He has designs

Way to go, HGTV viewers, for picking David Bromstad of Miami as the winner of the first "HGTV Design Star" competition. Although he needs to work on his on-camera presence, it's really his talented eye and creativity we'll be tuning in for when his still untitled series debuts next year.

With the final competition decided by viewers instead of celeb judges, I can't help but wonder how many votes by female and gay male viewers -- a huge chunk of the HGTV audience -- were influenced by David's buff bod. For the final challenge -- creating a room in a glass house situated in New York's Central Park -- it was either the muggy weather or a really sharp calculation that prompted David to work shirtless much of the time.

As for runner-up Alice Fakier of Temple, Texas, she deserves points for being gracious throughout, particularly in the last two rounds, and for single-handedly saving the reputation of women designers everywhere while most of her female competitors on the show came off as bitchy or weird.

Both David and Alice worked well under pressure and stayed above the pettiness of the rest, proving nice guys really can finish first.