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Speaker 1: spent yesterday, this weekend, this last weekend in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: talking about trends and predictions for homes, home decor and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff for twenty twenty five. I
Speaker 1: have a very unique take on it because I am
Speaker 1: a real home designer and therefore I don't participate in
Speaker 1: all of the bs that it ends up on social
Speaker 1: media and interest ye kinds of things. I love all
Speaker 1: that stuff. By the way, as far as you know
Speaker 1: the site, you know, the ability for people to see
Speaker 1: things that they haven't seen before. I'm not criticizing that,
Speaker 1: but this time of year, Uh, everybody and their brother
Speaker 1: has a list of trends, and most of them don't
Speaker 1: come from professional designers or architects, and as a result,
Speaker 1: what we get is a lot of information. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to cut through that for you so you understand
Speaker 1: what is legit and what is not. What's legit and
Speaker 1: what should you quit? Oh my gosh, did he actually
Speaker 1: do that? Yes? He did. All right, we're going to
Speaker 1: get back to that subject in just a bit. But
Speaker 1: top of the hour. You know what that means, it's
Speaker 1: time to go to the phones. I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: to Brad. Hey, Brad, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Yes, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have
Speaker 2: a back door of my house that sticks and it.
Speaker 2: I will stand the doorframe, and it will seem to
Speaker 2: last for about two or three months, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it begins to stick again, and it
Speaker 2: makes it very difficult for my wife to open the door.
Speaker 1: Okay, you said you stand the doorframe, in other words,
Speaker 1: the jam in the wall.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, a couple of things. Number One, when we
Speaker 1: say that it sticks, do we know is it the
Speaker 1: entire side of the door that is sticking or is
Speaker 1: it sticking near the top?
Speaker 2: Is sticking near the top?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I got you. Why how did he know that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Here is the thing, my friend. Number one, stop standing
Speaker 1: the jam. Okay, let the jam just be what it is.
Speaker 1: If if we are and sometimes it's worth doing this.
Speaker 1: If we're going to make a modification to a door
Speaker 1: that is sticking, we actually alter the door. We cut
Speaker 1: and or plane and or sand the door, not the frame. Okay,
Speaker 1: we stand the door, which means, you know, maybe taking
Speaker 1: off weather stripping temporarily and getting to the door itself.
Speaker 1: There does need to be an adequate clearance. So the
Speaker 1: idea of just standing just enough to make it clear
Speaker 1: right now and then cold weather hot weather kicks in
Speaker 1: or a little bit of moisture or a little bit
Speaker 1: of dry and it changes the dem intionality of the
Speaker 1: door and it gets stuck again. So just as a
Speaker 1: general rule, As a general rule, you want to be
Speaker 1: addressing the door. Now I say all this, and you're
Speaker 1: going to tell me it's a steel door, exactly, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So it's a steel door. So there's no
Speaker 1: standing the door. So in this situation, how long did
Speaker 1: it function well before it started sticking on you?
Speaker 2: I would say it's I haven't had a problem probably
Speaker 2: for ten years, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: All all of a sudden. Okay, yeah, all right, So
Speaker 1: here's the other thing, and here's where I'm going to
Speaker 1: earn my keep. Okay, this is what I want you
Speaker 1: to do. I don't put down the sander, don't go
Speaker 1: any further with any of that. Right now, what I
Speaker 1: want you to do is I want you to open
Speaker 1: up the door, and I want you to take your
Speaker 1: Phillip's head screwdriver, and I want you to remove one
Speaker 1: of the screws from one of the hinges in the
Speaker 1: jam side of the door. Okay, I want you to
Speaker 1: take that screw down to the hardware store, the big
Speaker 1: box store, wherever. And the reason you're taking it with
Speaker 1: you is because you're looking at the width of that screw.
Speaker 1: And you're also most importantly looking at this size of
Speaker 1: the head of the screw and the fact that it's
Speaker 1: a beveled back, beveled head. And I want you to
Speaker 1: find the longest screw that you can find. Would screw
Speaker 1: that you can find that has that same size head.
Speaker 1: In other words, we're going to replace some screws on
Speaker 1: your hinges that whose heads will fit nicely, seat nicely
Speaker 1: into the hinge. Okay, But when I say long, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the you know, the screw that you're
Speaker 1: going to pull out is going to be three quarters
Speaker 1: to an inch long, that's screwed into the jam the
Speaker 1: doorframe as it were. Right, the screw that you're going
Speaker 1: to replace it with, I want that screw to be
Speaker 1: three inches long, Okay. And here's what happens. Okay, we
Speaker 1: don't really notice it, Okay, it's not super noticeable, but
Speaker 1: the weight of a whole door on a three hinge door,
Speaker 1: half of the weight of the door is hanging off
Speaker 1: that top hinge. Okay, And even though the hinge itself
Speaker 1: is solid and doing its job. The fact is that
Speaker 1: hinge was installed in that door jam with a short screw.
Speaker 1: Now that if the plate of the butt of the
Speaker 1: hinge is even at all starting to loosen up and door,
Speaker 1: if the frame that it's in, if the jam has
Speaker 1: shifted at all, this is what causes a door to
Speaker 1: start sticking. And the reason I knew it was sticking
Speaker 1: at the top corner is that it's because not because
Speaker 1: the door is swelling, because if the door was swelling,
Speaker 1: or if the jam was swelling, it would swell uniformly
Speaker 1: down the length of the side and you would be
Speaker 1: stuck top to bottom. But because it's rubbing at the top,
Speaker 1: it means that when the door is shut, it's actually tilted.
Speaker 1: It's leaning. And the only reason it's leaning is even
Speaker 1: if it's not perceptible to you those that top hinge
Speaker 1: has shifted in the jam itself. So here's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do with these three inch long screws that you're
Speaker 1: gonna buy at the hardware store. You're gonna come back
Speaker 1: and you're gonna take all of the screws out of
Speaker 1: the top hinge, not the door side, but the jam
Speaker 1: side and we're gonna get your screw gun and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go all the way and we're going through the
Speaker 1: jam itself. We're going it's not we're not gonna any
Speaker 1: longer support this door off the jam. We're gonna drill
Speaker 1: right through it, and we're gonna go right into the
Speaker 1: two by four trimmer, the wood stud that's on the
Speaker 1: back side of this thing. And when you do, you're
Speaker 1: gonna snug it up, and you're gonna actually see the
Speaker 1: hinge snug and you might even see the jam leg
Speaker 1: shift and move a little bit. But you're going to
Speaker 1: put three or four, however many screws your hinge takes
Speaker 1: of these long guys right on through, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna close the door and you're going to be amazed
Speaker 1: because suddenly the door is not going to be rubbing
Speaker 1: at the top anymore. Okay, I will do that, all right,
Speaker 1: my friend. That's the trick. It's something that not a
Speaker 1: lot of people notice at first, but it's not rocket
Speaker 1: science to fix, and it's going to save you a
Speaker 1: lot of labor trying to the problem is when you
Speaker 1: said that you've sanded it and then it was free,
Speaker 1: and then it got loose again, it's just because the
Speaker 1: door just tips, is still tipping, and it's still falling
Speaker 1: into the jam. So the problem is on the hinge side,
Speaker 1: not on the you know, not on the latch side
Speaker 1: of the door, and it's at the top because it's leaning.
Speaker 1: So I hope that makes sense to every feel free.
Speaker 1: If you've got a door that has been problematic or
Speaker 1: even a little wobbly, go ahead and use the long
Speaker 1: screw trip. And I will tell you this. When I
Speaker 1: hang a door, okay as a door, hanging as a
Speaker 1: finished carpenter for years and years now has been the case.
Speaker 1: Number one. I will set the jam itself at the
Speaker 1: very top with a hidden long three inch screw that's
Speaker 1: down in the actual routered area of the hinge where
Speaker 1: the hinge going to cover that screw. And then we
Speaker 1: will go ahead and use longer screws to dig into
Speaker 1: the stud that's on the other side of the jam.
Speaker 1: And guess what happens. These doors They never rub, they
Speaker 1: never sag for the life of the door. That's all
Speaker 1: it takes. Got to tie into the framing better and
Speaker 1: it's not going to failure.
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Speaker 1: We're talking trends and predictions for twenty twenty five today.
Speaker 1: But right now I am taking calls. I want to
Speaker 1: go back to the phones. Let's talk to Sandy. Sandy,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 5: Yes, Hi, Hi Diane, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a shed top got it from top shed.
Speaker 3: It's six by twelve sheet. It's on the side of
Speaker 3: the house. But we would like to insulate the roof
Speaker 3: the ceiling. I just want to get an input from
Speaker 3: you and you know what kind of insulation should be
Speaker 3: be seen.
Speaker 1: What are you planning on doing with the shed? Why
Speaker 1: are we insulating the shed?
Speaker 5: It's just in the summer, it just gets a lot
Speaker 5: of sun in that part of the property. And I'm
Speaker 5: putting all my most of my gardening tools there, and
Speaker 5: you know, for delster, all that stuff, and also some
Speaker 5: probably cushions for a part of set, and any extra
Speaker 5: stuff that we need to put away, like the coolers,
Speaker 5: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, I got you. And you just don't want
Speaker 1: it excess, you know, you don't want things melting down
Speaker 1: in there. I get it. A tough shed, a tough shed,
Speaker 1: a typical framed gardens. I'm very familiar with tough sheds.
Speaker 1: We have several on our property. Tough sheds use kind
Speaker 1: of a two by four truss kind of roofing system,
Speaker 1: which makes it very strong, small roof, but very lightweight
Speaker 1: at the same time, And and so you only got
Speaker 1: a limited depth as far as the kind of insulation
Speaker 1: that you would put up in there, I would absolutely
Speaker 1: recommend that you go because it's not a big area,
Speaker 1: and so this is not going to break the bank
Speaker 1: that you would go with rigid foam insulation. Rigid you know,
Speaker 1: rigid foam panels that and for two reasons. One, when
Speaker 1: you're whenever you're using rigid foam, you're getting better insulating
Speaker 1: value for a thinner area. And secondly, the rigid foam
Speaker 1: insulation will be foil backed, and that foil is going
Speaker 1: to help a heck of a lot that shiny foil
Speaker 1: backing because it's going to effectively reflect back and kind
Speaker 1: of shut down a lot of infrared transmission that's coming
Speaker 1: in that wants to come into the shed. So a
Speaker 1: tough shed roof I would absolutely, without question use rigid
Speaker 1: foam with foil backing, and if you're not worried about,
Speaker 1: you know, the aesthetic inside it, you could just leave
Speaker 1: it at that. You can just put it up there,
Speaker 1: cut it nice and let it be and it will
Speaker 1: serve you well.
Speaker 5: And do we do I have to put drywall?
Speaker 1: You don't have to put drywall. Not with the rigid foam.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to attach it into place, even with
Speaker 1: some toennailed screws or even nails that will hold it
Speaker 1: into place for you and you'll be good to go.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, Because I've been looking at the insulation available
Speaker 5: at the big box stores. They're R ratings, ours thirteen,
Speaker 5: R thirty. It's just so many choices. And those are
Speaker 5: not the rigid pham panels that you're talking about right
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 1: You can find the rigid foam panels at the big
Speaker 1: box store further down the aisle. Just be looking for them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they don't come into big packages. They're not
Speaker 1: the lofty fiberglass, squishy stuff or the blown in stuff.
Speaker 1: These are just ridgid foam panels. And you're not going
Speaker 1: to get our thirty in there. But you don't need
Speaker 1: our thirty. You don't need our thirty because it's not
Speaker 1: a living space. You just need to be able to
Speaker 1: knock down a good amount of that heat, and the
Speaker 1: rigid foam is going to do it best for you,
Speaker 1: I promise. Sandy. Thank you for your question, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, Thanks for hanging on as long as you
Speaker 1: did today. I hope that helps, and good luck on
Speaker 1: that shed. Let's talk to Leslie. Leslie, welcome home, Hide.
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 1: I am well? How can I help you?
Speaker 6: I'm renovating my dad's house. I inherit it in San
Speaker 6: Marino and one hundred years old, and I've been painting
Speaker 6: and chasing and doing this well. The realtor lady was
Speaker 6: telling me I should refinish the tubs, but I personally
Speaker 6: don't think I should because now I'm going to maybe
Speaker 6: open a can of worms with potential plumbing issues, but
Speaker 6: I would They're not in bad shape. Do you recommend
Speaker 6: any good kind of cleaner or something to make it
Speaker 6: kind of sparkle?
Speaker 1: Okay, so the tub cast iron tub under year old house.
Speaker 1: Is the porcelain chipped or is it just dull? What's what?
Speaker 1: What are you dealing with?
Speaker 6: I don't think there's really much going on with it.
Speaker 6: I think the only thing is like one hundred years ago.
Speaker 6: In hell, not too long ago, probably about maybe fifteen
Speaker 6: twenty years ago. My dad put a little touch up
Speaker 6: around the faucet itself, like a little white kind of thing,
Speaker 6: you know, just to I guess maybe some of that
Speaker 6: metal was coming through. But other than that, it's an
Speaker 6: excellent condition. So I hate to get it refinished because
Speaker 6: I've seen where they peel and they do all crazy things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's tough. Well, let's see so
Speaker 1: and and you're not looking to you're not looking to
Speaker 1: pull those tubs out because you just don't want to
Speaker 1: mess with it. You don't want to mess with the
Speaker 1: tile around it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I have the original pile from back then
Speaker 6: and they're beautiful and they're in excellent shape. So I
Speaker 6: hope that somebody will enjoy it as much as we have.
Speaker 6: But it's one of those things where I just want
Speaker 6: to kind of clean it up a bit and just
Speaker 6: kind of give it a little more oomph. And the
Speaker 6: same thing with the flooring. I have those little piles
Speaker 6: and I was wondering about that as well. And one
Speaker 6: other question about in the shower, you know, they had
Speaker 6: the wall up on the top. So I was wondering
Speaker 6: if you had a suggestion of what kind of pain
Speaker 6: I should use up there.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's like a closeted shower, like a like
Speaker 1: a correct Yeah, I know these very well. Those literally
Speaker 1: back in the day where we were first doing showers,
Speaker 1: and we're like, well, just put them in a closet.
Speaker 1: Just put them in a closet. It's dark, you're surrounding, Okay,
Speaker 1: So all right, the tub, there's there's not a ton Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: there's no magic bullet for the tub or the tile, honestly,
Speaker 1: but there are if you'd do your research, if you
Speaker 1: go to your local tile shop, you can find some
Speaker 1: high coil and not the big box store, but your
Speaker 1: local tile shop. You can find some decent, decent okay,
Speaker 1: not bomb proof, but decent glazes that like a seiler
Speaker 1: that has a pretty good glaze on it that brings
Speaker 1: a little bit more shine out. You could use that
Speaker 1: for the tub and for the tile. It's not going
Speaker 1: to last forever, okay, but it can bring a little
Speaker 1: more gloss and a little more out of the tile
Speaker 1: and the tub, especially if it's not something that's just
Speaker 1: getting used constantly, day in and day out. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. If the tub is in decent shape, even
Speaker 1: if it's a little dull, just go with it. Just
Speaker 1: just go with it, go with the fact that you
Speaker 1: give it a good cleaning. You can clean it with
Speaker 1: just any number of materials. I would just stay away
Speaker 1: from the abrasives, okay at this point, and we'll be
Speaker 1: a tub like that. Stay away from the even the
Speaker 1: barkeeper's front, you know. Just I wouldn't use the abrasive cleansers.
Speaker 1: You could use bleach, you could use white vinegar or
Speaker 1: anything like that that that will do a good job
Speaker 1: of getting in and getting a really good clean out
Speaker 1: of it, and some light brushing, But stay away from
Speaker 1: the abrasives, especially if you're not wanting it to look
Speaker 1: any duller than it is. It'll be brighter, but it'll
Speaker 1: leave it duller. So right, yeah, there you go. There
Speaker 1: you go. That that kind of stuff would be the
Speaker 1: way that I would direct you for those things. But
Speaker 1: you could get it. You can get a seiler that
Speaker 1: once it's really really clean. This is true of the tub,
Speaker 1: porcelain and the tile, that you can put a seiler
Speaker 1: on it and get some you know, short term I
Speaker 1: mean it'll it'll it'll be shining for as long as
Speaker 1: nobody starts using it and then but if somebody's showering
Speaker 1: in the day in and day out, then you know,
Speaker 1: six months down the road, it's going to be back
Speaker 1: to it's Matt finishkin, which is at the end of
Speaker 1: the world because it's not expensive stuff and you could
Speaker 1: just reglaze it again if you wanted to. That's about
Speaker 1: as much as I don't paint it. Please don't paint it,
Speaker 1: because that's I'm not.
Speaker 6: Going that'll be the upper part of that shower stall,
Speaker 6: the box shower. Is there recommendations for some kind of
Speaker 6: paint or it doesn't bubble or something else when you
Speaker 6: have the moisture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is true, and I would do this
Speaker 1: with the whole bathroom by the way, personally. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that is that first of all, you're going to get
Speaker 1: all that chipping and peeling stuff off, You're going to
Speaker 1: get it sanded down and prepped really really well. You're
Speaker 1: going to get a really high quality primer on there, Okay,
Speaker 1: onto the walls, and then I want you to go
Speaker 1: to your local Benjamin Moore dealer and get Aura A U. R.
Speaker 1: A Aura Bath and Spa. Okay. It is literally the
Speaker 1: and and you can get it in Matt. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be glossy and shiny. You can get it
Speaker 1: in Matt.
Speaker 2: Finish.
Speaker 1: It is literally a paint that is designed to take
Speaker 1: heat and steam and moisture. That's why it's called bath
Speaker 1: and spa and look JUGI gorgeous without reacting to the
Speaker 1: water in a negative way. Literally, it's made for that
Speaker 1: kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Then spell that out for me one more time.
Speaker 1: Aura A U r A Okay, Benjamin, it's a Benjamin
Speaker 1: Moore live is Okay. So you want Aura Bath and
Speaker 1: Spa spa perfect?
Speaker 6: Okay, you're the best. Thank you, you're so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call. Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: and good luck on that San Marino house. San Marino.
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's Father of the Bride neighborhood right there,
Speaker 1: my friend Sam. I grew up very close to there,
Speaker 1: not in it. How I would have been so fortunate. No, No,
Speaker 1: I grew up near enough so San Marino.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what a class gorgeous Los Angeles actually Pasadena neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Beautiful stuff, all right, y'all. When we return I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you more off of my list of predictions and
Speaker 1: trends for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. That's me.
Speaker 1: We're here talking about predictions of trends for home decor
Speaker 1: and design for twenty twenty five. Nearing the end of
Speaker 1: my list, but I still got some good stuff to
Speaker 1: talk to you about.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Let's get back into it, shall we. Uh Here, I say,
Speaker 1: I teased you before we were taking calls that the
Speaker 1: next thing I was going to talk to you about
Speaker 1: was flooring. Flooring, there's one very specific trend that is
Speaker 1: growing in temperature. It's hot, It's I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's hot, but it's deafly getting hotter. And I'm again
Speaker 1: glad about it. Seems like there's a theme that several
Speaker 1: of the items that are on this year's trending list,
Speaker 1: the legitimate items, they're harkening back to an older time
Speaker 1: and we're seeing them manifest again. And this one is
Speaker 1: no exception to that. This is a wonderful example of that.
Speaker 1: And that is whether it's tile or wood flooring. Herringbone, herringbone.
Speaker 1: You know what herringbone is, right, It's that zigzag pattern. Now,
Speaker 1: herringbone is about as classic a flooring pattern as a
Speaker 1: flooring pattern can get. What's amazing about it is that
Speaker 1: it's so classic that you can put any period of
Speaker 1: furniture with it, and it works. If you tour through
Speaker 1: Europe and look at one hundred two hundred, three hundred
Speaker 1: plus year old homes and villas, you will find herringbone floors.
Speaker 1: If you travel and find ultra contemporary homes, you will
Speaker 1: find herringbone floors. Because it's such a heavy geometric pattern,
Speaker 1: it works with absolute contemporary design, and it works with
Speaker 1: old world design, and designers are rediscovering it and pushing
Speaker 1: their clients toward at least considering it. I love herringbone floors.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love them. They solve all sorts of problems too.
Speaker 1: By the way, let's say you got this, and these
Speaker 1: are problems sometimes brought on by open concept, open plan
Speaker 1: flooring ideas, and that is that you've got one room
Speaker 1: that runs kind of lengthwise this way, and it's now
Speaker 1: connected without walls to another space that runs ninety degrees
Speaker 1: perpendicular to it in another direction. So if you've got
Speaker 1: traditional plank flooring, you've got to ask the question, well,
Speaker 1: which way should we run the pl playing flooring. Now
Speaker 1: I have a cheat for that too. If you want
Speaker 1: to use plank flooring, you set it at a diagonal,
Speaker 1: at a forty five degree diagonal for both spaces, and
Speaker 1: it works. But herringbone is an absolute example of just that,
Speaker 1: just in shorter format with more detail on the floor.
Speaker 1: And so here's the thing that I want you to consider,
Speaker 1: taking this from the mouth of a professional home designer
Speaker 1: as opposed to getting caught up in the retail cyclone
Speaker 1: of well, I want our new floors to make such
Speaker 1: an impact, we've got to step up the budget and
Speaker 1: let's just let's just buy more expensive and more expensive
Speaker 1: and more flooring material. Yeah, you could go that way,
Speaker 1: or you could make a powerfully beautiful, elegant impact by
Speaker 1: simply taking a modest flooring material and installing it in
Speaker 1: a classic pattern. And that is my love for herringbone
Speaker 1: as a pattern for flooring. Okay, Also, by the way,
Speaker 1: also my love for herringbone as a backsplash tile or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But whether you're using porcelain tile, planks
Speaker 1: or whether you're using hardwood or even there are now
Speaker 1: luxury vinyl planks a few on the market who are
Speaker 1: that are designed to be capable of being installed in
Speaker 1: a herringbone pattern. You know what, give it a solid look.
Speaker 1: Look online, look at photos of herringbone floors. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have all this drama in the wood itself,
Speaker 1: in the tile itself. If right back behind that lovely
Speaker 1: surface is this pattern. It's not a loud pattern, it's
Speaker 1: not you know, it doesn't jump out and take over. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a floor, but it's such an elegant way of
Speaker 1: doing a floor, and it's such a beautifully detailed pattern.
Speaker 1: And what goes with it everything with it. Round furniture
Speaker 1: goes with it, Square furniture goes with it, Rectangular furniture
Speaker 1: goes with herringbone. Herringbone fits in any room, running in
Speaker 1: virtually any direction. Okay. And as I said before, it
Speaker 1: is so old world that you could go back and
Speaker 1: emulate a three hundred year old period room, or you
Speaker 1: could be installing it in an ultra modern, ultra contemporary setting,
Speaker 1: and it works perfectly fine. Herringbone Rediscover Herringbone in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. It's not for everybody, and it's not for
Speaker 1: every house, but I will tell you this, if you
Speaker 1: haven't thought of it, if you haven't considered it, and
Speaker 1: you're thinking about putting in new floors, pump the brakes
Speaker 1: and take a look and see if the entire level
Speaker 1: of the room can't be elevated and amplified by a beautiful,
Speaker 1: consistent floor pattern like that laying down on your floor.
Speaker 1: There you go. Now need to know this. Is there
Speaker 1: any additional cost to herringbone? Dean installers are probably gonna
Speaker 1: charge you a little bit more to run herringbone than
Speaker 1: just straight plank, okay, And because the herringbone floor is
Speaker 1: going to be hitting the walls at a forty five
Speaker 1: degree angle, that means it's going to create a little
Speaker 1: bit more waste that can't be recouped and used like
Speaker 1: on the other side of the room, which is sometimes
Speaker 1: what we can do with plank flooring. But is it
Speaker 1: worth it? And will you save money by purchasing a
Speaker 1: less expensive, lessugi loud draw attention to itself flooring material
Speaker 1: and installing it herringbone over something really really expensive set
Speaker 1: on a traditional pattern, Yes you will. You'll save money
Speaker 1: and you'll have a better result in the end. There
Speaker 1: you go. Last thing that I'm gonna I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: this for the other side of the break. Do you
Speaker 1: know what color drenching is? Okay, Well, if you don't
Speaker 1: hang tight, and when we come back, I will explain
Speaker 1: to you why it is a well deserved hot trend
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five and beyond, go nowhere. Color drenching
Speaker 1: coming up.
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Speaker 1: I was just talking to Elmer. He was checking out
Speaker 1: Elmer was checking out herringbone floor. He's like, man, I
Speaker 1: need so cool for me. Aren't they cool? They're awesome?
Speaker 1: And then I was telling him that it actually came
Speaker 1: from it literally comes from, you know, a herring, the
Speaker 1: fish fishbone. If you look at their skeleton from the
Speaker 1: side and or from the top, you'll see that diagonal
Speaker 1: pattern the way that the bones tie in. And I
Speaker 1: don't know who named it. It was hundreds of years ago.
Speaker 1: Somebody said it's like a herring, the bones of a herring. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but yeah, that's where it comes from. Very
Speaker 1: very cool, and it's always nice It always feels good
Speaker 1: when even my colleagues here at the station are like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what you just said? That
Speaker 1: was actually cool. Thanks all the time. I'm glad. I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm here to help. All right, I got one more
Speaker 1: for you? Do I I? Oh, yeah, I do. I
Speaker 1: teased you before the break whether you knew anything about
Speaker 1: color drenching. You know what color drenching is, well, you
Speaker 1: could sort of imagine. It probably has to do with
Speaker 1: taking a color and just like saturating everything everywhere with it.
Speaker 1: It is pretty much kind of that thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta standard control here, so color drenching you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear about it if you're going through trending lists. Color
Speaker 1: drenching is take some random sound, and color drenching is
Speaker 1: taking a single color in a room and using it
Speaker 1: on all the walls and the ceiling. Now, Dean, I've
Speaker 1: been listening to your show for years, and you are
Speaker 1: a huge advocate of feature walls, of bold color and
Speaker 1: letting the other things go. Because you say that when
Speaker 1: we paint every wall and the ceiling all some wild color,
Speaker 1: it gets to be like a cave. And you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: and I really am not being hypocritical or turning a
Speaker 1: one eighty when I tell you that to color drenching
Speaker 1: is the exception to that rule. Here's how we do
Speaker 1: color drenching in a room. What we do. Number one,
Speaker 1: the plan is we're not using wild warm colors. Okay.
Speaker 1: I do not color drench a room with anything on
Speaker 1: the warm side of the spectrum. No reds, no oranges,
Speaker 1: no yellows, because that just gets crazy town. Okay. Number two,
Speaker 1: I don't use overly dark colors because unless we're literally
Speaker 1: just trying to create that dark, deep, moody space, but
Speaker 1: a pleasant color drenched room, a room that could be
Speaker 1: a bedroom or a dining room or anything like it.
Speaker 1: What we're going to use is we're going to use
Speaker 1: muted paints in the cool side of things. Greens and blues, okay,
Speaker 1: not gray. Gray is boring for this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: We want color, Okay, gray is technically not a color.
Speaker 1: So we want these cool, you know, colors that set
Speaker 1: a mood almost I dare I say pastel, cool pastels,
Speaker 1: but not like baby blue or anything like that. Right,
Speaker 1: A muted, naturalistic color. And then we're not just painting
Speaker 1: a room. What we're doing is actually we're using this
Speaker 1: technique to increase the amount of detail on a wall
Speaker 1: and a ceiling. So what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: we take this room and we say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I want to panel this room. I mean, I want
Speaker 1: to put panel applicas all over this room. I want
Speaker 1: to take flat moldings and create all sorts of panel
Speaker 1: designs geometric floor to ceiling on all these walls. But
Speaker 1: I love that look, but I'm afraid it's gonna get
Speaker 1: too busy. I want that big old base board coming
Speaker 1: off the floor, but I'm afraid that, you know, once
Speaker 1: I paint the wall and the baseboard is standing out,
Speaker 1: that it's gonna get too busy. Or these panels, once
Speaker 1: they stand out against the rest of the room color,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get too loud and too busy. Or if
Speaker 1: I put even applicase like Dean was talking about earlier
Speaker 1: in the show Feature Ceilings, if I put the same
Speaker 1: kind of applicate panel on the ceiling, it's just gonna
Speaker 1: get too busy. And you're right, it could, and it
Speaker 1: seems a little counterintuitive. But all I can tell you
Speaker 1: is the tension that is created by what I'm about
Speaker 1: to describe ends up becoming in most cases just stunningly elegant.
Speaker 1: And it's this go ahead, panel out, crazy town, trim
Speaker 1: all over this room, okay, and then ceiling included if
Speaker 1: you want, and then paint it all the same color,
Speaker 1: no differential from the floor edge right on up across
Speaker 1: the ceiling, all one color, the trim, the wall, the
Speaker 1: window trims, everything all one cool, muted, naturalistic color. And
Speaker 1: you know what the floor stands out in contrast. That's it,
Speaker 1: and then all the furnishings in the room that's it.
Speaker 1: And it, if it's done well, can be I don't know, scrumptious, elegant, beautiful, tasty,
Speaker 1: You pick the adjective of your choice. If you need
Speaker 1: to see it, absolutely you need to see it. So again,
Speaker 1: go online search color drenched room and you'll see, hopefully
Speaker 1: a good example of what I'm talking talking about. It's bold,
Speaker 1: it's a bold move for you to make, but it's
Speaker 1: not bold in the sense of loud or gaudy or
Speaker 1: anything like that. When it's done well, it's done with
Speaker 1: just this beautiful. It's as if we've done all the
Speaker 1: paneling and that's a bold move forward, and then we've
Speaker 1: painted it all the same color, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: you could also do with white, okay, And by painting
Speaker 1: it all the same color, we've muted the paneling and
Speaker 1: pulled it back a step. So we've taken a bold
Speaker 1: step forward and then we pull it back half a step,
Speaker 1: and what we get is this tension in between anyway,
Speaker 1: color drenching. Look it up. It is a hot new trend.
Speaker 1: I'm glad, but it's got to be done well. All right,
Speaker 1: It's got to be done tastefully. It's got to be
Speaker 1: executed with a good amount of planning. But it's worth
Speaker 1: you taking a look at. It's worth your attention. It
Speaker 1: could make all the difference in a room for years
Speaker 1: and years to come. All Right, That's about all we've
Speaker 1: got today for this weekend, everybody, This last weekend for
Speaker 1: us in twenty twenty. For the new year is looming
Speaker 1: right around the corner. It's coming at us on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, what was that, Tina, No, don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. I'm going to leave you with this thought today.
Speaker 1: Some people hate New Years, isn't that true? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: run into a lot of them. Actually, they say, you
Speaker 1: know what, it's a day just like any other day.
Speaker 1: There's nothing magical about it or the hope that it
Speaker 1: promises us, because you know what, life just turns out
Speaker 1: to be the same. I totally get that. I feel
Speaker 1: you so much on that. Okay, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: jump in that camp just for a second, not hating
Speaker 1: New Year's but acknowledging the truth about it. There's nothing
Speaker 1: intrinsically magical about New Year's Day. If you didn't know
Speaker 1: January first was New Year's Day, nothing would alert you
Speaker 1: to its arrival. It would just feel like any other day.
Speaker 1: It's not nothing, though, Okay, it's the beginning of another lap.
Speaker 1: Astronomically speaking, within a few hours of New Year's Day,
Speaker 1: the Earth will be at its closest point to the Sun.
Speaker 1: It's called the perihelion. And no, you're not going to
Speaker 1: feel it, but it's true. And here, in the first
Speaker 1: days of winter, which is where we're at right now,
Speaker 1: floating in the vast expanse of the universe, our tiny
Speaker 1: blue world begins another year long journey around our star.
Speaker 1: And what makes New Year special for those who choose
Speaker 1: to make it special is that we mark its arrival.
Speaker 1: We all know it's far too easy for us to
Speaker 1: allow one day to roll into the next, and the
Speaker 1: next and the next, and before we know it, we're
Speaker 1: wondering where the time is gone. So human finds ways
Speaker 1: to mark our laps. We mark birthdays, we mark wedding anniversaries,
Speaker 1: we mark work anniversaries, we mark any anniversary. We can
Speaker 1: get our hands on any lap that we can number
Speaker 1: in order to remind us the time is passing and
Speaker 1: we're not getting any younger. So yeah, it's true. Nothing
Speaker 1: about the clock striking midnight makes us new people, with
Speaker 1: new lives, unburdened from our past, free from our present circumstances.
Speaker 1: New Year's is not you. New Year's is not absolution.
Speaker 1: New Year's is not healing. New Year's is not a
Speaker 1: fresh new start, unless, of course, we choose to make
Speaker 1: it so. And there is the magic, our resolve to
Speaker 1: do better, be better, live better. For a bunch of
Speaker 1: little monkeys caught up with big burdens and even bigger worries,
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing to get some perspective,
Speaker 1: to mark a lap. Remember that life is short, time
Speaker 1: is passing, and we're not getting any younger. So if
Speaker 1: we're looking for things to change, we want to get
Speaker 1: free from the past. If we want to heal, if
Speaker 1: we want to be better and do better and live better,
Speaker 1: then hey, let's pick a day and celebrate. If there's
Speaker 1: magic in New Year's Day, you, my friend, are that magic,
Speaker 1: your dreams, your resolve, your choices. No, the New year
Speaker 1: will not do it for you, but if you want
Speaker 1: it to be so, today can be the day that
Speaker 1: you choose to build or rebuild yourself a beautiful life.
Speaker 1: And I hope you do. And so with that, I'm
Speaker 1: going to wish all of you, from Tina and I
Speaker 1: and everyone in the Sharp Plam a very very happy
Speaker 1: New Year, and we will see you right back here
Speaker 1: next weekend. We'll see you next year. Until then, have
Speaker 1: a great one. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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