User reviews

Contestants were talented. Judging was inconsistent, potentially swayed by personal biases and rigged?

The judges are complete joke. Mark, really?? Really?? Tbh i think the show was rigged.

Times flies in this show. Some truly innovative and quality pieces were produced by contestants. Disagree with winner who consistently turned out work with quality issues. Until the final episode when two finalists were to come up with a collection reflecting their signature look, so in their wheelhouse. Second place contestant had memorable creative chic quality pieces throughout.. Ellen hardly appeared so was not of any added value. Would watch more seasons.

Designers are building pieces of furniture to win a contest.

You follow the building process and the ups and downs.

There are many of these kind of shows on television. Unfortunately the enjoyment of the show hangs on how fun the contestants are. In this case quite a few whine and moan about being tired and hard work and it is getting on my nerves. I would never ever buy something from some of these designers just based on their attitude.

Above that Ellen is hardly involved making me wonder why her name was slapped on the show.

I completely disagree with the winner. The winner's stuff was often poor quality or made of materials that made it only fit for a show room. The judges were nuts to pick this winner. That all said. I liked watching the designers and seeing what they came up with. If watch it again but hopefully they replace the judges.

The concept is good. The execution, not so much. The contestants and judges are so problematic. The former are whiny and self-absorbed, especially Mark, whose droning litany of perpetual exhaustion made my ears bleed. The judges are not fit to decide anything. They were all of the place.

Foley is a decent and affable host, though. Ellen is churning out trash to pursue big money for her own (very private) design projects. I have to imagine she would not buy most of the lousy stuff churned out on this series. Ellen, do better.

I really enjoy this show and so do both my teen daughters. The designers are already professionals so that makes it different than a lot of competition shows. The quality of their end projects are amazing and that does make judging hard. The judges were a bit inconsistent I think (one day a piece sticking out is a tripping hazard but later a similar piece sticking out is fine and ground breaking). I just chalked it up to it being hard to judge so many great projects. I liked all the contestants and it was an entertaining mix of good fun and cool design and a little drama. I like that Ellen has given designers this platform. She's not in the show much but it's fun when she pops in now and then. We binged the show in two days and had a great time talking about what we liked and didn't so to me that's a 10 star show. I hope there are more seasons.

I love creative competition shows. This one is alright. Not sure why Ellen is a part of it. Would much prefer a focus on the designers. The challenges are intriguing.

What a mind numbing judging. Absolutely rubbish. Did like the pieces some of the contestants made.

I watched whole season. Talented designers. Annoying hosts. Ellen's involvement minimal.

I am sorry but seriously the winner of this show isn't justified. This makes me think of enabling bad craftsmanship and design. Oh and let's not even start on all the whining in this show coming from the guy who won. If the show is about talent then why is this dude wining? If they are basing it on drama and personal bias then I get it but competition shows should not be about any of these things. I wouldn't waste my time.

The judging is the worst. Unfortunately all reviews are correct the judges are not good at this. Why where they chosen?????

Scott Folley is great and has great insight. Luckily minimal Ellen in the show.

Ellen is just in the title. She's shown basically maybe ten minutes in the show. She's not a part of it, she lets Scott handle everything.

The judges don't seem to be that great and they have an agenda on who to keep there. In one episode everyone else builds their design, one gets 90% of it manufactured by someone else and they are applauded for it. Sure, it's not the worst thing I've seen, and this is supposedly a design competition, but still.

It's clearly just an Ellen cash grab, slap their name on something, have them show up in a couple of episodes, find people who get starstruck by Ellen and Scott regardless of their talent (most of them are talented, don't get me wrong), and you have a show. Focus on one of them whining about things, blaming their helper for breaking stuff, and then going "but he's so haaawt!"

So don't waste your time with it. It's bad. Just look up the designs and you get all you need from this show.