WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.719 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.880 We broadcast live on Saturday mornings from six to eight 4 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:18.719 Pacific time and from Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. 5 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.359 And as soon as we're done with the broadcast, those 6 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:27.640 broadcasts become our podcasts, which live on in Green Eternity 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:34.359 in the archives of our podcast which can be found anywhere. 8 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:36.960 You can find it on the iHeartRadio app, of course 9 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.799 for free. It's free everywhere the free iHeartRadio app. You 10 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:46.759 can also find it on whatever your favorite podcast place is, 11 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.439 whether that's Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you listen 12 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.079 to your favorite podcast. Just search for Home with Dean 13 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:57.560 Sharp or The House Whisper. You will find us. You'll 14 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.359 find us there. It's not a very common name, the 15 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.799 House Whisper. There are a few places that use the 16 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.519 house Whisper. There's a there's an interior design firm I 17 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:11.799 think in Atlanta that fixes up houses in prep for sale, 18 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.719 that stages houses for sale that's named House Whisper. And 19 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.879 I think there's a real estate inspector. Last time I 20 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:24.040 checked up in I think the Bay Area that uses 21 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.760 house Whisper to do real estate inspections, you know, pre 22 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:31.760 sale inspections. Nothing has neither one of those have anything 23 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.480 to do with what we do. We design custom homes 24 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:38.799 and every facet of a custom home outside inside the 25 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.959 whole thing. There is a house Whisper over in the 26 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:48.799 UK that I think actually talks to houses. I'm just saying, actually, 27 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.000 you know, kind of says things to the house and 28 00:01:55.319 --> 00:02:00.519 says that the house says things back to him. And yeah, 29 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:03.400 I don't do that. I don't do that, although people 30 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.120 think I do, because when we come into your home, 31 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:13.159 it's it sometimes shocks and surprises people how much we 32 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.800 understand about their home that they've been living in for 33 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.439 thirty years that they didn't notice themselves. So anyway, I'm 34 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:22.879 just saying, I'm just saying on our podcast, wherever podcasts 35 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.479 are found, house Whisper, it's easy to find and very 36 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.240 likely put my name in there as well. Dean Dean Sharp, 37 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.680 it's me. You'll see me there, I'm there, and then 38 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.560 you can listen hundreds of episodes, all searchable by topic. 39 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.719 It's a home improvement reference library that we're building for 40 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.240 you there and by the way. If you're thinking, well, 41 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:41.520 that's all great, but what we really need is Dean 42 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.000 and Tina standing in our home. We'll serve up some coffee, 43 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.039 We'll give them a biscuit or two just to keep 44 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.280 their energy up, and then they can solve our problem 45 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.240 for us. Well, yeah, you can do that too. You 46 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.319 can book an in home design consult with me and 47 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:57.039 the tee. You just go to house Whisperer dot Design. Okay, 48 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.240 run a little behind and so I've got to catch Yeah, 49 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.000 but I'm gonna we're gonna dive back into this conversation 50 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:09.520 on color. Okay, so less than one task one, I 51 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.319 don't know, whatever you want to call it. Okay, Principal one. 52 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:19.199 When you are testing color samples, it is imperative, imperative 53 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:24.080 that you reproduce the final conditions as much as possible. 54 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.639 That means large samples back at your house, large samples 55 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.599 as large as possible in the target room, on the 56 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:40.319 target's surface, painted over primer, painted over primer. This is critical. 57 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:42.120 I'm going to talk about this sum on the other 58 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.680 side of the break. If you're changing the color of 59 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.919 a room, let's say, oh, right now, the room is blue, 60 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.840 but i'd like it to go like a shade of 61 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:53.960 canary yellow. Okay, do not bring canary yellow home and 62 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.159 put a sample of canary yellow on the blue wall. 63 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:05.199 Why mixed LightWave frequencies into your eyeballs. Suddenly guess what 64 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.080 blue and yellow mixed together create green? Yeah, it's gonna 65 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.919 be like ew. Okay, So what we have to do first? 66 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.959 If you know you're going to change the color of 67 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.240 a room, then get the primer up on the walls 68 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.920 and get the room white first. Then bring home your 69 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.079 color samples, then canary yellow. We'll have a fighting chance 70 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.199 of showing you what the end result might be. Canary 71 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.439 yellow with white next to it. Different, completely different than 72 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:37.959 if you paint canary yellow a splotch of it on 73 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:41.040 top of a blue wall. It is going to mess 74 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.959 with your eyeballs. Okay, I guarantee it. All right, I 75 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:46.920 got more of this. We'll talk a little bit more 76 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:52.759 in detail about that large samples, target room, target, surface, 77 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:54.680 painted over primer when we return. 78 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:59.079 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 79 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:00.319 KFI A six. 80 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.600 So glad that you are with us on the program. 81 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.560 It is a privilege to spend some time with you 82 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.560 talking about this very important thing that you call home. 83 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.360 We're all about turning ordinary houses into extraordinary homes in 84 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.360 any way that we can. From a design, construction, DIY 85 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.120 architectural perspective. It's all here waiting for you. That's what 86 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.680 I'm all about, and so I'm happy to do it. 87 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.920 And we're talking about one of the trickiest things when 88 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.959 it comes to that kind of process today, and that 89 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.480 is color. Color colors are tricky. So before the break, 90 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.439 I told you this less than one, I mean, most 91 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.279 important fundamental thing. When you're testing color samples, it is 92 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:52.519 imperative that you reproduce the final condition as much as possible. 93 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:54.519 That's what I spent so much time at the beginning 94 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.879 of the show today, And if you missed any part 95 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.360 of the show, you should go back and listen to 96 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:03.240 it on the podcast. But I've spent so much time 97 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:08.879 explaining to you that color is all about various frequencies 98 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.800 of light waves getting into our eyes and then the 99 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:18.759 brain interpreting those wavelengths of light. And when there are 100 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:24.199 mixed wavelengths of light coming at various sizes, then the 101 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:29.000 brain struggles to interpret those and those colors change. Because 102 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:33.560 color is not an absolute it is a biological interpretation 103 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.160 of light inside your brain. So that means that every 104 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:42.560 single condition that changes changes a color, always always changes 105 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.560 a color. In fact, if you're sitting in a room 106 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.199 right now, it doesn't even matter what color. Even if 107 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.319 you think you just have white walls, you don't. You 108 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:54.079 don't have stark white walls. You may have bright whiteish walls. 109 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:56.120 But even if you're sitting in a room right now, 110 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:01.199 there is a difference in the color on the walls. 111 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.120 There's one wall in the room that has a lot 112 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.439 of bright light hitting it, and then there's another room 113 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.600 there's another wall, probably a wall that's adjacent to it, 114 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:13.560 that has less direct light coming to it, and so 115 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.319 it's darker. It's just literally a darker color. And you see, 116 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.000 so that changes and it keeps changing throughout the day. 117 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.160 So that's what I mean when I say testing a 118 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.879 color sample. And I'm serious when I tell you this, 119 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.240 because when we as designers are working out colors in 120 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.680 a room for a client, we really mess that room 121 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.759 up with samples. I mean we really do. We want 122 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:43.040 the largest possible sample on every wall that will be affected, 123 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.199 and we want to look at it on the target's surface. 124 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.600 Painted over primer, not painted over some other color. Okay, 125 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.759 painted over as white as possible to keep it things 126 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.240 as neutral as possible, the proper sheen, thechine that we're 127 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.319 going to use, and then we evaluate it. We evalue 128 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:07.759 it under multiple daylight conditions and multiple artificial lighting conditions. 129 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.240 So we look at that color in the morning, we 130 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.000 look at it at noon, we look at it in 131 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.519 the afternoon, we look at it at night when the 132 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.480 lights and lamps are on in the room, to make 133 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.519 sure this color is the one we want and that 134 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.800 it's going to work and perform as we wish in 135 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.160 all of those conditions. And if you think, wow, that's 136 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:27.879 a lot of work, and that's what you pay a 137 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:33.279 designer for to do that kind of investigation to make 138 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.759 sure that the colors do what they're supposed to do 139 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.240 because they keep changing. So I always speak of a 140 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.639 room in terms of colors, not the color. Hey what's 141 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.200 the color for this room? Well, we're going to pick 142 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.559 a particular color and then it's going to create colors 143 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:53.960 in this room all ways. And I want to make 144 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.919 sure those colors are all working when we want them 145 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:02.759 to work the way we want. Second lesson most colors. 146 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.399 Almost all of them have what we call a mass 147 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:12.440 tone and an undertone. Okay, the mass tone, just think 148 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.759 of it as the main color, like yellow, okay, yellow, 149 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.039 there you go. Okay, but you know if you've stood 150 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:23.000 at a paint store sample wall, that there are you know, 151 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.919 five hundred million versions of yellow. Okay. Why is that? Okay, 152 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.399 it's not because of the yellow. It's because which is 153 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.879 the mass tone, the main tone. I don't know. You 154 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:36.759 don't have to remember these terms. You just got to 155 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:41.200 remember the principal mass tone or the main color. And 156 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.639 there is a background color, which we call the undertone. Okay. 157 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.200 It is the undertone always that screws you up, always, always, 158 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:55.639 always it is the undertone. Uh. This is something that 159 00:09:55.679 --> 00:10:01.080 Tina is the absolute queen of the union. On she 160 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.200 had and I've got a pretty dang good eye for color. 161 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.399 I mean, just patting myself on the back or a man. 162 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.000 For a designer, okay, for an architectural designer. I am 163 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.879 really good with color. But I pale all of my 164 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.960 gifts and powers, pale and bow the knee to the 165 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.320 mighty Tina. She has got an eye like unbelievable. I 166 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.919 will be struggling with two colors that I'm just trying 167 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.200 to narrow something down to. She'll come over and just 168 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.440 glance over my shoulder and she's like, well, that one 169 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:33.759 on the left's got a lot of redded and I'm 170 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:37.720 like and then suddenly I see it. I'm like, unbelievable. 171 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.679 I can't believe you do that so well anyway, it 172 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.240 is the undertone that always messes you up. The undertone. 173 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.799 Do you know what the undertone is? And so here 174 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:54.279 is our third lesson So lesson one, big samples in 175 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.399 the realistic setting, okay, as much as the finished setting 176 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:02.320 as possible. Lesson two. All paint colors have a mass tone, 177 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:07.039 a main color, and the undertone. And knowing the undertone 178 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.679 is what gives you real directional power. Okay, So how 179 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.320 do you find out what the undertone is? You don't 180 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.879 necessarily look forward in the name. The names are just 181 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.480 roofy stuff, right, and you're not gonna see it on 182 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.679 some color chart per se. But here is the key. 183 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.759 This is so exciting. You know what a primary color is? 184 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:33.519 A primary color are the three colors that are not 185 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.679 actually in the color spectrum, that are not actually a 186 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.519 blending of any other colors. They're simply the true colors, 187 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:45.559 and from those three colors, all other colors are created. Okay, 188 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:53.200 those three colors are red, blue, and yellow. Okay, not 189 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.279 not red blue and green. That's in that's on emissive 190 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.720 colors like on a TV. That's RGB. That's on a monitor. 191 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:04.000 Now that I'm talking about reflective colors, the kind of 192 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:07.840 stuff that we put on our walls, it's red, blue, 193 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:14.720 and yellow. More specifically, you've seen these letters before, cmy, cyan, 194 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:20.320 magenta and yellow. And yes, it's four things there. Cmyk 195 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.200 K is black. It's just we didn't use the B 196 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.919 because that confuses it with blue and other things. It 197 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:33.399 is it is CM. Why okay, cyan, magenta, and yellow. 198 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:38.120 Why is this important for you to understand what the 199 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:43.840 three primary colors are? And why is it important that 200 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.919 when you go to the paint store you actually have 201 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.559 a physical card, not your phone. Your phone's not gonna 202 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.200 work in this situation because it's a different kind of 203 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:59.000 color that it's projecting an actual piece of paper or 204 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:04.200 a card that has those three colors on it, Cyan, 205 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.919 magenta and yellow. Why is this important has to do 206 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.240 with the undertone, and I'll tell you right after. 207 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:17.440 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 208 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.519 KFI AM sixty. 209 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.919 Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. That's me. 210 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.000 I'm here every weekend helping you turn your ordinary house 211 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.320 into an extraordinary home. And we do it. We do 212 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:36.840 it by handing out advice, construction advice, DIY advice, design 213 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:43.120 advice most first and foremost, because, as I always say, 214 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:49.200 when it comes to transforming a home, design matters most. 215 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.759 Design matters most. And one of the things that happened 216 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:57.039 during the design process is the selection of colors. And 217 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.799 colors just can be such a hassle, such a heartache, 218 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:06.320 because they're confusing, and we are demystifying that process. I've 219 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.279 spent a lot of time during the show explaining to 220 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.320 you kind of the science of how color works. And 221 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.000 now we're into these very very tangible pieces of practical 222 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.279 advice for you. So far, the main rules are less 223 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.360 than one. When you're testing color samples, got to put 224 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.039 them in final conditions as much as possible. That means 225 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.000 you put them in the room that they're going in 226 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:32.320 large samples on white primered walls, not on some other 227 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.600 colored walls in the target room on the target surface, 228 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.519 painted over primer with the proper sheen, and then you 229 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:44.440 evaluate it in all conditions of life, day, night, afternoon, 230 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:49.440 artificial lighting, the whole thing. The second important lesson to 231 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:53.360 learn is that most colors in the paint store, almost 232 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:58.879 all of them exclusively save three, have a mass tone, 233 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.200 which means a primary color like oh, we're going to 234 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.679 paint the room blue or we're gonna do something in 235 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.639 a gold you know, the mass tone. And then there 236 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:12.519 is this pesky undertone. There's a secondary color there that 237 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:15.639 you don't see that is changing the way it works 238 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:17.639 in the room. And it is the undertone that is 239 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.720 almost always tweaking you when you bring that sample home 240 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:23.240 and you're like, oh my gosh, it looks so much 241 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.759 more golden in the store, and now it looks sick screen. 242 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:33.200 I don't understand it. It is the hidden undertone. So 243 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.159 just know that that's what's in the paint now. The 244 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:42.960 third lesson is that there are three primary colors. Now, 245 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.799 you computer people, I'm not talking about RGB red, green 246 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.200 and blue. That's for computer screens. That's not for IRL 247 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.960 in real life, okay, And this is the difference. This 248 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.080 is the difference between emissive colors like something that's being 249 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.799 projected at you with light behind it, like a computer 250 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:05.480 screen or your phone, okay, or reflective colors, and that's 251 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.279 where color is out there and light is bouncing off 252 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:10.919 of it, which is the rest of the world. Okay, 253 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:16.720 So understand that that there are three primary colors that 254 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:24.960 we use. It is c M Y, cyan, magenta, and yellow. 255 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.480 Now why is it important? I said this before the 256 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:31.799 break teased you. Why is it important that you go 257 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:33.919 to the paint store if you really want to understand 258 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.120 the color that you're looking for, that you go to 259 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:40.080 the paint store with not a screen on your phone 260 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:45.840 with this, but with cyan, yellow, and magenta on a 261 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.960 card or piece of paper printed boldly and beautifully. Those 262 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:53.879 primary colors, the primary colors are primary in that those 263 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:56.720 are the three colors that all other colors are mixed 264 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.639 and made from. Okay, The primary colors are not mixed 265 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:04.759 from anything else. They are that simple color and that only, 266 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.720 and there are only three in the gabillions of mixed 267 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.319 colors out there. Why is it important? But here you go, 268 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:20.440 because if you hold a mass tone primary color cyan, 269 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:27.160 magenta and yellow up to next to that complex mixed 270 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:31.000 color sample that you're looking at, it will reveal to 271 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:36.599 you magically. It will reveal to you the undertone. Now 272 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.839 what do I mean. Let's say you're picking a kind 273 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:45.000 of blue for your room or something somewhere. Cabinetry maybe 274 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.559 very popular these days. I love blue cabinets, love them. 275 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:51.200 So you're picking a kind of blue, and you're looking 276 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:53.200 at all these blues and you're like, I wish I 277 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:57.119 could figure out what the undertones are in these blues 278 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:01.559 that are making them look different. Well, if you take 279 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:07.559 true blue, the primary blue cyan, and you have that physically, 280 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.119 and you slide that cyan next to that mixed blue, 281 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:17.400 the presence of the cyan and the sample both hitting 282 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:20.440 your eye at the same time, will reveal to you, 283 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.279 Oh my gosh, there's brown in there. Oh my gosh, 284 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.839 it's red. Oh my gosh, it's yellow. Oh it's leaning 285 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.279 toward green. It will reveal the undertone to you. There 286 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.200 is no more important piece of advice I can give 287 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:38.160 you or color selecting samples than that. To understand color, 288 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:42.720 have the primary colors in your pocket, in your purse 289 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.720 with you, and hold them up next to Now, you 290 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.839 can also most good paint places will have a chart 291 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.559 with the primary colors that you can grab, but use it. 292 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.400 Use the primary colors, hold them up to the samples, 293 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:03.240 and boom, you will see the undertone starting to bleed out. 294 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.960 Suddenly you'll see all this red in there. Suddenly you'll 295 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.880 see brown, you'll see gray, you'll see green bleeding out, 296 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.599 and you'll know, hey, it's not going to be these 297 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.799 these are leaning in the wrong direction. I need these. 298 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.440 I want the warmer colors, or maybe not the warm 299 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.839 I want the cooler colors. I want the greens in there. 300 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:25.279 You'll know, you'll know, oh my gosh, it is a 301 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:31.240 life saving device. Okay, all right, those are the most 302 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:35.759 important parts. Now how about cheating and finding out selection 303 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.680 of colors. So when we come back, I'm going to 304 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:40.680 take the last segment of the show today and I'm 305 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.599 going to tell you about two really important tools. One 306 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:48.799 is a color wheel so that you understand complementary colors, 307 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:53.200 triads of colors, those kinds of things. And two, a 308 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:57.279 very very high tech tool for identifying that one color 309 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:00.480 that you saw in this place on the thing, this 310 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.680 place on the thing with the guy. You have a 311 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.880 way if you have one of these in your car, 312 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.759 or in your pocket or in your purse. If you 313 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.200 have this high tech tool, you'll be able to go 314 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.640 right up to it and identify exactly what that color is. 315 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:16.039 Take it right to the paint store, and bring that 316 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:17.640 color home with you. I don't care if you put 317 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:22.000 it on an animal, a wall, anything, a leaf of plant. 318 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.359 If you find the color that you adore, you can 319 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:28.960 bring it home with you you capture with this device. 320 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.079 We'll talk about it when we come back. 321 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.160 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 322 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:36.759 KFI AM six forty. 323 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:42.079 Thanks for joining us on the program. Here we are 324 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.319 at the end of another three hours, but we're not 325 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:48.759 done yet. Not yet, my friend, not yet. And please, 326 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:50.799 if you're just joining us, or if you've missed a 327 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:55.079 good portion of today's show, remember this broadcast is also 328 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:58.039 the House Whisper podcast. Just right after we go off 329 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:00.920 the air, it will be available wherever you're favorite podcasts 330 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.880 are found. You can listen to it anytime, anywhere on demand, 331 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:07.440 as many times as you need to. And there is 332 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.720 a lot of information on color and color theory today. 333 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:13.440 But here we are wrapping out at the end, and 334 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:17.200 I am making our final points so where are the 335 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:20.519 most important points so far? Number one, The color is 336 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.640 in your head. It is a biological response in our 337 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:27.279 heads to different wavelengths of light, which makes it tricky 338 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:31.039 because cheaps changing all the time. But we get our 339 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:35.799 arms around it by testing color samples in their home 340 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:40.319 condition the final conditions as much as possible, large samples, 341 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.839 target rooms in the target room, on the target surface 342 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.119 painted over white primer, not with the old color on 343 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:50.279 the wall, and then we look at it under daylight 344 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.319 and artificial conditions all times during the day and night 345 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:58.160 in order to understand it. Second lesson to repeat again. 346 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:01.480 Most colors, almost all of them, have what we call 347 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:04.279 a mass tone that means just the main color, like 348 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:09.160 you know, oh I'm blue, okay, But there's an undertone 349 00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:12.359 underneath it. And it's that undertone that gives us problem. 350 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.440 That's why at the paint store, it just looked blue 351 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.000 at the store, and I brought it home and now 352 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:18.000 it's green. Or it looked blue at the store and 353 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:20.200 I brought it home and now it looks purple. Because 354 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:24.359 there's an undertone that leans towards the cool end of 355 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.759 the spectrum or the warm end of the spectrum. The 356 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:31.000 undertone is what always sneaks in and gives you the problem. 357 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:35.720 So how do you determine where the undertone is? Third principle, 358 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:43.039 there are only three primary colors cmy cyan, magenta and yellow, 359 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.079 or you know, blue, red, and yellow, but it's actually cyan, magenta, 360 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:50.880 and yellow. Have those colors on hand. Okay, not on 361 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.559 your phone, because that's a different quality of light on hand, 362 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:57.279 on a card, on a piece of paper. Grab one 363 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:01.440 of the charts from at the paint store. Hold the 364 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:07.319 suspect tone up to its true color. It's pure primary color, 365 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.680 so a blue sample. Hold it up to cyan, and 366 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:14.759 it will reveal the undertone to you. You'll see it, 367 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:18.000 you'll see what direction it's heading, and you'll make much 368 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.960 much better decisions at the paint store with the samples 369 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:26.839 that you are bringing home. And finally today, now there 370 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.519 are a couple of tools for picking colors. This is 371 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:33.319 not so much the you know, defining the color samples 372 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:36.440 properly at the store, but for picking colors in general. 373 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.920 Get yourself a color wheel. Now, this you can do 374 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:42.799 on your phone. Okay, because this is not again about 375 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:47.799 getting real specific with the tonality of a color. But 376 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.599 this is picking a color theme for a room. Because 377 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:55.519 of the spectrum of colors, there are complementary colors on 378 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:58.880 the color spectrum, and a color wheel is a device 379 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:01.839 you can also go down to a place like hobby 380 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:05.480 lobby or Joe Ann's or Michael's or an art store 381 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.240 and you can pick up a color wheel, an actual 382 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:09.880 physical color wheel, and you spin it around and you 383 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:14.000 can see it reveals complementary colors on a spectrum. So 384 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.400 like if you're like, well, my furniture is going to 385 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.200 be this color, what else will work in here with that? 386 00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:23.680 And then you look at a triad or a dual 387 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:28.400 opposite color or a quad color. All of these kind 388 00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:32.559 of configurations are revealed on this very small simple tool 389 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.759 that is a color wheel. Color wheels will cost you 390 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:38.240 five bucks. Okay, you can order one on Amazon today 391 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.119 and it'll be here this afternoon or tomorrow, and then 392 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:43.920 you can use it. You can also and like I said, 393 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:48.359 because we're not comparing real specific color shades, you can 394 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.880 also download a color wheel app on your phone. And 395 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.680 the app that I use is literally called color Wheel, 396 00:24:57.240 --> 00:24:59.240 and you can download it and you can use that 397 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:04.319 for preferences and then use the primary color card like 398 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:07.359 I said, when you're actually at the store zeroing in 399 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.559 on the samples that you're wanting to target. So a 400 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.599 color wheel. And finally, this is a very high tech tool. 401 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.160