Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 2: Every week we help you better understand that place where
Speaker 2: you live. I am Dean Sharp, the house whisper here
Speaker 2: with you live like I am every weekend satwell, not
Speaker 2: the last two weekends, but now back again live. We're
Speaker 2: back from vacation. Where was I at?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I like I am? Every weekend Saturday morning six to
Speaker 2: eight Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Big Show Tomorrow, Sunday Show from
Speaker 2: nine to noon. We're going to be talking about your bedroom.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I said that that way. No,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about bedrooms tomorrow. It's been a
Speaker 2: while since we've broached that object. You would think bedrooms
Speaker 2: are a pretty straightforward thing by way of design to
Speaker 2: make them, you know, look great. It turns out not
Speaker 2: so much. Really. Honestly, a lot of people struggle with
Speaker 2: their bedroom and so we're going to help you solve
Speaker 2: those issues tomorrow. That's tomorrow's big show, but today it's
Speaker 2: a little bit of everything, plus your calls. I'm right
Speaker 2: in the middle of taking calls right now. I'm on
Speaker 2: a roll, as I do, and so I want to
Speaker 2: go back to the phones. Let's see here but the bump.
Speaker 2: Let's just pick one. I want to talk to Nancy. Hey, Nancy,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Yes, good morning. I'm lovely to hear you. Yes, I
Speaker 3: have a problem with a hawk. I have chickens and
Speaker 3: their little chicken yard. It's just a small little yard
Speaker 3: that I have metal sensing around. But the problem is
Speaker 3: I have an apple tree and a apricot tree, and
Speaker 3: so I can't put netting over it all. Is there
Speaker 3: any structure coming?
Speaker 2: You're kind of breaking up a little bit, Nancy. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you this question. What has been the interaction
Speaker 2: so far with the hawk and the chickens? Has Has
Speaker 2: the hawk picked them off? Picked off a few? Tell
Speaker 2: me what's going on there?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm moving to a better spot, so I should
Speaker 3: be able to be heard better. Is this better now? Okay?
Speaker 3: So what okay? So what has happened is the hawk
Speaker 3: has Okay, I have one hen, and I've had to
Speaker 3: secure everything because raccoons came and got my other hen,
Speaker 3: so I've got one left. So I've got two pullets
Speaker 3: right now, and I have them in a large, secure
Speaker 3: crate so that they can get accustomed with each other.
Speaker 3: And the hawk yesterday came and landed on top of
Speaker 3: the crate. Oh yeah, yes, So I went out there
Speaker 3: and yelled at him, and he kind of gave me
Speaker 3: a glaring look and begrudgingly flew off. I thought, you snark.
Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, well all right, and so you've got
Speaker 2: a couple of trees in the chicken yard as well,
Speaker 2: smaller trees though. Yeah, yes, I don't know if I've
Speaker 2: got the universal solution for this, but you know, Tina
Speaker 2: and I have chickens, and so we've had to struggle
Speaker 2: with the exact same thing. We've got chickens, and we've
Speaker 2: got hawk roosts all around us, right, hawks are always
Speaker 2: flying overhead, And at first we were concerned maybe we
Speaker 2: should just when we were young chicken owners, naive chicken owner,
Speaker 2: We're like, just let's cover over, let's net over the
Speaker 2: entire yard. Of course, you know that works if you
Speaker 2: can do it. But at the same time, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: we've also seen a little bit of interaction. We've actually
Speaker 2: had a juvenile hawk land in the yard with the chickens.
Speaker 2: And uh, strangely enough, though, once a hawk and a chicken,
Speaker 2: now you've got pullets and everybody, for who's non chicken language,
Speaker 2: that's a it's a smaller chicken, okay. Uh. And they're
Speaker 2: they're younger, they're smaller, but strangely enough, full grown chickens.
Speaker 2: You know, they're little dinosaurs. And uh, once a hawk
Speaker 2: is actually sitting standing on the ground with a chicken. Yes,
Speaker 2: their talons are sharper and their beak is a little
Speaker 2: bit more sharp than a chicken, but uh, it's not
Speaker 2: that uneven of a fight, especially if there's more than
Speaker 2: one chicken around when it comes to that. And so
Speaker 2: the real danger, uh is uh the hawks swooping down
Speaker 2: like they like to, grabbing and going okay. And so
Speaker 2: the thing that I tell chicken owners all the time
Speaker 2: is you don't necessarily have to cover over the entire
Speaker 2: chicken area to protect them, because you know, a hawk
Speaker 2: sitting on the ground is a relatively harmless thing. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that they couldn't cause some damage, but it's
Speaker 2: just once they're grounded, they're not that kind of a
Speaker 2: threat anymore. And in fact, you know, we have a
Speaker 2: rooster in our yard who's about four times the size
Speaker 2: of your average hawk. And so once a hawk is
Speaker 2: sitting on the ground, believe me, they are intimidy. Now
Speaker 2: this guy is towering over them, so, which I guess
Speaker 2: is one benefit of having a rooster. But my point is,
Speaker 2: you see hawks, birds of prey. What they do, Hawks
Speaker 2: and eagles and falcons. They love to swoop in, grab
Speaker 2: and go right. And so the key is disrupt their
Speaker 2: flight path. Okay, if a hawk, a hawk could fly
Speaker 2: over your you know now right now the chickens are created.
Speaker 2: So now he's like at the zoo where he just
Speaker 2: comes down and like is observing them, right, but for
Speaker 2: really grabbing them and going a hawk is going to
Speaker 2: want to spy out a really good angle that they
Speaker 2: can swoop down uninterruptedly, grab a chicken out of the
Speaker 2: yard and keep on going. And in our case, we've
Speaker 2: got trees around. We have larger trees outside the yard.
Speaker 2: We've got a couple of trees inside the chicken yard,
Speaker 2: and there's just no clear flight path for a hawk.
Speaker 2: So if a hawk wants to get at our chickens,
Speaker 2: and we have nothing else covering the yard. But if
Speaker 2: a hawk wants to get at our chickens, you've got
Speaker 2: to come down and land in the yard. And to
Speaker 2: this day, and this is with tens of hawks flying
Speaker 2: over us just about every day, after years and years
Speaker 2: and years and years, we've only had a young, inexperienced
Speaker 2: hawk land in the yard one time and they regretted it.
Speaker 2: So my advice from my own experience, and maybe there's
Speaker 2: some keener chicken out advice from more experienced you know,
Speaker 2: chicken owners out there, but my advice is cut off
Speaker 2: the flight the glide path. Okay. Uh So as long
Speaker 2: as you disrupted the glide path, you shouldn't. They'll be around,
Speaker 2: but they shouldn't be a threat. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay, Well, thank you so much and
Speaker 3: have a delightful.
Speaker 2: Day and you too, and thank you for the call.
Speaker 2: All right, See we get it all. Crumbling foundations, chickens,
Speaker 2: grass cut too short? What will happen next? Who knows?
Speaker 2: Can't f kean sharp the house with her at your service.
Speaker 2: Good Saturday morning to you. The sun is up, look
Speaker 2: at it out there, just look at it. Let's take
Speaker 2: a moment. Mm hmmm beautiful. Also, speaking of beautiful, guess
Speaker 2: who's up and sitting across the table from me. She's
Speaker 2: been here for a little bit, Yes, I have. But
Speaker 2: but but you were a little late this morning. I
Speaker 2: was very late, a little sleepy. I was dreaming. All right,
Speaker 2: you're dreaming of maple syrup now and apples. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. Tina's here, by the way, and she'll
Speaker 2: be here tomorrow too, on time, or she'll have her
Speaker 2: pay doct all the money, with all the money we
Speaker 2: give her to be here in studio with me zero money.
Speaker 2: We will dock that pay. We will take away your
Speaker 2: zero money. All right, you know what. I want to
Speaker 2: take another call, and then I've got some other things
Speaker 2: to share with you. So let's talk to Raina. Hey, Reina,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hi. Thanks Dean, you are such a gift. I have
Speaker 4: a question my family and I want to help out
Speaker 4: our seventy midst of these parents whose yard is kind
Speaker 4: of overgrown and the front yard and just kind of
Speaker 4: clean it up, maybe you know, wood chips, native things.
Speaker 4: But my stepfather has to pull up the car periodically
Speaker 4: because my mom has limited mobility, and so she pulled.
Speaker 4: He pulls the car up into the yard to get
Speaker 4: her closer to the front door. So he didn't want
Speaker 4: us to do the main grass part, which is just
Speaker 4: really dead and terrible. And I wondered if there's something
Speaker 4: we could do, like di y simple that would allow
Speaker 4: him to still pull the car up but clean up
Speaker 4: the yard.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh so when you say pull the car, so
Speaker 2: he's pulling the car onto the yard.
Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, to get it right up by the front door.
Speaker 2: All right. So so I'm trying to I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get a picture of this in my head. We've got
Speaker 2: kind of a typical suburban house driveway up to the garage, right,
Speaker 2: but the front door is off to the side of that,
Speaker 2: and there's yard there. There's lawn, let's let's call it lawn.
Speaker 2: We've got lawn there. And now, because of mom's situation,
Speaker 2: Dad has to pull onto the lawn area in order
Speaker 2: to get her as close as possible to the front door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he backs out and parks in front
Speaker 4: of the house.
Speaker 2: Okay, got it, got it? Okay, Well, okay, so first
Speaker 2: of all, instead of okay, the first thing that comes
Speaker 2: to mind that you can do. And this is a
Speaker 2: this is a d i y thing, Okay, a little
Speaker 2: bit a little bit of of of you know, sweat
Speaker 2: and toil, but it's.
Speaker 4: Definitely the Yeah, we have lots of young grandkids to
Speaker 4: help and my brother has some construction experience that we
Speaker 4: can do some stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, so uh, this is something this is something actually
Speaker 2: that that that that we've done with clients who just
Speaker 2: don't want any driveway at all in front of their
Speaker 2: house because they love green space. And that is have
Speaker 2: you considered uh, from the driveway, you know, and marking
Speaker 2: the path that that he takes, the arc that is
Speaker 2: necessary for him to pull in that from the driveway
Speaker 2: over that you put in the you know, a form
Speaker 2: of grass paver protection that is partial grass and partial
Speaker 2: pavers to support the weight of the car.
Speaker 4: Okay, I wondered if we could do something with pavers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now these aren't the thing I'm talking about here
Speaker 2: is Uh, there's different ways of approaching it. You can
Speaker 2: go right now to like a place like the big
Speaker 2: box store, like the home depot and find these. They
Speaker 2: come in like twenty four by twenty four squares. They're
Speaker 2: they're like a little three by three inch concrete nodules
Speaker 2: that are all wired together, but they allow either gravel
Speaker 2: and or grass to grow in between them. Okay, And
Speaker 2: that way it's a it's like it's like a hybrid space, okay,
Speaker 2: because once you've leveled it out and supported this, you
Speaker 2: can keep that area green, you can water it. And
Speaker 2: yet it's actually designed to support the weight of a
Speaker 2: vehicle being pulled up onto it, so it is both
Speaker 2: lawn and driveway. You can do this in a couple
Speaker 2: of different ways. You can use the nodules. I call
Speaker 2: them pavers. They're not exactly pavers, but they're these little
Speaker 2: semi hybrid pavers that allow grass to grow in between them. Also,
Speaker 2: there are and if you look online you can find these.
Speaker 2: There are very very high strength like black plastic interlocking
Speaker 2: grids that allow a lot of either gravel or grass
Speaker 2: to grow in between them. But the grid again sits
Speaker 2: there and supports the weight of the vehicle. So the
Speaker 2: very first the point of my suggestion is this, I
Speaker 2: think sight unseen that I want to embrace the situation.
Speaker 2: And you know, you guys obviously don't want to pour
Speaker 2: a driveway over there, obviously, but a temporary situation that
Speaker 2: will last for years, okay, would be to kind of
Speaker 2: hybridize that follow the path that the car has to make,
Speaker 2: make a comfortable actual temporary driveway there, and then outside
Speaker 2: of that zone, clear everything else out and go like
Speaker 2: crazy to uh to you know, replant, rebuild and uh
Speaker 2: and beautify the rest of the lawn in in landscaping
Speaker 2: and all the normal landscaping rules lawn shrubs, flower color
Speaker 2: and anything in front of height. And when I say height,
Speaker 2: I don't mean, you know, five or six feet, but uh,
Speaker 2: but the shrubs growing up in front of that pull
Speaker 2: in driveway area that that obscures the view of it,
Speaker 2: so that from the street it's not like, oh, look,
Speaker 2: you can see all of that driveway. It's still it's
Speaker 2: usable and can be pulled in, but it's behind a backdrop,
Speaker 2: as it were. Does that make sense not it?
Speaker 4: It does?
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's theatrics. It's it's theater staging, you know,
Speaker 2: going out a little bit high in front of it,
Speaker 2: lower down towards the sidewalk, greening all of that out
Speaker 2: and we don't necessarily have to see that driveway air.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you can obscure it all together, then
Speaker 2: you could just again isolate that driveway area and maybe
Speaker 2: go to gravel pea gravel in there, which is easier
Speaker 2: and walkable, or the grids. The pea gravel would be
Speaker 2: the least expensive of all, incredibly incredibly inexpensive and drains
Speaker 2: really well, maybe with some stiff yes, absolutely absolutely. Now,
Speaker 2: if she has a little trouble navigating and walking getting
Speaker 2: out of the car, then maybe just a few stepstones
Speaker 2: in the pea gravel to just stabilize that area until
Speaker 2: she gets onto the front porch. But otherwise a pea
Speaker 2: gravel path so that the car isn't destroying lawn, isolated
Speaker 2: off as a temporary driveway, and then landscape the heck
Speaker 2: out of everything else that's around it. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome, Raina. Thanks for the calling. Good luck.
Speaker 2: You know what this is real life? You know, this
Speaker 2: is the kind of stuff that I love being on
Speaker 2: the radio and talking to you about. I gotta tell
Speaker 2: you I've spent my entire career designing a state level homes,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, you know, mansions and big fancy
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that you see in fancy magazine
Speaker 2: spreads and all of that. And guess what never ends
Speaker 2: up in big, open spread magazines. Practical normal life issues
Speaker 2: like mom needs to be dropped off right at the porch,
Speaker 2: and nobody has the budget to repour a driveway, and
Speaker 2: how do you make a home a home beautiful and
Speaker 2: functional and accommodate for those kinds of things. That never
Speaker 2: makes it into Architectural Digest, by the way, but it
Speaker 2: is design, nonetheless, and really really good design is the
Speaker 2: solution at the end of the day to problems like that.
Speaker 2: This is why I always tell you that design matters most,
Speaker 2: and this is why I love sitting here talking to
Speaker 2: you about real world problems in real world homes. And
Speaker 2: we will do more of it when we return.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: AM six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program this morning. What
Speaker 2: a stunning, stunning weekend we've got ahead of us. Here
Speaker 2: falls in the air. I don't care what the temperature is,
Speaker 2: you can smell it. You can just tell the quality
Speaker 2: of the air changes this time of year. It is
Speaker 2: just different. I don't think we're pushing up past the
Speaker 2: seventies today, are we?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Huh? In most places in southern California, it's just going
Speaker 2: to be a beautiful, beautiful weekend, and I hope you've
Speaker 2: got plans to get out in it and make it special.
Speaker 2: I want to comment very shortly here, very quickly, because
Speaker 2: I ran a little along that last segment, and so
Speaker 2: this is going to be a shorter one, but I
Speaker 2: want to I was very, very touched by Raina's call
Speaker 2: about her aging parents because something I alluded to when
Speaker 2: I was answering her question is this. You know when
Speaker 2: I was first recruited to do this show years and
Speaker 2: years ago, Now, what has it been like over eight
Speaker 2: years ago when Robin Bertolucci approached me and said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I think you should do this show on the weekends
Speaker 2: on KFI, and she said, don't say no. Because I
Speaker 2: was about to like, why, why are you disrupting my
Speaker 2: beautifully planned out life. She's like, I know that you're
Speaker 2: gonna love it. It's going to be an adventure. But
Speaker 2: I also know that that there's this part of you,
Speaker 2: this part of your heart that just kind of longs
Speaker 2: to help, you know, normal people, mainstream homeowners. And it's
Speaker 2: true because most of my career has been wrapped around
Speaker 2: a state level. I say a state level because I
Speaker 2: you know, I don't like saying the word mansion, but
Speaker 2: that's basically what it comes down to, big, big, big,
Speaker 2: beautiful custom homes, and and I don't regret that at all.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that that level of creativity
Speaker 2: that you get to pour into that because you know,
Speaker 2: people write the checks for it, honestly. But I have
Speaker 2: always lived, as you know, if you're a fan of
Speaker 2: the show, very very simply, and you know, I just
Speaker 2: live a suburban existence, in a regular old suburban neighborhood
Speaker 2: and in a smaller than average by far suburban home.
Speaker 2: And because I come from a blue collar family, a
Speaker 2: lower lower middle class, blue collar family growing up. And
Speaker 2: don't regret any of that either. So the point is,
Speaker 2: this is where I come from. This is the life
Speaker 2: that I'm most comfortable with, even though during the day
Speaker 2: I design mansions for the wealthy and it's all good,
Speaker 2: it's all great. I love, love, love helping mainstream homeowners
Speaker 2: with real issues. And I alluded in my answer to
Speaker 2: Raina's call because she's got aging parents now, and her
Speaker 2: dad has to drive up onto the lawn in order
Speaker 2: to get near the front porch in order to help
Speaker 2: mom get directly out of the car and into the house.
Speaker 2: That's real world stuff, real life stuff. And you are
Speaker 2: never ever ever going to see a front yard like
Speaker 2: that displayed in Architectural Digest. You know, those are just
Speaker 2: real world situations that you know, hote couture design magazines
Speaker 2: have no concern about because it's just not jougie enough.
Speaker 2: But design is still the answer to that problem. And
Speaker 2: that's what I love about talking to you about your
Speaker 2: home every weekend, not just solving the little nuts and
Speaker 2: bolts issues, but also encouraging you that design matters most
Speaker 2: on every single level. You know, I wrote this last
Speaker 2: week for a different reason, but I want you to
Speaker 2: hear this. Billions are spent every year on home improvement.
Speaker 2: You would think that means most homes would you know, improve,
Speaker 2: but they don't. Why because there's a missing piece design
Speaker 2: Design matters most Most of us have never been taught
Speaker 2: this truth. The wealthy have always had great design at
Speaker 2: their disposal, but the rest of us, whose homes, by
Speaker 2: the way, mean more to us because we've scraped and
Speaker 2: sacrificed more to have them, we are far more likely
Speaker 2: to accept that, Yeah, we get what we get right
Speaker 2: in the mainstream home. I don't want you to ever
Speaker 2: accept that, because design is not about good design is
Speaker 2: not about having a massive budget. Good design is just
Speaker 2: good design. And when we approach our problems from that perspective,
Speaker 2: there's almost always a solution, and it always helps, and
Speaker 2: it always makes things beautiful. So in talking to Raina
Speaker 2: about here, you know, turf pavers pea, gravel decomposed, granted,
Speaker 2: accepting the reality of the situation, Let's make a driveway
Speaker 2: right up to even if it's a temporary one. Let's
Speaker 2: make a driveway right up to the front porch. And
Speaker 2: then let's landscape the heck out of the rest of
Speaker 2: the yard to incorporate it, to disguise it somewhat. There's
Speaker 2: always a solution. No, it's not going to get in
Speaker 2: the spread of a big, fancy magazine, but yes, it's
Speaker 2: going to improve the lives of the people who live
Speaker 2: in that home. And that is what makes all the difference. Right,
Speaker 2: that's why we're here. All right, I've yacked enough. We're
Speaker 2: going to get some news from Jackie Ray and then
Speaker 2: we come back. I've got a couple of little new
Speaker 2: things that i want to share with you. We will
Speaker 2: do that right on the other side. Can if I
Speaker 2: in chart the house whisper Welcome home, Welcome to home.
Speaker 2: Here we are at the end of another Saturday morning show.
Speaker 2: By the two hours just fly by, don't they. A
Speaker 2: couple of things I want to share with you before
Speaker 2: we're done today. First of all, if we left you
Speaker 2: on hold today, which we did, This is the case
Speaker 2: all the time. By the way, that whenever we don't
Speaker 2: get to your call, you get to priority status for
Speaker 2: the next show. So if you guys call back tomorrow,
Speaker 2: then you get to go right to the front of
Speaker 2: the line. It's like a lightning lane pass at Disneyland,
Speaker 2: except it doesn't cost you anything extra. So it's a
Speaker 2: good thing. Tomorrow on the show, again, just to remind
Speaker 2: you that we're going to be talking about bedrooms. Bedrooms
Speaker 2: are a tricky thing to design, mostly because people don't
Speaker 2: take the right angled perspective in designing. Then we're going
Speaker 2: to talk in depth on bedrooms tomorrow on the program.
Speaker 2: Plus a little bit more news from Vermont from our
Speaker 2: recent two week vacation there, got it, share some things
Speaker 2: with you. I know, it's a funny thing with our show.
Speaker 2: Some people are like, get to the information and other
Speaker 2: people are like, please spend more time talking about your
Speaker 2: personal life. And you know what, You're never gonna make
Speaker 2: everybody happy, but we try and find a balance there.
Speaker 2: So a little bit more of the love of autumn
Speaker 2: from our trip to Vermont, plus a few other things.
Speaker 2: We've got some great things coming up too. By the way,
Speaker 2: can I just hint at this, Yes, we have secured
Speaker 2: the date the Sunday before Thanksgiving we are going to
Speaker 2: be doing another House Whisper holiday home show live at
Speaker 2: the KFI Studios in Burbank, and we will be telling
Speaker 2: you when you can apply to you know, put it,
Speaker 2: you know, for the contest of who's going to be
Speaker 2: with us there live audience on that day plus early December.
Speaker 2: I think maybe the first Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Tina and I I don't exactly know what, but Smart
Speaker 2: and Final we're going to be broadcasting from but a
Speaker 2: Smart and Final down in Orange County. We're going to
Speaker 2: be doing the show live from there, so you can
Speaker 2: come out. And that's kind of a prepastathon thing. We
Speaker 2: got so much stuff coming up that's really fun and
Speaker 2: good that we'll keep you posted on one new thing now.
Speaker 2: This literally came as a result of one of the
Speaker 2: inns that we stayed at in Vermont, actually in Essex,
Speaker 2: New York, when I was visiting my friends on their
Speaker 2: farm there. We stayed at the Essex Inn and a
Speaker 2: beautiful room and when I walked in, I'm like, look
Speaker 2: at that painting over there. It's a nice cool image
Speaker 2: of painting hanging on the wall about twenty four by
Speaker 2: twenty four inches square. But I noticed it was coming
Speaker 2: off the wall a little bit. I walked over and
Speaker 2: it's a few inches off the wall, and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 2: look at that. This is the first one I've actually
Speaker 2: seen installed the art cool art cool, okay, And you
Speaker 2: can look this up. It's by LG. Right. And why
Speaker 2: is there a beautiful painting here hanging on the wall,
Speaker 2: And why is there like three or four inches of
Speaker 2: build up behind it hanging it off the wall? You
Speaker 2: know why? Because that is the room's many split air
Speaker 2: conditioner cassette, Yes, many split air conditioners. As you know,
Speaker 2: they're all the rave. They have revolutionized the way that
Speaker 2: we can get too hard to heat and air conditioned spaces,
Speaker 2: and many split just means that instead of a big
Speaker 2: old compressor outside the building, it's a small, little, very
Speaker 2: quiet compressor, and instead of duct work, they're ducked less.
Speaker 2: You put a cartridge or what we call a cassette
Speaker 2: somewhere in the room. Typically the first ones that came
Speaker 2: out and still the most popular ones, you know, they're
Speaker 2: about three feet long and about ten inches tall, and
Speaker 2: they go high up on a wall somewhere and they
Speaker 2: handle the whole room. But since those came out, there
Speaker 2: are now cassettes that fit in the ceiling right like
Speaker 2: a ceiling, but they're not a duct connected to them.
Speaker 2: And now things like this. LG has put together this
Speaker 2: wall mount cassette and it's about twenty four by twenty
Speaker 2: four by I think maybe five inches deep, And because
Speaker 2: it sits on the wall a big flat square, it
Speaker 2: already has a matte picture frame and frame around it,
Speaker 2: and you can slide your favorite artwork into it. Now,
Speaker 2: it's not like it's going to fool anybody who walks
Speaker 2: up to it. They're like, oh, this is just a
Speaker 2: painting on the wall. No, you can see that there's
Speaker 2: something behind it there. But as opposed to just a
Speaker 2: big old utility device hanging on your wall, why not
Speaker 2: put a piece of art hanging off the front of it.
Speaker 2: It was actually lovely. It only added to the overall
Speaker 2: feel and motif of the room, and so you should
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Speaker 2: one more reminder before we're out of here. It's fall.
Speaker 2: It's time to prune your trees. Now. Now is when
Speaker 2: we prune trees for two really important reasons. Okay. Number one,
Speaker 2: major pruning. Now, if you live in southern California, of course,
Speaker 2: you can do maintenance pruning all year round, all right,
Speaker 2: But the big pruning, the big pruning, is not not
Speaker 2: springtime pruning. Okay, you do it in the fall. And
Speaker 2: here are the two reasons why. Number One, you're in
Speaker 2: a shock a tree when you prune it big time.
Speaker 2: You want to do that right as it's going into
Speaker 2: its dormant state. For the winter, so fall is the
Speaker 2: time to do the big prune. And secondly, you know
Speaker 2: in springtime birds have already started to nest up in
Speaker 2: your tree in secret way. If you do a major
Speaker 2: pruning there anybody who's ever done that before has bemoaned
Speaker 2: the fact that you look down on the ground and
Speaker 2: now here's a bird's nest that's been disrupted and destroyed.
Speaker 2: We don't want it. We let the birds do their
Speaker 2: thing in the spring. Don't touch the trees in the springtime.
Speaker 2: If you've got big pruning ahead of you, do it
Speaker 2: now before the holidays, and let that tree think about
Speaker 2: it all winter long and spring. I guarantee you man,
Speaker 2: it will bust out in a health level that you've
Speaker 2: never seen before. There you go, all right, y'all. We
Speaker 2: will see you right back here tomorrow morning, nine to
Speaker 2: noon for the big show talking about bedroom and bedroom design.
Speaker 2: Until then, get out into this beautiful day and get
Speaker 2: busy building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see tomorrow. This
Speaker 2: has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune
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