Dwayne Paul DeRouen, aka D-Paul, has his work cut out for him on HGTV’s Design Star.

DeRouen was chosen to be in the running for his own HGTV series, the grand prize in the contest, after showing examples of his designs.

DeRouen, who described his style as “casual elegance,” also hedged his bets by giving the judges a photo of his wife and four children, ages 7 months to 5 1/2.

After the selection process, he and the other eight contestants were driven one by one to a place near a stream in Nashville that they would call home for the nine-week series.

Just one problem.

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Judy Bastien • jbastien@theadvertiser.com • June 9, 2008