WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.039 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.039 Am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design Custom Homes 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:17.879 and every weekend I'm your guide to better understanding that 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.519 place where you live. We want to take your ordinary 6 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:24.120 house and do our best to help you make it 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.960 an extraordinary home. Today on the show, we're going to 8 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:33.640 tackle one of the most difficult things ever ever in 9 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.679 the world of design, in the world of remodeling, construction. 10 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.759 Updating your home is it is critically important and yet 11 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:48.280 so difficult, and that is the concept and the use 12 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:53.560 of color. Color. Color. You would think, all right, Dean, 13 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:57.320 all right, color fine, Yeah, they're all around us. But 14 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.679 if you've ever tried to do some thing very very 15 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:02.880 special with your home, if you've ever tried to you know, 16 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:04.959 like you're at the paint store or at the paint 17 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.359 department at the big box store and you're thinking, all right, 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.400 I'm standing in front of this huge board, and these 19 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.359 colors look really good. You get them home, you put 20 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.560 them up on your wall. The samples don't look the 21 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.319 same as they did in the store. Maybe you bought 22 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.560 the sample pint of paint and you roll it around 23 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.239 a little bit and you're like, WHOA, where did all 24 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.359 that green come from? Why is it so pink? Yeah? Color, 25 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.560 Color is a tricky thing, and I'm going to give 26 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:35.799 you I'm going to lead you along this morning and 27 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.879 give you some tips, some critical tips on how to 28 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:42.920 get control of the world of color in your life. 29 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 What are complementary colors? What's a color wheel. I'm going 30 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:48.840 to introduce you to a tool that we used about 31 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.159 a ninety nine dollars tool that could literally save your 32 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.480 life and your project when it comes to color. And 33 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.079 I'm going to show you some things about color from 34 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.159 the science things. Now we're not going to nerd out 35 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.280 on science, but from the science side of things that 36 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.560 really you should know so that you can better determine 37 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.280 how color fits into your world and to your home, 38 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.439 into every single wall of every single room, because it 39 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:16.599 keeps changing. But I'm not going to get ahead of 40 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:19.439 myself right now. I'm also going to let you know, 41 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.080 of course, we're going to take your calls and our 42 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:26.080 number to reach us eight three three two. Ask Dean 43 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:31.520 eight three three the numeral two ask Dean eight three 44 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:35.199 three to ask Dean. It's just that easy. The phone 45 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.120 lines are open now and there is room for you 46 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.719 on this warm, sunny Mother's Day Sunday morning here in 47 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:45.960 southern California. Let me introduce our awesome team. Elmer is 48 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.199 on the board. Good morning, Elmer. 49 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:50.520 Good morning Dean, Good morning listener, Dean. 50 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:59.840 Yeah, yeah, all right, we got a special treat to 51 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.400 right here in the studio. Matt and Nicky producers Matt 52 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:05.159 and Nicky, who are going to be taking your calls, 53 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.960 are here. Grab a mic, guys and say hello, a. 54 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:10.879 Good ah. 55 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:17.599 Oh there they are there. They are Wait what what 56 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:24.479 what did you say, Gina? He is giving me hand signals. Oh, 57 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.599 I see, okay, all right, so Matt and Nicky. Uh, 58 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.879 these are the lovely voices. Let me hear your voices 59 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.759 once again, because these are the lovely voices you're gonna 60 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:38.120 hear when you call in this morning. Adian. Hey, there 61 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:41.599 you go. Matt and Nicky in studio with us. They 62 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.280 are They've already opened up the board and uh they 63 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.240 are ready to screen your call. They'll tell you everything 64 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:49.319 you need to know. Yes, that's Lucky the rooster in 65 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:50.840 the background. I don't know. 66 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.120 I wasn't sure if I was hearing him on the mic, 67 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:53.879 or I. 68 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.039 Think he's in the mic. I think you guys hear 69 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:57.759 Can you guys hear the rooster in the background? 70 00:03:57.879 --> 00:03:58.599 Yeah, we can hear him? 71 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.039 Can you How can you hear that rooster? 72 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:02.759 Happy Mother's Day? 73 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:03.680 Get the hatchet? 74 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.280 No, I know what you're having for dinner. 75 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:12.680 It's Mother's Day chicken. Uh. And of course, my friend 76 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.360 Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk, Good morning, Eileen. 77 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:16.920 Good morning Dean. How are y'all doing? 78 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.480 Oh? Good? All right, So it's kind of a warm morning, right, 79 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:23.399 So what's fueling you today? 80 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.079 That considered, it's actually water. 81 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.240 I did have green tea, but oh it was warm 82 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.759 yesterday and I feel like I need extra water. 83 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:32.839 Yeah. 84 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:34.639 See, I had a feeling. I had a feeling. It 85 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.959 just it was just a hunch that it wasn't going 86 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.560 to be tea, at least not yet. But because of 87 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.160 the temperature. 88 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.360 Have you made Good Earth tea? What tea? Good Earth? Good? Oh? 89 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:47.680 Yeah? 90 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.040 I love Good Earth tea. I like their sweet and spicy. 91 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:50.800 That's my favorite. 92 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.120 That's the one. I just had that last night. 93 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:54.920 So you don't even need to put sugar in it's 94 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.519 so good exactly it's delicious and it's good cold too, 95 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.519 as a nice team. 96 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.120 Good stuff. I guess if I do the show now, 97 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:04.360 it's a show about tea. 98 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:10.199 Right sitting across the table from me. You just heard 99 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.360 her talking tea with Eileen, my better half, my design partner, 100 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.079 the co owner, co founder of House Whisper, and my 101 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.800 best friend in all the world, by the way, and 102 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:28.600 a wonderful mother. Tina is here. Oh, excuse you, pardon you. 103 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.439 It's all right, y'all. We have got a great show 104 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.319 set out for you, a very important show. You wouldn't 105 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:39.160 think that color is as tricky as it is until 106 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.399 you actually need to get something exactly right in your home, 107 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:47.120 and then you realize, holy cow, what is going on 108 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.519 with color? And why does it behave the way that 109 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:53.360 it behaves? Am I insane? Did we just? Was there 110 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.120 something wrong with me when I was at the paint 111 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:56.879 store and I picked out these things? Because when we 112 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.360 got them home and they're just it's just wrong and 113 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.160 it's chained. I'm gonna explain to you exactly why that 114 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.079 happens and how you can avoid it. We're talking color 115 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.519 this morning, and we will do it right after. 116 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.759 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 117 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:13.399 KFI AM six forty. 118 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:19.800 We only do the good kind of stuff on social media, uplifting, informative, 119 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.360 inspiring stuff. Not a lot of it, just enough. We're 120 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.720 on all the usual suspects Instagram, TikTok, Facebook x Home 121 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:32.120 with Dean, same handle for them all. And if your 122 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.040 home is in need of some personal house whisper attention personal. 123 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.079 What do you mean by personal? I mean me and 124 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.680 t standing in your home, staring at the problem, helping 125 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.439 you figure out how to change the game for your house. 126 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.680 Then you can book an in home design consult with us. 127 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:54.360 Just go to house Whisperer dot Design, house Whisperer dot Design. 128 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:56.800 I'm going to give the number out one more time. 129 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.360 We're taking calls in a bit as we do. Eight 130 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:03.120 three to three two. Ask Dean eight three three the 131 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:07.160 numeral two. Ask Dean eight three three two Ask Dean. 132 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.519 It's just that easy, all right, Let us dive in. 133 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.600 It's all around us at all times. Yet it remains 134 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:19.839 one of the least understood and single most difficult design 135 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.720 challenges for most people. That is getting the color right now. 136 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.800 I know, I know, I know your nightmares. I've stood 137 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.920 in your shoes. All you wanted to do was freshen 138 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.240 up the living room, so you innocently hopped into the 139 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.079 car head down to the paint store. Next thing you know, 140 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:41.120 you're standing paralyzed in front of a twenty foot long 141 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.600 wall of color samples. Behind you, the kid who pushes 142 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.480 the buttons to mix your paint last week she was 143 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:51.680 working at Forever twenty one. Although she knows how to 144 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:56.240 operate that paint machine, she has received received exactly zero 145 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.560 hours of color theory training, and therefore all tomate is 146 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.199 of no real help to you except when you're ready 147 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.199 to buy and you're completely overwhelmed. Even if you have 148 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.800 a decorator who suggested a triad of colors for you, 149 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:11.959 how do you know they're right? Do you even know 150 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.079 what a colored triad is? Do you have one? Do 151 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:18.399 you want one? Is there a way to check? You're 152 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.160 beginning to feel just a little nauseous now you're seriously 153 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.199 tempted to bolt out of there and give up on 154 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.319 the update, but you press on. You grab a few 155 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.720 samples which seem, you know, eh, kind of good, and 156 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.200 then you head home, only to discover when you walk 157 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.000 them into the room itself yeah, yeah, they don't look 158 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.279 good at all. And that was a long process to 159 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.440 get to something that you don't like. Now Here is 160 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:51.120 the good news. Human beings can discern over ten million 161 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:57.600 colors and almost three million distinct hues of color ten 162 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:01.159 million that you know what, we've We've got pretty decent 163 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.000 eyes when it comes to colors. The bad news none 164 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.600 of those capabilities stopped you from using too much green 165 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.720 in the family room and picking the wrong white for 166 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:14.159 the kitchen. Right, So it's time for a crash course 167 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:18.559 in color and more important, color theory. And you know 168 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.600 it's not going to get all sticky and academic. I 169 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.559 promise you we never do that. Right. Here's my promise 170 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.960 to you. Color is power, And if you heed the 171 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:32.559 simple advice which will roll off my lips to you, 172 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.960 you will not only master the art of color design 173 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:40.039 for your home, but you'll literally alter the moods and 174 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:44.399 the emotions. Dare I say the happiness quotion of all 175 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:48.360 those who dwell therein your home? Okay? Does that sound good? 176 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:48.799 All right? 177 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.360 So we got to do it. How do we start? 178 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.840 What is color? What the heck is it? The single 179 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.399 most important thing that I want you to understand about color. 180 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.240 And this is a hard thing for people to wrap 181 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.039 their head around. For some people to wrap their head 182 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:06.399 about color is all in your head. It's all in 183 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.360 your head. What I mean by that is the color 184 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:14.720 doesn't really exist in the physical universe. And you're like, 185 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:18.600 all right, is this how we're starting? Really? No, I 186 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.159 just don't. I want you to understand this. The colors 187 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:27.679 which we perceive as human beings, are our brains way 188 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:34.559 of interpreting different wavelengths of light. Okay, what exists are 189 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:39.039 wavelengths of light. That's what exists in the physical universe. 190 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.759 We can read them, we can track them, we can 191 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.639 monitor them, we can measure them. Okay, how those wavelengths 192 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:53.159 of light enter our eyeballs and the way that our 193 00:10:53.320 --> 00:11:00.879 brain has evolved to distinguish between certain ways wavelengths of light. 194 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.919 I guess in one sense, since we can do math, right, 195 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.799 we human beings are capable of doing math. Otherwise, you know, 196 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:13.879 we wouldn't be able to balance our checking accounts. It's 197 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:17.559 in theoretical that those wavelengths of light, like the way 198 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.960 they hit a computer sensor, just result in different numbers 199 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.240 in our head, different digits of numbers, and that you 200 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:28.159 wouldn't actually be seeing color. You'd be seeing like instead 201 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.440 of green, you'd be seeing like nine point two seven zero, 202 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.799 you know something like that. Right, So that's what I 203 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:38.840 mean by color is something that's actually in our head. 204 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:44.320 It's our brain's way of interpreting a wavelength of light. Okay. 205 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.720 And the phrase as humans here very important because other 206 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:52.720 animals' brains can interpret the exact same light wavelength differently 207 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.879 for their own evolutionary purposes. Right. We know this to 208 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.440 be true. So the lesson here being this color is 209 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:06.320 a perception. It's not an absolute, which explains why it's 210 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:11.720 so fickle and it's so changeable because not only is 211 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.879 color about your brain's way of trying to interpret different 212 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.879 wavelengths of light, but also there are a lot of 213 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.320 wavelengths of light out there. Okay. One wavelength of light 214 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.000 coming off of something that we perceive to be orange, okay, 215 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.559 registers in our brain. When if it's a pure wavelength, 216 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:36.039 meaning that there aren't any other wavelengths around it, twisting 217 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.960 into it, mixing with it, then we get to perceive 218 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:45.039 pure orange. But but but we put that wavelength and 219 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.960 we put it into kind of a wavelength soup in 220 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.759 which there are other colors next to it, next to 221 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.519 that orange, near that orange, that are entering your eye 222 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:00.440 at the same time as the orange wavelength. And guess 223 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:05.799 what happens. The orange wavelength changes. It's not that the 224 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.399 light wavelength has changed, it's that the way you perceive 225 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.639 that orange changes, because now it's a mixed bag. And 226 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:17.600 so the orange starts turning maybe a little bit more red, 227 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.799 or maybe it starts turning a bit more yellow, or 228 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.639 maybe it starts turning more gray. It's a bizarre thing. 229 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.440 But if we start mixing wavelengths of light in our 230 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.879 eye at the same time, which is almost always the case. 231 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:35.360 In fact, it's hardly ever the case when you're just 232 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:40.000 staring at one color and no other color wavelengths are 233 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:46.440 entering your eyes. Therefore, colors change. They change. They change 234 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:51.200 as the wavelength patterns of light change. Inside a room, 235 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.799 they change as you look from one wall to the 236 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.320 next wall. They change as the sun comes up in 237 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.240 the morning and is low in the sky and then 238 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.840 is overhead in the sky and nice and bright, and 239 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.519 then starts to set in a soft golden hue. It 240 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:13.320 changes the colors on the walls in your room. It 241 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:17.120 changes again, when you turn on artificial lights which throw 242 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:20.720 out their own wavelengths, are you getting my vibe here? 243 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:25.440 Your brain interprets wavelengths of light as color, and when 244 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:30.480 there are multiple wavelengths hitting at different angles, at different frequencies, 245 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:37.600 at different measurements and intensities, colors change. They change. And 246 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.840 this is why you wrestle with color so much. Now, 247 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.759 the big question is can we overcome it and how 248 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.799 do we get around it? Well, the answer is yes, 249 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.519 but there are some specific things that we have to 250 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.240 do in order to make sure that the color we 251 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:55.919 pick is the color we want. And we'll start talking 252 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.200 about that right after. 253 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.600 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 254 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:03.200 KFI AM six forty. 255 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.840 Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you. Always a 256 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.360 privilege and a pleasure to spend a Sunday morning with you. 257 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.559 Hope you have some cool Mother's Day plans ahead of 258 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.919 you today. It's not going to be a cool mother's 259 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.200 day in that sense, in the weather sense in southern California. 260 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.919 Here it's a warm one. We're moving through a little 261 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.879 heat spike, but looks like it's going to be trailing 262 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.440 off starting tomorrow. We're going to be back into springtime 263 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.519 ish temperatures for this week ahead, I believe. But today, 264 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.519 you know, stay in the shade, enjoy the outdoors, Enjoy mom, 265 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:44.120 Celebrate mom. Hope you've got good plans today for that. 266 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.039 Right now here on the program, we're talking about color 267 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:50.639 and all the hassles that color brings to us and 268 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.840 how to overcome them. In just a bit, by the way, 269 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.799 just a bit, we're going to be going to the phones. 270 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.440 There's room on the board for you, so you get 271 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.840 to whenever I go to calls, regardless of what the 272 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.559 show is about, you get to pick the agenda for 273 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.879 the call. Anything at all you want to talk about 274 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:10.360 today about your home, whether it is outside, inside, construction, 275 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:15.759 diy design, architecture, you name it. Let's put our heads together. 276 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.879 We'll figure it out together. The number to reach me 277 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.039 eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the 278 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.080 numeral two ask Dean. Matt and Nikki are standing by. 279 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.480 They are ready to take your call. They'll tell you 280 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.240 everything you need to know. Popy into and listen to 281 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.960 the show while you wait, and then hopefully you and 282 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.200 I will put our heads together and we'll figure it 283 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.919 out all right. Back to color. We've talked about what 284 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.840 color is. It's a it's a weird it's a weird thing. 285 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:51.679 Color is the way that our brains interpret frequencies different 286 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:56.080 wavelengths of light, right, And there are a lot of 287 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:02.879 frequencies and wavelengths built into certain color patterns that we see. Now. 288 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:08.279 Most of you remember from what was it science in 289 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.720 school that you know, you take a prism, and you 290 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:16.519 can take white light, pure white light, and refract it 291 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:20.039 through a prism, and you get the entire rainbow. Right. 292 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:23.720 It's a beautiful thing. That's what's known as the color spectrum. 293 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.920 That's an important thing because what that prism is doing 294 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:32.200 is it's breaking apart those wavelengths into separate wavelengths of 295 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:36.200 different lengths, and as a result, our brain perceives that 296 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.319 rainbow of fruit flavors that comes through a prism from 297 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:44.160 white light, because white light, pure white light, contains all 298 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.519 of those wavelengths and as a result, if you break 299 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:51.079 them apart, you get the rainbow. Black. On the other hand, 300 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:55.759 pure black or darkness is the absence of any wavelength 301 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.680 of light approaching our eyes, and so our brain simply 302 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.599 in turn puts it as a void, as a non thing. Okay, 303 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.000 is black a color? Well, in practical terms, if we're 304 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.000 talking about you know, adding things. In fact, Elmer and 305 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.839 I were talking before the show. You know that he's 306 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.960 painted part of his apartment black. So yeah, it's a color. 307 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.960 You go and you request it, and there are all 308 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.680 sorts of shades I'm using air quotes here, shades of 309 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.680 black out there. What that is is pure black, a 310 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:33.240 non color mixed with all sorts of other faint colors 311 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.359 that get that nuance it in one direction or another. 312 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:41.359 But ultimately, the idea of like the void, the blackness 313 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:44.680 of space is simply the absence of light altogether, the 314 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.319 absence of light, no wavelengths of light approaching your eyes, 315 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.400 total darkness, and your brain simply has no information that 316 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.480 it's processing, and so the screen is black. That's the 317 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.279 way it works. When wavelengths of light start being introduced, 318 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:05.000 then the brain starts interpreting color. Okay, I don't want 319 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.759 to throw too much science stuff on you too fast, 320 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.960 but I just want you to understand some stuff. Here's 321 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.440 a let me just I'll throw out a fun fact here. 322 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.640 What is the most common color on planet Earth? It 323 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.400 also happens to be the most rare color in a 324 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.720 separate kind of category. So what do you think that is? 325 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:27.759 What do you think that is? Well? Here, it is 326 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:31.799 the most common color on planet Earth. Shouldn't surprise you. Blue, right, 327 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:36.039 The ocean is blue, the sky is blue. Our planet 328 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:40.400 is often described as a as a blue planet. Okay, 329 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:48.240 blue is the most common color on Earth, kinda kind 330 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:51.000 of what do I mean? Well, the ocean in the 331 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:56.799 sky only actually appear blue. They're not blue. And you're like, wait, 332 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.559 what Remember what I said? Color is something that is 333 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.319 interpreted in your head. Obviously. You know, when you pour 334 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:06.079 a glass of water and you look at it, it's 335 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.400 not blue. It's clear. It's clear water. Right. If you 336 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:13.880 grab a little chunk of air, put some air inside 337 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:16.440 and you look at it, it's colorless, or at least 338 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.400 it appears that way on a small scale. Okay. And no, 339 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.039 the sky is not blue because the ocean is blue, 340 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.599 and the ocean is not blue because the sky is blue. 341 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:28.160 It just so happens that they're both blue for their 342 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:33.440 own reasons. The particular chemical composition of our nitrogen oxygen 343 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:38.160 atmosphere and the hydrogen oxygen liquid that we call water, 344 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:43.200 they both tend to absorb the red side of the 345 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:47.039 light spectrum. They absorb it. They don't reflect it back 346 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.720 to you, Okay, they absorb it, and so it doesn't 347 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:53.680 come back at our eyes. They absorb the red side 348 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.440 of the spectrum, they reflect and distribute the blue side. 349 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:02.359 And so that's why when we look at the sky 350 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.240 it has tinted blue, and when we look at the 351 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:09.960 ocean it is blue. Okay. Both can change, by the way, 352 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:13.599 given certain conditions, like how the sky becomes golden and 353 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:18.440 crimson and orange at sunrise or sunset. And so that's 354 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:20.319 what I mean when I say blue is the most 355 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.279 common color. Kind of Also, did you know that blue 356 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:28.960 is everywhere on Earth except in most plants and animals. 357 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:37.160 Blue is actually the rarest biologically produced color. It is 358 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:43.880 the rarest biologically produced pigment, chemically blue pigment. Okay, some, 359 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:50.640 but not many plants and even fewer animals. Bluebirds, for instance, 360 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.559 and blue jays, they're not blue. They get their color 361 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.759 not from any real There is no blue pigment in 362 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.279 a blue jay, but the surface of their feathers there's 363 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.720 scatter light, Okay, there are microscopic beads on their feathers 364 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.640 that scatter light in a way that every other wavelength 365 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:12.240 of light is canceled out except blue. And therefore we 366 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.480 see a bluebird or a blue jay as blue. And 367 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:16.799 if you've ever seen a blue jay or a bluebird 368 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:20.920 on a cloudy day, you'll notice, Yeah, they look actually 369 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:26.960 kind of gray. Ah ah ah you see. Okay, So 370 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:29.519 think of it as like what bluebirds and blue jays 371 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:31.759 are any animal that has blue in them, It's kind 372 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:37.200 of like they're wearing noise canceling headphones. Right. The structure 373 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.640 of whatever's on their body is literally canceling out everything 374 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.519 else except that blue wavelength that's coming at us. Okay, Now, 375 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:46.920 why am I giving you this trivia? I'm just trying 376 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:49.200 to drive home the point that color is a tricky thing. 377 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:53.359 It truly, truly is a tricky thing, but there are 378 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:58.920 ways around it. Color is psychological, it's also cultural. We 379 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:01.599 need to talk about that little bit, and then we'll 380 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:04.519 start mastering color as we go. All right, you hang tight. 381 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:08.759 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 382 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:10.400 KFI AM six forty. 383 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:17.240 We're having fun here. We are talking color, and yes, 384 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:20.279 I have yet to get to the place where I'm 385 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:23.200 telling you exactly how you're going to wrestle color to 386 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:25.480 the floor and defeat it, because there are still a 387 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.079 few things you need to understand about color before you 388 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:33.079 take on this opponent. And I say opponent because so 389 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:37.160 many people struggle with getting color right in their home. 390 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:40.160 So we're doing a little bit of color theory first. 391 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:43.400 And so I've been telling you colors in your head. 392 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:47.480 Technically speaking, it's the way that your brain interprets wavelengths 393 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:51.279 of light. Color is not exactly what we think it is. 394 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:54.640 We you know, the most common color on this planet 395 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:58.200 is is actually the least common color on this planet. 396 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:00.880 The most common color on this planet that we perceive 397 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:05.079 is blue, blue, ocean, blue sky, so on. That's not 398 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:09.640 really blue. It's just the way that those chemical environments 399 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.599 scatter the rest of the wavelengths of light and only 400 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:17.319 send blue our way. And that's why it changes so radically. 401 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:20.240