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, adding surprise and humor and fantasy to your meals, ways to mix and match the same elements to switch from formal to informal table settings, how Marie Antoinette's breasts inspired glassware, and Irwin's chocolate ice cream dessert project (yum!).
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 enhance your home's color scheme and style. Irwin also waxes poetic about collectible insects, so don't miss the buzz! My Veoh Show
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 on when and where to shop for good outdoor buys, and the importance of outdoor lighting and other details. And there's even a tip on decorating with mosquito netting!
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 to paint your home's architectural details, finding color inspiration from different countries, how to pick up on color trends, ways to use contrasting colors in a room, and a host of additional hints and tips surrounding decorating and color selection.
Applying to business school isn't necessarily all business. In this week's episode of bschooltalk, Judith asks our admission professionals for the best advice they can share regarding exactly how to present yourself during the application process and the importance of being a well rounded candidate.
In this episode of bschooltalk, Judith asks her panel of business school admissions experts a very specific question about Donald Trump and the application essays . Is referencing "The Donald" a good or a bad thing to do in your essay? My Veoh Show
Q: Do I Need Professional Help? Most of our viewers are in a quandary when it comes to 'doing it yourself' or having someone better trained and with more experience helping them out with home remodeling, building, and design projects. Bottom line: if you want to do it yourself, knock yourself out! But you may want professional help to keep your sanity and get a better final result. This episode covers Irwin and Nicola's advice and tips on how to go about hiring a professional designer or contractor, the importance of doing advance research, how to get referrals, getting your project specs in writing, managing your expectations of the job, and the importance of BEING NICE to the hired help!
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Design2Share Q&A Episode 4: 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, adding surprise and humor and fantasy to your meals, ways to mix and match the same elements to switch from formal to informal table settings, how Marie Antoinette's breasts inspired glassware, and Irwin's chocolate ice cream dessert project (yum!).
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 and convenient features, the importance of lighting (and why many foyers have lanterns hanging down from the ceiling), dramatic and inviting themed displays, and how to welcome guests when you're throwing a party. And we tell you how lice became one of the most important factors in designing the features of early foyers!
In this first episode of bschooltalk, Judith asks her panel of business school admissions experts about the GMAT. Your GMAT score will help determine which business schools you may be accepted into, but what does the score really mean? To what extent is your GMAT performance an indicator of success in business school? How much does it "make or break" your application?
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. And don't miss their recommendation for greening up your next home renovation!
Ranging from just one to up to nine, the application essay is a very important part of your business school application as well the toughest part. You may not have a favorite essay but what about the admissions representatives from each school, do thye have a favorite application. Judith asked our panel of business school experts and here is what they had to say.
Q: How Do I Get a Great Look? Everyone wants a great-looking interior. Design2Share gets questioned a lot about how to confidently select a great look when there are so many styles to choose from. Bottom line: a great look should really thrill and excite you. This episode covers our design pros' advice and tips on how to be aware of your surroundings, where to find inspiration for your next project, how to see what makes certain design elements good or bad, how to make a large project less daunting, how to use travel to inspire your quest for a great look, and how to find interiors that speak to you. Join Irwin and Nicola as they help you 'learn to look.'
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 home office to make it a relaxed and quiet space, ways to make the home office serve several functions, and the importance of good lighting. And don't miss our tip on feng shui and the proper placement of your desk!
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 on how to select special pieces, what to do with scale in any room, tips for buying art with your design scheme in mind, changing outdated picture frames and lampshades, the importance of David Hicks' concept of 'tablescapes' for arranging accessories, where and how to buy artwork, and tips to keep in mind when purchasing art.
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 on the room's function as a guide to decorating, how to mix expensive with inexpensive pieces to get a great look, getting the living room to relate to the rest of your home, and the specific design elements that combine to make one great living room.
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-wrinkle sheet tip, Nicola's advice for maximizing guest room sleeping comfort, and Irwin's unique design for squeezing ample bed space into a tiny guest room. And, of course, you'll get his devilish tip for unwelcoming house guests!
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 controls to do everything except brush your teeth, Irwin's recommendation for laundering pillow cases, and our favorite tip of all (hint: you can sell your iron)!
The bschooltalk panel of business school admissions experts discuss with Judith their impressions of business school students and MBA candidates.
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, specific details you can change or refresh to achieve more impact on a limited budget, appliances that will help you achieve a better look, and the welcome groundswell for using eco-friendly building materials and recycling in your kitchen project. Finally, our 'tip2share' segment recommends new resources that won't strain the environment. Go green!
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