Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
Speaker 1: House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. I
Speaker 1: Am Dean Sharp the House Whisper here with you live
Speaker 1: like I am every weekend Saturday morning, six to eight
Speaker 1: Pacific time, Sunday mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Welcome to the second hour of our show.
Speaker 1: We're talking about details that matter today. Hand in your pearls,
Speaker 1: pearls of wisdom, about little things, little things that are
Speaker 1: often overlooked in most houses, that you can change for
Speaker 1: not a lot of denarro and ultimately make some really
Speaker 1: big impact in your home. We're returning to that conversation
Speaker 1: in just a bit, but as we do here on
Speaker 1: the program, we also take calls live and talk to
Speaker 1: you about what's going on with your home. It is
Speaker 1: time to do that now, and so I want to
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Let's talk to Carol. Hey, Carol,
Speaker 1: welcome home. Hello, Hello Carol.
Speaker 2: Hi, Dean. Is there something that I can put into
Speaker 2: my fireplace, like a potbelly stove or whatever to burn cleaner.
Speaker 2: I don't want to burn wood anymore because it's just
Speaker 2: I mean out in the open. Because it just makes
Speaker 2: such a city mass. And I don't want to go
Speaker 2: gas because I'm trying to conserve. But is there, yeah,
Speaker 2: is there something I can buy the insert in there?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I was about to answer that question when
Speaker 1: you said that you don't want to burn wood and
Speaker 1: you don't want to burn gas, because those are are
Speaker 1: two options.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to burn wood, but in an inserted cloth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I'm with you right now. Yes, So the
Speaker 1: answer is yes, yes, there is, and and you're you're
Speaker 1: you're thinking along the right line. So here's all you
Speaker 1: have to do is go online and start searching for
Speaker 1: or go down to your local fireplace shop and you
Speaker 1: can take a look at what they may have to offer.
Speaker 1: But but there's so many to find. You want to
Speaker 1: look for a wood burning wood stove insert, not pop
Speaker 1: belly stove, but wood stove insert. There is an entire
Speaker 1: branch of the fireplace industry that is all about inserts
Speaker 1: into existing old masonry fireboxes that are essentially like what
Speaker 1: you're thinking. They're they're cast iron, they're made just like
Speaker 1: pot belly stoves. They insert in, they sit flush, and
Speaker 1: then the nice thing is they also have their own
Speaker 1: flu which runs up inside the existing chimney of the
Speaker 1: fireplace and comes out and terminates out the top. And
Speaker 1: now what you'll have is the power of essentially a
Speaker 1: wood stove. That's what a potbelly stove is. It's a
Speaker 1: wood stove. And a wood stove is so beautifully and
Speaker 1: properly engineered to maximize the burn of wood. It will
Speaker 1: throw more heat and make more wood last way way longer,
Speaker 1: and it's a way to go now if you want
Speaker 1: to even take another step in full efficiency forward, it's
Speaker 1: not quite as beautifully attractive the burn itself. But there
Speaker 1: are also wood stove inserts that use pellets that are
Speaker 1: pellet stove inserts. They also produce a flame that you
Speaker 1: just don't see the big log burning inside, and they
Speaker 1: crank out a great amount of heat, and they are
Speaker 1: the most efficient use of wood because these are hardwood pellets.
Speaker 1: They're full legitimate wood. But it's less expensive and cleaner
Speaker 1: burning and more efficient. But yeah, whenever Tina and I
Speaker 1: go somewhere, and when we're ever going to spend an
Speaker 1: extended amount of time in an area, instead of a hotel,
Speaker 1: we will usually like airbnb or verbo a home and
Speaker 1: we're always thrilled, especially when we travel in the winter months,
Speaker 1: to find that the fireplace is actually a wood stove insert,
Speaker 1: or that there's just a wood stove. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that's also a possibility if you wanted just a wood
Speaker 1: stove sitting on the hearth, Okay, then this is just
Speaker 1: a little bit more involved. It means blocking off the
Speaker 1: firebox and then letting that wood stove sit freely on
Speaker 1: the hearth, letting its pipe its flu extend up, and
Speaker 1: then at some point it would bust through the wall
Speaker 1: into the existing chimney and then take off from there,
Speaker 1: so you really have that full. The simplest, cleanest way
Speaker 1: of doing it, without any construction whatsoever, is to buy
Speaker 1: an insert into your existing fire blocks with its own
Speaker 1: flu going up. And it's also something you know, I
Speaker 1: just did a fireplace show yesterday, and I would have
Speaker 1: loved to have had time to talk about all these things.
Speaker 1: But it's also a great way if you find that
Speaker 1: you have an old masonry chimney that just isn't up
Speaker 1: to speck anymore. It's got cracks in it, it's not
Speaker 1: falling apart, but you know, your local fireplace people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't recommend burning anything in it because of these cracks,
Speaker 1: And you're like, I don't want to rebuild my entire
Speaker 1: masonry chimney. Well, a wood stove insert gives you the
Speaker 1: ability to utilize the fireplace again because it doesn't rely
Speaker 1: on it only relies on the chimney as a chase
Speaker 1: to run its own flu up inside until it comes out.
Speaker 1: And so it's really kind of the best of both worlds.
Speaker 2: Okay, so your first suggestion, I would ask for a
Speaker 2: wood burning wood stove insert.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, wood stove after drafter right there? Yep.
Speaker 2: Do you have a supplier that you would suggest?
Speaker 1: You know what, just about every manufactured fireplace manufacturer has
Speaker 1: their own line of wood stove inserts. So that's why
Speaker 1: I say just go. And so, depending on the size
Speaker 1: of your firebox you need to, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: shop around to get just the best optimal fit. But
Speaker 1: they're out there and there are plenty of them, I promise.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much, Deine.
Speaker 1: You're so welcome. Carol, thanks for that question. That was
Speaker 1: a really good question because that's something that I did
Speaker 1: not have the time to talk about yesterday. Woodstoves are.
Speaker 1: They're just the best. I love woodstoves. Why because they're
Speaker 1: so brilliantly engineered to maximize heat and the burn. And
Speaker 1: they're beautiful, beautiful to watch, beautiful and easy to maintain,
Speaker 1: so much easier than a fireplace. All right, more calls
Speaker 1: when we return your Home with Dean Sharp the house Whisper.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1: Here we are talking about details that matter for your
Speaker 1: home today. We're going to return to that conversation in
Speaker 1: just a bit, but right now we're taking calls, and
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the phones. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to Rochelle. Rochelle, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking my call. Dean. I have two
Speaker 3: very short questions, short answers hopefully, and a design question
Speaker 3: if you have the time. Live in a small condominium.
Speaker 3: We want to refer that you mentioned two weeks ago
Speaker 3: that would put that white epoxy on. We've researched it
Speaker 3: and that's what we'd like to do as soon as possible.
Speaker 3: Can you give me the name of the company recommended?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry I lost track of you there. White
Speaker 1: epoxy for what the roof. Oh, the flat roof, the
Speaker 1: flat roof.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But you know what, when we're done with the call,
Speaker 1: we're going to pop you on hold and I'm going
Speaker 1: to get that information to Michelle.
Speaker 3: I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Before you hang up, So just just don't hang up
Speaker 1: when we're done. I just don't have it at my
Speaker 1: fingertips right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'd appreciate the other question. The other question
Speaker 3: is I live in this small condom, Anu, and I
Speaker 3: need a condominium. I'm on the second floor. The upstairs
Speaker 3: you it is empty most of the time because it's
Speaker 3: an out of town owner. You spoke of some contrivance
Speaker 3: that could be put under the sink that could conserve
Speaker 3: the cold water and bring the hot water sooner. Is
Speaker 3: that is that our tank is on the roof. Is
Speaker 3: that possible to put in a condo.
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, it's possible to put anywhere. And what we're
Speaker 1: talking about is a relatively inexpensive recirculation pump. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a little localized pump. It can be in some systems.
Speaker 1: It can be placed on the water heater itself at
Speaker 1: the location of the water heater. Other times, you can
Speaker 1: put them under the sink at the final location of
Speaker 1: where you want the hot water, wherever that may be.
Speaker 1: And in combination with that little recirculation pump is a
Speaker 1: little device called a bridge valve. A bridge valve is
Speaker 1: what connects under the sink, not in the wall, but
Speaker 1: under the sink. It will connect the hot water line
Speaker 1: to the cold water line under the sink. But just when,
Speaker 1: just when the pump is on driving hot water, pulling
Speaker 1: hot water out of the hot water line and pushing
Speaker 1: it into the cold water line. And that little brilliant
Speaker 1: device and that little system. Number one, you don't waste
Speaker 1: any water because it's still your water. You just have
Speaker 1: it's over in the cold line. But what it does
Speaker 1: is it draws out all of that hot water in
Speaker 1: the hot water line that isn't actually hot stuff that
Speaker 1: has cooled off in between users, and it pushes it
Speaker 1: into the cold and as a result of that, it
Speaker 1: brings the real hot water much much closer to the
Speaker 1: faucet itself, so that you're waiting for hot water maybe
Speaker 1: two or three seconds instead of two or three minutes.
Speaker 1: And so it's a combination research pump, very small recirculation
Speaker 1: pump and bridge valve and if you're not a DIY
Speaker 1: oriented person, then you would then I would recommend you
Speaker 1: would just call a plumber and say, hey, we just
Speaker 1: want to research pump and a bridge valve because we
Speaker 1: want hot water closer to market and think and and
Speaker 1: they'll give you pricing on it.
Speaker 3: So I've been put one of my bathroom in one
Speaker 3: of my kitchens, then.
Speaker 1: Too, you could. But theoretically, okay, we most of the
Speaker 1: time we put one in a home, depending on how
Speaker 1: the plumbing is arranged in a home. What we do
Speaker 1: is we will and to put the bridge valve in
Speaker 1: the pump at the furthest sink away from the water
Speaker 1: heater because guess what, as it pulls hot water towards
Speaker 1: that far sink because of the branch system of normal plumbing,
Speaker 1: it's also pulling hot water closer to all the sinks
Speaker 1: along the way. So, yes, you could put one at
Speaker 1: each location, but it's very likely you only need one
Speaker 1: at the furthest sink and that's going to pull hot
Speaker 1: water into most of the house lines sufficiently for all
Speaker 1: the sinks.
Speaker 3: Let's be wonderful, all right, Now you got to you've
Speaker 3: got time for a design question real quick.
Speaker 1: You're here lay it on me.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, it's my daughter's condominium. She lives in Condomni.
Speaker 5: Her living room is thirty three seed long, eighteen seed
Speaker 5: high and sixteen wide. There's a loft at one end
Speaker 5: that she uses.
Speaker 3: As an office. She would like to put in a
Speaker 3: new not crominal the baseboard, and you went up to
Speaker 3: seven inches. You've mentioned it before. I didn't know if
Speaker 3: there was a maximum or what would be good for
Speaker 3: an eighteen high ceiling, eighteen foot high ceiling.
Speaker 1: Anywhere, baseboard anywhere from eight to twelve inches.
Speaker 3: Eight to twelve inches is the max.
Speaker 1: There's no sense in going over twelve. But the idea
Speaker 1: is that most most everyone listening to my voice right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like ninety eight percent of you listening
Speaker 1: have baseboards that are undersized from a design perspective for
Speaker 1: your home. An eight foot ceiling, an eight foot ceiling if.
Speaker 3: You use eighteen no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, I understand, I understand what I'm just making
Speaker 1: a point here. An eight foot ceiling the lowest normal
Speaker 1: old ceiling, okay, can get can get away with a
Speaker 1: six and a half or seven inch baseboard. Okay. So
Speaker 1: that's the thing. And we don't use the proportion always
Speaker 1: what we call the seven percent rule. The seven percent
Speaker 1: of the height of the ceiling is the size of
Speaker 1: the baseboard, because there's some point like an eighteen foot
Speaker 1: ceiling for your daughter, in which that's like, what are
Speaker 1: you suggesting a two foot tall baseboard? Dan, No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. That's why I said, for that size of
Speaker 1: a room, there is a cutoff point. And the cutoff
Speaker 1: point is, you know, nothing is so ridiculously high that
Speaker 1: you know you don't want to just look to your
Speaker 1: left and see the baseboard staring you in the face
Speaker 1: at five feet tall, just because you have a sixty
Speaker 1: foot tall room. So there's a limit to it. But
Speaker 1: the idea is, yes, taller baseboards, and in the case
Speaker 1: of an eighteen foot ceiling, easily eight twelve inches, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't go above twelve. I don't go above twelve no
Speaker 1: matter how tall the room is that we're going. And
Speaker 1: we work with sometimes room heights that are much taller
Speaker 1: than eighteen feet and we max out right around twelve
Speaker 1: because it just gets weird after that, but beautiful up
Speaker 1: to that point. So eight to twelve inches, Rachelle I
Speaker 1: got to run thank you so much for your questions.
Speaker 1: You stay on the line because I'm going to get
Speaker 1: that a Last America Compound brand to you, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it to producer Michelle so she can let
Speaker 1: you know and for the rest of you. Right after
Speaker 1: Eileen Gonzalez gives us the news, we are going to
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Speaker 1: there waiting for you. Okay, back to details that matter.
Speaker 1: We've talked about outlets, chords, light switches, lamp chords. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about HVAC vents, heating and air conditioning vents.
Speaker 1: This is something I want to make two very very
Speaker 1: distinct points here. Number One, if you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: and you really are working your way through the house
Speaker 1: doing details that matter, then for all the money that
Speaker 1: you've spent on that remodel, or all the money that
Speaker 1: you want to invest in changing the vibe of a room,
Speaker 1: don't neglect changing out those cheap normal just like everybody
Speaker 1: always gets basic ya, basic HVAC vents that came with
Speaker 1: your system, they are really really boring, and so you
Speaker 1: change them out, and you change them out to something nice. Now,
Speaker 1: a couple of things. The other point that I want
Speaker 1: to make Number one, they don't have to be I'm
Speaker 1: not suggesting that you change them out to look antique,
Speaker 1: although you can, Okay, you can make them look like
Speaker 1: they're one hundred years old, like they're made out of
Speaker 1: bronze or brass or cast iron or steel. So they
Speaker 1: are a great way of just nudging an already kind
Speaker 1: of historical vintage looking room right over the edge into
Speaker 1: full on like, wow, everything was thought about in this room. However,
Speaker 1: if you've got a post a modern home, a mid
Speaker 1: century home, if you've got a super contemporary, cutting edge,
Speaker 1: twenty first century, twenty twenty four home, you will find
Speaker 1: hvac vents that match that motif as well. Okay, just
Speaker 1: consider changing out the super cheap, super boring, super normal
Speaker 1: vents that are running in the room that you are
Speaker 1: trying to guj with maximum intensity. Okay. Now, the last
Speaker 1: point that I want to make here is Dean is
Speaker 1: also not suggesting that you necessarily make the vent something
Speaker 1: that catches somebody's eye and you're like well, Dean, that's
Speaker 1: all well and good, but I just want my HVAC
Speaker 1: events to go away. Okay, I just wanted to go away. Well,
Speaker 1: then pick a cool new vent that has a great
Speaker 1: pattern to it, and go ahead and paint it with
Speaker 1: the color of the ceiling or the wall. Okay, with
Speaker 1: the exact same paint over that area. Let it match
Speaker 1: the wall. I shouldn't say the exact same paint, the
Speaker 1: exact same color. Okay, I want it to be a durable,
Speaker 1: washable paint, but the exact same color. Let it blend
Speaker 1: in with the wall. Because you know what, talk about
Speaker 1: a detail that matters. Here is now a vent that
Speaker 1: is not drawing attention to itself whatsoever. But when somebody
Speaker 1: does look over it and notice it, they're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: even that vent that I didn't even notice the first
Speaker 1: ten times I was here, Even that vent looks great.
Speaker 1: Ah ah, excuse me, there had something in my throat.
Speaker 1: So yeah, eight VACE events. Last thing, let's talk about doors.
Speaker 1: Interior doors specifically. We worry most of the time about
Speaker 1: finding the right door knobs. Okay, and that's all well
Speaker 1: and good man, my throat here, hang on a second.
Speaker 1: The right doorknobs, but we tend to ignore number one
Speaker 1: the doors themselves, your interior doors. Now this is a
Speaker 1: little bit more of an investment, I get it, but
Speaker 1: interior doors are so dang important to the vibe of
Speaker 1: a home, not only making them solid core instead of
Speaker 1: those flimsy, little hollow core doors that you've got that is,
Speaker 1: you know, hold back about as much sound as a
Speaker 1: sheet hanging in the doorway. But just the fact that
Speaker 1: finding a door that reflects the style of your home
Speaker 1: and placing it in these openings. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about necessarily stained grade doors maybe or maybe they're paint
Speaker 1: graye but just the right door in the right place
Speaker 1: makes all the difference. The knob, of course, that's always
Speaker 1: when you go to the hardware store, right up front
Speaker 1: and center. Ooh, what should it be? This kind of
Speaker 1: knob should be that kind of knob, But the door itself.
Speaker 1: And here is the thing right on the edge of
Speaker 1: the door, a detail that matters, the hinges. This when
Speaker 1: it comes to a door assembly, is from a decre perspective,
Speaker 1: the most neglected potential detail of any door is the hinge.
Speaker 1: The hinge are very utilitarian. Obviously, that's what I always
Speaker 1: talking talking about neglected utilitarian fixtures. Most hinges are. I
Speaker 1: will tell you right now, what are the odds are
Speaker 1: that your doors in your house are cut with three
Speaker 1: or three and a half inch large round corner hinges
Speaker 1: of no specific attractiveness at all. They're just there, simple
Speaker 1: pined hinges. So what can you do? Well, Number one,
Speaker 1: we'll give it in three layers here. Number one, you
Speaker 1: can change out those hinges for a more attractive hinge.
Speaker 1: You can find hinges of number one, the proper metal
Speaker 1: that matches the finish of your door knobs. They could
Speaker 1: be bronze, they could be brush stainless, they could be
Speaker 1: brushed nickel, they could be whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: so you can change them out. You can also change
Speaker 1: them out if you're going for an older vintage. Look
Speaker 1: to cast hinges. And what I mean by that or
Speaker 1: is would they look like they're cast or they're stamped.
Speaker 1: They actually have detail and decor stamped into the face
Speaker 1: of the hinge plate. And yeah, I know you think, well,
Speaker 1: nobody ever sees those, Well that's not true, okay, no
Speaker 1: one ever looks at your hinges right now, because they
Speaker 1: just go away. Okay, And I get that, but of
Speaker 1: course they do because most interior doors in most homes
Speaker 1: are left open, and when they are left open, as
Speaker 1: you walk into the room on one side of that doorway,
Speaker 1: you see both sides of the hinge okay as you
Speaker 1: walk in, so they're very much potentially on display. And
Speaker 1: so this is an opportunity. Now, even if you don't
Speaker 1: want to change out your hinges or you don't want
Speaker 1: to replace that hinge body, you could change out the
Speaker 1: hinge pin to one that has some kind of a
Speaker 1: finial on it. A finial would be a little rounded
Speaker 1: knob at the top and the bottom, or an elongated
Speaker 1: piece so that when the door is closed there's a
Speaker 1: little bit more de tail there hinges and hinge pins
Speaker 1: and hinge faces. And if you really wanted to go
Speaker 1: all the way and make every one of your interior
Speaker 1: doors the ultimate touch of custom hinges, then you would
Speaker 1: get rid of the round edge hinge that you've got, meaning,
Speaker 1: you know, as it goes in, when it transitions from
Speaker 1: the horizontal top of the hinge down to the vertical
Speaker 1: part of the hinge plate, there's a big old rounded
Speaker 1: edge there. You would transition from that to a complete
Speaker 1: square edge hinge. Square edge hinges are the sharpest, nicest,
Speaker 1: and also most effective and efficient hinges because that square
Speaker 1: corner cutting into the door mortising into that hinge pocket
Speaker 1: stays in place naturally by itself, better than the rounded edge.
Speaker 1: The reason they're rounded edge hinges exist is because routers
Speaker 1: in door companies are have around. You know, when they
Speaker 1: make a turn, they have to round the edge. Of
Speaker 1: the nature of how a router cuts through wood is
Speaker 1: that when it makes a ninety degree turn, it leaves
Speaker 1: a rounded edge on that ninety degree turn. So it
Speaker 1: takes more effort to then, after you've routed out the
Speaker 1: hinge pocket, to go back with a chisel and chisel
Speaker 1: out the square corner. For a square hinge, AHA, more effort,
Speaker 1: more craftsmanship, more detail, more caring. And this is why
Speaker 1: square cut hinges always look better because they just communicate
Speaker 1: all of that every time you look at them. All right,
Speaker 1: so much more to go your home with. Oh, Tina
Speaker 1: brought me some water, so like I heard you choking
Speaker 1: from the other room. Here's some water. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You're the best.
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Speaker 1: Forty Welcome home. We are talking about details that matter
Speaker 1: in your home today. Why is that important? Well, because
Speaker 1: they can make a big difference layer after layer of detail,
Speaker 1: because they display the fact that somebody cares, and caring
Speaker 1: is the sexiest thing in the world. Number Two, they
Speaker 1: make a difference because details don't break the bank. By definition,
Speaker 1: they are smaller things. You can take them in smaller chunks.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that they're all cheap, but they're a
Speaker 1: lot less expensive working on layers of detail than you know,
Speaker 1: moving walls and doing a major remodel. And so I
Speaker 1: led the idea of doing it all obviously, and I
Speaker 1: insist to my clients that after we've done the major remodel,
Speaker 1: we keep on designing until we've exhausted all the details
Speaker 1: that they're willing to do, because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, man, that is what just seals the deal.
Speaker 1: It really is. And we've talked about a lot, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to move forward. However, a Tina has stepped
Speaker 1: back into the studio and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the posts that you've made and where people can go
Speaker 1: to find out about what's coming up. On November twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: Do I get that right? I think I got that right.
Speaker 1: November twenty fourth is a Sunday that is only one,
Speaker 1: two three sundays away from now. On November twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: we are going to be in the iHeart Studios up
Speaker 1: on the fifth floor in the Helpful Lon Helpful Honda Theater,
Speaker 1: the lounge up there. It seats about one hundred people
Speaker 1: and that's all we can handle. But every year we
Speaker 1: do our House Whisper Holiday Home Show sponsored by Aldick Home, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Amazing, Wonderful Aldacombe, the Winter Wonderland Aldacombe. This year,
Speaker 1: Aldick is not only providing a tree for the main
Speaker 1: studio at KFI so that all the hosts can enjoy
Speaker 1: the tree all through the chrisp season all the way
Speaker 1: through to New Year, but also on the day of
Speaker 1: the home show, we're going to decorate that tree. Their
Speaker 1: expert decorators are going to decorate another tree on stage
Speaker 1: and during the show, during the show live, and one
Speaker 1: of our studio audience members is going to win that
Speaker 1: tree and take it home. And that's unbelievable. That's just
Speaker 1: an unbelievable I mean, that's just a great thing. So
Speaker 1: that's coming up on this let's see three weeks from
Speaker 1: now on Sunday, November twenty fourth, and afterwards we're all
Speaker 1: going over to Aldacom to just hang out for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's basically the Sunday just before Thanksgiving, the Sunday before
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving November twenty fourth in Burbank at the iHeart Studios
Speaker 1: in Burbank. Anyway, all of the details that you need
Speaker 1: to know and how to enter to win a coveted
Speaker 1: seat at the House Whisper Holiday Home Show are now
Speaker 1: posted on social media ware.
Speaker 6: We're posted on Instagram and Facebook, and when you win,
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Speaker 1: Door knobs? Door dem All right, I have this note here,
Speaker 1: learn in practice the number one most important rule of lighting.
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is? Well, let you think
Speaker 1: about that for a second, the number one most important
Speaker 1: rule of lighting design. And don't feel bad if you
Speaker 1: do not know what this is or it doesn't spring
Speaker 1: to mind immediately, because let me tell you, I asked
Speaker 1: this question of electricians all the time, and very very
Speaker 1: rarely does anybody actually get it right. This only illustrates
Speaker 1: the point that I tell you a lot, which is,
Speaker 1: contractors are not home designers. Electricians are not lighting designers.
Speaker 1: They have different functions. Okay, that doesn't mean that your
Speaker 1: electrician might not have a good idea, it's just not
Speaker 1: what they are specially trained to do. So, as a
Speaker 1: lighting designer, let me tell you what this is, and
Speaker 1: I want you to embrace it and hold on to
Speaker 1: it and never let it go. When it comes to
Speaker 1: a home, it's very much like theater lighting. We do
Speaker 1: not light rooms, We do not light spaces. We light things.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that we don't light rooms? We light things?
Speaker 1: The number one rule of lighting design? Now, how does
Speaker 1: this apply to our conversation today of details that matter? Well,
Speaker 1: this applies to you very likely if you have a
Speaker 1: home that has had recess lighting, either built into it
Speaker 1: originally or retro fit in to it after the fact.
Speaker 1: And if a lighting designer wasn't used to lay out
Speaker 1: that lighting, if you laid it out or your electrician
Speaker 1: laid it out, then I am guessing if I walk
Speaker 1: into your home and look up to the ceiling, I
Speaker 1: will find the classic living room grid of six or
Speaker 1: eight recess can lights beautifully symmetrically spread out all over
Speaker 1: the ceiling in a nice organized grid for the room.
Speaker 1: And you will look to me and say ah, and
Speaker 1: I will look to you and say, uh, uh, Okay,
Speaker 1: your living room does not need warehouse style lighting in it.
Speaker 1: It does not need that. This is the worst lighting.
Speaker 1: Direct down light into a space. It destroys shadows, it
Speaker 1: flattens out textures. And I know you want it bright
Speaker 1: in there. That's fine. I'm not talking about brightness. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the general position of those lights. So if
Speaker 1: I was there to lay out the lighting for that room,
Speaker 1: I might actually use the same number of recess can lights.
Speaker 1: The difference would be I would be putting them closer
Speaker 1: to walls, and I would center them on areas of
Speaker 1: open wall where you are going to hang art or
Speaker 1: have photos, or whatever the case may be. In other words,
Speaker 1: the rule we light things, not rooms. Things not rooms.
Speaker 1: Now how does this supply then to you? Well, there
Speaker 1: are two parts to any recessed can light. There is
Speaker 1: the housing. That's the part that's built into the ceiling.
Speaker 1: And I'm not suggesting that you tear it out and
Speaker 1: read drywall over and have an electrician movement. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, that's fine, That's not
Speaker 1: what I'm suggesting. What I'm suggesting is that you work
Speaker 1: not with that housing part, but with the second part,
Speaker 1: which is the trim. The trim is what you actually
Speaker 1: see when you look up. It's either a flat led
Speaker 1: lens or there may be some kind of a baffle
Speaker 1: that goes up into the ceiling a little bit and
Speaker 1: may be black and maybe white, maybe it's silver, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. And then the light source is
Speaker 1: further up in there. That is the trim. You can
Speaker 1: get on a step ladder or a ladder and reach
Speaker 1: up there and grab the edges of that and carefully
Speaker 1: pull it down and find the trim pops right out
Speaker 1: of the housing because it's on a set of spring clips,
Speaker 1: and then it's plugged into the housing and you can
Speaker 1: undo the plug and now you are holding in your
Speaker 1: hand the trim. For every major brand of recessed can lighting,
Speaker 1: there are not one, not two, but tens, I mean
Speaker 1: tens and tens of trims that can go into that
Speaker 1: same housing that just plug right in. And the trims
Speaker 1: are not that expensive, anywhere from fifteen to thirty five
Speaker 1: or forty dollars for a trim. And what then can
Speaker 1: we do if we decide to take your existing lighting
Speaker 1: and replace the trims. Do I have you on the
Speaker 1: edge of your seat, Well, stay there, because I will
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