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Speaker 1: morning of kind of just a casual conversation between friends,
Speaker 1: of freeing your mind when it comes to approaching your remodel,
Speaker 1: so that you think a little bit bigger, so you
Speaker 1: dream a little bit bigger, a little bit more creatively,
Speaker 1: include more thoughts, do more research in areas that you
Speaker 1: would normally limit yourself from going to learn more, see more,
Speaker 1: experience more, demand a little bit more out of this
Speaker 1: remodel instead of doing what you normally do, which is
Speaker 1: to your credit of making do not when it comes
Speaker 1: to customizing your home. Now is the time to not
Speaker 1: make do and get out of the way of your home.
Speaker 1: Now is the time for the home to get out
Speaker 1: of your way and for it to give and to move.
Speaker 1: Got me all right? Well, a little more on this
Speaker 1: as we go, But right now I'm taking calls on
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the phones. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hi bean. I have a question in regards to retrociting
Speaker 2: my at events, I have an at a fan and
Speaker 2: a whole house fan. Can we retrofit the event with
Speaker 2: those two things in there?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you absolutely can. First of all, the whole
Speaker 1: house fan is it does not need retrofitting. That's not
Speaker 1: a part of the venting system. A whole house fan
Speaker 1: is what is drawing air from your open windows at night,
Speaker 1: you know, drawing air through the house and pushing it
Speaker 1: out through the attic. And so a whole house fan
Speaker 1: number one only creates positive pressure out of the attic
Speaker 1: and it is not a vent for embers to get
Speaker 1: into one way or the other. The attic fan, an
Speaker 1: attic fan is a fan that is attached to a
Speaker 1: vent that you know, exhausts hot air out of an
Speaker 1: attic and it creates a vacuum from another vent, probably
Speaker 1: just across the way. And yeah, and that's never a
Speaker 1: problem because the attic fan is attached to a vent,
Speaker 1: and it can be detached from the vent. It can
Speaker 1: have like the the ember proof vent retrofit placed right
Speaker 1: there and then reattached and remounted so or the mber
Speaker 1: proof vent can be mounted on the outside if need be.
Speaker 1: And it's all done very attractively and very quickly. So yes,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely no reason to not move forward with the
Speaker 1: ember proof vents. Brand Guard they're my favorite, and they
Speaker 1: will help you and whether you measure up the situation
Speaker 1: yourself or if you call a place like brand Guard
Speaker 1: and say, hey, can you send somebody out. They don't
Speaker 1: do direct installs, but what they do is they have
Speaker 1: a full network of certified installers all over southern California,
Speaker 1: so they'll put you in touch with somebody who will
Speaker 1: come out and who will size up exactly your situation,
Speaker 1: order exactly what you need, and get it popped in
Speaker 1: there right away.
Speaker 2: Regisitting the vents, something that a homeowner to do is
Speaker 2: just getting some fine mesh and putting it on the vents.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm like inside of the attic events.
Speaker 1: Okay, so itself, that's a really good question there are.
Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why a company like
Speaker 1: brand Guard doesn't employ their own installers, because they do
Speaker 1: a lot of just sending vents out to you know,
Speaker 1: DIY capable homeowners. So yeah, homeowners are you know, if
Speaker 1: you've got some DIY skills, it is. It's not a
Speaker 1: very complex thing at all. To do and and so yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're willing to get up in the attic or
Speaker 1: get up there and do a little work there, it
Speaker 1: can be done pretty easily. The so I'm now I'm
Speaker 1: drawing a quick little line here, splitting your question in
Speaker 1: two or the answer into and yes, so, yes, a
Speaker 1: homeowner can do this. Some homeowners don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: That's what the installers are for. But a homeowner can
Speaker 1: do this. And when it comes to the vents themselves, yes,
Speaker 1: getting some finer mesh is better than the stuff you've got. Okay,
Speaker 1: a finer mesh and installing that is better than the
Speaker 1: stuff you've got. But finer mesh is not as good
Speaker 1: as a fully certified and tested and proven ember proof vent. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not just an ember proof vent like for the
Speaker 1: Brand Guard vents. They're not just a finer mesh system.
Speaker 1: They actually have a patented baffle system in which the
Speaker 1: air gets redirected through and there are places where even
Speaker 1: if an EMBER got through you know, mesh layer number one,
Speaker 1: it gets trapped in a baffle and it can't get
Speaker 1: into the attic. And that's just the first stage, that's
Speaker 1: the ember stage. And these vents are also rated to
Speaker 1: shut down the transmission of radiant heat once the fire
Speaker 1: actually gets close, and shut down the transmission of flames,
Speaker 1: so flames and radiant heat won't get into the attic
Speaker 1: and ignite things because of intense heat, and the flames
Speaker 1: cannot come in through the vents because these vents will
Speaker 1: self seal once a flame reaches that point of nearing
Speaker 1: the vents. So they are very very different than just
Speaker 1: finer mesh. But finer mesh on your attic screens is
Speaker 1: better than the big stuff that you've got, So I
Speaker 1: just want to make it perfectly clear. Amberproof addict vents
Speaker 1: is not just about finer mesh, but that is definitely
Speaker 1: better than taking no action at all.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Jaanlie. I really appreciate her. You
Speaker 2: help them all the homeowners out there.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Lauren, thanks for listening. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate your question. Really really good question, really good. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we've split that hair before, but now everybody
Speaker 1: can benefit from that answer and from more answers, which
Speaker 1: we will do, can't I being sharp the house whisper
Speaker 1: at your service. Good Saturday morning to you. We're just
Speaker 1: having some nice conversations talking about getting our heads in
Speaker 1: a remodeling space, being the best possible custom home owners
Speaker 1: that we can be, because, you know, customizing your home
Speaker 1: for most of us not a thing that we're trained
Speaker 1: to think about because we're so used to making do.
Speaker 1: So I'm just helping you breathe a little deeper, have
Speaker 1: a little bit more creative space and possibility around you
Speaker 1: with some tips. And we'll have a few more of
Speaker 1: those as we go. But right now I'm taking calls.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the phones, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I had a tub shower vinyl combination and
Speaker 3: on the top flip of the tub, there are some
Speaker 3: great spots coming in and I'm very concerned it could
Speaker 3: be some kind of resting molding that's coming through. It
Speaker 3: doesn't seem I want to wash off. Should I be concerned?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna be conscientious here
Speaker 1: and just qualify my answer with the I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it or tested it, so but I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: my best guess. Okay, Okay, when it comes to that,
Speaker 1: those gray blotches and gray spots that you find on
Speaker 1: the vinyl and or fiberglass tubs. Sometimes tubshower surrounds right
Speaker 1: down there in the corners, right right on the top
Speaker 1: lip kind of. And and I know that the very
Speaker 1: first thought is that, oh, no, mold, and that's dangerous.
Speaker 1: And so here's the thing. If it is mold, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: And let's assume I'm gonna assume for a momentary that
Speaker 1: you know that you keep a clean house and that
Speaker 1: you haven't neglected this bathroom for thir years, and all right, mold.
Speaker 1: For as dangerous as mold can potentially be in some circumstances,
Speaker 1: the fact is mold out in the you know, out
Speaker 1: in the daylight, out exposed where it can be easily cleaned.
Speaker 1: It is. It is not tenacious as far as being
Speaker 1: able to clean it. It does not fight cleaning very much.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have a lot of fight to put up there.
Speaker 1: So if it were mold, you'd be able to take
Speaker 1: a you know, you'd be able to take a bleach
Speaker 1: mixture and wipe it on there and it would just
Speaker 1: simply be going away. You'd be able to take just
Speaker 1: a regular household cleaner and it would go away. Mold
Speaker 1: is not like I'm not going anywhere and you're all dead.
Speaker 1: That's just not mold. It likes to grow in the
Speaker 1: dark and in the moist and not get exposed out
Speaker 1: where everybody can see it. So that being said, I'm
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent ruling it out, but in my experience,
Speaker 1: ninety nine times out of one hundred, when we've got
Speaker 1: these gray spots and speckles and blotches happening, it is
Speaker 1: soap scum mixed with hard water, meaning mineralization leftover that
Speaker 1: ends up collecting in the corners. And that's why it's
Speaker 1: so dang hard to clean, because it's kind of this
Speaker 1: resinous mixture of soap scum wrapped around leftover hard water minerals.
Speaker 1: And that's why they're gray, by the way, because they're
Speaker 1: kind of rocky mineralization, and that's why it's tougher to clean.
Speaker 1: And so there are some products that will help you
Speaker 1: do that, like you know, but you just got to
Speaker 1: find got to make sure, like is it CLR the
Speaker 1: calcium lime and rust. You just got to make sure
Speaker 1: that a product like that which just knocks right through
Speaker 1: mineral deposits isn't going to do damage to the actual
Speaker 1: surface of the vinyl. The safest route to go to
Speaker 1: start with at least, and I always recommend, you know,
Speaker 1: do the least toxic approach. The safest route to start
Speaker 1: with would be taking some baking soda, just regular old
Speaker 1: you know, baking soda, mixing it with some water and
Speaker 1: making a paste and covering over those pasting it all
Speaker 1: over and let it sit on there for several hours
Speaker 1: and then come back with a little bit of elbow
Speaker 1: grease and see if you can't get most of it
Speaker 1: off that way. Baking soda does an amazing job of
Speaker 1: cutting through that and also lifting up mineralization. But as
Speaker 1: far as your fear is concerned, my guess is that
Speaker 1: it's hard water deposits mixed with soap scum, and that's
Speaker 1: why it's being so tenacious to clean.
Speaker 3: Good ideas in the corners. It's on the top shelf lid,
Speaker 3: So that's what I was concerned. If it was rush
Speaker 3: so good, I would clean it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, Terry. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're you're gonna you're gonna get the better
Speaker 1: of it. I'm sure do we have you know, I've
Speaker 1: got time to start a call. I might have to
Speaker 1: pop you on the hold. But let's talk to Monica.
Speaker 1: Hey Monica, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yes? I can?
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, I mean I'm walking around and someone can
Speaker 4: hear me. But anyway, I miss last last week's show
Speaker 4: on the ceiling drips or whatever. I look at my
Speaker 4: ceiling and it's starting to peel and can I treat
Speaker 4: it with some kind of you know, paint kind of
Speaker 4: thing or do I have to get somebody to kind
Speaker 4: of look at it on top?
Speaker 1: And you know, okay, so you look at it, your ceiling.
Speaker 1: Where where are we talking in the living room? Okay,
Speaker 1: your living rooms? Cling and and the paint is starting
Speaker 1: to peel off.
Speaker 4: Of it, Yeah, starting to peel it like you could
Speaker 4: say you could when you look at it, you just go, oh,
Speaker 4: that's kind of like a leak. But we haven't found
Speaker 4: any leaks. But it's you know, a big kind of
Speaker 4: paints kind of starting to come off. I mean it's
Speaker 4: ready to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you. Yeah. That sounds like
Speaker 1: paint that has been applied over a surface that didn't
Speaker 1: get primered properly, didn't get to the proper adhesion, so
Speaker 1: the paint is failing to adhere because the surface wasn't
Speaker 1: prepped right now, whether or not it's just one spot
Speaker 1: or whether the whole ceiling is, you know, in need
Speaker 1: of attention, I think, I mean, if you're if you're
Speaker 1: not prone to being a DIY painter, I think it's
Speaker 1: time to probably have a qualified painter come in and
Speaker 1: assess it, either to you know, patch what's happening and
Speaker 1: contain it to keep your costs low at the moment,
Speaker 1: or you may just need to you know, want to
Speaker 1: commit to you know, let's just redo the living room ceiling.
Speaker 1: Let's paint the living room ceiling, but we got to
Speaker 1: do it right, uh, and then address it and they'll
Speaker 1: be able to sand it down and check for areas
Speaker 1: that are clinging properly versus areas that aren't, and then
Speaker 1: apply a new primer coat to everything, kind of stabilize
Speaker 1: it all and a new code of paint and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be in any way, shape or form an ongoing problem.
Speaker 1: But everybody, remember remember when you were talking to a
Speaker 1: painter or even just taking paint bids or estimates, you
Speaker 1: know what you want to see in that list of
Speaker 1: things you don't you know, don't be dazzled by the
Speaker 1: amazing paint, although amazing paints like Benjamin Moore are the
Speaker 1: key to it lasting long. But remember that when it
Speaker 1: comes to paint prep, prep is like ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the game. You want to see all sorts of things
Speaker 1: in the quote for we're doing this to prep, and
Speaker 1: we're doing that to prep, and we're standing this, and
Speaker 1: we're getting this ready and we're patching that. And because
Speaker 1: all of that preparation means that that one or two
Speaker 1: coats of paint that go up when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done, are going to cling and hold and last long,
Speaker 1: long time. Paint is ninety percent prep. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for the question, and we actually got that out.
Speaker 1: I'm running a little bit late, so let's do this.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You are Home
Speaker 1: with Dean Sharp, the house whisper that is me. We're
Speaker 1: having a conversation this morning about kind of freeing up
Speaker 1: your mind as remodeling season is approaching, becoming a custom homeowner,
Speaker 1: not just expecting a custom home to appear before your eyes.
Speaker 1: To get a custom home, you need to be a
Speaker 1: custom homeowner. We got to stop thinking so much about
Speaker 1: making do and giving ourselves the freedom to dream a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger. We're going to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about that in the next segment, but right now
Speaker 1: I'm still taking calls. We've still got some calls on
Speaker 1: the board. I want to go back and answer some
Speaker 1: questions about your home. Let's talk to Spencer. Hey, Spencer,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 5: Heydan, can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: I can?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: So I have a closet door that is broken. It's
Speaker 5: in a church, it's on a wall full of mirrors,
Speaker 5: and it's quite old. Let's go at forty years old,
Speaker 5: and so matching the door is a little hard. I'm
Speaker 5: just checking to see am I going the right path.
Speaker 5: I called around, got a bunch of really high quotes,
Speaker 5: and then somebody said, why don't you talk to a
Speaker 5: a contractor And they said, oh, you're getting screwed. You
Speaker 5: need to call this company and just have them come
Speaker 5: in to replace just the glass. And they said, you know,
Speaker 5: that's probably going to be like maybe two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: dollars where I was quoted four hundred and fifty dollars initially.
Speaker 5: Have somebody fixed the glass? Am I on the right track?
Speaker 5: That's basically my question?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, I think generally now is the door?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a regular framed door, like it
Speaker 1: has a wood frame all around it and there's a
Speaker 1: mirror inset into it?
Speaker 6: Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Metal? But yeah, yeah, okay, so there's so you're saying
Speaker 1: it's metal on the on the edge, So is the
Speaker 1: whole door? Can you know? Cause there are sliding closet
Speaker 1: doors that are basically just all all mirror with metal
Speaker 1: edging around them, and then there are you're talking about
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: here's here's where you're on the right track. You're on
Speaker 1: the right track by exploring all of your options. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: one thing to replace the whole door. You may not
Speaker 1: be able to find one that matches right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the same way, you know, call a glass company,
Speaker 1: call a couple of glass companies and have them come
Speaker 1: out and take a look at it. And then you know,
Speaker 1: because it's it's relatively thin glass, it's not heavy duty glass,
Speaker 1: and they're used to this kind of stuff. And if
Speaker 1: that frame can in any way be disassembled to free
Speaker 1: up the glass and then put a new piece in,
Speaker 1: You're probably totally on the right track. That's it, all right, buddy.
Speaker 1: That was an easy one. Wow, I was so easy.
Speaker 1: I got time for another one. Let's talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 6: Hey Dean.
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 6: Cool? Well?
Speaker 4: So, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 6: I have because of finances, I probably have two projects.
Speaker 6: And then an older mobile home. It's paneled, not drywall
Speaker 6: to dry wall well, actually the entire place in the
Speaker 6: area I want to dry wall. Now, there's also a
Speaker 6: large sliding glass door that needs to be replaced, frame
Speaker 6: and all, and I just don't know which order to
Speaker 6: do it in. Should I do the door first? Should
Speaker 6: I do the wall first?
Speaker 1: Change out the door, change out the door first? Uh,
Speaker 1: there's no there's no switching out. Yeah there, it's just
Speaker 1: it's yes, surgically, you know, like if you came and said, listen,
Speaker 1: here's our challenge. I need to change out this, uh,
Speaker 1: this sliding glass door without disturbing any of the dry
Speaker 1: wall around it. And you know, it could it be done. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be done, but it's a lot of hassle
Speaker 1: and uh is there still a risk of doing some
Speaker 1: damage to the dry wall anyway. Yes. So in that circumstance,
Speaker 1: if you've got some uh some uh, you know, major
Speaker 1: member of a wall fixture on a wall, like a
Speaker 1: door or a window that needs replacing, and you're also
Speaker 1: planning on, you know, refinishing the inside of the room,
Speaker 1: then the classic typical order in construction would be, you know,
Speaker 1: doors and windows. We build a brand new house, doors
Speaker 1: and windows go in before the before we ever get
Speaker 1: to drywalling. Okay, So in your case, I'm going to
Speaker 1: say the same thing, just to change out the side
Speaker 1: and glass door and then you've got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: You know exactly where to cut the drywall to. It'll
Speaker 1: go in, it'll fit right, nice and tight. Nothing you'll
Speaker 1: be disturbing it.
Speaker 6: That sounds tabulous. Thank you, Dean, you and Tina have
Speaker 6: a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it well, Thank you, buddy, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. You guys are so kind. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: a second call. I'm going to try and do three. Jeff,
Speaker 1: Welcome home. Jeff, are you there? Did we lose Jeff?
Speaker 1: Oh Man? I really wanted to do three calls? Jeff,
Speaker 1: are you with me? Now? Maybe not? All right? Dang
Speaker 1: here I was finally in a position to get three
Speaker 1: calls in one segment, and all right, that's fine, No,
Speaker 1: it's fine. No, sorry, all right. Uh, let's transition back
Speaker 1: then to to where I started today's show. There are
Speaker 1: no bad ideas. There are only bad decisions. And by
Speaker 1: saying that, what I'm trying to communicate is the front
Speaker 1: end here, that ideas, the I, the ideation, the thinking
Speaker 1: up and the planning and the dreaming, I want you
Speaker 1: to expand that and not worry about like somehow, oh
Speaker 1: this is gonna lead to me being over budget and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be, you know, spending stupid money on things
Speaker 1: that I shouldn't be spending money. Ideas are not decisions.
Speaker 1: A decision is taking a set of ideas or an idea,
Speaker 1: shaping it into a you know, a strategy, and then
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger. That's a decision. And bad decisions are bad,
Speaker 1: I mean bad decisions, you know, to take things on
Speaker 1: the wrong track. And bad decisions can cost you time,
Speaker 1: can cost you money, can cost you all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: But an idea is not a decision. It's just an idea,
Speaker 1: and the best decisions come from a rich pool of
Speaker 1: fully developed ideas. And if the reason I'm making such
Speaker 1: a big thing about this is in my experience in
Speaker 1: working with hundreds thousands of homeowners, at this point, the
Speaker 1: thing I see perhaps most common in the typical homeowner
Speaker 1: is this self editing at the very beginning. I walk
Speaker 1: in the door, and I'm there to help you dream
Speaker 1: and to think of things, And already I see you're
Speaker 1: editing yourself and not even allowing yourself to think certain
Speaker 1: thoughts about what's possible. And I get that because you're
Speaker 1: just so used to making do with what you've got,
Speaker 1: kind of just moving around it because it's there and
Speaker 1: you haven't had the means or the or the will
Speaker 1: or the desire to move it out of your way.
Speaker 1: But a custom home, a custom remodel. Now it's time
Speaker 1: for the house to move out of your way. But
Speaker 1: that also puts something on you that you're not used
Speaker 1: to doing so much, and that is thinking bigger thoughts
Speaker 1: and collecting more creative ideas. All right, more on that,
Speaker 1: right after we find out what is going on? Gean
Speaker 1: Sharp the house whisper, Welcome home. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: on the program today. All right, I've got some final
Speaker 1: thoughts about our topic today. Of there are no bad ideas,
Speaker 1: only bad decisions, kind of freeing your mind as you
Speaker 1: approach your remodel. Some of you are like, why doesn't
Speaker 1: he just get down to the brass tax of like
Speaker 1: how to install a toilet. We've spent plenty of time
Speaker 1: doing that, my friend, plenty of time doing that. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to approaching anything you change on your home.
Speaker 1: You know what I always say, design matters most. And
Speaker 1: to get to that place of getting the right design,
Speaker 1: you as the homeowner, need to stop self editing so
Speaker 1: early upfront. You need to free yourself up. So let's
Speaker 1: review where what we've already discussed so far, and then
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you still a couple of more
Speaker 1: great tips along the way. Here Custom home starts with
Speaker 1: a custom thinking homeowner. Okay, freeing yourself not to make
Speaker 1: do now the house is going to move out of
Speaker 1: your way. Create a judgment free sandbox. I'm using air quotes,
Speaker 1: can you hear them? A judgment free sandbox to play
Speaker 1: in that could be a folder on your computer. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a physical folder sitting on your desk, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a maybe it's a Pinterest board, whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: But a sandbox is a place where you can just
Speaker 1: collect ideas judgment free. You're not judging them. You're putting
Speaker 1: things in there because you like them. Period. It's all
Speaker 1: that you know need be or you're interested in it,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna pursue it and check it out. Okay,
Speaker 1: give yourself that freedom. And what does a judgment free
Speaker 1: area look like? When like, if we're working with two people,
Speaker 1: like a couple working on a remodel, you know, designing
Speaker 1: it in your minds together, dreaming it up together. I
Speaker 1: would say this one of the most important lessons I
Speaker 1: ever opted into the design process is and I would say,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm just going to say life in
Speaker 1: general is the rules of improv comedy. Okay, improv. If
Speaker 1: you've ever seen improv done and done it well, I
Speaker 1: think most people have seen it done. Is when you
Speaker 1: know somebody on stage just starts kicking out an idea,
Speaker 1: unscripted idea, and then they've got a partner up there
Speaker 1: and they just work off of that idea. And they
Speaker 1: just create a whole thing. They're improvising as they go,
Speaker 1: and the people who do it, well, it's just genius
Speaker 1: and it's super entertaining. At the root of all of
Speaker 1: that is a principle or a rule, and the rule
Speaker 1: is that improv that good improvisation, good creative process is
Speaker 1: all about. It starts with yes. And that's the response
Speaker 1: to somebody yes. And the opposite, which is the death
Speaker 1: of improvisation and the death of creativity, is no. But okay,
Speaker 1: So what I mean is you you have a thought.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe I'm your partner and you have a thought,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, here's a crazy thought. What
Speaker 1: if our home could do? Right? My role as your partner,
Speaker 1: because these are not decisions, these are ideas. My role
Speaker 1: of your partner is to acknowledge that, Yes, that is
Speaker 1: a crazy thought, but yeah, I see the value there.
Speaker 1: That's that's interesting. You know. I'm not saying that we
Speaker 1: should enact it tomorrow, but yeah, yes, and and maybe
Speaker 1: I can feed something else into that. And now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, see that's yes and yes. And the
Speaker 1: opposite of that in communication and in life is no. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. And that's where we crush these these potentially
Speaker 1: really value ideas, and we keep them from growing into
Speaker 1: something else, something that really will make a difference. So
Speaker 1: it's yes and you know, and not always no or
Speaker 1: well but but you know that you know that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So the rule is yes and not
Speaker 1: no and but got it all right, because remember, an
Speaker 1: idea is not a decision. So there's no need to
Speaker 1: fear an idea. It's not a decision. It's an idea.
Speaker 1: Embrace it, play with it. Window shopping is free. There's
Speaker 1: no need to narrow it to your budget, research, explore, learn,
Speaker 1: don't pre categorize yourself. Know that most of your ideas
Speaker 1: won't make it into the project in the form that
Speaker 1: they first arrive, but they may spark the most important
Speaker 1: idea that does change the game. And I'll give you
Speaker 1: these last two little tidbits here. Give yourself time. You
Speaker 1: always hear me harping on spending time and slowing it down.
Speaker 1: Nothing truly outstanding is designed or built overnight. Even with
Speaker 1: a well thought out design. We encourage you to layer
Speaker 1: a project as much as you can, because you know what,
Speaker 1: with every new completed phase of the project, that project.
Speaker 1: As your home starts to change shape, it's going to
Speaker 1: alter the way you experience the space, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: give birth to other ideas. Take the time, layer things out,
Speaker 1: take the time to allow it even as you change it,
Speaker 1: allow it to change you, because that's what happens in
Speaker 1: a really good custom design scenario. Remember the iron triangle.
Speaker 1: You've got three sides time, quality, and cost, and the
Speaker 1: rule is inviolable. You can have any two of those
Speaker 1: sides of the triangle that you want, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay for it with the third side. Okay, so if
Speaker 1: you want it done fast and excellent but overnight like
Speaker 1: fast and excellent, time and quality, get ready to write
Speaker 1: a big check. You're going to pay for it in
Speaker 1: the cost. If you want it done fast and cheap, hey,
Speaker 1: no problem. All you're going to sacrifice is quality, that's right.
Speaker 1: But if you're like most people and you want it
Speaker 1: the best value possible and the best quality possible, then
Speaker 1: guess what you have to spend. You pay for it
Speaker 1: by taking your time. And that's the thing. Give yourself time.
Speaker 1: Don't last tip, don't try to design the space. Don't
Speaker 1: just jump into the space. Okay, don't be a designer,
Speaker 1: be a homeowner, be the person living in the space.
Speaker 1: Describe what you want to do in it, and how
Speaker 1: you want to feel in it, and what you want
Speaker 1: to experience in it. Those are the most important questions
Speaker 1: to ask you and yourself right up front. Those are
Speaker 1: the questions I ask you right up front, so you
Speaker 1: ask them of yourself. All right, that's all we've got
Speaker 1: time for today. We have spent the time wisely. I
Speaker 1: think we're going to be right back here tomorrow for
Speaker 1: the big show. Tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: with two Los Angeles attorneys who specialize in damage law,
Speaker 1: specialize in claims to insurance companies after a disaster, or
Speaker 1: a pipe breaks or an entire neighborhood burns down, all
Speaker 1: of the above and more. It's going to be a super,
Speaker 1: super interesting and informative show. That's tomorrow's show. Don't miss
Speaker 1: it until then, though, Get out there in this beautiful
Speaker 1: day and get busy building yourself a beautiful life, and
Speaker 1: we'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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