Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I
Speaker 1: am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design custom homes,
Speaker 1: I build custom homes, and today I'm your guide to
Speaker 1: better understanding that place where you live. Today. On the show,
Speaker 1: part two of our series. This weekend, the final weekend
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, we are talking about trends and
Speaker 1: predictions for twenty twenty five. And if you caught any
Speaker 1: part of yesterday's show, you know that I have a
Speaker 1: different kind of take on these things when it comes
Speaker 1: to home design and decor and trends and all of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I am endeavoring to give you
Speaker 1: the most honest, straightforward and useful approach possible. Not a
Speaker 1: lot of design influencer kind of stuff that you just
Speaker 1: online all the time. And so I'm picking a little
Speaker 1: bit of that apart not to be overly critical, and
Speaker 1: I'm not an overly critical guy, but I want to
Speaker 1: help and there's just a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of bs out there, That's all I can say. So
Speaker 1: what we're doing today is we are separating the brilliant
Speaker 1: from the BS for you when it comes to what's
Speaker 1: coming and what to expect in the world of design
Speaker 1: for your home for the year to come. And if
Speaker 1: we get it all done the right way, you will
Speaker 1: be the better off for it, I hope. And of
Speaker 1: course you know, as always going to be taking calls today.
Speaker 1: The number to reach me, I'll give it to you
Speaker 1: right now, eight three three two Ask Dean A three
Speaker 1: three The numeral to ask Dean eight three three two
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Speaker 1: are open. He is ready to take your call and
Speaker 1: he'll tell you everything you need to know. He'll pop
Speaker 1: you into the queue. And who knows you and I
Speaker 1: we can put our heads together. We can figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on with your home. Of course I'm talking
Speaker 1: trends in prediction. But when it comes to calls, you
Speaker 1: set the agenda. Anything you want to talk about regarding
Speaker 1: your home, design, construction, DIY, questions, whatever the case may be, inside, outside, up, down,
Speaker 1: all around everything and anything regarding your home. All right,
Speaker 1: let me introduce you to our awesome team this morning.
Speaker 1: Once again Elmer is on the board. Good morning Elmer,
Speaker 1: Good morning Dane. I thought I thought that a silver
Speaker 1: back Gorilla had somehow made it into I'm like, wait
Speaker 1: a second, what happened to Elmer? I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I just I just had some random thing that was deep. Bro.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like it sounds good. As I said, produce, Sir,
Speaker 1: Richie is with us this morning screening calls. He's busy
Speaker 1: doing that right now. We love him and can't live
Speaker 1: without him. Also, somebody I can't live without. Eileen Gonzalez
Speaker 1: at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen, good morning. I
Speaker 1: felt like I needed to do something like haa hello,
Speaker 1: I see see Elmer's setting the bar. He's just setting
Speaker 1: the bar for us. You know, come after you could
Speaker 1: make you're gonna have to come up with your own
Speaker 1: animal sound. We're just gonna fill the studio with the
Speaker 1: sound of animal and elephant. Nope, no, who can, by
Speaker 1: the way. Uh but yeah, all right, So how's everything
Speaker 1: going with you? Everything good? Going great? Looking forward to
Speaker 1: some time off coming up and celebrating the new year.
Speaker 1: That's good. You see, you get the time off because
Speaker 1: you've worked all the way through these other holidays. Good.
Speaker 1: I did Thanksgiving, I did Christmas, and now I'm going
Speaker 1: to get to play enabling our other hosts and newspeople
Speaker 1: to just sit around and not earn their keep. Basically,
Speaker 1: so it's good that that you get the time off. Now,
Speaker 1: somebody who does earn their keep, let me turn on
Speaker 1: her microphone here. Oh, that's a strange dog you've got
Speaker 1: sitting next to you. That is not our normal beagle.
Speaker 1: Who is that? This is Murphy. That's Murphy. Murphy looks
Speaker 1: like a small teddy bear. He does, and he has
Speaker 1: a very cuttle haircut. Yeah, he's interesting. Sitting across the
Speaker 1: table from me, my better half, truly, my design partner,
Speaker 1: my partner in life, and my best friend on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: Tina is here. You made an elephant sound. I did
Speaker 1: Gorilla's Elephants. We got a whole zoo and it is
Speaker 1: it's very it's very exotic. It's an exotic morning. It
Speaker 1: is the final show of Hours before the new year.
Speaker 1: This is the last show of twenty twenty four. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make it a good one. We're talking about trends
Speaker 1: and predictions. I do this every year, and you know,
Speaker 1: look a little bit of a look back. More importantly,
Speaker 1: I look forward. But this year, this year, you know
Speaker 1: what I just I've got. I did a little looking around,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have. Probably, oh maybe
Speaker 1: I should have. I don't know. I did a little
Speaker 1: searching around this week on the interweb, that's the thing,
Speaker 1: right the interweb. I went looking for, you know, sites
Speaker 1: talking about design trends and predictions for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: And some of them were fine. Some of them were fine.
Speaker 1: Others though, and I have to say, like most of
Speaker 1: them really got under my skin, like just you know,
Speaker 1: I ended up with something stuck in my crawl as
Speaker 1: it were. Are what can I tell you about this?
Speaker 1: It just seems to me like so many weak ideas
Speaker 1: being rehashed and rehashed. And the problem I have with
Speaker 1: it is not that, hey, if you just want to
Speaker 1: be out there just just spreading weak ideas around, find
Speaker 1: you know, who am I to stop somebody from wasting
Speaker 1: their time? But the problem is there are people that
Speaker 1: I care about, our listeners, you who, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want you being frustrated, shamed, led astray by this
Speaker 1: kind of so called advice. And so I'm trying to
Speaker 1: draw some hard lines. So yeah, I'm getting a little
Speaker 1: critical here at the end of the year about what
Speaker 1: it is supposedly that is coming that you need to
Speaker 1: know about. I want to distinguish between the two. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. Gosh, we're gonna do it, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it right, and we'll do it right after.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got open callboard right now. The number to
Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two Ask Dean eight three
Speaker 1: three the numeral to ask Dean. I was told that
Speaker 1: also I should open up the calls just for people
Speaker 1: who want to talk about how much you loved or
Speaker 1: hated the show this year. So I'm gonna do that
Speaker 1: as well. You can call me with a question about
Speaker 1: your house. You can also just call me with your commentary.
Speaker 1: Just keep it clean. That's all I'm asking about your
Speaker 1: year with us here at home. Feel free to do it.
Speaker 1: Eight three three two ask Dean. A three three the
Speaker 1: numeral two ask Dean. All right, yes, quick review, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, as always, there's a lot of great stuff
Speaker 1: happening in the world of home design, and as always,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bogus advice out there. What's hot,
Speaker 1: what's not so on. I want you to trust my list.
Speaker 1: Why well, because I'm here to help you and I
Speaker 1: got nothing to sell you, right, so we want to
Speaker 1: separate brilliant from BS when it comes to this stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat one thing I said yesterday specifically
Speaker 1: just to get us started out on my hot and
Speaker 1: not list. What is hot for you this year design
Speaker 1: advice that helps you tell your story. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: not hot this year is influencers who last year encouraged
Speaker 1: you to buy into twenty twenty four trends, but are
Speaker 1: now telling you that it is so yesterday. I am
Speaker 1: just so done with this cycle and I got a
Speaker 1: I'll tell you most of the professional designers I know
Speaker 1: are equally fed up with it. And I want to
Speaker 1: draw a distinction for you. While you're online looking at
Speaker 1: whatever is you're looking at Instagram, TikTok, pinterest boards, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, I want you to be very
Speaker 1: careful to kind of dig a little deeper and find
Speaker 1: out whether you're getting this information from actual professional designers, architects, decorators,
Speaker 1: and so on, or whether you're just reading the board,
Speaker 1: looking at the board of a what we've now come
Speaker 1: to call design influencers, which are just folks out there
Speaker 1: saying what they want to say about stuff whose main
Speaker 1: job it is to get you caught up in a
Speaker 1: loop of sticking with them because what they say this year,
Speaker 1: they're going to change up next year. And the problem
Speaker 1: that I have with that is the shaming that happens
Speaker 1: and the lack of reality. Okay, there are some areas
Speaker 1: in which design is not unlike the fashion world. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's artistics. It has to find the balance between form
Speaker 1: and function and so on and so forth. But there
Speaker 1: are huge differences when you've just laid down tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars to remodel a bathroom or a kitchen,
Speaker 1: or you know, just even a few thousand dollars redecorating.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is this is not just
Speaker 1: like an old blouse from a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: that you've decided to donate to goodwill. So for somebody
Speaker 1: to come along and first tell you, oh, these colors
Speaker 1: and this cabinet tone is great, and then you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen months later to be pronouncing that that was so
Speaker 1: yesterday and it's so not where things are going, and
Speaker 1: to make you feel bad that you've got whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you've built that ain't cool. It's not cool
Speaker 1: at all. Right, So this is what I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you is in. What is in is your story.
Speaker 1: Your story is in. Your story will always be in
Speaker 1: for as long as it is your story. So if
Speaker 1: you find the way that you live in your home,
Speaker 1: you discover your preferences, you discover your likes and your dislikes,
Speaker 1: and you conscientiously build that into the home of the
Speaker 1: house that you call home, then you know what it's in.
Speaker 1: It's in. It's hot, it's right and h and let
Speaker 1: nobody tell you that it's past due or passed over.
Speaker 1: It's just not true. It's not true. Every facet every
Speaker 1: style of architectural design on the planet that isn't literally
Speaker 1: today's cutting edge contemporary effort is by definition past old
Speaker 1: and out. Okay, if it's like, oh I just love
Speaker 1: Art Deco, that's out, man, that's like a hundred years old.
Speaker 1: So does that mean it's no good? Absolutely not. It
Speaker 1: is absolutely gorgeous enough that's what you want to pursue,
Speaker 1: then pursue it. You get what I'm feeling, So there
Speaker 1: you go. Okay, let's move on to my list. I
Speaker 1: took some stabs at maximalism. Maximal maximalism yesterday. Listen to
Speaker 1: yesterday's show. You find it on the podcast, and you
Speaker 1: know you can catch up with that. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to you about something that truly is Should we call
Speaker 1: it a trend? I don't, I don't really care. It's
Speaker 1: actually just a facet of furnishings, something that Tina and
Speaker 1: I are both impressed with, something that's hot right now
Speaker 1: and growing hotter, and that I expect we will see
Speaker 1: more and more of in the world of sofas. Okay,
Speaker 1: low profile sofas with adjustable headrests. Tina, jump in here
Speaker 1: with me on this right, low profile sofas with adjustable
Speaker 1: headrest Now what am I talking about here? Well, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. As designers, we know that when it comes
Speaker 1: to setting up a really you know, sexy living room
Speaker 1: and spent and this is by the way, even more
Speaker 1: appropriate if you have a smaller space with lower ceilings.
Speaker 1: One of the things that we prefer is to keep
Speaker 1: furnishings as gorgeous as they are as low profile in
Speaker 1: the room as possible, so that they're not climbing halfway
Speaker 1: up the walls and kind of chunking up a space
Speaker 1: and so you've got more room on the wall for
Speaker 1: art and just the whole you know, space feels area.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing. It's a good thing. Okay. However,
Speaker 1: it's also equally to me that when you sit down
Speaker 1: on the sofa, your love and your life. Okay. And
Speaker 1: for the longest time there has been this tension between
Speaker 1: the artistic effect of a low profile sofa or chair
Speaker 1: and the fact that nobody wants to sit in them
Speaker 1: because they come up so short that they're just dang uncomfortable. Okay.
Speaker 1: But in recent years something has been developing in the
Speaker 1: furnishings world that I want you to be aware of.
Speaker 1: And this is not even though I'm saying that this
Speaker 1: is a contemporary idea, this is not limited in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form to contemporary style furniture. This is an
Speaker 1: adaptation that I absolutely love, and that is a low
Speaker 1: profile sofa with a cushion built into the top back
Speaker 1: of the sofa that lays flat but is either on
Speaker 1: well some of them are, you know, the fancier ones
Speaker 1: are like on a little electric servo that you control
Speaker 1: with the button. They're simply like on a ratcheted gear mechanism,
Speaker 1: and what you can do is it can be down
Speaker 1: when no one's using the room, and therefore you get
Speaker 1: that low profile with lots of wall space, makes the
Speaker 1: ceiling feel higher, all of that. But when you sit down,
Speaker 1: all you do is reach back, you flip up this headrest,
Speaker 1: and now you've got the comfort of what otherwise would
Speaker 1: be a really big, tall piece of furniture. It is
Speaker 1: literally the best of both worlds. So if you want
Speaker 1: to know a real trend that's happening right now that's
Speaker 1: going to only be growing. And if you're even thinking
Speaker 1: about possible new furnishings or furniture for a special room,
Speaker 1: then get on the interweb right now and just do
Speaker 1: a search for low profile sofa with adjustable headrests. You'll
Speaker 1: see exactly what I'm talking about, and you know what,
Speaker 1: it might be the perfect for you. That's something really
Speaker 1: cool that we're going to see more of in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. All right, I got more for you. I
Speaker 1: did one that's hot. Let's talk about one that's not.
Speaker 1: Right after.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Live streaming everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Dean Sharp the
Speaker 1: house whisper here at your beckon call. Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be going to the phones top of the hour in
Speaker 1: just a bit. So here's the number to reach me.
Speaker 1: Eight three three two ask Dean. Eight three three the
Speaker 1: numeral to ask Dean. All right, let's dive back in
Speaker 1: to trends and predictions Dean's special Trends and Predictions list
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. All right, so we talked about
Speaker 1: something that's very hot right now, low profile sofas with
Speaker 1: adjustable headrests. Right before the break. Now, let me give
Speaker 1: a cautionary half thumbs out aft thumbs down to something
Speaker 1: that I've seen on a lot of lists this week.
Speaker 1: Feature ceilings feature ceilings. What is a feature ceiling. A
Speaker 1: feature ceiling is simply a ceiling that has more going
Speaker 1: on than just flat drywall up there, okay. In other words,
Speaker 1: a feature ceiling is any ceiling in which some added
Speaker 1: feature or a feature has been added to it. Whether
Speaker 1: it's you know, something as crazy and intense as a
Speaker 1: full coffered ceiling in a beautiful library setting, or whether
Speaker 1: it's applicate moldings, or whether you know, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be medallions, there could be all sorts of things
Speaker 1: on a feature ceiling. Feature ceilings are on a lot
Speaker 1: of lists right now out there that say this is
Speaker 1: a hot trend for twenty twenty five. So how do
Speaker 1: I feel about feet your ceilings? Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There is no question as your designer that I take
Speaker 1: the ceiling into account in every space that where we
Speaker 1: are asked to do work in Take the seat you got.
Speaker 1: You can't ignore the ceiling. The ceiling is critical. The
Speaker 1: ceiling is essentially the fifth wall in any room, all right,
Speaker 1: And a lot of people who can and maybe should
Speaker 1: do something with their ceilings miss that opportunity by just
Speaker 1: never even thinking about it. So I'm going to give
Speaker 1: it a qualified thumbs up as far as I'm kind
Speaker 1: of glad that, you know, if it's true that more
Speaker 1: people are thinking about things to do on the ceiling.
Speaker 1: But what and believe me, it's a big butt. Okay,
Speaker 1: what you do with the ceiling has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with what size room you're in and how high
Speaker 1: that ceiling is. In this designer's opinion, Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: I don't want to have happen. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to just take it the idea of, you know, you
Speaker 1: should really take the ceiling into account, which is always true.
Speaker 1: But I don't want you to take that as license
Speaker 1: or somehow a mandate that you have to do something
Speaker 1: on the ceiling. And here's why. If you're working with
Speaker 1: what is, you know, kind of old tracked standard, that's
Speaker 1: what we have to say nowadays, old tracked standard ceiling high,
Speaker 1: which is eight feet. That is, it's an adequate ceiling,
Speaker 1: but it's not a high ceiling, right, And we say
Speaker 1: old track standard because new tracked standard ceilings are nine
Speaker 1: and that makes actually a pretty big difference. Actually, that
Speaker 1: extra twelve inches makes a significant difference in the feel
Speaker 1: of a room. But a lot of people, most people
Speaker 1: still living in eight foot ceilings. In your case, we've
Speaker 1: got to be really, really careful how much attention we
Speaker 1: draw it to the ceiling, simply because I don't want
Speaker 1: the ceiling coming down at you. I don't mean falling down.
Speaker 1: I mean that the more color, the more stuff, the
Speaker 1: more moldings, the more trims that we put up on
Speaker 1: that ceiling, the more it is going to draw its attention. Okay,
Speaker 1: your attention to it, I should say. And therefore, the
Speaker 1: more keenly aware you're going to be that it's just
Speaker 1: right there, right up at eight feet, not very far away. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I have a design theory that in order to
Speaker 1: make a room as voluminous as possible, as airy as possible,
Speaker 1: I love the idea of doing moldings and all sorts
Speaker 1: of details on walls, get as hot and heavy as
Speaker 1: you want. But I tend to leave ceilings alone if
Speaker 1: they are lower, because I tend to want them to
Speaker 1: kind of not draw attention to themselves. Now that's a
Speaker 1: lower ceiling. If we are above nine feet, even at
Speaker 1: nine feet, we can do some things. But if we're
Speaker 1: above nine feet, okay, then I want to do just
Speaker 1: the opposite. When we get above nine feet ten eleven,
Speaker 1: some people have, you know, vaulted ceilings, fourteen foot ceilings,
Speaker 1: big seat, then I want to draw attention to the
Speaker 1: fact that we've got volume in the room, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: this sky's the limit, man, Let's let's let's get crazy with
Speaker 1: what we want to do up there. So it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where, you know, I'm sorry to say,
Speaker 1: it's just true. You know, if you have a taller ceiling,
Speaker 1: then you get to have more, and if you don't,
Speaker 1: then you probably should stay away for putting too much. Now,
Speaker 1: there are always exceptions to that rule. Okay. One of
Speaker 1: the exceptions to that rule is in a bedroom scenario. Okay,
Speaker 1: we could take our little cottage as a perfect example.
Speaker 1: I live in a little cottage house, right, and I've
Speaker 1: got a couple of areas in my home where I've
Speaker 1: got vaulted ceilings in the main entertainment areas, but in
Speaker 1: the bedrooms, you know, we're down at eight feet. However,
Speaker 1: when Tina and I are laying in bed staring up
Speaker 1: at the ceiling, the height of the ceiling is not
Speaker 1: really relevant. Okay, It's not like you're walking in and
Speaker 1: you're not worried about it. You're actually your head is
Speaker 1: now lower in relationship to that ceiling than if you
Speaker 1: walked in and the ceiling was twelve feet tall, just about. Okay.
Speaker 1: So because of that, we've got a beautiful ceiling applica
Speaker 1: on our master bedroom ceiling, on the primary bedroom ceiling
Speaker 1: up there, and it's beautiful and it gets a lot
Speaker 1: of attention from us because we're the ones in bed
Speaker 1: staring up at it. So stuff like that in a
Speaker 1: qualified sense, got no problem with an eight foot ceiling,
Speaker 1: But otherwise I generally generally okay, and these are not laws,
Speaker 1: they're just guidelines. I generally encourage people. Let's let's avoid
Speaker 1: putting too much heavy stuff. And you've heard me say
Speaker 1: this before if you listen to the show that you
Speaker 1: know I'm not. I want to do all sorts of
Speaker 1: moldings in the room, big moldings at the bottom of
Speaker 1: an eight foot ceiling, room, wainscots, anything you want to do,
Speaker 1: but I actually try to avoid like heavy crown moldings
Speaker 1: up at an eight foot ceiling cut for the exact
Speaker 1: reason that they draw attention to the fact that the
Speaker 1: ceiling is just right there, right there. Now, you feel
Speaker 1: free to differ from that opinion, but I'm right about it.
Speaker 1: So let's just you know, I'm sorry, Just get over it.
Speaker 1: It's just advice. It's advice. Okay. So the idea of
Speaker 1: feature ceilings, I'm staring at a photo on one list
Speaker 1: right now where this designer had herringbone wood floor. They
Speaker 1: took herringbone wood up one wall and they ran herringbone
Speaker 1: across the ceiling in this room. And you know what, man,
Speaker 1: that is like a cave. It makes for an interesting photo,
Speaker 1: but in the real world, I know exactly what that
Speaker 1: room feels like. Weird, just weird. So a qualified thumbs
Speaker 1: up for feature ceilings. Absolutely, always consider the ceiling in
Speaker 1: any space. It is a big part of the space,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily licensed to go up and do it.
Speaker 1: Especially the lower the ceiling, the more cautious you have
Speaker 1: to be. All right, when we come back, I got more,
Speaker 1: I got more. Let's talk about sustainable design.
Speaker 2: M you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand
Speaker 2: from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad that you are with us today. We're
Speaker 1: talking about trends and predictions for twenty twenty five. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a somewhat skewed view of it. I think
Speaker 1: I have a fairly accurate view from where I'm sitting
Speaker 1: of all of these trends and prediction lists. But you
Speaker 1: know you're free to disagree. I'm just sharing you my
Speaker 1: opinions and my advice as we go, as I always do.
Speaker 1: By the way, right after this next break, coming up,
Speaker 1: we are going to the phones. The number again eight
Speaker 1: three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two.
Speaker 1: Ask Dean eight three three two. Ask dean producer Richie
Speaker 1: standing by ready to take your call. He'll tell you
Speaker 1: everything you need to know. Pop you into the queue.
Speaker 1: Anything you want to talk about regarding your home or
Speaker 1: our show this year, feel free to give me a
Speaker 1: call and we'll get at it all right. Here's one
Speaker 1: I wish there weren't so many of these on the
Speaker 1: list that I felt kind of dubious about. But sustainable design.
Speaker 1: Those are two words that are difficult to quantify. Sustainable design, nevertheless,
Speaker 1: is on just about every trend list this year. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's made it onto maybe the last few years of
Speaker 1: trends lists, but a lot this year. Sustainable design. Everywhere
Speaker 1: I turned, sustainable design. We want to be conscious of
Speaker 1: our designs. Here's the thing. I get it. I am
Speaker 1: all for it. I truly am. I A mean, I truly,
Speaker 1: truly am. We always want to be looking at the
Speaker 1: resources that we're consuming, how we're consuming them, and in
Speaker 1: what form we translate them into and the impact that
Speaker 1: has on the world around us. I am a nature boy.
Speaker 1: I am okay, so I get it, and I'm there
Speaker 1: with you. I'm also a builder and have been a
Speaker 1: builder for a long time, and I know the nuts
Speaker 1: and bolts of how literally the nuts and bolts go together,
Speaker 1: of how houses are built, of the effort that it takes,
Speaker 1: of all the trips back and forth, everything from materials
Speaker 1: being manufactured at plants to being transitioned into vehicles for
Speaker 1: transport and delivered to job sites, and what it takes
Speaker 1: to put them all together. I've got to see it
Speaker 1: firsthand for decades, the entire process, from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this. That's as a builder
Speaker 1: talking to you. That now I'll put on my designer hat.
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced most designers really know what sustainable design
Speaker 1: really means when it comes to building a home. And
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to get into a big soap
Speaker 1: box lecture about it here either. I just want you
Speaker 1: to be away where of you're going to see it
Speaker 1: a lot and you're going to hear a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about sustainable design focused on what something is made from. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's really what sustainable design comes down to for most
Speaker 1: people who raise the issue what is this thing made
Speaker 1: out of? And it's a completely viable conversation to have. Okay, However,
Speaker 1: I want to simplify this for you. Number One regardless
Speaker 1: of what something is made from. Do not think for
Speaker 1: a second that that's the end of the story. Because
Speaker 1: where it gets transported, how it gets transported, the energy
Speaker 1: that is fueling the factory that makes the product that's
Speaker 1: made out of the sustainable thing, and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. And it's also, you know, there's somewhat a
Speaker 1: kind of the pot calling the kettle black situation when
Speaker 1: we're all sitting around, let's say, in you know, petroleum
Speaker 1: based clothing, concerned about the amount of petroleum or fossil
Speaker 1: fuels that go into the manufacture of a particular product.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a sticky wicket that we are involved in.
Speaker 1: So I have one message for you for today on
Speaker 1: the category of sustainable design, which is something you're going
Speaker 1: to see in a lot of lists for this year's
Speaker 1: trending design. It's this, I am no longer as well,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put it that way. I am nowadays
Speaker 1: equally concerned of how something is made, what something is
Speaker 1: made of, versus how well it's made. Okay, So I'll
Speaker 1: just put it this way. In my opinion, craftsmanship is
Speaker 1: the ultimate sustainable design. Why because craftsmanship means quality and
Speaker 1: quality last. Do you want to save the planet with
Speaker 1: your decor and your furnishings, then I will tell you
Speaker 1: this by furnishings that last, by furnishings that last. I
Speaker 1: was just at another antique mal yesterday walking around looking
Speaker 1: at some things, and you know, I am just always
Speaker 1: in awe and so pleased to see a piece of
Speaker 1: furniture that is one hundred and thirty years old, that
Speaker 1: has been taken care of and can still do its
Speaker 1: job today. Now I'm not saying that we all need
Speaker 1: to buy antiques. That's not my point. My point is
Speaker 1: that I hope what we're doing as a culture is
Speaker 1: moving out of the disposable, fast furnishings trend that has
Speaker 1: been a thing for a couple of decades now especially,
Speaker 1: and that we're moving towards listen, save longer, go without
Speaker 1: just a little bit more. And then when you buy
Speaker 1: a piece of furniture, buy something that's going to last.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you have to keep it forever, but
Speaker 1: the idea that you're supporting quality furniture that when you're
Speaker 1: getting tired of it, you know down the road, someone
Speaker 1: else will purchase it from you and its life will
Speaker 1: continue and on and on. I don't care how many
Speaker 1: times it changes hands. That's not the point. And it's
Speaker 1: not burdening with you with something that you have to
Speaker 1: keep for a hundred years. But a quality piece of furniture,
Speaker 1: a quality piece of furniture that doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: remade again. That is sustainable. And no amount of sustainable
Speaker 1: materials or manufacturing processes can compete with a piece of
Speaker 1: furniture that is still doing its job one hundred years later.
Speaker 1: That's my point. Craftsmanship is the ultimate sustainable design by furnishings.
Speaker 1: That last nineteen sixty Americans threw away two point two
Speaker 1: million tons of furniture. That was crazy wasteful until you
Speaker 1: compare it to today's numbers, which is right now twelve
Speaker 1: million tons of furniture a year being thrown away because disposable,
Speaker 1: low craftsmanship furniture. That's what we need to change in
Speaker 1: my opinion. All right, when we come back, your calls
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