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Speaker 1: your guide to better understand that place where you live.
Speaker 1: Today on the show, we are going to talk about
Speaker 1: the secrets of ISH. What the heck are you talking about? Dean?
Speaker 1: A little bit more on that in a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: but basically it comes down to this. My favorite way
Speaker 1: to describe eclectic decor in a house. The eclectic design
Speaker 1: of decor in a house is kind of a symphony
Speaker 1: of right, a lot of different things coming together but
Speaker 1: making one melody. My favorite way to describe how to
Speaker 1: do that is to master the secrets of ISH. And
Speaker 1: you hang tight, and I'm gonna explain exactly what ISH
Speaker 1: means and hopefully it will make sense to you. It's
Speaker 1: a big poll today, it really is. Today and tomorrow
Speaker 1: we're going to be discussing this. I'm in the mood
Speaker 1: to discuss decor with you and to solve some really
Speaker 1: significant problems that most people struggle with when it comes
Speaker 1: to their decor, and that is at the very root
Speaker 1: of most homeowners' issues with decor, the fact that it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel pure enough for them. It doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: those magazine spreads look. And I'm gonna explain why that
Speaker 1: is and why you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you off the hook. But we're still
Speaker 1: going to put some serious effort into figuring out a
Speaker 1: decore theme for your home that include bludes, all sorts
Speaker 1: of different eclectic elements, which of course is life, and
Speaker 1: we're going to figure out how to do it right
Speaker 1: this weekend. That's our goal, So the rest of December
Speaker 1: kind of oriented towards a designed and decor. Next week
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about furniture buying and the difference between vintage, antique, retro,
Speaker 1: and nostalgic. You're not gonna want to miss that as well.
Speaker 1: But today and tomorrow these two shows the secrets of
Speaker 1: ish how to pull off eclectic design properly in your home.
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. Let me introduce you to our awesome
Speaker 1: team that's here today. Sam of course on the board.
Speaker 1: Good morning, fan, Good morning, Dean. How you doing today.
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. Sam's there, wrestling are not so
Speaker 1: live studio audience and all. We've a joy to work with.
Speaker 1: Producer Ritchie of course standing by to take your call,
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Speaker 1: Anything that's got you scratching your head about your home,
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Speaker 1: Uh everybody. Say hello to my buddy ii Leen Gonzalez.
Speaker 2: Hello and good morning. I want to call you sunshine.
Speaker 2: Are we just so bright and cheery? Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Drugs I need some of that. And by drugs,
Speaker 1: I just mean caffeine. Yeah, just an drink bold cup
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Speaker 2: Gets to running.
Speaker 1: How you doing this morning? Doing great?
Speaker 2: I'm drinking my herbal tea.
Speaker 1: Maybe I need to well there you go? What uh
Speaker 1: what flavor of herbal tea? This one?
Speaker 2: Actually it's it's a limited pumpkin spice rebost from Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love real. I never know how to pronounce me.
Speaker 2: I never know how to say it.
Speaker 1: I was hoping I said that, right, really be really
Speaker 1: obos It is good anyway, So all right, well, yeah
Speaker 1: you're on You're on the stick. There you got it
Speaker 1: going on? Uh, sitting across the table from me, also
Speaker 1: drinking coffee. My better half, clearly, my design partner, the
Speaker 1: co founder, co owner of House whisper Can. That's it.
Speaker 1: There's your spirit animal, h my best friend in all
Speaker 1: the world. Tina is here. Welcome home. Thanks ye all right,
Speaker 1: So everybody who's wondering about Tina's recovery, you all know
Speaker 1: that we had an unexpected surgery for her, It's all fine,
Speaker 1: it's all good, it's all good, it's all good. But
Speaker 1: it was a it was a somewhat stressful way to,
Speaker 1: you know, get rolling into Thanksgiving and the Christmas season,
Speaker 1: for sure. And she has a long recovery ahead of her,
Speaker 1: several several weeks still to go. But she is a beast.
Speaker 1: She is strong. And everybody, the doctors, everyone is like
Speaker 1: shocked at how well she's recovering. And we've now entered
Speaker 1: the phase. First, first couple of weeks, a lot of
Speaker 1: nurse mating. I was doing double duty on everything around
Speaker 1: the house. I'm still doing more than my share, because
Speaker 1: you know, we're giving the kids some space to recover.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you we have entered the phase,
Speaker 1: just so you know, of Dean saying, Tina, sit down,
Speaker 1: don't do that. What are you doing not picking that up?
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Yesterday afternoon, we got a call from
Speaker 1: our daughter in law saying, oh, I'm running a little late.
Speaker 1: And our granddaughter Olivia goes to school like a couple
Speaker 1: of blocks from our house up the hill, and Tina's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just walk up there and get her. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about I'm not doubting that you
Speaker 1: were going to do it. I knew you were going
Speaker 1: to do it if I didn't stop you, and I'm
Speaker 1: not doubting that you would have successfully done it. But
Speaker 1: that's not has turned into slow her down, lower down,
Speaker 1: slower down. Uh So, anyway, just so everybody knows Tina's here,
Speaker 1: She's feeling bright, cheery, strong, things are good and that
Speaker 1: that is my early Christmas present this year for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, y'all, when we come back, we are going
Speaker 1: to dive into what is he talking about the secrets
Speaker 1: of issues all about pulling off eclectic decor in your home.
Speaker 1: It's going to be one of the greatest challenges I
Speaker 1: think I've done thus far in eight years of doing
Speaker 1: this show to describe this to you in ways that
Speaker 1: really make a difference. But I think we can do it.
Speaker 1: I think we can do it to talk about eclectic
Speaker 1: decoor themes for your home over the audio airwaves, and
Speaker 1: we'll do it all can if I bean sharp the
Speaker 1: house whisper, Hey, whether you live in a condo or
Speaker 1: home as a cottage or a castle, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I am here to help you take it to the
Speaker 1: next level. The rules, the principles of design, of construction,
Speaker 1: of good quality craftsmanship. They do not change all across
Speaker 1: the board, or at least, let me put it this way,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't change all across the board. And I'm here
Speaker 1: to make sure in your life that they don't and
Speaker 1: haven't changed all across the board. We want the very
Speaker 1: best for you and your home. We are going to
Speaker 1: dive in right now to the secrets of ish. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to remind you that our phone lines are
Speaker 1: open as well. The number to reach me just a bit.
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Speaker 1: ready to take your call. He'll tell you everything you
Speaker 1: need to know. Pop you into the queue, and who
Speaker 1: knows You and me put our heads together. We'll solve
Speaker 1: that thing that's got you scratching your head about your house.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Dean, So what what is this thing? Okay? Now,
Speaker 1: I already said that the top of the show. Favorite
Speaker 1: way to describe eclectic design. Okay, And by the way,
Speaker 1: the dictionary defines eclectic as deriving ideas, style, or taste
Speaker 1: from a broad and diverse range of sources. There you go, right,
Speaker 1: that's eclectic, meaning there's just a lot of different things
Speaker 1: coming into play. It actually comes for those of you
Speaker 1: who are word nerds or history nerds like me. The
Speaker 1: word eclectic comes from ancient Greek. It's an ancient Greek
Speaker 1: word for choose, to choose, and it was a name
Speaker 1: given actually in about the seventeenth century to a whole
Speaker 1: category of ancient philosophers who didn't necessarily belong to any
Speaker 1: one school of thought or another, but who picked and
Speaker 1: chose ideas from all sorts of different schools of thought
Speaker 1: in order to build their own personal philosophy. Those are
Speaker 1: pretty relatively grounded philosoph in my thinking, because they because
Speaker 1: they lived in the real world and so anyway, so
Speaker 1: the word eclectic comes all the way to us from
Speaker 1: ancient Greece and the these ancient schools of philosophy. But
Speaker 1: for us today, we're talking about eclectic decor inside your house.
Speaker 1: Not Christmas decor, just decorr. We're just designing the the
Speaker 1: everyday decor inside your home this weekend. That's our goal.
Speaker 1: And you know, as the dictionary says, we're talking about
Speaker 1: what happens when you've got ideas, style, or taste from
Speaker 1: a broad, diverse range of sources, instead of what's the
Speaker 1: more considered today pure And I'm using my air quotes there,
Speaker 1: pure themes of design. That's how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love strong themes of design, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. But when we start going for purity, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like every everything in history, right, You're in Nazi
Speaker 1: Germany's talking about racial purity. It's like, yeah, you know what, buddy,
Speaker 1: let's get into that conversation and you show me somebody
Speaker 1: who's actually racially pure, whatever the heck that means. I've
Speaker 1: gone to twenty three and me, I know, what a mishmash,
Speaker 1: what a mutt I am? And so are you? Okay?
Speaker 1: That's life. So I think it actually can work really well.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you, the more eclectic that
Speaker 1: you think you are, the more you've got to follow
Speaker 1: certain rules in order to pull this off the right way.
Speaker 1: As I said, my favorite way to describe eclectic is
Speaker 1: a symphony of diversity. And I think that's our goal,
Speaker 1: bringing all these divergent elements together. So that they're essentially
Speaker 1: singing one tune and really round out the picture of
Speaker 1: the vibe of your house. Our little cottage, I think,
Speaker 1: is a really good example of this, because people often
Speaker 1: ask us, oh my gosh, I love the feel inside
Speaker 1: your house. What style of design do you call this?
Speaker 1: And you know, here's it. I'm giving this away right
Speaker 1: before we take another break here, Tina and I often say, well,
Speaker 1: it's early twentieth century ish. That's what we call the
Speaker 1: design of our house. The decor style in our house.
Speaker 1: It's early twentieth century ish. And by ish, I mean
Speaker 1: are there some Victorian elements? Yeah, it's Victorian ish. Are
Speaker 1: there some craftsmen arts and crafts elements? Yeah, there are some.
Speaker 1: It can be described as arts and craft ish, a
Speaker 1: little art deco ish, little nineteen twenties and thirties ish,
Speaker 1: also a little forties and early fifties ish. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, The ish in your decor, the secrets
Speaker 1: of ish. These are the little bumper zones where one
Speaker 1: style pushes up against another and yet still works. And
Speaker 1: those are the secrets of ish that we're tackling this weekend.
Speaker 1: All right, so much more on this. You're listening to
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Speaker 1: whisper here with you on this lovely Sun's coming up
Speaker 1: Saturday morning here in December. It is the seventh of December.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? It's Saturday, December seventh. Ugh, I
Speaker 1: hope you are enjoying this December. Hope you're enjoying your
Speaker 1: holiday season. We're talking about decor not decorating for Christmas
Speaker 1: or the holidays, just decorating. And I tend to do
Speaker 1: this as we roll into the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Spend a lot of time during the year talking about
Speaker 1: construction stuff and larger themes of architectural design and so on.
Speaker 1: And then I think it maybe it's just the fact
Speaker 1: that we're all decorating some and we're thinking about that
Speaker 1: and kind of a soft landing to the end of
Speaker 1: the year. I like talking about things that are a
Speaker 1: little bit more decor oriented because I think I have
Speaker 1: your attention in that regard. And of course, today, as
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking on a subject that I consider
Speaker 1: a tough one. To communicate to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: It's what I call the secrets of Ish. It's all
Speaker 1: about how to pull off eclectic design. So let's dive
Speaker 1: back in. No one I know lives in ruthlessly consistent
Speaker 1: quote magazine spread unquote decore right, the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: that we look at. And maybe I'm dating myself even
Speaker 1: by saying magazine spread, but that's still a reality. I
Speaker 1: still get, you know, an architectural digest coming in the
Speaker 1: mail and showing up. There are still that classic magazine spread.
Speaker 1: So whether you're talking about a Pinterest picture or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about those idealized decre photos. And you know,
Speaker 1: they took hours to get ready to take this one shot,
Speaker 1: and they eliminated all sorts of real life along the way.
Speaker 1: And that's my point. Nobody lives in those ruthlessly consistent
Speaker 1: spread decre scenarios and those who actually attempt it, and
Speaker 1: believe me, I've got plenty of clients who have wanted
Speaker 1: to attempt it. I discourage it. You know, I want
Speaker 1: us to go a different way because those who attempt
Speaker 1: it are so easily thwarted. Those are they are fragile
Speaker 1: little scenarios. You can be easily thwarted by unexpectedly simple things.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. Imagine a stunningly sophisticated, kind
Speaker 1: of Euro style sleek kitchen, right, You've seen them, that
Speaker 1: kind of kitchen scenario. I can bring it to its
Speaker 1: knees in a half second. All I have to do
Speaker 1: is walk into that kitchen, put a dime store refrigerator
Speaker 1: magnet on the fridge that displays this week's kindergarten coloring
Speaker 1: project from your young students, right, and boom, the whole
Speaker 1: thing kind of collapses in on itself. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because when have you ever seen a spread
Speaker 1: picture like that of a beautiful kitchen with you know,
Speaker 1: this week's coloring project that is art, but you know
Speaker 1: you love it and you know it has to go
Speaker 1: up on the fridge. That's the kind of thing that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that disrupts that kind of fantasy of
Speaker 1: somehow that there are people out there living in these
Speaker 1: kinds of spaces without any regard to the rest of life.
Speaker 1: Kind of crowding in life itself is eclectic. Life itself
Speaker 1: brings us things from all different angles and sources, and
Speaker 1: sometimes brings things into our home that are important to us,
Speaker 1: but don't necessarily reflect one strong theme of design. That's
Speaker 1: the problem we're trying to solve. That is the problem
Speaker 1: to solve when it comes to beautiful, day in, day
Speaker 1: out living inside a home, what do you do with
Speaker 1: all the stuff that comes into your home? And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the junk that just attaches itself to
Speaker 1: you when you go out into the world. There's plenty
Speaker 1: of that, right, I'm talking about actual things that mean
Speaker 1: something to you, gift given by a family member or
Speaker 1: a loved one, you know, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: something you just literally fell in love with. You were
Speaker 1: out at a shop or on vacation or something like that,
Speaker 1: and you bring it back home and suddenly you realize, well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really go with the kind of the rest
Speaker 1: of the theme. So what do most people do? Eventually
Speaker 1: they sort of just abandoned the idea of consistency, and
Speaker 1: a lot of houses just become a missmash, a mishmash
Speaker 1: of things, a patchwork quilt. And yeah, patchwork quilts have
Speaker 1: their charm, I suppose, I think they do. But the
Speaker 1: idea of eclectic decor, let me just be really clear,
Speaker 1: is not about chaos or random diversity or just clutter.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not about clutter. The idea of eclectic decor is
Speaker 1: the art and science, as it were, of taking diverse
Speaker 1: elements and bringing them together under a theme. And again,
Speaker 1: just to repeat what I started with at the top
Speaker 1: of the show, a symphony, a symphony, all these different instruments,
Speaker 1: all these different materials, all these different players, a symphony
Speaker 1: of diversity all together, you know, playing in harmony, playing
Speaker 1: in a chord with one another, playing nicely together, so
Speaker 1: that we get a beautiful rounded melody. That's that's our goal, okay.
Speaker 1: And so, like I said, you can bring one of
Speaker 1: these magazine spreads to its knees by just a few
Speaker 1: minutes of real life, right, And then there are just
Speaker 1: other elements where we're not even trying to match up
Speaker 1: to some magazine spread. What if you live in an
Speaker 1: older home. What if you live in an early twentieth
Speaker 1: century home, which is happening more and more these days,
Speaker 1: and you're wrestling in a early twentieth century living room,
Speaker 1: wrestling with the right way to integrate a twenty first
Speaker 1: century flat screen TV, okay into a house that was
Speaker 1: built and designed in an era of radio. People just
Speaker 1: just hanging out around the RCA radio right with the
Speaker 1: dog and the tipped head. And that, I mean, that
Speaker 1: was a real thing in the twenties. And there were
Speaker 1: no TVs in the twenties, and so living rooms weren't
Speaker 1: designed for them. And how do you integrate that and
Speaker 1: still maintain this one hundred year old home. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff I'm talking about. Real world decor is
Speaker 1: never pure. Not in the real world. It's always ish. Okay,
Speaker 1: you may live in a modern home, it's modern ish.
Speaker 1: You may live in an arts and crafts bungalow. It's
Speaker 1: arts and crafts ish, Victorian ish, farmhouse ish. Right, A
Speaker 1: good ish wsh is when one style transitions to another
Speaker 1: without conflict. Now, no, it's not easy, and yes there
Speaker 1: are rules. And that list of rules is where we
Speaker 1: go next. Your home, Dean Sharp, the house whisper Kafi,
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Welcome home. Just a reminder,
Speaker 1: we're going to be going to the phones right at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. The number to reach me
Speaker 1: eight three three two ask Dean A three to three
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, in the course of any of
Speaker 1: our fine little programs. When it comes to calls, you
Speaker 1: set the agenda. Anything that's on your mind regarding your home, construction, design, DIY, questions, whatever,
Speaker 1: just throw it at me. I promise you we'll put
Speaker 1: our heads together. We will figure out the answer to
Speaker 1: what you've got to scratching your head about your home today.
Speaker 1: A three to three to two askting that's coming up
Speaker 1: right after the next news break. Okay, back to the
Speaker 1: secrets of Ish collect eclectic design. I said this right
Speaker 1: before the break. Every real world decor is never pure.
Speaker 1: It's always ish, modern ish, farmhouse ish, Victorian ish. That's
Speaker 1: because life just is ish, right, It's it's it's you
Speaker 1: may have a strong theme going there, but you wait
Speaker 1: around long enough and life is going to pepper in
Speaker 1: things from other styles, from other areas, from other locations.
Speaker 1: Just it's just it's it's just impossible to move through
Speaker 1: life and maintain one pure theme. Okay. And so that's
Speaker 1: not a problem, Okay. The problem is when we're trying
Speaker 1: to maintain the pure theme and we're getting frustrated because
Speaker 1: we haven't allowed or the other things so to one
Speaker 1: degree or another, all real design, all real world decor is,
Speaker 1: to one degree or another eclectic, and in other words,
Speaker 1: it has to accommodate various elements. But in order to
Speaker 1: do it right, to really pull it off in a
Speaker 1: beautiful way, there are rules let's start with and this
Speaker 1: is in no particular order, by the way, but let's
Speaker 1: start with one of the important ones. You've got to
Speaker 1: begin with a neutral canvas. If you're going to have
Speaker 1: an eclectic scenario happening in a space, then you want
Speaker 1: to begin with as much as possible a neutral canvas.
Speaker 1: That means that the busyness of what could potentially be
Speaker 1: a busy room or a busy space. In terms of
Speaker 1: design elements, you really need to start with something white, bright,
Speaker 1: and not busy on The walls are going to unite
Speaker 1: the collection, as it were, and floors are going to
Speaker 1: ground the collection, because you know, floors are on the ground.
Speaker 1: But that's not what I mean. I just mean in
Speaker 1: the stylistic sense, a floor really becomes a grounding element
Speaker 1: for your collection of furniture and stuff and things and decor,
Speaker 1: and then the walls are a uniting element. Okay, So
Speaker 1: a good floor that isn't necessarily trying to draw attention
Speaker 1: to itself those are my favorite kinds of floor. Now,
Speaker 1: occasionally we will do a flourish on a floor. When
Speaker 1: do you do that? When do you integrate something really
Speaker 1: tremendously fancy into a floor. If that's something that you're
Speaker 1: jones in to do, you do it in an area where,
Speaker 1: in fact, there are no other competing elements to draw
Speaker 1: you away from it. So, for instance, if if we
Speaker 1: were going to, let's say, do a hardwood floor in
Speaker 1: your house, and you ask me, Dean, can we fancy
Speaker 1: it up? I've got a little bit room in my
Speaker 1: budget and I just want something I want, you know,
Speaker 1: can we do Can we do a rose? Can we
Speaker 1: do a pattern? Can we do a sculpted pattern in
Speaker 1: the floor? Somewhere where can we get fancy with this thing?
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you that the living room
Speaker 1: or the family room is the place to do that,
Speaker 1: because that is where the floor is really serving, as
Speaker 1: I said, that grounding element for everything else that's going
Speaker 1: on in the house. Now, the entryway when you first
Speaker 1: step in, if you really want to boom hit somebody
Speaker 1: with the beauty of what they're going to see in
Speaker 1: the rest of your home, the entryway is a perfect
Speaker 1: place and entry way when it comes to smaller homes,
Speaker 1: entry hall when it comes to estate homes. But the
Speaker 1: rule is the same. That's where we don't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of furniture, do we. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: walk into the entryway and find a sofa just sitting
Speaker 1: right there. You got a little space just for people
Speaker 1: to stand. Therefore, the floor is exposed and it's not
Speaker 1: competing with so many other elements, and it's not really
Speaker 1: playing a supporting role there. It will play a supporting
Speaker 1: role elsewhere in the home, But in the entryway that's
Speaker 1: where you can jush up that floor and throw an
Speaker 1: inset pattern or a border or something that just kind
Speaker 1: of throws it off its normal kilter. That's the great
Speaker 1: place for that. Otherwise, use a floor in its textural
Speaker 1: and colorized beauty to lay a foundation to ground out
Speaker 1: everything else that's happening in the room. Not too busy,
Speaker 1: not too busy, and then the walls absolutely not too busy.
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say that an eclectic decor, again,
Speaker 1: as I've said so many times, can't benefit and can't
Speaker 1: integrate with a feature wall of color in a room,
Speaker 1: but not a cave of color and That's what happens
Speaker 1: when somebody typically goes for all of the walls and
Speaker 1: the ceilings in a room all a bold, non neutral color,
Speaker 1: it gets really cavy, almost oppressively. So in fact, I
Speaker 1: would say usually oppressively. So I much prefer and of
Speaker 1: course it's a designer's choice, but you know, I'm right
Speaker 1: about these six. I prefer features of color. Go you know,
Speaker 1: pick a wall and go bold and crazy on that wall,
Speaker 1: but just one so that it sets a really strong
Speaker 1: tone itself. And you can actually use that bold feature
Speaker 1: wall color as one of the connectors. Because the next
Speaker 1: rule that we're going to talk about when we reach
Speaker 1: turned to the subject is the eighty twenty rule. Now
Speaker 1: I mentioned this during our live audience show. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the eighty twenty rule because we had the folks from
Speaker 1: Aldac up on stage decorating a Christmas tree, and one
Speaker 1: of the issues with a Christmas tree every year is
Speaker 1: very much the same. It's like a microcosm of the
Speaker 1: trouble with the rest of the house because somebody had
Speaker 1: brought up like I love these beautifully themed and decorated
Speaker 1: Christmas trees, but I have ornaments from my childhood and
Speaker 1: I have ornaments that people have gifted me and I've
Speaker 1: got this and that that means so much to us,
Speaker 1: and they don't run with that theme. And so the
Speaker 1: question was, how can you do a stunning kind of
Speaker 1: department store window Christmas tree and still integrate things from
Speaker 1: my own personal life into it. Well, it's the same
Speaker 1: answer that we give for the rest of the house.
Speaker 1: It's the same problem, isn't it. And one of the
Speaker 1: solutions is the eighty twenty rule. And the eighty twenty
Speaker 1: rule allows us to integrate one of those bold color
Speaker 1: feature walls. What is it? You'll have to wait till
Speaker 1: we return to this topic because right after the news,
Speaker 1: we're going to the phones go nowhere. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer on KFI. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Home with Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six
Speaker 1: forty