Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome
Speaker 1: to home where. Every week we help you better understand
Speaker 1: that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp the
Speaker 1: House Whisper here with you live like I am every
Speaker 1: weekend except for the last two because I was on
Speaker 1: vacation Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time, Sunday
Speaker 1: mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome to our program.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the second hour of our program. We are
Speaker 1: talking about bedroom specifically bedroom design today. We're going to
Speaker 1: get back to that in just a bit. We're going
Speaker 1: to be right now at top of the hour. We're
Speaker 1: taking calls. But can I say something? Of course I can,
Speaker 1: because I'm it's my microphone right here. Let me get
Speaker 1: on my soapbox. When are you not on your soapbox?
Speaker 1: All right? I get it, I get it. I just
Speaker 1: want to say something about design in general. You know,
Speaker 1: when we were in Vermont, I had a converse sation
Speaker 1: started up with some folks that we call vacation friends,
Speaker 1: which Tina and Robin just absolutely drives them crazy. When
Speaker 1: Don and I make vacation friends because they don't want
Speaker 1: to talk to anybody when we're on vacation. But Don
Speaker 1: and I like making vacation friends. Anyway, we're making some
Speaker 1: vacation friends and the subject of what we do came
Speaker 1: up and so on, and somebody asked me, you know what,
Speaker 1: what's your what's the what's your real heart when it
Speaker 1: comes to doing the radio show that you do as
Speaker 1: a home designer? And here is the thing, here is
Speaker 1: the thing I love. I mean, I'm about to go
Speaker 1: back to the phones answer some design and some construction questions.
Speaker 1: I've been a builder for years and year, I mean
Speaker 1: decades now, uh, and I love all of that and
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. But if you were to ask
Speaker 1: me what lies at the at the root of what
Speaker 1: my secret agenda is for home? If I could have
Speaker 1: my ultimate wish come true, it would be changing the
Speaker 1: national story about design. Design okay, because it's just that
Speaker 1: one phrase that you hear me say all the time,
Speaker 1: design matters. Most billions of dollars are spent every year
Speaker 1: on home improvement. And you would think that that means
Speaker 1: that most homes would you know, actually improve, and yet
Speaker 1: they don't really because there's a missing piece. Design, design
Speaker 1: matters most. And the thing is that most of us
Speaker 1: mainstream homeowners have never been taught this truth, the importance
Speaker 1: of it, the priority of it. The wealthy have always
Speaker 1: had great design at their disposal. I know this because
Speaker 1: I do some of those designs for them, and they're
Speaker 1: great designs. But the rest of us, whose homes mean
Speaker 1: more to us because we have been the ones who've
Speaker 1: scraped and sacrificed more to have them and to keep them,
Speaker 1: we are far more likely to accept that when it
Speaker 1: comes to your home, Yeah, you know, you get what
Speaker 1: you get. You know, we this is the home you got.
Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is I want to
Speaker 1: change that story, and I want to change it so
Speaker 1: badly because your home, there's nothing more important to it.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be the design that ends up
Speaker 1: in the fancy magazine somewhere right some big celebrity home,
Speaker 1: some big layout and rooms that they've never even walked
Speaker 1: into or ever use. But your home. It's the center
Speaker 1: of your life. And that is what brings me to
Speaker 1: this microphone every weekend, helping you change it, and not
Speaker 1: just change it by fixing the leaky toilet, by change
Speaker 1: it in terms of applying really really great design to
Speaker 1: the average home to make the ordinary extraordinary. All right,
Speaker 1: that was my thing. All right, well, let's squeeze a
Speaker 1: call in. We're going to take a couple of more
Speaker 1: or calls at least before we get back to the
Speaker 1: subject of the bedroom. Let's see here, I want to
Speaker 1: talk to Arthur. Hey, Arthur, welcome home.
Speaker 2: I'd appreciate any thoughts on building a very short indoor
Speaker 2: pool where you swim in place using a harness. The
Speaker 2: concrete pool would be three feet deep at the back
Speaker 2: corner of the new house. And for one thing, I
Speaker 2: was wondering if it would help to heat that little
Speaker 2: airspace between the water and the pool cover, so that
Speaker 2: by keeping that air a few degrees warmer, it might
Speaker 2: reduce evaporation. I haven't ever heard of anybody doing that.
Speaker 2: And generally, how to protect against damage to the house
Speaker 2: and the foundation.
Speaker 1: Okay, So indoor pool, covered pool, Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: just cover. But indoor, indoor, indoor Okay, So a couple
Speaker 1: of things to know about an indoor pool. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you are you already talking to
Speaker 1: pool designers and.
Speaker 2: Eating a but I haven't gotten to that point, Yet
Speaker 2: it cheeks like there's an awful lot of different ideas
Speaker 2: there are.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of different ideas. If you are
Speaker 1: doing a swim in place pool and you get you
Speaker 1: want to do it out of concrete as opposed to
Speaker 1: buying a swim spot, I think so, yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: just know, just know that that when it comes to
Speaker 1: swim in place, well actually just lap pools in general.
Speaker 1: There's varying opinion on this, but I would say that
Speaker 1: you probably want to go deeper than three feet, okay,
Speaker 1: just a little bit more efficient, maybe four or five
Speaker 1: at the most. You don't need to go beyond five
Speaker 1: for sure, but right about four feet or so. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody, by the way, heard about this
Speaker 1: controversy in and that's for swimming efficiency. And now you're
Speaker 1: talking to a guy who's not only built several indoor
Speaker 1: pools but also swims just like every other day in
Speaker 1: an indoor pool, and so not at my house. But
Speaker 1: did you hear the controversy that happened in Paris with
Speaker 1: all the swimmers, the fact that that no world records
Speaker 1: were set in Paris, even though we've got some of
Speaker 1: the best swimmers ever in history there, and the criticism
Speaker 1: was that the that the Paris Olympic pools that they
Speaker 1: they they built it too shallow and they were getting
Speaker 1: too much wave reverberation back off the bottom of the
Speaker 1: pool to make their swimmers most efficient. So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: something to worth looking into. Anyway, the depth is not
Speaker 1: the critical element here as far as the space itself
Speaker 1: the key to indoor pool. And I wouldn't worry so
Speaker 1: much about the heating because the with an indoor pool,
Speaker 1: the space of the room and the pool worked together
Speaker 1: to enable a balance of atmospheric heat control in the pool.
Speaker 1: But the key is this, with an indoor pool, there
Speaker 1: are three things you want to be looking at. Number one,
Speaker 1: you want to be looking at the lowest possible chlorine situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you want to you know, you want to look
Speaker 1: into all of the non you know, like the the
Speaker 1: the saline options to every pool, by the way, has
Speaker 1: chlorine in. It's just a question of how the chlorine
Speaker 1: comes about, whether you're pouring chlorine directly in or whether
Speaker 1: your systems are creating chlorine gas in the midst of it,
Speaker 1: which uh saline and ultraviolet and so on. Douce so
Speaker 1: you want to look at that because the air inside
Speaker 1: it in closed space, you don't want chlorine gas building
Speaker 1: up inside that space, so you want the best possible,
Speaker 1: lowest possible chlorine situation for the pool. Secondly, uh you
Speaker 1: want ventilation. Ventilation is critical, and you need to talk
Speaker 1: to an experienced indoor pool designer who is in builder,
Speaker 1: who is who can tell you the specs on how
Speaker 1: many air changes of that air space need to happen
Speaker 1: per hour in order to keep the space, the breathable
Speaker 1: air inside the space as absolutely fresh and clean as possible.
Speaker 1: And then thirdly, you need that air not just fresh
Speaker 1: and clean and air change, but you need a dehumidified
Speaker 1: because the indoor spaces, you know that water is going
Speaker 1: to evaporate and it's going to evaporate into the interior
Speaker 1: spaces on the walls and the ceiling and so on.
Speaker 1: So we need to take that humidity out of the
Speaker 1: air so that everything, you know, nothing gets moldy, mildyly
Speaker 1: and gross inside being interior space. Those are your three
Speaker 1: primary concerns because ideally you're going to keep that pool
Speaker 1: water right at about anywhere between seventy eight and eighty
Speaker 1: two degrees that's optional, optimal fitness, competitive swimming water temperature
Speaker 1: and that's warm for a pool. And now it's in
Speaker 1: an enclosed space, so so dehumidification, airflow and then the
Speaker 1: lowest amount of a chlorine in order to keep the
Speaker 1: pool fresh, but not to allow too much chlorine into
Speaker 1: the air. Arthur, thanks for your question. I'm up against
Speaker 1: a break, running a little late, got to go. Good
Speaker 1: luck on that pool, and if you have any other questions,
Speaker 1: you can, you know, reach out via email through the station.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll try and give you any other advice.
Speaker 1: Is a very very interesting question, and not one I
Speaker 1: don't think we've ever taken an indoor pool question before.
Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
Speaker 3: demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. Gosh, what
Speaker 1: a gorgeous day it is outside. I hope you've got
Speaker 1: plans to get out there and enjoy the day fully
Speaker 1: right up until Bill this evening, when it's time to
Speaker 1: sit down and watch the Dodgers dominate the Mets. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, That's what I'm calling it for today,
Speaker 1: first game of the Pennant series. Gonna do it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna win. It's gonna just be five games straight through
Speaker 1: the end. Done. That's my hope. Anyway, go Dodgers. All right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about bedroom design. But I'm taking calls and
Speaker 1: I'm loving it, and we're gonna take one or two
Speaker 1: more calls just this segment year before we get back
Speaker 1: to designing your bedroom because we've got so many calls
Speaker 1: on the board. I want to talk to Shelley. Hey, Shelley,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Marning Dan, enjoy your show, and happy birthday to Tina.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 4: I have a question about ruff. I recently got my
Speaker 4: roof repaired and they said that my tiles Spanish titles
Speaker 4: are all looking good, but the paper underneath needs to
Speaker 4: be replaced. So my question is can I use my
Speaker 4: old tiles? And then what's the approximate cost of that?
Speaker 4: And as I'm looking for a roofer, being confused as
Speaker 4: what the difference between a sort of five roofer and
Speaker 4: a licensed riffer is.
Speaker 1: Ah? Okay, all right, really good questions. Okay, So first
Speaker 1: of all, yeah, it is, so you think about about
Speaker 1: it this way. A roof job can involve several different
Speaker 1: phases tear off and that's just removing everything off of
Speaker 1: an old roof and starting from scratch. In that case,
Speaker 1: you've got to pay for all of the demo, all
Speaker 1: the removal, then all the new papering underneath, and then
Speaker 1: new tiles and labor and materials. That's your most expensive
Speaker 1: complete roofing job. Next to that, then we've got situations
Speaker 1: where we can preserve the tile that's there and just repaper,
Speaker 1: which is the kind of situation you're looking at. In
Speaker 1: this case, there's no tear off, and there's no additional material,
Speaker 1: well just a teeny bit of additional material, and you're
Speaker 1: just paying the labor for removal and replacements. So yes,
Speaker 1: it is going to be less expensive than if you
Speaker 1: just start off with new tiles. So if your tiles
Speaker 1: are in good shape, and quite often when it comes
Speaker 1: to Spanish tile, they are because you know, that's the
Speaker 1: thing about a good Spanish tile, I mean it could
Speaker 1: last a century or more. You know, spend some time
Speaker 1: traveling through Europe. You go to Italy, you find terra
Speaker 1: cotta tiles that are up on roofs that have been
Speaker 1: there for two or three hundred years. But the main
Speaker 1: waterproofing element of a modern roof is not the tile,
Speaker 1: but the membrane, the sheathing membrane underneath. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: that is that's where when that starts to go. Now
Speaker 1: you're inviting the possibility of leaks. So you want to
Speaker 1: find a roofer who is a willing to take the
Speaker 1: time to carefully remove the tiles. And I say this
Speaker 1: because that's where the cost element, the additional cost element
Speaker 1: for materials come in. Our expectation is that if a roof,
Speaker 1: if the tiles are in decent shape, and a roofer
Speaker 1: is uh doing a quality job taking their time on
Speaker 1: removal reasonably, you could expect I'm three to five percent
Speaker 1: breakage of the existing tiles. Now, some homeowners have extra
Speaker 1: tiles sitting around. I don't know if you do or not,
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 4: I I have like three or five Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 4: not three or five percent.
Speaker 1: So so what that means is, uh, it means that
Speaker 1: we're going to, uh, we're going to first shop out
Speaker 1: a matching tile. And I say matching tile with air
Speaker 1: quotes here because even if it's the exact same tile,
Speaker 1: the exact same color, exact same manufacture, but you know
Speaker 1: it's twenty years later that tile color is going to
Speaker 1: be different because it hasn't been exposed to twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty years of UV light and baking in the sun
Speaker 1: and weather and all of that. So the key is
Speaker 1: making sure that your roofer has this design concept in mind,
Speaker 1: which is that we're going to prioritize which roof planes
Speaker 1: are most visible, like, for instance, the roof plane that's
Speaker 1: visible from the street, and possibly the one visible from
Speaker 1: the backyard. Depending on the shape and the contours of
Speaker 1: your roof, there are probably areas of the roof, maybe
Speaker 1: side yard roof planes, or hidden a little thing here
Speaker 1: or a little thing there that aren't actually visible or
Speaker 1: easy to see from the ground. So here's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna steal as we bring. We're going
Speaker 1: to steal tiles from the areas of the roof that
Speaker 1: aren't really that visible from the ground, and we're going
Speaker 1: to use those old tiles to replace the broken ones
Speaker 1: that happened on the main plane, so that what we
Speaker 1: get when we're done is all your old tiles, all visible,
Speaker 1: all clean, no color changes, and if there is a need,
Speaker 1: which there will be, for a few tiles to be
Speaker 1: replaced that aren't quite the same color yet we're going
Speaker 1: to stick those in places that that don't matter visually
Speaker 1: from the street or from the backyard. So you're going
Speaker 1: to just prioritize those views and uh and put those
Speaker 1: in those other places. But yeah, that's and that's what
Speaker 1: you're looking at.
Speaker 4: And how much would that What is the cost difference
Speaker 4: with me just having you know, new versus just the pace,
Speaker 4: What should I expect to pay to do them?
Speaker 1: Oh? You know what? That's that's it's not easy for
Speaker 1: me to give you a quote on that because it
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with the contours of your roof,
Speaker 1: the size of your roof, the pitch of your roof,
Speaker 1: the quality of the existing tile. There are just a
Speaker 1: lot of factors. But as always, I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you that yet it's going to be less. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a significant cost difference because you are not
Speaker 1: buying new tile for your whole roof. You're just buying
Speaker 1: a few replacement tiles. You're still paying for the labor
Speaker 1: for the install, but the material cost is going to
Speaker 1: be considerably considerably less. And like always, the way to
Speaker 1: find out who is giving you the right price and
Speaker 1: what this whole thing should cost is that you can
Speaker 1: vet two, three, even four really qualified roofers and have
Speaker 1: them each bid the same way, and you're going to
Speaker 1: look at those bids and you're going to see just
Speaker 1: like a Venn diagram. You're going to see like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: look at that. They're all within a certain amount of money.
Speaker 1: This is what my roof is going to cost.
Speaker 4: And at least to my last question, what's I just
Speaker 4: started shopping for roofers. What's the difference between certified license?
Speaker 1: Oh yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and I'm up
Speaker 1: against a break, so I'm going to answer really quickly.
Speaker 1: All roofers have to be licensed, all of them. They
Speaker 1: should have to be licensed by the state of California.
Speaker 1: They have to have a roofing contractor's license. Some roofers
Speaker 1: are certified, and what that means is the brand of tile,
Speaker 1: like if they install GAF tiles or they install, you know,
Speaker 1: certaintyed tiles. The roofing manufacturers will sometimes say, hey, if
Speaker 1: you pass our certification course, then you can call yourself
Speaker 1: certified for a particular brand of tile installed. Certification not
Speaker 1: as important as licensing. Licensing is absolutely critical for everybody.
Speaker 1: Some are certified installers of certain brands. But that's a
Speaker 1: private business thing that's going on. Does that makes sense?
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you Shelly for the question.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, and yes,
Speaker 1: could it be a more perfect fall day? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Looks pretty beautiful. I hope wherever you are
Speaker 1: across across our a great nation right now, you are
Speaker 1: experiencing as beautiful a fall day as we are here
Speaker 1: in southern California right now. All right, we're back from
Speaker 1: our vacation in Vermont and we're back at it getting
Speaker 1: it done. Here on the show. We're talking about designing
Speaker 1: a better bedroom and we're diving back in right now.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to bedroom design, fundamentally, this has
Speaker 1: probably been one of the sticking points for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, and that is you think about, oh, you're
Speaker 1: going to design this whole thing around the bedroom set. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the problem that I have and that I
Speaker 1: want to warn you about. I want to warn you
Speaker 1: about the bedroom set air quotes set. Okay, I want
Speaker 1: you to break loose from fixed stories at the furniture
Speaker 1: store about the bedroom set of course, the furniture store
Speaker 1: has an entire set on sale for you there showing
Speaker 1: you everything. And rightly, so it's not a crime, right,
Speaker 1: nobody's doing anything wrong. It's just the idea that somehow
Speaker 1: when you go to the furniture store, you need to
Speaker 1: come home with the whole set, which means the bedroom,
Speaker 1: the bed, the headboard, the footboard, the night stands, the
Speaker 1: dress or the armoir, you know, like the next thing.
Speaker 1: You know. So the thing is, most bedrooms these days,
Speaker 1: you know, may not have room for the whole bedroom set.
Speaker 1: And I just don't get yourself wrapped up in that. Right,
Speaker 1: you decide ahead of time what it is that you're
Speaker 1: looking for. There are so many ways to juge up
Speaker 1: a bedroom that go beyond having to for the set. Okay,
Speaker 1: now do bet should bedroom furniture correspond? Absolutely? Does it
Speaker 1: have to match? No, it does not. It just has
Speaker 1: to correspond. It has to work together, it has to
Speaker 1: compliment each other. Okay, those of you who are on
Speaker 1: a tight budget, I'll tell you this. You can go
Speaker 1: here's one of the the the rare instances when I
Speaker 1: actually recommend that you go on to YouTube and look
Speaker 1: up I built my own headboard and find the hundreds
Speaker 1: of myriad ways in which you can actually mount a
Speaker 1: permanent headboard, a DIY headboard, gorgeous diway headboard to your wall,
Speaker 1: and save yourself tons of money when it comes to
Speaker 1: purchasing a bedroom set. Look who is walking in right now.
Speaker 1: It's Tina and Christy bo Look at you, guys, elephant,
Speaker 1: Look at you and your fingers are all straight because
Speaker 1: you've got wet nail polish. You guys have been to
Speaker 1: the nail salon. Sit down, Christy, get over here. All right,
Speaker 1: I've got to be faithful to what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You guys, hang on for a second. Anyway, So the
Speaker 1: bedroom said, just don't feel obligated to do that whole thing, right,
Speaker 1: I e. Do you have a big closet, right, there's
Speaker 1: a really good chance if you really concentrate on proper
Speaker 1: closet design and organization, meaning a modular system where you
Speaker 1: can control hanging, and you've got a room for shoes
Speaker 1: and you've got maybe room for even drawers in the closet,
Speaker 1: then you don't need a dresser. Right. If the bedroom
Speaker 1: is an important waking retreat, like we talked about before,
Speaker 1: a dresser could be standing in your way of being
Speaker 1: replaced with an elegant writing desk or work desk or
Speaker 1: a chair for reading, if that is how you're going
Speaker 1: to spend time in your bedroom, or if you're more
Speaker 1: of a minimalist and you want a more classic look,
Speaker 1: Now you're really gonna think I'm crazy, but I'm only
Speaker 1: talking to minimalists here. Then remove the closet, open up
Speaker 1: a little bit more space in the bedroom, and replace
Speaker 1: it with a beautiful free standing wardrobe. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: if you have a giant closet okay, and a giant room,
Speaker 1: then you can get super creative. Then you do one
Speaker 1: of the first I would say uber creative designs I
Speaker 1: ever had a chance to do early on in my career,
Speaker 1: where I designed a twelve thousand square foot Italian villa
Speaker 1: in Brentwood Park and we had realtors come in to
Speaker 1: preview the villa before we opened it up for public,
Speaker 1: and they walked into these bedrooms, the guest bedrooms, and
Speaker 1: they all they saw, because you know, are claim to
Speaker 1: fame with this was a as authentic an Italian villa
Speaker 1: as we could find. And they walked into the bedrooms
Speaker 1: and they all came out saying Dean, Dean, I mean,
Speaker 1: the house is beautiful, but we got a problem. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the problem. They're like, in each of the guest
Speaker 1: bedrooms there's just a big wardrobe, a big, like eight
Speaker 1: foot tall wardrobe. I mean they're gorgeous, they're antique wardrobes,
Speaker 1: They're absolutely stunning. But I mean a house of this
Speaker 1: magnitude needs a walking closet. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I get that, but I wanted to keep the house
Speaker 1: as authentic as possible. I said, you really should go
Speaker 1: check out the wardrobe. Those are roomy wardrobes. And they're like, Dan,
Speaker 1: we know they're big wardrobes, but this house needs walk
Speaker 1: in closets in each of the bedrooms. Like you know what,
Speaker 1: just you really these are really roomy wardrobes. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I actually led three of the realtors back upstairs and
Speaker 1: we opened up the wardrobes for them to discover that
Speaker 1: I had taken the back off of these antique wardrobes
Speaker 1: and mounted them against the wall to hide the walk
Speaker 1: in closet door because I didn't want the I didn't
Speaker 1: want you to see the walking closet in the room.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to see this free standing, beautiful
Speaker 1: piece of furniture like it would have shown up in
Speaker 1: an eighteenth century Italian villa, and the inside it was
Speaker 1: very Narnia like. So you literally walk through the wardrobe
Speaker 1: to get into the expansive walking closet. Beyond the point
Speaker 1: is there are lots of tricks that you can play,
Speaker 1: a lot of freedom that you've got in the bedroom.
Speaker 1: And on the opposite side of what I just described,
Speaker 1: if you don't if you can utilize any closet space
Speaker 1: at all to maximize your clothing organization, then you may
Speaker 1: not need the dresser, or you may not need the
Speaker 1: armoir or or whatever. So just don't make the mistake
Speaker 1: of going to the furniture store and buying the set
Speaker 1: air quotes and then come home and say, Okay, now
Speaker 1: we got to figure out how to squeeze this all
Speaker 1: into this space. No, no, no. You make your design decisions first,
Speaker 1: and you go looking for specific pieces of furniture to
Speaker 1: make it work. And they don't have to match, they
Speaker 1: don't have to all belong together. They just have to
Speaker 1: work together. Right, So you find the beautiful headboard and
Speaker 1: then a couple of night stands, and you're like you
Speaker 1: know what, These aren't part of the same set, but
Speaker 1: they are beautiful. There you go. Now you're on the
Speaker 1: right track, all right, more when we return.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're talking about bedrooms today. Design and design as it
Speaker 1: applies to your bedroom one of my favorite subjects because
Speaker 1: it's trickier than most people think. Bedrooms are. They're just
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, they really are mostly just for you, right,
Speaker 1: So of all rooms, this is not the room that
Speaker 1: you want to You would design like a magazine spread
Speaker 1: that you see on the internet or you know, on
Speaker 1: a Pinterest board somewhere. You can get some inspiration from it.
Speaker 1: But the real real heart of the bedroom is you
Speaker 1: figuring out what works for you. But I want you
Speaker 1: to use good design principles as always with everything. So
Speaker 1: we've already talked about your perspective in the room, pairing
Speaker 1: down the stuff in the room to the design essentials,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, allocating what you can to the
Speaker 1: closets if that's even possible, not buying too much furniture
Speaker 1: for the bedroom. Of course, I already touched on this,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna underscore this look at the room from
Speaker 1: the places where you're gonna spend most of your time.
Speaker 1: If there is a seating area, then sit and look
Speaker 1: around and decide what should you be seeing outside the windows?
Speaker 1: What should you be seeing in the room. Mostly, though,
Speaker 1: of all the places, right, I want you to prioritize
Speaker 1: not just the look of the room when you come
Speaker 1: in the door, but the look of the room when
Speaker 1: you're in bed. This is such a key deciding factor
Speaker 1: for so much bedroom design. What can you see from bed?
Speaker 1: I have walked into an amazing amount of bedrooms in
Speaker 1: which there have been some, you know, big mistakes made,
Speaker 1: even high end stuff like okay, there's a fireplace in
Speaker 1: the room, and the fireplace is down on the floor.
Speaker 1: That looks great, great in you know, in a photograph
Speaker 1: of the room, and like, oh, look at that fireplace,
Speaker 1: just cozy, you know, I sit down on the floor
Speaker 1: like a normal fireplace is. But you're gonna be in bed,
Speaker 1: you would put You wouldn't put the TV on the floor,
Speaker 1: would you? When you're in bed you can't see it.
Speaker 1: Why would you put the fireplace on the floor where
Speaker 1: you can't see it from your bed? So these are
Speaker 1: critical perspectives. Also underscoring what I talk to you about
Speaker 1: all the time. Recess can lighting. Of all the rooms,
Speaker 1: of all the rooms in your home that should not
Speaker 1: have too many or any recess can lights, the bedroom
Speaker 1: is at the top of the list. Why because can
Speaker 1: lights are sticking down out of the ceiling and you,
Speaker 1: of all places in your home, are lying horizontally staring
Speaker 1: up at the ceiling. Glare, glare from recess can lights.
Speaker 1: I have seen people make the mistake. They're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know what I've decided to do. The night light
Speaker 1: or the reading light that we're going to use. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna put two recess cans in the ceiling shining
Speaker 1: down on each side of the bed for our reading lights.
Speaker 1: Big mistake, big mistake in most cases. Why glare. You're
Speaker 1: sitting there in bed and as you kind of slouch
Speaker 1: down in your pill all of a sudden, your eye
Speaker 1: starts catching that light. Not a good thing. Not a
Speaker 1: good thing. Let's draw some pendant lights down out of
Speaker 1: the ceiling. If we want ceiling mounted reading lights or
Speaker 1: sconce lights that are reading lights from each side of
Speaker 1: the bed, or just you know, table lamps on top
Speaker 1: of the nightstand. You got lots and lots of options.
Speaker 1: Let's not go with the recess can light because you're
Speaker 1: gonna be staring straight up at them. Okay, Now, if
Speaker 1: you have them already and you're like, oh no, you're right,
Speaker 1: what do I do? Do I just not? Then let's
Speaker 1: get some change out the trims. The trims are inexpensive.
Speaker 1: Change out the trim on that light to get a
Speaker 1: gimbal that means basically an adjustable directional light and point
Speaker 1: them toward the walls. I will say it again. I
Speaker 1: will say it, you know, day after day, week after week,
Speaker 1: year after year, until it finally soaks in for everybody.
Speaker 1: Lighting design in a home is all about this. We
Speaker 1: do not light a room. We light things in a room.
Speaker 1: We do not light rooms. We light things in a room.
Speaker 1: That is the general and all important principal rule. So
Speaker 1: if you got art on the wall, sure shine a
Speaker 1: little light against that art. Light it up for you,
Speaker 1: but avoid glare. And one of the best ways to
Speaker 1: evaluate it, even as a novice, it's to lay down
Speaker 1: in bed, lay there with your head on your pillow
Speaker 1: and look around the room and ask the question, what
Speaker 1: do I want to see? And not want to see
Speaker 1: from this position. Okay, remember that bedrooms are tactile. Of
Speaker 1: all rooms, this is a unique place where you spend
Speaker 1: a great amount of time actually still awake, but with
Speaker 1: your eyes closed, okay, or in the dark, or with
Speaker 1: your eyes kind of blurry and half open. Bedrooms are
Speaker 1: all about tactile feel, all right, The softness of the bed,
Speaker 1: what the floor feels like when your sleepy, half open eyes,
Speaker 1: have you flip your legs off the bed and make
Speaker 1: that first trip to the bathroom in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, whatever the case may be. Remember the bedroom
Speaker 1: rooms are tactile experiences in many ways, more so than
Speaker 1: other rooms in the house. And then, and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about this in a little bit more detail
Speaker 1: when we come back to it. The bed. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: bed is the focal point of a bedroom. The headboard
Speaker 1: is what we might call if the bed is a book,
Speaker 1: a hardcover book, then the headboard is the book cover
Speaker 1: of the bed. Okay. And a lot of you were
Speaker 1: thinking when I gave the earlier advice, Hey, listen, go
Speaker 1: on you know, YouTube and find out how to make
Speaker 1: your own custom DIY headboard. Some of you are thinking, well,
Speaker 1: the listen I've graduated past apartment dwelling. I don't need
Speaker 1: to do that. I can afford to buy a really big,
Speaker 1: beautiful headboard. That's great, but I wasn't just talking to
Speaker 1: people on a low budget. One of my favorite headboards
Speaker 1: of all time, and it's been years and years since
Speaker 1: I saw it, but absolutely I will never forget it.
Speaker 1: I saw headboard custom made by the owner with a
Speaker 1: sign post on it, and on that headboard were signs
Speaker 1: pointing to everywhere this couple had been together, and they
Speaker 1: kept adding to it and adding to it, and you
Speaker 1: know what, for their vibe, for who these people were,
Speaker 1: for that bedroom, it was absolutely perfect. And what they
Speaker 1: had done is instead of colorizing their whole room, which
Speaker 1: is always usually a mistake, with a special color, they
Speaker 1: had also right behind the headboard, decided the wall behind
Speaker 1: the headboard is a feature wall, and we're gonna put
Speaker 1: our special favorite color right there and leave the rest
Speaker 1: of the room bright and white and open, which is
Speaker 1: always the best best idea. Otherwise you cover the entire
Speaker 1: room walls and ceiling in your quote unquote favorite color,
Speaker 1: it gets cavy and weird really really fast. So I
Speaker 1: would almost always recommend feature wall over that, and you know,
Speaker 1: when we come back, I also want to talk about
Speaker 1: how about this, if you have enough room, just if
Speaker 1: you do all right, what are the chances of putting
Speaker 1: a soaker tub out of the bathroom into the bedroom?
Speaker 1: M all right, yeah, I know, I know. Please, you're like, listen,
Speaker 1: are you talking to ritzy people about Nana? Just understand,
Speaker 1: if there's enough room, it's one of those options. Sitting area,
Speaker 1: writing desk. How about the soaker tub? Anyway, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that, but when we come back from the
Speaker 1: top of the hour break here, we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: to the phones. Answer a couple more calls. How's that
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