Meanwhile, the second most successful design team was comprised of Scott Corridan, Todd Davis (check out Todd's amazing website here [noise]) and Kim Myles. Together the three designed a dining space, a relaxing nook and, riskily I thought, threw in a half-pipe for skateboarding. Despite this last unconventional choice, their design was cohesive, practical and attractive. Todd Davis' carpentry skills were intrinsic to the success of this team since he easily built the dining table and half pipe. Scott and Kim made excellent finishing and style choices. Like Josh and Will, there was never any doubt about this team. Here's a shot of the (sunken) dining space:
Designing the smaller bedroom was the design team of Adriana Nussbaumer and Christina Ray. These two were like oil and water. It took them hours to settle on colors, and still more hours to develop a design plan. Feisty hispanic Adriana essentially overcame the more reticent super southern Christina in most cases. Their space, while bearable fabric and flow wise, was harshly criticized by Vern for the somewhat bazaar accessory choices. Christina was ultimately chastised for allowing her voice to be squelched. Though somewhat iffy, these two stayed and were never actually necks on the block this round. Personally, I thought the room worked fine. See for yourself:
Next was Neeraja Lockart designing the bar area solo. In this case "designing" is a misnomer. Essentially, Neeraja threw up some paint, dressed the surface of the bar with lots of random glassware, changed the light bulbs in the large chandelier that lit the space from white to pink and called it done. The job landed her neck on the block. As Vern pointed out, although she had the funds, Neeraja could not even manage to provide any sort of bar stools in for seating. Hello? Badness. But Neeraja survived the round. Check it out:
Coming in next to last, we have the design team of Granola Josh Foss and annoying straight man RobB Mariani. Together these two designed what I think was supposed to be a lounge of sorts. The space ended up being a curved wooden seating bench painted deep gray with many brightly colored throw pillows on top. RobB's artwork consisted of a junked car door nailed to a wall. While RobB was fond of doing lots of eye-rolling at the camera in regard to Josh's supposed lack of carpentry skills, it was RobB's head that, rightly I thought, ended up on the block. And you know how badly I wanted RobB to go. But it was not to be. I think Vern described this design as looking like a "harem threw up". I like to call it "Harem Scare 'Em":
Which brings us to the eliminated contestant. Yah. Buh-bye wacky Lisa Millard. As you will recall I had high hopes for this quirky contestant who designed her wedding dress out of wax paper. But, alas, we are once again reminded 'tis a fine line between wildly creative and wingnut. And poor Lisa ended up firmly in the latter category at the end of this challenge. Assigned the task of designing the foyer, Lisa's first great! idea! was to stamp the names of the all the contestants on to the wall of the entry way. Only spelled backwards. Get it?! Backwards?! Nobody got it. Ahem. Also part of her design was some origami sculpture made from folded pages of the Las Vegas phone book. They reminded me of the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode of Star Trek. Also included in Lisa's design were some benches or some-such, but between the stamps and the tribbles? Lisa was out. It actually came down to Lisa and RobB. I'm hoping RobB will be the next to go. We'll see. Meantime, view the losing entry way:
You can see a short interview with Lisa and get all kinds of other info on the show here.
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