Their final challenge of the last two competitors of HGTV design stars is to design a kitchen, dining room and living room for two families who lost nearly everything in during hurricane Katrina. To pull on our heartstrings all the more, one family is headed by a fireman and the other a police officer.
They have:
36 hours over 4 days, which was broken up as follows:
Day 1 – 8 hours with 1 carpenter
Day 2 – 12 hours with 3 carpenters; plus Mikey and Trish show up to help. Matt selects Trish to help with paint and therefor leaves Mikey to Jennifer to help her to with installing a kitchen.
Day 3 – 12 hours with 3 carpenters and Trish and Mikey switch designers.
Day 4 – 4 hours with no help
Budget: $20,000
Sears – kitchen appliances
Lumber Liquidators – flooring
Yay to Jen and Matt for being such nice people and making the final task all about the homeowners. You are both winners!
Yay to HGTV for providing sufficient help to get the job done well for the sake of the homeowners and the designers. It's so frustrating when the producers shortchange the projects in the name of creating more drama. Poo! We want to see real work and real design - not forced drama by lack of time or support staff.
THE PHOTOS OF THE FINAL SPACES ARE NOT YET UP ON THE HGTV.com.
Reported by Linda Merrill of http://chameleon-interiors.blogspot.com/
You can Vote for the HGTV Design Star on HGTV.com once a day online and up to five times a day with your cell phone until 10am EST on Wednesday, July 30. To vote via cell phone, text the letter A to 44881 for Jennifer Bertrand or the letter B to 44881 for Matt Locke.
Posted July 28th, 2008 by admin_huliq
I want my vote go to Matt ;He has a special way with people that is warm and from the heart and it shows in his work
He has a tender soul and i wish Him all the best . GO,MATT,GO...LOVE HGTV...Donna
I am trying to vote for the design star and I would like to vote for Jennifer. How do I do this?
I want to vote for Jennifer but can't seem to vote. What do I do?
I THINK JENNIFER IS THE BEST OF THE TWO HER DESIGNS ARE BETTER THAN MATTS ONTHE OTHER HAND THEY ARE BOTH GOOD HAZEL HOWARD
I love your show and I think Jennfer will be a really big hit on HGTV.
I wanted to vote for the new Star but when I tried last night after the show it wouldn't let me. Tried to vote today on the the computer and can't find where to do it. They are sure making is hard.
I could not find where to vote anywhere on their website. Very disappointing.
I can't locate where to vote- it is not user friendly. I watch every week and would like to vote- can't find it.
I TRIED TO VOTE FOR JENNIFER BUT MY VOTE WOULDN'T GO THROUGH. PLEASE VOTE FOR JENNIFER. SHERRY
the voting link is buried... try this
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/design_star_2008/
the voting link is buried... try this
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/design_star_2008/
I have looked for where to vote and can't find it. please reg. my vote for Jen . She is so full of life and joy it makes me happy to see her smile.
Pat Frost
a grandma retired designer
I tried to vote for Matt but couldn't ever find how to do so. Your website is very confusing and not clear how to vote! Please register my vote and fix the website.
Why is it so hard to vote in this years Design Star? What's Up????
please enter my vote today for the greatest designer MATT,good luck
why can't we vote.
I try to find where to vote on line. It said to go to hgtv.com and vote could not find where to vote on that web site. i would like to enter my vote for Matt. Thanks
How the heck do you vote?? I couldn't figure it out and obviously neither can many others??? I want to enter a vote for Matt. They both did a great job, but Matt was so kind to Jen that I thought he deserved to win!
I couldn't figure out where or how to vote for Matt or Jen???
I wish to enter a vote for Matt, but there isn't a place to enter a vote???????
I WISH YOU WOULD MAKE IT EASY FOR US TO VOTE. I WANT TO VOTE FOR JENNIFER. I HATE VOTING ON LINE BECAUSE OF THIS IT'S NOT MY FIST TIME TRYING TO VOTE FOR SOMETHING ON LINE. JENNIFER IS THE ONE.......
Matt, good for you, man. Just saw you on tv as your Mom called me awhile back down here in AZ to let me know you would be on HGTV! People in Colorado have been calling me asking me to get the message to you that We are all happy for you and proud of you! You deserve the best. You still remember that time you helped me move at 130 in morning when your Mom closed that house for me?! Congratulations, Matt. It couldn't have happened to a better person. God Bless.
Lenny Avalos
I want to vote for Matt. I can't find a place to vote. I clicked on "vote" and it said that I had voted, but I was never given names on which one.
they are both awesome in their designs.... they both need to be the DESIGN STAR I would watch !!!
Why is it being so hard to cast our vote. You can't text it. It reads an invalid number. Help, we only have until Wed and I am voting for Matt.
I thought Jen work was very creative!
I want to see Matt have his own show
I would like to vote for Jennifer but not able to get in Thanks
it's very hard to find were to vote it must be a better way.
good luck jen. i likr jens work it has it's on take on life.
Love your designs keep up the good work, could not find voting page
Do you really want people to vote? Apparently not! I have gone to
HGTV.com as Clive said to and it has been impossible to figure out how to vote. Do I need to surf through a thousand topics promoted by HGTV before I can vote? If so, forget it. Both decorators are amazing and deserve their own show....much better than some of the decorators who already have a show.
I'm having the trouble as everyone else. I'm trying to cast my vote for Jennifer, hopefully someone will read our emails, and correct this situation.
are you READING the posts? i posted the bloody link to vote TWICE
this makes the THIRD TIME
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/design_star_2008/
can not find place to vote for Matt. Sure dissappointed with hgtv
I do not know how to text message, but have been trying to vote for Matt via computer. I hit a button to vote and all at once it said that I had voted without asking which person I wanted to vote for. I also had to scroll through numbers of topics before I found the one I needed. This should have been easy. Whomever the winner, I will not feel that is a accurate representation of what the people want because of the confusion in voting. However, in plain English, my vote is for MATT.
TRIED ALL YOUR WEB SITEs AND NONE OF THEM WORKED. NEED TO FIX WEB SITES.
Chuck
I, like so many other fans, look forward each year to the Design Stars show. And , I like so many others cannot vote for my favorite Matt. Don't you think, for fairness sake, you should extend the voting due to this error on your part?
E. Shoe
I want to vote for Jennifer. She has a great sense of design. All the shows that I previously watched I found her designs were very tasteful and I found her very talented and very friendly.
After checking page after page on HGTV.com, I can find no ballot. I guess you don't want my vote. What a disappointment.
Please:
Why we can't vote?????
You cannot with any clarity announce that people voted on line for this. Get it together - If I hear you say that the results were from on line as well as other means --Your not telling the truth - you can do better than this mess.
I have 2 broken shoulders and I can't spend an hour looking for the place to vote on this site---who ever set this up needs to be fired because they don't know what they're doing--a person with only basic computer knowledge knows this. So when you say on TV that the vote was determined by everyone who voted online all of us who tried knows that's not true and you people chose the winner. Pat
It say "vote" when I click on that, it changes to "voted". But I didn't get to vote. What kind of deal is that?
I agree with the other comments- no one could vote on line, and this was just a rip off to collect e-maill addresses. Don't even think of stating on Sunday that 'America determined the winner", because we did not get to vote.
Make the program in its entirity legal.
I also found that I could not vote.They both had a great make over on the last night but overall Jen had the best, so I vote for Jen. Good luck to both of you.You both deserve to have a show. Maybe trading spaces for the runner up?
Design Star
I want to vote for the new Star, but when I tried last night after the show my computer wouldn't take the vote for some reason. I would very much like to vote for Matt - he makes you feel happy and gives so many new and practical ways of doing things. I think he would be perfect for a new program. I am tired of all these women doing everything, makes me feel like a klutz! Please enter my vote for Matt as many times as I can vote before Wednesday.
Thank you! LOVE your channel, I watch it everyday for several hours. I am 76, still able to do many things but your channel is one of the best and upbeat channels on TV to me. Keep it up!
Thanks, Lee S. Colorado