WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.279 KFI AM six forty. 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.719 You're listening to Dean Sharp, the House Whisper on demand 3 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.880 on the iHeart Radio app KFI AM six forty live 4 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:18.480 streaming in HD everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Hey, 5 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.839 welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. I 6 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:25.199 design custom homes. 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:26.039 Oh yes, I do. 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.839 I build custom homes, and I am your guide to 9 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:34.880 better understanding that place where you live. So happy to 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.439 be spending some time with you on this early Saturday morning. 11 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:41.840 Well maybe if you're on the East Coast and you're listening, 12 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.560 it's not quite so early, but it's pretty early out here. 13 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.280 The sun hasn't come up yet. That's the way it 14 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.439 goes here on Saturdays for us, at least during the winter. 15 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.600 It is a cool not well, yeah, it's pretty crisp, 16 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.560 pretty crisp Saturday morning. The rain is gone, and so 17 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.319 we've got a sunny southern California looking ahead of us 18 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.959 for this weekend. Happy about that. The rain was good too, 19 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.439 with the exception of the landslides that came you know, 20 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.480 post fires and such, but generally speaking, we made it 21 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.799 through that storm just fine. And I am glad that 22 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.280 you're with me. We're going to be taking calls this morning. 23 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.799 Of course. The number to reach me right now eight 24 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:31.200 three three two Ask Dean. Saturday morning is always a 25 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.719 great time to call in because traffic's a little light 26 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.439 out there, you know, a lot of people sleeping in, 27 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.519 But you and I are up, and so that means 28 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.959 we can talk about your home. Eight three three two 29 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.879 ask Dean. A three three the numeral two ass Dean. 30 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.760 Producer Richie is standing by. The phone lines are open. 31 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.239 He's ready to take your calls, and so am I. Also, 32 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.680 we're going to be talking this morning about some of 33 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:01.719 the thinking that leads up to the remodeling process. So 34 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.920 I'm entitling today's show. There are no bad ideas, only 35 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.199 bad decisions, and so you just gotta stick in there 36 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.319 with me and listen to find out exactly what I 37 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:17.240 mean by that. But I'm hoping, I'm hoping that that 38 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.120 little conversation will help liberate your thinking when it comes 39 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.000 to approaching whatever it is that you plan to do 40 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.719 or change about your home. Let's talk for a second 41 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.680 about our awesome team. Sam is on the board. Of course, 42 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:39.360 theres are not so live studio audience. Good morning Sam. 43 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.080 Good morning Dan. How you doing. 44 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.439 I'm good, I'm good, glad to be here with you. 45 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.439 Producer Richie, like I said, is standing by right now. 46 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.520 The phone lines are open. Yeah, okay, No Mike near 47 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:55.159 him as usual, and sitting across the table from me. 48 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.639 My better half, oh, my dear, my design partner, my 49 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.159 best friend in all the world, Tina is here. 50 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:08.159 Welcome home. Good morning to you, Good morning, Good morning. 51 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.560 To that beagle getting next to you. That was not 52 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.680 the sound of a beagle. That was an elephant. But 53 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:18.560 and he looks some sometimes reminds me of that when 54 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.199 he eats too much. But little Sammy beagle, he's adorable. 55 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.159 All right, Shall we dive in? I think we should 56 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.560 as I'm waiting for calls to come. And truly now 57 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.240 is a good time to do it as we wait 58 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.919 for calls. Let me let me introduce what I'm thinking 59 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.199 about this morning. I want to have a conversation about 60 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.479 how to tease out the best ideas for your project 61 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:52.319 by essentially creating what in the design world is a 62 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.280 kind of a well known device, kind of and by device, 63 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.479 I don't mean it's something that we physically build, say, 64 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:08.400 but at worst, it's a metaphorical device. Building a sandbox. 65 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.039 A sandbox is a place where kids come and play, right, 66 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:16.519 and you build stuff and you move sand around. And 67 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:23.079 the understanding, the unwritten rules about sandboxes are that you know, 68 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.360 whatever gets built there, it doesn't really matter, right, because 69 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.639 it's not gonna last. You know, if we're gonna build 70 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:34.879 a castle, nobody's moving into it exactly, And so we're 71 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.040 just there to have fun and to stretch our minds 72 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.199 and our and our sculpting skills and all of that 73 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:44.480 kind of stuff. A sandbox is a place where you 74 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.160 play and just to let you in on a little 75 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.120 bit of how the sausage is made. When it comes 76 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.519 to home design, or at least the way that Tina 77 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.439 and I move through home design. When we start with 78 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:02.360 a project, we will we'll start by, well, let's say it. 79 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.279 Let's say let's say it's not a brand new home, 80 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.279 a new new build, a new creation. Let's say that 81 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:13.240 we're we're redesigning a home for somebody, so it's a remodel. 82 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.680 So we're working with an existing shell. So we the 83 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.079 first step is we will go over to the house 84 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.040 and we will spend the better part of a day 85 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:25.399 sitting there with our computer and our laser measures and 86 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:31.199 we will measure down that entire space and build that 87 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.720 space what we call the as built the existing home 88 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:41.439 structure into our CAD system, so that now we're going 89 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.279 to take our laptop home with us back to our studio, 90 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:48.560 and what we have now in our possession is a 91 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.600 three D model accurate of the existing house, and it's 92 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:57.319 that model that we start playing with. Sometimes we'll call 93 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:02.759 the playtime version one and start sketching and moving walls 94 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.040 around and changing this and changing that, and other times 95 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.680 we'll be working on it simultaneously on two different computers 96 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.560 in which one of us is kind of moving ahead 97 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.560 with our first set of ideas that we're calling version one, 98 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.759 and the other is trying out some weird stuff or 99 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.279 you know, things that are a little bit more fanciful, 100 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.480 or we're just experimenting. And we could we literally call 101 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:31.079 that file the sandbox, because the sandbox is where you 102 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:35.079 can go and play without doing damage to anything, because 103 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.600 it's this area of play. And the more I've thought 104 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.720 about that over a few months now, because I've got 105 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.319 a little project going on the side here where I've 106 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.439 been doing a lot of writing to you, the homeowner 107 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:52.759 about kind of design theory and design principles in a 108 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.879 way that isn't all stodgy and stuffy and boring, but 109 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.279 really really practical, I hope. And I've been thinking about 110 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.240 this a lot, and I've been thinking about the idea 111 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:08.879 of how I can better encourage homeowners to kind of 112 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:14.560 free themselves up to think as widely and as boldly 113 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.319 and as imaginatively as possible. I'm not trying to turn 114 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.000 you into a designer. I'm not trying to have you 115 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.519 replace that role that creative gifting and profession. But what 116 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.680 I am doing is saying this. I always say this, 117 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.240 A custom home, a truly custom home, begins with a 118 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.120 custom homeowner. And you know what, I'm just gonna let 119 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.319 that hang out there right now. I will explain exactly 120 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.120 what I mean by that right after we get some 121 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.959 traffic and do some biz. 122 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:49.120 Does that sound good? All right? 123 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.800 Campie em sharp the house with for Hey, whether your 124 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.199 home is a condo or a cottage or a castle 125 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.399 doesn't matter. I'm here to help it take it to 126 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.800 the next level. That's what we're all about here. That's 127 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:08.519 one of the secret sauce elements of our program, I believe, 128 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:14.480 and that is that like probably nowhere else that I 129 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.759 am aware of. I'm a designer who is talking to 130 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:23.319 you about universal design principles that we use every single 131 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:28.160 day for a state level homes. Yeah, the fanciest, the 132 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:37.080 most jaw dropping residences that you can imagine, all the 133 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:40.519 way down to you know, the little adu that you're 134 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.159 building in your backyard, or the little cottage that you 135 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.559 live in, the tiny house that you live in, or 136 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.480 the condo that you live in. Like no other place 137 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:54.639 that I know, I talk about architecture and design uniformly 138 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:59.399 across the board because the fundamental principles that go into 139 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:04.679 the process are applicable across the board. It's just that 140 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.240 nobody has ever taken the time to talk to you, 141 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.600 the mainstream homeowner, about these things. And so this morning 142 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.440 I'm helping you kind of loosen up your thinking a 143 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.440 little bit in regards to your project. And right before 144 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.559 the break, right before oh by the way, let me 145 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.519 get let me do my biz. Here, the phone lines 146 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.120 are open. We've got a couple of calls. We've got 147 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.480 room for you, though. I'm going to be going to 148 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.080 the phones in just a bit. The number to reach 149 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.960 me eight three three two, ask Dean. Eight three three 150 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.279 the numeral two, Ask Dean. And you know, with calls, 151 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.799 it's always the same, regardless of what I'm talking about. 152 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.840 You can call and ask me about anything going on 153 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.799 with you and your home. So there you go, eight 154 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.480 three three the numeral two, Ask Dean. Uh, there is 155 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:57.480 room for you on the callboard today, all right, So 156 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.519 before the break that one of the things I like 157 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.919 to say to our clients at the outset is that 158 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.919 a custom home starts with a custom homeowner. 159 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:12.200 And what do I mean by that? It is it's. 160 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.960 Intended to stir something up in you. And that's this 161 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:23.240 I completely understand, even though you know, most of my 162 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:29.639 career I've been doing a state level homes, okay, ultra 163 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:33.799 custom homes, and still regardless of what level of homes, 164 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.360 all the teen and I work on are custom home designs. 165 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:42.399 But I'm just, you know, a normal guy. 166 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:45.240 I mean, I grew up in a lower middle class, 167 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:53.159 blue collar family and like most Americans, we live in 168 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:59.440 tracked housing houses that were built by others for nobody 169 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.840 in particular. And that you move it, you know, you 170 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:06.120 find one that you can afford, and hopefully one that 171 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:10.360 you like. That sort of kind of fits what you imagined. 172 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.960 And you know, not a lot of people find their 173 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.679 dream house in a tract house, but you find a 174 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.360 you know, a nice house and you're like, wow, that's fantastic. 175 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.600 I got a nice house now. So what we do 176 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:29.759 is we move into other people's thoughts and structures and 177 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.559 then we make do, because that's what a good human 178 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.360 being does is you take the structure that you've been handed, 179 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.759 you take the as it were, the cards that have 180 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.679 been dealt to you, and you play your hand the 181 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:43.399 best you can. 182 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:44.440 You make do. 183 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.519 And it's that kind of make do thinking that you know, 184 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.159 makes us who we are as Americans, that you know 185 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:59.159 we can find the silver lining and we move forward. 186 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:00.919 But here's the thing. 187 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:06.039 After a lifetime of making do with what you've got, 188 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:10.600 in other words, moving around it, you changing around it, 189 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:16.720 now you're at a place where you're ready to change 190 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.919 part of it. You're ready to finally say, you know what, 191 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:25.759 this kitchen, I'm going to give myself a new kitchen. 192 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:29.840 I'm going to change the way this family room works. 193 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:33.840 I'm going to alter the primary bedroom. Whatever the case 194 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.879 may be. Maybe you're just going to give the entire 195 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:42.200 house a full makeover. A full redo. Well, that is 196 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:47.879 more difficult for you than you might have expected, for 197 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.679 one reason, because you're used to making do with what's there, 198 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:57.200 and you're used to moving out of its way. Okay, 199 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.279 and now what we're doing, if we really want to 200 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.080 build a custom home is we're going to be asking 201 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.799 it to move out of your way. And that's what 202 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.039 I mean when I say that a custom home starts 203 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.840 with a custom homeowner. It's time to change your thinking 204 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:18.279 in regards to what's possible. Most of us will look 205 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.559 at the existing space and say, well, I've already got 206 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.759 a set of limits on me here. I'm just going 207 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.159 to have to make do with what's here. And so 208 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.120 we think small. We think more in terms of decor 209 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.759 than we do of architecture. We don't allow ourselves to 210 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.320 dream too big. When we go out shopping for things, 211 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.679 or even beginning to research a thing, we instantly tell 212 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.879 ourselves there's a voice in the back of your head 213 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.879 that says reminding you, listen, you're just a middle class homeowner. 214 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.720 Don't be looking at high end appliances, don't be to 215 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:59.000 looking at luxury anything, because that's not the category of 216 00:13:59.120 --> 00:13:59.919 life you're living. 217 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:01.320 You're only gonna get. 218 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.440 Disappointed by that, or you're gonna sucker yourself into buying 219 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.639 something that you shouldn't be affording. In all this kind 220 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.840 of thinking, and believe me, I'm the last person in 221 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:16.000 the world to sit here and tell you, hey, just 222 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.639 throw caution to the wind and run out and just 223 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.159 buy stuff you can't afford, not at all what I'm saying. 224 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:27.799 But what I am saying is that, and I'm gonna 225 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.879 underscore this a little later. Window shopping is free, dreaming 226 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.720 is free. And back to what I started the program with, 227 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:42.679 I want every one of my clients to essentially build 228 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.919 themselves a sandbox where they can kind of explore the. 229 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:48.919 Space, stretch their arms out. 230 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:54.679 What's wrong with you taking your real desires and looking 231 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:59.720 at a luxury product or a high end appliance, and 232 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.480 for the sake of research, for the sake of understanding 233 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.039 it better, and maybe for the sake of zeroing in 234 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.399 on what it is about that thing other than it 235 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.080 just being expensive and ritzy. What it is about that 236 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.639 thing really that is kind of ringing your bell, because 237 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:24.519 those discoveries can end up translating back into your budget 238 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:29.679 level in ways that could change the whole game. That's 239 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:33.720 why I say there are no bad ideas, only bad decisions. 240 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.960 A decision is a choice to act in a direction. 241 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.320 Ideas they just come in. Put them in your sandbox. 242 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.399 All right, We've got so much more to talk about 243 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:48.679 on this, plus your calls. You're listening to Home with 244 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:55.840 Dean Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty six 245 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:59.639 live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 246 00:15:59.679 --> 00:15:59.879 Yeah. 247 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.120 Right in the middle of reporting on the which I 248 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.519 actually just forgot to even mention I should have started 249 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:09.480 the show, was saying, hey, you guys, feel that earthquake 250 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.759 this morning? It was a three point seven I believe 251 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.440 this morning at like or maybe late last night. It 252 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:23.000 was eleven forty four late last night in Malibu, down 253 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:27.639 deep and out our way in Thousand Oaks. We felt 254 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.200 one little bump, just rack on the house. And then 255 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.320 that was it, not even vibration or anything after the fact. 256 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.039 And then literally as we were reporting on it here 257 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.639 mentioning it, another aftershot came through three point five. Now 258 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.519 they're saying three point five like eight miles also in Malibu. 259 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.559 What's with Malibu these days? 260 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:50.840 What is the deal is that? 261 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:54.000 Is there some message? Is the universe sending some message 262 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:58.159 to Malibu. But this is, you know, no damage, just 263 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.039 just a little shifting, little, a little bit of a 264 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.720 shrugging of the shoulders as it were. 265 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.400 Anyway, there you go. 266 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.680 Any way, all right, So we're going to be going 267 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.480 to the phones right after the next break, But I 268 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.480 just want to finish this thought with you for the 269 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:23.079 moment on loosening up these the thinking when it comes 270 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.279 to approaching your remodel. How important is it that you 271 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:31.000 are kind of stretching your own mind and stretching yourself. 272 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:36.160 So right before the break, I was saying that I 273 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:40.200 don't want you to limit your own thinking when it 274 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:46.000 comes to let's say, window shopping outside of your what 275 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:51.559 you would normally bracket yourself into your you know, financial range. 276 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:58.039 And and that's not me encouraging you to spend more 277 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:03.039 money than you should, not at all. But higher end things, 278 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.680 whatever the case may be, whether it's a material, whether 279 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:12.799 in its appliance or a fixture, or even an architectural thought, 280 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.039 higher end things, uh are that way most of the 281 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:19.920 time for a reason. Most of the time, it's not 282 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:25.920 just some fatish branding move that has made a thing, 283 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.279 you know, twice as expensive. I mean, some of that 284 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.720 is involved, but higher end things have features and or 285 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.440 elements to them that are different, as you know, than 286 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.960 you know, middle of the road things. And it's those 287 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:48.039 elements that I want to explore with you. Find out 288 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:50.880 what it is about that higher end thing that has 289 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.160 that element and identify what it is that really sends 290 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:58.279 you about that thing. And if it's just the jug 291 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.319 of the thing, well there's not a whole lot we 292 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.039 can do about that, But as you really start to 293 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.920 explore it and to dig into it, you may very 294 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.240 well find I would say at least eighty percent of 295 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:13.480 the time we find that, ah, it's this, it's this thing. 296 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:16.720 And then if we can turn around and translate that 297 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:20.359 into your home in a way that you can afford, 298 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.480 then you know what there it is. There's one hundred 299 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.079 and fifty percent satisfaction right there. But the point is 300 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.640 we're never going to get to that place until you 301 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:35.279 free yourself in your thinking to you know, color outside 302 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:39.279 the lines, as it were. And so hence these two principles. 303 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:43.519 One the sandbox. Have a mental sandbox. Have a folder 304 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.200 that you collect things in, whether it's on your computer, 305 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:53.359 whether it's whether it's a Pinterest board or literally a 306 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.599 physical folder that you're going to put pictures and thoughts 307 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.880 and ideas in. But have a folder entitled sandbox, and 308 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:05.640 that folder is for play. That folder. You don't have 309 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.160 to put anything in there that you have to justify 310 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:12.680 to anybody. Okay, you're like, excuse me, why do you 311 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:19.079 have a twelve thousand dollars built in side by side 312 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:26.880 sub zero refrigerator freezer unit paneled in inside this folder 313 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.920 as you're contemplating the remodel on your nine hundred square 314 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:35.720 foot condo. Well, I don't have to justify that to you. 315 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:40.279 That's my sandbox. Okay, that's my that's in my wish list. 316 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.160 And it's not a wish list in the sense of 317 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:45.559 this is the thing I'm gonna have one day. It's 318 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.720 there for my own reasons. It's there because I'm exploring 319 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.759 what it is about that that really appeals to me, 320 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:59.000 and that way I can translate that into the remodel 321 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:00.960 that I'm actually gonna do. Is that starting to make 322 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.720 sense to y'all? You're starting to kind of feel my 323 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.920 vibe there. So these two principles, have a sandbox and 324 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:16.119 the second principle, there are no bad ideas only bad decisions, okay. 325 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.160 And what that means is when you're in the idea phase, 326 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:22.720 you're not making a decision to move forward on this 327 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:29.440 or that you're ideating. You are collecting ideas. And by 328 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:35.759 the way, partner, partner out there, partner of the remodeler, okay. 329 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:39.599 And I say this because you know, I would say 330 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:43.519 most of the time when a remodel is being done 331 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.599 and we've got a married couple or life partners or 332 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:51.480 you know, together in this, somebody is probably at the 333 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:54.960 tip of the spear and someone else is either encouraging 334 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:57.440 or saying yeah or yeah, it's not my thing, but 335 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:00.519 it's his thing or it's her thing. All right, Partner, 336 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.759 you don't be the one who is shooting down every 337 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:09.960 single thought that comes across that person's mind because you're 338 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:13.799 concerned or worried that, oh no, man, if I don't 339 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:17.640 shoot this down, she's going to just go hogwild with 340 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:24.559 this thing. Not when we're ideating, ideas are precious, little 341 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:26.599 tender things. 342 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:28.839 And most of the. 343 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.640 Create and hear me now, because spoken from a creative 344 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.559 who does this for a living, most of the little 345 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.759 creative sandbox ideas that flutter through our minds that we 346 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:47.680 jot down or that we set aside to explore. Most 347 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.839 of the things are not going to manifest that way 348 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:54.839 into the project at all, but a couple of them 349 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.640 might bear it within them, the kernel of the thought 350 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:06.480 of the idea that will grow into something that looks 351 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:10.519 very different but will game change the entire project, change 352 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:15.039 it all. And so around here Tina and I we 353 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.960 partner in our artistic endeavors that at the beginning of 354 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.960 a project, we enter the no judgment zone. That's what 355 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:27.400 the sandbox is. It's a no judgment zone. Okay, it's 356 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:33.200 a She says, hey, what about this? And my job 357 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.000 is to nod and to acknowledge that thought and to 358 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.519 allow it to enter into our little stat and the 359 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:41.720 same with her instead of saying, well, that is the 360 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:43.160 stupidest idea I've. 361 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:45.440 Ever heard that would never happen. That's you. 362 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:49.920 There are always reasons for ideas and they need a 363 00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:55.960 place to grow and to flourish. And just remember, ideas 364 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.720 are not decisions. When it comes to the decision, we 365 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:05.640 will be taking ideas that have matured, that have changed, 366 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.880 that have developed, and have also passed a series of 367 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:13.920 litmus tests. Budget practicality, all of these things, and then 368 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.279 a decision gets made. But ideas, now you need a 369 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:20.960 place to free your mind. Does that make sense? 370 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:21.440 I hope? 371 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.880 So all right, I'm gonna free my mind right now 372 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:27.559 with some traffic, and then when we come back, we're 373 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.000 gonna go to the phones your home with Dean Sharp 374 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.160 the house whisper, Campy, Dean Sharp the house whisper. 375 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:35.119 Welcome home. 376 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.400 Hey, the time has come to take a few calls, 377 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.880 and we've got a few calls to take, and so 378 00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:46.839 let's let's start out with talking to Tim. Hey, Tim, 379 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.240 welcome home. 380 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.279 I'm Tim. I'm Tim Callum Carrion. How we place seal 381 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.440 between toilet tank and ball? And should you put a 382 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:59.880 router and motim away from people and a trimming tree 383 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:05.279 and bushes keep your house from burning down? For president? 384 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:12.079 Okay, all right, Tim, Well that was a whole list 385 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.440 of things. Review the first one with me again? What 386 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:16.519 was the toilet question? 387 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:19.400 Okay, how do you this is the seal between the 388 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.079 toilet tank and the bowl. When I flushed the toilet, 389 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.880 it leaks, but it doesn't leak from the leaks like 390 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.119 from underneath the tank. So I think it's the seal 391 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.359 between the tank and the bull and I already bought 392 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:38.519 one from home Depot which got three screws and like 393 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.680 a rubber a giant rubber washer. 394 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:43.839 Yep, yep. That's the guy right there. 395 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:47.359 Ever built stainless steel screws. 396 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.240 Yep, yep. 397 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.640 So you gotta take You got to shut the water 398 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:59.319 off to the toilet. That's the little the little angle 399 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.680 stop valve at the bottom there with the hose connector 400 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:05.240 that's leading to the toilet. Then you want to flush 401 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:08.039