Winning is always fun, but securing a makeover for your abode or submitting your unique design for a competition is even more rewarding. Whether you're a homeowner looking for design help or an interior designer who's looking to battle with your peers, here are a few places to start your journey.

• Debbie Travis' Facelift
  Interior designer, Debbie Travis, clandestinely works with a relative of an unsuspecting homeowner to remodel and redecorate their home or room in a week or less. The show culminates in the homeowner return for the remarkable unveiling while cameras catch everything.
  
  
• Save My Bath
  HGTV's Bad, Bad Bath is now called Save My Bath. Optimistic homeowners apply by submitting their outdated, ugly, or tacky bathrooms for consideration. Those lucky enough to be chosen for a lavatory makeover get to pitch in along side the design team while the master remodel plan is hatched.
  
  
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
  This weekly ABC design show with a heart enlists a team of designers, contractors, and several hundred workers to completely rebuild an entire house - plus the exterior and landscaping - in just seven days. Ty Pennington hosts the show and informs the deserving families that their home will receive a makeover with a surprise wake-up call.
  
  
• Save Us From Our House!
  With the help of a relationship coach and designer team, this show helps frazzled families by renovating their home and personal interactions. As the physical and emotional walls are torn down, the grateful families learn how to interact together and take joy in their surroundings with expert solutions.
  
  
• This Old House
  As an Emmy Award winning TV show, This Old House has been one of the leading home improvement series for over 25 years. Two remodeling or renovation projects are showcased each season in order to show the entire process from start to finish. The show focuses innovative materials and quality craftsmanship. The PBS airing includes a new half-hour segment, Ask This Old House, which allows the crew to respond to viewer questions.
  
  
• Surprise by Design
  Each episode features a show guest surprising a loved one with a room makeover performed by Rebecca Cole, Robert Verdi, and Peter Gurski. Their modest budget of $2,500 encourages creativity in accomplishing each makeover in just one day. Every episode includes a "Quick Change" small project that is fast and inexpensive.

• I.D. Annual Design Review
  Starting in 1954, I.D. magazine began hosting the Annual Design Review and Student Design Review to recognize the finest in product, furniture, and environment design. Over the decades, this showcase has recorded the progress of design and its influence on culture at large. The I.D. editors and a panel of the foremost designers choose winners in eight main categories and publish the results in the magazine's August issue.
  
  
• Kitchen and Bath Business Design Awards
  For the past seven years, this annual contest hosted by Kitchen and Bath Business Design magazine recognizes both designers and remodelers in categories such as kitchen, bath, and showroom design. Each project is evaluated on function, beauty, client satisfaction, and creativity.
  
  
• HGTV Design Star
  This televised competition features ten finalists who compete in design challenges to be the network's next big design star. To make it on this reality show, contestants must have design experience, TV-friendly personality, and passion for interior design.
  
  
• IIDA Annual Interior Design Competition
  This long-lived contest honors fresh ideas in design and furniture in categories such as residential, retail, commercial, health & institutional, government, and hospitality.
  
  
• Bravo's Top Design
  The brand new design competition from Bravo takes twelve professional and aspiring interior designers and let's them fight for the top prize of business start-up money and a spot in a prestigious New York designer showcase. Host and designer, Todd Oldham, will guide the contestants through the challenges and judging process.
  
  
• Annual Will Ching Design Competition
  In this contest, small design firms in the commercial and institutional sector compete for recognition. To be eligible, firms can have a maximum of five designers.
  
  
• Design Match
  HGTV brings novice designers together for a heated competition as they recreate a high-end designer room on a limited budget. The winning team is chosen by the inspiration room's designer and receives a stylish furniture piece as a prize.

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