Summer TV

Just a quick announcement. As most of you know, I love to watch the Food Network. If I'm at home, more than likely the TV is showing TFN. Giada de Laurentis is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I also love watching The Neely's!

But also as most of you know, I studied interior design in college and still love to watch design shows on HGTV. These shows and the old TLC show Trading Spaces are probably what got me most interested in design in the first place.

I know I won't have much time to watch TV this summer, but there are two shows that start tonight that I will have to make time for. Both are HGTV shows: Design Star and Color Splash. Design Star is the network's reality show where designers from around the country face off in challenges every week and are eliminated one-by-one until there is one winner remaining. The winner then gets their own show on HGTV. (When our family road-tripped to Princeton in 2001 we met Genevieve Gorder in Hershey, PA. She was then a designer on Trading Spaces but now is a judge on Design Star.) The second show, Color Splash, is hosted by the very first winner of Design Star, David Bromstad. He is awesome! I really have loved every single one of his rooms and he's a really good painter. This season he is designing rooms in Miami; his show usually is based in San Francisco. Fulton/So. Fulton people be sure to watch because Hailey Brown is in an episode this season. I'm not sure when it will air but will let you know when I find out.

Yeah for summer design shows!