Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Home.
Speaker 1: You can listen to it every Saturday and Sunday right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. It's Dean Sharp, Morning Bean, good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about style, shall we? Okay, Okay, So you say,
Speaker 1: to make your house your home, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out what your style is so it feels homey, so
Speaker 1: it reflects who you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, when we're when we're
Speaker 2: transforming a home into something that is more you. The
Speaker 2: trouble with that is we got to find out who
Speaker 2: you are. In fact, the one of the biggest challenges
Speaker 2: for most people when it comes to remodeling or redecorating
Speaker 2: or redesigning their home is they run up against this
Speaker 2: idea of like, oh, no, I know something's missing from
Speaker 2: my life, but I'm not exactly sure what it is.
Speaker 2: And so there's a bit of h there's a bit
Speaker 2: of style psychology that we have to go through a
Speaker 2: little style therapy, as it were, for a lot of
Speaker 2: homeowners in order to start getting a handle of their style.
Speaker 2: In fact, most people don't even really understand what the
Speaker 2: word style means. They just know that they don't have it,
Speaker 2: or they think that they don't have it and they
Speaker 2: find out that's that's not actually the case.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what are some things that you can do
Speaker 1: as you start pondering you're thinking about redecorating or building
Speaker 1: or something. What are some things you should start looking at,
Speaker 1: like to discover what your style is?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you understand what the word style
Speaker 2: really means when we say it right, when we say
Speaker 2: somebody's got style, it means that they have a way
Speaker 2: about them. They have a way about them. And if
Speaker 2: you break that down even further, what it comes down
Speaker 2: to is that style is repetition in your life. Style
Speaker 2: is routine. It's whatever you keep coming back to. It's
Speaker 2: whatever you keep finding yourself attracted to or you know,
Speaker 2: kind of magnetically drawn to. Style is the are the
Speaker 2: things that you like And on a really simple basis,
Speaker 2: style or the things that you like and the things
Speaker 2: and basically how you like to live. It can be
Speaker 2: as simple as and I ask clients to start doing this,
Speaker 2: start telling me, you know, what are the things that
Speaker 2: you do? What happens every single week? And I just
Speaker 2: don't mean, you know, I get up and I go
Speaker 2: to work, and then I come home and I go
Speaker 2: to sleep. I mean the kinds of things along the
Speaker 2: way that you keep moving towards a style is in
Speaker 2: fact kind of the grooves that you wear into your
Speaker 2: life by traveling those paths again and again. And if
Speaker 2: you want to start keeping a style journal, it's and
Speaker 2: I and this is not therapy for everybody. It's just
Speaker 2: for people who are looking to change the way their
Speaker 2: home looks. Then you set something aside, some notes aside,
Speaker 2: maybe some notes on your phone, and you start taking
Speaker 2: a look at what are the things I keep coming
Speaker 2: back to, the things that I just love more than
Speaker 2: anything else. That's the beginning. It's the roots of your style.
Speaker 1: You know what I think is so interesting you talking
Speaker 1: about that. I definitely have that. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you guys are deal with it, but I
Speaker 1: keep going back to the same kinds of things. I mean,
Speaker 1: whether it's from a car to the color of the car,
Speaker 1: to the kind of clothes I wear, like I wear
Speaker 1: block more block color, yeah, block colors rather than flower stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you look around my apartment or not really
Speaker 1: anything flowery around where I live, nothing so cool that.
Speaker 2: You bring that up, Because that's one of the cues
Speaker 2: I think is your own sense of fashion is usually
Speaker 2: a representation of your own style in one way or another.
Speaker 2: So we do a lot of fashion translating. Not that
Speaker 2: people are like, listen, now, you want me to be
Speaker 2: fashionable in the way that I dress. See, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: There's not this expectation that you've got some high fancy style.
Speaker 2: It's just a question of how do you dress? And
Speaker 2: you've pointed out a really important one. Amy you've noticed
Speaker 2: that you don't wear a lot of pattern stuff in
Speaker 2: your clothing.
Speaker 1: Even though I want to, but I never even if
Speaker 1: I try to, I always go back to the other
Speaker 1: thing because I think it's better for me.
Speaker 2: Okay. And then as a result, as you look around
Speaker 2: your place, there aren't a lot of patterns as well. Right,
Speaker 2: They just tend to work itself out that way.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? You're gonna be talking about this all
Speaker 1: week right or a weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to be taking calls tomorrow. Of course.
Speaker 2: We're wide open to take calls on style and then
Speaker 2: finding your style. The big show on Sunday, all.
Speaker 1: Right, six to eight am Saturday and nine to noon
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's called Home with the House whispered Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: Thanks Dean, thank you, Amy