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Speaker 1: Let me go to the phones. See what we can
Speaker 1: do for Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Meean.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to tell you that you have a
Speaker 3: fantastic show. I've been thank you contactor for about fifty
Speaker 3: years and all the design, electrical design, things that you
Speaker 3: talk about are spot on. So I just wanted to congratulate.
Speaker 4: You on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend, Thank you so much. How can
Speaker 1: I help you today?
Speaker 4: Okay, I have an old farmhouse that was built.
Speaker 3: Back in eighteen eighty two, and so it was very
Speaker 3: dangerous for us to start in the bathroom to remodel.
Speaker 3: And the reason for it is because it morphed. It
Speaker 3: morphed from room to room.
Speaker 1: And well, you know if the remodeling virus, the remodeling
Speaker 1: virus was not properly contained.
Speaker 4: No, it was not.
Speaker 3: Because we said, well we're already in the neighborhood, we
Speaker 3: might as well move the kitchen over here. We might
Speaker 3: as well redo these ceilings completely. So make a long
Speaker 3: story short, I'm trying to keep the house as period
Speaker 3: looking as I possibly can.
Speaker 4: Now we've opened up all the walls.
Speaker 3: We've taken your suggestion of putting lockwolf throughout everything. We
Speaker 3: have it on the exterior, we have it on all
Speaker 3: the interior walls. We have separated room so one room,
Speaker 3: as you called it would be the pollor so we
Speaker 3: could parley. And it has no TV in it, nothing
Speaker 3: the media room. So we've taken all your design sggestions
Speaker 3: throughout the years that I've listened to your program. But
Speaker 3: now the question is we're under a time crunch. We've
Speaker 3: been doing it at the speed of cash, which has
Speaker 3: been slow, but uh, we've gotten to a point where
Speaker 3: now we're trying to get everything done.
Speaker 4: And the question came up with doors.
Speaker 3: Now, we did put in a couple of pocket doors,
Speaker 3: we haven't we haven't finished them yet. So I wanted
Speaker 3: to get the uh the place that you had suggested
Speaker 3: in one of your other shows of where to get
Speaker 3: good hardware.
Speaker 4: For the soft open soft clothes.
Speaker 3: And that the main thing is that my wife and
Speaker 3: family are, you know, they want to get back into
Speaker 3: the house. So they just want to go out and
Speaker 3: buy doors from a local box store and just throw
Speaker 3: them in. And I'm saying, well, I'd like to try
Speaker 3: to get put those plank doors together, the old style
Speaker 3: plank doors with the the blacksmith look, with the hardware
Speaker 3: and the heavy hinges and something like that. So now
Speaker 3: that I mentioned that I want to build the doors.
Speaker 3: The family's going kind of nuts, saying, so we got
Speaker 3: to get this thing done, and I think we could
Speaker 3: do it relatively quick and inexpensively, and I'm kind of
Speaker 3: reaching out for a suggestion from you.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for putting me in between you and the
Speaker 1: ire of direction of your family. I really appreciate that
Speaker 1: I had a feeling were buttering me up for something
Speaker 1: because you had so you said so many kind things
Speaker 1: about listening throughout the years, and now now we find
Speaker 1: out what your real agenda is, which is Dean take
Speaker 1: the hill.
Speaker 3: It's all true, it's all true. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 3: spitting yarn here. You've got a great show and you
Speaker 3: put great information out there.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing, Ron, Sure a plank style
Speaker 1: door use kiln dried lumber, Okay, because if you don't,
Speaker 1: if you use green lumber, if you use wet lumber, uh,
Speaker 1: then adds it to dries out inside the house, which
Speaker 1: is gonna do. It's gonna warp, it's gonna tweak on you,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna pay the price of your family, saying
Speaker 1: all right, Gene, yes, why is this door all tweaked out?
Speaker 1: So kiln dried lumber, but yeah, you should be able
Speaker 1: to put that together with the hardware intact and hold
Speaker 1: it together a good old style plank door, give it
Speaker 1: the look that you want, and also have a very
Speaker 1: very solid, very nicely sound insulated interior, very sexy door.
Speaker 1: And you'll be able to do it if you're willing.
Speaker 1: And sounds like you're willing for far less than you
Speaker 1: would buy anything close to that equivalent look for that door. Okay,
Speaker 1: so sure, absolutely, Kiln dride lumber. Take your time. There
Speaker 1: are a thousand probably YouTube videos online offering suggestions on
Speaker 1: how you would build a plank door, and I would
Speaker 1: refer you in that direction and just do your homework
Speaker 1: and research. But I'm just going to tell you kill
Speaker 1: and dride and I would do this, make this deal.
Speaker 1: And I've I've had to do this before, and so
Speaker 1: not with my family, but I've had to do it
Speaker 1: with clients before, where a client has said where I've
Speaker 1: suggested something kind of out of the box to a
Speaker 1: client and they're like, I don't know, Dean, I know,
Speaker 1: And so I said, Okay, here's the thing. Can we
Speaker 1: do this? Give me give me the opportunity to build
Speaker 1: a prototype okay, and show you the prototype and then
Speaker 1: hand you the receipt from the prototype, and if the
Speaker 1: prototype fails to meet your expectations and the cost misses
Speaker 1: the target, then will go conventional and we'll just do
Speaker 1: the rest of the stuff through out. And you know,
Speaker 1: still you're not going to ignore the period. All right,
Speaker 1: you got an eighteen eighty three house, you could you
Speaker 1: could pick a two three four panel shaker style paint
Speaker 1: gray door and nobody would think twice about it, and
Speaker 1: it would look great. But still those are not going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, super cheap. So I would say this,
Speaker 1: cut a deal with your family, say let me build
Speaker 1: one door. Let me build a door, and you guys
Speaker 1: tell me that you hate it or you love it,
Speaker 1: and I'll show you the price tag and then you
Speaker 1: you go beat that price for this kind of thing
Speaker 1: for the rest of the house, and we'll all decide together.
Speaker 1: That's the best advice I can give you, because I
Speaker 1: think that's fair. That's fair to everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now, well they are not that bad. They just
Speaker 3: want to get this thing done, you know.
Speaker 4: And if.
Speaker 3: If the Empire State, if the Empire State building was
Speaker 3: built in thirteen months from the time that they put
Speaker 3: the shovel in the ground, so they topped it out.
Speaker 3: You're saying, okay, Ron, it's time right, so we have
Speaker 3: to get this thing.
Speaker 1: Done right exactly.
Speaker 4: And that was before iPhones, iPads, walkie talkies.
Speaker 3: It's amazing what they could accomplish back then to what
Speaker 3: we accomplished today in construction.
Speaker 4: So that is true.
Speaker 1: You know, I always I always look at those old
Speaker 1: photos of guys having lunch on an I beam suspended
Speaker 1: like thirteen hundred feet above the city streets, thinking geez,
Speaker 1: what kind of human being were they back then? Because
Speaker 1: those people aren't around today. Ron, I wish you all
Speaker 1: the luck. I so thank you. I'm up against a break,
Speaker 1: so they're going to start throwing things at me if
Speaker 1: I don't go to break here. But I wish you
Speaker 1: the best of luck with all of that. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for putting so much confidence in me. I
Speaker 1: hope everything thus far has paid off in spades. For
Speaker 1: you do a prototype of the door, do it as
Speaker 1: quickly and efficiently as possible, and you see where the
Speaker 1: family sits with that. And I'm guessing sounds like you're
Speaker 1: making all the right moves so far. I'm guessing you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna get your plank doors in there, and
Speaker 1: everybody's going to be happy for decades to come.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about transforming your ordinary house into an extraordinary home.
Speaker 1: That's what we do right here every weekend, Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: six to eight, Sundays nine to noon. And the specific
Speaker 1: angle that we're approaching it today is from the perspective
Speaker 1: of makeover, not full remodel, not new build, not even
Speaker 1: a full renovation, and more than just decore changes. We're
Speaker 1: talking to makeover and makeover kind of slides in that
Speaker 1: gray area between renovation and decorating. And what it does
Speaker 1: is it yields up if we do it right, we
Speaker 1: pick just the right things, it yields up big, big progress,
Speaker 1: big changes for relatively small amounts of cash. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where a lot of people are at right now.
Speaker 1: Right now, a lot of remodeling dreams on pause because
Speaker 1: we don't know what material prices are going to go
Speaker 1: with tariffs. We don't there's just a lot of uncertainty
Speaker 1: out there right now, and so you can still move
Speaker 1: forward with your home by embracing some of the most
Speaker 1: efficient and effective modalities when it comes to makeovers, which
Speaker 1: by the way, could and should be a part of
Speaker 1: the Big Green Model plans anyway. And so just something
Speaker 1: to consider as we move along. So we're out of
Speaker 1: the bathroom, I want to get into other rooms in
Speaker 1: the house. Let's talk about the house in general. One
Speaker 1: of the things that you can do to radically change
Speaker 1: the interior vibe of your home if you happen to
Speaker 1: live and then this is if these are all you know,
Speaker 1: if they apply to you kind of situations. So many
Speaker 1: folks live in homes where their windows are very plain.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean the window itself, not the glass,
Speaker 1: not the frame. I'm not commenting on that. What I'm
Speaker 1: commenting on is the window opening. If you live in
Speaker 1: a home built in the seventies, built in the eighties,
Speaker 1: you know, you may find that it's dry wall, and
Speaker 1: then the drywall approaches the window and it simply turns
Speaker 1: a corner at a ninety degree angle and just runs
Speaker 1: into the window. And that's it. That's all that's going
Speaker 1: on there. It's a glass opening in the middle of
Speaker 1: a dry wall wall. And if your home motif leans
Speaker 1: towards something a little bit more traditional, something a little
Speaker 1: bit more refined. Then one of the things you can
Speaker 1: do to change now without changing the window itself, not
Speaker 1: talking about buying a new window, is to finish the
Speaker 1: trim of the interior of the window, to trim out
Speaker 1: the window. So what that means. It starts with small
Speaker 1: pieces of wood that would run around the inside of
Speaker 1: that opening up against the window, run around the inside
Speaker 1: of that opening to create essentially kind of a jam,
Speaker 1: a window jam, and that wood would come out and
Speaker 1: it would come all the way out and flush to
Speaker 1: the dry wall surface of the wall. And then once
Speaker 1: that box, that four sided window jam box has been
Speaker 1: created in there, then you can use the front edge
Speaker 1: of that box to put casing around that window, and
Speaker 1: maybe the bottom piece of that box, depending on the style.
Speaker 1: And you can see these styles online. You can just
Speaker 1: look up apron and sill. Maybe the lower portion of
Speaker 1: that box is actually a sill which extends out a
Speaker 1: little bit and maybe even has ears that go out
Speaker 1: to the left and the right beyond the window opening itself.
Speaker 1: And then you put casey on three sides and maybe
Speaker 1: a nice molding underneath, and you have essentially what is
Speaker 1: a fully cased sill and apron detailed interior window that
Speaker 1: you then paint in accordance with whatever paint directives you've
Speaker 1: decided to go with for the room. It's a piece
Speaker 1: of trim and molding and detailing that completely changes the
Speaker 1: character of a room, any room, maybe every room in
Speaker 1: your house. And what are we talking about in terms
Speaker 1: of cost? We're talking about small pieces of molding wood,
Speaker 1: I mean per window. We're talking about tens of dollars.
Speaker 1: That's it, not one hundreds tens of dollars per window
Speaker 1: to get this overall perspective and effect. Tens of dollars
Speaker 1: in materials and you know, little effort on your part
Speaker 1: and elbow grease, but it can make such such a
Speaker 1: huge difference. Now, should every house have trimmed out cased
Speaker 1: interior windows. Now, it's just but I will tell you
Speaker 1: well over half of you who are listening right now
Speaker 1: have a house that qualifies for that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: that where it would work well. And so this is
Speaker 1: why I'm handing out this advice. This is not for
Speaker 1: the five percent of homes or ten percent of homes.
Speaker 1: It's well over sixty percent of homes would improve the
Speaker 1: interior vibe of a room by finishing them out. You
Speaker 1: think about it, the door into your room has casing
Speaker 1: around it, baseboard at the bottom, it has a wood
Speaker 1: jam and all of that. But then you look to
Speaker 1: the window and it's just dry wall and glass and
Speaker 1: it kind of loses it loses that energy of detail.
Speaker 1: You could supply that detail with a little bit of education,
Speaker 1: a little bit of elbow grease, and a little patience
Speaker 1: and very very little minimal material cost to make a
Speaker 1: huge difference. Also in the same keeping new closet doors.
Speaker 1: You know, now, maybe you have a small enough room
Speaker 1: where you really want glass mirror because the mirror kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, enhances the visual vibe of the size of
Speaker 1: the room. That's all well and good. But a lot
Speaker 1: of you have just inherited sliding closet doors that's just
Speaker 1: it's all mirror, it's a bunch of metal. It's all
Speaker 1: just kind of some new closet doors. And if you
Speaker 1: don't need the mirror space, why not replace those doors
Speaker 1: with doors that have paneling to them, doors that have detail,
Speaker 1: architectural interesting detail, maybe take you back a little bit,
Speaker 1: maybe more traditionalize the room. A new closet door change
Speaker 1: out with sliding tracks can make a big difference. And
Speaker 1: in the big scheme of things not expensive, not expensive
Speaker 1: at all, Okay, And of course in any given room,
Speaker 1: a feature wall, a feature wall, paint wise, now I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. On the other side of
Speaker 1: the break.
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Speaker 1: You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. That's
Speaker 1: me and we are here every weekend, every Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: from nine to noon, every Saturday morning from six to
Speaker 1: eight for one reason and one reason only, to help
Speaker 1: you transform your ordinary house into an extraordinary home. I
Speaker 1: preach the message that design matters most because it does
Speaker 1: and when it comes to saving as much money as
Speaker 1: possible and making as large a change as possible to
Speaker 1: your home, design absolutely matters most. We got to approach
Speaker 1: it creatively because creativity, creativity overcomes limitations, creativity versus cost,
Speaker 1: creativity wins every time. And that's where we want to
Speaker 1: spend our energies today, because we're talking about makeover solutions
Speaker 1: today for those of you who are like feeling not
Speaker 1: so confident to just dive headfirst in today's economic environment.
Speaker 1: Into the full on remodel or renovation. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: make some changes to the house and wait this out,
Speaker 1: but changes that really matter, and these are changes that
Speaker 1: very very likely you would integrate into your remodel anyway,
Speaker 1: but you can get them done now, make some big,
Speaker 1: big differences. All right, So we are before the break.
Speaker 1: I had touched on the feature wall. The feature wall
Speaker 1: is a concept in a bedroom, in any room, in
Speaker 1: any room at all, what is the feature wall? What
Speaker 1: is this idea? The feature wall, as the general concept
Speaker 1: is something that I embrace quite regularly from a design
Speaker 1: perspective because it allows you to really go all out
Speaker 1: in a room without overdoing it and making the mistake
Speaker 1: of wrapping one particular concept all the way around the
Speaker 1: room to the point where we find that we're in
Speaker 1: that kind of a cave. Okay, a feature wall means,
Speaker 1: you know what I've always wanted to put. You know,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to have a room with a library
Speaker 1: kind of vibe to it. And unless you absolutely know
Speaker 1: for certain that you could lose an entire foot off
Speaker 1: of each dimensionality of that room all the way around
Speaker 1: on all four walls, and unless you're absolutely certain that
Speaker 1: putting bookshelves on all four walls of a room is
Speaker 1: not going to create a small kind of book cave environment.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what you love, maybe that's the idea you're
Speaker 1: going for. It can be overwhelming. Details can be overwhelming
Speaker 1: when there's too many of them, and so as a result,
Speaker 1: a lot of people they're unsure and they just back away,
Speaker 1: and then the room lacks any detail whatsoever. And this
Speaker 1: is where the concept of feature wall or feature walls,
Speaker 1: because it could be a couple of walls, just not
Speaker 1: all four. But let's just stick with the idea of
Speaker 1: the one wall, the one wall in which you are
Speaker 1: going to do something bold and bold is so very
Speaker 1: awesome in a house. Bold is such a wonderful expression
Speaker 1: in a house. And there are very very few circumstances
Speaker 1: where I have walked into a home and seen something
Speaker 1: bold on a single wall and thought to myself, WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's just too much or bad taste or mistake. Nope, No.
Speaker 1: Bold feature wall gives you the freedom to really go
Speaker 1: for it, because by definition, if it's only one quarter
Speaker 1: of the wall space in a room, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be doing too much. It's just not going to
Speaker 1: be too much and then you can go bold or
Speaker 1: go home, okay, or go bold with your home or
Speaker 1: in your own Yeah, you get the idea. So that's
Speaker 1: really the idea. Now, is this dean saying that when
Speaker 1: it comes to paint colors, for instance, that always, always, always,
Speaker 1: I should never pick a color other than white and
Speaker 1: paint an entire room. No, that's not me saying that
Speaker 1: at all. What I'm saying is I think the key
Speaker 1: word here is bold. All right, So if you decide, listen,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted this very faint pastel canary yellow to
Speaker 1: kind of be the theme inside a room. You know
Speaker 1: what a light, bright pastel color in a room, Go
Speaker 1: for it. You want to paint the kids nursery baby
Speaker 1: blue or rose pink, or go for it. That's not overwhelming,
Speaker 1: it's not bold, it's light. It's subtle and subtle. Light
Speaker 1: things can afford to be on more than one surface.
Speaker 1: But if you've always thought, gosh, I love deep purple,
Speaker 1: I love this deep roy, I love navy blue, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you go for it. Navy blue a wall.
Speaker 1: If you navy blue the room, you will be in
Speaker 1: a tiny dark box. But you navy blue a wall
Speaker 1: the right wall in the right way, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit it out of the park. It's your room, it's
Speaker 1: your home. And the other thing I like about a
Speaker 1: feature wall is that it's a feature. Think about that
Speaker 1: word feature. In other words, if you walk into an
Speaker 1: environment where everything is all the same color, then it's
Speaker 1: not a feature. It's just the color of the room.
Speaker 1: But if one wall stands out, it's that room's way
Speaker 1: of saying, this is what I'm all about. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm all even though the other walls aren't that color.
Speaker 1: That's what a feature wall does. It stands in contrast.
Speaker 1: It stands essentially as a work of art. It stands
Speaker 1: as a statement. And you would think, well, if that's
Speaker 1: a statement, painting all four walls as a statement, actually
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. It actually works just the opposite.
Speaker 1: It's the contrast from the rest of the house. It's
Speaker 1: the contrast from the rest of the room that actually
Speaker 1: makes a feature wall the powerful statement that it is.
Speaker 1: So whether that's a wall of planked wood or a
Speaker 1: wall of sighting, or a wall that is a bold color,
Speaker 1: or if it's a wall of bookshelves or a wall
Speaker 1: of you know, a full sized photographic mural, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, these days is a way of installing wallpaper
Speaker 1: that was not available to us just a few years ago.
Speaker 1: There are websites you can go to where you can
Speaker 1: take imagery of nature. You can take just about any
Speaker 1: image imaginable and create a wall sized applicue mural. Do
Speaker 1: that in every wall and you're really gonna get vertigo.
Speaker 1: But a feature wall, man, it's awesome. It can be
Speaker 1: really really awesome, and then let other details compliment and
Speaker 1: coordinate and follow along. I wanted to spend an entire
Speaker 1: segment talking to you about the concept of a feature wall,
Speaker 1: because it's not just paint. It could be anything, and
Speaker 1: it's not just a solid universal rule that you can't
Speaker 1: ever do a non white paint in a room. It's
Speaker 1: about the word bold, and if you are itching to
Speaker 1: go bold, do it with a feature wall, as opposed
Speaker 1: to spreading it too far and losing impact along the way.
Speaker 1: That's I hope you understand. I hope that makes it clear.
Speaker 1: This is how we do features. Because remember, architecture, as
Speaker 1: I've said so many times before, great art and architecture
Speaker 1: is all about what we call hierarchy, meaning when you
Speaker 1: take a look at a great piece of art. It
Speaker 1: is telling you, whether you realize it or not, where
Speaker 1: you should look first. Because some things in that artwork
Speaker 1: are more important than other things. They take precedence and priority.
Speaker 1: There's a hierarchy of attention, and so the idea of
Speaker 1: a feature wall sets up that hierarchy inside a room
Speaker 1: in which you look to this wall and you say,
Speaker 1: this is the most important hit. But it's not overwhelming me.
Speaker 1: It's just captivating me. And that's our goal. If you
Speaker 1: find that balance, then you will have, for very very
Speaker 1: little money, created a tremendously satisfying space.
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Speaker 1: All right, we are wrapping up just a few makeover
Speaker 1: tips and trip. We're just emphasizing the power of makeovers
Speaker 1: in order to move your home forward in uncertain financial
Speaker 1: times when you may not be ready to pull the
Speaker 1: trigger on the big remodel or the big renovation because
Speaker 1: of financial uncertainty. Makeover ideas always work. They always yield
Speaker 1: far more effect than they cost. And I'm just giving
Speaker 1: you some samples and some concepts and some ideas. So
Speaker 1: let's do a little lightning round here right at the
Speaker 1: end of the show. Do not forget the power of plants.
Speaker 1: Plants in your home. This was a thing that for
Speaker 1: years and years we just stopped talking about. But now
Speaker 1: it's back, and rightly so. It's part of what we
Speaker 1: call biophilic design. It is the love of nature, bringing
Speaker 1: nature inside your home as much as possible. And if
Speaker 1: you say to me, Dean, you don't understand I have
Speaker 1: black thumbs, not green thumbs. You know, I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand that. But you know what,
Speaker 1: there are some amazing places to resource silk plants as well,
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Speaker 1: that are so like our friends at Aldick Home. Aldick
Speaker 1: is here in southern California, and if you live anywhere
Speaker 1: in southern California, you make the trip over there, and
Speaker 1: you will find pieces of art, stunning pieces of art
Speaker 1: that you will not know are not fully real, fully living.
Speaker 1: And the point is, those are the kinds of things
Speaker 1: that you invest in, and they last, and they can
Speaker 1: make massive, massive difference inside a room, inside of space.
Speaker 1: Don't forget plants, your ugly fireplace in the living room. Fireplaces.
Speaker 1: You know, I've done whole shows and I will continue
Speaker 1: to do whole shows on the problem of fireplaces. I
Speaker 1: love them, but in most homes that are built pre
Speaker 1: twenty first century, fireplace are in the wrong place in
Speaker 1: a room, or they just never get used, and so on.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about this before if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of the show. But fireplaces are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things I don't want you to ignore them. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I need you to light a fire in them,
Speaker 1: just don't ignore them. If you take that ugly stained,
Speaker 1: sooty firebrick, the dirty fire brick in the back, you
Speaker 1: spend ten bucks at the hardware store on some matte
Speaker 1: black high heat barbecue paint, and just paint out that
Speaker 1: black box, painted out all black, so the soot doesn't
Speaker 1: matter anymore. And now it's this beautiful jeweler's cloth backdropped.
Speaker 1: Whatever you put in there, and then put something in there,
Speaker 1: like those dried flowers, like those silk flowers, like a
Speaker 1: living plant, like a whole stack of firewood stacked inside
Speaker 1: the fireplace so you see this attractive firewood. Make the
Speaker 1: fireplace a feature because it's not going away, and recognize
Speaker 1: that it is the elephant in the room that usually
Speaker 1: gets ignored. Go ahead and take it for all that
Speaker 1: it's worth. Put a candelabra set inside, put pillar candles
Speaker 1: in there, put lanterns in there, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Make that fireplace everything it possibly can be without tearing
Speaker 1: it out or moving it, which might be the plan. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: this is just a little bit of cash right up
Speaker 1: front to make it ten times as good as it
Speaker 1: is right now without doing any major work. If you're
Speaker 1: saying to yourself in the living room, listen, Dean, I
Speaker 1: either have money enough to get a new flat screen
Speaker 1: TV or a piece of art for the living room,
Speaker 1: but I don't know which one to get. Get both
Speaker 1: at the same time. Go get a Samsung Frame TV,
Speaker 1: a Samsung Frame which is a fantastic, fantastic flat screen TV.
Speaker 1: But also so it's genius is that it disguises itself
Speaker 1: as a piece of art hanging on the wall when
Speaker 1: you're not watching the TV, and so you get both.
Speaker 1: In fact, with the Samsung Frame, you get an endless
Speaker 1: amount of art because you can put whatever art up
Speaker 1: there you want, and it is specially designed to dim
Speaker 1: and set the image so that it seems like it's
Speaker 1: non lit non I mean, if you haven't seen a
Speaker 1: frame and you're pondering that possibility, you got to go
Speaker 1: see it. You will be impressed. I guarantee it. Uh
Speaker 1: what else do I have one last thing? Or two
Speaker 1: last things? Number one? How about those AC registers all
Speaker 1: those vents around the house, those cheap old vents. Right,
Speaker 1: you've poured all this work into your house or you
Speaker 1: want to juge up your house, and you've still got
Speaker 1: the cheapest looking stamped HVAC vents and registers. There are
Speaker 1: companies online where you can find custom registers that just
Speaker 1: look so much. They do all the work that your
Speaker 1: ace events do change them all out to some custom
Speaker 1: looking registers. They make a difference, they really do. It's
Speaker 1: the details that matter. And lastly, in any room, get
Speaker 1: rid of those off the shelf store bought linens and things, bed,
Speaker 1: bath and beyond curtains that are only cut and designed
Speaker 1: to go just above your door and your window, and
Speaker 1: go for floor to ceiling curtains in a room floor
Speaker 1: to ceiling. In any given room ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 1: the draperies should the rod should be all the way
Speaker 1: up at the ceiling line, even though the door is
Speaker 1: not that tall. Elongate and elegantize the height of a
Speaker 1: room by letting the curtains go all the way up
Speaker 1: to the ceiling line. All right, these are just a
Speaker 1: few suggestions. There are literally thousands more. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to inspire you answer some questions today from our listeners
Speaker 1: and get your point out in the right direction that maybe,
Speaker 1: if you're holding onto your cash right now, a makeover
Speaker 1: is the right way to go. And why do they
Speaker 1: work so well? Because design matters most And in the end,
Speaker 1: when you've got the right design idea for a room,
Speaker 1: you can do it out of paper or platinum and
Speaker 1: still get ninety percent of the effect. Once the design
Speaker 1: is right, the cost can be controlled. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: We do it every single day around here. It always works.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you there, and I hope for
Speaker 1: you the very very best Easter Sunday imaginable. Get out there,
Speaker 1: get busy building yourself, whether you're rebuilding or just making over,
Speaker 1: get out there and build yourself a beautiful life, and
Speaker 1: we will see you right back here next weekend. This
Speaker 1: has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune
Speaker 1: into the Library, broadcast on KFI AM six forty every
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