Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of home
Speaker 1: on KFI. It's Dean Sharp, our house whisper. Dean, you
Speaker 1: got an all calls weekend, so we don't have a
Speaker 1: preview of what you're going to talk about, because you're
Speaker 1: going to talk about everything. But last week we talked
Speaker 1: about the home Builders show that was just held in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and there were so many cool things that
Speaker 1: you shared with us. I wanted to see if you
Speaker 1: could share a few more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there are so many things. I put together
Speaker 2: a little list of fun things that I'm going to
Speaker 2: slip out over the weekend as well. But this is
Speaker 2: a category that I call flush and hidden items, and
Speaker 2: they're fun and they're fascinating, and they're the kinds of
Speaker 2: finishes sometimes that homeowners have been yearning for and they
Speaker 2: don't even know are available out there. For instance, a
Speaker 2: barn door. You know barn doors, Yeah, very popular right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were very popular and then they kind of sort
Speaker 2: of started losing their popularity. And this is a sliding
Speaker 2: door across an opening inside a house that isn't a
Speaker 2: pocket door. Pocket door is basically a sliding door that
Speaker 2: slides into the wall itself. Barn doors were such the
Speaker 2: thing wow, but then people started backing away from them
Speaker 2: because they're like, well, Okay, what if I don't live
Speaker 2: in a barn, What if I don't have that kind
Speaker 2: of country chic look in my home. What do I do?
Speaker 2: Because you've got the track and the wheels and all
Speaker 2: of that kind of it has a very very specific look.
Speaker 2: What if you had a barn door where essentially any
Speaker 2: kind of a door, even a very modern contemporary door,
Speaker 2: was mysteriously sliding across an opening without any hardware visible
Speaker 2: at all, no track, no anything. And so people ask me,
Speaker 2: what is a barn door without a visible track? I
Speaker 2: just say, it is very sexy, That's what it is.
Speaker 2: We actually shared this video last year when we saw
Speaker 2: it the Builder Show was just as popular this year.
Speaker 2: This is an amazing piece of hardware, really ingenious piece
Speaker 2: of hardware that holds a door onto a wall, allows
Speaker 2: the door to slide back and forth, but you cannot
Speaker 2: see any hardware. There's no track in the floor, there's
Speaker 2: no rollers. Well you know, it's a very specific piece
Speaker 2: of hardware that's mounted just to the left or the
Speaker 2: right of the door itself. But the door always covers
Speaker 2: this piece of hardware, whether it's open or closed, and
Speaker 2: you just don't see it. And you know, I always
Speaker 2: say this when there's when it comes to innovations in
Speaker 2: hardware like this at the Builder Show, we just say
Speaker 2: there's one word to describe it. Germans. There's a German
Speaker 2: section actually of the Builder Show, and they always have
Speaker 2: unbelievable engineering innovations there. And now the point is you
Speaker 2: can have a barn quote unquote door in your house
Speaker 2: without it having to look country. It can be it
Speaker 2: can match any motif and it looks great, very cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's something else that you sent me a
Speaker 1: picture of it. It's a countertop, but it's also your
Speaker 1: cook top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something that is coming on straw. Now
Speaker 2: you've heard of induction cook tops, I'm sure because they
Speaker 2: become all the rage. They're electric, they use magnetic fields
Speaker 2: to heat up a pan. They are amazingly safe, they're
Speaker 2: amazingly simple, and they're as good as, if not more effective,
Speaker 2: at cooking than gas, which is the first time in
Speaker 2: history that electric cooktops have ever surpassed gas in its
Speaker 2: ability to cook better lower lows, higher highs, than all
Speaker 2: in between. Instead of just the standard induction cooktop, which
Speaker 2: of course you would cut in and set into a countertop.
Speaker 2: There are now these induction hobs, independent induction hobs that
Speaker 2: can be mounted to the bottom side of your stone
Speaker 2: countertop underneath. Wow. And therefore you just have a tiny
Speaker 2: reference dot up on the top, which means your countertop,
Speaker 2: when there's no cooking going on, is just a stone countertop.
Speaker 2: And when it's time to cook, you just simply know
Speaker 2: the location where you set the pan down and you're cooking.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, It looks very cool. Okay, So gosh, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about so much more, but we got
Speaker 1: to get in your business, so I gotta let you go.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, but you can listen to Dean this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's an all calls weekend. You can ask them anything
Speaker 1: you want from six to eight tomorrow morning and then
Speaker 1: nine to noon on Sunday. It's Home with Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: You can follow them at Home with Dean. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Dean.
Speaker 2: Thanks Amy