Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design
Speaker 1: custom homes, I build custom homes, and I'm your guide
Speaker 1: to turning your place that you'll live from something ordinary
Speaker 1: into something truly extraordinary. Today on the show, Part two,
Speaker 1: Part two of a two part series that we are
Speaker 1: calling The Secrets of Ish.
Speaker 2: Now, what the heck is that? Well, of course you
Speaker 2: need to go back and listen to part one just
Speaker 2: to catch up, because there was a lot of good
Speaker 2: stuff shared on yesterday's program as well. But to bring
Speaker 2: you back up to speed, ish Ish is just a
Speaker 2: way that Tina and I like to describe real eclectic decor. Okay,
Speaker 2: the fact that most people in the real world, In fact,
Speaker 2: I would say all people in the real world don't
Speaker 2: live in some magazine spread pure air quotes pure decor environment,
Speaker 2: right like you've seen one pure theme like you see
Speaker 2: on a Pinterest board, or you know, like I said,
Speaker 2: a design magazine spread. Those things they look great, but
Speaker 2: they aren't where all of us live. All of us
Speaker 2: live in the real world, and the real world is
Speaker 2: full of all sorts of other things that come into
Speaker 2: our lives, things that mean a lot to you, things
Speaker 2: that have a lot of deep meaning and sentimentality and attachment,
Speaker 2: but don't necessarily fit one particular decor, even your primary decor.
Speaker 2: So the question is how do we pull off real
Speaker 2: beautiful interior home decor and when it's not pure, Well,
Speaker 2: that's the secrets of ish and the idea being well,
Speaker 2: I have a modern home. Well, it's modern ish. I've
Speaker 2: got an arts and crafts kind of you know, craftsman
Speaker 2: bungalow home. Well, in the real world, it's arts and
Speaker 2: crafts ish, it's Victorian ish, it's ranch ish, it's farmhouse ish.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying. The ish is where we thrive.
Speaker 2: The ish is where we find out the difference between
Speaker 2: a decor that fails and one that is capable of
Speaker 2: embracing sources from different time periods, from different styles and
Speaker 2: still looks beautiful. And that really is what we would
Speaker 2: call eclectic design. It's not chaotic, it's not cluttered, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't all have to come from one pure source
Speaker 2: in order for a room or a space or a
Speaker 2: home to be stunning. Stunningly fantastic. So that's where we're at,
Speaker 2: and there are rules. There are rules. We'll get to
Speaker 2: that in just a bit. Right now, though, I want
Speaker 2: to introduce you to our fantastic team. Elmer is on
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Speaker 2: buddy at the news desk. Good morning, I Lenk good morning, sunshine.
Speaker 2: How are you doing? I always left when you call
Speaker 2: me sunshine? Are you so bright and cheery? I don't
Speaker 2: feel it. I don't feel that way at all at all.
Speaker 2: I was talking last night. I was at a thing
Speaker 2: with Stefan Steffouche, who is uh Tim Conway's aboard op,
Speaker 2: and he's like just staring at me. He's like, you know,
Speaker 2: I just don't get to see you enough, and I'm
Speaker 2: staring at your face. The sound of your voice is
Speaker 2: coming out of your mouth, and I just think, like
Speaker 2: everywhere you go, everything you say just sounds so comforting
Speaker 2: and so well rounded. I'm like, you have clearly not
Speaker 2: spent time at my house, my friend, We'll ask your
Speaker 2: wife about that. Yeah, well Tina, you know, Tina's gonna
Speaker 2: support stuff. Fush actually in that one, But I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure though. I wasn't sure if if he was, I
Speaker 2: think he, I mean, I know he was trying to
Speaker 2: compliment me, but I'm like, really, I mean, there's no
Speaker 2: edge to my voice at all. I am I just
Speaker 2: like am I just forever trapped in like a TV
Speaker 2: weather man's body? Is that it? It just that's all
Speaker 2: It's gonna be, just gonna be like, hello, good morning. Anyway, Eileen,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad. It's always great to work with you.
Speaker 2: Glad that you're here with us this morning. Eileen's going
Speaker 2: to take care of all of our news this morning.
Speaker 2: Sitting across the table from me. The one who will
Speaker 2: tell you the truth. She she will tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: One of the nicest human beings on the planet. And
Speaker 2: I only say one of the nicest because you know
Speaker 2: I haven't met everybody else. Well, no, that's true. You
Speaker 2: aren't actually that nice, but wonderful and honest as the day.
Speaker 2: So whatever Tina tells you about me, actually that's actually
Speaker 2: the truth because one of the reasons why I was
Speaker 2: so attracted to her and on day one was just
Speaker 2: I've never met a person who is more honest, sometimes
Speaker 2: too honest. Sometimes, you know, our family would say that
Speaker 2: that Tina has no inner monologue.
Speaker 3: None, I've gotten better you have. It's not saying everything,
Speaker 3: not saying everything you're feeling immediately. Yeah, But you know what,
Speaker 3: I treasure that. I treasure it because if somebody like
Speaker 3: Tina in your life, you should treasure them, even though
Speaker 3: sometimes it can be a little tough at moments, just
Speaker 3: to hear exactly what somebody's thinking unedited.
Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly right. But that's the point. There really
Speaker 2: is no elephant in the room with Tina. You see that.
Speaker 2: You see how I did that. That's professional radio right there. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: there really isn't an elephant in the room with you,
Speaker 2: because I know exactly where I stay. I know when
Speaker 2: you're upset with me. And uh and because as you're
Speaker 2: so honest, when you're like, hey, like you I can
Speaker 2: I trust it, I trust it, you know, right, the
Speaker 2: hard edge sometimes of honest people, you know, the the upside,
Speaker 2: the massive upside, is that you can trust them when
Speaker 2: they tell you that you are a good person. There
Speaker 2: you go, they're not blown smoke. Tina does not blow smoke.
Speaker 2: I do not. No, she does not. And now what
Speaker 2: what what are you saying? Just say it? It's time
Speaker 2: for the news. Okay, all right, Joall, We're going to
Speaker 2: dive into the secrets of ish and eclectic decor right after.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2: Hey, whether you're home for you is a condo, a cottage,
Speaker 2: a castle, It makes no difference. The rules are the same.
Speaker 2: The principles are the same, and I am here to
Speaker 2: help you take it to the next level. That's what
Speaker 2: we're all about here on the show. By the way,
Speaker 2: in a bit we're going to be going to the phones.
Speaker 2: Here's the number again, eight three three two. Ask Dean,
Speaker 2: eight three three the numeral two, Ask Dean. And when
Speaker 2: it comes to calls, did I say this already? When
Speaker 2: it comes to calls? No matter what I'm talking about
Speaker 2: on the show, you set the agenda. Anything that you've
Speaker 2: got on your mind regarding your home, anything that's got
Speaker 2: you scratching your head, design, construction, DIY questions, whatever the
Speaker 2: case may be. We'll put our heads together. We'll figure
Speaker 2: it out, I promise. All right, let's dive back into
Speaker 2: the secrets of eclectic home design. My favorite way is
Speaker 2: a little review from yesterday, very quick to describe eclectic design.
Speaker 2: My favorite way is a symphony of diversity, because it
Speaker 2: really is. You think about a symphony orchestra, all these
Speaker 2: different instruments, very very very different instruments emitting very very
Speaker 2: different sounds, and yet we can draw them together. Those
Speaker 2: who know what they're doing draw them together into one
Speaker 2: beautiful melody. And that's what we want out of eclectic design,
Speaker 2: and so the way to master that is really to
Speaker 2: master those secrets of ish, the ishness of your theme,
Speaker 2: farmhouse ish, craftsman ish, whatever the ish may be. Nobody
Speaker 2: lives in a ruthlessly consistent magazine spread. It just doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: and they're so easily thwarted. I shared this yesterday. I'll
Speaker 2: share it with you again just to jumpstart our conversation.
Speaker 2: Imagine a stunningly sophisticated kitchen right in some magazine spread.
Speaker 2: You can bring that kitchen to its knees by just
Speaker 2: taking a refrigerator magnet and putting your kindergartener's coloring project
Speaker 2: up on the fridge boom. Real world has struck, and
Speaker 2: now it's no longer magazine quality spread. Right. You're like, okay,
Speaker 2: I get it. That's the idea, right, How can we
Speaker 2: have a beautiful home and live in the real world
Speaker 2: at the same time. And I'm letting you off the
Speaker 2: hook that somehow, because you live in the real world,
Speaker 2: you'll never have a beautiful home like that. Not true,
Speaker 2: not true. But we have to move away from that
Speaker 2: magazine concept into real, actual design and decor principles for
Speaker 2: your home. And if you follow the rules and you
Speaker 2: put the effort in, then you know what you're gonna
Speaker 2: be rewarded. It's gonna be gorgeous. Okay, No, it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily easy, and you want to make sure. Let me
Speaker 2: also say this, when you're looking for rules and you
Speaker 2: go online looking for rules, which you know, I just
Speaker 2: did a little search this week, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 2: how readily available is this kind of advice? Anyway, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make you feel better that you're listening right now,
Speaker 2: because it's not very readily available you can find if
Speaker 2: you search like rules for eclectic to core, you will
Speaker 2: find a gabillion websites advising you quote unquote, but just beware,
Speaker 2: make sure when you're looking for rules that you don't
Speaker 2: end up just getting suggestions. And that's where they almost
Speaker 2: all go. Right. They start out with, well, we're gonna
Speaker 2: explain eclectic design to you, and here's how you can
Speaker 2: master it. And the next thing you know, it's like,
Speaker 2: add some plants, add greenery, what like okay, wait, what
Speaker 2: if greenery is not in my plant? Now you're just
Speaker 2: giving me suggestions again. Now you're just showing me a
Speaker 2: photograph again. Okay, instead of helping me understand it. It
Speaker 2: reminds me of the if you're old enough to remember,
Speaker 2: you remember the Tutsi roll owl, right, Remember that commercial
Speaker 2: is so iconic, right, And it's like how many lips
Speaker 2: does it take to get to the center of a
Speaker 2: Tutsi pop? And then they finally bring it to the
Speaker 2: wise owl and he licks it three times and any
Speaker 2: and crunches it and he's like three, the answer is three.
Speaker 1: Well, no, it's not.
Speaker 2: So Just beware, just beware that when you go for
Speaker 2: advice on principles, that you don't end up just getting
Speaker 2: advice on what to do. Okay, I'm trying not to
Speaker 2: do that here today with you now. Yesterday we talked
Speaker 2: about starting with a neutral canvas, keeping your walls bright
Speaker 2: and neutral, letting your floor ground your collection, uniting color
Speaker 2: and texture. Yesterday's program we talked about the eighty twenty rule.
Speaker 2: And also I wrapped up yesterday's program with embracing negative space. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you're going to have diverse design elements in a
Speaker 2: single space, you got to give them some room. Eclectic
Speaker 2: design is not clutter. Not clutter, okay, it's not chaos.
Speaker 2: Negative space powerful, powerful tool for drawing attention to things
Speaker 2: and giving them some space from each other and letting
Speaker 2: them breathe as well, so embracing negative space and what
Speaker 2: really that just comes down to, you know, not too
Speaker 2: much not too much stuff. Okay. It's an ongoing problem
Speaker 2: that we all struggle with because we go out in
Speaker 2: the world and things, stuff just attaches itself to us
Speaker 2: and it ends up coming home with us. Don't have
Speaker 2: too much stuff if you really want a stunning space.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. It's not just a matter
Speaker 2: of opinion or preference on my part. Everything that I
Speaker 2: tell you design wise here on the program is based.
Speaker 2: I like to think that it's based in human nature,
Speaker 2: human physiology, and human ergonomics, because that's what design and
Speaker 2: architecture is. It's for human beings. If we were mole people,
Speaker 2: I would be giving you different kinds of advice, okay,
Speaker 2: but we're not. We're human beings. We are that species.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to clutter, when it comes to
Speaker 2: a lot of things, you had to understand that the
Speaker 2: human mind and the human eye vision, we're kind of
Speaker 2: lazy when it comes to that, so meaning that it's
Speaker 2: a lot of processing power gets taken up and I
Speaker 2: don't want to say lazy. I say the brain is efficient.
Speaker 2: Let's just call it that. It can't do more than,
Speaker 2: you know, one hundred things all at once consciously. So
Speaker 2: when you walk into a really cluttered space, some people think, oh,
Speaker 2: I've just put so many things in this room that
Speaker 2: it's just a wonderland for people to feast their eyes upon,
Speaker 2: and they'll spend all this time looking at it. No, no,
Speaker 2: they won't. When you walk into a room with a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff to look at, the most common human
Speaker 2: physiological and psychological reaction is don't look at any of it.
Speaker 2: You just don't look at any of It's just too much.
Speaker 2: It's too much. Okay. So if you really really want
Speaker 2: people to see the decor of your space, you got
Speaker 2: to get rid of stuff so that we can focus focus,
Speaker 2: I mean, really see the things that you want to see,
Speaker 2: the things that are most important. Okay. All right, Now,
Speaker 2: our next step in the rules and the guides is
Speaker 2: to start. And this is following that eighty twenty rule,
Speaker 2: which I'll review when we come back, but it's to
Speaker 2: start with a foundation, a foundational theme. Whatever that may
Speaker 2: be the ishness, right, the modern ish, or you're going
Speaker 2: to go arts and craftsh or Victorian whatever that is.
Speaker 2: That's an overarching theme, but in a particular space, in
Speaker 2: a particular room, we're going to start with a foundation,
Speaker 2: a foundational color, a foundational pattern, a foundational texture, or
Speaker 2: maybe all three kind of working together. And that's going
Speaker 2: to be our eighty percent in that room that everything
Speaker 2: else will work to integrate with as we go along.
Speaker 2: So we're going to start with the foundation. I'll explain
Speaker 2: that right after.
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Speaker 2: Dean Sharp the house whisper here with you this morning,
Speaker 2: how you're doing. I'm so glad that you're with us.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful autumn morning here, holiday kind of weekend
Speaker 2: morning here in southern California. A little warmer than I
Speaker 2: would like it to be personally, because you know, I
Speaker 2: like winter. I like it. I know we're not at
Speaker 2: winter yet, but I like cold weather. I don't want
Speaker 2: to dig through ten feet of snow every morning, don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong, but I would like it colder out there.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's a lovely weekend, and I hope wherever
Speaker 2: you are you are safe and warm. And comfy and
Speaker 2: filled with the beauty of the holidays, and I'm glad
Speaker 2: that you're here with us. We are talking about decor today.
Speaker 2: We're talking about not Christmas decor, not holiday decor, but
Speaker 2: just year round decor for your home and tackling one
Speaker 2: of the most difficult concepts to master in decor, and
Speaker 2: that is how do you handle establishing a really strong
Speaker 2: theme of the decor that you want and live in
Speaker 2: the real world at the same time, because other things
Speaker 2: come in. And that's what we call eclectic design. Right now,
Speaker 2: there are some levels of eclectic design that are just hey,
Speaker 2: I just want to throw one hundred things together from
Speaker 2: different sources. Okay, that's not really in my thinking. Again,
Speaker 2: the real world where we all live. What eclectic design
Speaker 2: is really all about. What eclecticism is about is the
Speaker 2: idea that you know, we're diverse people and so a
Speaker 2: lot of things come into our lives that aren't necessarily
Speaker 2: themed with our decor, but they still mean things to us.
Speaker 2: And so how do you do that, how do you
Speaker 2: bring it all together? That's the true art of eclectic
Speaker 2: decore mastery. So I want to get back to the list,
Speaker 2: where did I leave off By the way, oh, starting
Speaker 2: with a foundation, a foundational color or pattern or texture,
Speaker 2: or maybe all of the above. And what I mean
Speaker 2: by that is I got to get to Tina, our
Speaker 2: decore master on here. But Tina will have a vision
Speaker 2: for a room. She'll be like, you know what, I
Speaker 2: would like to do something in a smoky you know,
Speaker 2: gray blue for a color theme. I think that would
Speaker 2: just so work with this end of the house, this
Speaker 2: particular room, taken into account what we see out the
Speaker 2: windows and so on, and she just wants to cool
Speaker 2: this place down. And she's like, I want to add
Speaker 2: a little bit of this kind of a hard area
Speaker 2: here with a lot of walls. I want to add
Speaker 2: some texture, something that is soft and kind of flowy
Speaker 2: and texture. And then maybe this secondary tone will be
Speaker 2: something off white along with the gray blue. And there
Speaker 2: we are. That's what she'd like to see, you know,
Speaker 2: in this space. That's what we call a know, kind
Speaker 2: of a foundational color, pattern and texture. And then from
Speaker 2: that the question is how can we get And this
Speaker 2: is to review what I did in the previous program,
Speaker 2: the eighty twenty rule and the eighty twenty rules essentially this,
Speaker 2: if you can get eighty percent of the stuff in
Speaker 2: a space working along that foundational pattern texture color. Tina's
Speaker 2: nodding her head here. If you can get eighty percent
Speaker 2: of it working along that flow, then you can drop
Speaker 2: in expertly. Drop in the other twenty percent can be
Speaker 2: completely diverse and coming from different places without destroying the flow.
Speaker 2: Now you still have to do it skillfully. But the
Speaker 2: point is, that's what we mean by a foundational texture.
Speaker 2: The eighty of the eighty twenty the eighty percent of
Speaker 2: the room. So a lot of you struggle though with
Speaker 2: this idea of like, all right, now here we go
Speaker 2: talking about colors. I have no taste when it comes
Speaker 2: to colors, Dean. I don't know what to do with colors.
Speaker 2: I've seen designers do things with colors that I would
Speaker 2: never dream of in a thousand years. And I get you,
Speaker 2: I feel you, I get it, and believe me, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to turn you into a designer or a
Speaker 2: decorator in the sense that you know, I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to work myself out of a job. Here for big
Speaker 2: jobs and for really amazing results. It's always a good
Speaker 2: idea to bring a creative into the situation. But there's
Speaker 2: a lot you can do a lot of research, you
Speaker 2: can do a lot of thinking, you can do up front.
Speaker 2: This is the time if you struggle with color and
Speaker 2: you just feel yourself falling short of what you would
Speaker 2: call color matching and complementary color mastery, this is the
Speaker 2: time like no other that you need a color wheel. Okay,
Speaker 2: you need a color I'm just gonna say to every
Speaker 2: responsible homeowner who wants to have a beautiful home and
Speaker 2: you want to do your initial dreaming about what's possible,
Speaker 2: you need a color wheel. A color wheel is a tool.
Speaker 2: It's just it's like saying, listen, if you're going to
Speaker 2: take care of your home, you know, you should probably
Speaker 2: have a hammer and a screwdriver in the drawer. Okay.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna physically, utility wise take care of a home,
Speaker 2: you should have some tools in the drawer. Well, if
Speaker 2: you're going to take care of your home esthetically, okay,
Speaker 2: in terms of design and decore, you should have a
Speaker 2: couple of tools in the drawer. I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: to you about two tools, specifically, one the color wheel. Now,
Speaker 2: there are physical color wheels. You can go down to
Speaker 2: your local art supply store or your craft store, a
Speaker 2: place like Michael's or Hobby Lobby or Joeanne Fabric. You know,
Speaker 2: you can go down to places like that and they've
Speaker 2: got color wheels. And a color wheel is a wheel
Speaker 2: that has the entire spectrum of visible light color on it,
Speaker 2: and it has usually a second usually in disc form
Speaker 2: like a circle, and then it has secondary viewer windows
Speaker 2: that when you spin it around, you can see, ah,
Speaker 2: based on this color that I really love, what are
Speaker 2: the complementary colors? What are the colors that sit right
Speaker 2: next to it? What are the colors that are opposing
Speaker 2: on the opposite side of the spectrum. And there are
Speaker 2: various ways. They are quadratic, there are triune, there are
Speaker 2: dualistic ways of looking at color combinations, and suddenly you'll
Speaker 2: see it. You're like, oh my gosh, that green actually
Speaker 2: goes really well with that shade of blue. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what the color wheel will do for you. We'll open
Speaker 2: your eyes to these color combination possible. So, yes, you
Speaker 2: can still go get a physical disc if that's your thing,
Speaker 2: but I will tell you this right now. You can
Speaker 2: attain your color wheel by the time we get done
Speaker 2: with the next break. Because the color wheel that TENA
Speaker 2: and I carry with us at all times. Is just
Speaker 2: an app. It's an app on your phone. If you
Speaker 2: go to your app store wherever you get the apps
Speaker 2: for your phone and just put in color wheel, you
Speaker 2: know what will be confusing, Like thirty of them will
Speaker 2: come up, Okay, the vast majority of them totally free,
Speaker 2: and you will see you will see. Now, granted, we're
Speaker 2: not using the color wheel to pick a very, very
Speaker 2: specific color because the way it emits on your phone
Speaker 2: it is it's a kind of light that we call
Speaker 2: emissive light, meaning that the phone screen creates a projection
Speaker 2: of light out. That is not the same as picking
Speaker 2: a color for your sofa, which is reflective light. Your
Speaker 2: sofa doesn't glow at least I hope it doesn't glow.
Speaker 2: If it does, then you should return it immediately because
Speaker 2: it has been exposed to some form of dangerous radiation.
Speaker 2: But your sofa doesn't glow. It reflects light natural light
Speaker 2: that's in the room. But your screen does glow. So
Speaker 2: we're not talking about using a color wheel app to
Speaker 2: specifically nail down the ultimate detail of that color that
Speaker 2: you want in the room. But we are talking about
Speaker 2: the value of a color wheel for the sake of
Speaker 2: finding the themed colors that you're going to be looking for.
Speaker 2: That's all I mean. It takes five minutes of spinning
Speaker 2: it around, checking it out until something clicks with you
Speaker 2: and you're like, ooh, you should try that, should try
Speaker 2: this with that and that with that. You know, get
Speaker 2: what I'm saying? All right? Color it's an important thing.
Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about patterns as well in
Speaker 2: just a bit, but the color wheel is really important. Now,
Speaker 2: how do we get more specific with color? H There's
Speaker 2: a device that if you're serious about this, I am
Speaker 2: going to encourage you to acquire. It's called the Nicks
Speaker 2: Nix Mini. We're going to talk about it right after.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, Welcome home, Thanks for joining
Speaker 2: us on the program today. We are talking about really
Speaker 2: getting your head and your hands around the idea of
Speaker 2: how to do eclectic design, which eclectic decor design, which
Speaker 2: I think, realistically eclectic is a word that belongs to
Speaker 2: every single real world design because as pure as you
Speaker 2: would like your decor to be in terms of a theme,
Speaker 2: there's always going to be in the real world things
Speaker 2: other things integrated into it. How do you do that
Speaker 2: well without it messing you up along the way. You
Speaker 2: can't get much great advice on this online. I will
Speaker 2: tell you that right now. And don't look to TV
Speaker 2: for it either, because they're just showing you stuff when
Speaker 2: they're not trying to entertain you. And no, I don't
Speaker 2: have a big issua. Yeah, well yeah, I have a
Speaker 2: big issue with HGT I do. I just think it's
Speaker 2: a wasted opportunity to do really good things in an
Speaker 2: entertaining way. Anyway, stay with me. That's my point, because
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to do here is actually really for real,
Speaker 2: give you some solid advice on how to get this
Speaker 2: done for your home. I'm not just showing you pretty
Speaker 2: pictures of other people's places and saying, well, you could
Speaker 2: do this, like what about my life? Okay, so there
Speaker 2: you go. Now, where I left you before we went
Speaker 2: to the news was with a product that I well,
Speaker 2: a couple of tools. Number one, the color Wheel app
Speaker 2: that you can find a gabillion of online for your phone.
Speaker 2: When it comes to design and decor, you should have
Speaker 2: some tools in the tool drawer, just like you've got
Speaker 2: when it comes to the physical aspect of maintaining your house,
Speaker 2: Like you got a hammer and a screwdriver and some
Speaker 2: nails and some screws and stuff, right, you should have
Speaker 2: a couple of tools. A color wheel is the way
Speaker 2: that you take a color challenged person and show them
Speaker 2: all the different possible combinations. So you dial up your
Speaker 2: favorite color and you'll see how other colors work with it,
Speaker 2: against it, complement it in a hundred different ways. The
Speaker 2: color Wheel app is perfect for that. You don't have
Speaker 2: to have it a disc, physical disc. You can have
Speaker 2: one on your phone. But I was saying, when it
Speaker 2: comes to color matching, exact color matching, there's another tool
Speaker 2: out there now. The color wheel app is free. So
Speaker 2: that's a free gift with purchase, okay, or no purchase necessary.
Speaker 2: This one you're gonna have to buy. But I tell
Speaker 2: you this, every single client that we do a significant
Speaker 2: design job for, I encourage them to acquire this for theirselves.
Speaker 2: Why well, Dean has one, of course, Dean and Tina
Speaker 2: have one. But we are collaborating with you and we
Speaker 2: want you to have this kind of empowerment in your
Speaker 2: own life. All Right, It's gonna cost you ninety bucks
Speaker 2: right now, okay, and you're gonna have to find it
Speaker 2: worth it. And by the way, this is for the
Speaker 2: for the decor person in your family and your life.
Speaker 2: This is a great holiday gift and a stocking stuffer
Speaker 2: as well. But here it is the Knicks Nix Nick
Speaker 2: Mini three. Okay. Nix is a company. You can find
Speaker 2: them at nissensor dot com. All right. They make a
Speaker 2: lot of different sensors for different purposes, and some of
Speaker 2: them are very expensive. But I'll tell you what. The
Speaker 2: one that you need, the one that Tina and I
Speaker 2: carry around that fits the bill. And this is I
Speaker 2: mean wizardry. This is wizardry in your hand. The Knicks
Speaker 2: Mini three. What is it? It is a pocket sized,
Speaker 2: portable color analyzer, all right. And when I say pocket
Speaker 2: sized and portable, I mean it's the size of a
Speaker 2: golf ball, maybe the size of a pingpong ball. It
Speaker 2: has its own battery charged up USBC. And what do
Speaker 2: you do. It comes with an app that goes on
Speaker 2: your phone. You connect via Bluetooth wirelessly with your phone
Speaker 2: and you pull out this Nix and you simply press
Speaker 2: it against anything. Okay, if you want to paint the
Speaker 2: wall of your kid's room one feature wall to match
Speaker 2: the color of their hamster. All right, then all you
Speaker 2: have to do is pull out the knicks and press
Speaker 2: it against the fur of the hamster. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 2: Tina is like shaking her head. She's like, that's a
Speaker 2: ridiculous example. But tell me, tell me, Tina that it
Speaker 2: isn't true. Tell me it's not true. It is true.
Speaker 2: You press this against the fur of the hamster, and instantly,
Speaker 2: literally instantly, you will have an entire color profile of
Speaker 2: exactly what color that fur is. Now you can use it.
Speaker 2: Can you tell I'm a little excited about this because
Speaker 2: it's a really great tool for people. You can I'm
Speaker 2: trying to enable people. Okay, stop laughing. It is. It's
Speaker 2: a great tool. It can you can set it up
Speaker 2: to give you, you know, web based colors, Hex colors,
Speaker 2: Pan tone colors, CMYK RGB. But even better for most homeowners,
Speaker 2: there's a screen that you will go to in the
Speaker 2: app where you select your favorite brand of paint. And
Speaker 2: I'm talking you know, are you a Sherwin Williams person,
Speaker 2: a Done Edwards person. No, of course not. You're a
Speaker 2: Benjamin Moore person, right, like me. So you select Benjamin Moore.
Speaker 2: You set that in the app, and then when you
Speaker 2: scan something with the knicks, it literally brings up the
Speaker 2: top three Benjamin Moore colors code name everything that matches
Speaker 2: the color that you just scan. Now, if you don't
Speaker 2: believe what I'm saying, here's the thing. During the last break,
Speaker 2: we just did a little video right here in the
Speaker 2: studio with I've got my knicks in my hands right now.
Speaker 2: So where'd we post it? Tina, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2: There you go, all three home with Dean. You can
Speaker 2: go there right now and check it out. We're going
Speaker 2: to go to a break. Eileen's going to give us
Speaker 2: some news, and then you can go and find the
Speaker 2: little video that we just posted in which I take
Speaker 2: this nix and I think I color analyze the little
Speaker 2: jacket that I'm wearing right now, and you'll see it
Speaker 2: happen live in front of your eyes. You got to
Speaker 2: go check it out, and then once you see it,
Speaker 2: you should share it with all of your friends. So
Speaker 2: that's there sitting on our social media Instagram, Facebook, and
Speaker 2: TikTok right now. And when we come back, you know
Speaker 2: what it's time to go to the phones your home.
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