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Speaker 1: This is part three of our three part series. It
Speaker 1: was this way when we bought it. Inheriting somebody else's
Speaker 1: mistakes with your home, but more importantly, how to fix them.
Speaker 1: And man, we have talked about some doozies of mistakes,
Speaker 1: some really important ones, and I've got a whole list
Speaker 1: now for today as well. Let's get to this one.
Speaker 1: This one is near and dear to my heart because
Speaker 1: I love landscaping. I love outdoor space around your house.
Speaker 1: I love it in all shapes and forms. I love
Speaker 1: the soft scape, I love the hardescape, I love the
Speaker 1: plant materials. I love paving areas just I love creating spaces,
Speaker 1: whether it's decks or walkways or what have you. And
Speaker 1: I also am a huge fan of what I like
Speaker 1: to call and I believe I've coined this phrase myself,
Speaker 1: design by demolition DM designed by demo. What does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that of all the things that you would
Speaker 1: pay somebody to do for your home, right of all
Speaker 1: the money you got to come up with for stuff,
Speaker 1: building stuff, demolition is almost without exception, the least expensive
Speaker 1: of those kinds of things. And that's good news. And
Speaker 1: it's especially good news if you can actually improve something
Speaker 1: just by tearing out something that's there, and that's it,
Speaker 1: I mean by removing or demolishing something that shouldn't be there.
Speaker 1: If what you get when you're done is already way
Speaker 1: way better, then you have achieved design by demo and
Speaker 1: you've paid a minimal amount of money for a maximum
Speaker 1: amount of effect. So what does this have to do
Speaker 1: with the topic of it was this way when we
Speaker 1: bought it. Well, we need to talk about concrete and
Speaker 1: hard escape around your home, too much of it. There
Speaker 1: are too many houses that have too much concrete and
Speaker 1: hardescape around your home. Now, setting aside those of you
Speaker 1: who have no desire whatsoever to interact with the natural world,
Speaker 1: that's fine, all right, Well, you know I have I'm
Speaker 1: resigned to accept that you don't like the idea that
Speaker 1: outside there are things like, I don't know, dirt bugs,
Speaker 1: things you can't control. You would like to make your
Speaker 1: entire property from wall to wall one gigantic clean room
Speaker 1: and and just not deal with it. Right, I don't
Speaker 1: want to have to water things. And believe me, I've
Speaker 1: seen those houses. I've seen way too many of those houses.
Speaker 1: And if that's your thing, you know what, Hey, I
Speaker 1: who am I to say that you can't have your
Speaker 1: house that way? It's not my place. It is my
Speaker 1: place to say though, that generally speaking, that's not good design.
Speaker 1: And I have never seen an overpaved house that I
Speaker 1: would say, Wow, this is really, really lovely. The fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is this, and I'm going to be
Speaker 1: giving you this advice as a home designer, right and
Speaker 1: I'm just being perfectly honest with you. The principle that
Speaker 1: I want you to hold to is that hardescape hard escape,
Speaker 1: no matter how beautiful we may make it. And that's great,
Speaker 1: all right, let's make it as beautiful as possible. But
Speaker 1: hardscape is a utility. It's a utilitarian function, all right.
Speaker 1: Hardescape does not exist to just gaze upon for beauty.
Speaker 1: If we could just pave your entire backyard, because all
Speaker 1: we want to do is go outside and just look
Speaker 1: at the paving, then that's the thing that would happen
Speaker 1: all the time. But it's not. Okay, hardescape is a utility,
Speaker 1: And by utility, I mean it enables us to move
Speaker 1: from point A to point B without you know, getting
Speaker 1: our feet money, without walking on unstable ground. All right,
Speaker 1: it's a utility. It serves a utilitarian function. And as such, right,
Speaker 1: have you embrace that idea? I mean, are you okay
Speaker 1: with me saying that that it's a utility. It embraces
Speaker 1: a utilitarian function, not primarily a decor function. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: as such since it's utility, we want as little of
Speaker 1: it as we can get away with. Why because it
Speaker 1: takes up space, and we don't want a utilitarian facet
Speaker 1: or component of your yard to be taking up the
Speaker 1: space that something truly beautiful could be using that same
Speaker 1: space for, such as softscape, plant material, other structures, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. So this is my approach, right
Speaker 1: And if you think that that's crazy and out, you know,
Speaker 1: to lunch, then you're not going to hire me as
Speaker 1: a designer. But let me tell you I'm right.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: I am right about this, okay. And so one of
Speaker 1: the things that I have built a reputation for is
Speaker 1: stepping into a design scenario of existing homes and minimizing
Speaker 1: i e. Designed by demolition, removing as much superfluous hardscape
Speaker 1: as possible. And what is superfluous hardscape? What is bonus
Speaker 1: hardscape that we don't need if it's not defining a
Speaker 1: space like it's holding up a set of furniture, or
Speaker 1: it's not part of a kitchen an outdoor kitchen, or
Speaker 1: it's not part of a driveway where things are actually
Speaker 1: going to get parked and you're actually going to walk
Speaker 1: on it, or it's not part of a pathway to
Speaker 1: get from the house to one of those areas outside
Speaker 1: that we don't need it. And yeah, when you really
Speaker 1: think about it, I mean, if you really get technical
Speaker 1: with your back patio, with all the stuff in your
Speaker 1: front of your house as well, walk out, park the cars,
Speaker 1: walk around the yard and track where you're walking around,
Speaker 1: what furniture where, and then take a look at places
Speaker 1: you never step. I mean, yeah, you know where you
Speaker 1: have those eighteen potted plants all clumped together. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: Guess what the back of your head, your subconscious has
Speaker 1: actually been trying to tell you. Nobody walks there and where.
Speaker 4: Those eighteen pots are setting That could just as well be,
Speaker 4: and probably should be, just the absence of the concrete
Speaker 4: underneath those pots and the absence of the pots, and
Speaker 4: just plant those suckers right into the soil.
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Speaker 1: Anything that's got you scratching your head about your home,
Speaker 1: give me a call. We'll work it out. No judgment here.
Speaker 1: I know you hear my strong opinions when I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you about design elements for your home. But you
Speaker 1: also know that when you call and we sit down
Speaker 1: and talk that I treat you right, great respect, No
Speaker 1: stupid questions, only stupid radio hosts. That's the way it
Speaker 1: works around here. All right, Let's get back to our
Speaker 1: topic of the day. It's been our topic for a
Speaker 1: week or so now, and that is it was this
Speaker 1: way when we bought it. The things that you have inherited,
Speaker 1: the mistakes that you've inherited when you moved into your place. Okay,
Speaker 1: too much concrete hardscape. Okay, I don't want to belabor
Speaker 1: the point, but I just want to underscore and make
Speaker 1: sure you're all there with me that it's hard to
Speaker 1: let go of and some of you are saying, I
Speaker 1: just donette, you just you got to really really trust
Speaker 1: me with this. I've taken driveways. I have a couple
Speaker 1: of very very dear friends, family really, who asked me
Speaker 1: to take a look at the front of their place
Speaker 1: and tell them what's wrong with it. Why is it
Speaker 1: just rip rip instead of but boom, And that's what
Speaker 1: they said. I'm just quoting them, And so I'm looking
Speaker 1: and I'm looking in one of the things that was
Speaker 1: obvious to me. Now they happen to be, you know,
Speaker 1: nicely situated, big three car garage. And guess what they
Speaker 1: had right in front of their big three car garage
Speaker 1: all the way out to the street a three car
Speaker 1: wide driveway. And you're thinking to yourself, well, yeah, Dean,
Speaker 1: because there's three cars three car garage. No no, No.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, when you really look at it, and
Speaker 1: you really think through the process of entering the property,
Speaker 1: you only need the width of the three car driveway
Speaker 1: at the garage, in other words, at the street. You know,
Speaker 1: unless you're planning on pulling three cars in simultaneously, which
Speaker 1: is a thing that never happens, right, then we only
Speaker 1: need the width of one car at the street, and
Speaker 1: then the driveway, with the right curves and contours can
Speaker 1: widen up and open up and allow that car to
Speaker 1: choose any of the three garage doors. Now how big
Speaker 1: of a difference does that make in this situation, It
Speaker 1: made a huge difference. It enabled us to cut out
Speaker 1: a large piece of the tarmac. And that is exactly
Speaker 1: what I think of when I see most homes with
Speaker 1: too much hardescape tarmac. Just it's an aircraft carrier. It
Speaker 1: is a it's a landing strip. It's way too much.
Speaker 1: And just remember, okay, just be guided by these two thoughts.
Speaker 1: One that hardscape is utility. It is it is a
Speaker 1: practical necessity to get from one space to the other. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, we make it as attractive as possible, but
Speaker 1: it's first and foremost job is not to be lovely.
Speaker 1: It is to be useful. And because of that, because
Speaker 1: other things can be more lovely, way more lovely than
Speaker 1: hardescape and minimize it. Walk your yard, walk drive the front,
Speaker 1: walk your yard, and don't take license. Just walk your
Speaker 1: yard and be honest with the paths that you normally travel.
Speaker 1: And notice that beyond that there is a ton, a
Speaker 1: ton of hardscape space that is never getting walked on,
Speaker 1: and it's just sitting there getting in the way of
Speaker 1: making your ordinary house an extraordinary home. The end. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's next on our list? Broken pocket doors? Now we've
Speaker 1: jumped to the inside of the house. If you have
Speaker 1: an older home that's had any kind of pocket door
Speaker 1: in it from years past, what are the odds right now?
Speaker 1: I would say the odds are seven out of ten
Speaker 1: that you've got a pocket door in your house that
Speaker 1: you never close. Why And as you're touring me around
Speaker 1: the house, you'll say, oh, yeah, we never close. Is
Speaker 1: that because it's stuck? That thing closes weird, It doesn't
Speaker 1: close at all. We can't get it out of the
Speaker 1: pocket so on, And I get it. How discouraging is that.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You've given up on it. Don't
Speaker 1: give up on it if you understand how a pocket
Speaker 1: door actually works. And I'm not, by the way, saying
Speaker 1: that your pocket door can or should be fixed. Not
Speaker 1: that door that track, okay, because the reason very likely
Speaker 1: that it's all junked up and stuck and not working,
Speaker 1: or it rubs, or it scratches the door as you
Speaker 1: open and close it, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: The reason that it's that way is that it was
Speaker 1: a builder special It is literally the least expensive pocket
Speaker 1: hardware that they could have bought and installed in that
Speaker 1: home when it was built. And or you know, a
Speaker 1: previous owner did it and went down to the big
Speaker 1: box store and just picked up the thirty five dollars
Speaker 1: pocket door set up and popped it in. There is
Speaker 1: a massive difference. Okay, Now there is a price difference,
Speaker 1: but just hear me out there, is a massive difference
Speaker 1: between a thirty seven dollars pocket door and a one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven dollars pocket door. Yes, it's a one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars difference in price, but the difference once it's
Speaker 1: in your home is decades of accurate, efficient, trouble free performance.
Speaker 1: A lot of people I meet think pocket doors are
Speaker 1: the worst. As we design new spaces for people, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you put a pocket door there. I don't want any
Speaker 1: pocket doors. Pocket doors just break down and they and
Speaker 1: they're useless after a while. Let's not use a pocket door.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: Let's not use a cheap pocket door. Let's not use
Speaker 1: a bad one, but let's use use them. They exist
Speaker 1: for a reason. They're brilliant in saving space and creating
Speaker 1: all sorts of opportunities where the swing of a regular
Speaker 1: door just gets in the way. But got to use
Speaker 1: the right stuff. And what is the right stuff, Dean,
Speaker 1: what is the right stuff? Well, there's more than one
Speaker 1: great pocket door manufacturer out there. And I mean by
Speaker 1: this I mean the pocket I don't really care about
Speaker 1: the door. Okay. One of the things you need to
Speaker 1: learn about pocket doors is the door can be any door,
Speaker 1: any door, and it should be a door that matches
Speaker 1: the rest of the doors in your house. But the
Speaker 1: pocket hardware itself, the track and the pocket and all
Speaker 1: of that. Johnson Hardware, just telling you right now, Johnson
Speaker 1: Hardware the minimum soft, open, soft close, multiple wheel, multiple track, brilliant,
Speaker 1: great hardware. And it's gonna, you know, set you back
Speaker 1: about one hundred and thirty dollars or so ish, and
Speaker 1: they go up from there. But that one right there, solid,
Speaker 1: solid as a rock, and you'll never regret it. All right,
Speaker 1: I got more. We'll pick up this discussion right on
Speaker 1: the other side.
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Speaker 1: back to it, too much concrete, heartscape, broken pocket doors.
Speaker 1: That's where we went thus far. Do you need to
Speaker 1: know anything else about pocket doors? I know I told
Speaker 1: you very quickly that pocket doors are a good thing,
Speaker 1: not a bad thing. When they are the right pocket hardware.
Speaker 1: That's the key, that's the key to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And do I know of what I speak? I do.
Speaker 1: I have had the privilege of being a part of
Speaker 1: renovation and restoration of some homes that are one hundred,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty years old that have large, very
Speaker 1: very heavy oak pocket doors that have been hanging on
Speaker 1: those tracks for well over a century, and they just
Speaker 1: glide like a butter Okay, it is not the concept
Speaker 1: of a pocket door that is your problem. It is
Speaker 1: the hardware, the track, the wheels, the bearings, and so on.
Speaker 1: Don't buy cheap pocket doors and the other thing you
Speaker 1: need to know. It's not a structural change out. To
Speaker 1: change out your pocket door now, it will involve some
Speaker 1: dry wall, okay, because the pocket has been covered in
Speaker 1: drywall and you're going to have to cut that open.
Speaker 1: But drywall, in the big scheme of things, is a
Speaker 1: relatively inexpensive change out. And if you just take the
Speaker 1: time to change out the pocket of the pocket door situation,
Speaker 1: you too can have that back in action for the
Speaker 1: life of the home. There's literally no reason why not. Okay,
Speaker 1: shall we jump outside again or inside? Well, you know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna stay. We're gonna jump outside for a
Speaker 1: second because here's a real quickie. I told you about
Speaker 1: getting rid of unnecessary hardscape outside yesterday. In the previous episode,
Speaker 1: we also talked about getting rid of little brick planters.
Speaker 1: That if if those planter lines and spaces don't define
Speaker 1: the yard the way you want them to, don't just
Speaker 1: accept the fact that, well, somebody drew a line in
Speaker 1: my yard at some point in the past, and now
Speaker 1: I have to obey it. No, you do not have
Speaker 1: to obey that line, especially when it comes to something
Speaker 1: that literally can come out in a matter of a
Speaker 1: couple of hours and boom it's gone. You've been living
Speaker 1: with it for decades and in two hours you can
Speaker 1: redraw those lines. That's the brickplanter, the you know, the
Speaker 1: the kissing cousin of the unwonted brick planter is for
Speaker 1: some of you, the old broken down water feature or
Speaker 1: fountain in your yard. Hy yay, they're made out of concrete.
Speaker 1: Why no idea? Because you know what, guess what, concrete
Speaker 1: not waterproof. It's not the same as having a pool
Speaker 1: with pool plaster on it. Somebody poured a waterproof fountain.
Speaker 1: You can see the concrete. There's nothing about it that
Speaker 1: reminds you of nature. It's all broken down. It's just
Speaker 1: sitting there collecting, you know, pine needles and who knows what.
Speaker 1: You don't run rod or in it because it leaks
Speaker 1: like a sieve. Let's get it out of there. Now,
Speaker 1: you want a new water feature, great, love them, love them,
Speaker 1: have a couple of them myself. I just don't want
Speaker 1: you to try and rehab an old school, broken up
Speaker 1: concrete water trough kind of thingy. You know where the
Speaker 1: stones are like half embedded in the mortar and all
Speaker 1: you know of what I speak. Let's get rid of
Speaker 1: it again. Designed by demo. The yard will instantly thank
Speaker 1: you for even if you don't put anything back in
Speaker 1: its place, you will be instantly thanked for getting rid
Speaker 1: of that old thing because there is no fixing it.
Speaker 1: Do you hear me? There is no fixing it? And
Speaker 1: believe me, this is coming from the guy who tells
Speaker 1: you there is hope for just about everything. There is
Speaker 1: no fixing that stuff. There's no ceiling it properly, there's
Speaker 1: no waterproofing it or bringing it back to the point
Speaker 1: where it's ever going to look like a mountain stream ever.
Speaker 1: And so let's lose it and then we can get
Speaker 1: serious about if you really want a water feature, we
Speaker 1: can get serious about diying one in the right way.
Speaker 1: In that can be just stunning stunning and not costly
Speaker 1: all at the same time. So there you go. Get
Speaker 1: rid of the old broken up water feature, whatever the
Speaker 1: heck that thing was supposed to be, or the fountain,
Speaker 1: whatever that was. Let's lose it. Let's move on. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to the home and the yard that you want.
Speaker 1: Now after calls, I'm going to promise you this. The
Speaker 1: next step is one of the most troublesome and complicated
Speaker 1: and emotionally trying things in your home, and that is
Speaker 1: the fireplace, the fireplace inside the most important room in
Speaker 1: their house, right the family room or the living room,
Speaker 1: the weird fireplace, the damaged fireplace, the fireplace that might
Speaker 1: be sitting on what is really the best view wall
Speaker 1: or the best furniture wall in the room. This is
Speaker 1: why they are so difficult. We'll talk about that when
Speaker 1: we return to the subject. But right after the news,
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