Scottie is eliminated on Design Star
This week’s episode of HGTV’s Design Star picked right up with the nine designers out at the lake trying to figure out how they were going to build the house where they would live in a mere 7 days with a budget of $100,000. For about two hours the designers are all nervous, throwing out ideas when Clive Pearse returns to tell them that he was just kidding and asked them all to get on the boat to go to where they would actually be living for the duration of the competition.
The designers are all excited to realize they have an actual house to stay in and burst through the door to see what’s there. They find out that five of the rooms are not decorated – white walls, no furniture (except for the bedrooms where there is a pile of mattresses and bed frames). Clive returns to tell them that their first challenge is to design their living space: the dining room, living room, sun room, and two bedrooms. They have a budget of $15,000 and 31 hours over the next three days to complete the task. They can divide up the money any way they see fit.
The designers decide to separate into teams:
Living Room/Sunroom team: D. Paul, Michael, Tracee and Trish
Dining Room team: Stephanie, Jennifer
Bedroom team: Scottie (upstairs bedroom), Mikey V. and Matt (both on the downstairs bedroom.
It appears that the teams are getting along ok, but there is some major tension and conflict on the living room team between Michael and Tracee. At one point Michael calls Tracee Mommie Dearest. Tracee doesn’t seem to like anything the group wants to do – she doesn’t like the blue on the walls in the living room, she doesn’t want a pool table in the sun room and she wants this crap brown color on the walls in the sunroom. When D. Paul and Michael were out shopping for paint they see a pool table and decide to buy it because it was on sale. I believe it was D. Paul who said if Tracee didn’t like it she could go and shove a cue stick somewhere.
Michael seems to have the position of pot stirrer under control. He makes a comment to Scottie about his paint color choice that wasn’t very constructive. Mikey V. and Matt made a comment to Scottie saying that his color choice was one that the judges would like or they would hate – there would be no in between. Michael was pretty catty when he told him that this color was used last season and then quotes the guy from that season who was painting. I’m thinking Michael could be a weirdo.
Right at the end of the 31 hours the girls on the dining room project realize they left painter’s tape near the ceiling and they were positive this would be sending them home.
Watching the living room/sunroom team in front of the judges was hysterical. Tracee comes right out and says that she wasn’t heard at all during the challenge. When the judges criticized the use of solid color furniture she’s saying “well, I wanted a pattern” even though she never vocalized this during the challenge. Trish later told her that she had every opportunity to speak, she just didn’t do so. Trish said it was amazing how quickly people threw each other under the bus during the challenge.
The top three designers were Trish, Matt, and Michael. D. Paul and Mikey V. fell in the middle – the judges thought they needed to show their design style. The bottom four were Tracee, Jennifer, Stephanie and Scottie, and Scottie ended up being eliminated from the show, hearing the words “your show has been cancelled.” The judges hated his color choice for the upstairs bedroom and thought his space plan was really poor too.
It’s going to be interesting to see if it’s a team challenge next week, since I don’t think any of the designers will want to be paired up with Tracee. Unless she changes her ways she’s going to throw all her teammates under the bus to cover her own butt.
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