his voice heard about the color palette.  Anne is bossy, again!  I can't see her as the HGTV Design Star because she is too bossy, even with all that talent.  Brooks is going to make a countertop that is unusual.

Boris wants get rid of the cabinet that the homeowners hate and put in a floor to ceiling wine rack.  Sounds cool, functional.  They're going to get rid of the wood paneling and Jeribai wants wallpaper with texture.  Tiffany thinks the back splash is risky, but Jeribai is going for it.

Both teams are going to town on destroying the kitchen. Isn't that the best part?

Day 2
The homeowners picked a camel color cabinet, so Boris and Jeribai select a back splash.  The kitchen floors were put in over night, it's amazing how much that does for the room already.  The team goes furniture shopping.  Anne finds a farmhouse table and looks awesome!  I could see myself eating around that table.  It has a bench that goes with it, which I love.  Brooks gets a large stainless sink with an apron front.  No idea they had so many features.  Brooks," I've never tried the tope on tope color scheme."  He hates the beige in the kitchen, I'm glad that he is voicing his opinion, but not in a negative way.

Abbey is worried she wont' have much of a choice, so she decides she's going to take control of the back splash and the countertops.  Abbey is super personal and warm, I hope she does ok.  Tiffany finds a dining room table, it has a hammered metal top.  Jeribai doesn't like it because of the finger prints that will get on it.  Jeribai is going to town on the wall, prepping it for the back splash.