Design Star 3: A Divided Team Gay Survives

Matt and Mikey put together a dorm room with an innovative and beautiful custom bed, allowing five people to sleep in one room with lots of privacy, and creating a strong dramatic design statement as well. Judge Vern was as unsparing in his praise for their effort as he was in his criticism for Scottie's, saying, "It is the single best solution to a bedroom challenge on this show."

Bedroom before

Bedroom after

The low point of the challenge for me was the ugly under-the-bus-throwing by Tracee, who bitch-slapped her teammates in front of the judges and ended up making Jennifer cry while sitting out in the hall dabbing fake tears with a scrap of blue satin.

Tracee

Have I mentioned that I love design and hate drama?

Still, it's reality TV. I understood what I was in for when I took this assignment.

Speaking of the gays, HGTV has one of last season's Team Gay members, Josh "Sparkle" Johnson, vlogging the episodes over on the Design Star website. Sparkle hung in for several challenges last season but didn't make the final cut, and has a lot of sympathy for the contestants: "This is the first challenge, and you don't want to be the first one to go home. You want to be popular, and you want to say 'Daddy, am I pretty?'"

So tell me... what did you think of the designs, and who do you want to see aufed next time? Tracee, anyone?