Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Welcome
Speaker 1: to home Where. Every week we help you better understand
Speaker 1: that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 1: House Whisper here with you live like I am every
Speaker 1: weekend Saturday morning, six to eight Pacific time, Sunday mornings
Speaker 1: nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome to the show. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the third hour of our little show. We're talking
Speaker 1: about little things today, little details that matter in your home. Also,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go back to the phones
Speaker 1: next break, So just so you know, we're not done
Speaker 1: with calls yet today. If you're already on the line,
Speaker 1: you might want to hang tight. Otherwise. The number to
Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean. A three
Speaker 1: three the numeral to ask Dean, and that can be
Speaker 1: any question about anything that's going on with your home today.
Speaker 1: A three three two, As Dean. We will go back
Speaker 1: to the phones right after the next news break. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm still struggling with this frog in my throat, so
Speaker 1: forgive me if I have a moment or two here, Uh,
Speaker 1: I left you hanging at the end of the last segment,
Speaker 1: I said, how does the fact that there are trims available,
Speaker 1: lighting trims available for your recess can lights other than
Speaker 1: the ones that you're staring up at right now, how
Speaker 1: does that become a detail that matters that can transform
Speaker 1: your home. Well, I shared with you that the number
Speaker 1: one rule of lighting design is that we light things,
Speaker 1: not rooms things. And and of course we talked the sad,
Speaker 1: sad story of most people's recess can lights just in
Speaker 1: a big grid on the ceiling. So without moving those cans,
Speaker 1: how can we get them closer to the ideal? Well,
Speaker 1: here is how we go out and we get a
Speaker 1: new trim for that recess can light. That trim instead
Speaker 1: of being a down light where it just straight down,
Speaker 1: throws light down onto the floor, also producing glare as
Speaker 1: you look up to the ceiling because you see the
Speaker 1: light source right with your eyeball there. Instead of that,
Speaker 1: what we want is something like a gimbal. A gimbal
Speaker 1: a gimbal is a movable They used to be called eyeballs,
Speaker 1: but they don't look like eyeballs anymore, so we don't
Speaker 1: call them that. A gimbal is a movable, directional, pointable
Speaker 1: light source. And yes, there is a gimbal trim for
Speaker 1: the recess can light in your home. What that means
Speaker 1: is that we can take those can lights that are
Speaker 1: close to walls but pointing straight down where they shouldn't be,
Speaker 1: and we can use them to point them out at
Speaker 1: the wall and wash the wall with light. You don't
Speaker 1: need it down on the floor, you don't need it
Speaker 1: directly on the sofa or the thing that you're sitting on.
Speaker 1: You don't want it there. You want it bouncing off
Speaker 1: the wall. Direct it over to the wall so that
Speaker 1: it can light up the piece of art or the
Speaker 1: family photos, or whatever it is that's hanging light up
Speaker 1: the fireplace brick or the stone work, there anything on
Speaker 1: those walls that we want to feature. And so yes,
Speaker 1: for a relatively low amount of money, you can go
Speaker 1: and replace the trims in the recess can lights in
Speaker 1: your home, the down trims with directional wall washing gimbal trims.
Speaker 1: Plug them in LED. If you've got LED, now they unplug.
Speaker 1: There's a universal LED connector you can plug in the
Speaker 1: new trims, slide it up into place, and boom. Now
Speaker 1: we're creating romantic lighting, textured lighting, layered lighting, non glared
Speaker 1: lighting throughout your home. We've changed radically the look now,
Speaker 1: maybe not one hundred percent of what we would do
Speaker 1: if we had been there to help you lay out
Speaker 1: those lights when they were first installed, but we can
Speaker 1: get really really close to it. I mean, we can
Speaker 1: get way over eighty percent better with your recess can
Speaker 1: lights by just utilizing a gimbal trim and or a snoot.
Speaker 1: What is a snoot? A snoot is also a lighting
Speaker 1: trim that has a little tube on it or a
Speaker 1: controlled baffle. And this in the case if we really
Speaker 1: have a piece of artwork that we want to accentuate
Speaker 1: without washing the wall around it, a snoot is what
Speaker 1: essentially allows us to focus that light in a kind
Speaker 1: of a spotlight form right onto the artwork without bleeding
Speaker 1: to the wall around it, so that the art really
Speaker 1: pops boom. So gimbals and snoots and baffles, oh my, yes,
Speaker 1: this is how we transform that improperly designed but not
Speaker 1: improperly installed, but improperly designed recess lighting on your ceiling.
Speaker 1: And by the way, while we're at it, one detail
Speaker 1: that matters immensely throughout your home when it comes to
Speaker 1: lighting dimmers, dimmer switches on everything, just about everything. Why,
Speaker 1: because the light in your home is constantly changing, the
Speaker 1: light at night, the light in mid afternoon, the light
Speaker 1: in the early morning, and your use of a space
Speaker 1: is constantly changing. No more of just full on, full off.
Speaker 1: That's all you get, this binary choice. It's a one
Speaker 1: or a zero. It's just bright or it's dark. But control,
Speaker 1: especially if we're throwing accent lighting now onto your walls.
Speaker 1: Control the amount of light, bring it down so that
Speaker 1: we can see it, but it's not overblowing the room.
Speaker 1: Lots of control. Lighting is theater, my friend. And the
Speaker 1: more you can get theatrical level control on your lighting,
Speaker 1: the better your house will look at all times. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense?
Speaker 2: Good? All right?
Speaker 1: Our next step is into the world of carpentry, specifically
Speaker 1: trim carpentry, and specifically moldings, though not so much where
Speaker 1: moldings are or where moldings go, but how they come
Speaker 1: to an end. The ends of moldings, the ends of
Speaker 1: base boards when a baseboard comes to the end of
Speaker 1: a wall and doesn't just end in a corner, the
Speaker 1: end of a crown molding when it has to be
Speaker 1: interrupted by something in a ceiling, and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. How to end a molding. Well, it's probably
Speaker 1: not the way it ends in your home, but we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it right after.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Thanks for joining us on our fine little
Speaker 1: program here on this beautiful beauty. Have you looked outside?
Speaker 1: It is gorgeous outside. It's a beautiful southern California fall weekend.
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's breezy. The air is just amazing. It's sunny.
Speaker 1: My gosh. We're getting out in the garden and doing
Speaker 1: some fiddling around this afternoon. Why because we can and
Speaker 1: because we must. That's definitely what's going on today, because
Speaker 1: we got to get out in that. I went out
Speaker 1: this morning with Tina, went to the gym early this morning.
Speaker 1: I went out to a little three mile walk this morning,
Speaker 1: right as the sun was coming up. It was cold,
Speaker 1: like well so cow cold. It was like forty something. Awesome,
Speaker 1: It was awesome. What a great way to start the day. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I hope you got plans to get out in this
Speaker 1: today because it is waiting for you and it would
Speaker 1: be a shame to miss it. Anyway, Thanks for being
Speaker 1: on the program with us. We're talking about details that matter.
Speaker 1: But also I said that we were going to go
Speaker 1: back to the phones, and now is the time to
Speaker 1: do just that. I want to talk to Sean. Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 2: Idan. I had a question my house.
Speaker 4: I see, I took up vinyl flooring and I didn't
Speaker 4: realize that it had this backing that held to the
Speaker 4: cement floor and it didn't look like a big deal,
Speaker 4: and I let it go for about a.
Speaker 2: Month or so. It turns out it's asbestos.
Speaker 4: And I'm finding out that homes, homes in the seventies
Speaker 4: and eighties might have asbestos. And I walked over it
Speaker 4: a little bit, and I walked around maybe for a month,
Speaker 4: and I tracked it on my carpet up and.
Speaker 2: Stairs in the room.
Speaker 4: And now I'm under us like a Procedure five program
Speaker 4: where they're going to charge me almost thirty thousand to
Speaker 4: clean my house. And I thought, wow, does anybody know
Speaker 4: about this stuff? Because all I knew about were popcorn
Speaker 4: ceilings when it came to asbestos, and I just wondered
Speaker 4: if you could give me some advice because it's coming up.
Speaker 2: The the.
Speaker 4: Abatement is coming up, and that's what's going to cost
Speaker 4: me about thirty thousand.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, advice number one is that have you
Speaker 1: priced out competitively the abatement process for the home. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you whether thirty thousand dollars is the
Speaker 1: right I mean that's a lot of money, clearly, and
Speaker 1: I know you're hurting. I feel you, man, I totally
Speaker 1: fail you. I don't know if thirty thousand dollars is
Speaker 1: the right price or the best price, or even in
Speaker 1: the ballpark, because it varies so much home to home,
Speaker 1: square footage, conditions, all of that kind of stuff. The
Speaker 1: only way, like so many areas in construction, that you're
Speaker 1: going to know if you're getting a square price or
Speaker 1: not is whether or not you've had you know, two
Speaker 1: or three companies take a look at it and all
Speaker 1: give you pricing for it and get their input and
Speaker 1: advice on it along the way. Then you'll know, because
Speaker 1: then once you've got two or three qualified estimates, then
Speaker 1: you'll know, well that one's out to lunch. These two
Speaker 1: are within you know, a few couple hundred bucks of
Speaker 1: each other. This is clearly you know what this thing
Speaker 1: should cost.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, we did that, and they were I
Speaker 4: did that and they were pretty they were very low
Speaker 4: compared to the others. And now they're going to go
Speaker 4: in and they say everything that's poorous, like all my clothes,
Speaker 4: everything that's poorous. So this this all also takes in
Speaker 4: mechanical things like blenders and microwaves, refrigerator and my new
Speaker 4: washer and dryer. Are saying all of that has to
Speaker 4: go or or you can sign up on it and say,
Speaker 4: I don't care if it has asbestos, and I don't
Speaker 4: know what that leads to, but they're saying, yeah, everything
Speaker 4: like that under this program is supposed to go.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you know, it's a sticky wicket. I don't
Speaker 1: want to tell you that you should, you know, not
Speaker 1: get rid of all of that stuff or have it
Speaker 1: dealt with all right. I don't want to be the
Speaker 1: one to tell you that. I'm not in a position
Speaker 1: and qualified to tell you that. I will tell you
Speaker 1: this that when it comes to abatements, we do our
Speaker 1: best to encapsulate, not abait Okay, Now, I know the
Speaker 1: majority of the costs that you're talking about now is
Speaker 1: in all of these poor surface objects and things like that.
Speaker 1: I just want you to realize that the danger of
Speaker 1: asbestos is breathing it in, Okay, it's It's not when
Speaker 1: it just lays there and stares at you. Okay, it
Speaker 1: is inhalation, that's the problem. And so when asbestos is undisturbed, uh,
Speaker 1: then when it's particular its particulates are not airborne, then
Speaker 1: it is not a risk to anyone in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. It is only as its carcinogenic effects
Speaker 1: when it is inhaled, when it is breathed in. So
Speaker 1: when you disturb it and it goes airborne, which is
Speaker 1: why as opposed to taking it out of a lot
Speaker 1: of houses, a lot of popcorn ceilings and or vinyl floors,
Speaker 1: we will encapsulate it, which means cover it up, cover
Speaker 1: it over. That's, by the way, completely legal and acceptable
Speaker 1: in every code and every jurisdiction because the concern is
Speaker 1: not we just need all asbestos to disappear from homes.
Speaker 1: The concern is we want you protected from it. Okay.
Speaker 4: So I mean they did tell me about that that
Speaker 4: it's typical to encase it.
Speaker 2: But this is already I've already taken up the vinyl.
Speaker 4: Flooring and it had a backing that was a felt backing,
Speaker 4: and it looked just.
Speaker 2: Like the cement. It was just a very thin, thin.
Speaker 4: Felt backing that glewed down hard to the cement. And
Speaker 4: they said, when you walk over it, or even if
Speaker 4: you just leave it there, it phrays. That means it
Speaker 4: goes up into the air. And they the square footage
Speaker 4: is they're saying, we're talking about floors, talking about walls,
Speaker 4: talking about ceilings and all that's got to be wiped down.
Speaker 4: And then they truck it away in special trucks and
Speaker 4: it's I've never heard of this, and.
Speaker 2: You know it's so it hit me by it such
Speaker 2: a surprise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's that's if it was any other thing,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you this. Because of the legalities surrounding it,
Speaker 1: I hope I can communicate the essence of what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say without stepping over the line here. If
Speaker 1: it was any other object, like cleaning dust out of
Speaker 1: your house and something, I would tell those people hit
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: Are you crazy? You are now telling me that somehow
Speaker 1: magically I have tracked this onto every wall surface, every ceiling,
Speaker 1: every bit of clothing in my closets, and then it's
Speaker 1: all coming after me. Okay. It strains credulity to think
Speaker 1: that that kind of exposure has happened because you have
Speaker 1: walked a few times across your exposed kitchen floor. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: I am not saying that it hasn't moved around some
Speaker 1: or that the kitchen floor should not be addressed. But
Speaker 1: the reason I'm holding back, my friend, is because you know,
Speaker 1: it's a carcinogenic substance. And I don't want to put
Speaker 1: myself or KFI or any or you in the position
Speaker 1: where we're making a decision that you know, based on
Speaker 1: advice that I'm giving you to like, yeah, you ignore
Speaker 1: the carcinogens in your home. You know I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you to do that. But there has got to be
Speaker 1: some limit to where this. I mean, asbestos is not
Speaker 1: a live Okay, it's not baby powder either. It doesn't
Speaker 1: just creep and crawl and get everywhere waiting to be
Speaker 1: disturbed again. But I am not the expert in and
Speaker 1: so these are This is my concern. This is where
Speaker 1: you've got me up against a place where I really
Speaker 1: really want to tell you that they're going way further
Speaker 1: than what practically needs to happen. But I can't tell
Speaker 1: you that because I don't want to put your your
Speaker 1: health at risk by me being ignorant of the fact
Speaker 1: that if you miss this one thing, boom there it happens.
Speaker 1: But yeah, all I can tell you, Sean, all I
Speaker 1: can tell you is that asbestos is not a powdery
Speaker 1: substance that just floats everywhere all the time once you've
Speaker 1: disturbed it. Yes, there are controlled ways of taking care
Speaker 1: of it. Yes, you want to be careful not to
Speaker 1: make it airborne. Yes you want to encapsulate it or
Speaker 1: abate it so that you don't come into contact with it.
Speaker 1: But just disturbing some of it in one area of
Speaker 1: the house. Are we now saying that it's literally everywhere
Speaker 1: and your life is in danger being in that house
Speaker 1: if we don't wipe down every wall, every ceiling of.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 1: Just man, it hurts. Better safe than sorry, Okay, but
Speaker 1: yeah it hurts, And I feel you. I feel you.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to I don't want to overstretch here.
Speaker 1: I do not give advice here that ever that is iffy.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always usually very very confident in what
Speaker 1: I tell you to do when you do it, that
Speaker 1: you'll at least be safe in the process. And this
Speaker 1: is not my area of expertise. I mean, I've worked
Speaker 1: with abatements a lot, but I am not an especimens
Speaker 1: abatement contractor or an asbestos expert. But man, if you
Speaker 1: were to ask me an encapsulation or abatement of my
Speaker 1: kitchen floor for thirty thousand dollars, I'd say that's insane. Okay,
Speaker 1: But they're talking about wiping down every surface in the
Speaker 1: entire house. That is something I've never had to send
Speaker 1: a client through that before, and to me, it just
Speaker 1: seems extreme. It just seems extreme. But man, I feel you.
Speaker 1: I feel you don't know what to tell you. Man,
Speaker 1: You've you've kind of stumped me on that one. Sean,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all when we come back. Details that matter.
Speaker 1: I feel bad that I can't give him more direction,
Speaker 1: But it's a sticky wicket asbestos details that matter when
Speaker 1: we return.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're talking about details that matter. Details do matter in
Speaker 1: your home. Every ask anybody the hospitality industry how much
Speaker 1: detail matters, and they will tell you, Oh, it's the
Speaker 1: game that is the game right there. Details how much
Speaker 1: service you get a smile on a server's face, versus
Speaker 1: you know, a frown or a grimace being greeted by name.
Speaker 1: Just these little things. But layer upon layer upon layer, man,
Speaker 1: they'll just change everything. They'll change everything. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many times we have We've gone to like
Speaker 1: a restaurant and Tina has walked away saying, I just
Speaker 1: love that place. They are the nicest people there. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we also went for the food. Well, the food,
Speaker 1: of course was great, because it's prepared with the same
Speaker 1: kind of detailed care as you have in the front
Speaker 1: of house, you know, staff service. But the point is
Speaker 1: detailing the details in life. This is the thing that
Speaker 1: gets missed out. It was absolutely, without question overlooked when
Speaker 1: your classic tracked home was built. There are a few
Speaker 1: details here and there, but not many, because tracked homes
Speaker 1: are built in you know, large strokes, broad swaths of idea.
Speaker 1: And so now now that you're there, now that you've
Speaker 1: got control, now that you've decided to make it your
Speaker 1: place and you own this thing, or whether you're just
Speaker 1: living in a condo or renting an apartment, these are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that, without breaking the bank, can
Speaker 1: make a big, big difference in your daily experience of
Speaker 1: this space and everybody else's as well. So there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, back to the list. I promised you that
Speaker 1: we would now address something. I don't know if I've
Speaker 1: got another thing on the list that fits into this,
Speaker 1: but nevertheless, we're going to move into the area of
Speaker 1: finished carpentry here for moment moldings. There's probably as a
Speaker 1: as a carpenter myself. There are very few things that
Speaker 1: unnerve me, kind of like make my head go sideways
Speaker 1: twitch when I see a molding that has been ended
Speaker 1: inappropriately at the end of a wall. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons why sometimes a baseboard has to run
Speaker 1: out and then just come to an end. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean it runs into a thing. That's easy. You
Speaker 1: just run it into a thing and then you cut
Speaker 1: it as it hits the other item inside corner of
Speaker 1: a wall or a piece of furniture or what have you.
Speaker 1: But now I'm talking about these moldings that will run
Speaker 1: and that have to just end near the end of
Speaker 1: a wall, but not quite. They don't turn a corner,
Speaker 1: they don't do whatever their ends are exposed. How do
Speaker 1: you end a molding? All right, I'm just gonna resolve
Speaker 1: this once and for all. Well, first of all, i'll
Speaker 1: tell you how not to what Number one. You don't
Speaker 1: just ninety degree end cut it, stick it up there
Speaker 1: and let it be. No, you don't because the back
Speaker 1: of a molding has a hollowed out cut in it,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that from the side. So which leads
Speaker 1: us to number two. You don't just ninety degree end
Speaker 1: cut it and then use caulking like on a slant
Speaker 1: to end out that molding. That's not right either. That's
Speaker 1: even worse, if that's even possible, it's worse. Now, this
Speaker 1: is how you end a molding, and there is never
Speaker 1: ever an excuse not to do it this way other
Speaker 1: than somebody didn't take the time. Now, if you ran
Speaker 1: some moldings in your house and you just didn't know, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you that excuse. But for a
Speaker 1: carpenter not to do this properly, it's you know, it's unforgivable.
Speaker 1: So here's how you end a molding. You know that
Speaker 1: when you come out around an outside corner, you make
Speaker 1: a miter cut on a molding, right, a little forty
Speaker 1: five degree angle, and then a forty five degree angle
Speaker 1: on the next piece and they join at the corner.
Speaker 1: Inside corners, you've got an inside miner cut outside corner,
Speaker 1: you have an outside miner cut where the two join up.
Speaker 1: And it's a very very lovely connection when they line
Speaker 1: up just right, because not only does the molding just
Speaker 1: continue whip right around the corner, but also on an
Speaker 1: outside corner, you get to see the profile of the molding,
Speaker 1: whatever's going on with it, whatever little details they're kind
Speaker 1: of visible. It's a little bit of a sculpted profile
Speaker 1: visible on that outside corner. Well, imagine that we're gonna
Speaker 1: make an outside corner cut on our molding as we
Speaker 1: have to end. It just comes to an end without
Speaker 1: connecting to anything else. That's exactly what we do. We
Speaker 1: make an outside corner miter, a little forty five degree
Speaker 1: miter cut on the end of that molding, and then
Speaker 1: we take another little piece of molding and we're gonna
Speaker 1: make another the opposite out side corner molding cut there
Speaker 1: on that one, all right, So that as if we
Speaker 1: were going to go around a corner, turning a corner,
Speaker 1: but we're not turning a corner, we're running into the wall.
Speaker 1: So the second piece of molding that you just cut
Speaker 1: with that outside corner angle on it. We're going to
Speaker 1: put that under the saw again, and we're literally now
Speaker 1: going to make a straight end cut right down where
Speaker 1: that outside angle comes to an end. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a tiny little sliver of molding that you end up with.
Speaker 1: You should, if you've cut it properly, end up with
Speaker 1: a tiny little sliver of molding with a forty five
Speaker 1: degree angle on it that is only its length, is
Speaker 1: only the width of the molding board that you're ending.
Speaker 1: That's it. Like, how in the world am I supposed
Speaker 1: to nail that in? If I nail it, I will crack.
Speaker 1: You don't nail it in. You take a little bit
Speaker 1: of wood glue, and you put a little on the
Speaker 1: surface of the existing molding face and a little bit
Speaker 1: on the surface of this tiny little piece, and you
Speaker 1: shove it in there. You can use a little masking
Speaker 1: tape temporarily to hold it in place if you need to.
Speaker 1: You shove it in there, clean up the excess glue
Speaker 1: that has spilled out of the joint, and you walk away,
Speaker 1: and you come back fifteen minutes later, and you take
Speaker 1: the tape off, and you have a beautiful molding that
Speaker 1: has self terminated at the end of the wall. Who
Speaker 1: I took a whole segment to explain that. That was
Speaker 1: a long explanation. But here's why it's so important. The
Speaker 1: finished carpentry in your house is a prime example of
Speaker 1: the details that people see that you see that ascend
Speaker 1: a signal somebody cared or somebody just threw this thing
Speaker 1: up at seventy miles an hour and just kept moving on.
Speaker 1: And this is such that idea. I believe me. I
Speaker 1: know this, having been aske to run thousands upon thousands
Speaker 1: of feet of molding. You have to pause, You have
Speaker 1: to take the effort to do this, and it interrupts
Speaker 1: your workflow, and you really want to get this thing done.
Speaker 1: But to do it right, you got to do it
Speaker 1: this way. And those who do it these are the
Speaker 1: people who know what they're doing because the results are beautiful. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. All right, A couple more thoughts when
Speaker 1: we come back, and a closing thought for the day.
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Here we are at the end of another
Speaker 1: three hours together. I am so grateful that you've chosen
Speaker 1: to spend the time. I hope that the tips, the tricks,
Speaker 1: the insights were inspiring to you, and I hope they
Speaker 1: got you thinking, at least bare minimum about the tails
Speaker 1: in your home. A couple of more things to share
Speaker 1: with you before we are out of here today. Of course,
Speaker 1: here's a detail. I don't want to dilabor the delabor,
Speaker 1: belabor the point, but I'm just gonna say it. Clear
Speaker 1: your clutter. Just clear out the clutter. We all have
Speaker 1: too much stuff, period the end. Nothing says I have
Speaker 1: no vision for my home like having too much stuff
Speaker 1: in a room. Just it's just the truth, Okay, because
Speaker 1: you're all over the place. And I don't mean those
Speaker 1: of you who are brilliantly eclectic, and I think most
Speaker 1: people who struggle with hoarding things think of themselves as
Speaker 1: brilliantly eclectic. But I'm just saying, clear out the clutter.
Speaker 1: Cluttered people, This is not a clear vision for any
Speaker 1: room in the house. So this is the way I'll
Speaker 1: put it. This way, It's on the Deep Tails Matters
Speaker 1: list because sometimes you need. The best thing you can
Speaker 1: do for a room is remove details, too many of
Speaker 1: them around. Okay. Another thing that I want you to
Speaker 1: think about is not just visual elements, but details when
Speaker 1: it comes to the other senses all right, textures and
Speaker 1: especially scent and sound when it comes to experiencing a space.
Speaker 1: So candles, especially this time of year. Right, you've got
Speaker 1: full permission this time of year to have scented candles
Speaker 1: going on all around a house. Tina and I need
Speaker 1: to replace one of our favorite apple based candles that
Speaker 1: just ended yesterday where you I know it's gone now,
Speaker 1: so we've got to get a replacement for it. We
Speaker 1: roasted some apples. We just roasted apples in the oven
Speaker 1: last night. Unbelievable how it made the house smell incredible.
Speaker 1: So don't underestimate the power of scent. It elicits so
Speaker 1: much memory in us. There's nothing in our senses that
Speaker 1: to strike at memory better than aroma's right. And then sound,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't have running water around the house,
Speaker 1: then you can introduce it through apps like nature Space,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite apps. Look it up on your
Speaker 1: mobile device or your phone. Nature Space beautiful, beautiful, not contrived,
Speaker 1: natural sounds, soundtracks that just roll and not in some
Speaker 1: short little loop where you detect a pattern. But like
Speaker 1: hours as it rolls, So capture all the senses, clear
Speaker 1: the clutter. Last thing I'm gonna tell you for this
Speaker 1: is make your house meaningful. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: I mean no props. Okay, no props in a house.
Speaker 1: Demand of yourself and of your home that every item
Speaker 1: that you put on display in your house has some
Speaker 1: kind of meaning to it. Does that make sense? Some
Speaker 1: kind of meaning that means? Don't display books that you
Speaker 1: can't talk about. When I was younger in my career,
Speaker 1: I was talking to Amy King about this Friday morning
Speaker 1: when I was younger in my career and just you know,
Speaker 1: how to impress everybody and just do whatever any client wanted,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was still I was working in
Speaker 1: a state level home. So people are like, well, Dean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna I want you to build me a library.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, show me the books. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: we haven't got the books yet, but that we want
Speaker 1: you to shop the books out too, And and you know,
Speaker 1: I I was young and just willing to please and
Speaker 1: not the old cantankerous guy that I am now. And
Speaker 1: and so I'm like okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: filled so many personal libraries with so many books, and
Speaker 1: you know what, they're just all props because these are
Speaker 1: books that they look they give you the impression when
Speaker 1: you walk in like wow, this person is well read,
Speaker 1: very intellectual, very traveled, and yeah, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: bought those books. So when it comes to books in
Speaker 1: your home, don't display books that you can't have. No
Speaker 1: book in your home that you can't pull off the
Speaker 1: shelf and have a conversation about. You don't have to
Speaker 1: have a memorized but just say, oh yeah, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about that story. Keep it real, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You really want to live in a beautiful home,
Speaker 1: not just a designer house, a beautiful home, then keep
Speaker 1: it real. Okay, no props, No books that you can't
Speaker 1: talk about. Don't display anything that doesn't have a story
Speaker 1: behind it. Be guided by this quote from William Morris,
Speaker 1: a great, great designer and textile famous textile and wallpaper
Speaker 1: designer from the late eighteen hundreds. He said this, it's
Speaker 1: one of the guiding principles. Have nothing in your house
Speaker 1: that you do not know to be useful or believe
Speaker 1: to be beautiful. Period, end of story. And that's a
Speaker 1: great way of capping off the idea that details matter,
Speaker 1: because they do. All right, I got just enough time
Speaker 1: to leave you with a thought today. So here we go.
Speaker 1: Here we are. It's election week in America. You know
Speaker 1: you know that I don't talk politics here, aren't you glad?
Speaker 1: Aren't you glad about that? That is not what we
Speaker 1: are here for? And I, for one am very happy
Speaker 1: about that fact. But we do talk about our humanity here,
Speaker 1: because that's what a home is all about. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to take advantage of this being election week to
Speaker 1: share with you one non political, nonpartisan perspective, and it's this.
Speaker 1: As important as voting is, and it is obviously extremely important,
Speaker 1: the heart of democracy is not about voting, or free
Speaker 1: speech or any of the other rights that we hold dear, No,
Speaker 1: because democracy is people powered, which, by the way, is
Speaker 1: what that word democracy means, people powered, not person powered
Speaker 1: people e pluribus many. Okay. So, because democracy is people powered,
Speaker 1: what lies at its very heart is not a right
Speaker 1: or a list of rights at all, but rather a responsibility.
Speaker 1: And no, it's not the responsibility to vote. It is
Speaker 1: the responsibility to listen. Because we're all in this together.
Speaker 1: What lies at the heart of a successful democracy is empathy,
Speaker 1: the ability to walk a mile in another person's moccasins.
Speaker 1: Along those lines, I read a quote this week and
Speaker 1: its need so deeply with me that I wanted to
Speaker 1: share it with you. It said this, Democracies die not
Speaker 1: only when people are not free to talk, but more
Speaker 1: often when people are not able or willing to listen.
Speaker 1: The problem with democracy in America right now, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: is not that enough people are taking up their right
Speaker 1: to talk. It's that not enough people are taking up
Speaker 1: their responsibility to listen to each other. So there you go,
Speaker 1: just a thought, So this week, maybe take some deep breaths.
Speaker 1: We all need that. Maybe unclench your fist a little,
Speaker 1: argue a little less, listen a little more, walk a
Speaker 1: mile in another person's moccasins, and then course vote, and
Speaker 1: then get back to getting busy building yourself a beautiful
Speaker 1: and we will see you right back here next weekend.
Speaker 1: Have a great Sunday afternoon. This has been Home with
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast
Speaker 1: on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from six
Speaker 1: to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday morning from nine
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