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Speaker 1: Am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design Custom Homes
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Speaker 1: an extraordinary home. Today on the show, we're going to
Speaker 1: tackle one of the most difficult things ever ever in
Speaker 1: the world of design, in the world of remodeling, construction.
Speaker 1: Updating your home is it is critically important and yet
Speaker 1: so difficult, and that is the concept and the use
Speaker 1: of color. Color. Color. You would think, all right, Dean,
Speaker 1: all right, color fine, Yeah, they're all around us. But
Speaker 1: if you've ever tried to do some thing very very
Speaker 1: special with your home, if you've ever tried to you know,
Speaker 1: like you're at the paint store or at the paint
Speaker 1: department at the big box store and you're thinking, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm standing in front of this huge board, and these
Speaker 1: colors look really good. You get them home, you put
Speaker 1: them up on your wall. The samples don't look the
Speaker 1: same as they did in the store. Maybe you bought
Speaker 1: the sample pint of paint and you roll it around
Speaker 1: a little bit and you're like, WHOA, where did all
Speaker 1: that green come from? Why is it so pink? Yeah? Color,
Speaker 1: Color is a tricky thing, and I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you I'm going to lead you along this morning and
Speaker 1: give you some tips, some critical tips on how to
Speaker 1: get control of the world of color in your life.
Speaker 1: What are complementary colors? What's a color wheel. I'm going
Speaker 1: to introduce you to a tool that we used about
Speaker 1: a ninety nine dollars tool that could literally save your
Speaker 1: life and your project when it comes to color. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you some things about color from
Speaker 1: the science things. Now we're not going to nerd out
Speaker 1: on science, but from the science side of things that
Speaker 1: really you should know so that you can better determine
Speaker 1: how color fits into your world and to your home,
Speaker 1: into every single wall of every single room, because it
Speaker 1: keeps changing. But I'm not going to get ahead of
Speaker 1: myself right now. I'm also going to let you know,
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Speaker 2: Good morning Dean. How are y'all doing?
Speaker 1: Oh? Good? All right, So it's kind of a warm morning, right,
Speaker 1: So what's fueling you today?
Speaker 2: That considered, it's actually water.
Speaker 3: I did have green tea, but oh it was warm
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Speaker 2: Have you made Good Earth tea? What tea? Good Earth? Good? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Good stuff. I guess if I do the show now,
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Speaker 1: It's all right, y'all. We have got a great show
Speaker 1: set out for you, a very important show. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that color is as tricky as it is until
Speaker 1: you actually need to get something exactly right in your home,
Speaker 1: and then you realize, holy cow, what is going on
Speaker 1: with color? And why does it behave the way that
Speaker 1: it behaves? Am I insane? Did we just? Was there
Speaker 1: something wrong with me when I was at the paint
Speaker 1: store and I picked out these things? Because when we
Speaker 1: got them home and they're just it's just wrong and
Speaker 1: it's chained. I'm gonna explain to you exactly why that
Speaker 1: happens and how you can avoid it. We're talking color
Speaker 1: this morning, and we will do it right after.
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Speaker 1: It's all around us at all times. Yet it remains
Speaker 1: one of the least understood and single most difficult design
Speaker 1: challenges for most people. That is getting the color right now.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know your nightmares. I've stood
Speaker 1: in your shoes. All you wanted to do was freshen
Speaker 1: up the living room, so you innocently hopped into the
Speaker 1: car head down to the paint store. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you're standing paralyzed in front of a twenty foot long
Speaker 1: wall of color samples. Behind you, the kid who pushes
Speaker 1: the buttons to mix your paint last week she was
Speaker 1: working at Forever twenty one. Although she knows how to
Speaker 1: operate that paint machine, she has received received exactly zero
Speaker 1: hours of color theory training, and therefore all tomate is
Speaker 1: of no real help to you except when you're ready
Speaker 1: to buy and you're completely overwhelmed. Even if you have
Speaker 1: a decorator who suggested a triad of colors for you,
Speaker 1: how do you know they're right? Do you even know
Speaker 1: what a colored triad is? Do you have one? Do
Speaker 1: you want one? Is there a way to check? You're
Speaker 1: beginning to feel just a little nauseous now you're seriously
Speaker 1: tempted to bolt out of there and give up on
Speaker 1: the update, but you press on. You grab a few
Speaker 1: samples which seem, you know, eh, kind of good, and
Speaker 1: then you head home, only to discover when you walk
Speaker 1: them into the room itself yeah, yeah, they don't look
Speaker 1: good at all. And that was a long process to
Speaker 1: get to something that you don't like. Now Here is
Speaker 1: the good news. Human beings can discern over ten million
Speaker 1: colors and almost three million distinct hues of color ten
Speaker 1: million that you know what, we've We've got pretty decent
Speaker 1: eyes when it comes to colors. The bad news none
Speaker 1: of those capabilities stopped you from using too much green
Speaker 1: in the family room and picking the wrong white for
Speaker 1: the kitchen. Right, So it's time for a crash course
Speaker 1: in color and more important, color theory. And you know
Speaker 1: it's not going to get all sticky and academic. I
Speaker 1: promise you we never do that. Right. Here's my promise
Speaker 1: to you. Color is power, And if you heed the
Speaker 1: simple advice which will roll off my lips to you,
Speaker 1: you will not only master the art of color design
Speaker 1: for your home, but you'll literally alter the moods and
Speaker 1: the emotions. Dare I say the happiness quotion of all
Speaker 1: those who dwell therein your home? Okay? Does that sound good?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: So we got to do it. How do we start?
Speaker 1: What is color? What the heck is it? The single
Speaker 1: most important thing that I want you to understand about color.
Speaker 1: And this is a hard thing for people to wrap
Speaker 1: their head around. For some people to wrap their head
Speaker 1: about color is all in your head. It's all in
Speaker 1: your head. What I mean by that is the color
Speaker 1: doesn't really exist in the physical universe. And you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, is this how we're starting? Really? No, I
Speaker 1: just don't. I want you to understand this. The colors
Speaker 1: which we perceive as human beings, are our brains way
Speaker 1: of interpreting different wavelengths of light. Okay, what exists are
Speaker 1: wavelengths of light. That's what exists in the physical universe.
Speaker 1: We can read them, we can track them, we can
Speaker 1: monitor them, we can measure them. Okay, how those wavelengths
Speaker 1: of light enter our eyeballs and the way that our
Speaker 1: brain has evolved to distinguish between certain ways wavelengths of light.
Speaker 1: I guess in one sense, since we can do math, right,
Speaker 1: we human beings are capable of doing math. Otherwise, you know,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be able to balance our checking accounts. It's
Speaker 1: in theoretical that those wavelengths of light, like the way
Speaker 1: they hit a computer sensor, just result in different numbers
Speaker 1: in our head, different digits of numbers, and that you
Speaker 1: wouldn't actually be seeing color. You'd be seeing like instead
Speaker 1: of green, you'd be seeing like nine point two seven zero,
Speaker 1: you know something like that. Right, So that's what I
Speaker 1: mean by color is something that's actually in our head.
Speaker 1: It's our brain's way of interpreting a wavelength of light. Okay.
Speaker 1: And the phrase as humans here very important because other
Speaker 1: animals' brains can interpret the exact same light wavelength differently
Speaker 1: for their own evolutionary purposes. Right. We know this to
Speaker 1: be true. So the lesson here being this color is
Speaker 1: a perception. It's not an absolute, which explains why it's
Speaker 1: so fickle and it's so changeable because not only is
Speaker 1: color about your brain's way of trying to interpret different
Speaker 1: wavelengths of light, but also there are a lot of
Speaker 1: wavelengths of light out there. Okay. One wavelength of light
Speaker 1: coming off of something that we perceive to be orange, okay,
Speaker 1: registers in our brain. When if it's a pure wavelength,
Speaker 1: meaning that there aren't any other wavelengths around it, twisting
Speaker 1: into it, mixing with it, then we get to perceive
Speaker 1: pure orange. But but but we put that wavelength and
Speaker 1: we put it into kind of a wavelength soup in
Speaker 1: which there are other colors next to it, next to
Speaker 1: that orange, near that orange, that are entering your eye
Speaker 1: at the same time as the orange wavelength. And guess
Speaker 1: what happens. The orange wavelength changes. It's not that the
Speaker 1: light wavelength has changed, it's that the way you perceive
Speaker 1: that orange changes, because now it's a mixed bag. And
Speaker 1: so the orange starts turning maybe a little bit more red,
Speaker 1: or maybe it starts turning a bit more yellow, or
Speaker 1: maybe it starts turning more gray. It's a bizarre thing.
Speaker 1: But if we start mixing wavelengths of light in our
Speaker 1: eye at the same time, which is almost always the case.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's hardly ever the case when you're just
Speaker 1: staring at one color and no other color wavelengths are
Speaker 1: entering your eyes. Therefore, colors change. They change. They change
Speaker 1: as the wavelength patterns of light change. Inside a room,
Speaker 1: they change as you look from one wall to the
Speaker 1: next wall. They change as the sun comes up in
Speaker 1: the morning and is low in the sky and then
Speaker 1: is overhead in the sky and nice and bright, and
Speaker 1: then starts to set in a soft golden hue. It
Speaker 1: changes the colors on the walls in your room. It
Speaker 1: changes again, when you turn on artificial lights which throw
Speaker 1: out their own wavelengths, are you getting my vibe here?
Speaker 1: Your brain interprets wavelengths of light as color, and when
Speaker 1: there are multiple wavelengths hitting at different angles, at different frequencies,
Speaker 1: at different measurements and intensities, colors change. They change. And
Speaker 1: this is why you wrestle with color so much. Now,
Speaker 1: the big question is can we overcome it and how
Speaker 1: do we get around it? Well, the answer is yes,
Speaker 1: but there are some specific things that we have to
Speaker 1: do in order to make sure that the color we
Speaker 1: pick is the color we want. And we'll start talking
Speaker 1: about that right after.
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you. Always a
Speaker 1: privilege and a pleasure to spend a Sunday morning with you.
Speaker 1: Hope you have some cool Mother's Day plans ahead of
Speaker 1: you today. It's not going to be a cool mother's
Speaker 1: day in that sense, in the weather sense in southern California.
Speaker 1: Here it's a warm one. We're moving through a little
Speaker 1: heat spike, but looks like it's going to be trailing
Speaker 1: off starting tomorrow. We're going to be back into springtime
Speaker 1: ish temperatures for this week ahead, I believe. But today,
Speaker 1: you know, stay in the shade, enjoy the outdoors, Enjoy mom,
Speaker 1: Celebrate mom. Hope you've got good plans today for that.
Speaker 1: Right now here on the program, we're talking about color
Speaker 1: and all the hassles that color brings to us and
Speaker 1: how to overcome them. In just a bit, by the way,
Speaker 1: just a bit, we're going to be going to the phones.
Speaker 1: There's room on the board for you, so you get
Speaker 1: to whenever I go to calls, regardless of what the
Speaker 1: show is about, you get to pick the agenda for
Speaker 1: the call. Anything at all you want to talk about
Speaker 1: today about your home, whether it is outside, inside, construction,
Speaker 1: diy design, architecture, you name it. Let's put our heads together.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out together. The number to reach me
Speaker 1: eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the
Speaker 1: numeral two ask Dean. Matt and Nikki are standing by.
Speaker 1: They are ready to take your call. They'll tell you
Speaker 1: everything you need to know. Popy into and listen to
Speaker 1: the show while you wait, and then hopefully you and
Speaker 1: I will put our heads together and we'll figure it
Speaker 1: out all right. Back to color. We've talked about what
Speaker 1: color is. It's a it's a weird it's a weird thing.
Speaker 1: Color is the way that our brains interpret frequencies different
Speaker 1: wavelengths of light, right, And there are a lot of
Speaker 1: frequencies and wavelengths built into certain color patterns that we see. Now.
Speaker 1: Most of you remember from what was it science in
Speaker 1: school that you know, you take a prism, and you
Speaker 1: can take white light, pure white light, and refract it
Speaker 1: through a prism, and you get the entire rainbow. Right.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. That's what's known as the color spectrum.
Speaker 1: That's an important thing because what that prism is doing
Speaker 1: is it's breaking apart those wavelengths into separate wavelengths of
Speaker 1: different lengths, and as a result, our brain perceives that
Speaker 1: rainbow of fruit flavors that comes through a prism from
Speaker 1: white light, because white light, pure white light, contains all
Speaker 1: of those wavelengths and as a result, if you break
Speaker 1: them apart, you get the rainbow. Black. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: pure black or darkness is the absence of any wavelength
Speaker 1: of light approaching our eyes, and so our brain simply
Speaker 1: in turn puts it as a void, as a non thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: is black a color? Well, in practical terms, if we're
Speaker 1: talking about you know, adding things. In fact, Elmer and
Speaker 1: I were talking before the show. You know that he's
Speaker 1: painted part of his apartment black. So yeah, it's a color.
Speaker 1: You go and you request it, and there are all
Speaker 1: sorts of shades I'm using air quotes here, shades of
Speaker 1: black out there. What that is is pure black, a
Speaker 1: non color mixed with all sorts of other faint colors
Speaker 1: that get that nuance it in one direction or another.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, the idea of like the void, the blackness
Speaker 1: of space is simply the absence of light altogether, the
Speaker 1: absence of light, no wavelengths of light approaching your eyes,
Speaker 1: total darkness, and your brain simply has no information that
Speaker 1: it's processing, and so the screen is black. That's the
Speaker 1: way it works. When wavelengths of light start being introduced,
Speaker 1: then the brain starts interpreting color. Okay, I don't want
Speaker 1: to throw too much science stuff on you too fast,
Speaker 1: but I just want you to understand some stuff. Here's
Speaker 1: a let me just I'll throw out a fun fact here.
Speaker 1: What is the most common color on planet Earth? It
Speaker 1: also happens to be the most rare color in a
Speaker 1: separate kind of category. So what do you think that is?
Speaker 1: What do you think that is? Well? Here, it is
Speaker 1: the most common color on planet Earth. Shouldn't surprise you. Blue, right,
Speaker 1: The ocean is blue, the sky is blue. Our planet
Speaker 1: is often described as a as a blue planet. Okay,
Speaker 1: blue is the most common color on Earth, kinda kind
Speaker 1: of what do I mean? Well, the ocean in the
Speaker 1: sky only actually appear blue. They're not blue. And you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what Remember what I said? Color is something that is
Speaker 1: interpreted in your head. Obviously. You know, when you pour
Speaker 1: a glass of water and you look at it, it's
Speaker 1: not blue. It's clear. It's clear water. Right. If you
Speaker 1: grab a little chunk of air, put some air inside
Speaker 1: and you look at it, it's colorless, or at least
Speaker 1: it appears that way on a small scale. Okay. And no,
Speaker 1: the sky is not blue because the ocean is blue,
Speaker 1: and the ocean is not blue because the sky is blue.
Speaker 1: It just so happens that they're both blue for their
Speaker 1: own reasons. The particular chemical composition of our nitrogen oxygen
Speaker 1: atmosphere and the hydrogen oxygen liquid that we call water,
Speaker 1: they both tend to absorb the red side of the
Speaker 1: light spectrum. They absorb it. They don't reflect it back
Speaker 1: to you, Okay, they absorb it, and so it doesn't
Speaker 1: come back at our eyes. They absorb the red side
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, they reflect and distribute the blue side.
Speaker 1: And so that's why when we look at the sky
Speaker 1: it has tinted blue, and when we look at the
Speaker 1: ocean it is blue. Okay. Both can change, by the way,
Speaker 1: given certain conditions, like how the sky becomes golden and
Speaker 1: crimson and orange at sunrise or sunset. And so that's
Speaker 1: what I mean when I say blue is the most
Speaker 1: common color. Kind of Also, did you know that blue
Speaker 1: is everywhere on Earth except in most plants and animals.
Speaker 1: Blue is actually the rarest biologically produced color. It is
Speaker 1: the rarest biologically produced pigment, chemically blue pigment. Okay, some,
Speaker 1: but not many plants and even fewer animals. Bluebirds, for instance,
Speaker 1: and blue jays, they're not blue. They get their color
Speaker 1: not from any real There is no blue pigment in
Speaker 1: a blue jay, but the surface of their feathers there's
Speaker 1: scatter light, Okay, there are microscopic beads on their feathers
Speaker 1: that scatter light in a way that every other wavelength
Speaker 1: of light is canceled out except blue. And therefore we
Speaker 1: see a bluebird or a blue jay as blue. And
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen a blue jay or a bluebird
Speaker 1: on a cloudy day, you'll notice, Yeah, they look actually
Speaker 1: kind of gray. Ah ah ah you see. Okay, So
Speaker 1: think of it as like what bluebirds and blue jays
Speaker 1: are any animal that has blue in them, It's kind
Speaker 1: of like they're wearing noise canceling headphones. Right. The structure
Speaker 1: of whatever's on their body is literally canceling out everything
Speaker 1: else except that blue wavelength that's coming at us. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: why am I giving you this trivia? I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to drive home the point that color is a tricky thing.
Speaker 1: It truly, truly is a tricky thing, but there are
Speaker 1: ways around it. Color is psychological, it's also cultural. We
Speaker 1: need to talk about that little bit, and then we'll
Speaker 1: start mastering color as we go. All right, you hang tight.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're having fun here. We are talking color, and yes,
Speaker 1: I have yet to get to the place where I'm
Speaker 1: telling you exactly how you're going to wrestle color to
Speaker 1: the floor and defeat it, because there are still a
Speaker 1: few things you need to understand about color before you
Speaker 1: take on this opponent. And I say opponent because so
Speaker 1: many people struggle with getting color right in their home.
Speaker 1: So we're doing a little bit of color theory first.
Speaker 1: And so I've been telling you colors in your head.
Speaker 1: Technically speaking, it's the way that your brain interprets wavelengths
Speaker 1: of light. Color is not exactly what we think it is.
Speaker 1: We you know, the most common color on this planet
Speaker 1: is is actually the least common color on this planet.
Speaker 1: The most common color on this planet that we perceive
Speaker 1: is blue, blue, ocean, blue sky, so on. That's not
Speaker 1: really blue. It's just the way that those chemical environments
Speaker 1: scatter the rest of the wavelengths of light and only
Speaker 1: send blue our way. And that's why it changes so radically.
Speaker 1: And I told you that blue is the least common
Speaker 1: biological color, meaning any living thing that produces a pigment
Speaker 1: of blue extremely rare. In fact, the only exception in
Speaker 1: nature that we're aware of is the Obrina olive wing
Speaker 1: butterfly that has two stripes on its wings which are
Speaker 1: what most people would call cyan, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: is the primary blue color. The primary color is cyan,
Speaker 1: and that's what that butterfly has on it. Bluebirds not blue.
Speaker 1: And you're like, hey, what about me, I have blue eyes.
Speaker 1: No you don't. Sorry, people, you should already know this
Speaker 1: about yourself. That's one of the things people with blue
Speaker 1: eyes should be able to tell other people. You have
Speaker 1: blue eyes because you have actually zero pigment in your eyes,
Speaker 1: none whatsoever. And because of that, the structure of your
Speaker 1: eyes again like the ocean, like the sky, and it's true,
Speaker 1: your eyes are like the sky, like pools of water.
Speaker 1: It's scientifically true. They are scattering the other spectrums of
Speaker 1: light and only reflecting black back the blue. And that's
Speaker 1: why your eyes appear so blue. And you like the
Speaker 1: blue jay. Yeah, it isn't news anout you like the
Speaker 1: blue jay. On cloudy days, on overcast days, your eyes
Speaker 1: are not as blue as they are on sunny, bright days.
Speaker 1: And that's because they're not actually blue at all. They're
Speaker 1: just reflecting back what's out there. So that's a problem
Speaker 1: with color. Another problem with color is that color is
Speaker 1: also psychological. There are things built into us as human beings.
Speaker 1: We react to certain colors psychologically, okay, Like you know,
Speaker 1: things about red are kind of grounded in human emotions.
Speaker 1: Red is the color of blood, and so it's difficult
Speaker 1: for us to see red and not related to excitement, alertness, arousal,
Speaker 1: but also danger in stress. So not a lot of
Speaker 1: stop signs out there in soothing ocean blue, right, stop
Speaker 1: signs are red, like hello, that's because of our own
Speaker 1: human psychology, okay, And that's true in a lot of
Speaker 1: other areas as well. Color is also cultural, and that's
Speaker 1: an issue. For instance, the Chinese are taught to see
Speaker 1: red as good luck, taught culturally to see red as
Speaker 1: good luck. Chinese brides wear red, not white because in China,
Speaker 1: white is the color of death or mourning for them,
Speaker 1: and it is inappropriate for a wedding, Okay, because that
Speaker 1: is the connotation. If you're like, well, that's weird, Well
Speaker 1: not if you consider that living things are flushed with color,
Speaker 1: like what we would say a blushing bride, that's red.
Speaker 1: Dead things tend to lose their color as in like
Speaker 1: going white as a ghost. Right, So yeah, it makes
Speaker 1: sense from a cultural context, it makes perfect sense. So
Speaker 1: the point is this are we hopelessly lost in this
Speaker 1: confusing maze of color. There's psychology, there's culture, there's the
Speaker 1: physicality of color. There is the physiology of color, there's
Speaker 1: the chemistry of color.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Is there no science of color that we can just
Speaker 1: grab our hands around, Well, there is there is a
Speaker 1: science of color, that science which we will appeal to
Speaker 1: new and know you're not going to have to remember
Speaker 1: tomes of stuff. There are just a few steps to
Speaker 1: take in order for you to start breaking apart the
Speaker 1: world of color and understanding what works and what doesn't work.
Speaker 1: But we are at the top of the hour, which
Speaker 1: means when we return, we are going to press pause
Speaker 1: on our colored discussion, and we are going to go
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