Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to the host of home on KFI.
Speaker 1: The house whisper it's Dean Sharp morning, Dean Morning Ean.
Speaker 1: So recent reports are showing that a lot more people
Speaker 1: are renting now rather than buying, and even people with
Speaker 1: a lot of money are choosing to rent rather than buy.
Speaker 1: So I thought, maybe, you know, we do a little
Speaker 1: home therapy, apartment therapy and find out some ways to
Speaker 1: make a rental feel more like a home, knowing that
Speaker 1: you can't replace the cabinets to knock down walls exactly.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people get discouraged because they think, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm renting this place, it's an apartment, it's
Speaker 2: a house, whatever the case may be. I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't really make it home. And that's so not true.
Speaker 2: Home is where you live. You just have to take
Speaker 2: a different strategy. Of course, you're not going to be
Speaker 2: knocking down wall Please don't not walk down knock on
Speaker 2: walls in your rental house. But that doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: you can't actually, you know, own the space for yourself.
Speaker 2: Things like color coordinating a room is such a simple concept,
Speaker 2: but once you've done it once, things like drapes and
Speaker 2: carpet or rug areas and throw pillows are all working
Speaker 2: off the same color palette. Man, that place becomes yours.
Speaker 1: And I've done some of these. You send a list
Speaker 1: of all these pictures and ideas and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: done that. Oh wait, need to do that. And then
Speaker 1: you also said, along with colors, like lighting can really
Speaker 1: help make your home feel more homey.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course. You know. We live in the
Speaker 2: age now in the twenty first century, a very very
Speaker 2: high tech wireless lighting control right, things like smart lamps
Speaker 2: being able to control and to dim things. Let's say
Speaker 2: you live in an apartment. You're like, there are no
Speaker 2: dimmer switches in my apartment. That doesn't matter. You don't
Speaker 2: have to rewire the place. There are smart light dimmer
Speaker 2: controls that you can down to the hardware store and
Speaker 2: buy take with you whenever you move, plug them in
Speaker 2: into an outlet, hook them up to your Wi Fi,
Speaker 2: and plug the lamp into that. And all you have
Speaker 2: to do is say, hey, I'm gonna avoid seeing the
Speaker 2: name of the personal assistance so it doesn't respond to me. Here, Hey,
Speaker 2: turn the lamp down to ten percent, and boom, You've
Speaker 2: got dimmer control over the lighting in a room and
Speaker 2: you have not called an electrician to get that done.
Speaker 1: I love that, okay. And then one of the other
Speaker 1: things is like, I'm sitting in my apartment, which I
Speaker 1: love and I've decorated, but the walls are white. Is
Speaker 1: there anything you can do without painting the walls.
Speaker 2: There are lots of things you can do without painting
Speaker 2: the walls. There is removable static cling wallpaper these days,
Speaker 2: which is fantastic. I mean static cling, not glue. It
Speaker 2: doesn't leave a residue when it's done. There are sections
Speaker 2: of wallpaper that you can put up. There are things
Speaker 2: like magnetic refrigerator panels pulling up drapes, creating drapes for
Speaker 2: your windows. And you may think, wait, hey, I'm not
Speaker 2: allowed to drill into the walls. They're quick hang no
Speaker 2: drill curtain rod brackets out there now, which means that
Speaker 2: they can rest right over the top of the window
Speaker 2: and hold that curtain rod and you can have your
Speaker 2: own drapes, your own curtains, your own aesthetics in the
Speaker 2: room without making any permanent damage to walls or changes.
Speaker 1: I love this, okay. Then one other one that I
Speaker 1: like this idea too, just to personalize it, you're not
Speaker 1: making any structural changes, but like just swapping out like
Speaker 1: light switch plates or cabinet knobs and poles, you can
Speaker 1: always put.
Speaker 2: Them back exactly. Cabinet knobs are just screwed onto the
Speaker 2: front of the cabinet with a simple bolt from the
Speaker 2: backside of the drawer or the door. The same with
Speaker 2: the light switch plates. You can customize them to have
Speaker 2: your own kind of going on. And again, take it
Speaker 2: with you. It's a screwdriver. It's going to take you
Speaker 2: two minutes to change these things out. You put the
Speaker 2: old ones in a drawer. When you move out, you
Speaker 2: just swap them back out again.
Speaker 1: I love this, And of course plants always help make
Speaker 1: a home feel more homey, so that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: And then I love this one, which I just did
Speaker 1: it not too long ago. It's update your betting. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do it again because my cat
Speaker 1: likes to need and she's destroying my expensive duvet cover.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so many great ideas. So just because it's
Speaker 1: not your house, it doesn't mean it can't be a home.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. You are the thing that makes your place your home,
Speaker 2: and finding creative ways of getting you all around, whether
Speaker 2: it's your color, whether it's your picture frames, whether it's
Speaker 2: your stuff, that is what makes that place you.
Speaker 1: You're so wise. If you want to hear more wisdom
Speaker 1: from Dean Sharp, you can listen to them tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: from six to eight right here on KFI, and or
Speaker 1: nine to noon on Sunday. It's home on KFI with
Speaker 1: our House whispered Dean Sharp. You can also follow him
Speaker 1: at home with Dean Thank you, Dean, Thanks Amy