Top Design

No, I Don't Think I Will See You Decorators Later

Lofty Designs - Top Design ends its forgettable first season with a forgettable finale won by…I forgot. Let me go look it up. Okay, it's Matt, who's 1,700-square foot loft is determined to be better than Carisa's, though good luck in getting a judge to tell you why.

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Competition

Elle Decor Cover Inspiration - Matt shows us that design success is not so much about the articulating of your own vision as it is about listening to the little voices in your head. Luckily for him, one of those voices is Margaret Russell.

The No-Tell Hotel

Metropolitan Home Suites - The Top Designers compete for a flattering mention in a design magazine by assembling a luxury hotel room. Matt overcomes the near-loss of his carpenter's thumb to take the prize. Goil goes a little bit crazier on his way out the door.

Tom's Diner

Chef's Choice - Tom Colicchio stops by the set of Top Design to show people what a competent reality show looks like. Oh, and to judge the chef's table designed by the five remaining contestants.

It's My Party, And I'll Cry If I Want To

Life Of The Party - Throwing a party at the behest of Bacardi Limón brings out the back-biting worst in Carisa and Michael. But it's Goil who spends the episode in a spiral of self-pity, when Erik and Andrea ignore all his good ideas. You turned him into Jan Brady, you monsters!

Instant Car-ma's Gonna Get You

Garage Band - The Top Designers team up to clear a garage of its clutter so that it can fit an SUV and a workspace and a play area for children. Ryan confesses that this is a project he'd never consent to do, so the judges do him a favor by sending him on his way.

Men Don't Leave

One Man's Trash... - Ryan gives the finger -- figuratively and literally -- to interior design when he bungles an assignment to build a room for a design student using yard sale findings. So naturally the judges eliminate…Felicia? Guh?

Color Me Bad

Life's A Beach - In a team competition to build a cabana, one group builds a shelter that doesn't have a roof and another fights constantly over who gets to shop for furniture. But in the end, it's the color choices of the third group that makes the judges turn green, and Elizabeth pays the price.

Kid-Tested, Adler-Approved

Child's Play - Todd Oldham turns things over to the pre-teen set, as our intrepid Top Designers are tasked with assembling bedrooms for 10-year-olds. Erik wins the challenge and immunity from elimination for next week's challenge. John wins both a dressing-down from Jonathan Adler and the other judges and a quick-trip home.

Designing Women (And Men)

Mystery Judge - Meet the 12 interior decorators, architects, and other right-brained folk who will be competing on Top Design, Bravo's effort to pit designers against one another in a Project Runway-like blood sport. Now say goodbye to two of them.

Carisa Perez-Fuentes

Where to continue to Top Design talk

1-10: "Lofty Designs" 2007.03.11

1-5: "Garage Band" 2007.03.07

Matt Lorenz

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Declared Tacky: The Judges

Todd Oldham: The Host With the Most

Top Design in the Media

Top Design Haiku: Never Boring

1-9: "Elle Decor Cover Inspiration" 2007.04.04