Design2Share Q&A is a video podcast series that answers your home design questions. Irwin Weiner and Nicola Chernicoff are decorating pros who offer plenty of tips and advice, sharing their lively and opinionated style sense with viewers.

Design2Share Q&A Interior Design Podcast
Design2Share Q&A, the video podcast series that answers all your interior design related questions. Our co-hosts, Irwin Weiner and Nicola Chernicoff, have design opinions and tips galore in each short episode.

Worst Design Mistakes
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12 Nov 2007 at 9:00am
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 more mistakes than some so-called professionals who are in practice today. This episode covers our hosts' "pet hates," those things they despise most about today's d...
Landscape Architects
by Design2Share
5 Nov 2007 at 9:00am
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 many artisans, and two years of hard work. Learn about what landscape architects can do for homeowners, see how they interact with landscapers and other vendors, discover...
European & American Design
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2 Aug 2007 at 11:29am
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 how wit sets European design apart from the rest of the world. The bottom line: American designers and homeowners are learning the best traits from designers around...
Value of a Fireplace
by Design2Share
23 Jul 2007 at 9:00am
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 resale value for fireplace additions, the fuel gel fireplace trend (easy, inexpensive, and stylish), using decorative mantels and other fireplace surround materials ...
Decorating a Half Bath
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16 Jul 2007 at 9:00am
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 opposed to a bathroom, how to add whimsy and style to bathroom decor, the latest trends and appliances to make this room greener and higher functioning, the early d...
Master Bedroom Design
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9 Jul 2007 at 9:00am
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 extras that will turn your bedroom suite into a relaxing haven, TV tips to keep the tube hidden when you're not watching, the hot electric bed movement, remote cont...
Special Dining Rooms
by Design2Share
2 Jul 2007 at 9:00am
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 holiday feasts, ideas for turning dining areas into more family-friendly spaces, tips for tables, how to flex up on your seating space, how the wealthy historically set...
Decorating with Collections
by Design2Share
25 Jun 2007 at 8:46am
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 to entertain with collections, using flea markets and eBay to add and subtract to your collections, how to group collections for best display, and how collections can enh...
Working from Home
by Design2Share
18 Jun 2007 at 8:46am
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, how to use storage containers to maximize utility and minimize clutter, how to combine the home office with a library look to avoid sterility, how to decorate the h...
Renovation
by Design2Share
11 Jun 2007 at 8:53am
Q: What Can Make My Renovation Less Intimidating? 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 successes, and discuss special details that can make your next remodeling job that much more satisfying. A...
Guest Rooms
by Design2Share
4 Jun 2007 at 8:03am
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 advice for how to add fine hotel amenities to your guest room, why pillows can be a problem, how to experiment with color when decorating small rooms, the valuable no-wrinkl...
Outdoor Spaces
by Design2Share
28 May 2007 at 7:25pm
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, how to define outdoor rooms with a variety of landscaping and hardscaping materials, what furniture and features define today's outdoor spaces, how to accessorize the great outdoors, tips o...
Choosing Colors
by Design2Share
21 May 2007 at 8:36am
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, Irwin and Nicola look at classic and monochromatic room schemes, ways to choose color schemes that inspire different moods (uplifting, dramatic, romantic, etc.), how...
First Impressions
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14 May 2007 at 8:56am
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. This episode covers the origins of the foyer in the French theater, color hierarchies for foyers and adjoining rooms, creating a sense of drama, adding functional ...
Kitchen Remodeling
by Design2Share
8 May 2007 at 9:53am
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 home, how to make a multi-functional kitchen plan, ways to use open plan layouts to help tie in kitchen decor with adjacent rooms, the average costs for remodeling, specifi...