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Speaker 1: All right, we're talking about the secrets of ish, the
Speaker 1: right way to do eclectic decor, to pull it off
Speaker 1: so that it doesn't just feel mishmashed. And chaotic and
Speaker 1: cluttered and themeless. We're going to get back to that
Speaker 1: topic in a bit, but it's the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: and you know what that means. It means it's time
Speaker 1: to go to the phones. So let's talk to uh.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Deborah. Hey, Deborah, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Hi Dean, good morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning. How can I help you.
Speaker 3: U? Yeah, So, I live in a two story home
Speaker 3: and I'm in the midst of a major remodel that
Speaker 3: involved the removal of a load bearing the wall. And
Speaker 3: after they finished the work and took the temporary walls down,
Speaker 3: I've experienced some major settling. Three of the doors upstairs
Speaker 3: not closed correctly. I witnessed an episode where there was
Speaker 3: something extremely heavy settled move shifted and shook the patio
Speaker 3: door directly underneath so violently I thought it was going
Speaker 3: to shatter. And then now I'm noticing in up above
Speaker 3: that the room up above, that there's some sagging in
Speaker 3: the floor, and the contractor has a sham name that
Speaker 3: the integrity of the game and the post that they
Speaker 3: put in is fine, and that it's no big deal.
Speaker 3: But I'm not real comfortable with that sewing. Looking for
Speaker 3: some important advice.
Speaker 1: How to move forward with this? Gotcha? Gotcha? All right?
Speaker 1: So here a couple of questions. First question, is this
Speaker 1: all being done under permit? And do we have engineering
Speaker 1: for this removal of a bearing wall?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Debra, I didn't hear your answer.
Speaker 2: Yes I do, you do?
Speaker 1: Okay, So we've got engineering and so there's plans and
Speaker 1: there are structural calculations from a structural engineer about this.
Speaker 1: Has the structural engineer or the building inspector been out
Speaker 1: and inspected and signed off on the structural work that
Speaker 1: was done?
Speaker 3: Now, there's been some. There were interim inspections as the
Speaker 3: work was going on, at least one. But no, they
Speaker 3: have not totally signed off on that.
Speaker 1: Okay. But have they signed off on, let's say, like
Speaker 1: the framing work that was done in order to remove
Speaker 1: the wall? Yes, okay, they have, all right. Second question
Speaker 1: is was there concrete work involved in removing this bearing
Speaker 1: wall and replacing it with I assume you know, a
Speaker 1: large beam.
Speaker 3: Yes. They dug two very large holes in my foundation
Speaker 3: and filled it with concrete and rebar when I placed
Speaker 3: the post.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, this is all sounding like it.
Speaker 1: It happened the way it should happened. I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: where the settling is occurring. Typically, when we replace a
Speaker 1: bearing wall or we remove a bearing wall, what we've
Speaker 1: got to do is number One, the engineer has got
Speaker 1: to come up with some concrete adjustments on each end
Speaker 1: because the bearing wall was supporting weight all along the wall.
Speaker 1: So they let's say you've got a ten fifteen foot
Speaker 1: long wall that is supporting you know, one thousand pounds
Speaker 1: above it. That thousand and this arbitrary math I'm doing
Speaker 1: here for the sake of the example. But that thousand
Speaker 1: pounds is spread out over the length of that fifteen
Speaker 1: foot wall. So if we're going to take that wall away,
Speaker 1: which we can, we've got to number one, put in
Speaker 1: a beam that is strong enough to hold that weight
Speaker 1: all by itself, and then transfer that weight down instead
Speaker 1: of the length of a fifteen foot wall, just on
Speaker 1: two points, one post on one end and one post
Speaker 1: on the other, which is more than the concrete foundation
Speaker 1: that was there ahead of time was designed to support.
Speaker 1: And that's why we cut open the concrete and create
Speaker 1: these larger pad footings underneath to distribute and handle all
Speaker 1: of that weight. Now just coming on to two positions. Now,
Speaker 1: if all of that was calculated properly, if the beam
Speaker 1: is sized properly, and the work was done cleanly, then
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have any major disruption of the house. I mean,
Speaker 1: we switched these things out all the time, and we
Speaker 1: don't end up with, Oh, now there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: doors upstairs that are out of square, or the floor
Speaker 1: is sagging somewhere. That's not a thing that happens when
Speaker 1: you take out a bearing wall properly. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little concerned about as you are, about why is
Speaker 1: this happening. Is the floor sagging where it has now connected,
Speaker 1: or is being supported by the new beam, or is
Speaker 1: it sagging in some other area that previously, you know,
Speaker 1: was untouched by.
Speaker 3: This Now it's either it's directly above and or adjacent
Speaker 3: to where the actual beam is.
Speaker 1: To the actual beam and the beam, is it running
Speaker 1: underneath the floor joist or is it shoved up into
Speaker 1: the sea line and the floor joists are hanging off
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Now I think it's below the choice.
Speaker 1: So they're all sitting on it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So Debra, it's difficult for me to to be
Speaker 1: able to run through all of the possible things that
Speaker 1: need to be inspected here. But here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think we need to give a call to the engineer.
Speaker 1: I think we want the engineer back out on site
Speaker 1: to take a look at what's happening, and we want
Speaker 1: the engineer to do things like measure the deflection of
Speaker 1: this beam. Okay, maybe the framers, maybe the contractor didn't
Speaker 1: set the beam on posts high enough to straighten out
Speaker 1: the floor. Maybe the floor sagged some. Maybe they didn't
Speaker 1: embrace the walls or the floor sufficiently while they remove
Speaker 1: the old wall, and it all dropped a little bit,
Speaker 1: and therefore when they put the new beam in, the
Speaker 1: beam got set at a lower level and that's why
Speaker 1: the floor is sagging. Or maybe the engineer and this
Speaker 1: happens sometimes. I mean they've technically specked a beam. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's at the low end of its weight specification and
Speaker 1: as a result, it's actually sagging a little bit, or
Speaker 1: what we call deflecting because of the large span. I
Speaker 1: don't know which of those things it is, but we
Speaker 1: need to get some professional eyes on it. For you.
Speaker 1: Somebody needs to get up there with a laser and
Speaker 1: or a stringline and take a look to see whether
Speaker 1: the new beam is kind of deflecting or sagging in
Speaker 1: the center from end to end, and if so, how
Speaker 1: much we need to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you you are not You're not over
Speaker 1: reacting to this. That's what I'm saying. That we switch
Speaker 1: out bearing walls with beams all the time and it
Speaker 1: doesn't rack up, change, sag, or cause all sorts of
Speaker 1: ramifications to the rest of the house. Ninety nine times
Speaker 1: out of one hundred, there is absolutely literally no change
Speaker 1: to anything whatsoever when we replace a bearing wall with
Speaker 1: a beam in post scenario in order to open up
Speaker 1: an area downstairs. So I'm concerned, like you're concerned, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe our first step would be to call
Speaker 1: the engineer and say, I need you to come out
Speaker 1: here and take a look at this. I need a
Speaker 1: kind of forensic investigation of this scenario so that you
Speaker 1: can tell me why these things are now happening.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's just call the city that issued the
Speaker 3: permits and go I want you.
Speaker 1: I want you to call not the city, because the
Speaker 1: city didn't engineer the project. I want you to call
Speaker 1: the engineer who did the specifications for the beam that
Speaker 1: the contractor put in. That's the engineer, the engineer who
Speaker 1: designed this scenario, who calculated it. I want you to
Speaker 1: get because they're the ones on the hook for this.
Speaker 1: I want you to get them out there to take
Speaker 1: a look and check on the contractor's work to make
Speaker 1: sure that things were done the way they were supposed
Speaker 1: to be done and that that beam is doing the
Speaker 1: job as intended. I just we got to get it
Speaker 1: all double checked, and now is the time, because these
Speaker 1: other things have happened, to run it all back through
Speaker 1: analysis by all people involved, not just the contractor. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to the engineer who specified that
Speaker 1: beam that size, who put that in the plans. The
Speaker 1: city just signed off on it and inspected to see
Speaker 1: that it was built according to the plans. But sometimes
Speaker 1: the plans, you know, something slips through and it's not
Speaker 1: exactly what it should be. So I want to talk
Speaker 1: to the engineer. You want your structural engineer, the one
Speaker 1: who did the plans, back out on site checking it
Speaker 1: through Debrah. I wish I'd had more time, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: I'm probably out of my advice for you, because that's
Speaker 1: the next step and then let me know how that
Speaker 1: happens and what they said, and maybe we can help
Speaker 1: you with the next step after that. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: when we come back more of your calls. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Home with Dean Sharp, the House whisper Kyfi, Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: the House Whisper at your service, answering our last question
Speaker 1: and went a little long, So this is going to
Speaker 1: be a little bit shorter of a segment. So I
Speaker 1: want to get right back to the phones. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to Spencer. Hey, Spencer, welcome home. Hello.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm up in Oregon and I have a one
Speaker 2: in a halfhe old and I have of a house
Speaker 2: with luxury vinyl plank floor on the base floor, and
Speaker 2: our lifestyle has changed a lot more to sitting on
Speaker 2: the floor with our little kid and downstairs it's just cold.
Speaker 2: But I like to be downstairs in the living room
Speaker 2: because that's where the Christmas tree is and that's where
Speaker 2: the fireplace is, and we have couches and stuff. So
Speaker 2: I'm thinking I want a rug down there. But my
Speaker 2: wife is Chinese and she hates things that have to
Speaker 2: be cleaned, and she's like, oh, the floor is great,
Speaker 2: I can clean it I can bop it, and I'm
Speaker 2: looking for like maybe is something like I hate by
Speaker 2: ten rug or so, but like what are the qualities
Speaker 2: of a rug that I could use to try and
Speaker 2: convince my life to let me buy a rug? And
Speaker 2: so I of course an option another options that we
Speaker 2: can sell on the floor and it won't be cold.
Speaker 1: All right, good question, Well one option, okay, So I'll
Speaker 1: give you the expensive option first, right, and then we'll
Speaker 1: go back to the red thing, the expensive option or
Speaker 1: the the more expensive option, especially if you've got luxury
Speaker 1: vinyl plank. Luxury vinyl plank is a floating floor, okay.
Speaker 1: As you know, it lays over and existing, or it
Speaker 1: doesn't positively attached down. It lays there once it's all
Speaker 1: built out, kind of like a carpet, right, it's attached
Speaker 1: to the edges, and it's floating across the room, which
Speaker 1: means that a luxury finy vinyl floor could be temporarily removed.
Speaker 1: It could be peeled back, pulled back, deplanked as it
Speaker 1: were set aside, and you could if you wanted to
Speaker 1: lay down a you know, a radiant electric a heating
Speaker 1: system grid along the living room floor and then put
Speaker 1: the in that takes out about an eighth of an
Speaker 1: inch of space most of them. Uh, And then build
Speaker 1: that into the house and then lay the luxury vinyl
Speaker 1: plank back down and what you have then is a
Speaker 1: worn radiant heat floor. I mean, you won't any longer
Speaker 1: have to even run the heater in that area of
Speaker 1: the house because the floor itself will radiate heat right
Speaker 1: down where you are not going to be hot. It's
Speaker 1: just going to be warm and cozy and comfy and lovely.
Speaker 1: And it's the kind of floor that everybody will want
Speaker 1: to jump off the couch and actually lay down on
Speaker 1: because it's so great. And so there are two kinds
Speaker 1: of radiant floors. One or hydronic meaning you know tubes,
Speaker 1: fluid flowing through tubes, and that takes up a lot
Speaker 1: more space. That's the kind of thing that you would
Speaker 1: want to do when you're building a house and you
Speaker 1: integrate it in. But electric pads or electric grids, they
Speaker 1: take up very very little space. They can be easily
Speaker 1: retrofit into a room. We do it. We retrofit them
Speaker 1: into bathrooms all the time. So that would be one option.
Speaker 1: Now that's priceier, that's an investment, but you know, then
Speaker 1: no rugs and a warm floor bottom line, no rugg
Speaker 1: fifteen feet. If we were to do the whole house, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, you'd have to price it out because
Speaker 1: there are various systems out there. So but you know you,
Speaker 1: but it's worth it's worth checking out. It's worth checking out.
Speaker 1: Now the other option, back to the simplest option, Okay,
Speaker 1: that that. I don't know if this is going to
Speaker 1: satisfy your wife or not, but I have been very
Speaker 1: impressed Tina and I have been very impressed with the
Speaker 1: company called Ruggables. Okay, Ruggables you should look into, honestly.
Speaker 2: Because exactly the company we were looking at. We bought
Speaker 2: something from them before and we're happy with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there you go. So uh and the and
Speaker 1: the point of a ruggable is that a ruggable is
Speaker 1: this can be a really beautiful, large area rug that
Speaker 1: is sitting down on a pad on velcrode to a
Speaker 1: pad on the floor. And the advantage of it is
Speaker 1: what that you can when the time comes, pull it off,
Speaker 1: throw it in the washing machine, wash it. It's a
Speaker 1: washable rug, it's a washable textile, and then roll it
Speaker 1: back down onto the floor. So It solves a lot
Speaker 1: of concerns about Oh, I would love an area rug here,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna get all gross, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to have to take it to special cleaning all the time.
Speaker 1: And it's you know, in just a hassle. Tina and I,
Speaker 1: we've got a ruggable runner in our hallway, we've got
Speaker 1: one under our living room table, we've got one next
Speaker 1: to our sliding glass doors, and we have found them
Speaker 1: to be sufficiently lovely and imminently practical when it comes
Speaker 1: to having an area rug that you can just you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to treat it like some Persian treasure.
Speaker 1: M okay.
Speaker 2: And then what are the qualities of the rug? Like
Speaker 2: I know there's terms like low pile something that I'm
Speaker 2: seeing like triple weave or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've actually they start they started out very all
Speaker 1: low pile, right, but now they've actually introduced other elements
Speaker 1: that are bringing a higher pile, richer piles to them,
Speaker 1: great patterns. So you know, I mean, it's not it's
Speaker 1: going to be everybody's cup of tea, but it it
Speaker 1: does exist to solve that very problem people who want
Speaker 1: and need area rugs and who want it cleanable, serviceable,
Speaker 1: and don't have to, you know, wrestle with the whole
Speaker 1: Now I have to specially treat this persian rug.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: So I gave you both ends of this, both book
Speaker 1: ends of the spectrum. You know, get get a ruggable
Speaker 1: rug that you can wash easily, or you know, strip
Speaker 1: back the whole floor and put in radiant heat. Either way,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll enjoy spending more time on the floor and
Speaker 1: your and your wife won't be driven crazy. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: when we come back, let's re engage this subject of
Speaker 1: eclectic design and finding the right way to balance whatever
Speaker 1: your theme, ish is the right way to do eclectic
Speaker 1: deco in your home. You're listening to Home with Dean
Speaker 1: Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty five AM
Speaker 1: six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeart
Speaker 1: Radio app. You are Home with Dean Sharp. The house
Speaker 1: whisper why am I holding this basketball? Just a fun
Speaker 1: thing to kind of play the drums on. We are
Speaker 1: talking about home decor today, not holiday decor, home decor,
Speaker 1: eclectic home decor and how difficult that is to pull off,
Speaker 1: but it's doable and I'm trying to give you pearls
Speaker 1: here the rules for doing ish on your house and
Speaker 1: that in other words, you know, you got a farmhouse.
Speaker 1: You like this idea of farmhouse decor, but in the
Speaker 1: real world, your decor is going to be farmhouse ish, right,
Speaker 1: because they are just always other things. There's always other
Speaker 1: things that enter into it. How can you maintain that
Speaker 1: sense of real flow and feel and live in the
Speaker 1: real world where stuff comes in that doesn't match up
Speaker 1: era style, color, all of that kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: when last I left you on this topic before we
Speaker 1: went to the phones, I alluded to the idea that
Speaker 1: you have a lot of freedom if number one, you
Speaker 1: begin with the neutral canvas, meaning your walls are relatively
Speaker 1: bright and neutral, like a gallery as it were, and
Speaker 1: your floor, your flooring choice is not trying to steal
Speaker 1: attention away. It's lovely, it's beautiful, it's fantastic, but it's
Speaker 1: not trying to compete attention wise. Your floor grounds your decor,
Speaker 1: the walls unite the decor, and then if you can
Speaker 1: embrace the eighty twenty rule, you are going to be
Speaker 1: well on your way to getting this done. Right now,
Speaker 1: what is the eighty twenty rule brought it up when
Speaker 1: we did the live audience show, and because we were
Speaker 1: on stage decorating a Christmas tree, the people from Aldick
Speaker 1: were decorating a Christmas tree beautiful, I mean just stunning
Speaker 1: Christmas tree designs from Aldick, right, But somebody raised the question, Well, Okay,
Speaker 1: I love that department store s Christmas tree just so
Speaker 1: sophisticated and adorable and wonderful. But I've got ornaments from
Speaker 1: my childhood, and I've got ornaments that people have given me,
Speaker 1: I mean, things that really mean something to us. And
Speaker 1: so how do I maintain that sense of like, this
Speaker 1: is a gorgeous theme and still have these meaningful things
Speaker 1: attached to the tree? Well that really, if you can
Speaker 1: picture that, and I know you've encountered that issue before yourself.
Speaker 1: If you can picture that, that's a microcosm of the
Speaker 1: decor problem with your home as a whole, right, or
Speaker 1: any space as a whole. There's this theme you'd like
Speaker 1: to establish, but what do you do with the real
Speaker 1: world stuff. It's why things go ish, farmhouse ish, arts
Speaker 1: and crafts, Ish, Spanish Ish, right. So the eighty twenty
Speaker 1: rule is a massive step towards solving that problem and
Speaker 1: what is it? It's very simply this. You pick your theme,
Speaker 1: you pick this direction you'd like to head in, and
Speaker 1: as you look around the spaces and pieces and masses
Speaker 1: in a space, like let's just pick the living room,
Speaker 1: the larger masses would be you know, sofas, coffee tables,
Speaker 1: those kinds of things, bookshelves, if there are those things there.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the things that take up space in
Speaker 1: a room. If we can achieve theme consistency with eighty
Speaker 1: percent of what's in that room and eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the larger masses of the room, then then and theme
Speaker 1: consistency meaning okay, well the sofa is going to be leather,
Speaker 1: or it's going to be this color, and then this
Speaker 1: color accent pillows across the sofa, and the area rug
Speaker 1: underneath the coffee table also working in that color and
Speaker 1: stylistic theme. Maybe the blind's cooperating with the wall color
Speaker 1: as well. Maybe we've introduced to end tables or coffee
Speaker 1: tables or a lamp, maybe these things, and we just
Speaker 1: start counting it out. If we can get to basically
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the room working with that theme, then
Speaker 1: here's the truth. The other twenty percent can be all
Speaker 1: sorts of nick knack and off brand things, if you
Speaker 1: want to call it that peppered in and you'll you
Speaker 1: still don't just do this randomly. But the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is a room that is eighty percent there
Speaker 1: to a strong theme can handle twenty percent, the other
Speaker 1: twenty percent being diverse. Because the competition tilt has already happened.
Speaker 1: The room is eighty percent, I mean, it is well
Speaker 1: on its way, and that last twenty percent is not
Speaker 1: going to take it back. And so when you walk
Speaker 1: into a room that has those elements going for it,
Speaker 1: then nobody says, oh, well, this room is just sort
Speaker 1: of a mishmash of things. No, it has a strong direction.
Speaker 1: Now does it have to be eighty percent? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the preference. Is this a law of design, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. But it is a rule based on just
Speaker 1: usefulness and proof of concept. Okay, And that's why in
Speaker 1: the core world, eighty twenty is a significant marker that
Speaker 1: we aim for. Okay, So right now, that's not the
Speaker 1: end of the story. I've got a long list of
Speaker 1: rules and tips for you, most of which we're going
Speaker 1: to cover tomorrow, but I still have some for you today.
Speaker 1: But the idea is this, If you can set that
Speaker 1: in your head as a foundation for your new approach
Speaker 1: to this space, bedroom, living room, bathroom, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, eighty twenty, the eighty twenty rule, you're going
Speaker 1: to be ahead of the game, all right, more specifics
Speaker 1: on that, cay Fie, Jean Sharp, the house Whisper, Welcome home.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me on the program today. It turns
Speaker 1: out like it's going to be a pretty beautiful day
Speaker 1: here in southern California. I know it's not the same
Speaker 1: elsewhere across the country where you may be listening to it,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I'm guessing it's going to be
Speaker 1: lovely in its own right. We've got a sunny day
Speaker 1: in the sixties ahead of us today, and you may
Speaker 1: have snow or whatever the case may be, and we're
Speaker 1: probably both longing for the other's condition. Right the grass
Speaker 1: is greener, the snow is whiter on the other side
Speaker 1: of the fence, Okay, whatever the case may be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we miss snowy winters here in southern California, although we've
Speaker 1: got plenty of mountains with it in but down here
Speaker 1: where we are, especially where Tina and I are in
Speaker 1: eastern Ventura County. You know, just lovely. It's just nice
Speaker 1: and lovely. I hope you're having a great weekend start
Speaker 1: and hope it works for you. Don't miss tomorrow's show
Speaker 1: as well, where we are going to continue this conversation
Speaker 1: about eclectic decor and how to weave it properly into
Speaker 1: your home. I've got one more for you here, I
Speaker 1: got time for one more before we're done today, and
Speaker 1: then we'll pick up this list in the next episode
Speaker 1: of the podcast and or our next broadcast, which will
Speaker 1: be tomorrow morning from nine to noon. And that is this.
Speaker 1: We've started out with the neutral canvas of the walls,
Speaker 1: we've grounded the floor for our collection of stuff, and
Speaker 1: we've embraced color and texture. In the eighty twenty rule,
Speaker 1: eighty percent of what we're doing in this space is
Speaker 1: going to be pushing strongly toward whatever our theme or
Speaker 1: style is, and that allows the other twenty percent to
Speaker 1: kind of deviate from that without being a contradiction or
Speaker 1: a distraction. Now, this is really critical though. Okay, a
Speaker 1: colectic design, I said it at the top of the
Speaker 1: show is not clutter and it's not chaos. And so
Speaker 1: you've got to get rid of the clutter. And it
Speaker 1: is the hardest thing for anyone to hear me say,
Speaker 1: because we all just have too much stuff. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I'm telling you, if you want to master
Speaker 1: a great design, then you've got to got to get
Speaker 1: rid of the clutter. There's too many things, too many
Speaker 1: things to focus on. Human minds visually are relatively lazy,
Speaker 1: they really are. And so if you overwhelm me with
Speaker 1: too many things to look at, I just won't look
Speaker 1: at any of them. And you know that that's the
Speaker 1: case for you as well. Okay, So a beautifully designed
Speaker 1: space has enough stuff but not too much stuff, and
Speaker 1: it embraces here's the rule, embrace negative space. Negative space
Speaker 1: is immensely powerful. In fact, this is such a big
Speaker 1: rule that I'm going to start tomorrow's show off with
Speaker 1: it as well. Negative space has a power to draw
Speaker 1: attention to the thing that it is pointing to you.
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, isn't negative space just nothing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: In a sense, it really is, and yet it has
Speaker 1: a gravity to it. Imagine this, Imagine that we just
Speaker 1: put a big white framed panel up on a wall,
Speaker 1: nothing nothing but white. It's just white, like you know,
Speaker 1: framed inside a frame, nothing but white. What is that?
Speaker 1: That's not negative space, that's blank. Okay, that's just a
Speaker 1: blank wall. Negative space is the space around a thing. Now. Okay,
Speaker 1: imagine that big white framed panel up on the wall
Speaker 1: and there's nothing in it that is blank, not negative. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a beautiful image of a bird,
Speaker 1: a bird in flight, and I'm going to take that
Speaker 1: bird and put it way down in the kind of
Speaker 1: the lower right corner of that white framed panel. Now,
Speaker 1: that white frame panel is not blank. Now, it is
Speaker 1: the negative space around that bird. It's the it's the space,
Speaker 1: it's the air that the bird is about to fly into.
Speaker 1: It's poised with all sorts of tension. Now it's giving
Speaker 1: that bird all sorts of gravitational attention from your eyes
Speaker 1: because you see this blank space and your eyes zip
Speaker 1: down to the one thing that's there. And now that
Speaker 1: tiny little bird in flight is the star of an
Speaker 1: amazing show set on an amazing stage. Okay, think about that.
Speaker 1: I want you to process that, because that's the power
Speaker 1: of negative space in art and in design. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna pull off an eclectic design, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a good amount of negative space around the things that
Speaker 1: you've got, and that means you got to get rid
Speaker 1: of some stuff you really do all right. There is
Speaker 1: a whole lot more to my list of the secrets
Speaker 1: of Ish that we will continue with tomorrow the big
Speaker 1: show Sunday morning from nine to noon. Thanks again for
Speaker 1: spending this time with me. It is a privilege, it
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Speaker 1: building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see tomorrow. This has
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