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Let's say good morning to our house
whisper and host of Home on KFI.

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It's Dean Sharp. Hey Amy,
Hey Dean. So the year's almost over.

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It's time to start looking forward to
twenty twenty four. What's your predictions

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and prognostications. Oh, we got
a lot of them. I've written out

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a list of about thirty and that's
what we're going to be talking about this

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weekend, both Saturday and Sunday jets. We're not going to get through thirty

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of them right now. No,
No, you don't think, So we

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can try, we can try.
Uh. Yeah, so you know,

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there are some changes coming, I
think, and I'm kind of encouraged by

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most of them. Do you want
to talk about light fluffy decor and style

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stuff or some you know, some
more substantive things. Your choice. Let's

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talk light fluffy decor. Okay.
The color of the year for twenty twenty

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four from Benjamin Moore and many other
designers are pushing this way. It's going

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to be a year of blue.
It's going to be a year of some

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really beautiful blues like blue or a
deep dark blues. Well, you know,

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the deep dark blue has been in
use for a while now and it

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is a classic great color. But
yeah, it's a little bit more of

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a light blue with some gray blended
into it. So yeah, we're gonna

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be seeing more. Here's the trend, though, let me try and I

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just identify what's happening with that.
Okay, classically, right, For way

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too long, people have been painting
their houses in kind of neutral, warm

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colors like beige. Right, you
know, the beige of the eighties and

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the nineties then transitioned over and everybody
freaked out and said not that anymore,

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and everything went gray. Everything went
gray on gray on gray. Modern farm

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farmhouse kind of brought in gray as
the new neutral color, and now designers

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are reacting against that, saying,
okay, we've had enough of gray.

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So basically, imagine beige and imagine
gray. Okay, gray is a cooler

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color, Beige is a warmer color. What's happening now is we're pushing both

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of those boundaries further in each direction. And so what we're going to start

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seeing this year more and more on
the cool side. On the gray,

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we're turning into blues, and instead
of just beige, we're actually heading towards

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brown's And you know what, it
is a color combo that I have loved

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for a long long time. They
are very brown, eye blue and brown

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together. Think of a gorgeous blue
wall with a leather sofa sitting in front

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of it. I mean, it's
just fantastic. And so I kind of

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like the idea that you know,
we're not messing around with it anymore.

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We're not going to stay in the
middle ground. Let's go all the way

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in both directions, and what we
get is just eye popping and fantastic.

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Well, and you know what else, the blues tend to be. They're

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cool, Like you said, they
are cooler colors that I think they're calming,

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and I think everybody's so stressed out, freaked out, and there's so

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much nastiness. I think that that
it helps create your home as a sanctuary.

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Absolutely, it absolutely does. And
people are finding themselves because of housing

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issues in you know, smaller spaces
sometimes renting apartments and so on, and

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a cool color like blue, unbeknownst
to most people, actually kind of it's

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what we call a receding color.
It moves away from you, kind of

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like big sky. And so if
you live in a smaller space, painting

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a room in a blue tone actually
makes the space feel larger. Now,

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if you have a large space,
you go the opposite way. You paint

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it in warm tones and it makes
it a larger space feel cozier. But

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a smaller space and apartment space,
especially blues tend to get it a little

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bit more expansive, a little bit
more opened up. And you're absolutely right,

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it's calming, it's soothing. You
know, it's nature. You know,

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the the planet is covered in blue. We are you know, we're

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pre programmed to enjoy that color in
a big way. Okay, And you

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talked about nature, and that kind
of leads on to another trend for twenty

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twenty four, and that is wallpaper
and murals are coming back. Oh my

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gosh, wallpaper is having a massive
renaissance, right, going to be very

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happy about that. She loves the
wallpaper. Yeah. And a lot of

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people, you know, cringe when
they hear that still because I think they

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grew up in an abusive wallpaper environment
as a child. I know, we

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had this neighbor who had wallpaper.
She had wallpaper, kind of this granny

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wallpaper on the wall, this weird
yellow print. But then she had the

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drapes and pillows all matching the exact
same pattern. It was the freakiest thing

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in the world, and it just
made me dizzy. That's not what we're

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talking about. We're talking classic eras
of wallpaper feature walls. We're not wrapping

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an entire room and making it a
cave feature walls of wallpaper. There are

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some things that simply cannot be done
except in a repeating wallpaper pattern, and

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they're brilliant. And these days you
mentioned murals. Oh, we live in

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this era where now you can take
an entire wall, take a photograph of

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whatever you might love, an ocean
scene, a beach, whatever, a

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forested scene, and cover an entire
wall in that high res photo as a

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full wall mural and man talk about
transforming the space. Okay, cool?

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And then speaking of space, I
know that we have been on a trend

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to put TVs in every room,
and a trend that you're saying is going

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to come in the next year is
non media rooms and spaces. Yeah.

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Yeah, And you're talking about just
the stress of daily life and kind of

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the craziness that everybody's feeling right now. Part of that is the fact that

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we are just inundated with our tech
and people really are looking for a break

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from the screens. And so yeah, we have turned a corner now.

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And for those who can, they
we see a commitment now, a greater

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commitment to conversational rooms, rooms to
sit and read, rooms, to simply

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listen to music, and to get
away from the screen. And you know,

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you may not have multiple rooms in
your house where you can do a

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media room and a non media room, but what you can do is you

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can find a way to hide the
screen away when you are not using it.

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And that's what Tina and I have
done. We have one family room.

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That's it. You know, we
live in a small house, but

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our TV is tucked away in what
looks like a French china cabinet that is

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mounted on the wall. And so
when it's conversation night or time to just

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hang out, the black mirror is
not looming in the room. I love

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that. Okay, so so many
things to talk about. I wish we

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had like a couple of hours.
Oh you know, when you're gonna have

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a couple of hours on Saturday and
Sunday, you can listen Oh you can

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listen to Home with Dean. Yeah, from six to eight on Saturday,

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and then nine to noon on Sunday, it's Home with Dean Sharp right here

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on KFI. And if you want
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the Instagram tag again? Home with
Dean easy right? Yeah, all right,

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and you're are you going to post
some of those pictures? There's some

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cool stuff in here. Yeah.
We'll be posting all weekend. Uh,

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and hopefully we'll get through the entire
list by the end of Sunday. All

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right, Thank you so much,
Dean Sharp. Thanks Amy,