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Catch Design2Share Q&A, the weekly Big Apple video podcast series that takes a good stab at answering viewers' design-related questions. Our two co-hosts, South African born designer Irwin Weiner and British born designer Nicola Chernicoff, have plenty of opinions and tips packed into each video episode. We think you should subscribe just to hear their dueling accents. Submit your design questions to info@design2share.com and dare to share your house-and-garden videos with others. [Copyright 2007 Design2Share LLC. All rights reserved.] Primary Format : Vidcast Also Listed as: City : New York City State/Province : NY Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/home/sites/www.podcastdirectory.com/web/podcasts/index.php on line 218 User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Design2Share Q&A Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Design2Share Q&A Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Design2Share Q&A Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Home Design Mistakes What Are the Worst Home Design Mistakes? Imagine you have decided to do your own home design, including handling all construction and interior decorating from the ground up. How do you think you would do? Would you make any mistakes along the way? Design2Share Q&A co-hosts Irwin Weiner and Nicola Chernicoff have seen many design projects in their time, and some make them shake their heads with a range of emotions from exasperation to sheer pity. In many ways, you could not make m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Landscape Architects Why Should I Hire a Landscape Architect? Design2Share's Nicola Chernicoff and Irwin Weiner interview noted New York landscape architect Steven L. Cantor in a special Design2Share Q&A episode. Go onsite to explore one of Steven's landscaping jobs, a beautiful historic residential court hidden from the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. Once home to rock stars, television personalities, and fashion models, this urban oasis was transformed by a great landscape plan, the help of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website European & American Design How does American design compare to what the Europeans are doing? Design2Share Q&A's co-hosts Irwin Weiner and Nicola Chernicoff bring their years of design work on both sides of the Atlantic to comment on some of the key differences. In this episode, you'll learn how American color trends link more closely with the fashion industry, how color is used more boldly in Europe, how a sense of history permeates European design sensibilities, what "perfection" means to Americans, and ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17. Value of a Fireplace Q: What Value Does A Fireplace Add To A Home? Fireplaces are fantastic focal points for the rooms in any home, but what are the secrets for using a fireplace to add value to your home? Irwin and Nicola, our New York designer co-hosts, love the fireplace and share their advice and common sense tips with you on making your fireplace addition really count. In this episode you will learn the do's and don'ts for placing plasma TVs above the fireplace, which room gives you the best res ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17. Value of a Fireplace Q: What Value Does A Fireplace Add To A Home? Fireplaces are fantastic focal points for the rooms in any home, but what are the secrets for using a fireplace to add value to your home? Irwin and Nicola, our New York designer co-hosts, love the fireplace and share their advice and common sense tips with you on making your fireplace addition really count. In this episode you will learn the do's and don'ts for placing plasma TVs above the fireplace, which room gives you the best res ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16. Decorating a Half Bath Q: What Should I Consider When Decorating My Half Bath? You would freak out if you knew how many years the average person spends using the toilet. It's not a pretty fact, but it's a fact that your toilet can be in a very beautiful room (and that's what counts in the end)! Nicola Chernicoff and Irwin Weiner take you onsite to a powder room and in this episode they will cover the resale value of adding half baths to your floor plan, what elements make up a typical powder room as o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16. Decorating a Half Bath Q: What Should I Consider When Decorating My Half Bath? You would freak out if you knew how many years the average person spends using the toilet. It's not a pretty fact, but it's a fact that your toilet can be in a very beautiful room (and that's what counts in the end)! Nicola Chernicoff and Irwin Weiner take you onsite to a powder room and in this episode they will cover the resale value of adding half baths to your floor plan, what elements make up a typical powder room as o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15. Master Bedroom Design Q: What Are The Trends In Master Bedroom Design? Decorating is a moving target. Trends come and go, and even how we use the master bedroom is evolving. In this Design2Share Q&A episode, Nicola and Irwin delve into the latest trends in decorating and kitting-out your inner sanctum. You will learn about the his-and-her wave that's sweeping closet space and bathrooms (and even extending to separate bedrooms), alternative ways to decorate the master suite, amenities and those little ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15. Master Bedroom Design Q: What Are The Trends In Master Bedroom Design? Decorating is a moving target. Trends come and go, and even how we use the master bedroom is evolving. In this Design2Share Q&A episode, Nicola and Irwin delve into the latest trends in decorating and kitting-out your inner sanctum. You will learn about the his-and-her wave that's sweeping closet space and bathrooms (and even extending to separate bedrooms), alternative ways to decorate the master suite, amenities and those little ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14. Special Dining Rooms Formal sit-down meals have been supplanted by today's casual, on-the-go lifestyles. But the dining room should never become the dinosaur of your home's floorplan. Take back the dining room and use it every day! Join us as Irwin and Nicola talk about turning your dining room into a special multi-purpose room. This Design2Share Q&A episode will cover the versatility of your dining space to accommodate everything from simple suppers to holiday feasts, ideas for turning dining areas into mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14. Special Dining Rooms Q: What Can Make My Dining Room Special? Formal sit-down meals have been supplanted by today's casual, on-the-go lifestyles. But the dining room should never become the dinosaur of your home's floorplan. Take back the dining room and use it every day! Join us as Irwin and Nicola talk about turning your dining room into a special multi-purpose room. This Design2Share Q&A episode will cover the versatility of your dining space to accommodate everything from simple suppers to ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13: Decorating with Collections If you're like many people, you like to collect odd things like old photos, paperweights, Hummels, or imported beer cans. Now that you've done the packrat thing, we see no reason not to incorporate these treasures into your decorating scheme. Nicola and Irwin, our Design2Share co-hosts, take you inside a home proudly displaying collectibles to cover a few decorating basics: how to use collections to express your personality, how to entertain with collections, using flea markets and eBay to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13. Decorating with Collections Q: Can I Use My Collections When I Decorate?If you're like many people, you like to collect odd things like old photos, paperweights, Hummels, or imported beer cans. Now that you've done the packrat thing, we see no reason not to incorporate these treasures into your decorating scheme. Nicola and Irwin, our Design2Share co-hosts, take you inside a home proudly displaying collectibles to cover a few decorating basics: how to use collections to express your personality, how ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12. Working from Home More people are working from home than ever before, and turning whole rooms into a chaotic nightmare of files, loose papers, books, and disarray. Design2Share Q&A has been flooded with questions about storage and home organization, and we decided to focus our response on the home office (or library, study, den, spare room). In this episode, Irwin and Nicola share tips and advice on what essentials belong in a home office, how to use storage containers to maximize utility and minimize clutte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12. Working from Home Q: How Can I Work From Home Without Making a Huge Mess? More people are working from home than ever before, and turning whole rooms into a chaotic nightmare of files, loose papers, books, and disarray. Design2Share Q&A has been flooded with questions about storage and home organization, and we decided to focus our response on the home office (or library, study, den, spare room). In this episode, Irwin and Nicola share tips and advice on what essentials belong in a home office ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11. Renovation It's all in the planning. Home renovations always cost more money, take more time, and cause more aggravation than we anticipate. The end result, however, is almost always worth your painful efforts. Watch Irwin and Nicola, our Design2Share Q&A co-hosts, as they advise you about getting all your design specs in writing, help manage your expectations for how a remodeling job should turn out, demonstrate their favorite renovation tricks and tips, walk you through one of their remodeling succe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10. Guest Rooms If we listen to the angel on our left shoulder, we definitely want to make guests feel welcome and stay with us in our apartment or house. But pay attention to the devil on our right shoulder, and we come up with designer Irwin Weiner's tip for keeping visitors from wearing out their welcomes. He and fellow designer Nicola Chernicoff pour themselves some wine, relax in a great toile-covered guest room, and share their advice for how to add fine hotel amenities to your guest room, why pillow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10. Guest Rooms Q: How Can We Make Guests Feel Welcome In Our Home?  If we listen to the angel on our left shoulder, we definitely want to make guests feel welcome and stay with us in our apartment or house. But pay attention to the devil on our right shoulder, and we come up with designer Irwin Weiner's tip for keeping visitors from wearing out their welcomes. He and fellow designer Nicola Chernicoff pour themselves some wine, relax in a great toile-covered guest room, and share their a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 9: How Should I Decorate My Outdoor Spaces? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9. Outdoor Spaces Q: How Should I Decorate My Outdoor Spaces?  It's a distinct home design trend today to set up "outdoor rooms." This podcast episode explores the huge movement to bring the indoors outside and to colonize lawns, gardens, and yards with additional living and entertaining space. Nicola and Irwin, our Design2Share Q&A co-hosts, offer their usual nuggets of wisdom and opinionated barbs as they tackle how to determine the function of different outdoor spaces, h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 8: How Do I Choose Colors That I Won't Get Tired Of? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8. Choosing Colors Q: How Do I Choose Colors That I Won't Get Tired Of? If you're looking for a magical color palette, forget about it. Everyone gets tired of the colors of their clothes, and some people weary of their hair color. That's only natural. So the bottom line is: decorating with color isn't rocket science. You're going to change it around frequently, so you might as well have fun with your color choices, and even risk choosing brave and bold schemes. In this Design2Share Q&A episode ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 7: How Do I Make a Great First Impression? For many homes, the foyer is the first interior space you see after coming through the front door. It's a crucial transition point from the outside to your indoor environment, and our show hosts Nicola and Irwin discuss ways to make a memorable first impression when decorating a foyer. Their tips and advice will help you create a dramatic, inviting, and entertaining space that will greet you when you come home and welcome all visitors. This episode covers the origins of the foyer in the Fre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7. First Impressions Q: How Do I Make a Great First Impression? For many homes, the foyer is the first interior space you see after coming through the front door. It's a crucial transition point from the outside to your indoor environment, and our show hosts Nicola and Irwin discuss ways to make a memorable first impression when decorating a foyer. Their tips and advice will help you create a dramatic, inviting, and entertaining space that will greet you when you come home and welcome all visitors. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kitchen Remodeling Q: What Should I Change & Update In My Kitchen? Kitchen remodeling jobs often provide strong returns on investment. But where should you start and what projects should you undertake when facing an intrusive gut-job or (at the very least) an inconvenience for your family during a kitchen makeover? Irwin and Nicola demystify this process in the latest Design2Share Q&A episode. Their tips and advice cover the importance of kitchens as the heart and gathering place for the h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6. Kitchen Remodeling Q: What Should I Change & Update In My Kitchen? Kitchen remodeling jobs often provide strong returns on investment. But where should you start and what projects should you undertake when facing an intrusive gut-job or (at the very least) an inconvenience for your family during a kitchen makeover? Irwin and Nicola demystify this process in the latest Design2Share Q&A episode. Their tips and advice cover the importance of kitchens as the heart and gathering place for the h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5: What Are Good Starting Places for Art & Accessories? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5. Art & Accessories Q: What Are Good Starting Places for Art & Accessories? Art and accessories are like the jewelry of a room. Furniture, rugs, and window treatments are the basic outfits. You need art and accessories, thoughtfully added  to your interiors, to complete the design ensemble. The end result will be a great "finished"  look. Bottom line: you aren't done decorating until you accessorize. This episode of Design2Share Q&A covers Nicola and Irwin's tips and advice ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5: What Are Good Starting Places for Art & Accessories? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4. Setting a Great Table Q: How Do I Set a Great Table? In this Fast Food and Restaurant Era, we often neglect the importance of sitting down to a meal at home or doing a little entertaining around a prepared or take-out meal. Bottom line: you need nights at home where you go all out for yourself, for your significant other, for your family, or for your friends. Our dynamic design duo's advice and tips in this episode cover how to set a great table, bringing scale and drama into your arrangements, addin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 4: How Do I Set a Great Table? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3. Decorating the Living Room Q: How Do I Decorate My Living Room? Rooms in today's homes are not necessarily "your mother's rooms." Remember how living rooms used to be only for formal occasions and you weren't allowed to eat, drink, watch TV, or "live" there? Bottom line: before decorating, nail down your living room's functional purpose for you, your family, and your friends. Irwin and Nicola offer advice and tips in this episode on how to get the room right architecturally, deciding o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 3: How Do I Decorate My Living Room? Rooms in today's homes are not necessarily "your mother's rooms." Remember how living rooms used to be only for formal occasions and you weren't allowed to eat, drink, watch TV, or "live" there? Bottom line: before decorating, nail down your living room's functional purpose for you, your family, and your friends. Irwin and Nicola offer advice and tips in this episode on how to get the room right architecturally, deciding on the room's function as a guide to decorating, h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website