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Speaker 1: we are talking antiques, vintage, retro nostalgia today that kind
Speaker 1: of decor and the and tips and tricks and great
Speaker 1: advice for you of how to integrate it into your home.
Speaker 1: We're coming back to that in just a bit. But
Speaker 1: it's top of the hour. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: Time to go to the phones. Let's do it. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to Mike. Hey Mike, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. So I have
Speaker 2: a contractor that's been installing a roof for I don't
Speaker 2: know about a month now. They came in replaced the roof. Well,
Speaker 2: my contract was new roof, new facia, and I needed
Speaker 2: to trim some raftertails because the previous owner took a
Speaker 2: saws all and just cut everything off because of some
Speaker 2: other dry rod at the time. They came in put
Speaker 2: the new roof on. Then from there they came back
Speaker 2: three days later to do the facia and the gutters.
Speaker 2: The new facia was two inch, old facia was one
Speaker 2: and so all the facia is extending out past the
Speaker 2: asphalt shingles. Also, they had to rip the entire drip
Speaker 2: edge off to even start that process. So my question
Speaker 2: really is is what do I need to look for
Speaker 2: when they do all this work? Can they even repair
Speaker 2: this to an integrity after ripping off the entire perimeter
Speaker 2: of the drip ridge and distrupting every single shingle.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, you know, at the risk of being
Speaker 1: just blunt. What you need to look for is a
Speaker 1: new contractor.
Speaker 3: Yeah well yeah.
Speaker 2: Then I actually gave them an out to even bay
Speaker 2: completely out and they said, oh, I'm not contract already.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, this is this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That that that is completely as my dad would like
Speaker 1: to say, bass ackwards. So here's the thing. The facia
Speaker 1: uh and I don't care what size the facia is, right,
Speaker 1: you know, get one inch fatia, replace it with a
Speaker 1: two by facia which is an inch and a half.
Speaker 1: That's great, fine, no problem, right. Raftertails have to be
Speaker 1: uh you know repaired along the eves. All of that
Speaker 1: eve starter board sometimes starter board, by the way, starterboard
Speaker 1: everybody is is the is like the tongue and groove
Speaker 1: stuff that you see when you look up underneath your eves.
Speaker 1: You see nice boards there, not the bottom of plywood,
Speaker 1: which is the rest of the roofing material or OSB
Speaker 1: you know, chipboard. So the point is this, though, when
Speaker 1: they did the tear off, when they tore off the
Speaker 1: old roof, now is the time to do all of
Speaker 1: that that's when you do all of it, you tear.
Speaker 2: Off the to do Yeah, this is standard.
Speaker 1: I don't know what their deal is that this is
Speaker 1: standard roofing practice. I mean, it's just like roofing one
Speaker 1: oh one. We're going to tear off the old roof,
Speaker 1: get down to the sheathing. In some situations, if it's
Speaker 1: an older home, there's you know, there's one by six
Speaker 1: slats up there, uh and not sheathing. So the point
Speaker 1: is we're going to make sure that our that are
Speaker 1: sheathed membrane, you know, our layer of the roof, the
Speaker 1: ply would, the OSB, whatever the case may be. We're
Speaker 1: going to make sure that that's all intact. And all
Speaker 1: of that is going to extend down with starter board
Speaker 1: uh from the root wall line out to the edge
Speaker 1: of the facia. The new facia goes on with the
Speaker 1: repaired rafter tails. All of that happens before we put
Speaker 1: down you know, roofing felt or roofing membrane and UH
Speaker 1: and the shingles because we want the the the drip edge,
Speaker 1: the metal flashing at the bottom of the roofline needs
Speaker 1: to be hanging over the facierboard. It doesn't, it's running
Speaker 1: over the facia and that flashing is tied in to
Speaker 1: the roofing membrane and the shingles. In fact, the shingles
Speaker 1: themselves should be hanging over depending on what situation you've got.
Speaker 1: Let's say you've got asphalt composite shingles. Asphalt composite shingles
Speaker 1: should be hanging over the drip edge by at least
Speaker 1: a half an inch to an inch, okay, hanging over
Speaker 1: the drip edge which is hanging over the facio. So
Speaker 1: something has gone wrong there, Mike. And and my concern
Speaker 1: is that if they do this and they say, oh, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're going to take care of all that, well, what
Speaker 1: do you get You're going to be pulling up shingles.
Speaker 1: Have they run the papy have they hyper extended the
Speaker 1: paper out already on the shingles, are already run out?
Speaker 1: Or have they not finished those courses because oh no, they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they yeah, they they came into the entire roof
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, came back and actually I kind of
Speaker 2: yelled at them before they even came back to do that,
Speaker 2: saying you guys needed to do this and this, And
Speaker 2: then when they were cutting raftertails, they cut into the
Speaker 2: sheathing underneath they so that needed to get redone. So
Speaker 2: I've got about forty seven feet of sheeting that needs
Speaker 2: to get replaced now, almost the entire eve edge. And
Speaker 2: you know, I just I don't even know how to
Speaker 2: even approach with this with them.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing. Here's the one piece of
Speaker 1: leverage that you've got, is that there was a permit
Speaker 1: pulled for this reroof Okay, if there wasn't. If there wasn't,
Speaker 1: by the way, you don't owe them any money for
Speaker 1: anything at all. Right, that permit, there's a permit pulled
Speaker 1: for it. That permit should not have been signed off yet.
Speaker 1: But even if it was, you have recourse you need
Speaker 1: to reach out if if they don't get their act
Speaker 1: together and get this right, you can reach out to
Speaker 1: the city and say, hey, this is the permit that
Speaker 1: got pulled from my house. I'm the homeowner. I didn't
Speaker 1: pull the permit directly. The riffer pulled the permit. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have done final sign off.
Speaker 1: But here's my situation, and now I am concerned. I'm
Speaker 1: concerned that they're gonna, you know, screw up the whole
Speaker 1: base of this. What can you do, and you know,
Speaker 1: an inspector will be happy. Most inspectors will be happy
Speaker 1: to come out and take a look at the situation
Speaker 1: and you know, red tag it if he needs to.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean they've they've come out. The inspector
Speaker 2: came out and actually missed some dry rot. The installers
Speaker 2: missed some dry rot on the eves and they're trying
Speaker 2: to blame each other. And I told the contractor, I'm all, look, regardless,
Speaker 2: it needs to get fixed. I mean, so I do
Speaker 2: have the contract the inspector's name and number already, so
Speaker 2: that's a bonus on my part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's where you're gonna need to go with this, probably,
Speaker 1: Mike plus photograph everything, video, photograph everything, document it documented, documented,
Speaker 1: show up close shots and say here's where the roof ends.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be the approach. And the best thing
Speaker 1: you could do is leverage the situation so that they
Speaker 1: get on the ball and uh and get this done
Speaker 1: right for you as opposed to you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm saying generally speaking, as opposed to throwing them off
Speaker 1: the job, having somebody come back in. That's gonna cost you,
Speaker 1: even if you're holding a good amount of their money. Still,
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost you more because whoever comes in if
Speaker 1: I if I was to come in after the fact,
Speaker 1: believe me, I'm like, well, I'm gonna need a little
Speaker 1: bit of more freedom in the budget here to you know,
Speaker 1: tie back into what they've already done, you know, because
Speaker 1: whoever touched it last, it's theirs now. So if it
Speaker 1: all possible to get these guys to finish this right,
Speaker 1: that's what I would try first. I mean, of course,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: toss a contractor from your job. I hate that, hate it,
Speaker 1: hate it, but it's a reality. Sometimes. Hopefully that's not
Speaker 1: the situation you're in. The best thing you can do
Speaker 1: is document it all, have some serious conversations with them
Speaker 1: and let them know, hey, happy to get the building
Speaker 1: department involved again, just to make sure that this goes right.
Speaker 1: So let's get this done. Industry standards and practices, those
Speaker 1: are the three words. Might write that down. Industry standards
Speaker 1: and practices. This is what every contractor has to as
Speaker 1: a bare minimum, make sure that their work complies with
Speaker 1: industry standards and practices. Craftsmanship is one thing you can
Speaker 1: debate craftsmanship all day long. Oh, it could have been this,
Speaker 1: or could have been that, or it could have been
Speaker 1: nic sir. Okay, your situation comes down to industry standards
Speaker 1: and practice, the bare minimum bar to clear, and you've
Speaker 1: got every bit of leverage to get that done. Right, buddy,
Speaker 1: I've got to go. Thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: question and for your call. I hope that helps just
Speaker 1: give you the the right encouragement. Yeah, you're you're You're
Speaker 1: not wrong about this. That is not a good situation,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all. When we come back, more of your
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Speaker 1: We are going to the phones right now before we
Speaker 1: return to the subject of antique vintage retro items for
Speaker 1: decor in your home and have a handle them. But
Speaker 1: right now it's time for some calls. Let's talk to Arnold. Hey, Arnold,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 3: And marry Christmas. Hey, So, I live in a vintage house.
Speaker 3: It's twenty one years old, brand new, built in two
Speaker 3: thousand and three. In dog years, It's an antique house.
Speaker 3: One hundred and forty seven years old to trying to
Speaker 3: do the rein style. But hey, quickly we are painting
Speaker 3: the house for the first time exterior, do we have
Speaker 3: to remove the rain gutters or they just paint over
Speaker 3: the rain you know, they just paint the rain gutters,
Speaker 3: They just paint whatever they see of the facia.
Speaker 1: Well, that depends on a couple of different factors. Actually,
Speaker 1: Number one.
Speaker 5: I.
Speaker 1: Generally wouldn't remove the rain gutters if it's the very
Speaker 1: first time that you're doing the exterior paint of the house,
Speaker 1: maybe next time around it's worth doing it just so
Speaker 1: you get a little bitter access up to the facier
Speaker 1: board and the drip edge, just to make sure those
Speaker 1: things get sealed up properly and get a good coat
Speaker 1: of paint on them. But first time out, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I would pull the gutters off because that's
Speaker 1: an additional expense and probably you're okay as far as
Speaker 1: moisture protection up underneath there anyway. So that's one factor.
Speaker 1: The other factor though, is like, how do you negotiate
Speaker 1: around it and get to it or do we need
Speaker 1: to remove it? Really has to do with number one,
Speaker 1: how they're mounted, Are they tied against the facier board,
Speaker 1: do they have any play where you can get a
Speaker 1: little bit of paint up behind them so that there
Speaker 1: isn't a weird line? How much masking would you have
Speaker 1: to do? And the other thing too is are the
Speaker 1: gutters going to be different color than the facier board itself,
Speaker 1: which enters into a design question that ends up affecting
Speaker 1: how it is that you go about executing it. And
Speaker 1: if you've heard me talk about gutters before, and facier
Speaker 1: boards on most roofs in southern California, most roofs being
Speaker 1: asphalt posit roofs which don't have a lot of thickness
Speaker 1: and body to them. I've handed this pearl of wisdom
Speaker 1: out many many times before. A lot of people have
Speaker 1: scratched their head about it, but then come back to
Speaker 1: me and said, you know what, Oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: made such a difference. I am not the guy who
Speaker 1: is very hip on the white facia board going with
Speaker 1: the white trim of the house with an asphalt composite roof.
Speaker 1: And the reason is that it leaves the roof material
Speaker 1: itself feeling thin, thin ish, it doesn't have. It doesn't
Speaker 1: give the roof a lot of presents. So for me,
Speaker 1: my clients. They know that my tendency is to say,
Speaker 1: unless there's prevailing circumstance. There's never an absolute rule to this, okay,
Speaker 1: so please no emails, But unless there's a prevailing circumstance,
Speaker 1: I like to give roofs a sense of body to them,
Speaker 1: and the facia the edge of the roof. It's such
Speaker 1: a significant way to do that that I tend to
Speaker 1: choose a color for the facia, a dark color that
Speaker 1: corresponds with the one of the colors or one of
Speaker 1: the shade darker shades in the roofing material itself, so
Speaker 1: that the facial board really feels like the edge of
Speaker 1: the roof. And then gutters. When it comes to gutters,
Speaker 1: I don't hide gutters. I don't camouflage gutters. I actually
Speaker 1: pick them out and if at all possible, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, they're made out of? Metal? Here is
Speaker 1: our theme for metal on the front of the house,
Speaker 1: whether it's kind of cast iron, black or charcoal, or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Utilizing gutters as the crown
Speaker 1: molding quote unquote that they are for most homes. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hide them away, I don't want to
Speaker 1: disguise them. I want to accentuate them as an architectural feature.
Speaker 1: So I'm the guy who's going to paint the gutters.
Speaker 1: Also probably some metallic color as well, and that of
Speaker 1: course leads to the hole. Well, now we've got got
Speaker 1: to mask between the gutters and the facia and the
Speaker 1: facia and you know, and so on. So all of
Speaker 1: those factors come into play, my friend, when it comes
Speaker 1: to figuring out how to paint around the gutters. Of course,
Speaker 1: from the painting perspective, the painters would love for you
Speaker 1: to just pull the gutters off. If you're the painter fascinating,
Speaker 1: then then you know, do your best. You could use
Speaker 1: painting shields just to get a brush up underneath far
Speaker 1: enough so that there's no weird line exposed. But those
Speaker 1: are the factors involved. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much. Hey, I'll think it about because
Speaker 3: I already heard the painter of just going up there
Speaker 3: and single stort to sprain it before they show up. Sprain,
Speaker 3: just sprain underneath it with a can of white spray paint.
Speaker 3: But I like your idea of changing the color of
Speaker 3: the gutter, but I don't know. I already got the bid,
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to do that. But what about
Speaker 3: if I just get a can of white spray paint
Speaker 3: just stick it up in there, just maybe some added protection.
Speaker 1: I have no idea anyways, Well, yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're talking about the wood, I would I'd prefer to
Speaker 1: utilize a brush method up there, and you'll actually you
Speaker 1: might find it actually is neater than the spray method
Speaker 1: because you don't want to get it the fogging of
Speaker 1: the spray around and affecting the edge of the roof
Speaker 1: tiles or anything like that. But yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 1: got this, you're thinking creatively about it, So just kind
Speaker 1: of process through what you can do. But again, first
Speaker 1: time out on a newer vintage home, a twenty year
Speaker 1: old home, I'm not sure I'm too worried about redoing
Speaker 1: the paint behind the gutter this time out. If there's
Speaker 1: any indications that you should, by all means otherwise you
Speaker 1: can probably do okay, just going up the face to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the gutter and then transitioning to whatever
Speaker 1: the gutter is there. You go, all right, my friend,
Speaker 1: Thank you for your call, Thanks for the great question.
Speaker 1: When we return, we're going to dive back into the
Speaker 1: swirling tide pool. No swirling. I was gonna say cesspool.
Speaker 1: It's not the whirlpool. That is vintage, antique, retro, and
Speaker 1: nostalgic decor. How's that all right? Fine?
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Speaker 1: We're talking antiques, vintage, retro, and nostalgic decor today. I
Speaker 1: want to get back to our tips and insights into
Speaker 1: this area now. When I left the conversation previously, I
Speaker 1: just kind of described to you that what you do
Speaker 1: to an antique or a vintage item really depends on
Speaker 1: what you plan to do with it. Okay, You're either
Speaker 1: going to do one of three things. Generally, you're going
Speaker 1: to preserve it, restore it, or remodel it, depending on
Speaker 1: whether you plan to display it, reuse it, or repurpose it. Okay.
Speaker 1: And I set those there boundaries up for you, or
Speaker 1: at least those those branches of the tree, so that
Speaker 1: you can understand you got a lot of flexibility when
Speaker 1: it comes to antiquing, a lot of flexibility when it
Speaker 1: comes to utilizing vintage things. And you know what I
Speaker 1: am all about doing it for your home well, okay,
Speaker 1: just doing it well so that it incorporates the goal.
Speaker 1: The goal is always for me as your designer. The
Speaker 1: goal is to match up with you your home, its story,
Speaker 1: your story, and communicate that. Now, however you need to
Speaker 1: do that utilizing vintage or antique or retro items, then
Speaker 1: you know, have at it. Okay. I there are absolutely
Speaker 1: antique items out there that by and large everyone would agree, oh,
Speaker 1: don't touch that thing, don't. I mean it's it's literally
Speaker 1: a museum piece. It should be meticulously restored, not added to,
Speaker 1: not altered in any way. It should simply be restored
Speaker 1: to the fineness of its original intent and then just
Speaker 1: observed and appreciated as a piece of true artwork. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: there are those pieces out there, and a lot of them.
Speaker 1: But that is not the hard and fast rule for
Speaker 1: antiques or vintage pieces at all. That is not the law, okay.
Speaker 1: And I disagree with a lot of designers who think
Speaker 1: or antique officionados who think, well, if you do anything
Speaker 1: other than that to an antique, you're really abusing it
Speaker 1: and ruining it. I don't think so at all. I
Speaker 1: think that if you can embrace and incorporate something of
Speaker 1: a vintage or antique design into your home in a
Speaker 1: stellar a beautiful way that keeps it a part of
Speaker 1: your story. Then you've done it and you've honored it
Speaker 1: along the way. I'll mean, give you an example that
Speaker 1: I shared, what is last week or a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, about the grandfather clock that Tina inherited from
Speaker 1: her grandparents, right who she loved to pieces, and this,
Speaker 1: of all things, was such an iconic thing in their home. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not a fancy grandfather clock. It's not going to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, when this clock is five hundred years old,
Speaker 1: it'll probably sell for like thirty dollars more than what
Speaker 1: they paid for originally. No, that's not true. It'll be
Speaker 1: more pricier than But the point is, this is not
Speaker 1: one of those all deeply crafted, German made grand you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a swisk. It's it's just a lovely grandfather
Speaker 1: clock that they bought at a furniture store in the
Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties, late seven, these early eighties. And it
Speaker 1: has a kind of a classic style to it. And
Speaker 1: it's a real clock, right, It's got weights and chimes
Speaker 1: and all of that. But you know, it's not going
Speaker 1: down into any museum. But here's the thing. It means
Speaker 1: the world to her, and Tina means the world to me.
Speaker 1: And so as the result of that, this clock has
Speaker 1: to find a place in our home. It's kind of
Speaker 1: that honey oak, you know, thing that doesn't really match
Speaker 1: up with anything else we got going on. So eventually
Speaker 1: Tina said, you know what, I want to incorporate it
Speaker 1: into our home better. I'm going to paint it the
Speaker 1: color of the room, the dining room wainscotting that's just
Speaker 1: adjacent to it, sitting across the hallway from it. So
Speaker 1: it's now this beautiful shade of blue. The whole thing.
Speaker 1: All the oak is gone, I mean not gone, but
Speaker 1: it's painted now and as opposed to stained, and it
Speaker 1: so belongs in our home now, right, it really does.
Speaker 1: It so belongs there. And so now if you were
Speaker 1: if you if you live by the law of antiquing,
Speaker 1: then some people would say, oh, you've just abused it.
Speaker 1: You've abused that clock because you haven't left it exactly
Speaker 1: how it was when it was made. But our point
Speaker 1: is if we were to have left it exactly how
Speaker 1: it was, it wouldn't have a place in our home.
Speaker 5: And I think sometimes repurposing it as much as you know,
Speaker 5: you you do alter the finish or the wood, you're
Speaker 5: giving it extended life. Because we've done that with the
Speaker 5: several vanity pieces as well. We found some beautiful old
Speaker 5: cabinets that we turned into sink vanities. And you know,
Speaker 5: some people were offended that we painted it. Some people
Speaker 5: thought it was amazing, but you know, it is. It's attention.
Speaker 5: But it also gave it new life that it wouldn't
Speaker 5: have necessarily had.
Speaker 1: It gave it a new useful life our home. Yeah, repurpose.
Speaker 1: And by the way, just because something is antique, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, the price goes up, Sure it does, but
Speaker 1: just because something is antique does not mean that it's
Speaker 1: necessarily rare. Right. And so we've got and we're going
Speaker 1: to do a video at least one, maybe two videos
Speaker 1: on this for social media, a little VIP content before
Speaker 1: we're done with the show today. But on maybe let's
Speaker 1: just pick out maybe the the vanity that we did
Speaker 1: in the guest house. Right, So it is an east
Speaker 1: Lake Victorian east Lake period vanity okay, uh, that we
Speaker 1: found at an antique store I think down in Ventura.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, east Lake style, great style for
Speaker 1: us in court, you know, this is truly an antique,
Speaker 1: but not rare. It's not like, oh, that's a one
Speaker 1: of a kind thing, and no, no, no, So we
Speaker 1: felt the freedom to just treat it like a really
Speaker 1: good design element. And uh, and I think we've honored
Speaker 1: it by giving it this whole new life. You guys
Speaker 1: will have to be the judge. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll break away right now and do that quick
Speaker 1: video and you can be the judge whether we've honored
Speaker 1: this thing or abused it, and we'll show you exactly
Speaker 1: what we then we'll talk to it about it maybe
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. It is
Speaker 1: a beautiful it looks like a little blustery now cool
Speaker 1: crisp Saturday, Southern California fall morning. It just lovely outside
Speaker 1: here on December fifteenth, Sunday, December fifteenth, December is halfway over. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: All right. We're talking antique, vintage, retro, and just generally
Speaker 1: the category of nostalgic design elements. Giving you tips on
Speaker 1: what you can do, how you deal with these items
Speaker 1: can be incorporated in and where I left us right
Speaker 1: before the break was this idea that I want to
Speaker 1: encourage you. You've got a wide latitude, at least I
Speaker 1: think you do. I am not one of even though
Speaker 1: I love and absolutely have great appreciation, unending appreciation for
Speaker 1: those one of a kind antiques that should just be restored,
Speaker 1: meticulously brought back to as close to new as possible,
Speaker 1: and then just be looked at, look, don't touch, just
Speaker 1: appreciate it for the fine art that it is. Totally
Speaker 1: get that. But not every antique or vintage item needs
Speaker 1: to go that way. In my opinion, just because it's
Speaker 1: antique doesn't mean it's rare. A lot of pieces are
Speaker 1: still available in a lot of different categories out there
Speaker 1: in some way. Sometimes the best way to honor a
Speaker 1: a vintage or an antique piece is to really kind
Speaker 1: of own it for yourself, make it your own, incorporated
Speaker 1: into the house, give it a new life. So what
Speaker 1: we did during the break is Tina and I we
Speaker 1: ran into our guesthouse bathroom, the bathroom in the ADU,
Speaker 1: and we did a little video that Tina is furiously
Speaker 1: attempting to get. Is it up? Is it up? Tell
Speaker 1: everybody where they can find it.
Speaker 5: You can find it at Home with Dean, on Instagram
Speaker 5: and Facebook. I'm also going to throw it up on
Speaker 5: TikTok for all of you TikTok users.
Speaker 1: There you go. So it's just an example of raising
Speaker 1: this question. We've taken an a circa eighteen eighty okay,
Speaker 1: so it's well over one hundred years old piece, an
Speaker 1: East Lake Victorian age East Lakes style vanity that we found,
Speaker 1: got a good deal on, and we changed its color,
Speaker 1: we modified the drawers, I drilled through the top and
Speaker 1: put us sink in it. So some people are like cringing,
Speaker 1: like you have ruined it. Others, I hope will see
Speaker 1: it as, oh, you've really honored it. So have we
Speaker 1: honored it or ruined it? Go take a look at
Speaker 1: the piece, give me your opinion along the way. My
Speaker 1: point is not every antique has to be fully restored
Speaker 1: and then not touched. You can restore, you can observe them,
Speaker 1: display them, reuse them, or repurpose them. The question at
Speaker 1: the end is what serves you? What serves you? Okay?
Speaker 1: I am a custom home designer. My focus is you,
Speaker 1: your home, your story. You're the center of all of this.
Speaker 1: Not a piece that you serve. Pieces in your home
Speaker 1: serve you. Okay. Does that mean that I want to
Speaker 1: do this to every single antique out there, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I would push you hard. If you're in love with
Speaker 1: a piece that deserves full restoration, let's do it, okay.
Speaker 1: But this is another way to go as well. And
Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to show you this particular piece,
Speaker 1: and you'll see it online, is that I designed the
Speaker 1: whole wall, the tile work, the lighting, everything around this
Speaker 1: piece being kind of an exploded view there. So anyway,
Speaker 1: check it out, because that is the point. Okay. Remember
Speaker 1: also that there is a difference between a vintage look,
Speaker 1: and I think this dovetails into this subject. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between a vintage look, which most of us want.
Speaker 1: Those of us who are vintage prone, you want a
Speaker 1: vintage look. There's a difference between that and true vintage,
Speaker 1: or what we might say pure authentic vintage. This is
Speaker 1: where again I deviate from a lot of designers who
Speaker 1: are kind of oh I'm purest and the authenticity is
Speaker 1: the essence. Listen, here's the point. I work on a
Speaker 1: lot of century plus homes, okay, a lot of antique homes. Basically,
Speaker 1: a century plus home is any home that's more than
Speaker 1: one hundred years old, right that puts us back in
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties right now and earlier. So we work
Speaker 1: on these homes, and this is what I find from
Speaker 1: the homeowners. They don't they want it as period appropriate
Speaker 1: as possible, but they want to live a twenty first
Speaker 1: century life in this home. And the binding the balance
Speaker 1: can be really tricky between preserving that period look but
Speaker 1: also making it accessible to live well a twenty first
Speaker 1: century life. So that's what I mean. There's a difference
Speaker 1: between a vintage look and true vintage. True vintage would mean,
Speaker 1: for instance, in a Victorian home, dark Victorian rooms without
Speaker 1: much window feeding into it. It would mean gas lamps,
Speaker 1: which are not even legal anymore, gas lamps lighting up
Speaker 1: the ceiling and leaving soot over, you know, build up
Speaker 1: all over the the ceiling line, around the gas fixtures.
Speaker 1: Family bathrooms, no on suites, okay, not generally speaking, and
Speaker 1: for a lot of pure Victorian purist homes, no no
Speaker 1: indoor plumbing. So there you go, And that's my point.
Speaker 1: That's what we are not after doing. We want to
Speaker 1: bring all of this in incorporate it. So you know,
Speaker 1: I run into the same situation now. If I'm ever
Speaker 1: given a brief for taking a house and restoring it
Speaker 1: to its utter authenticity, that kind of restoration, that's museum restoration.
Speaker 1: And nobody's going to live in that house, but people
Speaker 1: are going to come to see it. So we're going
Speaker 1: to bring it up to spec so that people can
Speaker 1: come and appreciate it as it was. Nobody's going to
Speaker 1: live in it. Nobody would want to live in it. Okay,
Speaker 1: even classic structures, eight hundred plus year old No Tre
Speaker 1: Damka Cathedral, which just literally reopened what a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago after the devastating fire. It was rebuilt with
Speaker 1: utter precision in terms of restoration to its original specifications,
Speaker 1: with one exception now here in twenty twenty four, Notre
Speaker 1: Dame has a fire suppression system built into it. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: So you see, even that is something where it's been
Speaker 1: integrated into twenty first century life so that we can
Speaker 1: enjoy it for another eight hundred years. All right, all
Speaker 1: of this, as you can tell, there's a lot to it.
Speaker 1: I've got so much more to share with you. But
Speaker 1: when we come back after the break It's time to
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