WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.039 house Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome home, 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.679 Happy Easter. I am Dean Sharp the house Whisper. I 4 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.320 design custom homes. I've built a few custom homes to 5 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:22.800 say the least. And I am your guide on the weekends, 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.199 including today, Easter Sunday, your guide to better understanding that 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.879 place where you live. It is a privilege and an 8 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.359 honor to be spending time with you this morning, as 9 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.200 it is every morning that we get together to talk 10 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:41.159 about this all important place that we call home. Today 11 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.119 on the show, we're going to be talking about makeover. 12 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.960 Makeover Magic is what we're calling the show. But basically 13 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.920 I want to run you through, Oh, just a big 14 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:58.280 old list of House Whisper favorite makeover ideas. And there's 15 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.880 a good reason for it. And is times are a 16 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:05.560 little weird right now financially, you know. We'll talk about 17 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:09.560 that a little bit in the next segment. Where housing 18 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:15.000 builds are they're not down, they're just paused a bit. 19 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.719 The rebuilds from the fires here in southern California, some 20 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.959 of them are pausing for a bit. A lot of 21 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.840 people are pausing right now, not sure what the price 22 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:29.519 of materials are going to be in the next ninety 23 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:34.159 days plus, and so there's hesitation and it's understandable, and 24 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.959 so whenever budgets are tight, but there's still things to 25 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.159 get done at home, that's when we start looking toward 26 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.239 the idea of the makeover. The makeover is just a 27 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:53.239 little bit more intensive than redecorating and a lot less 28 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:01.159 expensive than renovating or remodeling. So today makeover tips and ideas, 29 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:03.519 and of course we're going to be taking your calls 30 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.280 as well. The phone lines are open right now when 31 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.599 it comes to your calls. As you know, anything is 32 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.280 on the table, anything that's going on with your home 33 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:19.840 design wise, construction DIY, whether you want to know how 34 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.479 to fix that squeaky door hinge or why there's light 35 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.800 coming under the threshold of your front door, or you 36 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.800 want to talk about a big architectural concept for your home, 37 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.319 and anything in between. The number to reach me eight 38 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.639 three three two. Ask Dean eight three to three. The 39 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:41.400 numeral two ask Dean, Let me introduce our awesome team. 40 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:50.280 Elmer is on the board. Good morning, sir murmurmy. Wow, 41 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.000 that was like a that was like a hockey goal 42 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.199 alert right there. Hi, how you doing, Bud? How you doing? 43 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.400 I'm doing good? Thank you for asking. Yeah, good vibes. 44 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.439 All right, sweet sweet. Today we've got producer Matt Toffler 45 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.120 screening calls for us. Matt is standing by. He has 46 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.599 opened up the phone lines. He's not near Mike, but 47 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.159 he's letting me know. The lines are wide open. So 48 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:18.280 give us a call. You'll talk to Matt. He'll tell 49 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.960 you everything you need to know, and he'll pop you 50 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.439 into the queue and listen to the show while you wait. 51 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.479 And of course, my buddy Eileen Gonzalez is at the 52 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:30.360 news desk. Good morning, Eileen, Good morning, Happy Easter. Yeah, 53 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.080 happy Easter to you. What is our Easter tea selection 54 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.439 this morning? I've actually I've had a couple cups of 55 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:42.000 green tea and now moving on to gingerberry kombucha. Oh yeah, 56 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.800 those mix okay in your stomach. We'll find out, I hope. 57 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.400 So first we're gonna load it up with caffeine and 58 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:52.800 green tea, and then we're gonna hit it with the 59 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:56.039 fermented beverage. Now that you mentioned it, maybe it's. 60 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:56.280 Not a. 61 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.680 Maybe just a glass of still water. The breaks here 62 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.800 are very short. I should be careful. Oh, sitting across 63 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.800 the table from me. There she is the one, the 64 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:16.319 only Tina is here. I love how you wait for 65 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.279 your elephant. Now you're just like just holding on for there. Pause, 66 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:25.279 just a short pause. Welcome home. How you doing good? 67 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.480 You're masterminding a lot of stuff. I am. I'm making 68 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.920 three types of deviled eggs. I don't think Olivia is listening, 69 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.879 but you were the easter Bundy deposited eighteen eggs around yard. 70 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.519 Yes, I hit eggs this morning and it got a 71 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:40.439 little sketchy at the egg because I thought, I don't 72 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:41.680 remember what I just did. 73 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.879 You're like five o'clock. It was. I was very tired, 74 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.120 I was very sleepy. I don't remember where they all are. 75 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:51.000 We found No, you did great, You did great. She 76 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:54.240 had a blast. And now the kitchen smells really good 77 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.839 because we colored eggs yesterday. Yeah, and those hard boiled 78 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.120 eggs are being turned into deviled eggs bigs, one of 79 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:06.120 my favorite things ever. All right, well, thanks for doing that. 80 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.040 I'm gonna do the show here. Yeah, you do the show. 81 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.160 You whip up some devil leggs, I will all right. 82 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.120 Sounds good. All right, y'all, let's get into it. Let's 83 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.800 talk about makeovers. Why this may be the spring and 84 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.240 summer of makeovers for you. 85 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.519 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 86 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.120 KFI A M six forty. 87 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.839 Hey, don't forget to follow us on social media. Why 88 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.600 don't you? 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You can book an in home design 100 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:15.160 consult with me and the t You just go to 101 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.680 house Whisperer dot Design, house Whisperer dot Design. All right, 102 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.720 I'm gonna give the number out one more time because 103 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:23.680 the phone lines are open and we will be going 104 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.759 to the phones in a bit. Eight three three to 105 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.600 ask Dean is the number to reach me at? Eight 106 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.000 three three to ask Dean? A three three the numeral two. 107 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:40.000 Ask Dean. All right, today we are talking about the 108 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.480 magic of makeovers. Whenever we find ourselves in uncertain financial times, 109 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:50.079 belts get tightened, purchases are cautious, and the world of 110 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.720 remodeling tends to turn toward the world of makeovers. And fortunately, 111 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.439 a great makeover can go a long long way towards 112 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.079 transforming an ordinary house into something truly extraordinary. Now, let 113 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.480 me draw some lines for you, because this is always 114 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.680 something that I find our listeners benefit from because there 115 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:13.519 are a lot of terms that get thrown around. Right, 116 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.879 there's renovation, remodel. I mean, everybody knows what a new 117 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.079 build is, right, there wasn't this something there before? And 118 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.519 then we build, and I think everybody knows what an 119 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.560 addition is. There is the house, and now book there's 120 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.240 something sticking out from it that wasn't there before. So 121 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:34.680 we've got new builds and room editions. Those are pretty 122 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:41.399 easy for everybody to understand. What's the difference between redecorating 123 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:46.079 a makeover, renovation, and a remodel or these just terms 124 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.160 that get thrown around and they all mean the same thing. 125 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.079 Now not actually they all mean something different. Let's start 126 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:58.759 with the most intense of those four, remodeling. Remodeling literally 127 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.360 means that we are changing the shape of a thing. 128 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.199 We are modeling it differently. So we're moving walls, we're 129 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:11.199 opening up walls, we're eliminating walls, we're vaulting ceilings, We're 130 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:15.560 doing a change in the actual form of the structure. 131 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.600 That's a remodel, and of course it involves all the 132 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.480 finished stuff too, but at the heart, at the beginning, 133 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.319 we're changing some big stuff. Therefore you know it has 134 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.720 the bigger price tag attached to it. Next two remodel 135 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.759 or one step down from that is renovations. A renovation 136 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:42.480 is technically a refreshing and a renewal of everything that's 137 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.519 already there now. Renovation may include things like switching out 138 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.159 cabinets one for one, It may include things like switching 139 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.600 out fixtures one for one. And I guess a couple 140 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:58.399 of the items on my list might technically straddle over 141 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.320 into the renovation cabgory just a little bit, but not completely. 142 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:06.759 So complete renovation is really a full on facelift and 143 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.840 maybe even a lot of finished change out. But we're 144 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.919 not changing the bones. Okay, we're not remodeling the house. 145 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:21.000 We're renovating it. And then the extreme of other end 146 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:25.840 of this spectrum is redecorating. It's just literally, hey, you know, 147 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:32.080 I'm gonna buy a new throw for that sofa, maybe 148 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:36.679 some new curtains, maybe you know, some new pillows, maybe 149 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:40.480 a piece of furniture different here or there. We're redecorating. 150 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.080 That's the lightest of all in between those two falls 151 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:49.080 the makeover. The makeover is not a full renovation. We're 152 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:52.679 not doing everything, We're not changing everything. It involves a 153 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.879 little bit of renovation, involves some redecorating, but really a 154 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.639 makeover is going in and making whatever changes we can 155 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:07.559 that really hush up a place, really change its vibe. 156 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:12.399 And the good news is they're little things. They tend 157 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:16.000 to be little things, incremental things. That doesn't mean that 158 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.159 it's going to cost you zero, But compared to the 159 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:25.480 other approaches to a home, this area the makeover is 160 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.679 probably the area that I would center in on and 161 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.559 say this area will give you the biggest bang for 162 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.960 the least buck the biggest effect for the smallest amount 163 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.440 of budget invested. Sometimes big things happen, and sometimes they 164 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.159 need to happen. But life isn't really divined by the 165 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.639 big is it. It's in the real world. Real lives 166 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:50.000 are constructed from a million tiny moments. The most beautiful lives, 167 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.480 I think, are built in layers, and the most interesting 168 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:57.200 people are built in layers. The strongest relationships are built 169 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:02.200 in layers. Right and following suit, the most wonderful homes, 170 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.440 in my opinion, are built in layers. And that's great 171 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.279 news for those of us with limited time and limited budgets. 172 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:10.519 We don't have to save up tens of thousands of 173 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.720 dollars to make it different if we learn the lesson 174 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:19.440 of layers for our home design matters most, always, always, always, 175 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:25.080 creativity always has a way of conquering cost. So today's 176 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.240 about those little things way to enhance your home's potential 177 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.399 without breaking the bank. Many of these makeovers are not 178 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.639 just for the budget challenge. Some of these layers just 179 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:36.679 need to be in every home, whether you only have 180 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.399 twenty bucks in your pocket or whether you have twenty 181 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.960 thousand dollars in your pocket but still this two hundred 182 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.320 dollars makeover needs to be in both of those homes. 183 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:53.000 And makeovers are also great gateway projects for the budding 184 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.000 di wire because they're not too intense, but they involve 185 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.639 you a little bit and they can get you headed 186 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.039 down that road. And you know, for a lot of you, 187 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.360 once you start, oh, you're just gonna love it and 188 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.519 you're going to want to keep doing it for the 189 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.480 rest of your life because it's so rewarding. 190 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:12.720 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 191 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:14.519 KFI AM six forty. 192 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.120 Here with you live on this Sunday, April twentieth, this 193 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.919 Easter Sunday morning. So glad that you are with us 194 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.159 here on the program. Happy to be here. Hope you 195 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.519 are having a lovely Easter Sunday morning. We had our 196 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:38.840 egg hunt earlier here this morning, and it went pretty good. 197 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.159 I think there's another egg hunt planned for later this afternoon, 198 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:45.759 but today's this morning's egg hunt went pretty good, went 199 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.759 pretty good, and it's a gorgeous day. And I'm not 200 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:50.360 going to rub it in. If you are listening from 201 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.799 somewhere other than southern California, I don't want to rub 202 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.639 it in. I get it. There's some bad weather rolling 203 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.720 across the country right now. But if you ever wonder 204 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.639 I do people stay in California with all those high 205 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.559 prices and all that craziness, and I'll tell you, anybody 206 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.759 here right now just has to look out the window 207 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.960 or walk outside, and you know exactly why we are 208 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:18.159 still here. It is good, good, gorgeous outside, beautiful spring day. 209 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.360 We are talking makeovers today, and I want to dive 210 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:27.879 right into our makeover list of ideas. I said we 211 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:30.440 were going to start in the bathroom, and so let's 212 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:32.799 do it now. I hear right off the bat, I'm 213 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.960 gonna talk about something that technically might fall in the 214 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:40.440 renovation category, but we're not talking about renovating everything, changing 215 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.159 out everything in the bathroom. This is a This is 216 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.639 the easiest thing, the easiest thing to change out in 217 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.360 a bathroom, and that maybe it's time to update the toilet. 218 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.720 That's it. You can change your life. The toilet is 219 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:58.399 something you visit quite regularly. And the way that a 220 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.679 toilet sits in a bathroom, the way that a toilet 221 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.639 looks in a bathroom, the way that a toilet functions 222 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.360 in a bathroom, can make a big change for a 223 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:12.720 relatively small amount of money. Now, toilets don't cost twenty bucks. 224 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.720 They range anywhere from well, I mean, you can buy 225 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:21.080 toilets that are like rolls Royces, but the average toilet 226 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:23.279 these days you can find anywhere from you know, one 227 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:27.240 hundred and eighty to the high two hundreds. Most of 228 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.519 the toilets that we recommend for makeovers fall in the 229 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:35.159 low two hundreds category. And for a couple of hundred 230 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.720 bucks and what amounts to I don't know. Even with 231 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.120 an inexperienced person doing it for the very first time, 232 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:47.559 maybe an hour, maybe an hour, you can completely switch 233 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.559 a toilet out in a bathroom. It's very intimidating for 234 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:52.039 a lot of people because they're like, I don't even 235 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.720 know how the thing what. There's those two little caps 236 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:59.440 down at the bottom. Those little caps are hiding the 237 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.840 bolts that mount the toilet to the floor. And the 238 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.320 only other thing that's connecting your toilet to the house 239 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.919 is the hose that is running the cold water into 240 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.360 the toilet tank. So if you shut that off and 241 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.240 disconnect that piece and undo those bolts, that toilet can 242 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:21.919 be lifted out, flushed, drained, lifted out, and carried away. 243 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.559 And a new toilet installed in its place. Yes, there 244 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:31.399 are tiny variations in toilets as far as from brand 245 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.159 to brand and model to moutel as far as their offset, 246 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:39.039 but generally speaking, manufacturers have made this easy because they 247 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.720 understand that there is kind of a standard twelve inch 248 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.519 offset from the back wall to the middle of the drain, 249 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.279 and most the vast majority of toilets on the market, 250 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.840 from the very high end to the very low, fall 251 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:57.000 within that category and will fit a twelve inch offset. 252 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:59.720 So the good news is almost every toilet you would 253 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:02.039 go out to see the one sitting on the shelf 254 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.759 at the big boxes like Lows and Home Depot, or 255 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.360 at the hardware store, or at the plumbing supply place 256 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.720 or wherever, you just measure your offset before you go, 257 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.000 just to double check. But most of them are there 258 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.799 and ready and available to you. And here's the thing. 259 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.799 There was a time when a toilet is a toilet, 260 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.240 and you try, and you juz up and thematically direct 261 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.879 the rest of the bathroom, and then you get to 262 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.039 the toilet and there it is same old toilet that 263 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.720 everybody's got. It either has this weird modern look or 264 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:38.320 it's just the old standard two piece toilet. These days, 265 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.559 you've got lots of styles to choose from, so you 266 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.840 can push the toilet in the direction of the style 267 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.480 that you already want your bathroom to be going in. 268 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.919 It can be more integrated in that place. And it's 269 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:53.799 an easy change out. You change out the wax ring. 270 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:57.799 That costs about four dollars, and you reseal that and 271 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.919 reset that toilet, even if you have to change out 272 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.080 the bolt. Maybe you're talking ten fifteen dollars plus the 273 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.119 price of the toilet. It is a great fix. And 274 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:07.519 for those of you who are like, you know what, 275 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.519 that's not my problem, Dean. The thing I hate about 276 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:11.720 my toilet is the fact that it's so dang hard 277 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.839 to clean down there, right, Not anymore. Doesn't have to 278 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.519 be that way anymore. Yeah, there are some old school 279 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.480 toilets that still have the little caps and the little 280 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.400 bolt head sticking up and gunk and grint. Yeah, it's 281 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.799 just who figured that this is an easy thing to clean? 282 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.680 Plus that weird shape off the back of the lower 283 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.599 end of the toilet looks like a pair of cartoon legs, 284 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:42.279 a character just sitting there right, skirted toilet. These are 285 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.000 the two words that I have for you. If that's 286 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:48.000 your frustration, skirted toilet when we go to break, feel free. 287 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.720 Just just open up your phone or your browser and 288 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.319 search for skirted toilets and you'll see what I'm talking about. 289 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.720 There is a massive amount of fully skirt toilets. That 290 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.279 means that the entire base that it's sitting on smooth, 291 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.680 one piece, one surface, all the way to the floor, 292 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.039 all the way around. The bolts are still there, but 293 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:14.799 they're behind little doors. They are not in the way. 294 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.599 There's that comic book leg is not there anymore. This 295 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:25.160 is easy to clean, beautiful, smooth, clean, look any style whatsoever, 296 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.640 fully skirted toilets. We're in the golden age of skirted toilets. 297 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.880 Get on the train, Get on the toilet train. Now 298 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.920 that doesn't sound right. All right, We're going to continue 299 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:39.880 with the bathroom when we come back. 300 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.920 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 301 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.519 KFI AM six forty. 302 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.079 Welcome home, Hey, thanks for joining us on this Easter 303 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.240 Sunday morning, this very sunny, beautiful Easter Sunday morning here 304 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.720 in southern California. I know you're listening. We've got listeners 305 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.000 all across the United States. So I hope and pray 306 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.519 the weather is treating you kindly, or at least you 307 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.759 are in and protected from it. If you're not here 308 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:12.400 in Southern California or in a place where things are 309 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.039 as bright and sunny as they are here today, I 310 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:20.240 just hope that you're having the best Easter Sunday possible. 311 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.119 But I am glad that you are with us here. 312 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:26.759 And we're talking about makeovers, the tips and tricks that 313 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:31.880 you can take for your home that yield large results 314 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:36.720 of effect with minimal amounts of expense. And a lot 315 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.960 of people are considering these things right now, simply because 316 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.440 economically things are a little up in the air right now, 317 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:47.279 to say the least, and some people have pressed pause 318 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:49.880 on major projects. I said I was going to mention 319 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.400 this earlier, and I forgot to, and I apologize. But 320 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.319 there's been some articles just in the news, some items 321 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:58.599 in the news just this last week here in southern California. 322 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:03.480 The rebuilding of the Eton area and the Palisades has 323 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.319 kind of sort of begun. And then right in the 324 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:10.200 middle of this, you know, trying to recover from this 325 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:13.640 tragedy and rebuild from the tragedy, you know, we get 326 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:18.720 news that the tariffs are on the way, and because 327 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.480 of that, some of these projects have literally been stopped 328 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:25.519 in their tracks. The owners have because you could understand, 329 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:32.400 like you are on a limited budget to rebuild and 330 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:36.440 a contractor is telling you, Okay, it's X amount of 331 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.359 dollars and that's the contract that we're going to agree 332 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.559 to sign. All right, I'm ponying that up. I'm ready 333 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.240 to go for X amount of dollars. But by the 334 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:49.359 end of the year, every contract that I have ever seen, 335 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:52.960 when it comes to a home building scenario, including any 336 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.759 that we would ever issue, always have this disclaimer in 337 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.359 it that if materials, you know, skyrocket for some reason, 338 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:03.759 that gets passed on to the owner and unfortunately, you know, 339 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.000 are you going to commit to a contract that is 340 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:12.000 X dollars today? And once we commit and we're rolling 341 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:16.799 three months into the project suddenly turns into X times 342 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.480 one hundred and twenty five percent more. It can just 343 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:28.319 really really terrify you. And so some of these projects 344 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.359 are just have literally ground to a halt as we're waiting. 345 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.960 And that's just the most extreme example of this right now. 346 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.519 The fact of the matter is a lot of people 347 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:39.119 are just unsure how much savings they've got, how much 348 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:42.519 cash they'll have on hand, and yet people still want 349 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.640 to make changes at the home. And that is why 350 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:47.720 we're talking makeovers today. So we're in the bathroom, we 351 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:51.119 already talked about toilets, and hit you up with a 352 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.839 couple of other items on my list. Maybe you've got 353 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.880 that big old you know, still got the nineteen sixties 354 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:03.119 or nineteen seventies giant to wall of mirror and you're 355 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.880 just sort of over it. It just doesn't feel, you know, 356 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.680 it feels dated to you, it feels out of style, 357 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:13.720 doesn't feel you know, too refined. And yeah, I agree 358 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:15.920 for a lot of bathrooms unless you're going for that 359 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:20.160 look that it does. Mirrors aren't that tough, and mirrors 360 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:23.599 aren't that expensive either. Some of those mirrors can be 361 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:27.599 removed successfully. Some of them are not masticked on quite 362 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:31.440 as well as we think they are, and they can 363 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:35.279 be kind of, you know, carefully cut away from the wall. 364 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:37.880 Some of those mirrors are being held on by external clips. 365 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.000 And in that case, man, it's easy to pull that 366 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.400 mirror down and then take that mirror to a glass shop, 367 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.759 have it cut down to size so that it is 368 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:53.000 a smaller mirror that could take a frame put around it, 369 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.039 a frame made out of framing material, a frame made 370 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:01.000 out of moldings and trim from the you know, the 371 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.640 molding and trim aisle at the big box store. A 372 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.799 frame made out of crown molding. And suddenly what we 373 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.200 now have is what looks like a mirror that has 374 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:13.839 been hung on the wall. It's a refit and an 375 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.880 upcycling of the mirror that you've got. And even if 376 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:19.720 you try to move the mirror off the wall and 377 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:24.160 it breaks and you lose its functionality, the fact of 378 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:27.440 the matter is the big scheme of things, mirrors are 379 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.119 not that expensive. Go to your local glass shop and say, hey, 380 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.200 this is what I really want. I don't want a 381 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.680 six foot wide mirror in my home. I just want 382 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:40.200 a mirror that reflects my body back to me when 383 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.160 I'm standing in front of the sink, and that only 384 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:44.640 needs to be you know, maybe thirty inches wide and 385 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.519 maybe three feet tall or something like that. You will 386 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:53.240 find it to be eminently affordable to upcycle the mirror situation. 387 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.319 How about this for a simple thing in a bathroom, 388 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.000 change out the shower head. Change out the shower head, 389 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:04.680 you've got some old, crappy shower head. It's underperforming. Maybe 390 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.960 you inherited it from the previous owner. Maybe it's some 391 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.119 old plastic thing. The only thing I'm going to tell 392 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:12.000 you is, if you can change out the showerhead, do 393 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:14.119 it right. And when I say do it right, I 394 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:18.559 mean go find a really nice shower head, something that 395 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:23.000 isn't full of plastics, something that isn't going to And 396 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:25.880 my recommendation is always this, and this is just my 397 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.920 personal taste, but also I've seen this prove out. You know, 398 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:33.119 I would keep you away from the shower heads that 399 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:36.880 have the eighty seven different functions to them. It's all 400 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.319 seems glitzy and wonderful when you're staring at it the store. 401 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:43.160