Designer

Advantages

Disadvantages

A Sure Win?

• Steller education

• Overconfident
  
• But a team

• Has had experience student

• Less experience than the rest
  
• Bossy and opinionated

• Has several jobs that involve design
• Eclectic Background
• Home court advantage
  

• Less focused on interior design,
  more focused on art
  

• A partner at a design firm at a young age
• Self-taught and self sufficient
  

• Not much
  formal training
  

• Twenty years of experience
• High-profile clients
• Home court advantage
  

• Overconfident
  

• Steller education
  
• Hand-selected from reknowned architect
• Has built several large projects
  

• So nice, he might just get squished
• Less interior design experience than others
  

• Self-made and formally trained
  
• Self-starter
• Bloomed with natural design talent later in life
  

• Few high profile projects to speak of
  

• Self-made without even a high school diploma
  
• Owns his own firm
  

• No formal training
  
• No grace under pressure

• Owns her own firm
• Has many honors and accolades
• Home court advantage
  

• Little formal training
  

• Heads interior design dept.
• Ambitious, worked hard to get where he is
  

• A true competitor?
  

Top Design Winner

• Lots of experience
• Working on a $20 million home
  

• The biggest ego on the show
• Little formal training
  

• Diverse portfolio
• Exceptionally hard worker
• Work as an artist has been showcased in NY
  

• Mostly an art background, less of an interior design background
  
• Huge ego, less interested in design than stirring things up