Design Star Recap: Bringing the Outside Insane

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By CannedGinger | Saturday, June 23, 2012 | 12:39 am | 9 Comments
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Stanley realizes that several starter pieces need to be removed and placed differently.  Possibly he bit off more than he can chew?

Speaking of stomachaches, Miera and Danielle head to the stores.  Danielle decides to work on an entryway table and wall art piece for her signature style on the room.  Miera finds a gorgeous over-sized fixture for the dining room and some cabinets for the carpenter to build into her impossible units.  Miera measures these pieces and calls them in to the house.  I make a point to note that Danielle reminds her to double check these measurements before calling them in.

Mikel and Hilari begin their shopping excursion next, with a cute moment in the car that endears Hilari and Mikel to me a bit.  Hilari starts listing off items to look for, but suddenly realizes she’s talking to Mikel like an assistant.  Does Mikel blow up like a little baby (Luca)?  Nope, he laughs along with Hilari as she pulls out her writing materials to take notes and apologizes.


This is what teamwork looks like in the real world.

The decisions aren’t completely unanimous.  Hilari has chosen a huge linen sectional that Mikel is convinced will not work with the paneling in the room.  It’s all a matter of scale.  They compromise by agreeing that Mikel will take full ownership of the paint color while Hilari will take the sectional choice.  I’m more amused by the fact that it appears to be chosen from a store called ‘Al’s Discount Furniture’.

Day 2 and Rachel is giving the producers a ton of footage for the ‘loser edit’.  She’s having a heartbreaking call home and a shout out to her distracted mood.

A trip to Target for accessories and lawn furniture provides my favorite awkward product placement line EVER:


Wow, these are high end carts!

It’s not Your Mother’s Target folks. It’s high-end.

Speaking of mothers, Miera and Danielle treat us to a montage of the worst shopping couple ever.  This duo doesn’t remind me of my mom and me shopping as much as my mom and grandmother shopping.  Now I’m buying into Miera’s ageist crap.  Sure, it could be editing to some degree, but it appears that this trip is more about Danielle attempting to pick out what Miera wants for the room rather than Danielle and Miera both shopping for accessories.  Danielle might not be so quick to give in to Miera if she didn’t have her confidence tapped from the Krappy Wall Incident in the last challenge.  Miera is getting more irritable by the second.

Back at Team Earthy, Stanley is continuing to knock out carpentry projects (how about some designing?) and Britany gets sewing for the Pavilion.  This inspires me to think, can I sew a new top for our outside cabana?  A few seconds of dreamy wonder later I remember my lack of ability to sew a straight line.  Sigh.

Hilari and Mikel bring the huge sectional in and to the relief of all it fits perfectly!  Mikel is big enough to admit it was a good choice all around.  Mikel heads over to Stanley’s carpentry palace to get some scraps of reclaimed wood.  He’s going to Jazz up a mirror with the wood to call back to the wood of the outside space and the ‘Flea Market’ feel the homeowners want.

Team Drama has a moment of whimsy as Kris decides to purchase several wood stumps to use as tables in the design.  The fun part:  he drills holes to plant succulents in the top of each table.  This is the kind of idea I would have, then screw up by planting something that needs too much water and either dies or rots out the wood of the stump.  Any opinions out there?

Now it’s time for meltdown on Team Drama.  Danielle begins her work on the delicate entryway as the cabinets for the built-ins arrive.  OOPS!  The measurements Miera provided to the carpenter do not match the dimensions of the actual furniture received.  Not good, not good at all.  Does Miera look chagrined?  Does she apologize?  Does she take any accountability at all for her actions?  Nope.  In grand reality tradition Miera decides to pick a fight instead.


I’m going to pretend you are the problem here, Danielle.

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CannedGinger

CannedGinger is a techie by day, and TV binge watcher by night.  She can't resist most crap Bravo throws at the audience, and prefers Conan to Leno.  If you are one of her customers calling for support, she'll be listening to WTF on the iPod in one ear -- but you might not be able to tell.  She prefers cats to people most days, because they're more honest.  Bring on the worst TV you can imagine, and she will just enjoy it more since she grew up on a steady diet of MST3K and cheese.  Umm...nice stilton!

9 Comments

  1. 1
    maryedith
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 10:50 am

    Great recap, and I totally agree that Miera had to go, but I guess I saw that fight about the wrongly measured cabinets differently. It seemed to me that Miera was trying to work something out with the carpenter when Danielle entered the scene and that Danielle just wanted everyone to say that Miera had screwed up. The measurements Miera had made were too big, which at least meant that the boards could be cut down instead of them needing new wood. I could see why Miera got flustered at that point and I was annoyed with Danielle for meddling in Miera’s situation. I also get annoyed when people dis their own projects to get involved in other peoples’ mistakes.

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    maryedith
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 10:56 am

    I agree that Stanley will be on the chopping block next week, but I think Danielle will be there too. This is two times in a row she’s gotten too overwhelmed by one aspect of a project to get the big picture right.

  3. 3
    Pegalicious
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Oh Miera, Miera, Miera. I was on your team. I was rooting for you. I sympathized with you last week… and then you went all Queen of Hearts on me this week. You will not be missed… And which was the aberration: Kris’ hissy fit last week or his cooperative demeanor this week? My money’s on the cooperative Kris.

  4. 4
    Flipit Flipit
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    great cappy!! i was on miera’s side last week and remember reading a comment here warning that she was a crazy old bitch and always would be. then sure enough, SHE WAS!! if she can make that idiot kris look reasonable, she sucks at life. booooo. i’m kinda rooting for the bling girl, just to see how many leopard rugs and fake gold chanel chains she can stuff into one season.

  5. 5
    Laura Gill Laura Gill
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Miera might be going through the Change.

  6. 6
    CannedGinger CannedGinger
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    Miera’s Changing alright — just not sure if it’s into a Vampire, Shifter or Troll.

    Based on Miera’s attitude to Kris last week, I think she just transferred all her crazy to Danielle this week. I think that Miera realized she screwed the pooch when the furniture arrived but wouldn’t admit it on camera. The producers probably grabbed Danielle from her painting task to be in that scene with the carpenter as well, and it set Miera off more.

    Thanks for the Kudos all!

  7. 7
    lovesthehobbitses
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    hahah my favorite moment of this episode was when Danielle and Miera were called out for keeping the family’s original paint in the room–including the tasteless stripe “separating” the two rooms.

  8. 8
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 2:50 am

    Wow, Miera really is crazy. Shoutout to @Andyourlittledogtoo for catching that early lol.

    I hope Danielle gets it together for the next challenge. She was my favorite to win, so if she doesn’t, I’m gonna be mad.
    And Rachel’s idea was dumber than dumb. The garbage was one thing, but I hate that she screwed the toys to the wall, because when it rains, the parents can’t bring the toys in or move them onto the deck. If you’ve ever had a backyard full of kids toys, you know how miserable it can be to go out there afterwards and have to empty the toys of rain so you don’t get mosquitoes and such. It’s always better to just run out and bring them in. And I know California isn’t Florida, but still…when it rains, it realllyyy rains, so that’s gonna suck.

    Next to go…I think it might actually be Mikel. He’s a competent designer, but has been so middle of the road, that I’m just not sure about him. And he really isn’t much of a character, so if it does come down to it, the producers are not going to bat for him.

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    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    This is what I call ‘Being Locked In A Room With A Bear, Part Deux’. You see, last week, Kris was locked in a room with a bear, but he didn’t fully realize his danger and he accidentally poked it with a stick. And watched amazed as the bear woke up and became cranky and agitated. He backed up a step, tried to placate the bear, tried to get the bear to settle down and be calm again with promises he wouldn’t poke it any more but the bear would not calm down. So he finally moved to the other side of the room and kept his distance from the bear always keeping a wary eye out.

    THIS week, Danielle was locked in a room with a bear, but she knew it. So she didn’t poke the bear, she went into it knowing that she had to move carefully and keep a wary eye out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a lot to get this particular bear all worked up and agitated so Danielle was pretty miserable the entire time she was in the room and was trying to survive until she could get out of there. That was hard to watch.

    The thing that I thought was so interesting was that last week Danielle accidentally ruined something that made it difficult for Hillari to finish her part of the project and this week Miera did the same thing to Danielle. The difference was that Danielle admitted it immediately and Hillari was gracious and went into team problem solving mode and Miera was rigid and refused to admit she made a mistake and when Danielle tried to go into team problem solving mode Miera turned on her as though Danielle was the actual problem, not Miera. Miera created that whole cabinet building, mis-measured fiasco. But you’d never know it to watch Miera spin it and snap at Danielle. And the final snapping off the of the end of the top veneer to make it fit, that was priceless. Yes, the judges and homeowners will never notice that. Sigh.

    When she told Danielle that she needed an ‘attitude adjustment’ I just wanted to die. How dare Danielle talk to her as an equal! Doesn’t she know I’m her elder/better/more experienced/in charge!!!???

    And they all hugged her as she left, but I’ll bet you anything they were all breathing a sigh of relief that they would not be Locked in a Room With a Bear next challenge. The Bear is gone.

    Good bye Miera. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

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