WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.000 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.800 KFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty and live 3 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:17.239 streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey follow 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:20.320 us on social media. We only do the good kind 5 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:25.039 of social media, the uplifting, informative, inspiring kind here at home. 6 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.600 You can find us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook x Home 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.560 with Dean is the handle for them all. You can 8 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.479 also subscribe to the House Whisper podcast and listen anytime, 9 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.759 anywhere on demand hundreds of episodes, all searchable by topic. 10 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.520 It's your home improvement reference library on the free iHeartRadio 11 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.479 app or wherever your favorite podcasts are found. 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We're going to get back to that 22 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:33.879 topic in a bit, but it's the top of the hour, 23 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.239 and you know what that means. It means it's time 24 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.560 to go to the phones. So let's talk to uh. 25 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.159 Let's talk to Deborah. Hey, Deborah, welcome home. 26 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.239 Hi Dean, good morning. 27 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:49.040 Good morning. How can I help you. 28 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:53.599 U? Yeah, So, I live in a two story home 29 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.040 and I'm in the midst of a major remodel that 30 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.719 involved the removal of a load bearing the wall. And 31 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.719 after they finished the work and took the temporary walls down, 32 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:12.159 I've experienced some major settling. Three of the doors upstairs 33 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:19.759 not closed correctly. I witnessed an episode where there was 34 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:29.639 something extremely heavy settled move shifted and shook the patio 35 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.120 door directly underneath so violently I thought it was going 36 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:37.439 to shatter. And then now I'm noticing in up above 37 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.840 that the room up above, that there's some sagging in 38 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.000 the floor, and the contractor has a sham name that 39 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.319 the integrity of the game and the post that they 40 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.719 put in is fine, and that it's no big deal. 41 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:54.319 But I'm not real comfortable with that sewing. Looking for 42 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.360 some important advice. 43 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.560 How to move forward with this? Gotcha? Gotcha? All right? 44 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.280 So here a couple of questions. First question, is this 45 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.919 all being done under permit? And do we have engineering 46 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.639 for this removal of a bearing wall? 47 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:12.080 Yes? 48 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.159 I'm sorry, Debra, I didn't hear your answer. 49 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.199 Yes I do, you do? 50 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:27.120 Okay, So we've got engineering and so there's plans and 51 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:32.520 there are structural calculations from a structural engineer about this. 52 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:36.680 Has the structural engineer or the building inspector been out 53 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.960 and inspected and signed off on the structural work that 54 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:42.599 was done? 55 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.560 Now, there's been some. There were interim inspections as the 56 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.039 work was going on, at least one. But no, they 57 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:51.800 have not totally signed off on that. 58 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.520 Okay. But have they signed off on, let's say, like 59 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.439 the framing work that was done in order to remove 60 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:04.280 the wall? Yes, okay, they have, all right. Second question 61 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.319 is was there concrete work involved in removing this bearing 62 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.360 wall and replacing it with I assume you know, a 63 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:13.080 large beam. 64 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.279 Yes. They dug two very large holes in my foundation 65 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.800 and filled it with concrete and rebar when I placed 66 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:22.279 the post. 67 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:27.720 Okay, okay, all right, this is all sounding like it. 68 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.120 It happened the way it should happened. I'm just wondering 69 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:37.480 where the settling is occurring. Typically, when we replace a 70 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:41.199 bearing wall or we remove a bearing wall, what we've 71 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.240 got to do is number One, the engineer has got 72 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:48.800 to come up with some concrete adjustments on each end 73 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.680 because the bearing wall was supporting weight all along the wall. 74 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.800 So they let's say you've got a ten fifteen foot 75 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:00.000 long wall that is supporting you know, one thousand pounds 76 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.519 above it. That thousand and this arbitrary math I'm doing 77 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.680 here for the sake of the example. But that thousand 78 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:10.120 pounds is spread out over the length of that fifteen 79 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.279 foot wall. So if we're going to take that wall away, 80 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.519 which we can, we've got to number one, put in 81 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.839 a beam that is strong enough to hold that weight 82 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:24.279 all by itself, and then transfer that weight down instead 83 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.199 of the length of a fifteen foot wall, just on 84 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.839 two points, one post on one end and one post 85 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.720 on the other, which is more than the concrete foundation 86 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.720 that was there ahead of time was designed to support. 87 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.079 And that's why we cut open the concrete and create 88 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.680 these larger pad footings underneath to distribute and handle all 89 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.759 of that weight. Now just coming on to two positions. Now, 90 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.279 if all of that was calculated properly, if the beam 91 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:02.480 is sized properly, and the work was done cleanly, then 92 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.959 we shouldn't have any major disruption of the house. I mean, 93 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.240 we switched these things out all the time, and we 94 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:12.319 don't end up with, Oh, now there's a bunch of 95 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.959 doors upstairs that are out of square, or the floor 96 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:20.399 is sagging somewhere. That's not a thing that happens when 97 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.879 you take out a bearing wall properly. So I'm I'm 98 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.439 a little concerned about as you are, about why is 99 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:34.439 this happening. Is the floor sagging where it has now connected, 100 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.399 or is being supported by the new beam, or is 101 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:41.720 it sagging in some other area that previously, you know, 102 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:43.079 was untouched by. 103 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:48.600 This Now it's either it's directly above and or adjacent 104 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:50.600 to where the actual beam is. 105 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.399 To the actual beam and the beam, is it running 106 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.680 underneath the floor joist or is it shoved up into 107 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:02.480 the sea line and the floor joists are hanging off 108 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:02.720 of it. 109 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:10.920 Now I think it's below the choice. 110 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:12.240 So they're all sitting on it now. 111 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.639 Yeah, yeah, okay, all. 112 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:20.800 Right, So Debra, it's difficult for me to to be 113 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.600 able to run through all of the possible things that 114 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.079 need to be inspected here. But here's what I'm saying. 115 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.079 I think we need to give a call to the engineer. 116 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.399 I think we want the engineer back out on site 117 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.759 to take a look at what's happening, and we want 118 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.879 the engineer to do things like measure the deflection of 119 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:48.199 this beam. Okay, maybe the framers, maybe the contractor didn't 120 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.879 set the beam on posts high enough to straighten out 121 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.079 the floor. Maybe the floor sagged some. Maybe they didn't 122 00:07:55.240 --> 00:08:00.240 embrace the walls or the floor sufficiently while they remove 123 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.759 the old wall, and it all dropped a little bit, 124 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.000 and therefore when they put the new beam in, the 125 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.439 beam got set at a lower level and that's why 126 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:12.519 the floor is sagging. Or maybe the engineer and this 127 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:16.079 happens sometimes. I mean they've technically specked a beam. Maybe 128 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.759 it's at the low end of its weight specification and 129 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.319 as a result, it's actually sagging a little bit, or 130 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.439 what we call deflecting because of the large span. I 131 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.080 don't know which of those things it is, but we 132 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.200 need to get some professional eyes on it. For you. 133 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.440 Somebody needs to get up there with a laser and 134 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.320 or a stringline and take a look to see whether 135 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:47.279 the new beam is kind of deflecting or sagging in 136 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.759 the center from end to end, and if so, how 137 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.639 much we need to get to the bottom of it. 138 00:08:53.720 --> 00:09:00.000 Because I'll tell you you are not You're not over 139 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:05.320 reacting to this. That's what I'm saying. That we switch 140 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.519 out bearing walls with beams all the time and it 141 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:13.879 doesn't rack up, change, sag, or cause all sorts of 142 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:18.120 ramifications to the rest of the house. Ninety nine times 143 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.320 out of one hundred, there is absolutely literally no change 144 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.840 to anything whatsoever when we replace a bearing wall with 145 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.720 a beam in post scenario in order to open up 146 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.559 an area downstairs. So I'm concerned, like you're concerned, and 147 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.279 I think maybe our first step would be to call 148 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.399 the engineer and say, I need you to come out 149 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:42.159 here and take a look at this. I need a 150 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.639 kind of forensic investigation of this scenario so that you 151 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.879 can tell me why these things are now happening. 152 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:55.639 Okay, So let's just call the city that issued the 153 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.440 permits and go I want you. 154 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:02.200 I want you to call not the city, because the 155 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.840 city didn't engineer the project. I want you to call 156 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:09.519 the engineer who did the specifications for the beam that 157 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:14.080 the contractor put in. That's the engineer, the engineer who 158 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:19.039 designed this scenario, who calculated it. I want you to 159 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:20.879 get because they're the ones on the hook for this. 160 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.679 I want you to get them out there to take 161 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.360 a look and check on the contractor's work to make 162 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.840 sure that things were done the way they were supposed 163 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.360 to be done and that that beam is doing the 164 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.480 job as intended. I just we got to get it 165 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.279 all double checked, and now is the time, because these 166 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.679 other things have happened, to run it all back through 167 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.159 analysis by all people involved, not just the contractor. But 168 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:51.720 I'm going to talk to the engineer who specified that 169 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.919 beam that size, who put that in the plans. The 170 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.480 city just signed off on it and inspected to see 171 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.360 that it was built according to the plans. But sometimes 172 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.960 the plans, you know, something slips through and it's not 173 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.279 exactly what it should be. So I want to talk 174 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.240 to the engineer. You want your structural engineer, the one 175 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.879 who did the plans, back out on site checking it 176 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.440 through Debrah. I wish I'd had more time, but unfortunately 177 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.600 I'm probably out of my advice for you, because that's 178 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.960 the next step and then let me know how that 179 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.200 happens and what they said, and maybe we can help 180 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.039 you with the next step after that. All right, y'all, 181 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.320 when we come back more of your calls. You're listening 182 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:37.519 to Home with Dean Sharp, the House whisper Kyfi, Dean Sharp, 183 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:42.440 the House Whisper at your service, answering our last question 184 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:45.399 and went a little long, So this is going to 185 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.639 be a little bit shorter of a segment. So I 186 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.159 want to get right back to the phones. Let's talk 187 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.440 to Spencer. Hey, Spencer, welcome home. Hello. 188 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.879 Hey, I'm up in Oregon and I have a one 189 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.159 in a halfhe old and I have of a house 190 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.519 with luxury vinyl plank floor on the base floor, and 191 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.679 our lifestyle has changed a lot more to sitting on 192 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.720 the floor with our little kid and downstairs it's just cold. 193 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:15.759 But I like to be downstairs in the living room 194 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.000 because that's where the Christmas tree is and that's where 195 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.399 the fireplace is, and we have couches and stuff. So 196 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.279 I'm thinking I want a rug down there. But my 197 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.320 wife is Chinese and she hates things that have to 198 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.360 be cleaned, and she's like, oh, the floor is great, 199 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.919 I can clean it I can bop it, and I'm 200 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:34.720 looking for like maybe is something like I hate by 201 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.159 ten rug or so, but like what are the qualities 202 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.639 of a rug that I could use to try and 203 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.000 convince my life to let me buy a rug? And 204 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.200 so I of course an option another options that we 205 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.600 can sell on the floor and it won't be cold. 206 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:54.200 All right, good question, Well one option, okay, So I'll 207 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.360 give you the expensive option first, right, and then we'll 208 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.519 go back to the red thing, the expensive option or 209 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.480 the the more expensive option, especially if you've got luxury 210 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.279 vinyl plank. Luxury vinyl plank is a floating floor, okay. 211 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.919 As you know, it lays over and existing, or it 212 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.159 doesn't positively attached down. It lays there once it's all 213 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.919 built out, kind of like a carpet, right, it's attached 214 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.480 to the edges, and it's floating across the room, which 215 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:24.639 means that a luxury finy vinyl floor could be temporarily removed. 216 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.399 It could be peeled back, pulled back, deplanked as it 217 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:33.919 were set aside, and you could if you wanted to 218 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:41.759 lay down a you know, a radiant electric a heating 219 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:47.360 system grid along the living room floor and then put 220 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.600 the in that takes out about an eighth of an 221 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:54.039 inch of space most of them. Uh, And then build 222 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.559 that into the house and then lay the luxury vinyl 223 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:59.480 plank back down and what you have then is a 224 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:03.120 worn radiant heat floor. I mean, you won't any longer 225 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.840 have to even run the heater in that area of 226 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.720 the house because the floor itself will radiate heat right 227 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:11.960 down where you are not going to be hot. It's 228 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.840 just going to be warm and cozy and comfy and lovely. 229 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.000 And it's the kind of floor that everybody will want 230 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.759 to jump off the couch and actually lay down on 231 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.519 because it's so great. And so there are two kinds 232 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:29.559 of radiant floors. One or hydronic meaning you know tubes, 233 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:32.759 fluid flowing through tubes, and that takes up a lot 234 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.600 more space. That's the kind of thing that you would 235 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:36.320 want to do when you're building a house and you 236 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:42.600 integrate it in. But electric pads or electric grids, they 237 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.600 take up very very little space. They can be easily 238 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.399 retrofit into a room. We do it. We retrofit them 239 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.799 into bathrooms all the time. So that would be one option. 240 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:56.039 Now that's priceier, that's an investment, but you know, then 241 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.159 no rugs and a warm floor bottom line, no rugg 242 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:05.679 fifteen feet. If we were to do the whole house, oh, 243 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:08.559 you know what, you'd have to price it out because 244 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.639 there are various systems out there. So but you know you, 245 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.799 but it's worth it's worth checking out. It's worth checking out. 246 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:19.759 Now the other option, back to the simplest option, Okay, 247 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.639 that that. I don't know if this is going to 248 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.720 satisfy your wife or not, but I have been very 249 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.080 impressed Tina and I have been very impressed with the 250 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:36.039 company called Ruggables. Okay, Ruggables you should look into, honestly. 251 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:38.080 Because exactly the company we were looking at. We bought 252 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.000 something from them before and we're happy with it. 253 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.879 Okay, so there you go. So uh and the and 254 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.600 the point of a ruggable is that a ruggable is 255 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:50.679 this can be a really beautiful, large area rug that 256 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.399 is sitting down on a pad on velcrode to a 257 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.039 pad on the floor. And the advantage of it is 258 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:00.639 what that you can when the time comes, pull it off, 259 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.879 throw it in the washing machine, wash it. It's a 260 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.240 washable rug, it's a washable textile, and then roll it 261 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.360 back down onto the floor. So It solves a lot 262 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.919 of concerns about Oh, I would love an area rug here, 263 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.519 but it's gonna get all gross, and I don't want 264 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:21.080 to have to take it to special cleaning all the time. 265 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.200 And it's you know, in just a hassle. Tina and I, 266 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.759 we've got a ruggable runner in our hallway, we've got 267 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:28.399 one under our living room table, we've got one next 268 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.840 to our sliding glass doors, and we have found them 269 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:37.720 to be sufficiently lovely and imminently practical when it comes 270 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.519 to having an area rug that you can just you know, 271 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.919 you don't have to treat it like some Persian treasure. 272 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:45.120 M okay. 273 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:46.679 And then what are the qualities of the rug? Like 274 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.960 I know there's terms like low pile something that I'm 275 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.879 seeing like triple weave or something. 276 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:55.320 Yeah, they've actually they start they started out very all 277 00:16:55.399 --> 00:17:00.720 low pile, right, but now they've actually introduced other elements 278 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.359 that are bringing a higher pile, richer piles to them, 279 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.119 great patterns. So you know, I mean, it's not it's 280 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.359 going to be everybody's cup of tea, but it it 281 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.119 does exist to solve that very problem people who want 282 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.240 and need area rugs and who want it cleanable, serviceable, 283 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.000 and don't have to, you know, wrestle with the whole 284 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:23.920 Now I have to specially treat this persian rug. 285 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:26.960 Okay, great, that's pretty much. 286 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.119 So I gave you both ends of this, both book 287 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.799 ends of the spectrum. You know, get get a ruggable 288 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.680 rug that you can wash easily, or you know, strip 289 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.640 back the whole floor and put in radiant heat. Either way, 290 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.519 you'll you'll enjoy spending more time on the floor and 291 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:46.559 your and your wife won't be driven crazy. All right, y'all, 292 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.519 when we come back, let's re engage this subject of 293 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.279 eclectic design and finding the right way to balance whatever 294 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.720 your theme, ish is the right way to do eclectic 295 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.960 deco in your home. You're listening to Home with Dean 296 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:12.000 Sharp on demand from KFI AM six forty five AM 297 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:16.599 six forty live streaming and HD everywhere on the iHeart 298 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.559 Radio app. You are Home with Dean Sharp. The house 299 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:24.680 whisper why am I holding this basketball? Just a fun 300 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:28.559 thing to kind of play the drums on. We are 301 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:33.440 talking about home decor today, not holiday decor, home decor, 302 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.720 eclectic home decor and how difficult that is to pull off, 303 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.039 but it's doable and I'm trying to give you pearls 304 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.200 here the rules for doing ish on your house and 305 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:47.279 that in other words, you know, you got a farmhouse. 306 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.440 You like this idea of farmhouse decor, but in the 307 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:55.079 real world, your decor is going to be farmhouse ish, right, 308 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.599 because they are just always other things. There's always other 309 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:01.799 things that enter into it. How can you maintain that 310 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.119 sense of real flow and feel and live in the 311 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:08.319 real world where stuff comes in that doesn't match up 312 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.599 era style, color, all of that kind of thing. So 313 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:16.240 when last I left you on this topic before we 314 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:20.319 went to the phones, I alluded to the idea that 315 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:23.720 you have a lot of freedom if number one, you 316 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:27.799 begin with the neutral canvas, meaning your walls are relatively 317 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:32.880 bright and neutral, like a gallery as it were, and 318 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.640 your floor, your flooring choice is not trying to steal 319 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.279 attention away. It's lovely, it's beautiful, it's fantastic, but it's 320 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:46.160 not trying to compete attention wise. Your floor grounds your decor, 321 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:51.319 the walls unite the decor, and then if you can 322 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.400 embrace the eighty twenty rule, you are going to be 323 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.559 well on your way to getting this done. Right now, 324 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.400 what is the eighty twenty rule brought it up when 325 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:07.640 we did the live audience show, and because we were 326 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.799 on stage decorating a Christmas tree, the people from Aldick 327 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:15.519 were decorating a Christmas tree beautiful, I mean just stunning 328 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:23.079 Christmas tree designs from Aldick, right, But somebody raised the question, Well, Okay, 329 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.559 I love that department store s Christmas tree just so 330 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:32.559 sophisticated and adorable and wonderful. But I've got ornaments from 331 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:36.000 my childhood, and I've got ornaments that people have given me, 332 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.039 I mean, things that really mean something to us. And 333 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:43.359 so how do I maintain that sense of like, this 334 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:47.319 is a gorgeous theme and still have these meaningful things 335 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.359 attached to the tree? Well that really, if you can 336 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.799 picture that, and I know you've encountered that issue before yourself. 337 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:56.960 If you can picture that, that's a microcosm of the 338 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.680 decor problem with your home as a whole, right, or 339 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.079 any space as a whole. There's this theme you'd like 340 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:06.359 to establish, but what do you do with the real 341 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:10.720 world stuff. It's why things go ish, farmhouse ish, arts 342 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:15.200 and crafts, Ish, Spanish Ish, right. So the eighty twenty 343 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.839 rule is a massive step towards solving that problem and 344 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:25.599 what is it? It's very simply this. You pick your theme, 345 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.519 you pick this direction you'd like to head in, and 346 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:35.640 as you look around the spaces and pieces and masses 347 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:39.240 in a space, like let's just pick the living room, 348 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:47.240 the larger masses would be you know, sofas, coffee tables, 349 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.880 those kinds of things, bookshelves, if there are those things there. 350 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.559 You're talking about the things that take up space in 351 00:21:53.640 --> 00:22:02.039 a room. If we can achieve theme consistency with eighty 352 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:06.039 percent of what's in that room and eighty percent of 353 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:11.960 the larger masses of the room, then then and theme 354 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.720 consistency meaning okay, well the sofa is going to be leather, 355 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:18.440 or it's going to be this color, and then this 356 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.559 color accent pillows across the sofa, and the area rug 357 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:27.039 underneath the coffee table also working in that color and 358 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:32.000 stylistic theme. Maybe the blind's cooperating with the wall color 359 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.400 as well. Maybe we've introduced to end tables or coffee 360 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:39.480 tables or a lamp, maybe these things, and we just 361 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.720 start counting it out. If we can get to basically 362 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:47.440 eighty percent of the room working with that theme, then 363 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.200 here's the truth. The other twenty percent can be all 364 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:58.519 sorts of nick knack and off brand things, if you 365 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:02.640 want to call it that peppered in and you'll you 366 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.559 still don't just do this randomly. But the fact of 367 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.000 the matter is a room that is eighty percent there 368 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:14.119 to a strong theme can handle twenty percent, the other 369 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:20.920 twenty percent being diverse. Because the competition tilt has already happened. 370 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:23.839 The room is eighty percent, I mean, it is well 371 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:27.480 on its way, and that last twenty percent is not 372 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:30.640 going to take it back. And so when you walk 373 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:33.599 into a room that has those elements going for it, 374 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.240 then nobody says, oh, well, this room is just sort 375 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.720 of a mishmash of things. No, it has a strong direction. 376 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:43.079 Now does it have to be eighty percent? Well, yeah, 377 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.000 that's the preference. Is this a law of design, No, 378 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.839 it's not. But it is a rule based on just 379 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:54.799 usefulness and proof of concept. Okay, And that's why in 380 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:58.920 the core world, eighty twenty is a significant marker that 381 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.160 we aim for. Okay, So right now, that's not the 382 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.759 end of the story. I've got a long list of 383 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.680 rules and tips for you, most of which we're going 384 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.000 to cover tomorrow, but I still have some for you today. 385 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.000 But the idea is this, If you can set that 386 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:17.839 in your head as a foundation for your new approach 387 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.799 to this space, bedroom, living room, bathroom, whatever the case 388 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:26.839 may be, eighty twenty, the eighty twenty rule, you're going 389 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:29.359 to be ahead of the game, all right, more specifics 390 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:34.519 on that, cay Fie, Jean Sharp, the house Whisper, Welcome home. 391 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.519 Thanks for joining me on the program today. It turns 392 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.599 out like it's going to be a pretty beautiful day 393 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.880 here in southern California. I know it's not the same 394 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.000 elsewhere across the country where you may be listening to it, 395 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.880 but you know what, I'm guessing it's going to be 396 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:53.799 lovely in its own right. We've got a sunny day 397 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.440 in the sixties ahead of us today, and you may 398 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:00.559 have snow or whatever the case may be, and we're 399 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:06.000 probably both longing for the other's condition. Right the grass 400 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:09.000 is greener, the snow is whiter on the other side 401 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.279