WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.080 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.439 House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Did you 3 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:14.480 know that this very program is also what is known 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.359 as the House Whisper podcast all across the planet that 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:23.600 you can listen to anytime, anywhere on demand. Just about 6 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.679 an hour after we go off the air, every broadcast, 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:33.000 live broadcast that we make becomes a podcast and is 8 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:38.759 all listed by topic, searchable by topic, hundreds of episodes. 9 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.679 It is literally a home improvement reference library that we 10 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.880 have built for you year after year, week after week, 11 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.920 and it's there for you on demand. And if you're thinking, hey, 12 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:51.840 that's all great, but what we really need is Dean 13 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.920 and Tina in our house, well guess what you can 14 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.799 do that too. You can book an inhoume design, consult 15 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.679 with me and the tea. Just go to house Whisperer 16 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.560 Design house Whisper Dot designed to get more information. All right, 17 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.359 we are talking home makeovers today, but we've still got 18 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:10.480 a couple of calls left, and it's the top of 19 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.719 the hour, so I never want to ignore our callers. 20 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.959 Let me go to the phones. See what we can 21 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.760 do for Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome home. 22 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:20.879 Meean. 23 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.079 I just wanted to tell you that you have a 24 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:29.680 fantastic show. I've been thank you contactor for about fifty 25 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.840 years and all the design, electrical design, things that you 26 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.239 talk about are spot on. So I just wanted to congratulate. 27 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:38.959 You on that. 28 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:42.079 Thank you, my friend, Thank you so much. How can 29 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.200 I help you today? 30 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.680 Okay, I have an old farmhouse that was built. 31 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:54.480 Back in eighteen eighty two, and so it was very 32 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:59.000 dangerous for us to start in the bathroom to remodel. 33 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.319 And the reason for it is because it morphed. It 34 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.959 morphed from room to room. 35 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.840 And well, you know if the remodeling virus, the remodeling 36 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:14.879 virus was not properly contained. 37 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:17.159 No, it was not. 38 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.439 Because we said, well we're already in the neighborhood, we 39 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.479 might as well move the kitchen over here. We might 40 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.479 as well redo these ceilings completely. So make a long 41 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.479 story short, I'm trying to keep the house as period 42 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.439 looking as I possibly can. 43 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.360 Now we've opened up all the walls. 44 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:45.039 We've taken your suggestion of putting lockwolf throughout everything. We 45 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.719 have it on the exterior, we have it on all 46 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:53.800 the interior walls. We have separated room so one room, 47 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:56.199 as you called it would be the pollor so we 48 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:00.599 could parley. And it has no TV in it, nothing 49 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:08.199 the media room. So we've taken all your design sggestions 50 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.680 throughout the years that I've listened to your program. But 51 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:16.800 now the question is we're under a time crunch. We've 52 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.639 been doing it at the speed of cash, which has 53 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:25.319 been slow, but uh, we've gotten to a point where 54 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.360 now we're trying to get everything done. 55 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.439 And the question came up with doors. 56 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.120 Now, we did put in a couple of pocket doors, 57 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.759 we haven't we haven't finished them yet. So I wanted 58 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.280 to get the uh the place that you had suggested 59 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.360 in one of your other shows of where to get 60 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.400 good hardware. 61 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.800 For the soft open soft clothes. 62 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:56.919 And that the main thing is that my wife and 63 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:00.240 family are, you know, they want to get back into 64 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:04.159 the house. So they just want to go out and 65 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:08.960 buy doors from a local box store and just throw 66 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.879 them in. And I'm saying, well, I'd like to try 67 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:16.439 to get put those plank doors together, the old style 68 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:22.639 plank doors with the the blacksmith look, with the hardware 69 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:28.600 and the heavy hinges and something like that. So now 70 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.720 that I mentioned that I want to build the doors. 71 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.000 The family's going kind of nuts, saying, so we got 72 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.560 to get this thing done, and I think we could 73 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:44.480 do it relatively quick and inexpensively, and I'm kind of 74 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.000 reaching out for a suggestion from you. 75 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:53.800 Well, thanks for putting me in between you and the 76 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.000 ire of direction of your family. I really appreciate that 77 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.839 I had a feeling were buttering me up for something 78 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.839 because you had so you said so many kind things 79 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:09.000 about listening throughout the years, and now now we find 80 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.959 out what your real agenda is, which is Dean take 81 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:12.399 the hill. 82 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:17.079 It's all true, it's all true. I'm not I'm not 83 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.920 spitting yarn here. You've got a great show and you 84 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:21.639 put great information out there. 85 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.639 Okay, So here's the thing, Ron, Sure a plank style 86 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:32.639 door use kiln dried lumber, Okay, because if you don't, 87 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.639 if you use green lumber, if you use wet lumber, uh, 88 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.759 then adds it to dries out inside the house, which 89 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.480 is gonna do. It's gonna warp, it's gonna tweak on you, 90 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.560 and you're gonna pay the price of your family, saying 91 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:49.319 all right, Gene, yes, why is this door all tweaked out? 92 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.120 So kiln dried lumber, but yeah, you should be able 93 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.800 to put that together with the hardware intact and hold 94 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.160 it together a good old style plank door, give it 95 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:07.079 the look that you want, and also have a very 96 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:11.920 very solid, very nicely sound insulated interior, very sexy door. 97 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:14.639 And you'll be able to do it if you're willing. 98 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.199 And sounds like you're willing for far less than you 99 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:22.040 would buy anything close to that equivalent look for that door. Okay, 100 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.279 so sure, absolutely, Kiln dride lumber. Take your time. There 101 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:33.759 are a thousand probably YouTube videos online offering suggestions on 102 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.120 how you would build a plank door, and I would 103 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.680 refer you in that direction and just do your homework 104 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.839 and research. But I'm just going to tell you kill 105 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.560 and dride and I would do this, make this deal. 106 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.079 And I've I've had to do this before, and so 107 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.560 not with my family, but I've had to do it 108 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.959 with clients before, where a client has said where I've 109 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.000 suggested something kind of out of the box to a 110 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.079 client and they're like, I don't know, Dean, I know, 111 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.560 And so I said, Okay, here's the thing. Can we 112 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:09.279 do this? Give me give me the opportunity to build 113 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:13.560 a prototype okay, and show you the prototype and then 114 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.160 hand you the receipt from the prototype, and if the 115 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:22.279 prototype fails to meet your expectations and the cost misses 116 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:26.680 the target, then will go conventional and we'll just do 117 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.959 the rest of the stuff through out. And you know, 118 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.959 still you're not going to ignore the period. All right, 119 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.040 you got an eighteen eighty three house, you could you 120 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.160 could pick a two three four panel shaker style paint 121 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.480 gray door and nobody would think twice about it, and 122 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.600 it would look great. But still those are not going 123 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:48.560 to be, you know, super cheap. So I would say this, 124 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.480 cut a deal with your family, say let me build 125 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.800 one door. Let me build a door, and you guys 126 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:57.920 tell me that you hate it or you love it, 127 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.079 and I'll show you the price tag and then you 128 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.399 you go beat that price for this kind of thing 129 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:06.040 for the rest of the house, and we'll all decide together. 130 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.279 That's the best advice I can give you, because I 131 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:09.959 think that's fair. That's fair to everybody. 132 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.079 Yeah, now, well they are not that bad. They just 133 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:15.600 want to get this thing done, you know. 134 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:16.680 And if. 135 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.519 If the Empire State, if the Empire State building was 136 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:25.800 built in thirteen months from the time that they put 137 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.519 the shovel in the ground, so they topped it out. 138 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:33.559 You're saying, okay, Ron, it's time right, so we have 139 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:34.519 to get this thing. 140 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.120 Done right exactly. 141 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:41.200 And that was before iPhones, iPads, walkie talkies. 142 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.200 It's amazing what they could accomplish back then to what 143 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.039 we accomplished today in construction. 144 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:48.720 So that is true. 145 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.120 You know, I always I always look at those old 146 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.799 photos of guys having lunch on an I beam suspended 147 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.000 like thirteen hundred feet above the city streets, thinking geez, 148 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.840 what kind of human being were they back then? Because 149 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:06.320 those people aren't around today. Ron, I wish you all 150 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.000 the luck. I so thank you. I'm up against a break, 151 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.039 so they're going to start throwing things at me if 152 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.600 I don't go to break here. But I wish you 153 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.360 the best of luck with all of that. Thank you 154 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.840 so much for putting so much confidence in me. I 155 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.240 hope everything thus far has paid off in spades. For 156 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.960 you do a prototype of the door, do it as 157 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.960 quickly and efficiently as possible, and you see where the 158 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.039 family sits with that. And I'm guessing sounds like you're 159 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.399 making all the right moves so far. I'm guessing you 160 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.679 know you're gonna get your plank doors in there, and 161 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.519 everybody's going to be happy for decades to come. 162 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.840 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 163 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:44.440 KFI AM six forty. 164 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.279 We're talking about transforming your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. 165 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.480 That's what we do right here every weekend, Saturday morning, 166 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:59.799 six to eight, Sundays nine to noon. And the specific 167 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.000 angle that we're approaching it today is from the perspective 168 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.279 of makeover, not full remodel, not new build, not even 169 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:12.200 a full renovation, and more than just decore changes. We're 170 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.240 talking to makeover and makeover kind of slides in that 171 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:22.120 gray area between renovation and decorating. And what it does 172 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.399 is it yields up if we do it right, we 173 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.639 pick just the right things, it yields up big, big progress, 174 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:32.960 big changes for relatively small amounts of cash. And that's 175 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:34.840 kind of where a lot of people are at right now. 176 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.320 Right now, a lot of remodeling dreams on pause because 177 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.440 we don't know what material prices are going to go 178 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.240 with tariffs. We don't there's just a lot of uncertainty 179 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:47.679 out there right now, and so you can still move 180 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.720 forward with your home by embracing some of the most 181 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:56.559 efficient and effective modalities when it comes to makeovers, which 182 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.360 by the way, could and should be a part of 183 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.080 the Big Green Model plans anyway. And so just something 184 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.759 to consider as we move along. So we're out of 185 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.000 the bathroom, I want to get into other rooms in 186 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.919 the house. Let's talk about the house in general. One 187 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.720 of the things that you can do to radically change 188 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.519 the interior vibe of your home if you happen to 189 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.120 live and then this is if these are all you know, 190 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.440 if they apply to you kind of situations. So many 191 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:32.320 folks live in homes where their windows are very plain. 192 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.759 And I don't mean the window itself, not the glass, 193 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.679 not the frame. I'm not commenting on that. What I'm 194 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.519 commenting on is the window opening. If you live in 195 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.399 a home built in the seventies, built in the eighties, 196 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.279 you know, you may find that it's dry wall, and 197 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.559 then the drywall approaches the window and it simply turns 198 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.279 a corner at a ninety degree angle and just runs 199 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.200 into the window. And that's it. That's all that's going 200 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.879 on there. It's a glass opening in the middle of 201 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:04.840 a dry wall wall. And if your home motif leans 202 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.000 towards something a little bit more traditional, something a little 203 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.240 bit more refined. Then one of the things you can 204 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:16.039 do to change now without changing the window itself, not 205 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:21.559 talking about buying a new window, is to finish the 206 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.840 trim of the interior of the window, to trim out 207 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.919 the window. So what that means. It starts with small 208 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.080 pieces of wood that would run around the inside of 209 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:36.200 that opening up against the window, run around the inside 210 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:39.279 of that opening to create essentially kind of a jam, 211 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.679 a window jam, and that wood would come out and 212 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.399 it would come all the way out and flush to 213 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.559 the dry wall surface of the wall. And then once 214 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.759 that box, that four sided window jam box has been 215 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.200 created in there, then you can use the front edge 216 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:00.519 of that box to put casing around that window, and 217 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.159 maybe the bottom piece of that box, depending on the style. 218 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.720 And you can see these styles online. You can just 219 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:10.399 look up apron and sill. Maybe the lower portion of 220 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.240 that box is actually a sill which extends out a 221 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.399 little bit and maybe even has ears that go out 222 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.600 to the left and the right beyond the window opening itself. 223 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.399 And then you put casey on three sides and maybe 224 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.440 a nice molding underneath, and you have essentially what is 225 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:32.320 a fully cased sill and apron detailed interior window that 226 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:38.320 you then paint in accordance with whatever paint directives you've 227 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.559 decided to go with for the room. It's a piece 228 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.559 of trim and molding and detailing that completely changes the 229 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.600 character of a room, any room, maybe every room in 230 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.039 your house. And what are we talking about in terms 231 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:58.320 of cost? We're talking about small pieces of molding wood, 232 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:04.120 I mean per window. We're talking about tens of dollars. 233 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:09.320 That's it, not one hundreds tens of dollars per window 234 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.720 to get this overall perspective and effect. Tens of dollars 235 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.360 in materials and you know, little effort on your part 236 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.840 and elbow grease, but it can make such such a 237 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.519 huge difference. Now, should every house have trimmed out cased 238 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.279 interior windows. Now, it's just but I will tell you 239 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.279 well over half of you who are listening right now 240 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:35.000 have a house that qualifies for that kind of thing, 241 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.120 that where it would work well. And so this is 242 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.679 why I'm handing out this advice. This is not for 243 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.399 the five percent of homes or ten percent of homes. 244 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:46.759 It's well over sixty percent of homes would improve the 245 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.080 interior vibe of a room by finishing them out. You 246 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.559 think about it, the door into your room has casing 247 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:57.480 around it, baseboard at the bottom, it has a wood 248 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.600 jam and all of that. But then you look to 249 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.519 the window and it's just dry wall and glass and 250 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:06.279 it kind of loses it loses that energy of detail. 251 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.919 You could supply that detail with a little bit of education, 252 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.360 a little bit of elbow grease, and a little patience 253 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.639 and very very little minimal material cost to make a 254 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:23.120 huge difference. Also in the same keeping new closet doors. 255 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:25.600 You know, now, maybe you have a small enough room 256 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:29.080 where you really want glass mirror because the mirror kind of, 257 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:33.679 you know, enhances the visual vibe of the size of 258 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.399 the room. That's all well and good. But a lot 259 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:40.240 of you have just inherited sliding closet doors that's just 260 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.080 it's all mirror, it's a bunch of metal. It's all 261 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:47.200 just kind of some new closet doors. And if you 262 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.559 don't need the mirror space, why not replace those doors 263 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.240 with doors that have paneling to them, doors that have detail, 264 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.879 architectural interesting detail, maybe take you back a little bit, 265 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.679 maybe more traditionalize the room. A new closet door change 266 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.759 out with sliding tracks can make a big difference. And 267 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:09.080 in the big scheme of things not expensive, not expensive 268 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.039 at all, Okay, And of course in any given room, 269 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.200 a feature wall, a feature wall, paint wise, now I 270 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:16.879 want to talk about that. On the other side of 271 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:17.639 the break. 272 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.399 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 273 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:23.000 KFI AM six forty. 274 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.000 You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. That's 275 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.559 me and we are here every weekend, every Sunday morning, 276 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.320 from nine to noon, every Saturday morning from six to 277 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.559 eight for one reason and one reason only, to help 278 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:43.399 you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. I 279 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.519 preach the message that design matters most because it does 280 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.759 and when it comes to saving as much money as 281 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:55.320 possible and making as large a change as possible to 282 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:00.919 your home, design absolutely matters most. We got to approach 283 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:10.039 it creatively because creativity, creativity overcomes limitations, creativity versus cost, 284 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.279 creativity wins every time. And that's where we want to 285 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:17.119 spend our energies today, because we're talking about makeover solutions 286 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:21.200 today for those of you who are like feeling not 287 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:26.440 so confident to just dive headfirst in today's economic environment. 288 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.240 Into the full on remodel or renovation. Maybe we can 289 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.880 make some changes to the house and wait this out, 290 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.799 but changes that really matter, and these are changes that 291 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.359 very very likely you would integrate into your remodel anyway, 292 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:41.839 but you can get them done now, make some big, 293 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.240 big differences. All right, So we are before the break. 294 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:50.119 I had touched on the feature wall. The feature wall 295 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.799 is a concept in a bedroom, in any room, in 296 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:56.359 any room at all, what is the feature wall? What 297 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:01.240 is this idea? The feature wall, as the general concept 298 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.119 is something that I embrace quite regularly from a design 299 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:10.759 perspective because it allows you to really go all out 300 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.799 in a room without overdoing it and making the mistake 301 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:22.160 of wrapping one particular concept all the way around the 302 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.359 room to the point where we find that we're in 303 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.160 that kind of a cave. Okay, a feature wall means, 304 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.559 you know what I've always wanted to put. You know, 305 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.599 I've always wanted to have a room with a library 306 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.079 kind of vibe to it. And unless you absolutely know 307 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.359 for certain that you could lose an entire foot off 308 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:46.559 of each dimensionality of that room all the way around 309 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.519 on all four walls, and unless you're absolutely certain that 310 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:54.240 putting bookshelves on all four walls of a room is 311 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:59.119 not going to create a small kind of book cave environment. 312 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.720 Maybe that's what you love, maybe that's the idea you're 313 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:06.880 going for. It can be overwhelming. Details can be overwhelming 314 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.680 when there's too many of them, and so as a result, 315 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.279 a lot of people they're unsure and they just back away, 316 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.400 and then the room lacks any detail whatsoever. And this 317 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.640 is where the concept of feature wall or feature walls, 318 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.400 because it could be a couple of walls, just not 319 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.799 all four. But let's just stick with the idea of 320 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.279 the one wall, the one wall in which you are 321 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:37.039 going to do something bold and bold is so very 322 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:42.119 awesome in a house. Bold is such a wonderful expression 323 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.720 in a house. And there are very very few circumstances 324 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.039 where I have walked into a home and seen something 325 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:54.319 bold on a single wall and thought to myself, WHOA, 326 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:59.880 that's just too much or bad taste or mistake. Nope, No. 327 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:05.319 Bold feature wall gives you the freedom to really go 328 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:09.920 for it, because by definition, if it's only one quarter 329 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.279 of the wall space in a room, you're not going 330 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:16.000 to be doing too much. It's just not going to 331 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:18.480 be too much and then you can go bold or 332 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.079 go home, okay, or go bold with your home or 333 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.880 in your own Yeah, you get the idea. So that's 334 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.480 really the idea. Now, is this dean saying that when 335 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:32.039 it comes to paint colors, for instance, that always, always, always, 336 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:35.480 I should never pick a color other than white and 337 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:38.839 paint an entire room. No, that's not me saying that 338 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:41.160 at all. What I'm saying is I think the key 339 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.240 word here is bold. All right, So if you decide, listen, 340 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:50.519 I've always wanted this very faint pastel canary yellow to 341 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.039 kind of be the theme inside a room. You know 342 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:57.480 what a light, bright pastel color in a room, Go 343 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.200 for it. You want to paint the kids nursery baby 344 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:05.519 blue or rose pink, or go for it. That's not overwhelming, 345 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:11.720 it's not bold, it's light. It's subtle and subtle. Light 346 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.000 things can afford to be on more than one surface. 347 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.359 But if you've always thought, gosh, I love deep purple, 348 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:24.359 I love this deep roy, I love navy blue, I'm 349 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.599 gonna tell you go for it. Navy blue a wall. 350 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.799 If you navy blue the room, you will be in 351 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.240 a tiny dark box. But you navy blue a wall 352 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.200 the right wall in the right way, and you're gonna 353 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.680 hit it out of the park. It's your room, it's 354 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:43.960 your home. And the other thing I like about a 355 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.079 feature wall is that it's a feature. Think about that 356 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.759 word feature. In other words, if you walk into an 357 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:55.599 environment where everything is all the same color, then it's 358 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.000 not a feature. It's just the color of the room. 359 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.920 But if one wall stands out, it's that room's way 360 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.920 of saying, this is what I'm all about. This is 361 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:08.720 what I'm all even though the other walls aren't that color. 362 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:12.359 That's what a feature wall does. It stands in contrast. 363 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:15.599 It stands essentially as a work of art. It stands 364 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.559 as a statement. And you would think, well, if that's 365 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.599 a statement, painting all four walls as a statement, actually 366 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:28.359 doesn't work that way. It actually works just the opposite. 367 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:31.640 It's the contrast from the rest of the house. It's 368 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:34.920 the contrast from the rest of the room that actually 369 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.839 makes a feature wall the powerful statement that it is. 370 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:41.160 So whether that's a wall of planked wood or a 371 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.000 wall of sighting, or a wall that is a bold color, 372 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.200 or if it's a wall of bookshelves or a wall 373 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:53.359 of you know, a full sized photographic mural, which, by 374 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.839 the way, these days is a way of installing wallpaper 375 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.599 that was not available to us just a few years ago. 376 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.079 There are websites you can go to where you can 377 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.559 take imagery of nature. You can take just about any 378 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:14.599 image imaginable and create a wall sized applicue mural. Do 379 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.279 that in every wall and you're really gonna get vertigo. 380 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.839 But a feature wall, man, it's awesome. It can be 381 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.279 really really awesome, and then let other details compliment and 382 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:31.640 coordinate and follow along. I wanted to spend an entire 383 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:34.799 segment talking to you about the concept of a feature wall, 384 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.440 because it's not just paint. It could be anything, and 385 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:42.160 it's not just a solid universal rule that you can't 386 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:46.839 ever do a non white paint in a room. It's 387 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:50.640 about the word bold, and if you are itching to 388 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:54.799 go bold, do it with a feature wall, as opposed 389 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:59.079 to spreading it too far and losing impact along the way. 390 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:02.799 That's I hope you understand. I hope that makes it clear. 391 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:08.279 This is how we do features. Because remember, architecture, as 392 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:11.680 I've said so many times before, great art and architecture 393 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:14.720 is all about what we call hierarchy, meaning when you 394 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:17.079 take a look at a great piece of art. It 395 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.519 is telling you, whether you realize it or not, where 396 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:24.880 you should look first. Because some things in that artwork 397 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:29.680 are more important than other things. They take precedence and priority. 398 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:34.079 There's a hierarchy of attention, and so the idea of 399 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.519 a feature wall sets up that hierarchy inside a room 400 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:40.400 in which you look to this wall and you say, 401 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:44.279