There's a new one. I thought the "H" stood for humble, as in my humble opinion.

Here's the final countdown and I am wondering why there was no team effort on Dan and Antonio's part to inform both women the cost or that the design was over budget before okaying the work. They are all being judged on their ability to work on a team and develop their communication skillset even if they are in competition with one another. This is where Antonio's attitude shift plays well for him. All he has to do is state, as he has before, that a decision had to be made and deem himself as supreme decision maker. That makes everything okay for Tony Soprano. Of course, if Dan tried it this week, he wasn't allowed to follow in Antonio's footsteps lest he wear concrete shoes. And if the women disagree, well they should be sent shopping or eliminated for getting hormonal. No stereotyping there. About that sarcasm font...If the construction crew is building the pergola, what are the Designers doing? Serving as a grounds crew? Not all that interesting when the teaser's give the plot away trying to drum up interest. From Torie's double-take, she's out. We will be left with Dan the Apple Man, Tony Soprano, or sad-sack Lonnie. May the best Designer win.

I think they are all good in their own right, but if HGTV wants a host, someone that is able to supervise a crew, think on their feet, and make sure the work gets done on budget, on time, the team challenge is the only true test.

I wonder where Antonio placed the television and the blue walls outdoors this week? Maybe that is why the pergola is over budget. We need a sarcasm font on this discussion board...

That is the point, Nancy, thank you for supporting the train of thought here. Not even the light fixture was changed. What did Lonnie spend the money on? Three cans of paint, pans, rollers, brushes, tape, flooring (boards and padding) and an installation kit, a diamondplate dresser, and plywood doesn't add up to $5000 even if you include the carpenter's wages and the installers for the flooring. Did she have to pay the camera crew to film? The room wasn't that big.Better than nothing is not a standard, she could have really done so much with that room. If she wanted to do a baseball fan room for an older guy-why they called him a kid in this challenge is beyond me-why not include electronics? Stadium locker rooms are full of media in the lounge areas for the players before a game. Check out any college locker room for a state University if you can't get clearance for a pro stadium. There are big screen televisions mounted everywhere so they can view play strategies. This is a young man either off to college or the job market. No essential PC access at this age? For that money, she could have included a paid year of media service for the family and a PC, something extra for the family as a gift for letting them work there in their home. I do think Lonnie and Jason's clients were too old to be considered in a "kid's challenge" and that to be fair the client's should have been closer in age.

I find it very difficult to believe with all of the permit pulling that needs to be done when it comes to a remodel, carpentry, wiring, or plumbing that licensed professionals were not hired as stated in the "Jason Champion" reply. Obviously if they are union, they will not work another's trade. The law varies from state to state, but even if you are doing remodeling a permit must be pulled, a building inspector called, and fees paid. I think the argument has no merit. Doesn't matter who hired the carpenter. This is about dealing with people who are not always going to have the same skill level, working on a team, collaborating with trades, and behaving in a manner that entertains others points of view not placing blame.

And since the little character loved noodles, why not use those foam noodles for the pool? Build a 4'x4' sunken ball pit having more noodles suspended from a frame above the pit swinging freely to bat and play with while watching that television? A slide from a loft bed connected into the ball pit? It would have been colorful, charming and incorporated his love of spaghetti. Need the televison? Mount it in-wall behind a sheet of plexiglass to protect the kid from disaster. Make a frame that looks like a dinosaur mouth around the televison like Candice suggested. He could have used palm fronds, set up a couple of trees to hang the kid's jacket and backpack on after school or used the dinosaur stickers on plywood and bolted those to the wall to give dimension. Obviously not a room to send a child to punishment for, but if you are going for the entertainment angle why not push the limit a little?

Jason, as one professional to another I am surprised that you or HGTV would hire a carpenter without going through a union. I do not have people work for me when I am on a time budget that does not allow for elaborate plans, I have carpentry skills that I do not go beyond in a limited time frame of my own with my own equipment I haul to the site. I do not have to do research on reality show limitations, Jason. I work with client-time limitations everyday. If you want drama, it is certainly there from curtain color, design, and hem length to mural design and paint content acrylic versus oil and on and on.Are you completely sure that the carpenter spoke English and not Spanish? Another area covered in my first college degree in Science and Arts, and certainly explored in my Liberal Arts BA. Learning to work with others is trying, but doable and sometimes you do not have the "luxury" of firing an individual just because of personal diferences or work ethic. Vern Yipp and Candice Olsen have repeatedly stated that all contestants were given enough time. What is your opinion of the time given? Do you feel it is your time management skill level or are they expecting too much from budding talent? To be fair, did you have a plan for the headboard other than the woven place mat material that did not get completed because of the carpenter? Or plans for dressing up the window that was painted around? What can you tell us that did not hit the air? Did the $5000 only include shopping at the sponsor's stores?

If Antonio is the designer to beat, then let the beatings begin. His lack of attention to detail of the client's needs, as with pushpins above a child's bed or even in a child's room for that matter, or televisions hung low enough for children to manhandle or possibly electrocute themselves on should have disqulaified him in the last challenge. Repeating the same mistake two weeks in a row in a house full of children is ridiculous. I wonder what the parents will say when Conner jams something into the input/output on that $1000 television in a 5 year old's room or the military family who now has 2 televisions within acessible child's reach? He has no sense of family oriented living applied to his design. I have no particular favorite, but his work is highly questionable and not user-friendly.

Lonnie's room was a hit, but was it really a room for a 17 year old man? What guy that age doesn't have a stereo system, a dedicated place for an iPod, phone charger station, a TV, or place for his blue-rays, or DVD and CD collections? With $5000 for a room she could have given him all of that and more. There was nothing wrong with the floor he had. Even if he wasn't a gamer, where was the computer? What 17 year old doesn't need one of those these days? No dresser or place for clothes storage other than a dresser the size of a nightstand or that tiny closet?The nightstand made out of diamondplate was awesome but not designed, it was bought. Wouldn't it have been awesome to showcase one of the guy's baseball jersey's? Or baseballs, or by using bats sawn in half as closet door handles? Why not take it a step further and build in plexiglass walls that housed new baseballs trimmed in bats or put in a half wall with half sawn bats? An outline mural of a pitcher as long as we are talking about using stickers and decals this week. That would not have involved a carpenter, just wallpaper equipment. The green carpeting could have been made to look like the baseball field...

I am curious as to why so many commented on the child not being able to walk underneath a loft bed in Torie's room? Obviously Torie has been to college. Have none of these people been to a campus before? There isn't a loft bed built that anyone could walk under. The students all have their desks underneath the lofts, including their art supplies and computers in that space. If the girl is truly interested in Art as a career, she had better get used to the idea of working in a dorm room that would be less than half the size of the room shown and be able to share that space with another student. There would be no room for an easel or dresser unless it was small enough to be shoved into an already crammed shared closet. She certainly gave her a dose of reality of what her future would hold. Incidentally, David, I love your comments, however, those dorm rooms are not Industrial Chic either. I was sadly disappointed with Torie this week.