About this season
Bravo's competition reality series premieres with 12 of the country's hottest new interior designers, artists and architects, who will draw upon their creativity and expertise and compete to create the 'Top Design'. The winner receives $100,000 to jump-start a career in design, a magazine spread, and a spot in New York's Designer showcases.
Episodes (10)
1. Mystery Client
Aired 31 January 2007 • 44 min
In this first kick-off challenge, both teams must design an inner sanctum for a mystery celebrity.
2. Child's Play
Aired 7 February 2007 • 44 min
In the second 'Top Design' challenge, contestants will each be given a dossier for individual clients for whom they must design a bedroom. Halfway through the challenge, with their sketches finalized and the shopping completed, they will learn there is a big and small twist. Only one talented designer will win.
3. Design's a Beach
Aired 14 February 2007 • 44 min
It's all about rest and relaxation for the remaining contestants as they head to the beach in the third episode of "Top Design" -- or so they think. The sun and sand will turn out to be the grounds for another challenge.
4. One Man's Trash...
Aired 21 February 2007 • 44 min
Every talented interior designer must have an 'eye for design,' and this fourth episode will test the eye of each of the remaining contestants. They must create a living and work space for their clients, who are all design students, using uncommon materials.
5. Garage Band
Aired 7 March 2007 • 44 min
The fifth episode of 'Top Design' features the designers working with The All-American family -- three kids, two parents, and a dog -- to create a dream family space.
6. Life of the Party
Aired 14 March 2007 • 44 min
Party on! The contestants will be split into two teams of three in the sixth 'Top Design' challenge and asked to design competing party spaces for Bacardi Limon to entertain guests of ELLE DECOR Magazine. Find out who can really party in this all-new episode.
7. Chef's Choice
Aired 21 March 2007 • 44 min
The competition gets cookin' in the seventh episode of 'Top Design' when the remaining contestants face 'Top Chef' Head Judge Tom Colicchio (Chef) in their hardest design challenge yet.
8. Metropolitan Home Suites
Aired 28 March 2007 • 44 min
The creative juices will flow as the remaining contestants head to the upscale Viceroy Hotel in Los Angeles to design a high-end modern hotel room. The guest judge is design and fashion expert Linda O'Keeffe.
9. ELLE DECOR Cover Inspiration
Aired 4 April 2007 • 44 min
The strongest remaining interior design contestants select one of 10 ELLE DECOR Magazine covers as inspiration for their design for an living room.
10. Lofty Designs
Aired 11 April 2007 • 44 min
And then there were two. The remaining contenders who will strive to create the ultimate 'Top Design' will each design the interior of a house -- two separate 1,700 square foot lofts in downtown Los Angeles to be exact.