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Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about hanging stuff inside your home today.
Speaker 1: I want to get back to that now. I just
Speaker 1: talked to you. Did you go did you look at
Speaker 1: monkey Hooks? Did the A students? Did you went and
Speaker 1: checked out monkey Hooks? You saw what they are? Right?
Speaker 1: They're cool. They're cool. Now, it's not an end all.
Speaker 1: There's there's no one thing that is the right thing
Speaker 1: for every situation. That is why we've taken you through
Speaker 1: the steps this morning. You got to figure out what
Speaker 1: your wall conditions are. You got to figure out whether
Speaker 1: you're going to be punching through drywall, drilling into plaster,
Speaker 1: or going into wood. You know, which is a really
Speaker 1: really secure way of hanging a thing if you've got
Speaker 1: wood that you hit behind the dry wall or the surface.
Speaker 1: But also you need to know, because you came home
Speaker 1: with hollow wall anchors that the expectation is there is
Speaker 1: no wood there and all of a sudden you hit
Speaker 1: a stud. Then you know you don't have the right
Speaker 1: anchor in your hand for what you want to hang,
Speaker 1: which will lead us to the question of should you
Speaker 1: have a stud finder? And I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: bad idea for any homeowner to have a stud finder.
Speaker 1: A stud finder is simply a device that will allow
Speaker 1: you to figure out where the studs are in any
Speaker 1: given area of your wall. Yes, they are. Stud finders
Speaker 1: can be very, very confusing because they can be priced
Speaker 1: anywhere from five dollars literally five dollars up to hundreds
Speaker 1: of dollars. So wow, what's the deal with the stud finder? Well,
Speaker 1: very very expensive stud finders can be adjusted to different
Speaker 1: thicknesses of walls. They can read through plywood walls, concrete walls.
Speaker 1: They can identify things like electrical lines and plumbing pipes
Speaker 1: and various other things like that. They really are kind
Speaker 1: of a pro tool. And you know, hey, if you
Speaker 1: got money to burn and you want an expensive stud finder,
Speaker 1: you're going to want to learn how to use it.
Speaker 1: That's great. Otherwise, a simple basic stud finder for you
Speaker 1: will actually work really well. I mean something in the
Speaker 1: thirty dollar range. And if it's just as simple as
Speaker 1: looking for studs in a hollow wall dry wall setup,
Speaker 1: then you know what one of the five dollars stud find.
Speaker 1: What is a five dollars studfinder. It's a magnet set
Speaker 1: on a swivel, Okay, And why is that effective? Because
Speaker 1: studs are made out of wood, Dean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody told you, but studs are not magnetic. Now
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, I stand corrected. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. Drywall screws are made out of metal.
Speaker 1: And so you've got studs in your wall, and the
Speaker 1: drywall has been hung with drywall screws that have been
Speaker 1: covered over, they've been mudded over, so you don't see them, hopefully,
Speaker 1: but they're still there. And so for every stud wall
Speaker 1: that you have in your wall, you've got drywall screws,
Speaker 1: usually at about every twelve inches, all the way up
Speaker 1: the entire length of that stud And so if you
Speaker 1: take a little magnetic stud finder, which has no battery,
Speaker 1: no redoubt, it just simply has a magnet on a swivel,
Speaker 1: and when the magnet finds metal right under the surface
Speaker 1: of the drywall mud, it points to it, and a
Speaker 1: little the other end of the magnet, which is red,
Speaker 1: points straight at you and says, hey, it's a drywall screw,
Speaker 1: which means, hey, we just found the stud. And there
Speaker 1: you go, and you can test it by going a
Speaker 1: foot higher and it'll happen again, and a foot higher
Speaker 1: and it'll happen again, and then you slide over about
Speaker 1: sixteen inches okay on average studs. By the way, stud
Speaker 1: walls for stick style framing are either sixteen or twenty
Speaker 1: four inches on center, so you either go over sixteen
Speaker 1: more inches you'll fight.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: They can be closer than that, but they can't be
Speaker 1: further away from that, because that's code. And that's why
Speaker 1: you can use something as simple as a magnetic studfinder
Speaker 1: to find the studs in a wall and you can
Speaker 1: bypass all the other crazy side again, a brilliantly simple
Speaker 1: device right for helping you figure out whether you're going
Speaker 1: to hang your painting or your photo right where a
Speaker 1: stud is, or whether you're going to have to deal
Speaker 1: with the hollow wall situation with hollow wall angers. Now,
Speaker 1: what if we're renting, or what if we've got a
Speaker 1: century old house and we've got plaster, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: we don't want to do any damage to the wall.
Speaker 1: No damage to the wall minimal. We don't want to
Speaker 1: put holes in the wall. We but we still want
Speaker 1: to hang some stuff. What about surface mount adhesive based hangers. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a qualified yes, maybe, depending on a number of factors.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, just raising this subject,
Speaker 1: one of the comments that I get most are for
Speaker 1: three M command strips because they're at every you know,
Speaker 1: home improvement there, at every hardware store, hanging right up
Speaker 1: front three M. They're like, look, don't amateur wall just
Speaker 1: peel and stick and hang your photos. In theory, sure,
Speaker 1: in practicality, maybe let's talk about why they work and
Speaker 1: what makes them not work.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program here in the
Speaker 1: third hour of our fine program. On a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: fall day in southern California. Things are cooling down. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of a cooler week. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: nice southern California fall ish, you know, right for in
Speaker 1: time for Halloween, which is great. I hope you've got
Speaker 1: plans to get out in this lovely day today we do. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna We're gonna get on the bikes. After
Speaker 1: the show, We're get on the bikes. We're gonna head
Speaker 1: off somewhere. I don't know where we're gonna go, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna go somewhere on the bikes. Maybe ride to lunch. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but uh, we're gonna get out in it.
Speaker 1: Get the heart pump and some It's a gorgeous day
Speaker 1: to be outside. So make some plants, all right, take
Speaker 1: my advice, make some plants. All right. We're talking about
Speaker 1: hanging stuff on your walls. We've come to the place
Speaker 1: now where we arrive and perhaps the most controversial of
Speaker 1: all of these systems of hanging things on your wall,
Speaker 1: and that is the no damage quote unquote, Dean's doing
Speaker 1: air quotes here, no damage surface anchors, which means adhesive anchors.
Speaker 1: And I said right before the break that I get
Speaker 1: the most comments from people about three M command anchors.
Speaker 1: That's their brand, because they're literally just hanging in every
Speaker 1: you go down the picture hanging eye or whatever at
Speaker 1: the hardware store, and there they are just everywhere, all
Speaker 1: these packages and the claim is it's three m okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, so you trust that name, right, But the
Speaker 1: claim is, hey, look, you just push these on the wall,
Speaker 1: hang your stuff. When you're done, peel them off. They
Speaker 1: come off clean, no damage, and you're good to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying it. No, I don't, because I've seen
Speaker 1: and heard too many stories of like, well, yeah, In fact,
Speaker 1: Conway was telling me even on Thursday night he was
Speaker 1: a victim of the command hanger. He's like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I put those on the wall and then I just wait,
Speaker 1: I just wait. Days later, all of a sudden, in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, smash, crash, Man, what happened?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just fell off, just fell off the wall.
Speaker 1: So here's my issue with it. My issue with command
Speaker 1: hangers or surface mount hangers is, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: conceptually I'm all for it, but in practical terms, who
Speaker 1: is worried about not damaging the walls? Well, probably renters.
Speaker 1: If you don't own the place you're you're in the
Speaker 1: group that's most concerned about not doing damage to the wall,
Speaker 1: and rightly, so, okay, if you're renting, chances are you're
Speaker 1: also living in a place in which the landlord has
Speaker 1: spent the least amount of money on the paint on
Speaker 1: the walls, okay, And have no doubt about it that
Speaker 1: you are not sticking an adhesive wallhanger to a wall.
Speaker 1: You are sticking an adhesive wallhanger onto paint, okay, which
Speaker 1: is itself clinging to the wall. So, if the paint
Speaker 1: in your place is in any way shape or form
Speaker 1: a little powdery, if you can rub it with your
Speaker 1: hand and you get a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: white residue on your hand, flat paint on a wall
Speaker 1: because it's old or it was thin, or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, this is not a strong candidate for
Speaker 1: your adhesive hangers. Okay. Second is the fact that so
Speaker 1: you can see, well, i'll just put it this way,
Speaker 1: you can see the conflict that I have. If you've
Speaker 1: got the best possible paint on the wall, it's probably
Speaker 1: because you own the place, at which point you're probably
Speaker 1: the least concerned about doing damage to the wall because
Speaker 1: it's your house and I want my painting right here,
Speaker 1: and I don't care I'm putting a hole in the wall.
Speaker 1: It's my house. I'm not going to forfeit my security
Speaker 1: deposit to myself. So that's the home that has the
Speaker 1: best shaped wall conditions, and yet command hangers are almost
Speaker 1: inevitably sold to renters who probably have the worst walls
Speaker 1: to put adhesive strips onto. So that's an issue that
Speaker 1: I have. The second thing is understanding that the condition
Speaker 1: of the wall, not just the quality of the paint,
Speaker 1: but is it a little dirty, doesn't have any oily
Speaker 1: residue on it? Have we completely cleaned that surface? Have
Speaker 1: we given it a wipe down with some rubbing alcohol
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's as clean as possible? And
Speaker 1: then finally, have we applied the hook the way it
Speaker 1: should be applied? And you're like, well, wait a second,
Speaker 1: it's peel and stick, Dean, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but did
Speaker 1: you know that your best odds for having one of
Speaker 1: those command hangars stick is to peel off the backing
Speaker 1: after you've properly cleaned the wall in the best possible condition,
Speaker 1: push it on because it's a foam tape, right to
Speaker 1: push it on, and then hold it depressed with as
Speaker 1: much pressure as possible against the wall and that foam
Speaker 1: tape for about thirty seconds. Yeah, that's kind of a inconvenient,
Speaker 1: but it's the proper way to give that adhesive the
Speaker 1: best chance, to give the foam the best chance of
Speaker 1: molding around the microsurface of the wall so that it's
Speaker 1: got the best chance of holding. And even at that,
Speaker 1: even at that, am I going to hang something really
Speaker 1: valuable there? When I know that there is a likely
Speaker 1: that a number of different conditions. Too much moisture in
Speaker 1: the air, it gets too dry, the wall paint is
Speaker 1: not as good as I thought it was, so on
Speaker 1: and so forth, all these conditions that can make one
Speaker 1: of these adhesive hooks fall off a wall. Am I
Speaker 1: going to put something valuable there? Now? Probably not? So
Speaker 1: there you go. So does Dean love adhesive surface mount
Speaker 1: of hangars? No he does not. Does he trust them?
Speaker 1: No he does not. Has he used them? Yes? Yes
Speaker 1: I have? Ah ah Where why I'll tell you why?
Speaker 1: And where I do find them valuable in a couple
Speaker 1: of situations, on glass, on stone, and on metal surfaces.
Speaker 1: Why because they can be cleaned, prepped. We're not relying
Speaker 1: on paint. And that's where an adhesive really shines, Okay,
Speaker 1: really really shines. Does a good adhesive leave something behind
Speaker 1: when you peel it off? Yeah, it does, because it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be grabbing onto the wall. So just don't
Speaker 1: buy into this idea that, you know what, you'll stick
Speaker 1: this thing on, it'll stay on for five years and
Speaker 1: when you pull it off, it will just come off cleanly.
Speaker 1: How does that even make sense that the an adhesive
Speaker 1: is super strong, clings to the wall, and yet just
Speaker 1: by the power of your willing it to not stick,
Speaker 1: when you pull it off, it leaves no marks behind.
Speaker 1: It's either a weak adhesive that leaves the wall clean
Speaker 1: or it's a strong adhesive that leaves itself behind and
Speaker 1: mars the wall. So the idea of a no damage
Speaker 1: wall adhesive not buying it. Okay, I want it to
Speaker 1: stick and be a problem when I pull it off,
Speaker 1: or it's not gonna stick and I don't want to
Speaker 1: hang it in the first place. All right, I'm done,
Speaker 1: I'm off my soapbox about wall adhesive surface anchors. Right,
Speaker 1: But on glass which has no surface to damage, I
Speaker 1: mean you could even use a little glass scraper and
Speaker 1: clean it off. Or stone or metal surfaces that you
Speaker 1: don't want to be drilling into. Then there you go,
Speaker 1: and guess what those are The surfaces that they hold
Speaker 1: to the very best for the very longest. All right,
Speaker 1: moving on now into the final turn on our raceway,
Speaker 1: our journey towards hanging things properly. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about how high where on a wall to actually place
Speaker 1: this stuff and are there any tools out there that
Speaker 1: will help you significantly, because there is some. You know,
Speaker 1: if you go to the most hardware stores of the
Speaker 1: big box store, you're going to find at least one
Speaker 1: or two what I would call as seen on TV
Speaker 1: kind of like look at this hanging kit. Buy this kit.
Speaker 1: Spend thirty dollars on this kit. It's the wonder hanging
Speaker 1: kit and it will make hanging pictures perfectly, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk about it.
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Speaker 1: for everybody here. All right, let's let's get into the
Speaker 1: final steps. Here. I've covered all the anchors. Now let's
Speaker 1: talk about just a couple of items of the actual
Speaker 1: process of hanging stuff on your wall. How high do
Speaker 1: you hang a thing? Well, if it's a large, significant
Speaker 1: kind of painting or piece of artwork or a photo.
Speaker 1: Here's the Now, these are all guidelines, not rules, not laws,
Speaker 1: not inviolable laws, just guidelines. Okay. This is how, for instance,
Speaker 1: things are hung in art galleries to maximize your viewing
Speaker 1: of said object. And that is very simply the center
Speaker 1: of the item, from top to bottom, the center of
Speaker 1: the item. You try and target it at eye level,
Speaker 1: not your height, okay, eye level, eye level of those
Speaker 1: So and if you live in a home with height
Speaker 1: challenged people, we'll just put it that way. Shorties like
Speaker 1: my wife's entire family, or taller people, and you want
Speaker 1: to maximize the viewing pleasure of you said people in
Speaker 1: your family, then you know what, measure everybody's height and
Speaker 1: take an average and say, okay, this is where we're going.
Speaker 1: But typically eye level for the average adult human being
Speaker 1: is right about sixty inches, right in the high fifties,
Speaker 1: right about sixty inches to the center of the item.
Speaker 1: So there you go optimal viewing level. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: doing a collage of a bunch of different frames and
Speaker 1: photos all together in one clump, then try and get
Speaker 1: the clump centered at eye level right, So it works
Speaker 1: either way, whether it's just one item or a grouping
Speaker 1: of items, try and get the grouping roughly at eye
Speaker 1: level when you can. Now. The exception to this. One
Speaker 1: of the exceptions to this is if you've got a
Speaker 1: wall that the item is sharing with, maybe a door
Speaker 1: or a window, right, so you may want to consider
Speaker 1: may and again not a rule, but you may want
Speaker 1: to consider hanging that item with its top level to
Speaker 1: the top of the other elements, like level to the
Speaker 1: height of the window or the door. Or if there's
Speaker 1: a pair of scance lights in the room, you may
Speaker 1: want to align it to one of those immovable permanent features.
Speaker 1: The key is you know, take a look at it
Speaker 1: and see how it looks. And the most important part
Speaker 1: of this is a rule that I've told you again
Speaker 1: and again, and I'm going to apply it here as well.
Speaker 1: From a design perspective. In the world of design and craftsmanship,
Speaker 1: when it comes to aesthetics, you either want to get
Speaker 1: it right on the money or miss it by a mile. Okay.
Speaker 1: So in other words, if you're going to hang it
Speaker 1: at the height of the door, like you've got a
Speaker 1: frame that's going to go right next to a door,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, I think it would be,
Speaker 1: then get it right at the top of that doorcasing
Speaker 1: right where that door's line is on the wall. Make
Speaker 1: sure you get it boom right on the money, or
Speaker 1: don't get close, miss it by several inches, lower, higher, whatever.
Speaker 1: A near miss always looks like a mistake. So right
Speaker 1: next to a door or a window and down a
Speaker 1: half an inch or up one inch too high, that
Speaker 1: looks like it's something wrong misaligned. So either hit it
Speaker 1: right on the money or miss it by a mile.
Speaker 1: Either is totally acceptable. Near misses always always look like
Speaker 1: mistakes in colors, textures, in alignment of things. We just
Speaker 1: don't close only is good for horseshoes, not for decor
Speaker 1: inside a house. So miss it by a mile or
Speaker 1: hit it right on the money. Okay. How to measure
Speaker 1: is challenge because it all has to do with where
Speaker 1: the hanging exists on the back of the item. But basically,
Speaker 1: have a good tape measure or a ruler on hands
Speaker 1: so that you can estimate properly where the hanging point
Speaker 1: is in relationship to the top, bottom, or sides of
Speaker 1: the item, and then account for that when you're actually
Speaker 1: making marks on the wall. But I got to tell
Speaker 1: you this, as far as the tools, okay, go here
Speaker 1: is the very best hanging tool that you can acquire
Speaker 1: for putting stuff up on your walls is a friend,
Speaker 1: all right, somebody standing back giving them giving you their perspective,
Speaker 1: or you standing back and them holding it on the
Speaker 1: wall so that you can see how it works out right,
Speaker 1: and you can make that that's just the best. Tina
Speaker 1: and I always work together when we're hanging stuff in
Speaker 1: a client's home or in our own home, right, So
Speaker 1: the best tool you can acquire for the day that
Speaker 1: you're hanging important stuff is a friend. The second best
Speaker 1: tool is blue masking tape. Blue masking tape is in
Speaker 1: fact the thing that it has all the qualities that
Speaker 1: I talked against when it came to surface anchors. Blue
Speaker 1: masking tape does not have a strong adhesive. It does
Speaker 1: not easily do damage to walls, nor does it stick
Speaker 1: for very long. But that's to your advantage. Blue masking tape.
Speaker 1: We use it all the time to draw out frames, pictures, doorways,
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff that we use to emulate shapes
Speaker 1: on walls. And then we stand back and look at
Speaker 1: it and we're like, yeah, I think that'll work. No,
Speaker 1: let's lower it down by about three inches. And then
Speaker 1: you grab the tape and you pull it off, and
Speaker 1: you lower it three inches down. You move it left
Speaker 1: or right. Blue masking tape is your friend when it
Speaker 1: comes to planning this out. Here's what you don't do, okay,
Speaker 1: what you don't do is take a guess at it.
Speaker 1: Put all the holes in the walls, put all the
Speaker 1: hangers in place, hang all the stuff by yourself without
Speaker 1: giving it any consideration as to whether or not you're
Speaker 1: exactly where you should be, and then stand back and say, hey, babe,
Speaker 1: come on in here, tell me if this is okay.
Speaker 1: You've already made all these holes. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Use and a simulation first, that's the point. So if
Speaker 1: you have a friend or a partner with you, they
Speaker 1: can hold it up. And if it's not too big,
Speaker 1: they can hold these things in place. If it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, use the blue masking tape, or if
Speaker 1: it's a big thing like a big screen TV or something,
Speaker 1: use the blue masking tape on the wall and get
Speaker 1: your concepts down so that you know, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: where it's going. It's going right here, and then you
Speaker 1: put your hangers in place properly measured from the top
Speaker 1: of the tape and from the sides, and you're good
Speaker 1: to go. All right, So a little planning, a little simulation,
Speaker 1: a little emulation first before you commit to the hanging itself.
Speaker 1: And if there's multiple things being hung all the way
Speaker 1: across the room and you want to get them all
Speaker 1: at the same level, then an inexpensive laser would would
Speaker 1: be really really useful as well. And nowadays an inexpensive
Speaker 1: interior room leveling laser level you know, you can pick
Speaker 1: those up for less than fifty bucks. And what they
Speaker 1: do is they cast a beautifully level horizontal line all
Speaker 1: the way around a room, on every surface without marking
Speaker 1: or marring anything. And even if the line is not
Speaker 1: exactly at the level where the image is going to
Speaker 1: go where the thing that you're hanging on the wall is,
Speaker 1: then everything measures up from that level or down from
Speaker 1: that level perfectly to that same spot. And so laser
Speaker 1: levels are fantastic little tools. But the tool that you
Speaker 1: don't need is very likely that specialty wonder tool at
Speaker 1: the hardware store or that claims that to buy this
Speaker 1: thing and it will magically get all of your hanging right.
Speaker 1: You don't need to do that. Don't waste your money
Speaker 1: on that. Just understand the item that you're hanging, have
Speaker 1: a friend or a partner with you, maybe a laser
Speaker 1: level and some blue tape, and guess what, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it all done right. I guarantee it all right,
Speaker 1: y'all when we come back. A couple of final thoughts
Speaker 1: for that and a closing thought for you for the day.
Speaker 1: So hang with us your Home with Dean Sharp the
Speaker 1: house whisper.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Here we are at the end of another three hours
Speaker 1: together I hope it has been useful to you. It
Speaker 1: has been fun for us as well to have you
Speaker 1: here with us. I hope you've learned some things about
Speaker 1: what to do and what not to do when it
Speaker 1: comes to hanging stuff inside your home. I know it's
Speaker 1: just a small light thing, you know. We're not talking
Speaker 1: about your concrete foundations or your roof or major architectural
Speaker 1: design elements. The fact of the matter is the way
Speaker 1: that we decorate our homes at the end of the
Speaker 1: day is the stuff that we interact with constantly, and
Speaker 1: it's no guarantee that people get it right just because
Speaker 1: it's a lighter subject to deal with. So I'm glad
Speaker 1: to spend the time with you doing that. Couple of
Speaker 1: last things to talk to you about in regards to
Speaker 1: this particular topic, and that is this, there are some
Speaker 1: classic approaches to displaying things in your home that we
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned that have nothing to do with making wall
Speaker 1: holes in your wall. If you have a classic home,
Speaker 1: a home that you're really really wanting to create that
Speaker 1: classic ambiance with, if you've got a century home, an
Speaker 1: older home, one hundred year old home with plaster walls,
Speaker 1: and you know how hard it is to commit to
Speaker 1: making holes in those walls, even if you do it
Speaker 1: the right way. Okay, then how about this, how about
Speaker 1: at the end of the day doing it old school?
Speaker 1: And what do I mean by old school? I mean
Speaker 1: that you install a molding in a room that is
Speaker 1: in fact called a picture rail. What is a picture
Speaker 1: rail molding? It goes near the top of the wall.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is in fact incorporated into crown molding. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a few inches just below the crown molding. It's
Speaker 1: a decorative molding, but it is shaped in such a
Speaker 1: way that a hook can be placed over the edge
Speaker 1: of that molding, and then from there a silk rope,
Speaker 1: or in a contemporary home, a wire cable coming down
Speaker 1: that actually hangs the object on the wall. In other words,
Speaker 1: all objects on the wall are being hung from the
Speaker 1: picture rail. And this is something that is as old
Speaker 1: as colonial and Victorian architecture. Knowing that expensive wallpapers back
Speaker 1: in the day and thick, hard plaster walls are not
Speaker 1: the ideal places to put holes in picture rail at
Speaker 1: the top of the wall ensured that these things were
Speaker 1: not being marred or damaged at all, because everything was
Speaker 1: hanging down on its own attractive hangar from that rail
Speaker 1: that is just as classic as it gets. And if
Speaker 1: you think it has to be an older home, we
Speaker 1: do it in ultra modern contemporary homes. In fact, galleries
Speaker 1: will use picture rail. Now it's a metal rail. It
Speaker 1: may be brass, it may be black. It may be
Speaker 1: you know, some cool brushed stainless steel, very low profile
Speaker 1: with wire or cable hangers coming down. Or it can
Speaker 1: be all froofy and beautiful and ornate and victorian with
Speaker 1: twisted you know, silk rods and little angry things, little
Speaker 1: pump pums on the edge. It can all get really
Speaker 1: really fancy or very very streamlined. But it is one solution.
Speaker 1: And if it's your place and you want something super secure,
Speaker 1: the other advantage of using a higher molding like that
Speaker 1: is that the molding is definitely going to get attached
Speaker 1: to the studs through the wall very very securely, and
Speaker 1: it holds an awful lot of weight and so you
Speaker 1: never have to worry about having something fall on you
Speaker 1: in that regard. And then the last thing is sometimes
Speaker 1: something super special just deserves to go on the mantle,
Speaker 1: or buy an easel for it. If you've got room
Speaker 1: in a room to display something that truly is a
Speaker 1: focal point of attention, a beautiful painting or a family
Speaker 1: photo or somebody special. Then place it on an easel
Speaker 1: and make it a piece of furniture in the room.
Speaker 1: All Right, there you go. That's what I got for
Speaker 1: you today. And I thought I would leave you with
Speaker 1: a closing thought. I, for whatever reason, have been thinking
Speaker 1: a lot about being overwhelmed with information and distractions. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's just it's a combination of the fact that
Speaker 1: the world that we live in now, it's these phones
Speaker 1: that we carry around with us constantly screaming at us,
Speaker 1: every form of advertisement in media constantly coming at us.
Speaker 1: And it's probably also election season and the fact that
Speaker 1: it's all been ramped up that much more, and just
Speaker 1: looking for quiet and centeredness. That's probably what led me
Speaker 1: this morning as I was sitting by the fire pit,
Speaker 1: just thinking about if there was anything I wanted to
Speaker 1: say today to this thought. So based on that, I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave you with this thought today. The greatest
Speaker 1: gift any human has to give is their time and attention.
Speaker 1: Think about that. That's because time and attention are what
Speaker 1: we have the least of what we need the most.
Speaker 1: And what we are all running out of things. Take time,
Speaker 1: We give our time, We invest our time. We don't
Speaker 1: want anything or anyone to waste our time. People want
Speaker 1: our attention. They beg for our attention, they compete for it,
Speaker 1: they fight for it. And to whomoever wins or earns
Speaker 1: our attention, we will pay attention. Now listen to those
Speaker 1: words take, give, invest, waste, want, beg for, compete for,
Speaker 1: fight for win, earn pay. These are the words we
Speaker 1: use around costly things. But here's another word, a devaluing,
Speaker 1: losing word, perhaps right now, the most terrible word of
Speaker 1: all distraction. So today, right now, you are in sole
Speaker 1: possession and in control of a limited and dwindling resource
Speaker 1: that the whole world wants a piece of your time
Speaker 1: and attention. Or perhaps I've overspoken. Perhaps you're not in
Speaker 1: control of it. Perhaps the endless assault on your time
Speaker 1: and attention has you lost and adrift in a sea
Speaker 1: of distractions. How are you going to find your way home?
Speaker 1: There's no sense in hoping or waiting for the world
Speaker 1: to quiet down. That ship has sailed. You're going to
Speaker 1: have to take back your time, guard your time like
Speaker 1: the precious thing that it is. You're going to have
Speaker 1: to start giving great intention to who or what receives
Speaker 1: your attention, and it's not going to be easy. You
Speaker 1: might even discover you're addicted to being distracted. You might
Speaker 1: discover you don't like the company of your own thought
Speaker 1: and feelings. Once you get there, I get it, I
Speaker 1: feel you. But I'm here to remind you you possess
Speaker 1: nothing more valuable, nothing more valuable. I write this for
Speaker 1: you and for me. We all need reminding. No one
Speaker 1: masters this. All you can do is keep fighting for it.
Speaker 1: And those who do choose to fight for and compete
Speaker 1: for and win back their own time and their own attention.
Speaker 1: Those people, and only those people, are gonna be the
Speaker 1: ones that can find their way back home. Those people,
Speaker 1: and only those people, have the resources to build themselves
Speaker 1: a beautiful life. And I'm gonna leave you with that
Speaker 1: thought today, Give it some thought, enjoy this beautiful day
Speaker 1: ahead of you, and we will see you right back
Speaker 1: here next weekend. This has been Home with Dean Sharp
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