Design2Share

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 up their dining rooms, rules of thumb for dining room seating, ways to decorate and light your dining room, and style tips that will elevate your dining room from ordinary to stunning!

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!