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" This week on Top Design, you had to look way ahead and design a room suited for the future. What was your concept for the design? It was difficult designing for the unknown. Automatically when they say the future, I always think of the Jetsons\u2013like flying saucers and zipping yourself from one space to the next. I designed my space around the hydraulic system, so it could be compact. You&amp;#039;d have one main level and turn your little switch and pick which floor of your house you would want to be in. Do you think your Jetsons-inspired ideas came across in the actual design of the room? No. I think my concept was really futuristic, but it didn&amp;#039;t come across. My stage was way too big. It was supposed to be a circle, but the carpenter couldn&amp;#039;t figure it out, and even Jonathan said that if I could have gotten it to be that circle, it would have been a lot better. I also wouldn&amp;#039;t have bought that huge bookcase. It ended up being a lot bigger than I thought. So what do you think you did do well in the challenge? What was your favorite part? The color scheme was really futuristic. For me, I would never use that bright kind of tangerine orange, unless it was for a children&amp;#039;s room. I wanted to give it that futuristic look but still be chic. The whole entire room was orange, white, and silver. Everybody was doing such dark grey colors, except for Eddie. Andrea stepped out of her box a little bit by using pink, but mine was a strong concept so it had to have a strong color to come with it. Did you think anyone created a less successful space than yours and should have gone home instead? Yes! I definitely think I shouldn&amp;#039;t have gone home. It would have to be Andrea&amp;#039;s. Yes, I guess modular building is a great concept, but they do it now already. I didn&amp;#039;t feel like it was that futuristic. I just wasn&amp;#039;t impressed. And with Preston, you know it&amp;#039;s always going to be a hotel and be black, white and silver with some blue in there.  From window displays to a bright orange Jetsons room, you definitely got to play around with your design on the show. But how would you describe your personal style?  My personal style is mixing traditional and contemporary, like taking a traditional sofa and putting really fun colorful fabrics on it, or adding silver feet to it instead of traditional wood ones. Living in Georgia, I do a lot of traditional design, because it&amp;#039;s what clients want, but I always try to add some contemporary in there, whether through lamps or art or some other accessory. And the show definitely affected my style. Like I said, most off my designs here are traditional. I&amp;#039;ve never loved full-on contemporary\u2014it&amp;#039;s too harsh and cold for me\u2014but [Top Design] opened me up to a more transitional style.  Being the youngest, what do you think you brought to the competition? Of course I have an outgoing crazy-fun personality. I am who I am. I&amp;#039;m wild. I&amp;#039;m crazy. I speak my mind, but I got along with everyone great. But it was definitely hard having less experience. It&amp;#039;s hard to stay confident. There were times when I was thinking, &amp;quot;God, what am I doing here?&amp;quot; A lot of the others knew little tricks of the trade that I didn&amp;#039;t. One of the hardest things was just getting criticism for being the youngest. Well I&amp;#039;m sorry. Ya&amp;#039;ll chose me for the show. I can&amp;#039;t help my age.  Was there any drama between contestants that we didn&amp;#039;t get to see? Were you guys driving each other crazy spending so much time together? There wasn&amp;#039;t a lot of face-to-face drama, but at nighttime, like in our loft, we would always go and have cocktails and kind of [gossip] about people. I think they edited most of that out. You cried a lot when you left. What was the worst part? I&amp;#039;m really competitive. I&amp;#039;ve always been the best in sports, always won first place. It was kind of humbling to not be the best; it was kind of like I knew that I wasn&amp;#039;t going to win because there were so many more experienced people, and you could tell who the judges&amp;#039; favorites were. We can&amp;#039;t wait to see your garden room in the December issue of ELLE DECOR \u2013 are you excited? I&amp;#039;m so excited! It just leaves me speechless. I&amp;#039;ll be 25 in a week and to already have some of my work in ELLE DECOR, which is such a great publication, is just awesome. To me, my number one accomplishment was getting on the show, but number two is to be published in ELLE DECOR.  Get the full scoop at Top Design Central. Click here to check out all the past interviews.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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