Scott Corridan

Name: Scott Corridan

Show Canceled: Challenge 3

Age: 37

Home: Santa Barbara, California

Profession: Event Planner/Interior Designer

Education: Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning — University of California at Santa Barbara

Why I should win: Because I love sharing and working through great design with an audience.

My secret weapon: My glue gun.

My design style boils down to: California flip-flop-wearing, chenille-blanket-throwing, natural and sophisticated.

Three favorite styles:
1. Barn/western
2. California beach
3. California modern ranch

A design do: Always lighting a space properly with incandescent light, candlelight or both. No one looks good in a poorly lit fluorescent space.

A design don't: Never place objects on unnecessary angles.

Favorite room to design: Bedroom.

Dream design project: A Western ranch on acreage with horses and barns.

Formal design training: USC School of Architecture; UCSB Environmental Studies with a focus on Urban Planning; Associate Designer at CT Design, Santa Barbara; Associate Designer at Tesutti Bartoli Design, Santa Barbara; owner of Corridan & Company Design Studios since 1994.

Family: Parents, my brother, Kevin, and sister-in-law, Mandy, and my nephews Jacob and Kael.

When not working, I'm: Riding my horse or skiing in Mammoth Lakes, where I have a second home.

Something you'd never guess about me: That I want to have great financial wealth so I can fund and further the causes I'm passionate about.

Childhood dream: To make the world a more beautiful place.

My dream vacation: A beach in Baja, California, under a palm tree on the sand after body surfing for hours.

Four words that describe me: Passionate, intense, dedicated and hot.

If my life were a sitcom, it would be: The OC, okay, it's not really a sitcom, but every person [including the locale] is the life I come from.