'Top Design': Gimme (bomb) shelter
Here is our guest blogger Karen Shih and her recap of Top Design. (Better late than never! I keep having trouble logging into the blogging software at home.):
It's bomb shelter week!
Andrea keeps talking about not wanting to be associated with Rick Schroder (if you didn't mention it honey, nobody would ever know), Wisit continues his fabulousity and Robert is as bitchy and contentious as ever.
In addition, this week our designers get to showcase their knowledge of history. How would Americans end up in bomb shelters? Natalie speculates. Well, the Chinese would build Transformers, which would be great vengeance for … Hiroshima.
Yeah.
But onto the challenge: The designers are again doing a collaborative project, working with one partner in a 12-by-14-foot dreary, gray bunker.
Most teams seem to get along well this time, particularly Wisit and Nathan, who choose to have just ONE bed and a sofa ("When he misbehaves, I send him to the couch," Wisit tells the judges) in their pink, canopied room; Andrea and Eddie, who end up with "tree of life" mural in their peaceful, light green room; and Natalie and her partner (forgive me with names), with their slightly hyperactive, Target-esque, green-and-brown design.
Others … well, they don’t get along so well. Jennifer and Robert, both architect-types, can't agree on a cohesive design and end up splitting their room down the middle. It seems like a "sad dorm room," Todd says as he visits -- introducing the insult of the week.
Though seriously, if any of my dorm rooms looked half as good as any of these bunkers, I would have died of happiness.
Back to our unhappy duo. Jen and Robert end up with a "tribal meets Cape Cod" look, as Eddie calls it, and things don't look promising.
Everyone scrambles to finish, and then the judges show up. I have no idea what's on Kelly's head, but it makes her look bald on one side. Also, she can’t say "symmetry."
The judges love Wisit and Nathan's room for its simplicity and softness ("Your marital bed is j’adorable," Jonathan says (j’adorable!)) and Andrea and Eddie's room for its warmth, and as much as I rooted for Wisit, Andrea and Eddie win.
The bad teams are the two that chose to cater to two different preferences end up on the bottom: Jennifer and Robert and Ondine and Preston. J & R are the clear losers, with their room dubbed a "buzzkill" for judge Jonathan, and the only question now is … which one goes home?
They announce Jennifer first, and Robert stands with a slight smug smile on his face, nodding. Then India looks at Robert. The judges can’t stand his design either, she says. He's gone, too.
Ouch.
Next week: Project Runway week! The designers' clients include Santino and other old contestants -- and it looks like the two artsy groups do NOT get along.
Most teams seem to get along well this time, particularly Wisit and Nathan, who choose to have just ONE bed and a sofa ("When he misbehaves, I send him to the couch," Wisit tells the judges) in their pink, canopied room; Andrea and Eddie, who end up with "tree of life" mural in their peaceful, light green room; and Natalie and her partner (forgive me with names), with their slightly hyperactive, Target-esque, green-and-brown design.
Others … well, they don’t get along so well. Jennifer and Robert, both architect-types, can't agree on a cohesive design and end up splitting their room down the middle. It seems like a "sad dorm room," Todd says as he visits -- introducing the insult of the week.
Though seriously, if any of my dorm rooms looked half as good as any of these bunkers, I would have died of happiness.
Back to our unhappy duo. Jen and Robert end up with a "tribal meets Cape Cod" look, as Eddie calls it, and things don't look promising.
Everyone scrambles to finish, and then the judges show up. I have no idea what's on Kelly's head, but it makes her look bald on one side. Also, she can’t say "symmetry."
The judges love Wisit and Nathan's room for its simplicity and softness ("Your marital bed is j’adorable," Jonathan says (j’adorable!)) and Andrea and Eddie's room for its warmth, and as much as I rooted for Wisit, Andrea and Eddie win.
The bad teams are the two that chose to cater to two different preferences end up on the bottom: Jennifer and Robert and Ondine and Preston. J & R are the clear losers, with their room dubbed a "buzzkill" for judge Jonathan, and the only question now is … which one goes home?
They announce Jennifer first, and Robert stands with a slight smug smile on his face, nodding. Then India looks at Robert. The judges can’t stand his design either, she says. He's gone, too.
Ouch.
Next week: Project Runway week! The designers' clients include Santino and other old contestants -- and it looks like the two artsy groups do NOT get along.
