How about this for the ultimate vanity project: take an HGTV Design Star finalist who got the boot mid-way through Season 3, add an insane ego and an insatiable need to see himself onscreen, stir in an assistant who thinks [...]
I caught up with Eddie Ross (from Season 2 of now defunct Top Design) today on his way back to New York from a flea market shopping trip in Washington, DC. Now…Jason Champion set up this little phone chat on [...]
In this very special episode, we see Antonio Ballatore take his victory lap after winning Season 4 of HGTV's Design Star. Since Antonio's working on his own home, we get a peek at what he would do if there were [...]
Congratulations to Dan Vickery, who won the Design Star viewer vote and will be awarded his own online show, soon to come on hgtv.com!
As I’ve been transcribing yesterday’s interview with Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore, I’m having the hardest time not spelling out his dialogue phonetically. Between his New Yawk accent and my Texas Twang, this is one crazy audio file. [...]
While I'm transcribing and editing my interview with Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore, you could be thinking up some interesting questions for a real-time online chat with Matt Locke, Season 3 Runner-Up! Matt will be fielding questions about [...]
My apologies to everyone who has been waiting oh so patiently for me to post my interviews with Dan and Antonio today. The truth is, I'm not ready for this little weekly phone soiree to be over, so I think [...]
I hope you faithful readers will indulge me slipping in a little plea in between my recap of the Design Star Season 4 finale and my interviews with Dan Vickery and Antonio Ballatore. Many fans of Design Star have been [...]
Here it is, the final episode of Design Star and it’s Antonio Ballatore vs. Dan Vickery for the title. The challenge? Making over a whole house, which, for the purposes of this episode, "whole house" = kitchen + living room [...]
If I've learned anything by conducting these interviews with Design Star finalists and judges, it's that a whole other side of their personalities are revealed when you have the privilege of speaking with the actual person and not viewing an [...]