Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 2: am Dean Sharp, the house whisper here with you live
Speaker 2: like I am every weekend Saturday morning, six to eight
Speaker 2: Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. I'm
Speaker 2: giving you some advice on your fireplace today. Advice on
Speaker 2: your fireplace. We're going to get back to that in
Speaker 2: just a bit, but it's time to go to the phones.
Speaker 2: But before then, my better half, my in studio partner here, Tina,
Speaker 2: has something to say.
Speaker 3: Welcome home.
Speaker 4: Was that it good?
Speaker 3: We did a video this morning on the fireplace with
Speaker 3: four tips to make a gas fireplace extra special?
Speaker 2: And where is this video found? Now?
Speaker 3: You can find this video on our Facebook, Instagram, TikTok
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Speaker 3: Like share, have fun with it. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a quick little video about four secrets to
Speaker 2: making a gas fireplace really pop, really come to life.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: There you go. All right, thank you, you're so welcome.
Speaker 3: Now back to the show.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness taking over. All right, We're going to
Speaker 2: return to that conversation on fireplaces in just a bit.
Speaker 2: But like I said, I want to go to the phones.
Speaker 2: Let's take a call. Let's talk to Pamela. Pamela, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Dean. I love your show. I have a
Speaker 4: quick question.
Speaker 1: What do you think of those electric fireplace inserts and
Speaker 1: how high off the ground should it be?
Speaker 2: Well? Inserts into what?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Into a fireplace that I took. I took a right
Speaker 4: doing a kitchen remodel, a house remodel.
Speaker 1: I took out a fireplace and created a pantry, but
Speaker 1: I left about twelve inches for electrical fireplace insert one
Speaker 1: of those fake ones.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: So I just want to know what your thoughts were
Speaker 1: and how high off the ground should I create? Like
Speaker 1: one brick right now, it's a brick facade, and I
Speaker 1: took out the heart because I'm putting tile down right,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to know should I go up one
Speaker 1: brick off the ground? Should I leave it flush with
Speaker 1: the ground, and is there anything I should look for
Speaker 1: for electrical in the fireplace?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, so okay, so a couple of things. One,
Speaker 2: you know, electric fireplaces are the thing I'm going to
Speaker 2: tell you right now is shop it, and shop it
Speaker 2: and shop it some more, and and go and see
Speaker 2: at your local fireplace purveyor any fireplace shop within driving
Speaker 2: distance of you see it ahead of time. Because electric fireplace,
Speaker 2: of course, they're not fireplaces. They are simulations. And so
Speaker 2: the way those simulations are achieved some far far better
Speaker 2: than others. And and I would say most of them,
Speaker 2: most of them don't clear the bar in my mind
Speaker 2: of what I would want to do. But there there are,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple three out there that are like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, that's kind of cool. That kind of
Speaker 2: works and gives it, you know, enough of the effect.
Speaker 2: So just be really persnickety and picky when it comes
Speaker 2: to that if you really wanted to go all out
Speaker 2: for I mean, here's the thing. There's two kinds of
Speaker 2: electric fireplace. One is you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: recommend it to you just because of its cost prohibitive nature,
Speaker 2: but it's one that uses and I don't think it
Speaker 2: would fit into a smaller space like that anyway. But
Speaker 2: it's one that actually uses a real video screen, not
Speaker 2: mounted like you would think that you're staring at straight away,
Speaker 2: but mounted up inside. And then there's an angled piece
Speaker 2: of glass and it's what we call the Pepper's ghost effect,
Speaker 2: and you actually get that the real flames, a video
Speaker 2: of real flames superimposed onto a log set. It looks
Speaker 2: about as realistic as anything possible could when it's just
Speaker 2: a plug in fireplace. It's the same effect that they
Speaker 2: use at the Hanta Mansion at Disneyland when you see
Speaker 2: the ghosts dancing around in the Dyning room, what they
Speaker 2: call Pepper's ghosts. So that flame overlaid onto it. Amazing
Speaker 2: but very expensive. Now second to that, and this is
Speaker 2: a more realistic would be like an optimist Optimist fireplace
Speaker 2: which actually uses a small reservoir of water and creates
Speaker 2: a vapor okay that is backlit by led lights that
Speaker 2: look incredibly realistic flame wise, because it is a natural flow,
Speaker 2: but it's it's water vapor, and no, it doesn't get
Speaker 2: everything wet around it. It's very you know, it's really
Speaker 2: fine particulated water vapor. But check that out look that
Speaker 2: up online optimists, and those come in various sizes, including
Speaker 2: small enough to fit in what you're talking about. So anyway,
Speaker 2: that's the actual My recommendation is are super realism when
Speaker 2: it comes to that. I don't think you can do
Speaker 2: better than those two things, but I would say the
Speaker 2: optimist works probably best in your situation. The other thing
Speaker 2: is as far as position. Now that you're free to
Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do, the big question is
Speaker 2: what's the best viewing angle? And so a sight unseen
Speaker 2: for me in the room, I can't make that decision
Speaker 2: for you, but I'll tell you this. If you're starting
Speaker 2: from scratch again and you're free to put it wherever
Speaker 2: you want to put it, then consider where you will
Speaker 2: be in the room, what you will be doing, what
Speaker 2: you will be looking over, in order to actually see
Speaker 2: the fireplace effect. And that's why, quite often, I would
Speaker 2: say more than fifty percent of the time, when we're
Speaker 2: redoing a fireplace, we will often put the new one
Speaker 2: is in elevated up, even in a living room, elevated
Speaker 2: up off the floor, so that it can be seen
Speaker 2: over the coffee table and take in that and the
Speaker 2: TV that you're watching at the same time or in
Speaker 2: a bedroom, especially in a bedroom. Fireplaces around the floor
Speaker 2: in a bedroom are useless to you when you're in
Speaker 2: bed because you can't see them because you're in bed.
Speaker 2: But if you raise them up thirty inches or so,
Speaker 2: then they're viewable. And in a kitchen as well, if
Speaker 2: you're going to be enjoying it from the kid, just
Speaker 2: consider sight lines and then place the fireplace in its
Speaker 2: optimal viewing positions so that you get the most out
Speaker 2: of the work that you do.
Speaker 4: Okay, great, Can I ask you one quick question? Like
Speaker 4: I said, I'm on a kitchen remodel a house remodel,
Speaker 4: and I am trying to decide an island if I
Speaker 4: should go curve or straight.
Speaker 2: For an island.
Speaker 5: For an island, it is going to be kind of
Speaker 5: a angled.
Speaker 1: It's at a forty five from it's not straight.
Speaker 5: I don't have My kitchen is skinny, so I have
Speaker 5: to position it kind of awkwardly, so I don't know
Speaker 5: whether I should keep the island edge straight or curved
Speaker 5: where the CD.
Speaker 2: Is well, I'll tell you this that if if we're
Speaker 2: talking about if you're talking about the countertop, not the cabinets,
Speaker 2: then then then I would be I would free you
Speaker 2: to do whatever you think visually and spatially works. Sometimes
Speaker 2: that curve can really create flow around it that a
Speaker 2: rectangular countertop you know, won't create. Just make sure it's
Speaker 2: not getting in the way of anything. If you're going
Speaker 2: to curve the cabinets, I would say, don't do that
Speaker 2: because it's going to be way too expensive. They can
Speaker 2: it could be done, but you don't want to waste
Speaker 2: the money of doing that. But curving that upper the
Speaker 2: upper counter where people are sitting, you'll not only will
Speaker 2: you get more counter space if it works and you
Speaker 2: really like that idea, you'll get more counter space, it
Speaker 2: sounds like you also get a better flow with it
Speaker 2: as well. That again, of course sight unseen. But that's
Speaker 2: my best encouragement. I want to I always want to
Speaker 2: encourage you guys to reach out, stretch out, and do
Speaker 2: bold design and just double and triple check to make
Speaker 2: sure that you're not taking it somewhere that you don't
Speaker 2: want it to go. Pamela, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: the call and for the question. Appreciate you and thanks
Speaker 2: for listening to the show. All right, y'all, when we
Speaker 2: come back, let's talk more about these fireplaces of ours.
Speaker 2: We will do it. Hey, Fie, team Sharp the house Whisper,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us on the program. This morning been
Speaker 2: a little bit of an odd morning. We got a
Speaker 2: late start simply because of some technical difficulties. So much
Speaker 2: I want to tell you about fireplaces. Let's dive back
Speaker 2: into that topic here. We've turned the corner into November.
Speaker 2: Time to start thinking warm and cozy. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: You live in southern California. You live in the state
Speaker 2: of California, and you may or may not know that California,
Speaker 2: as far as new construction or major remodels, no new
Speaker 2: wood burning fire places, right unless with one exception. There
Speaker 2: is one exception, and it's a good one. It's a
Speaker 2: good exception that would be in most areas, you can
Speaker 2: get by with a wood burning a wood stove or
Speaker 2: pellet stove, a pellet stove specifically, now a pellet stove
Speaker 2: that's not for cooking food, per se, but it is
Speaker 2: a kind of wood burning fireplace that's super efficient, all
Speaker 2: enclosed but lovely, and you end up getting this, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like a Franklin stove. It's like a pot belly
Speaker 2: kind of a stove situation, that type of fireplace sitting
Speaker 2: out in a room, which I think is immensely beautiful
Speaker 2: and very very efficient and can work with a lot
Speaker 2: of classic decor and style as we go. So just
Speaker 2: know that. But otherwise, no new word burning fireplace. And
Speaker 2: now if you've got a wood burning fireplace, which a
Speaker 2: lot of people misunderstand, you know, so let me just clarify.
Speaker 2: You may have a masonry fireplace that has a gas
Speaker 2: log set sitting in it and has never seen a
Speaker 2: piece of wood in its entire life. And I've had,
Speaker 2: you know, I've pointed this out to a client. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: you got a wood burning fireplace?
Speaker 4: That are right?
Speaker 2: No, No, no, it's gas. It's gas. That's not what
Speaker 2: I mean. Okay, h A wood burning fireplace is a
Speaker 2: fireplace that was constructed in order to burn wood. Now,
Speaker 2: if you don't want to burn wood in that fireplace
Speaker 2: and instead you've got a gas line running into it,
Speaker 2: either originally to actually for the log lighter for the
Speaker 2: wood and now converted into a gas log set, that's great,
Speaker 2: that's fantastic, all right, But it still remains a wood
Speaker 2: burning fireplace. It's still capable of doing that. When it
Speaker 2: comes to prefabricated fireplaces, as we were mentioning before, there
Speaker 2: are both gas and wood burning prefabricated fireplaces. Don't assume
Speaker 2: just because you've got a gas log set sitting in
Speaker 2: there that it can't burn wood. Now, some of them can't,
Speaker 2: some of the prefabricateds can't. So the question is how
Speaker 2: do we know, Dean, Well, chances are ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: if you've got a masonry fireplace or real masonry fireplaces,
Speaker 2: it's capable of burning wood. Excuse me, when it comes
Speaker 2: to the prefabricated fireplace and you're not sure, don't just
Speaker 2: take out that gas set and put in logs, but
Speaker 2: call a fireplace company and talk to them about it.
Speaker 2: Have a chimney sweep service come out and take a
Speaker 2: look at it, analyze it, and they'll be able to
Speaker 2: tell you, sorry, I have a little bug in my throat.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: Time for a sip of the coffee. All right. The
Speaker 2: fireplace that is acceptable to put in brand new in California,
Speaker 2: in the entire state of California, still gas burning what
Speaker 2: we can call a direct vent fireplace. And this is
Speaker 2: something that a lot of people are not familiar with
Speaker 2: and don't understand or just assume is a kind of
Speaker 2: decorative thing but doesn't really put out heat or help
Speaker 2: the home at all. These things are not true. And
Speaker 2: even though eight years ago, I can't believe it's been
Speaker 2: that long since we started the show. Eight years ago,
Speaker 2: I used to pooh pooh the direct vents because honestly,
Speaker 2: they just weren't up to snuff. As far as real
Speaker 2: features in a room, that has changed, and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you all about it. You're listening to Home with Dean
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Speaker 2: You have found yourself Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the program this morning. So
Speaker 2: glad that you are with us. We're talking about fireplaces.
Speaker 2: I'm giving you pearls of wisdom about this thing that
Speaker 2: has been so iconically central in homes since homes first existed.
Speaker 2: In fact, we could make the argument and we would
Speaker 2: be correct that fireplaces pre date homes as far as
Speaker 2: human dwellings. The discovery of fire, the utilization of fire
Speaker 2: that started out as the tribal fire and then became
Speaker 2: the source of cooking and gathering and storytelling and eventually
Speaker 2: made its way from just outside your little hut to
Speaker 2: inside your hut and then literally, for tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of years, became the very center of what it means
Speaker 2: to have a home. Still these days, we no longer
Speaker 2: depend on modern homes on fireplaces to heat our homes everywhere,
Speaker 2: in every room, unless you know, I've got a traditional
Speaker 2: cabin or something like that going on. But the modern
Speaker 2: home has gone past the need for a fireplace if
Speaker 2: you don't want a fireplace, And yet most of the
Speaker 2: US still have a fireplace in our home. And what
Speaker 2: are we going to do with it? And that's what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to help you with this morning. Okay. So
Speaker 2: I was saying before the break that in the state
Speaker 2: of California, and it's not going to be long before
Speaker 2: this is, you know, all across our great nation, in
Speaker 2: one form or another, wood burning fireplace is because of
Speaker 2: what they do and because of smoke and all of
Speaker 2: these issues. In California, not a thing that you can
Speaker 2: put in a new home or a major remodel. And
Speaker 2: also just the standard gas log prefabricated fireplace that I
Speaker 2: was telling you about also not a thing that can
Speaker 2: happen in California. So if you live in California like
Speaker 2: we do, what are your options? Your options are the
Speaker 2: direct vent fireplace, a much maligned, partially for its own fault,
Speaker 2: and much misunderstood fireplace. So a couple of myths when
Speaker 2: it comes to direct vent fireplaces. One is that they
Speaker 2: don't burn gas, that they're electric. Not true. These are
Speaker 2: gas burning fireplace gas real flames. Okay when they say
Speaker 2: when people say, oh, it's not real, well it's as
Speaker 2: real as your gas log fireplace that's sitting in your
Speaker 2: traditional firebox. So real flames, real flame effect, all of
Speaker 2: that eighteen hundred kelvin psychological effects because you've got a
Speaker 2: real flame going on there. So not true. These are
Speaker 2: gas burning fireplaces. Secondly, another myth is that they don't
Speaker 2: put out any heat. Absolutely not true. The fact is
Speaker 2: direct vent fireplaces are fall are more heat efficient than
Speaker 2: traditional fireplace. Is way way more heat efficient a wood fireplace,
Speaker 2: traditional wood fireplace as far as energy efficiency, and that
Speaker 2: means the amount of fuel that's being consumed and the
Speaker 2: heat that's being produced there getting into the room ten percent, Yeah,
Speaker 2: massively inefficient. Most of that heat is going up the
Speaker 2: chimney right out of the house. Okay, gas fireplaces in
Speaker 2: a traditional fireplace setting, if you put a gas log
Speaker 2: set in with ceramic, good ceramic logs, that's a vast
Speaker 2: improvement that gets you up to about fifty percent efficiency
Speaker 2: for fuel versus your heating ability. But a direct vent fireplace,
Speaker 2: because it's a sealed, enclosed, engineered system, ninety percent plus
Speaker 2: efficiency on most direct vent fireplaces. And so yes, there's
Speaker 2: a glass front on a direct vent fireplace, but that
Speaker 2: creates a heat chamber inside that then radiates through that
Speaker 2: glass into the room. Most direct vent fireplaces blow traditional
Speaker 2: fireplaces away as far as their cozy heating factor. In fact,
Speaker 2: many of them are designed in such a way that
Speaker 2: there are additional fans and venting that gives you the
Speaker 2: option of not having too much heat going into the room,
Speaker 2: so we blow that heat off up the chimney and
Speaker 2: or out other vents that are controlled and dampered, so
Speaker 2: you can control how much heat is coming into the
Speaker 2: room and how much of it is actually coming out
Speaker 2: of the firebox itself directly. So a total myth that
Speaker 2: direct vent fireplates don't provide sufficient heat for a room.
Speaker 2: Most of them provide a lot of it, more than
Speaker 2: a traditional and then only this is the last myth,
Speaker 2: maybe the most important one to blow up, is that
Speaker 2: they only come in these ultra modern long linear flame
Speaker 2: with a mirror background and fire glass at the bottom
Speaker 2: and fancy lights, and that's the only kind you can get.
Speaker 2: And that used to be the case. But it's been
Speaker 2: a long time since that has not been the case.
Speaker 2: They have improved massively. Like I said before the break,
Speaker 2: you know, I when when California made the law saying, hey,
Speaker 2: we can only put in direct vent fireplaces, I was
Speaker 2: sad and dismayed, not from the concept behind it, but
Speaker 2: just the fact that that I hate it when when
Speaker 2: bureaucracy stepped forward with a thing when the technology isn't
Speaker 2: there to actually accommodate it, and they then direct vent
Speaker 2: fireplaces back then just weren't there. They were just not good,
Speaker 2: mediocre at best. But nowadays, nowadays, I'm happy to put
Speaker 2: them in. Now, you got to understand, there's still a
Speaker 2: lot of mediocre ones out there, a lot of them
Speaker 2: out there, okay, that are just like you know, and
Speaker 2: still charging you a lot of money for them. So
Speaker 2: you gotta shop this carefully. You got to really scrutinize them.
Speaker 2: Don't just look at the photo of the flame that
Speaker 2: they've show you on their catalog pages, because those things
Speaker 2: aren't accurate at all. You want to see video of
Speaker 2: these fireplaces grunning, and ideally you want to get somewhere
Speaker 2: where you can see it firsthand for yourself. Okay, but
Speaker 2: they have improved massively. You don't have to have the
Speaker 2: long linear ones, although these are super cool. By the way,
Speaker 2: if you do have a contemporary vibe. We can now
Speaker 2: put in a fireplace in a home or anywhere, a
Speaker 2: linear fireplace that can be anywhere from twenty four inches
Speaker 2: long to twenty four feet long. I mean, it's amazing
Speaker 2: what we can do with these fireplaces. But what about
Speaker 2: the traditional look. Well, one of the big problems before
Speaker 2: was the fact that the flames were low and they
Speaker 2: were just sitt there at the bottom, and the log
Speaker 2: sets look very plastic. Not Now there are some great
Speaker 2: brands out there. I want to check out Flair. Go
Speaker 2: to Flare, Okay, one of my favorite directvent manufacturers right now. Flair.
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if it's Flairfireplace dot com
Speaker 2: or just Flare, but look that up. Flare fireplaces, and
Speaker 2: look for the gas log set in which the gas
Speaker 2: lines are actually run inside the logs and the flames
Speaker 2: emit from the log So talk about uber hyper realistic,
Speaker 2: more realistic than your gas log set that's sitting in
Speaker 2: your traditional one where the gases the flames are coming
Speaker 2: out from the bottom and just lick around the logs. No,
Speaker 2: these logs are quote unquote on fire and that allows
Speaker 2: the flame to be lifted up in the firebox and
Speaker 2: for a beautiful, beautiful presentation. And this is the way
Speaker 2: of things. But you got to shop it carefully and
Speaker 2: find the right ones.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: I've got a few more thoughts for you. Don't go
Speaker 2: anywhere more on your place. When we return your home
Speaker 2: with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. Can't buy Sharp the
Speaker 2: house Whisper. Welcome home. Here we are at the end
Speaker 2: of another two hours together. Can't believe it goes by
Speaker 2: so quickly, right, Ugh, I hope you've got a great
Speaker 2: day planned. It's going to be a beautiful day here
Speaker 2: in southern California. I hope it's lovely wherever you are
Speaker 2: in this great nation of ours. Just to remind you
Speaker 2: a couple of things. Number one Tomorrow Tomorrow, the big show.
Speaker 2: From nine to noon, we're gonna be talking about decoor
Speaker 2: details in your house, details that matter, how much details matter.
Speaker 2: And this is great for everybody. Why because you know
Speaker 2: what they do matter and sometimes they make all the
Speaker 2: difference in the world. And the cool thing about details
Speaker 2: mattering so much is that they usually don't cost that much,
Speaker 2: So if you do them right, you can get a
Speaker 2: big bang for a little buck along the way. So
Speaker 2: that's tomorrow's show. Don't miss it. Details that Matter from
Speaker 2: nine to noon, live right here tomorrow. Also, just to
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Speaker 2: the house whispers. Four secrets to a great gas log fireplace,
Speaker 2: and that, of course, is what we've been talking about
Speaker 2: this morning. One last reminder to you, set the clocks
Speaker 2: to fall back tonight if they don't just automatically do
Speaker 2: it digitally like half of them do in our house.
Speaker 2: Now tonight, we're falling back an hour. You get an
Speaker 2: extra hour sleep, and it'll be a little lighter tomorrow
Speaker 2: morning than it was today, which you know, I have
Speaker 2: mixed feelings about. So there you go. Anyway, last couple
Speaker 2: of thoughts on fireplaces for you today before we're out
Speaker 2: of here. Number one. Uh, if you've got a masonry
Speaker 2: fireplace and you you you're now inspired, You're like, you
Speaker 2: know what, Let's let's get that thing going again. Let's
Speaker 2: maybe we're not going to burn wood, but let's get
Speaker 2: a good gas log set like Dean said, and uh,
Speaker 2: and get it up and running again if it hasn't
Speaker 2: been running for a long time, even if it has.
Speaker 2: Either way, get it inspected, all right, Masonry fireplaces should
Speaker 2: be inspected, you know, once every ten years or so.
Speaker 2: As far as looking for cracks up inside the flu,
Speaker 2: it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Most chimney sweep companies do this for you. They'll just
Speaker 2: run a camera up inside and take a look at it.
Speaker 2: Make sure that you're structurally sound and that you don't
Speaker 2: have any fire uh, you know, threats from the flu
Speaker 2: also have the flu cleaned. If you've been burning wood, especially,
Speaker 2: have the flu cleaned every couple of years. In my opinion.
Speaker 2: Now the sweep companies will tell you do it every year.
Speaker 2: Do it every season. And if you burn a lot
Speaker 2: of wood, yeah, that's a good idea. If you've got
Speaker 2: a gas log set every two or three years, you said,
Speaker 2: still have the flu cleaned out and cleared out. And
Speaker 2: here last thing for you, and these are pearls. Even
Speaker 2: if you don't burn fires in your fireplace, and you're
Speaker 2: not planning on getting rid of your fireplace, so you
Speaker 2: don't have a budget to get rid of your fireplace.
Speaker 2: And it's right there, sitting right there in the living room,
Speaker 2: in the family room. Keep it a focal point. Fill
Speaker 2: it with loveliness, Get creative. How about a bank of
Speaker 2: pillar candles inside that firebox? How about plants or flowers
Speaker 2: inside the firebox? How about books? What a great, cool,
Speaker 2: funky way to store books inside the firebox. I've seen
Speaker 2: aquariums inserted into unused fireplaces in fireboxes. Really really cool idea.
Speaker 2: And you know what, most fireplaces, based on how they're
Speaker 2: situated in the room, If they're clean and they're lovely,
Speaker 2: and they've been taken care of. Makes a great pet
Speaker 2: bed corner for the dog or the cat, especially the
Speaker 2: dogs though, so you got a lot of options. Think
Speaker 2: out of the box. If you've got a fireplace that
Speaker 2: you're not going to burn, actually have a flame in,
Speaker 2: then keep it a focal point, make it special, make
Speaker 2: it important. And that's what we're all about here on
Speaker 2: the show, helping you transform your ordinary house into an
Speaker 2: extraordinary home with the resources that you have on hand.
Speaker 2: All right, be creative because design matters most all right, y'all.
Speaker 2: That's it for us today. We will see you back
Speaker 2: here tomorrow for the big show Sunday morning. Details that
Speaker 2: matter from nine to noon. Until then, get out in
Speaker 2: this gorgeous fall November Saturday and get busy building yourself
Speaker 2: a beautiful life. We'll see you all tomorrow. This has
Speaker 2: been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into
Speaker 2: the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday
Speaker 2: morning from six to eight Pacific time, and every Sunday
Speaker 2: morning from nine to noon Pacific time, or anytime on
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