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HGTV's Design Star: International Style?
Boston

We're not sure what's up with the mega-dramatic letdowns this season, but last night's episode took the remaining seven designers "around the world" in a paint can with only $500 and a trip to Micha...

HGTV Design Star: Haunted Living
Boston

The 8 designers take on a haunted mansion to design four identical living rooms in teams of 2, armed with only $5000, 26 hours and a few yard sale "treasures." Turns out the only thing the ghost had...

Design Star Episode 2: Build Design Where You Live.
Boston

So they didn't build their own house. Were we really surprised? No. Although we thought that when Clive showed up he was bringing an army of help like on Extreme Home Makeover. Instead he brought a ...

Design Star 3: What Did You Think of the Premiere?

HGTV's reality show challenge to find the next Design Star kicked off last night and is back in its third season, this time in (very rainy) Nashville, TN. The judges referred a lot to "raising the b...

Creating Space at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
The New York Times 4.24.08

This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House is not a townhouse — it's six apartments in the Manhattan House apartment building on East 66th Street. Built in 1950, the modernist block of apartments a...

Design on TV: Restaurant Makeover

Has anyone else been watching this show? While the Food Network is straying farther and farther from food (Suggested reading: New Yorker) there are some good shows. Restaurant Makeover is based on th...

Design Show Reviews: Designed to Sell

Title: Designed to Sell Host: Various All Episodes: Link Network: HGTV Claim: "They say you have to spend money to make money. Nowhere is that more true than in the high-stakes world of re...

Design Show Reviews: Christopher Lowell

Title: Christopher Lowell's Wall to Wall (the new show) Host: Christopher Lowell All Episodes: Link Network: The Discovery Channel Claim: "Christopher Lowell's Wall to Wall is a brand new s...

Design Show Reviews: reDesign

Title: reDesign Host: Kenneth Brown All Episodes: Link Network: HGTV Claim: "Dream rooms. And host Kenneth Brown--an acclaimed designer who's "a dream to work with." That's reDesign. Once a...

Design Show Reviews: Holmes on Homes

Title: Holmes on Holmes Host: Mike Holmes All Episodes: Link Network: HGTV Claim: "Holmes on Homes continues to expose shoddy workmanship and crooked contractors. Consistently ranked as o...

Design Show Reviews: Design on a Dime

Title: Design on a Dime Host: Sam Kivett, Lee Snijders and Kristan Cunningham All Episodes: Link Network: HGTV Claim: "Design on a Dime makes over a space for design conscious home dweller...

Design Show Reviews: Small Space Big Style

Title: Small Space, Big Style Host: It's been changing.... All Episodes: Link Network: HGTV Claim: "Small Space, Big Style features incredibly stylish homes, all measuring in at under 1,000...

Design Show Reviews: Debbie Travis' Facelift

Title: Debbie Travis' Facelift Host: Debbie Travis All Shows: Link Network: HGTV Claim: Debbie Travis secretly works with a relative of an unsuspecting homeowner to make over a space that ...

Design Show Reviews: Divine Design

Title: Divine Design Host: Candice Olsen Preview: Link Network: HGTV Claim: Watch as Canada's leading interior designer, Candice Olson, tackles challenging home design dilemmas. Olson an...

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