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'm
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. I design homes, I build
Speaker 1: custom homes, and I am your guide to better understanding
Speaker 1: that place where you live. Today on the show, we're
Speaker 1: keeping in the theme of yeah, I think where everybody's
Speaker 1: heads and kind of hearts are at around December ish,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of nostalgia floating through the air.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of decorating on people's minds, and so
Speaker 1: we're staying in that decorating flow, the decor flow this weekend.
Speaker 1: Not Christmas decorating, not holiday, just decor. Yesterday, our previous
Speaker 1: podcast episode, we discussed furniture furniture buying, and I talked
Speaker 1: to you about the right way to go about buying furniture. Today,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about demystifying, antiquing and vintage and retro.
Speaker 1: What the hell do these words mean and what are
Speaker 1: you looking for and what should you expect Everything that
Speaker 1: falls under the umbrella of what I call nostalgic design, antique, vintage, retro,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. That is where we're
Speaker 1: going today. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Stay with me, and you're going to learn quite a
Speaker 1: bit today because I'm always handing out the pearls, always
Speaker 1: just giving you the pearls of wisdom that are useful
Speaker 1: to you when you go about to trying to make
Speaker 1: your home something truly extraordinary. And of course we're going
Speaker 1: to be taking your calls as we always do it.
Speaker 1: When it comes to calls, goes without saying that you
Speaker 1: get to set the agenda. I'm talking retro, vintage and
Speaker 1: antiquing today. You can call me about anything that's got
Speaker 1: you scratching your head about your home, construction issue, design problem,
Speaker 1: landscape into your exterior, anything at all DIY concerns, anything
Speaker 1: that's got you in a quandary. Give me a call,
Speaker 1: we'll put our heads together and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Here's the number eight three three two. Ask Dean A
Speaker 1: three three. The numeral two ask Dean A three three
Speaker 1: to ask Dean. The phone lines are open now. Producer
Speaker 1: Matt standing by ready to take your calls. He'll tell
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know. Pop you into the
Speaker 1: queue and you can listen to the show while you wait.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right. Speaking of producer Matt, let
Speaker 1: me introduce the rest of our awesome team. Elmer is
Speaker 1: on the board. Good morning, sir, Good morning Jane. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm good, all right. Hey O. I believe Elma and
Speaker 1: I were having a very deep conversation just about life,
Speaker 1: life before the show started. So we're both in that.
Speaker 1: We're both in that place where it's like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the show goes on. Here we are, we're getting it done.
Speaker 1: Producer Matt, like I said, standing by to take your
Speaker 1: calls nowhere near a microphone right now. But he's off
Speaker 1: doing what he does and doing it well. Eileen Gonzalez
Speaker 1: at the news desk, Good morning, Eileen, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 1: How's it going. It's good, It's good. I'd be lying
Speaker 1: if I if I told you that I wasn't a
Speaker 1: little tired this morning. But I think it's just I
Speaker 1: think it's adrenaline letdown is what it is, more than
Speaker 1: anything else. You know. We got away for a few
Speaker 1: days here in the middle of the week. We went
Speaker 1: up to one of our favorite places in California here
Speaker 1: and just jumped in the car and went up with
Speaker 1: some friends to Central Coastal California, you know, like Passel
Speaker 1: Roblos and and more O Bay and just that while
Speaker 1: Area Loso Sos and we went up to Cumbria. I
Speaker 1: always use I grew up calling it Cambria, and now
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like Thurston half when I say Cumbria.
Speaker 1: But I was told that that's the proper way to
Speaker 1: pronounce it. So all right, anyway, it's so cool up
Speaker 1: there right now. It was very festive. And then we
Speaker 1: came home and yesterday was sort of relaxing after the
Speaker 1: show and so and then all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: start getting tired, and I'm like, oh, well, maybe it's
Speaker 1: just the letdown after the trip. Or sometimes you need
Speaker 1: a vacation after a vacation nic, you know what, to
Speaker 1: unwind it home. Damn right, my friend, there it is
Speaker 1: right there. So that's what today is. Today. When we're
Speaker 1: done with the show, it will be a vacation after
Speaker 1: our vacation, and then tomorrow a vacation after our vacation's vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep it rolling anyway, Eileen. Awesome as
Speaker 1: always to have you here, sitting across the table from me.
Speaker 1: Sitting across the table from me, sitting across the table
Speaker 1: from me. Oh, just staring up in this space. My
Speaker 1: better half, the co owner, co founder of House Whisper,
Speaker 1: my co designer, my best friend in all the world,
Speaker 1: Tina is here.
Speaker 2: Welcome home.
Speaker 1: There you go. Now you can return to whatever it
Speaker 1: is that you were doing.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm doing is I am doing a
Speaker 3: crash holiday shopping.
Speaker 2: I'm behind. This is weird.
Speaker 3: I usually have all my shopping done and probably all
Speaker 3: my stuff wrapped way before.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know, feel free to do it while
Speaker 1: I'm doing the show.
Speaker 2: Here this morning.
Speaker 1: Free.
Speaker 2: I was sitting by the.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, I'll do the work.
Speaker 1: You just do that. I'll look up for your affirmation,
Speaker 1: and you'll be staring into that screen and I'll just
Speaker 1: look away again. Small tear drops from the eye.
Speaker 2: Now I have seen you.
Speaker 3: Now, sorry everyone if you don't get a Christmas present,
Speaker 3: because I need to take care of d Oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, now the guilt comes. Good lord, All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: let's start talking about I'm going to start right off
Speaker 1: the bat with explaining to you where the divisions are
Speaker 1: between if there are any, are there? Yes, there are
Speaker 1: between antique vintage retro and nostalgia, nostalgic. We will do
Speaker 1: it right after.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Here to help you take your home to the next level.
Speaker 1: Happy to do it. We have an emergency in the studio.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just want to announce this. This chair,
Speaker 1: this chair, the piston on this desk chair. What are
Speaker 1: you laughing at? Why are you laughing at me?
Speaker 2: Because you keep shrinking.
Speaker 1: The piston on this chair is I don't know it's
Speaker 1: leaking or something. But because I set it up at
Speaker 1: their level, at the right level, and even now I
Speaker 1: can literally feel it moving, I think no, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I end up. You know, I start out segment
Speaker 1: as an adult, and I end up as like a
Speaker 1: six year old sitting by sitting in a big chair.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm just saying, wait a second, I got
Speaker 1: to adjust it. All right, I'm tall again, just for
Speaker 1: a moment. All right, let's talk about vintage, antique, retro
Speaker 1: and nostalgic. How do you when you go for this
Speaker 1: kind of decor and you're looking for pieces like this,
Speaker 1: how do you tell the difference between the two. What
Speaker 1: are the line, where are the lines. I like my
Speaker 1: mom's definition of vintage and antique, and she's absolutely one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right. Her definition is vintage is, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhat affordable, and antique is unbelievably expensive. And so when
Speaker 1: something gets labeled antique, just know that, you know, you
Speaker 1: got you gotta write a big check for it. And
Speaker 1: she's right about that. She's right. However, there there actually
Speaker 1: are within the industry some a little bit harder lines
Speaker 1: of definition between the two. And here it is, right.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when you hear me say this,
Speaker 1: don't ever let anybody call you an antique again, all right, never. Never.
Speaker 1: Antique within the decorating and designed industry is something that's
Speaker 1: one hundred years old or older. All right. You got
Speaker 1: to hit the hundred year mark for something to be antique. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there you go. And obviously you know when something
Speaker 1: is approaching it, then you know these are somewhat arbitrary
Speaker 1: and uh, and things get a little fuzzy, you know,
Speaker 1: around the boundary, around the threshold from one to the other.
Speaker 1: But generally speaking, antique is one hundred year old or old,
Speaker 1: which means I am not antique. However, unfortunately, yes, I
Speaker 1: am vintage, because everybody's vintage. I'm assuming. I'm assuming there
Speaker 1: are no teenagers listening to the show, or not many,
Speaker 1: and so although we have a lot of young adults
Speaker 1: who listen to the show. But guess what vintage. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt some of you. Vintage
Speaker 1: in most definitions, right, there's some debate about it, but
Speaker 1: in most definitions, vintage is anything twenty years old to
Speaker 1: ninety nine, twenty to ninety nine. What do you say, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't make it up, Tina, your vintage. I know
Speaker 1: your vintage.
Speaker 2: I was born in the nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: That's true. We're from the nineteen hundreds. I anyway, vintage
Speaker 1: is twenty years old now obviously on the twenty end,
Speaker 1: you know. But here's the thing. This is true. Right
Speaker 1: if you're let's say you're you know, you're. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: touch on this at the end of the show too.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's say you're you're twenty eight years old.
Speaker 1: You're twenty eight years old, and you feel like you're
Speaker 1: in the prime of your youth. But you know, to
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old, you are old. You are old,
Speaker 1: and out of it. And so that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You get twenty years in between the thing, it starts
Speaker 1: to lean towards the vintage side of things. So I'm
Speaker 1: guaranteed everybody who's listening right now is probably vintage as
Speaker 1: far as people go. Here's the thing that is surprising
Speaker 1: to a lot of folks. Retro. Okay, retro is a
Speaker 1: tricky one, and I'll tell you why, because most things
Speaker 1: that are retro, in fact, technically retro is actually new.
Speaker 1: Something that is retro is by definition a new product,
Speaker 1: a new thing that is styled to point back to
Speaker 1: a previous era. Okay, so here's the thing. So you
Speaker 1: go to you if you're out, you know, looking for
Speaker 1: a pair of nineteen seventies genes, you have two choices.
Speaker 1: You can get yourself to a thrift store right and
Speaker 1: maybe find a pair of use the word properly vintage
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies genes, meaning yeah, made in the seventies and
Speaker 1: still in good enough shape to wear. Or you can
Speaker 1: dial up one of ten thousand clothing websites online that
Speaker 1: make retro nineteen seventies ish esque genes and they're brand new.
Speaker 1: They're brand new, but they look like you know that thing.
Speaker 1: So that's the idea. And when it comes to home
Speaker 1: elements furnishings especially, a perfect example this would be appliances
Speaker 1: companies like Smeg. No I did not cough something up.
Speaker 1: That's the name of a retro appliance company, Smeg. They're brilliant,
Speaker 1: they're beautiful. They make an entire line of appliances that
Speaker 1: look very mid century, nineteen fifties esque in the colors,
Speaker 1: the shapes, Socide, but they're brand new, brand new, high tech.
Speaker 1: Smeg also Big Chill, Big Chill, especially for refrigerators, obviously
Speaker 1: by the name of the company. So these are not
Speaker 1: old appliances. These are brand new appliances that would have
Speaker 1: looked perfectly brand new in a nineteen fifties kitchen. So
Speaker 1: antique one hundred years old or older, vintage twenty to
Speaker 1: ninety nine years old, and retro actually new but styled
Speaker 1: to point back to a previous era. Now, all three
Speaker 1: of theseies fall under one umbrella of nostalgic design, nostalgia,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk a little bit about that
Speaker 1: right after.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on Demand from
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Speaker 1: Dean sharp the house, whisper here with you on this crisp, cool,
Speaker 1: sunny southern California Sunday morning. Here right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the month December fifty. Is it the fifteenth? It's
Speaker 1: the fifteenth of December, smack dab in the middle of them.
Speaker 1: That means it's ten days still Christmas. Don't panic, Tina.
Speaker 2: This is why I was panic shopping this morning.
Speaker 1: Don't panic. Just embrace it. Just embrace You're like, ah,
Speaker 1: still ten days still Christmas.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: I see. Well, well, don't get caught up in all
Speaker 1: this materialism. Just breathe it in. Let's do it now.
Speaker 1: Just breathe. There you go, well done. Oh, Eileen, Eileen,
Speaker 1: do you have your head? Uh? I was going to say,
Speaker 1: I have a drone story. Oh yeah, did you see that?
Speaker 1: That that may or may not calm people's thinking. And
Speaker 1: I wonder about this because it wasn't that long ago
Speaker 1: when we were spotting drones, like for four days straight
Speaker 1: in our backyard. I would walk out and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what does that sound? And I'm looking up and like
Speaker 1: there's a drone. Who's who's doing that drone? You know,
Speaker 1: you feel so violated when they're grone hovering over your yard, right,
Speaker 1: So it took me a couple of days to figure out,
Speaker 1: but I kind of noticed the timing and the pattern
Speaker 1: of it, and I realized I walked around. We we
Speaker 1: have a kind of a corner house, so I walked
Speaker 1: her out front around the corner and here is a
Speaker 1: guy from California Edison, uh, operating that drone and UH
Speaker 1: and I to him and he's like, oh yeah, he said.
Speaker 1: I said, you guys didn't send out notice about this.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, we didn't, but technically, you know, we're
Speaker 1: allowed to have the airspace over the the easement over
Speaker 1: the power lines. He's like, but you know, with all
Speaker 1: the recent fires all over southern California, cal Edison is
Speaker 1: inspecting their power lines and especially the residential ones to
Speaker 1: make sure that there aren't trees growing over and touching
Speaker 1: lines and any and they're using drones. They start out
Speaker 1: by using helicopters, but they're now using drones. So you
Speaker 1: might be in a neighborhood where you see drones all
Speaker 1: of a sudden for two or three days and you're like,
Speaker 1: what is going on there? And for us, it was
Speaker 1: Edison just inspecting power lines, which I thought, all right,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's fine. I'd rather actually have a
Speaker 1: drone doing its thing than maybe a helicopter over my
Speaker 1: house for an hour. So there you go. It's possible.
Speaker 1: It's all I'm saying. It's possible or aliens. It's one
Speaker 1: of the two.
Speaker 2: I like that choice.
Speaker 1: I'm going for either meaninglessly safe or tremendously meaningfully terrifying.
Speaker 1: So there's no middle ground. Aliens you don't know very good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could be. They could be aliens inspecting the power lines. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, okay, I should move on to actual content.
Speaker 1: I promised I would talk to you about nostalgia, because
Speaker 1: nostalgic design or nostalgia is really the umbrella category for
Speaker 1: everything that is a period design, everything that is a
Speaker 1: theme of the past, okay, which is most architecture and
Speaker 1: most design. Because there's only a very slim category of
Speaker 1: current contemporary, and I don't really buy it's only contemporary.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy into futuristic design because that's
Speaker 1: just not true. Nobody's designing futuristic design because as far
Speaker 1: as we know, no architects are designers are time traveling
Speaker 1: into the future, and we all know how futuristic design
Speaker 1: turns out. It's kind of you know, if we were
Speaker 1: to believe futuristic design when we were all kids, then
Speaker 1: right about now, we would all be wearing those silver
Speaker 1: shiny suits because that's how all people in the future dressed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's contemporary design that means today, what we're
Speaker 1: doing with today, and then everything including modern modernist is
Speaker 1: now this period, you know, locked mid century of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century. So anyway, nostalgia drives all of this, antiques,
Speaker 1: vintage items, retro design. The word nostalgia, if you didn't know,
Speaker 1: means a sentimental yearning for the past that evokes feelings
Speaker 1: of pleasure with occasional notes sounds like I'm sizzling a dish,
Speaker 1: pleasure with occasional notes of sad. It's true. In fact,
Speaker 1: the word itself, the word nostalgias, derived from ancient Greek,
Speaker 1: the word nostos meaning return and like in time and
Speaker 1: algos meaning pain okay, And it was first coined and
Speaker 1: started being used even though it has Greek origins, in
Speaker 1: the design world about three hundred years ago. So this
Speaker 1: idea of nostalgia, it is those fond memories nostalgia is
Speaker 1: a powerful human emotion, right, and it can be Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can be unhealthy if you get lost in the past,
Speaker 1: if you get trapped in the past. But nostalgia usually,
Speaker 1: and it's surprisingly that there have been major studies done
Speaker 1: on nostalgia, nostalgia usually produces really healthy benefits, psychological and
Speaker 1: emotionally healthy benefits. Excuse me. It creates a determined hopefulness
Speaker 1: about creating the future. And you would think why looking back,
Speaker 1: because it's kind of that like, we did it once,
Speaker 1: we can do this again kind of thing. It creates
Speaker 1: motivation to resolve interpersonal issues and rekindle relationships and reconnect
Speaker 1: with old friends and reprioritize important things. Nostalgia in design
Speaker 1: and decor can be a way of clarifying and embracing
Speaker 1: personal values rooted in lessons of the past. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about I'm not talking about political stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about like, well, yeah, you know that's the
Speaker 1: way when things work great, That's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But I am talking about looking back at things from
Speaker 1: the past, things like craftsmanship, passion, patience, simplicity, a simpler life, right,
Speaker 1: a higher quality of life, contentment, engagement, wisdom, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it, that kind of they don't make
Speaker 1: them like they used to, So guess what, we're going
Speaker 1: to start that again right now. And then the whole
Speaker 1: idea of like those who don't learn from history are
Speaker 1: doomed to repeat, and so nostalgia has locked up inside
Speaker 1: of it, all of that kind of stuff, all of
Speaker 1: these personal values that you can declare through design and
Speaker 1: decor that you know, these things are important to me,
Speaker 1: These things are important to me. Therefore, these are the
Speaker 1: items that we have, the pieces or the facets of
Speaker 1: our home that harken back to a time when dot
Speaker 1: dot dot and then you just fill in the blank
Speaker 1: from your own personal story. So they're way again as
Speaker 1: all things of designing and defining a personal story. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I think this. I think any design theme rooted
Speaker 1: in the past brings emotional comfort, the comfort of being
Speaker 1: a kind of a known quantity, right because the future
Speaker 1: is unknown, the present is confusing. The past, you know,
Speaker 1: we like the past because it feels more settled. It's past,
Speaker 1: it's it's knowable, it's comforting, and it's dependable because it
Speaker 1: doesn't have any more surprises for us. Right there, it is, right,
Speaker 1: And so there is a sense of rootedness to that,
Speaker 1: like I like this because guess what, I'm sort of
Speaker 1: just embracing the idea that some things aren't gonna change,
Speaker 1: some things are just set the way they are, and
Speaker 1: I like it this way. So that is what is
Speaker 1: driving And now that felt a little bit, you know
Speaker 1: ethereal that all that, But you got to understand when
Speaker 1: we're reaching for this massive, massive section of design and decor, antiques,
Speaker 1: vintage items, retro items, got to understand what lies at
Speaker 1: the root of it all, and it is nostalgia. It
Speaker 1: is the nostalgic effect that these elements have upon our
Speaker 1: human brains and upon human beings that we are all right.
Speaker 1: So now the question is what do you do with
Speaker 1: an antique or a vintage item? Right, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about retro because we know it's brand new, But if
Speaker 1: you're shopping for vintage or antique, then you're going to
Speaker 1: find those things in various states, various conditions, various states
Speaker 1: of repair or disrepair or preservation. And the lesson is
Speaker 1: going to be what we do two antique inventioned items
Speaker 1: vintage items depends on what we plan to do with them. Okay,
Speaker 1: what we do to them has everything to do with
Speaker 1: what we plan to do with them. And there's about
Speaker 1: five categories of things that you might do with them.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it all.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Forty Welcome home, Hey, coming up kids, next segment, right
Speaker 1: after the next news break, we're going to the phones.
Speaker 1: We got a few calls on the board. We've got
Speaker 1: room for you. Eight three three two. Ask Dean A
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Speaker 1: after our next break. So gifts a call now. Producer
Speaker 1: Matt standing by anything you want to talk about regarding
Speaker 1: your home design, construction, DIY, inside, outside, all around, anything
Speaker 1: at all that's got you scratching your head, give me
Speaker 1: a call. We'll put our heads together, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: We will all right back to antique, vintage, retro, nostalgic design.
Speaker 1: Kind of trying to demystify this for you today, for
Speaker 1: those of you, and I know there are a lot
Speaker 1: of you who are thinking in terms of, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of my bag and I've always wanted to acquire
Speaker 1: these items, find places for them, integrate them well into
Speaker 1: our home, all of that. So now the question is
Speaker 1: what do you do to these items? Because, as I
Speaker 1: said right before the break, you know, you go out
Speaker 1: shopping for antiques and vintage items, and this is probably
Speaker 1: more likely that you find a vintage item in disrepair
Speaker 1: than an antique, because the longer something hangs around and
Speaker 1: is handed around from person to person, the more antique
Speaker 1: it gets, the higher the chance is that somebody along
Speaker 1: the way has restored it, or preserved it or what
Speaker 1: have you. A lot of vintage stuff that's just it's
Speaker 1: showing its age, showing weathering, may be broken in part,
Speaker 1: may be in need of refinishing, all of that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So the question is do you just treat
Speaker 1: it all the same? Is that going to be the plan?
Speaker 1: And my answer to that is no, what you do
Speaker 1: to an antique or a vintage item depends on what
Speaker 1: you plan to do with them. Okay, now what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Well, there are let's say five or six
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at my notes here, I think, yeah, six,
Speaker 1: I've got six categories of things that you generally do
Speaker 1: with it. Okay, so we're going to preserve an antique
Speaker 1: or a vintage item, if it's already in the shape
Speaker 1: that we want it to be in, Tina, catch me
Speaker 1: on this. We're going to restore it. Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: whole nother category. Now we're going to bring it back, Okay.
Speaker 1: Restoration means that our aim is to bring it back
Speaker 1: as close to its new state as possible, or we're
Speaker 1: gonna remodel it, Okay, depending on you know, whether or
Speaker 1: not we are how we plan to use it. So
Speaker 1: there's three things that we do too. Antique advenage items, preserve,
Speaker 1: restore or remodel them depending on three things we plan
Speaker 1: to do with them, and that would be we're gonna
Speaker 1: display them, We're going to reuse them. Okay. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're going to reuse, meaning you're gonna put it back
Speaker 1: into service, Okay, that's a whole another as you can imagine.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a whole nother ballgame. Right. So, here
Speaker 1: is a vintage or an antique foot driven singer sewing machine, right,
Speaker 1: beautiful black, right, it's got all And if the plan
Speaker 1: is to display it, then maybe you choose to leave
Speaker 1: it in its state of aged decay as it were,
Speaker 1: or maybe you want to really restore it to its
Speaker 1: beauty superficially. So maybe you're gonna, you know, do your
Speaker 1: best to just clean it all of the bare stainless
Speaker 1: steel parts. You just get them looking shiny and new,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna do your best with the paint work,
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit of touch up if necessary.
Speaker 1: But if you're not planning to reuse it, then you
Speaker 1: don't have to get into the mechanism and worry about
Speaker 1: whether the mechanism is functional or not, or whether it's slipping,
Speaker 1: or you know, whether the fabric foot is grabbing properly
Speaker 1: or all of that. That's a whole other level. So
Speaker 1: it's one level to display an item, it's another level
Speaker 1: of demand if you plan to reuse an item, or
Speaker 1: it's a whole another approach to the item if you
Speaker 1: plan to repurpose it, okay, And I would say that
Speaker 1: the vast majority, well, I would say from my experience,
Speaker 1: the majority of antique and vintage pieces get a repurposed okay.
Speaker 1: Next to that, they would be displayed and the smallest
Speaker 1: category would be fully restored and reused. And what do
Speaker 1: I mean by repurpose? Repurposing is very simple to understand
Speaker 1: repurposing means, well, I'll give you an example. We have
Speaker 1: a ten gallon galvanized milk can in our home. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's one of those milk cans, you know. It stands
Speaker 1: like twenty four inches tall, and it harkens back to
Speaker 1: yester year of from a dairy. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: not a thing you keep in your fridge. This is
Speaker 1: the big milk hands coming straight from the dairy. And
Speaker 1: the reason is our daughter in law's family used to
Speaker 1: own the dairy. They're from Fremont, Ohio, and their family heritage,
Speaker 1: her dad's family heritage was the you know, the owners
Speaker 1: and operators of Linders Dairy. And so what Tina and
Speaker 1: I did We found an old online. We found an
Speaker 1: old example of Linder's dairy labels, and we recreated the label. Bought,
Speaker 1: you know, a ten gallon milk can and put the
Speaker 1: label on the milk can. And now the milk can
Speaker 1: holds a potted plant on top of it. Right, it's
Speaker 1: not holding milk. It is repurposed to be on display
Speaker 1: and also doing another thing. And so that's repurposing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, well, I bought this beautiful bowl and
Speaker 1: now I'm going to put a succulent in it or
Speaker 1: something like that. So you get what I'm saying, all right,
Speaker 1: There's so much more to discuss here, details and tips
Speaker 1: on how to do each one of these things. We're
Speaker 1: going to return to it, but first, after the break,
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