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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here live this morning for the
Speaker 1: third hour of our show. It's a beautiful day outside, gorgeous,
Speaker 1: gorgeous fall day here in southern California, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about bedroom design. But because it's the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: It is time to go back to the phones where
Speaker 1: you get to tell me anything you want about your home.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Kelly. Hey, Kelly, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Dean.
Speaker 2: Hi, I have probably one of the worst things to
Speaker 2: have in a bedroom, and that is an ant attack.
Speaker 2: And they came in. They look they were coming out
Speaker 2: of the wall, come out of the light socket. Is
Speaker 2: there anything besides pentting or a guy out take care
Speaker 2: of Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean I don't want you
Speaker 1: to go to that extreme yet. So okay, so first
Speaker 1: of all, step one, and you know, you can say
Speaker 1: yourself a lot of potential pest control cost hassles if
Speaker 1: you just do these two or three steps step one,
Speaker 1: chances are they're not traveling all that far. So outside
Speaker 1: the bedroom, okay, a little bit of of Tara and uh,
Speaker 1: there's a sprinkle ant deterrent that you can put along
Speaker 1: just the outside of the foundation. This will help keep
Speaker 1: them away from getting up into the wall in the
Speaker 1: first place, and some baits out there. I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of Tara just because they've got some really
Speaker 1: excellent products and they're they're safe for pets and wildlife
Speaker 1: and all this other kind of stuff. So go take
Speaker 1: a look at what ant bates and the and the
Speaker 1: sprinkle prevention on the outside of the foundation around the room.
Speaker 1: Secondly inside the room. And I want you to do
Speaker 1: this carefully, so it's a good idea. Just like hit
Speaker 1: the breaker, but take off the light fixture or take
Speaker 1: out the electrical outlet cover. You don't have to pull
Speaker 1: anything else out other than that. But the reason they
Speaker 1: actually are attracted to electrical boxes in the wall is
Speaker 1: quite honestly, because those are little warm pockets in the
Speaker 1: wall and answer attracted to the warmth. That's happening because
Speaker 1: those boxes are technically open to the room, so they
Speaker 1: are warmer than the other places in the wall. They're
Speaker 1: not just looking for a way to get into the room.
Speaker 1: They just are attracted to the warmth there. So if
Speaker 1: you took a little bit of caulking, Okay, they could
Speaker 1: do door door window calking or silicone calking, you can
Speaker 1: do the thing that almost nobody has in their walls,
Speaker 1: and that is you can calk the edge of the
Speaker 1: actual electrical box to the edge of the dry wall
Speaker 1: to eliminate the gap for them to come through. And
Speaker 1: then if you see any holes or gaps in the
Speaker 1: electrical box itself. Put a little bit of calking in
Speaker 1: those holes as well. To seal the box off so
Speaker 1: that even though they're attracted to it in the wall,
Speaker 1: they're not actually using it as a portal to get
Speaker 1: into the room. And then the final step here would
Speaker 1: be to actually, while you've got the plate off the
Speaker 1: electrical outlet, to actually put a little bit of ant
Speaker 1: bait there. Again, tear is an excellent one to use.
Speaker 1: You can put a little droplet or two of ant
Speaker 1: bait there and anyone who gets in there you have
Speaker 1: to be patient. But anyone who gets in there, they're
Speaker 1: going to grab that bait, take it back to the colony,
Speaker 1: and everybody is going to get sick and go away. Now,
Speaker 1: that could take two three days to see the results
Speaker 1: of that. So again, seal them off from the room first,
Speaker 1: and just as a backup, put a little amp bait
Speaker 1: in the box, put the electrical cover back on, and
Speaker 1: you should be golden. It works ninety nine times out
Speaker 1: of one hundred to keep them from coming inside. That
Speaker 1: sounds perfect, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Thanks, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome, Kelly. Thank you for the question
Speaker 1: do we have time. No, we're up against the break.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll take one or two at
Speaker 1: the most more calls, and then we will get back
Speaker 1: onto designing your bedroom, Your home Dean Sharp the house whisper.
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Speaker 1: Here in the third hour of our fine little program
Speaker 1: on this beautiful, beautiful autumn day, October thirteenth, Tina's birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good day. All right. We're gonna get back
Speaker 1: to talking about designing your bedroom in just a bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm taking calls right now. Last calls of the show.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Jane. Hey, Jane, welcome home.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Dean. We had an air conditioning technician check
Speaker 5: the insulation in my attic. He had a marked guide
Speaker 5: to measure the level of insulation by the year the
Speaker 5: house was built, nineteen fifty six. He said, my level
Speaker 5: is really really low and can cause the temperature to
Speaker 5: be too hot, too cold, among other things. I assume
Speaker 5: this happens, but I wanted to check with you and
Speaker 5: then see how I remedy it, who could replace it,
Speaker 5: and about how much should it cost?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about that. So we're talking about blowing
Speaker 1: in insulation up in your attic nineteen fifty five. It
Speaker 1: is minimal, minimal. I mean, you know, I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before when we do our insulation shows that you know,
Speaker 1: in southern California, especially before the late seventies, there were
Speaker 1: hardly any energy codes whatsoever controlling how much insulation went
Speaker 1: into the house. So we've had we've had a radical
Speaker 1: change in that. Okay, So they're right. I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: they're on point with this, and they're right about not
Speaker 1: that the key to a really great HVAC system is
Speaker 1: not only the quality of the equipment and the size
Speaker 1: of the system and the proper operation of the system,
Speaker 1: but the insulation in the house. Because the whole idea
Speaker 1: is that once the the heater or the air conditioner
Speaker 1: has done its job of getting the room to temperature,
Speaker 1: how hard it works after that has everything to do
Speaker 1: with how long the house holds on to that temperature,
Speaker 1: holds on to the heat, or holds on to the
Speaker 1: cool right because if it leaks right out, then it's
Speaker 1: got to turn right back on and it's got to
Speaker 1: work some more. A really really brilliantly insulated home. All
Speaker 1: we have to do is get it up to the
Speaker 1: temp that we want or down to the temp that
Speaker 1: we want, depending on heating or cooling, and then it
Speaker 1: holds for a long period of time, and then the
Speaker 1: AC just nudges it a little nudge, little nudge, topping off,
Speaker 1: topping off. That's the ideal situation. And of all places
Speaker 1: to insulate the house because heat rises and cold air descends,
Speaker 1: it's the attic. So fortunately it's not expensive. Now I
Speaker 1: can't quote you a price because it depends on the
Speaker 1: size of your attic and all sorts of configurations like
Speaker 1: access and roof pitching up. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 1: it is not expense. It is a fraction of number
Speaker 1: one paying for an extra large HVAC system. It will
Speaker 1: pay for itself in heating and cooling savings. And we're
Speaker 1: talking about blown in insulation, and what you're looking for
Speaker 1: up there is R thirty R thirty levels of insulation
Speaker 1: blown in across the whole attic, sealing up all the holes,
Speaker 1: all the gaps, a nice, big, thick, beautiful blanket and
Speaker 1: you won't have to worry with today's insulation. Blown in
Speaker 1: insult you won't have to worry about it's settling down
Speaker 1: and minimizing itself for decades to come. So that's the thing,
Speaker 1: and there are all sorts of companies ready to work
Speaker 1: that for you to clean out the old stuff if necessary.
Speaker 1: But if there's no let's say, like rodent intrusion or
Speaker 1: anything like that up in the attic, the simple fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is that you may not have to
Speaker 1: clear out the old stuff. It's not like the old
Speaker 1: stuff is stale or anything like that. They can just
Speaker 1: blow in right on top of it. It is such
Speaker 1: a common thing these days. You can even rent your
Speaker 1: own insulation blower at places like home Depot and buy
Speaker 1: the blocks of insulation. I'm not saying you should do
Speaker 1: it yourself, but I'm just saying that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: if you're DIY minded. So yeah, have an insulation company
Speaker 1: come out. And the way to know again what a
Speaker 1: thing is really going to cost for your particular home
Speaker 1: is always get two or three estimates from a reputable company.
Speaker 1: Make sure they're bi you know, they're bidding the thing
Speaker 1: apples to apples, And then you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: and you realize, oh, look at that, Look at they
Speaker 1: all fall within this range. This is kind of and
Speaker 1: then there if there's an outlier who's unusually inexpensive or
Speaker 1: unusually expensive, then you can deal with that. But you
Speaker 1: will find them clumping from reputable contractors right in one zone,
Speaker 1: and you'll find out real quick. So you have the
Speaker 1: confidence of knowing, like, you know what, I bid this
Speaker 1: thing out four times, uh, and I know this is
Speaker 1: what it should cost for my addic. So that's where
Speaker 1: you go, my friend, and uh, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be quick and easy. We're talking about a one day
Speaker 1: deal that's going to radically change the way your whole
Speaker 1: your whole house holds on to the heat and the
Speaker 1: AC from here on out. Jane, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the question. Dorive room. Just can I squeeze
Speaker 1: one more in? Sure? Let's try it. Uh, let's talk
Speaker 1: to uh. Let's see Jack. Hey Jack, welcome home. Hello Jack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a Jack.
Speaker 1: What can I do for you? I'm here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, regarding my roof, I have cement tiles. The house
Speaker 3: is not that old. It's only about twelve years old.
Speaker 3: But I've had several weeks in a couple of different places,
Speaker 3: and they talked to the roofer, and I asked them,
Speaker 3: is there some kind of a spray or something that
Speaker 3: you can spray on these cement cement tiles, I mean
Speaker 3: they're they're not. I prefer asphalt, but the house had
Speaker 3: you ask all, I mean the cementele Is there anything
Speaker 3: I can do about that?
Speaker 1: No? No, that would be a waste of time actually,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing cement tiles. In fact, this is
Speaker 1: something that that that I talk about often that everybody
Speaker 1: needs to understand about their roof. Is that the tile,
Speaker 1: the shingle, whatever the case may be, whatever else the
Speaker 1: surface is that you've got up there, that is not
Speaker 1: your primary line of defense from keeping your house waterproof.
Speaker 1: It is the underlayment underneath. And a cement tile has
Speaker 1: already been treated to whatever degree that it needs to
Speaker 1: be treated to not be like normal cement, which means
Speaker 1: super porous and just a giant water sponge. So there's
Speaker 1: no additional coating to put on a cement tile that's
Speaker 1: going to solve the problem if you've got a leak.
Speaker 1: If you have a leak with a cement tile roof,
Speaker 1: guarantee that it has something to do with the underlayment
Speaker 1: and or the flashings around it. So a qualified roofer
Speaker 1: needs to get up there, figure out where this leak
Speaker 1: is coming from, pull back a few tiles, get to
Speaker 1: the paper and or the membrane underneath, get to the
Speaker 1: flashing problem, get that fixed, and put the tiles back
Speaker 1: in place in order to seal you up. It's not
Speaker 1: the tiles. It's not going to be the tiles, not
Speaker 1: unless somehow there's no paper underneath whatsoever. But again that's
Speaker 1: a paper problem, so it's really not your cement tiles.
Speaker 1: We don't need to waterproof the top surface of the tiles.
Speaker 1: We just need to let them do their job. But
Speaker 1: they have to get the major assist from the moisture
Speaker 1: membrane underneath the tiles, and where that membrane connects to
Speaker 1: the flashings. That's the metal stuff on the edges of
Speaker 1: the roof, and where it meets the chimney and all
Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. All those things have to
Speaker 1: be tied together in order for the tiles on top,
Speaker 1: which essentially you could make the argument are just there
Speaker 1: to look at from the street and to protect that
Speaker 1: critical waterproofing membrane from the elements like direct exposure to UV, sun, wind, rain,
Speaker 1: all of that kind of stuff. But the real key
Speaker 1: is the membrane underneath, and then the tile on top
Speaker 1: is the cherry on top of the Sunday. There you go,
Speaker 1: my friend. Thanks for the question, thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: Thanks for all of our callers today. It's time now
Speaker 1: to turn back to you designing our bedrooms.
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Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us on the program today. What a beautiful day
Speaker 1: it is. We are talking about designing your bedroom specifically.
Speaker 1: I'm focused on not just every bedroom, you know, because
Speaker 1: that would take us all afield, the kids room and
Speaker 1: guest rooms and so on. But I'm really focused on
Speaker 1: the primary bedroom, the master bedroom, the bedroom where you,
Speaker 1: the master of the house, spend your time doing what
Speaker 1: you do in a bedroom. So well, where are we
Speaker 1: at now now? I left you dangling when we last
Speaker 1: spoke of this before I took calls this last hour
Speaker 1: with the idea of the soaker tub out in the room.
Speaker 1: I know, listen, I'm a designer, so again I'm giving you,
Speaker 1: you know, all sorts of different options. Maybe your bedroom,
Speaker 1: like mine, has no prayer whatsoever of having anything like
Speaker 1: that in the room, because we can barely fit in
Speaker 1: our bed into our bedroom. I feel you, all right,
Speaker 1: But a lot of folks do these days, especially if
Speaker 1: you live in a house that was built in the
Speaker 1: eighties forward. That was a period of time in which
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, builders, in order to hush it up,
Speaker 1: started kind of oversizing master bedrooms. And here's the problem,
Speaker 1: oversizing master bedrooms to the detriment of the bathroom in
Speaker 1: the master suite. Okay, and now we have definitely turned
Speaker 1: a corner from that period of time in which bathrooms
Speaker 1: have become far, far more important. And yet okay, third
Speaker 1: point along this line, we live in a time in
Speaker 1: which most people are really scratching their heads about those
Speaker 1: oversized jacuzzi tubs in their bathrooms and whether they want
Speaker 1: a tub or all at all. Are advice are kind
Speaker 1: of standard, you know. Template advice is that keep a
Speaker 1: tub in a house somewhere, a tub somewhere, because whether
Speaker 1: it's you, kids, grandkids, guests, somebody could practically use a
Speaker 1: tub resale value. You sell to a young family, they
Speaker 1: need a tub for washing little ones. So keep a
Speaker 1: tub somewhere in the house. But if it doesn't work
Speaker 1: for the primary bathroom, then you know, lose the tub
Speaker 1: in the primary bathroom unless you are a soaker. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're a soaker, if you're a person who just
Speaker 1: loves that long, luxurious soaking bath and you've got room
Speaker 1: for it in the bathroom, great, If not, if you've
Speaker 1: got an oversized bedroom. What about the room itself? And
Speaker 1: the reason I say that is because free standing tubs
Speaker 1: are absolutely stunningly gorgeous. And I could show you one
Speaker 1: hundred images right now of high end hotel rooms in
Speaker 1: which the room itself, the bed room utilizes its extra
Speaker 1: space with a soaker tub out in the room. You
Speaker 1: think about this that you know the bedroom itself right,
Speaker 1: maybe the TV is out there, maybe it's the best lighting,
Speaker 1: and so on, and so many folks these days have
Speaker 1: floors that could handle the soaker tub. Now I'm one
Speaker 1: to tell you that even if you have a hardwood
Speaker 1: floor in a in a primary bedroom, that it qualifies
Speaker 1: for a soaker tub. You just have to be you know,
Speaker 1: adult about it and not have a big splash party
Speaker 1: in the tub, you know, soaking your hardwood floor constantly.
Speaker 1: But most hardwood floors that are polyurethaned and well finished.
Speaker 1: They can handle, you know, a little bit of moisture
Speaker 1: dropped on them as long as you twel it up
Speaker 1: after the fact. But even at that, going beyond that,
Speaker 1: so many homes have tile in the bedroom or have
Speaker 1: these days luxury vinyl plank. These are waterproof materials. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the idea of like right over there in that
Speaker 1: unused corner, if you're not gonna sit there in a
Speaker 1: chair and read, if you're going to put a work
Speaker 1: desk there, think about pulling that tub out of the bathroom,
Speaker 1: giving the bathroom more space and putting it as a
Speaker 1: pure luxury decor idea in the corner of the bedroom.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just saying it's possible. Okay. Also,
Speaker 1: get creative with closets and closet doors, right, They don't
Speaker 1: just have to be another sliding mirror door. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't have anything to have any issues with sliding mirror
Speaker 1: doors on a closet, especially a smaller bedroom. Mirrors obviously
Speaker 1: are a way of making a small space seem larger,
Speaker 1: but they just don't have to be the conventual, the conventional,
Speaker 1: you know, the little brass framed, you know, full size,
Speaker 1: full height sliding mirror doors. You could use louver doors.
Speaker 1: You could use doors that match the other doors in
Speaker 1: the house. Literally, you can hang those doors as closet
Speaker 1: doors and get that uniformity throughout the house. You could
Speaker 1: use draperes. Don't you go telling me that that's a
Speaker 1: cheap way out. It is inexpensive, less expensive than most
Speaker 1: closet door setups. But draperes over a closet can be
Speaker 1: sexy as hack. Okay, ask Tina, because we've got draperes
Speaker 1: in front of our closets. And also, can I mention
Speaker 1: not only can they be super sexy, but they can
Speaker 1: be twice as practical as a conventional door. You know
Speaker 1: why because let's say you've got an eight foot wide
Speaker 1: closet and you've got two four foot slider doors. You
Speaker 1: slide one right, nice big opening, but it's not the
Speaker 1: whole thing, right, because there's always a door covering half
Speaker 1: your closet. But guess what happens in my draped closet opening.
Speaker 1: I can push the whole thing back and there it
Speaker 1: is before me, the entire closet, all of my options
Speaker 1: right before me. This is one of the advantages of
Speaker 1: shower curtains in a bathroom and drapes in front of
Speaker 1: a closet door. Just an option, Just an option. I'm
Speaker 1: just giving you permission to dream beyond the convention. Right
Speaker 1: You could, if you really want to get funky and fancy,
Speaker 1: set up closet doors with bookshelves mounted on the front
Speaker 1: of them, so that you've got bookshelves in your bedroom
Speaker 1: if it's a reading kind of room, and secretly behind
Speaker 1: the bookshelves the closet, or if you've got a weird
Speaker 1: shaped room and a lot of these oversized post nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty bedrooms, they are narrow and way longer than really
Speaker 1: practically they should be. And so you think, well that
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to set the bed on the
Speaker 1: long wall. But if the if the bed, if the
Speaker 1: bed is uh is, can fit on the shorter wall
Speaker 1: with nightstands and so on, UH, then possibly, if you
Speaker 1: need more closet space, then slide a wall in and
Speaker 1: pull the old closet behind the bed. Trick in which
Speaker 1: you actually build a partition wall in that room with
Speaker 1: a door access either side and door both sides and
Speaker 1: uh and actually run a walk through closet behind the bedwall.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, you got lots and lots of options. Okay, finally, uh,
Speaker 1: some points for you bedroom art. Just know that this
Speaker 1: is your private gallery. Don't uh, don't skimp on it,
Speaker 1: because again, it's a place where you are spending your time.
Speaker 1: The view outside those bedroom windows, make it what it
Speaker 1: should be. Treat each window like a diorama. Make that
Speaker 1: view what it should and could be. Landscape the outside
Speaker 1: to complement inside of the bedroom. Cool colors in the
Speaker 1: bedroom make for better sleep. They do. Dark walls may
Speaker 1: help shift workers who have to sleep at odd times
Speaker 1: or during the day. Your sleep temperature, ideally for a bedroom,
Speaker 1: somewhere between sixty and sixty seven degrees. Yeah. That means no,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about running your ac all night long,
Speaker 1: but it means that you know if you can and
Speaker 1: if you feel safe to do so. When you're hitting
Speaker 1: the hay at night, especially this time of year, it's
Speaker 1: time to crack those windows open. Sleep cooler, Okay, the
Speaker 1: air temperature. I don't care how snugly you are underneath,
Speaker 1: that's one of the joys of it. But let the
Speaker 1: air temperature go a little cooler, you will sleep better.
Speaker 1: That's just science. Vaulted ceilings, tall walls, all ago for
Speaker 1: a bedroom, think about it, because the volume in the room,
Speaker 1: the volume up can make up for a small square
Speaker 1: footage space. Okay, and then decorating the bed, of course,
Speaker 1: you know you've got everything from nice tight, formalized military
Speaker 1: style bed dreat you know, comforters and so on, all
Speaker 1: the way to the ever popular intentionally messy bed with
Speaker 1: big soft pillows and linens and all sorts of fluff
Speaker 1: going on, throws, layers of texture, draping. Last thing, last
Speaker 1: thing for today, don't forget And if this bedroom redo
Speaker 1: is part of a significant remodel that you're doing to
Speaker 1: the room, if you're really going to get serious about it.
Speaker 1: Sound peace and quiet in that bedroom. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means sound insulation in the walls. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to protect the rest of the house from the
Speaker 1: noise you're making in the bedroom, although it does work
Speaker 1: both ways. But what I'm talking about is peace and
Speaker 1: quiet for you in that room. Let it be a
Speaker 1: sound retreat as well, so that when you sleep at night,
Speaker 1: you're not having to hear every little thing everything all
Speaker 1: the time, and the rest of the house can be
Speaker 1: active and you are still getting a good night's sleep.
Speaker 1: Sound insulation That means insulation in the interior as well
Speaker 1: as the exterior walls that your bedroom shares. Does that
Speaker 1: all makes sense? There you go. Those are some key
Speaker 1: guidelines for you, all right when we return, a few
Speaker 1: extra thoughts on the bedroom and some closing thoughts for
Speaker 1: the day. So go nowhere.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: We've been talking about designing your bedroom, giving you tips,
Speaker 1: giving you perspective on the things that you can do
Speaker 1: for your primary bedroom at your house. I hope you
Speaker 1: have found them stimulating, nudging, right, eye opening and good good.
Speaker 1: You know why because design matters most, and it's time
Speaker 1: for us to start all approaching our homes from that perspective.
Speaker 1: I get asked all the time, Dean, I know you
Speaker 1: talk about design, design, Design. Is design gonna save me money?
Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. The answer is no, No, design
Speaker 1: is not going to save you money. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you this design is going to maximize the budget
Speaker 1: that you have for what it is that you're doing.
Speaker 1: That's why it matters most. You're not going to spend
Speaker 1: less necessarily could. You could, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: spend less. Don't plan on spending less necessarily because you're
Speaker 1: approaching the project from a heavy design perspective, but don't
Speaker 1: expect to spend more either. What you can expect is
Speaker 1: the better you design a project, the further that dollar
Speaker 1: go bang for the buck of the results that you
Speaker 1: get when you are done. And that's the whole point
Speaker 1: behind design matters. Most One other comment for you today
Speaker 1: unrelated directly to bedroom design, and that is something I
Speaker 1: alluded to at the beginning of the show. I talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday morning at the beginning of yesterday's show,
Speaker 1: the Saturday Show, and that is permission, okay, around the holidays,
Speaker 1: which we are now. You know, we are now on track, right,
Speaker 1: we are, we are in the shoot. We are on
Speaker 1: our way. Around the holidays, people give themselves permission for
Speaker 1: a level of creative decor, decorating and playfulness that normal
Speaker 1: people don't give themselves permission for throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. And I am here to tell you because
Speaker 1: the experience of your home is not just a thing
Speaker 1: that happens in the holidays, but it is a three
Speaker 1: sixty five experience. Okay, Uh, give yourself permission to take
Speaker 1: the kind of perspective that you take during the holidays.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm talking about. During the holidays,
Speaker 1: you're like, where should we put the tree? Where would
Speaker 1: this look the best? How are we going to get
Speaker 1: this homiest? How is this gonna be oh twinkling and
Speaker 1: ooh that's gonna that's gonna's gonna make us feel really special.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about taking that attitude and applying it for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you being the person who never
Speaker 1: takes down their Christmas lights'. That's not it. It's not
Speaker 1: about Christmas decor. It's not about holiday decor. It's just
Speaker 1: this attitude that you know what creativity is for you
Speaker 1: year round. And I would say even more important than
Speaker 1: the holidays is the rest of the year, day in,
Speaker 1: day out, your experience of home. Give yourself permission to
Speaker 1: reach further and to make every space, every angle, every view,
Speaker 1: every possibility. It does not have to break the bank,
Speaker 1: not if you make it a lifestyle choice. That listen,
Speaker 1: I'm in it to win it. I'm in it for
Speaker 1: the long run for my home. Okay, A lot of
Speaker 1: people say, listen, I haven't made any changes to my
Speaker 1: house because I've just you know, we've been here twenty
Speaker 1: years and still we don't have the money for a
Speaker 1: major remodel. Okay, I get that, Okay, But you do
Speaker 1: have small increments along the way, Okay, And that's ultimately
Speaker 1: those layers, those small changes, change after change after change
Speaker 1: after change, gradually, gradually, gradually, gradually, these are the things
Speaker 1: that can make worlds, worlds of difference. And if you
Speaker 1: don't believe me, just think. You know, it's the vitamin analogy. Right,
Speaker 1: Do you take your vitamins right on any given day?
Speaker 1: When you take that, you know, you pop your supplements
Speaker 1: for the day. Whether you take it that day or
Speaker 1: miss it that day, nothing's gonna change in your life
Speaker 1: that day, right, nothing. Let's face it. It's not like, ohh,
Speaker 1: I took my vitamins this morning, I'm ready to go. No.
Speaker 1: But day after day after day, increment by increment by increment,
Speaker 1: as the weeks and months and years roll on, it
Speaker 1: makes a massive difference whether you've been taking your vitamins
Speaker 1: or not. Right, same with brushing your teeth, same with
Speaker 1: every small incremental thing. And you can master design your
Speaker 1: house the same way more often than not. Okay, got
Speaker 1: a big budget, great design matters, most don't have much
Speaker 1: of a budget. Fine design matters most. There you go,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all? Well, uh, turns out today this week
Speaker 1: a lot of birthdays this week. Okay, a lot of
Speaker 1: birthdays this week. You know. Sitting in the booth right now,
Speaker 1: Elmer's birthday was this week. Yes, yes, Tina, by the way,
Speaker 1: is back in studio with me. I am. Turns out
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but Tina just informed me Tim
Speaker 1: Conway's birthdays. Do you share a birthday with Tim Conway?
Speaker 1: Tim and I share a birthday? There you go? Uh,
Speaker 1: today is Tina's birthday. Wednesday was my daughter in law's,
Speaker 1: Christie's birthday. Just two more reasons why autumn is my
Speaker 1: favorite time of year. What gifts these two women are
Speaker 1: to me? They're both on my mind, so I figured
Speaker 1: i'd give them a joint shout out today. Okay, there
Speaker 1: is not enough time to tell you how much these
Speaker 1: two women mean to me. Just know that there are
Speaker 1: no two human beings more dear, and there's nothing nothing
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do to see both of them safe and
Speaker 1: fulfilled in this life. They are strong, capable women, both
Speaker 1: whip smart, both utterly unique, both extremely quirky, vulnerable, hard working,
Speaker 1: devoted and fierce fierce friends, and one of the great
Speaker 1: blessings for me is that over the years I've had
Speaker 1: the joy of watching them become the fiercest of friends
Speaker 1: to one another. And I'm just speaking for myself here,
Speaker 1: but It's not been my experience that strong independent women
Speaker 1: tend to bond easily with other strong independent women. Okay,
Speaker 1: these two are the exception. They have got each other's back,
Speaker 1: and I hope they I know they know that I've
Speaker 1: got theirs. I love them both, of course, but even better,
Speaker 1: I really really like them. They are each in their
Speaker 1: own way, both strong and vulnerable, serious and playful, wise
Speaker 1: and ditsy, mature and childlike. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: their only true character defect is a shared obsession with
Speaker 1: true time podcasts. But you know, for the sake of
Speaker 1: all the good that you learn to live with certain
Speaker 1: things in life. Right now, both of them claim it
Speaker 1: is a fascination with the human psyche, but there is
Speaker 1: definitely also some bloodthirsty quest for justice mixed in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not accepting any other answer to that, which I
Speaker 1: have to admit is strangely comforting on some level, kind
Speaker 1: of like that. Nevertheless, all of that pales in comparison
Speaker 1: with how committed they both are to health, transparency, healing,
Speaker 1: growing and becoming. In fact, I don't know two people
Speaker 1: more humbly committed to becoming Now. Yesterday, Tina received a
Speaker 1: birthday card from my mom, who, by the way, is
Speaker 1: a master gift giver, and I thought the sentiment was
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect for both of these women that I love.
Speaker 1: It simply said this you're awesome, has layers your classy,
Speaker 1: sassy and a whole lot kick assy, And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that just about sums it up. Love you, Tina,
Speaker 1: Love you, Love you, Sparks, Love you so much. Happy
Speaker 1: birthdays now today, And it may not be the birthday
Speaker 1: of somebody you love, but that doesn't mean it isn't
Speaker 1: a perfect day to celebrate your best people. Maybe get
Speaker 1: together and definitely get out there and get busy building
Speaker 1: yourself a beautiful life. Everybody enjoyed the day. Go Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you right back here next weekend. This
Speaker 1: has been home with Dean Sharp the house whisper Tune
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