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Speaker 1: back to the show. Now here we go. We're talking
Speaker 1: about interior decore, specifically what I call the secrets of Ish,
Speaker 1: which is aclectic design. It's how you take your modern
Speaker 1: farmhouse decor theme and make sure that it doesn't get
Speaker 1: compromised even though there are other things that aren't modern
Speaker 1: farmhouse added to it. That's just one example. That's why
Speaker 1: we say everybody's decor theme is an Ish modern farmhouse ish.
Speaker 1: It's cottage ish right, it's colonial ish right, because those
Speaker 1: soft edges, that's where the real life of the real
Speaker 1: world come into play. And that's where we can tell
Speaker 1: whether you're following the rules or whether you just got
Speaker 1: lucky or for a lot of people got unlucky in
Speaker 1: terms of like, yeah, that's so just messes up the
Speaker 1: theme of this room. So that's what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: help you with today. We're going to get back to
Speaker 1: that in just a bit. But right now it's top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Time to go to the phones, and
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Kathleen. Hey, Kathleen, welcome home.
Speaker 2: I'm here. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yes, I can there, you are welcome home.
Speaker 2: Sorry. I just wanted to thank you and Tina for
Speaker 2: what you do. You've given me so much knowledge and
Speaker 2: knowledge is power.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. How can I help you today?
Speaker 2: Okay, Dean, I know I'm asking questions about a subject
Speaker 2: you talked about a lot, which is fire protection. I'm
Speaker 2: an old person that lives in the sixty year old house.
Speaker 2: I had my roof completely redone last year, very happy
Speaker 2: about you know, about the roofers. And at the time,
Speaker 2: they put on O'Hagan low profile vents, and I guess
Speaker 2: I had never done this before, so I think I
Speaker 2: might have had four events. But anyway, they told me
Speaker 2: they thought I needed more, so they put six on.
Speaker 2: And after they put them on, you know, I was
Speaker 2: reading and I saw that there's o haagen fire and
Speaker 2: ice vents, which you know have smaller mesh like one
Speaker 2: eight inch, And I asked them just about it's going
Speaker 2: to put the roof on it was rainy season. Asked
Speaker 2: them about at it and they said, no, they're on
Speaker 2: back order. They didn't know where they would come in. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I just had them do the low profile ones.
Speaker 2: So now we're at a little over a year later,
Speaker 2: and you know, I get nervous every time there's Santa
Speaker 2: Ana winds. I want to number one protect my house
Speaker 2: from you. Know, wildfires before I worry about any home
Speaker 2: design or anything. Do you think that it would be
Speaker 2: too late to go back and you know, replace those
Speaker 2: vents with you know, the fire and ice ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, here's the thing. I mean, it's never too
Speaker 1: late if if you want to actually spend the money
Speaker 1: on doing it that way, because you know, the Hagen
Speaker 1: vent is flashed into your roofing material now, right, it's
Speaker 1: all tied into the roof so to change it out
Speaker 1: would be too basically, and you're not going to get
Speaker 1: a credit on that vent. It can't be reused for
Speaker 1: another client of theirs, right, so you're basically double buying
Speaker 1: the vent. You're gonna have to throw those away and
Speaker 1: put in the other one. So and you know what, honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's that important, I'd be willing to
Speaker 1: step up and uh and do that for myself. But
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. I want you to do a
Speaker 1: little shopping research and give a phone call to a
Speaker 1: couple of different plays. Well here's one right now, Brand
Speaker 1: Guard Vents and Embers Out Okay bo, both companies that
Speaker 1: create these vents. I believe I believe that Embers Out
Speaker 1: specifically is willing to customize some of their ember reduction
Speaker 1: material so that you could apply this to the underside
Speaker 1: from the attic side of the roof underneath your o'hagen vent, okay,
Speaker 1: where it actually comes into the attic. If you if
Speaker 1: you got a basic frame from them that screwed on
Speaker 1: and on the underneath side, you'd basically be emberproofing your
Speaker 1: existing vent from the backside, and it would work equally well,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have to dig into your roofing material.
Speaker 2: The thing is, though, Dean, I have the I have
Speaker 2: a long roofline. The house is about twenty six hundred
Speaker 2: square feet and it's the attic. You know. You you
Speaker 2: basically can reach the attic by like inside hall of
Speaker 2: my house, and you can. You can get up there.
Speaker 2: The heat and stuffs up there, but you can't stand
Speaker 2: up there. So I think even at one end I had,
Speaker 2: you know, at one end where there might be say
Speaker 2: three vents, they wouldn't I don't know that they would
Speaker 2: be able to get in there and do it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they could get in. I'm sure they could
Speaker 1: get in, but it's gonna be I understand, it's just
Speaker 1: a tricky access. I mean if it's attic, it's attic
Speaker 1: and so so. Yeah, it's not as simple as you
Speaker 1: just going up on a ladder and screwing these in.
Speaker 1: That I clearly, I clearly understand, but I still think,
Speaker 1: I still think, and you'd have to price it out,
Speaker 1: just price it out. But I still think it would
Speaker 1: be less expensive for you to uh to buy some
Speaker 1: of this retrofit material and have a handyman, uh you know,
Speaker 1: a contractor even uh you know, maybe even the roofer
Speaker 1: would come back and make an attic crawl for you
Speaker 1: and install these on the backside. I still think that
Speaker 1: would be less expensive than tearing out the O'Hagan vents
Speaker 1: from the top of the room and reflashing it all
Speaker 1: and repapering it all in to make sure that they
Speaker 1: get it all right. Again, I still think that would
Speaker 1: be a less expensive Even if you're paying somebody to
Speaker 1: crawl your attic for you, I'm guessing that it's going
Speaker 1: to be considerably less expensive and in the end, you
Speaker 1: don't mess up your roof and you get the same
Speaker 1: level of protection.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you mentioned quickly the other thing you've talked
Speaker 2: about vulcan vents and brand guard, and you know, I've
Speaker 2: heard you talk about those several times, and I have
Speaker 2: two I think what you would call gable vents, you know,
Speaker 2: one at each end of the house that are fairly large,
Speaker 2: and so you know, I wanted to see if I could.
Speaker 2: I just haven't done it because I haven't felt well,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to see if I could call, like
Speaker 2: say brand Guard and maybe another like say Embers out
Speaker 2: and see what they could do to put smaller you know,
Speaker 2: mesh there because you know, the house is as old
Speaker 2: as can be. So yeah, absolutely would be a good thing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it can be done. And that I mean you'll
Speaker 1: find those products for like end gable retrofit vents right
Speaker 1: on their websites. Absolutely can be done. But I again,
Speaker 1: I think you're taking the right tact. I want you
Speaker 1: to actually just talk to them, call them, talk to them,
Speaker 1: say here, here's my situation. As soon as you say, Ohagen,
Speaker 1: they're going to know exactly what you're talking about. Everybody
Speaker 1: else who's listening to us is like, what's an o'hagen event.
Speaker 1: That's not important right now, everybody. What's important is that
Speaker 1: you know that there are, there is a way to
Speaker 1: retrofit your exist most existing roof vents, whether it's end gable,
Speaker 1: whether it's high ridge vents, whether it's low events, there's
Speaker 1: a way to retrofit them without tearing up the roof
Speaker 1: or tearing up the house in order to ember protect it.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, give give a conversation with them, and
Speaker 1: they're going to guide you in the right direction, because
Speaker 1: that's what they're all about. They're all about helping you out.
Speaker 2: Okay, And one more real, real question. So would someone
Speaker 2: like a brand Guard be able to tell me based
Speaker 2: on you know, whatever they would do if let's let's
Speaker 2: say they could do something on the inside of the
Speaker 2: events I have and would recommend something from the gable vents,
Speaker 2: then would they you know, tell me again based on
Speaker 2: the square footage and what you've talked about, you know
Speaker 2: what that'll give me enough ventilation in my attic?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, and these.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, is I want to you know, I want
Speaker 2: to decrease, but I want to make sure I still
Speaker 2: have enough ventilation in my attic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: These companies, they they the ones that I continually recommend
Speaker 1: Vulcan vent embers out, brand Guard Vents. The reason why
Speaker 1: I recommend these companies specifically and The reason why these
Speaker 1: three companies are all cow Fire a Fire Marshall recommended
Speaker 1: in the state of California is because they produce a
Speaker 1: fantastic ember deterrent vent without that still breathes basically, that
Speaker 1: still breathes effectively because you know, I, I mean, we
Speaker 1: could emperproof your attic just by sealing it all up,
Speaker 1: but now you don't have at events, and so we
Speaker 1: don't want to diminish the attic ventilation capacity while at
Speaker 1: the same time protecting you. We want to do both.
Speaker 1: We want them both. We want to have our cake
Speaker 1: and eat it too, and Kathleen that they're going to
Speaker 1: help you do exactly that. So don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: You have a good conversation with them, and it's going
Speaker 1: to work. We've seen it happen again and again. Kathleen.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call and for your kindness.
Speaker 1: Good luck on the house. I know it's going to
Speaker 1: work out for you, y'all when we come back.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the House Whisper at your service. We're talking
Speaker 1: about eclectic decor and how to do it well. That's
Speaker 1: what we're going to return to in just a bit.
Speaker 1: But right now we're going to the phones. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Here's hi, good morning. I have a bank of five
Speaker 4: single pane aluminum windows about thirty four inches by fifty
Speaker 4: eight inches. I'm trying to sound proof of them. I'm
Speaker 4: looking at insets for them, but anything you could recommend,
Speaker 4: or any company you could recommend.
Speaker 1: So you want to do it. You want to do
Speaker 1: an insert on the inside of the window, just to
Speaker 1: give it a little bit more sound capture.
Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying, If that's the most practical thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, is there a real let me just
Speaker 1: ask in I want to be budget sensitive. Is there
Speaker 1: a reason why, if this is a priority, that we
Speaker 1: don't want to just switch out those windows? Change out
Speaker 1: those windows because single glazed aluminum windows, that's definitely an
Speaker 1: older window weather wise, energy wise and sound wise. And
Speaker 1: is it a hesitation because we don't want to disrupt
Speaker 1: the outside surface of the house.
Speaker 4: Because that's that's part of it. I'm a renter.
Speaker 1: Oh I got you, I hear you. So they're not
Speaker 1: your window?
Speaker 4: No, no, they're not my windows. So and they install
Speaker 4: these windows probably about three four years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh really, single glazed aluminum windows. They put them in
Speaker 1: three years ago.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm assuming it is. I may be wrong,
Speaker 4: but that's what I'm assuming They are.
Speaker 1: Now install them illegally. Actually, do you do? You know
Speaker 1: your landlord?
Speaker 4: I do, But they might be double pain I don't know.
Speaker 4: But they're still letting them a lot of sound.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Yeah? Yeah? You know, you could go
Speaker 1: to a lot of expense putting a clear panel insert
Speaker 1: inside the window jam in order to block the sound.
Speaker 1: And I see clear panel because obviously, I mean it's windows.
Speaker 1: So I mean I could tell you how to soundproof
Speaker 1: or how to drastically sound reduce those windows just by
Speaker 1: getting some foam sound resistant panels off of Amazon and
Speaker 1: cutting one to size and putting it in. But you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a window anymore, right, So is there a
Speaker 1: time when you need it to be quieter when the
Speaker 1: window aspect is not important. I'm trying to get creative
Speaker 1: with a solution here, because that would be the best
Speaker 1: thing here. Another pane of glass at this point is
Speaker 1: going to help a little bit, a little bit, but
Speaker 1: not really produce a whole lot of bang for the
Speaker 1: buck that you'll be spending on them, and they're not
Speaker 1: even your windows. And so if it's like, well, when
Speaker 1: we sit down, or I've got to do I have
Speaker 1: to do a podcast, or I want to watch movies
Speaker 1: at a certain time of day. And I mean, if
Speaker 1: it's something like that where the window itself does not
Speaker 1: have to keep doing its job of letting light in,
Speaker 1: then the easiest way and the least expensive way, in
Speaker 1: the most effective way would be to, you know, come
Speaker 1: up and spend just a few dollars on a place
Speaker 1: like Amazon and uh and buy some inexpensive sound baffling
Speaker 1: foam that you could cut as an insert into the window.
Speaker 1: But it's going to block the I mean, it essentially
Speaker 1: closes down the window. But the sound wise, there's nothing
Speaker 1: better that you could do for that situation. If you're
Speaker 1: not going to switch out the window, I just don't
Speaker 1: have a mean, there's no magic bullet that's going to
Speaker 1: solve the problem and continue to let the light in
Speaker 1: of a of a leaky window, sound leaky, uh, you know, weather, leaky,
Speaker 1: you know all the same.
Speaker 4: But so I'm looking, can I mention the name of
Speaker 4: the company that I'm looking at sure it's called the
Speaker 4: inn window mm hm. And they're they're quoting me about
Speaker 4: three thousand dollars for the inserts.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: They're saying anywhere up like fifty to seventy percent soundproofy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so again, uh, it's pricey. Three thousand dollars is pricey.
Speaker 1: And I want you to be really aware of this,
Speaker 1: that that that that is a you know, fifty to
Speaker 1: seventy percent reduction of sound through the window. That's not
Speaker 1: a fifty to seventy percent of reduction of sound in
Speaker 1: the room, Okay, because the window is just one component,
Speaker 1: and so loud sounds could still be finding their way
Speaker 1: A large majority of them are finding their way just
Speaker 1: through the wall. Okay. So I just want you to
Speaker 1: be clear on that. I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 1: not to use a company like that. I just want
Speaker 1: you to be aware that. You know, sometimes it's said like, hey,
Speaker 1: ninety percent reduction of sound. Well, okay, for that two
Speaker 1: square three square feet, that that area ninety percent reduction,
Speaker 1: But when the rest of the wall is still transmitting sound,
Speaker 1: you may only see a ten percent reduction of overall
Speaker 1: sound in the room that you're struggling with. And if
Speaker 1: that's the case, then you have to measure that against
Speaker 1: the three thousand dollars that you're going to spend for
Speaker 1: the window. Answer.
Speaker 4: So again, so you're recommending the phone sound buffering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm recommending a thick I mean literally, you know
Speaker 1: the kind of foam of sound absorption material that you
Speaker 1: can find on a website like Amazon for just pennies
Speaker 1: on the dollar that will when you need it to
Speaker 1: be quiet, you can plug the windows with as opposed
Speaker 1: to spending big bucks. Because you know what, for three
Speaker 1: thousand how many windows are there by the way, five? Yeah, windows?
Speaker 1: For three thousand dollars, you're almost spending the You may
Speaker 1: actually be spending as much, if not more than putting
Speaker 1: retrofit windows in those openings. And that's the thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just it's just a it's a high price to pay.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not a good product. It's just
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that you use in an extreme
Speaker 1: situation when literally no other solution presents itself. And I
Speaker 1: would really want to explore other options, including when do
Speaker 1: you need it to be quiet? Right? And if that's
Speaker 1: the thing, then just plug the window home if that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Ron, Thank you for your question. Not everything
Speaker 1: is an easy solve, right, And some products that are
Speaker 1: advertised that kind of say, hey, here's the miracle. Price
Speaker 1: is going to be aware. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of sound that actually moves through a wall, not just
Speaker 1: the window. Yes, windows are leaky holes, But spend that
Speaker 1: much money trying to get a reduction of the glass
Speaker 1: transmission and find out that you've only reduced the overall
Speaker 1: room sound by ten fifteen percent. Now, maybe that's good enough,
Speaker 1: but for three thousand dollars, you have to evaluate whether
Speaker 1: that's the case. All Right, y'all when we return, let's
Speaker 1: dive back into our conversation about eclectic decor, and I'll
Speaker 1: be hitting up the phones again in just a bit.
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Speaker 1: Now, feng Shui. Feng Shui is not a decourse style.
Speaker 1: It's a methodology. Yeah, and no, it doesn't really fit
Speaker 1: in the ish category because it's not a decorese style. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, all right, everybody, I'm just answering a question.
Speaker 1: Answering a question here in the studio. I am so
Speaker 1: glad you've joined us on the show today we are
Speaker 1: talking about the secrets of ISH, and by ish, I
Speaker 1: mean that kind of eclectic decor where your theme that
Speaker 1: you really we'd really like to establish for your place,
Speaker 1: for a room, for a space, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: and how you're never going to achieve. I mean, the
Speaker 1: bad news is you're never going to achieve purity, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent purity with your decor theme. It's always going
Speaker 1: to be an ish, right, It's like, well, it's going
Speaker 1: to be contemporary ish, it's going to be a modern
Speaker 1: farmhouse ish. It's going to be craftsman ish. Why because life,
Speaker 1: because real life, Because because if you have relationships with
Speaker 1: other people, if you walk out into the world, you
Speaker 1: come home with things that are meaningful and special and beautiful,
Speaker 1: but don't necessarily line up precisely with that theme, that period.
Speaker 1: That's not and it's not even just about those elements.
Speaker 1: Maybe you live in a century old house. Maybe your
Speaker 1: house was built in the nineteen twenties, and you would
Speaker 1: like to use your living room to watch a twenty
Speaker 1: first century flatsk TV. You know, integrating that into a
Speaker 1: home that was never designed even to conceive of a
Speaker 1: video screen is a challenge. From a decor perspective, and
Speaker 1: that's what makes it ish. But if we do it,
Speaker 1: if we follow the rules, we follow the best advice available,
Speaker 1: which of course you will receive right here, then you
Speaker 1: can be really, really successful at this. So dive back
Speaker 1: into this conversation with me, shall we. That sounds good,
Speaker 1: all right, So again I want to underscore this. Oh
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Speaker 1: Check it out. So I want to underscore aiming for
Speaker 1: the intentionality of a gallery for your home. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it has to be austere and plane or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I just mean, I want you to
Speaker 1: be very, very intentional about your decor. Eclectic is a
Speaker 1: word that gets thrown around a lot by hoarders, by
Speaker 1: people who have way too much stuff, uh, and and
Speaker 1: people who have essentially given up on an attempt to
Speaker 1: do a decor theme and just say, well, I'm a
Speaker 1: collecting and so it's an excuse for not being thoughtful
Speaker 1: and for allowing a little bit of design chaos to
Speaker 1: enter into your home. So yeah, yeah, let's use the
Speaker 1: word and give it the honor that it's due. Eclectic
Speaker 1: decor is a discipline and it's one that you can
Speaker 1: really achieve. But it takes intention. It takes the intentionality
Speaker 1: of a gallery owner. It's not random, it's thoughtful, and
Speaker 1: it's curated curated carefully. Okay, all right, so now on
Speaker 1: to the next tip. As we go here, the next
Speaker 1: thing I want to talk to you about just is patterns.
Speaker 1: Be aware of patterns. Patterns, meaning whether visible printed patterns
Speaker 1: in furniture, on paintings, on furnishings like blankets, throws, pillows, fabrics,
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. The two questions that are most
Speaker 1: important to ask about patterns are this, do the geometries
Speaker 1: of the patterns of a couple of different patterns play
Speaker 1: well together? Okay, I'll explain that in just a second.
Speaker 1: But do the actual shapes of two different patterns do
Speaker 1: they play well together? And number two, does the scale
Speaker 1: of the patterns play well together? Okay, and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about one pattern. I'm talking about an eclectic design
Speaker 1: in which there's more than one pattern in the space,
Speaker 1: in the room, on the sofa, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: So we've got to ask these critical questions. Do the
Speaker 1: geometries play well together? And does the scale play well together?
Speaker 1: So what kind of patterns are out there? Anyway? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that we could split hairs and create more
Speaker 1: than these six categories, But in general, in general, a
Speaker 1: pattern falls into one of these six categories. It's either
Speaker 1: floral and organic. Right, floral organic meaning there's patterns of
Speaker 1: leaves or tree branches or you know, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I know, a sense of organic representation in
Speaker 1: the pattern. Number two abstract, it's not representing anything in particular.
Speaker 1: It's a weird amorphous shape or a blending of shapes
Speaker 1: and tones. That's an abstract pattern. Then you've got number
Speaker 1: three geometric patterns and that should be self explanatory. It's circles, squares,
Speaker 1: it's rounds, it's triangles, it's geometry, geometric shapes coming through
Speaker 1: really strongly. Four Technically this is a geometry but stripes.
Speaker 1: Stripes get their own pattern category because it's such a
Speaker 1: common theme. So there's stripes, there is solids. That's number five,
Speaker 1: just solid color, solid, you know, which is really kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know why it's on the list, but
Speaker 1: it's it's the non pattern essentially. And number six animal prints.
Speaker 1: Animal prints are different than floral and organic. They are organic,
Speaker 1: but we're talking about like, you know, leopard skin, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, those those kinds of elements. Animal prints.
Speaker 1: Those are the six main categories of patterns, and the
Speaker 1: way these work together in an eclectic decor is typically
Speaker 1: typically nine times out of ten, maybe ninety nine out
Speaker 1: of one hundred. You want to have the patterns, two
Speaker 1: different patterns in a room, coming from two different categories
Speaker 1: of patterns and two different scales, meaning that we don't
Speaker 1: want a strong pattern of squares right here smashed up
Speaker 1: against a strong pattern of circles. They're both out of
Speaker 1: the geometry category and they're tough to meld together, especially
Speaker 1: if the squares in the circles are the exact same
Speaker 1: size or relatively the same size in those patterns, that's
Speaker 1: the scale. That's where the scale enters in a strong
Speaker 1: pattern of stripes or squares with some floral or organic pattern,
Speaker 1: especially when one of them is significantly larger and the
Speaker 1: other pattern is reduced in scale in its repetition. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of two patterns that could play well together.
Speaker 1: Got it?
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Speaker 1: Welcome home. We're talking about eclectic decor, which, to one
Speaker 1: degree another is everybody's decor, because no matter how pure
Speaker 1: you attempt to do a decor theme in your home,
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be something, something finding its way in
Speaker 1: that doesn't match up, doesn't match up with the period,
Speaker 1: doesn't match up with the style that you know, and
Speaker 1: so is that a fail? Do you have to purge
Speaker 1: your life from all variables in order to have a
Speaker 1: beautiful home? No, no, you don't know. We start with
Speaker 1: the eighty twenty rule, which if you can get eighty
Speaker 1: percent of it headed in the right direction, the other
Speaker 1: twenty percent can, if well done, can integrate in and
Speaker 1: not be a problem. But we're just talking in general.
Speaker 1: But how do you blend these diverse pattern styles and
Speaker 1: themes in an efficient and beautiful ways. So hope you're
Speaker 1: encouraged by today. This was this was a heavy lift
Speaker 1: for me, honestly, because this is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that not everybody gets right out of the you know,
Speaker 1: right out of the gate. And it's the kind of thing,
Speaker 1: honestly that I'd rather show you pictures. But you know,
Speaker 1: here I am on the radio with you. But I
Speaker 1: hope that you're getting the idea, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: In one sense, maybe this is better if I'm not
Speaker 1: showing you pictures, because you can go online, like I
Speaker 1: said at the top of the show, and ask this
Speaker 1: very question, how do I do aclectic decor? And you
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna find. You're gonna find that everybody
Speaker 1: very much devolves almost immediately into just showing you things
Speaker 1: to do. Okay, not principles to apply to your house,
Speaker 1: but just showing you what they did. Like you know,
Speaker 1: and learning by example is great, but when when a website,
Speaker 1: you know, advice point number six is add plants. That's
Speaker 1: not being very specific to your home. Right, anybody can
Speaker 1: say that, oh, add plants. Okay, well, what if this
Speaker 1: is a room where that's not going to happen. Then See,
Speaker 1: now we're just giving examples of things and not actually
Speaker 1: telling you. This is the give a man a fish,
Speaker 1: teach a man to fish idea, trying to help teach
Speaker 1: you how to fish for a collectic decre All right,
Speaker 1: the metaphors are all breaking down now, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move on. By the way, right after our next break,
Speaker 1: we're going back to the phones. So a three three two,
Speaker 1: Ask dean, A three to three the numeral two, ask dean.
Speaker 1: That's right after the next break. All right, back to
Speaker 1: our list. Now this should be very very self explanatory.
Speaker 1: I hope by the way you understood the idea of patterns.
Speaker 1: Do the geometries play well together, does the scale play
Speaker 1: well together? The goal there just to summarize when it
Speaker 1: comes to patterns, if you're going to combine two or
Speaker 1: three patterns together diverse patterns, right, then it's best to
Speaker 1: pick a pattern from a different category. That there are
Speaker 1: three different categories. So the categories were floral and organic, abstract,
Speaker 1: geometric stripes, solids, and animal prints. So you get three
Speaker 1: animal prints together from three different animals, all at the
Speaker 1: same size scale. It looks weird. They just they're fighting
Speaker 1: with each other. They're fighting for attention as opposed to
Speaker 1: complimenting each other. But you get a floral pattern, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking, I'm staring at one right across the table
Speaker 1: from me. You know, this kind of embossed white on
Speaker 1: white rose pattern with rows, stems, and blooms in this
Speaker 1: sofa that's directly across from me here. And then add
Speaker 1: to that a geometric pattern, a stripe, a solid, squares, circles,
Speaker 1: And then add to that solids or even an animal print.
Speaker 1: Those three things could go well together, could go well
Speaker 1: together if we've got the scales right. So the question
Speaker 1: is do they play well together? Your chance of success
Speaker 1: is going to be most high if the patterns come
Speaker 1: from different categories, and if the scales are different between
Speaker 1: the three patterns put together, right, that's just the rule
Speaker 1: of thumb when it comes to matching those things. It
Speaker 1: should go without saying my next point here, don't ignore
Speaker 1: a room's functionality for the sake of decor. That is
Speaker 1: real life designed advice. I cannot tell you how many
Speaker 1: times again I've opened up a magazine spread and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lovely art piece there. You can't live in
Speaker 1: that room. Somebody standing next to me says why not,
Speaker 1: and I say, well, take a look. Take a look
Speaker 1: at how they've arranged these two chairs in this corner here.
Speaker 1: Do you see how close the sofa is or that
Speaker 1: bouquet of flowers is. See that big bouquet sitting on
Speaker 1: the table in between the two chairs. Now imagine yourself
Speaker 1: sitting in those two chairs having a conversation with a friend.
Speaker 1: That bouquet of flowers has to be moved because the
Speaker 1: vase is like three feet tall. And when I sit
Speaker 1: down in this chair and I look to my left,
Speaker 1: I can't see you. You're right on the other side
Speaker 1: of these flowers. So that but when you're standing across
Speaker 1: the room looking at all of this compressed into a
Speaker 1: two D image, yeah, looks great. You know, first impressions
Speaker 1: are it looks great. You don't really think about moving
Speaker 1: through the space. So my point is, again, don't ignore
Speaker 1: the room's functionality. When the question comes up, should we
Speaker 1: emphasize form or function, the answer is always the same. Both.
Speaker 1: Don't sacrifice either. I refuse to say form first, function
Speaker 1: later no no, no, no no. The goal is both.
Speaker 1: That's what we're shooting for. That's the target. That's the bullseye. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right now, next piece of advice for you who
Speaker 1: we're up. Yeah, okay, I'm going to slide this one
Speaker 1: in when you're doing this as you work on the
Speaker 1: decor in your home, just as if you were an
Speaker 1: author or any kind of creative creator. But let's stick
Speaker 1: with the author metaphor for the moment. I want you
Speaker 1: to find yourself a ruthless editor. A ruthless editor. You
Speaker 1: know what the role of an editor is to go into,
Speaker 1: you know, the work of an author and go snipping through,
Speaker 1: or if we want to use editors in the turn
Speaker 1: in the sense of filmmakers as well, to cut out
Speaker 1: dialogue that just doesn't need to be there, to remove
Speaker 1: certain things, to connect certain thoughts. And the best editors
Speaker 1: are what I call ruthless. Now that they're not ruthless
Speaker 1: people kind wonderful people who love you. That's who I
Speaker 1: want helping you with your living room or whatever room
Speaker 1: that we're doing this decor in. But I want them
Speaker 1: to I want you to permit them the freedom to
Speaker 1: ruthlessly edit the things that you're talking about, especially when
Speaker 1: it comes to like pulling things out saying yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not really seeing that that's working. Somebody who's just completely,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent honest with you about what they're seeing.
Speaker 1: And why get yourself a partner in this, or at
Speaker 1: least the assistance of a ruthless editor when it comes
Speaker 1: to decor, and you will find yourself being more successful
Speaker 1: than you ever imagine. It's an emotional step that a
Speaker 1: lot of people have because they don't want to be
Speaker 1: critiqued when it comes to artistic and creative stuff. But
Speaker 1: trust me when I tell you, as an artist and
Speaker 1: as a creator, I felt the same way in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, don't say things, don't say bad
Speaker 1: things about what I did. Now, believe me, you need them,
Speaker 1: You want them, You want them in your life. You
Speaker 1: want somebody who can come along iron sharpening, iron sharpening
Speaker 1: the blade of what it is that you're trying to create.
Speaker 1: So another tip for you today, find yourself a ruthless
Speaker 1: editor to assist you in the process of making selections
Speaker 1: when it comes to an eclectic design. All right, we
Speaker 1: got so much more to cover when we come back
Speaker 1: from the news, we'll be going back to the phones.
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