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Speaker 1: the time has come to go to the phones. Always
Speaker 1: something I look forward to every show. Let's talk to Suzanne.
Speaker 1: Hey Suzanne, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Yay, good morning. I'm going to be buying a roof
Speaker 2: in the next year reroofing my house.
Speaker 3: I haven't really started to research that yet.
Speaker 4: I just know it's coming.
Speaker 2: But what I did look into quickly, like a quick
Speaker 2: Google search, was how much is solar panels? And they
Speaker 2: seemed ridiculously expensive for my current energy use.
Speaker 4: I don't run air conditioning.
Speaker 2: A lot, I live alone, I'm well insulated, so it
Speaker 2: just seemed kind of like, yeah, that's a no for me.
Speaker 3: But I also don't want to be foolish looking down
Speaker 3: the road. I know a roof is a thirty year decision,
Speaker 3: and if it's more smart, if it's more intelligent to
Speaker 3: buy a solar now, so I don't regret it in
Speaker 3: five or ten years.
Speaker 2: I'd want to do that when I was buying a roof.
Speaker 1: I think, help, got you, got you, and you know
Speaker 1: what you're thinking through it really really well. So I'll
Speaker 1: just round out your your comments or your questions with
Speaker 1: a couple of commons. One is, yeah, if you're reroofing
Speaker 1: and you don't have solar and you're thinking about the possibility,
Speaker 1: now is the time to do it now. It's not
Speaker 1: that the solar needs to go on before the roof
Speaker 1: or after the roof, or it doesn't really matter. Doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter unless you're doing a heavy rigid tile roof
Speaker 1: or a Spanish tile roof. That those roofing situations, I
Speaker 1: would always encourage you know whether or not you're going
Speaker 1: to do solar, because in those situations we may actually
Speaker 1: remove roofing tile and replace it with asphalt composition tile
Speaker 1: underneath where the solar panels are going, so it's a
Speaker 1: different kind of that way. Instead of your panels sticking
Speaker 1: way way up above your roofline. They can kind of
Speaker 1: be they appear embedded into those thicker roofing materials. But
Speaker 1: if it's asphalt composition shingles, it really doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: you know, we do that now or we do it
Speaker 1: after the roof. But it's good to think it through.
Speaker 1: It really is good to think it through. As far
Speaker 1: as solar itself goes, you've got to evaluate well, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say you have to evaluate it. What you should
Speaker 1: do is you call a reputable solar company and they
Speaker 1: all work the same way. In this regard. All the
Speaker 1: reputable companies work the same way. They should be able
Speaker 1: to do a quick solar analysis of your home via
Speaker 1: Google Earth and their satellite systems. They'll zero in on
Speaker 1: your address. They've got software that enables them to guestimate
Speaker 1: and track exposure to sun, how much, how big your
Speaker 1: energy bill is, and the cost of a system to
Speaker 1: bring you to net zero. That's your goal with a
Speaker 1: solar system is to go net zero at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. It means that some months you're going
Speaker 1: to be paying a little bit more of your power
Speaker 1: bill when there's not as much sun out other months,
Speaker 1: you're going to to be like way over producing, which
Speaker 1: is awesome and scoring that up. But by the end
Speaker 1: of the year, your bills and your credits balance out
Speaker 1: to like I didn't pay any electricity this year. That's
Speaker 1: the solar that to Tina and I have on our home.
Speaker 1: It's a net zero system. We have just enough panels
Speaker 1: that at the end of the year we don't pay
Speaker 1: for any of our electricity. And because of that, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's always a good idea. Now there is a threshold,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't tell you right now, Susan, in all honesty,
Speaker 1: exactly where the threshold is for southern California. But there
Speaker 1: is always an energy threshold where you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're only paying fifty I'll put it this way,
Speaker 1: I'll set a ridiculous number. If you're only paying fifty
Speaker 1: dollars a month for your electricity bill, then then then
Speaker 1: solar is not going to pay for itself very quickly.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm not being funny.
Speaker 2: That's close to where I am part of the year.
Speaker 4: I don't use a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: Right understood, So so so again a reputable solar company,
Speaker 1: and this is without committing to anything. This is just
Speaker 1: the very first conversation. They should be able to tell you, listen,
Speaker 1: with our systems, whether you lease or buy, we're looking
Speaker 1: for customers. We're going to help customers who are paying
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars or more on average every month,
Speaker 1: or one hundred and seventy five dollars more. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll tell you where the threshold is, where it would
Speaker 1: really make sense that if you got your solar, it
Speaker 1: would pay itself off quickly and or you know, change
Speaker 1: your energy profile pretty quickly. That's all free upfront information
Speaker 1: and conversation that you can have with a reputable solar company.
Speaker 1: And that's what So that's you go ahead and pull
Speaker 1: the trigger and have a conversation with somebody about it
Speaker 1: so you know exactly where you stand in the long run.
Speaker 1: This is the second part and the last bit of
Speaker 1: my answer. In the long run, of course, solo is
Speaker 1: a great idea. It's a great idea whether you buy
Speaker 1: or lease a system in general. And why is that Well,
Speaker 1: because it's a great idea because solar keeps producing during
Speaker 1: a natural disaster, and so you've got the ability to
Speaker 1: access energy for your home even when the power company
Speaker 1: has shut everything down. That's a good idea. It's also
Speaker 1: a good idea because and this is a this is
Speaker 1: an unbroken trend. Since we're talking trends today, power costs
Speaker 1: are rising on average about four percent every year. So
Speaker 1: if you take a look at that, and you look
Speaker 1: at your power costs over the next twenty to thirty years,
Speaker 1: and the fact that a solar system brings you to
Speaker 1: zero while everybody else's energy costs are going up, a
Speaker 1: really well installed system is going to save you money
Speaker 1: long term. Long term, it's going to save over two
Speaker 1: or three decades, it's going to save you tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. But short term, if you have very
Speaker 1: low energy consumption, it's not necessarily a game changer tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, all right, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1: All right, good luck with everything that you're doing. There.
Speaker 1: You're on the right track. I know it is all right.
Speaker 1: When we come back, more of your calls your Home
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Speaker 1: We are talking trends and predictions this weekend, this final
Speaker 1: weekend of twenty twenty four. But right now, I'm taking calls.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, So I got to go back to I
Speaker 1: need to slip my coffee. Hang on, Oh dang, that
Speaker 1: was worth it. All right, let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Tammy. Hey, Tammy, welcome home.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Jane. This is so excited to be able
Speaker 4: to speak with you in Hello to Tina. Oh well,
Speaker 4: I wonder what is the best way to remove mold
Speaker 4: in the bathroom. I know that sometimes it just needs
Speaker 4: to be cleaned, it's not a big deal. And sometimes
Speaker 4: I've heard of toxic mold. It could be behind walls.
Speaker 4: How can I tell the difference and what's the best
Speaker 4: way to remove it?
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. It's a biggie. It's a big question.
Speaker 1: Actually it's not. It's it's it's just a question that
Speaker 1: triggers a lot of things, the whole mold discussion. Uh So,
Speaker 1: first of all, I am not a toxicologist, and so
Speaker 1: what you're about to hear comes from my experience as
Speaker 1: a builder and having encountered this multiple times. Just also,
Speaker 1: I want everybody who's listening to understand I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get triggered by what I'm about to say,
Speaker 1: because I'm not leaving anybody out. Okay. So here's the thing.
Speaker 6: Mold.
Speaker 1: Mold is tricky on just about every level because technically speaking,
Speaker 1: there are very very very few toxic molds in the world. Okay,
Speaker 1: toxic meaning the mold in and of themselves. Now, several
Speaker 1: molds create micotoxins, and those things can be toxic to
Speaker 1: human beings. Okay. And when mold really is allowed to
Speaker 1: grow and thrive and colonize and develop, the biggest concern
Speaker 1: that most people have with mold is when a mold
Speaker 1: is doing so well that it's now starting to throw
Speaker 1: off spores into the air to reproduce itself and to
Speaker 1: grow even more mold sports. So say, mold one, oh one,
Speaker 1: let's understand mold. Mold loves warm, dark, moist places. Okay.
Speaker 1: So as a result of that, okay, when a mold
Speaker 1: is allowed to thrive in a home environment and it
Speaker 1: starts throwing spores into the air, those mold spores cause
Speaker 1: for a lot of people respiratory issues because you breathe
Speaker 1: them in and once a spore is in your lungs,
Speaker 1: guess what it has found? A warm, moist, dark place.
Speaker 1: Not a great thing to have in your lungs, mold
Speaker 1: spores and so. But to be clear about this, okay,
Speaker 1: and this is from the CDC, this is from that.
Speaker 1: There are all sorts of scientific sources for this. Most
Speaker 1: molds are not toxic in and of themselves, and yet
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that are mold sensitive,
Speaker 1: especially to mold spores. And by the way, there are
Speaker 1: mold spores in the air everywhere we go, and so
Speaker 1: it's also a matter of concentration and continual exposure. Okay,
Speaker 1: mold grows in our homes simply because those spores are
Speaker 1: in the air, and you find a dark and moist
Speaker 1: enough place and something settles there and and it's allowed
Speaker 1: to grow. So I just want to give a general
Speaker 1: understanding that it's true that people get sick from mold exposure,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily mean the mold itself is toxic.
Speaker 1: And people are like, well, black mold is now, that's
Speaker 1: not true either, some black mold, A few black molds,
Speaker 1: and know, there is no way for a homeowner to
Speaker 1: identify a toxic mold versus a non toxic mold, zero
Speaker 1: ways to visually identified, because they are there's like one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand of them out there and they almost all
Speaker 1: look alike. So any any website or advice telling you, well,
Speaker 1: here's how you can identify a toxic mold, that's generally
Speaker 1: a mold remediation company that wants to make a buck
Speaker 1: by telling you you should probably just get rid of
Speaker 1: it all. So anyway, black mold, green mold, red mole. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the point is this, again, I am not trying
Speaker 1: to downplay that some people are very very mold sensitive.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you have a mold allergy, right, it's
Speaker 1: very likely that it will do more health harm to you.
Speaker 1: If you are allergic to non toxic molds. Then the
Speaker 1: average person without a mold allergy has in exposure to
Speaker 1: a toxic mold. So I hope everybody's understand the nuance
Speaker 1: to this. So that's all right. When it comes to
Speaker 1: our home mold that you see growing on a surface somewhere,
Speaker 1: you should clean it. And you can clean it very
Speaker 1: easily with soap and water and a little bit of
Speaker 1: black and it's done. Molds are not, you know, super strong,
Speaker 1: powerful agents that will fight against exposure to sunlight or
Speaker 1: chemicals like bleach. They simply won't survive it. The concern
Speaker 1: that most people have about mold is usually unfounded in
Speaker 1: my opinion. When you see a mold growing on a
Speaker 1: surface somewhere, clean it, throw some bleach on it, so
Speaker 1: soap and water, get it cleaned up. If there's been
Speaker 1: a major plumbing leak or a roof leak in which
Speaker 1: water has made it inside a wall cavity, then we
Speaker 1: need to expose and open up those cavities, dry them out,
Speaker 1: and make sure there's no mold growth there so that
Speaker 1: they don't thrive. Because once they're thriving in those cavities,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of mold growth that causes problems not
Speaker 1: just to human beings who are living in the space,
Speaker 1: but also problems to the actual structure of the wood
Speaker 1: and the framing as well. And so, how do you
Speaker 1: know that you've not got mold behind your walls? Well,
Speaker 1: if you haven't had a major leak or a major
Speaker 1: moisture intrusion on the house, you don't have mold inside
Speaker 1: your walls. Okay, you just see it occasionally on the
Speaker 1: surface somewhere. And if you've had a major leak and
Speaker 1: haven't opened up those walls, that's where you need to
Speaker 1: address the remediation. Does that make sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great answer. And along those lines, just
Speaker 4: to carry on with what you said some years back,
Speaker 4: we did have a major leak downstairs, but it's a
Speaker 4: whole living room. But the insurance came right away. They
Speaker 4: cut off about two feet a wall around that whole
Speaker 4: perimeter of that room. You know, dried it out everything.
Speaker 4: And so if it's been dry for a long time,
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that once it's patched up and it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's been dry for a long time, if that can
Speaker 4: be resurrected, you know, because it's dark now, and you know,
Speaker 4: but as long as it's tried, I'm assuming that it
Speaker 4: can't return and we can safety. We still the walls,
Speaker 4: because I'm ambarsed to say those walls still have not
Speaker 4: been catched up. But it's been dried for a long time.
Speaker 1: We're talking to absolutely absolutely, no question, Tammy. If it's
Speaker 1: been dried for a long time, you are safe to
Speaker 1: close it all up and to get back to your
Speaker 1: life and you don't have to worry about it. You
Speaker 1: really don't, because mold doesn't do dry, it doesn't do daylight,
Speaker 1: it doesn't do UV light, and and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not an alien creature. It's it really needs
Speaker 1: those conditions to thrive. So you're good to go. Tammy,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your call and for listening
Speaker 1: to the show, and for all of your support. It's
Speaker 1: time for me to move on when we return back
Speaker 1: to Trends and Predictions for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Right now, you're listening to Home with Dean sharp Onto
Speaker 5: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, somebody was just commenting asking like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: a no burn alert. Can you explain what that is
Speaker 1: all about, Dean, Well, very quickly. Here in southern California,
Speaker 1: the Air Quality Management District the AQMD, they, like Eileen
Speaker 1: was saying on the news report here, they will from
Speaker 1: time to time, usually from November through February, just because
Speaker 1: winter months is when people tend to use their fireplaces,
Speaker 1: wood burning fireplaces more often issue no burn alerts. And
Speaker 1: now the question was why today versus any other day. Well,
Speaker 1: they I'm not exactly sure how they do all of
Speaker 1: their actual particulate monitoring, but they do monitor pollution particulates
Speaker 1: in the air. And usually I'll just tell you this,
Speaker 1: it usually has to do with stagnant weather. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: that's not a very nice way of describing a beautiful,
Speaker 1: misty morning. But it's been cloudy and overcast for a
Speaker 1: couple of three days here. It is the holiday season,
Speaker 1: and uh, there's no wind happening out there, not much wind.
Speaker 1: That's what they mean by stagnant weather. Okay, so we've
Speaker 1: got cloud cover that holds stuff in. We've got no
Speaker 1: wind to blow air particulates away. And it's the holiday season.
Speaker 1: It's the holiday. No, it's a holiday season. And more
Speaker 1: people are using a wood burning fireplaces right now, so
Speaker 1: chances are particulate contamination in the air is just higher.
Speaker 1: And the AQMD is like no, I just want to
Speaker 1: draw the line right there. So there you go there,
Speaker 1: like it or not. That's the Uh. Those are usually
Speaker 1: the contributing factors, all right. I said I was going
Speaker 1: to get back to design prediction talk. I want to
Speaker 1: do that. But also I realize I have neglected a
Speaker 1: priority caller, so I'm going to take one more call.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, welcome home.
Speaker 6: Thank you Dean for taking my call. I've got a
Speaker 6: single story house in Wittier to slab house and the
Speaker 6: washer and dryer or in the kitchen and once a
Speaker 6: month I have to snake out where the washer drains
Speaker 6: into the pipe. I've got an electric drill goes down
Speaker 6: about twenty feet that does the problem. I can feel
Speaker 6: it hitting stuffed in there. And my question to you
Speaker 6: is what do you think of hydro jetting.
Speaker 1: Hydro Jetting is when plumbers run a specialized high pressure
Speaker 1: oscillating nozzle system down a drain line. Hydro Jetting can
Speaker 1: be awesome. It's a tool, So what do I think
Speaker 1: of it? It's a tool in the toolbox. Is it
Speaker 1: always the thing that should be used? No, because as
Speaker 1: qualified plumbers who use hydrojeting need to evaluate the condition
Speaker 1: of drain lines, especially older drain lines, because hydrojeting can
Speaker 1: be pretty intensive, pretty violent activity on the inside. Hydrojeting
Speaker 1: companies that are like, yeah, use it on any pipe
Speaker 1: because it's not as you know, it's not as intense
Speaker 1: as a snake or an augur Not true. Hydrojetting can
Speaker 1: really mess up an old, already fragile drain line, so
Speaker 1: it has to be evaluated first. And usually the way
Speaker 1: you evaluate it is by running a camera down in
Speaker 1: the system so that we can actually identify what the
Speaker 1: heck is going on. So before hydrojeting, my suggestion to
Speaker 1: you would always be, especially if every time you run
Speaker 1: that snake down you're running into something, you feel like
Speaker 1: something is like, you know, whether it's a roof invasion
Speaker 1: that keeps regrowing, whether we've got an actual break or
Speaker 1: a crack in the pipe or a dislocation in the
Speaker 1: drain line. So before we take a tool out of
Speaker 1: the toolbox for something like this, and we think of
Speaker 1: it like the human body. Right if you're feeling sick
Speaker 1: and you come into the emergency room or you're come
Speaker 1: into the doctor's office, and you know, no doctor worth
Speaker 1: their salt is going to suggest, well, I've got a treatment,
Speaker 1: I've got a therapy or a treatment or a surgical
Speaker 1: procedure that we should perform on you. Well, okay, that
Speaker 1: comes at a point. But what always happens first testing,
Speaker 1: diagnostic testing. I want to do a blood panel, I
Speaker 1: want to draw some blood. I want to get out
Speaker 1: of scope and look inside, you know wherever we're looking inside.
Speaker 1: And the same is true with your home. You got
Speaker 1: a recurring there, okay, absolutely a recurring problem, which means
Speaker 1: we need to get eyes on it. And one of
Speaker 1: the great things about living in the twenty first century
Speaker 1: is we've got camera technology that can do that. Every
Speaker 1: plumber with their salt can run a camera down your
Speaker 1: drain line and we will figure out what the heck
Speaker 1: is causing Bruce's ongoing recurring problem. If it's roots, that's
Speaker 1: one thing. If there's just a bad week pipe there,
Speaker 1: that's another thing. If there's a break, that's a whole
Speaker 1: different thing. Whether or not hydrojetting is the answer has
Speaker 1: to do with what the nature of the problem is.
Speaker 1: So diagnosis first.
Speaker 6: You know, that's a very interesting Dean, because about three
Speaker 6: years ago I had a guy go on the rough
Speaker 6: and have a camera and he said, get up here
Speaker 6: and look at this, and it was amazing. It was
Speaker 6: an HD picture and it was where the sewer line
Speaker 6: goes out to kind of like the street where they connect.
Speaker 6: And he said, you have a crack there, and I
Speaker 6: could see it. But when I run that snake, I
Speaker 6: don't think I'm going out that far. Okay, Okay, but
Speaker 6: I agree, Yeah, run a camera first. And I've heard
Speaker 6: from other plumbers exactly what you have just said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it needs to be the case. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've got to crack down line somewhere then, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. Maybe maybe roots are finding
Speaker 1: their way in and actually causing a problem with you know,
Speaker 1: a little higher up. I don't know. That's the point is,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and so I wouldn't recommend any procedure
Speaker 1: augur hydrojet any The very first thing has got to
Speaker 1: be because maybe none of those things are are really
Speaker 1: the solution. Maybe the solution is that, you know, we've
Speaker 1: got a large enough break in the line there that
Speaker 1: we need to get down there and act just get
Speaker 1: it fixed.
Speaker 6: So right, yeah, he showed me in the front I
Speaker 6: don't have any trees in my front yard, but he
Speaker 6: showed me. I did thirty years ago, one tree that
Speaker 6: I chopped down, but I know those roots lived for years.
Speaker 6: But it's right outside the front door where he said,
Speaker 6: that's where the break was, according to the camera. And
Speaker 6: I just don't know if that would be, you know,
Speaker 6: the clod because my electric snake I don't believe goes
Speaker 6: that far. But I'm going to have somebody get a
Speaker 6: camera down there and look at it again. And I
Speaker 6: thank you very much for your time, my friend.
Speaker 1: You are very welcome my friend. Good luck on that. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: it's always diagnosed first. Don't just grab a tool out
Speaker 1: of the toolbox. There are no wonder tools out there.
Speaker 1: There's some amazing tools, amazing things we can do to
Speaker 1: your home, but we don't just you know, dive right
Speaker 1: into surgery, all right. We want to run tests, diagnostic,
Speaker 1: differential diagnostics, just like you know a good diagnostician does
Speaker 1: for your body. That's what we want to do for
Speaker 1: your home. We want to figure out the best of
Speaker 1: our ability exactly what is going on before we start
Speaker 1: tearing stuff up. Okay, that's always the right way to go, Bruce.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your call. All right, when we return, more
Speaker 1: thoughts on trends and predictions for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Here we are at the end of another two hours together.
Speaker 1: We've got a big show tomorrow where we are continuing
Speaker 1: our discussions on trends and predictions for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: House Whisper style which means useful and not crazy and
Speaker 1: not stupid stuff, but inspiring and informative as we always are.
Speaker 1: But I'm not done today. I got one more to
Speaker 1: throw at you. One that I'm concerned about. This is
Speaker 1: this is all this is in so many trend sites
Speaker 1: right now here. It is ready maximalism. Maximalism. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: what is maximalism. Well, it's the opposite of minimalism. Maximalism
Speaker 1: is a style of decor in which, as you could
Speaker 1: tell from the name, you put a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in the room, a lot of stuff. What does Dean
Speaker 1: think about maximalism? Well, I guess it's an inevitability as
Speaker 1: time rolls on that the pendulum swings from one extreme
Speaker 1: to the other. Right, We've been on a minimalist trend
Speaker 1: for a long time now, and I personally would like
Speaker 1: to see that continue. Because minimalism not stark empty everything
Speaker 1: out of a room except for a table, a chair,
Speaker 1: and a potted plant in a white, bare room. Although
Speaker 1: that can be kind of cool, but that's not a
Speaker 1: realistic thing. Minimalism engages a lot of longstanding, non trending,
Speaker 1: always true architectural principles, principles like hierarchy, where you walk
Speaker 1: into a room and you are directed very clearly to
Speaker 1: look at kind of what we would call the hero
Speaker 1: of the room, the star of the show. Whatever that
Speaker 1: feature may be, and then you're directed to look at
Speaker 1: another thing and another thing, and all good art works
Speaker 1: in that way. And so I have been an advocate
Speaker 1: for minimalism in its design approach, not in the extreme,
Speaker 1: but just you know, over the years, I have told
Speaker 1: you every single year, on multiple occasions, get rid of
Speaker 1: some of your stuff. You got too much stuff, And
Speaker 1: that just tends to be the case. So what is
Speaker 1: Dean's reaction to maximalism. Well, I will give you two
Speaker 1: things that concern me. One, I've seen some well done
Speaker 1: maximalism before. I mean in the sense that we've covered
Speaker 1: every surface of everything with a lot of stuff and
Speaker 1: the designer has been able to pull it off. I've
Speaker 1: seen it. So I'm giving you my nod of acknowledgment.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you this, even among professional
Speaker 1: designers and decorators, pulling off maximalism, in my opinion, very
Speaker 1: very rare, pulling it off right, very very rare. And
Speaker 1: so we're talking about a rare occurrence among professional decorators
Speaker 1: and designers. And when it comes to the homeowner, I
Speaker 1: think maximalism is we're encouraging it is a big, big mistake.
Speaker 1: After years of begging people to declutter their homes. Now
Speaker 1: we're encouraging them to add more stuff and put it
Speaker 1: all in the same room. This is not going to
Speaker 1: turn out well. So yeah, as you're looking at design
Speaker 1: trend sites, Pinterest, Instagram, wherever you're looking, and you see
Speaker 1: maximalism in for twenty twenty five, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: run the other way. Honestly, run the other way. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody's willing, everybody's you know, has the right to try.
Speaker 1: Try it with a room. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 1: another limit of maximalism is that if it happens throughout
Speaker 1: the entire house, I guarantee you it's a massive mistake.
Speaker 1: If you want to try one room maximalist, Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: give it a try and just expect that it's you know,
Speaker 1: odds are against you that you're going to succeed. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm sorry. Maximalism. What you know, just because you've
Speaker 1: given a thing a name does not mean that it's
Speaker 1: a good idea. And maximalism, for most people is something
Speaker 1: to steer clear of because it in and of itself
Speaker 1: is a violation of basic human behavioral design principles. And
Speaker 1: that's what design and discordant decor is all about it's
Speaker 1: all about human beings. So if you walk into a
Speaker 1: room and there is literally so much stuff in the
Speaker 1: room that you don't know where to look, then that's
Speaker 1: a confusing, chaotic room. That's typically what a maximalist room is.
Speaker 1: And so how do they work? How do they how
Speaker 1: are they? Why is it even a thing? I will
Speaker 1: tell you in the world of hierarchy, okay, meaning that
Speaker 1: those priority hits right. So everybody, for me to Joanna Gaines,
Speaker 1: will tell you that a room needs a hero, It
Speaker 1: needs a it needs a star, it needs one thing
Speaker 1: that everything else is kind of rotating around.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: Every good director, every good artist will tell you that
Speaker 1: not every cast member it gets to have an equal role.
Speaker 1: There are leading roles, there are right behind them supporting
Speaker 1: roles and behind them extras okay, and then there is
Speaker 1: just background. And so that's hierarchy in art, in performance art,
Speaker 1: in fine art, in architecture, and in design and decor
Speaker 1: as well. So the idea that all of these disciplines
Speaker 1: agree that there needs to be a star the show,
Speaker 1: so you, as the observer of art, can take it in,
Speaker 1: can focus and it can have its effect. So why
Speaker 1: does maximalism occasionally work or how could it ever possibly work?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: It works well in a photograph because the photograph itself
Speaker 1: is one thing. It's one thing. It's like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: one work of art. So when you see a maximalist
Speaker 1: spread in a magazine or on a social media site
Speaker 1: or on a Pinterest board, just understand if you find
Speaker 1: it appealing, it's because you're staring at everything as one thing.
Speaker 1: But if you were to actually walk into that room
Speaker 1: and live in there for half an hour, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be enjoying yourself. That's my prediction. So yeah, I have
Speaker 1: an opinion on maximalism, and for almost everybody, it's a
Speaker 1: thumbs down opinion because I find that it violates human
Speaker 1: nature too much. All Right, more of my opinions and
Speaker 1: predictions of twenty twenty five and your design for your
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