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Speaker 1: I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. I design custom homes,
Speaker 1: I build custom homes, and I'm your guide to better
Speaker 1: understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
Speaker 1: it is the it's our second to last show. This
Speaker 1: is the last weekend of twenty twenty four, and today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow we're going to be taking a look forward
Speaker 1: as much as we humanly can in a realistic way
Speaker 1: at predictions and trends for design and decor for your
Speaker 1: home for twenty twenty five. So that's where we're going today.
Speaker 1: And of course it's going to be in my own
Speaker 1: inimitable style, my approach to this, which I hope you
Speaker 1: will find to be grounded and rational and encouraging and
Speaker 1: inspiring all the like. But we're going to push aside
Speaker 1: as much of the BS as possible that you hear
Speaker 1: or read. If you've looked at all at trends and
Speaker 1: predictions like online, there's just so much BS out there
Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: get caught up in it. So we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about that today, especially today as well. And of course
Speaker 1: we're also going to take your calls as we do.
Speaker 1: The number to reach me here at the program eight
Speaker 1: three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral
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Speaker 1: phone lines are open now. Producer Keana is standing by
Speaker 1: ready to take your calls and she'll tell you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know. Pop you into the queue. I'm
Speaker 1: talking trends and predictions today and tomorrow. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to your calls, you get to set the agenda.
Speaker 1: Anything that's got you scratching your head about your home design, construction, DIY,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. If you just want to
Speaker 1: wish somebody a happy New Year, that's cool to give
Speaker 1: us a call. It is a friendly place to land
Speaker 1: here on a Saturday morning. Let me introduce our awesome
Speaker 1: team to you. Guess is here. Elma is on the
Speaker 1: board this morning. Good morning, Bud Saturdays. There he is, there,
Speaker 1: he is. He's getting in some extra hours this week.
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's cool. I'm not used to hearing him
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. I know, three hours earlier, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But he's home. Yeah, he's awake, he's alive. You're ready
Speaker 1: for it. I'm so ready, Like I said, Now, she's
Speaker 1: nowhere near a microphone. Producer. Oh, she's already screening calls.
Speaker 1: I'm looking down at the board here there are calls
Speaker 1: rolling in. Uh so, producer Keana is with us today.
Speaker 1: She's awesome. Happy to have her and my buddy Eileen
Speaker 1: Gonzalez at the news desk, so busy. Good morning, Eileen,
Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you doing today? I hit the
Speaker 1: wrong button. I was talking to myself. How's it going.
Speaker 1: How's your week? It was good. I actually I worked
Speaker 1: all week. I picked up shifts for you know, other
Speaker 1: people so they could have the holiday off, and then
Speaker 1: did my usual regular job and now working again. It's
Speaker 1: been a working week. Those of us who have not
Speaker 1: taken the holidays off, we have the right to just
Speaker 1: call everybody else lazy, cowards and no exactly right, because
Speaker 1: we're here, we're here getting it downe And by the way,
Speaker 1: if anybody I always get, even after we do the
Speaker 1: show on a holiday weekend, I always get, you know,
Speaker 1: emails and comments on social media, like you know where
Speaker 1: you guys actually in this weekend, we're here. It's December. Wait,
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, it is December twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Do we have a newspaper? Can we take a proof
Speaker 1: of life photo? What everybody's like, what's that newspaper? That
Speaker 1: definitely means you pre recorded this show like eight years ago,
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. Yeah, I can hold up my phone.
Speaker 1: That's it. I can hold up my phone. See it
Speaker 1: says all right there, December twenty eighth, Saturday morning, a
Speaker 1: few minutes after six. We're really here, and I will
Speaker 1: really be here tomorrow as well. And here you just
Speaker 1: heard her sitting across the table from me, my better half,
Speaker 1: my design partner, and my best buddy in all the world.
Speaker 1: Tina is here. So is that me? Somebody asked yesterday
Speaker 1: somebody somebody We ran into somebody at Costco and they're like,
Speaker 1: what's why is the what's what the elephant sound on
Speaker 1: the show. It's just say Teama's favorite animal. That's all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all there is. You don't have to read into it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more than that. How you doing, I'm good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: your eyes aren't completely open? Well, I feel great. Okay.
Speaker 1: Good you and Sammy the beagle who is sitting next
Speaker 1: to you on the sofa, so his eyes aren't open
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, No, he's very content, that little one.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, let's dive in. H here's the number
Speaker 1: one more time eight three three two Ask Dean A
Speaker 1: three three the numeral to ask Dean if you want
Speaker 1: to call in, and we'll talk about what's going on
Speaker 1: with your home. But we're going to dive into trends
Speaker 1: and predictions for YEP twenty twenty five. It's right around
Speaker 1: the corner.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on this misty southern California morning.
Speaker 1: It's cool. I wouldn't say it's cold. Is it cold?
Speaker 1: What's the cutoff for cold? It all depends on where
Speaker 1: you're used to living, right, It's not cold. It's cool outside,
Speaker 1: very misty where we are. Like I came out, We've
Speaker 1: got an outdoor Christmas tree sitting in the backyard, and
Speaker 1: when I came out through the back doors this morning,
Speaker 1: you could see it glowing in the distance. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, that glow that you get when there's
Speaker 1: like fog and mist in the air, was very, very beautiful.
Speaker 1: Still is the case. I don't know. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: going to burn off later at some point, but I
Speaker 1: really like it. I like drippy, misty mornings. It's as
Speaker 1: close as we're getting to winter this year so far.
Speaker 1: So I'm down. I'm down. I'm glad you're here and
Speaker 1: we are talking about this next year ahead. Are you
Speaker 1: ready for that? That's all right, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be. I'm not taking you there too quickly.
Speaker 1: We're going to get there together, I promise. But I
Speaker 1: do want to talk about trends and predictions because it's fun,
Speaker 1: and also I want to issue some warnings to you
Speaker 1: along the way as you start to look around and
Speaker 1: you know, look at stuff on social media and Pinterest
Speaker 1: and articles that every designer and design influencer in the world.
Speaker 1: And I am drawing a distinction between those and I'll
Speaker 1: clarify that in a second, but there's just so many
Speaker 1: articles out there right now, so many sources of saying, hey,
Speaker 1: this is what's going to happen. I want to give
Speaker 1: you as rational and sane approach as possible and help
Speaker 1: you navigate through all of that. Also taking your calls.
Speaker 1: The phone lines are open, the number to reach me.
Speaker 1: You're going to be going to the phones in a
Speaker 1: bit eight three three two ask the A three three
Speaker 1: the numeral to ask Dean producer Keana standing by anything
Speaker 1: that's scott You scratching your head about your house, give
Speaker 1: me a call. We'll put our heads together and figure
Speaker 1: it out. And of course traffic is always light on
Speaker 1: Saturday mornings, so if you've ever been frustrated not being
Speaker 1: able to get through, it's good, good odds, better odds,
Speaker 1: I should say, all right. Home Trends and Predictions for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I've subtitled this topic for us this weekend,
Speaker 1: separating the brilliant from the bs. You know, as always
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great stuff happening in the world
Speaker 1: of home design. There really always is. There's always some
Speaker 1: really cool things happening. It's one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: love this field that I am in. But as always,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bogus advice out there on what's
Speaker 1: hot and what's not and so. And you know, for
Speaker 1: u A students, you may be sitting there saying, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dean and you're a designer, so why should we trust
Speaker 1: your list? Well, you don't have to, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you this. I'm here to help you, you know that.
Speaker 1: And I got nothing to sell you either, and so
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and give you as much you know,
Speaker 1: unvested commentary as possible as always. First of all, what's
Speaker 1: hot for you? Design advice that helped you tell your story?
Speaker 1: Your story? Okay. One of the things that is a
Speaker 1: frustration to me every year is to see designers just
Speaker 1: take off and say, well, here's our here's our advice.
Speaker 1: And what they do is they start telling you what
Speaker 1: you should be doing with your home because of the
Speaker 1: fashion trends that are out there. To that, I say, nah,
Speaker 1: nanna uh. The most important thing as a custom home designer,
Speaker 1: and that's all I do is custom homes. All right. Now, again,
Speaker 1: for those of you who aren't familiar with the program,
Speaker 1: maybe you're listening for the first time, let me make
Speaker 1: it really clear. That's not a conceit to say that,
Speaker 1: it's just something that I have been fortunate to be
Speaker 1: able to do a custom home and a luxury home.
Speaker 1: That's what most people think when they're like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: a custom home designer. He designs for the rich and famous.
Speaker 1: Well a little that is true. But the point is
Speaker 1: a custom home and luxury homes totally different categories. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're not even in the same category. I will say
Speaker 1: it this way. It doesn't matter what your home is
Speaker 1: made at. Well, let's use the tailoring metaphor, because I
Speaker 1: think it works really well. It doesn't matter what fabric
Speaker 1: your clothing is made from. All right, you might be
Speaker 1: wearing burlap this morning. I hope you're not, but you
Speaker 1: might might be. You might just be wearing one hundred
Speaker 1: percent cotton T shirt, right, or you could be wearing
Speaker 1: silk or you know, it doesn't matter how fancy the
Speaker 1: fabric is that you're wearing. The question of whether it's
Speaker 1: custom or not has to do with whether it's been
Speaker 1: fit to your body or not. That's tailoring, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily luxurious versus inexpensive. So a custom home is
Speaker 1: simply a home, be it ever so humble like our
Speaker 1: little cottage here, that has been you know, tailored fit
Speaker 1: to the story of its occupants. And that can be
Speaker 1: a condo, an apartment, it can be a mansion or
Speaker 1: anything in between. Okay, and Yeah, there are lots, especially
Speaker 1: these days, lots of mansionesque eight properties that are not
Speaker 1: custom in any way, shape or form. They're just speculatative,
Speaker 1: typical almost you know. We call them mic mansions because
Speaker 1: they're kind of mass produced, tracked, kind of big fancy houses.
Speaker 1: That's not what I want, That's not how I operate
Speaker 1: with our clients. And so the very first bit of
Speaker 1: a divine design advice for you from me for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five is keep it real, keep it authentic to you,
Speaker 1: because if you really are investing in your home, then
Speaker 1: your home needs to find a way to tell your story.
Speaker 1: And I don't care if your story is not on
Speaker 1: the front page of every design magazine for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: That is irrelevant. That means nothing. Your story is relevant
Speaker 1: to your life and that's what your home should be. Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's the very first bit of advice. And I'll
Speaker 1: give you one warning and this is gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: set you up for where for my little rant next.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what is not what is not
Speaker 1: hot for twenty twenty five influencers I hate that word,
Speaker 1: who are encouraging you to buy into this year's trends
Speaker 1: who did that already and are now telling you that
Speaker 1: that stuff is so yesterday. It drives me crazy when
Speaker 1: I hear that kind of stuff, treating the home design
Speaker 1: world as if it was the world of clothing fashion. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I've got nothing against the world of clothing fashion.
Speaker 1: And I understand that, you know, trends change whatever, Okay,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing, your home that you just spent
Speaker 1: I don't know, tens of thousands of dollars remodeling or
Speaker 1: you're planning on. Okay, that's not just like throwing away
Speaker 1: al blause. No, no, no. And so to think that
Speaker 1: somebody drives you this year towards do this, this is
Speaker 1: what's hot and trending, and then in about eighteen months
Speaker 1: they're gonna tell you, no, that's so, that's so twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. It really is. We just got to get
Speaker 1: away from that stuff all together, all right. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a step back from that. I've got no
Speaker 1: use for that. More on that.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp the House whisper here with you on this
Speaker 1: misty Saturday morning, the last Saturday of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It's about dang time. Now. It's been a year. It
Speaker 1: has been a year, especially the end of the year
Speaker 1: for a team and me, and we've been through some things,
Speaker 1: and it seems like we've had a lot of friends
Speaker 1: and family going through things as well. So you know what,
Speaker 1: Let's lift our heads up and look anticipate. Anticipate, anticipatingly tee,
Speaker 1: what how is? Don't look at me like that. Let's
Speaker 1: anticipate twenty twenty five. Together, we're gonna be going to
Speaker 1: the phones in just a bit. The number to reach
Speaker 1: me eight three three two. Ask dean eight three three
Speaker 1: the numeral two, ask Dean. All right, back to it.
Speaker 1: So right before the break, I said, one of the
Speaker 1: things that drives me craziest about the whole subject of
Speaker 1: trends and predictions this time of year are influencers who
Speaker 1: encouraged you to buy into this year's trend but are
Speaker 1: now telling you that it is so yesterday. You're not
Speaker 1: going to hear that from me, I promise. I want
Speaker 1: you to be aware of this. And it's not that
Speaker 1: you can't glean some interesting or maybe some inspiring ideas
Speaker 1: from trends and prediction lists that you might be reading
Speaker 1: or seeing online something like that. But just be aware
Speaker 1: that the same stuff gets said every year. I mean seriously,
Speaker 1: And there are filler words. And if you're reading an
Speaker 1: article that you find too many of these filler words
Speaker 1: in them, then just move away. You're not actually hearing
Speaker 1: anything substantive, I promise you. And that's one of the problems.
Speaker 1: I said, I was going to draw a distinction between
Speaker 1: designers and design influencers. I wish this wasn't the case,
Speaker 1: but there is a huge difference. Tina, back me up
Speaker 1: on this. There's a huge difference between designers and design
Speaker 1: influencers generally speaking, real life design. Okay, And if you're
Speaker 1: reading an article, or you're looking at some or you know,
Speaker 1: watching somebody's YouTube or whatever the case, maybe TikTok, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. If you're on Instagram and you're seeing somebody
Speaker 1: talking about twenty twenty five, find out if they are
Speaker 1: actually a home designer or if they're just a design influencer.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. Design influencers need to feather their nest
Speaker 1: with stuff that in a little while now there now
Speaker 1: they tell you if this is in and in a
Speaker 1: little while they're going to tell you that it's out
Speaker 1: because they need to flip over their inventory and keep new,
Speaker 1: fresh stuff coming your way. Designers don't work that way.
Speaker 1: Real designers with real clients, you know. Yeah, we take
Speaker 1: on new projects every year, and those projects will shift
Speaker 1: with trends, you know, the the the ebb and flow
Speaker 1: of the tides of cold design. Sure they do, but
Speaker 1: not for the same clients. Okay, And that's the That's
Speaker 1: the thing that get people all kind of get their
Speaker 1: underwear all up in a bunch. Is that that you know,
Speaker 1: you're spending tens of thousands of dollars maybe remodeling or
Speaker 1: a few thousand dollars redecorating your home, only to find
Speaker 1: out that you know, pretty soon it's going to be
Speaker 1: oh so yesterday. So design influencers are a diamond dozen.
Speaker 1: There are thousands of them out there in social media
Speaker 1: and online in various places. They are just there to
Speaker 1: rehash what they think is going to be something to
Speaker 1: you know, get your interest. Real designers who are posting
Speaker 1: information they work from a different perspective because we work
Speaker 1: in the real world and we know that what we're
Speaker 1: going to set up for a client has got to last.
Speaker 1: It has to last. Otherwise, Uh, you know, we're out
Speaker 1: of a job, honestly, or we're out of a reference
Speaker 1: at least. So look for these filler words when you're
Speaker 1: reading this kind of stuff. Words and phrases. I just
Speaker 1: I literally pulled up two or three this morning, and
Speaker 1: I found the same words and phrases in several of them. Ah.
Speaker 1: When when it says, oh, this year we're going to
Speaker 1: be big on incorporating personal touches. What yeah, here, grab
Speaker 1: your well, pull your MinC closer, give me some feedback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're everywhere. This phrase is everywhere in person, incorporating
Speaker 1: personal touches. Hello, it's your house. I would hope that
Speaker 1: that would always be the case. It's always the case
Speaker 1: incorporating personal touch. Oh, isn't it lovely? If your designer
Speaker 1: has given you permission to have something of your own
Speaker 1: in the room. That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard,
Speaker 1: incorporating personal touches. Your whole home should be a personal touch.
Speaker 1: All right? How about this, oh, very big this year
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Classic charm and timelessness. Wow, classic
Speaker 1: charm and timelessness. Yeah, this is the exact article that
Speaker 1: in eleven months. People are gonna be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so last year. Timelessness. The whole point is it's timeless. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Organic shapes and materials very big this year, Tina. Organic
Speaker 1: shapes and materials. What? All right, let's just think through this,
Speaker 1: let's break this do what What is an organic what's
Speaker 1: an inorganic shape? I guess something that highly geometric? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. All right.
Speaker 1: So they're saying triangles are out for you know, it's
Speaker 1: in very organic shapes and material When are organic shapes
Speaker 1: and materials not in exactly? They're organic as in like nature,
Speaker 1: everything you need, everything you need is in nature. Tina
Speaker 1: likes to say nature not in in twenty twenty five. Apparently,
Speaker 1: Oh no, no it isn't. Oh I'm sorry. Nature will
Speaker 1: be thrilled to find out that it is in. Let
Speaker 1: me guess. Are they saying like bring the outside in?
Speaker 1: Is that kind of No? No, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: legitimate thing that we're going to be talking about here.
Speaker 1: But that's not a trend. But that sounds like right, oh,
Speaker 1: it sounds so trending, which would be like, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, how about this very big in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Approaches that create a sense of comfort. Well, I hope
Speaker 1: that all your design not like twenty twenty four. That
Speaker 1: was the year that being uncomfortable was in. Yes, being
Speaker 1: oddly uncomfortable in your home. All right, one more, maybe
Speaker 1: a couple, a couple more, we got to go to
Speaker 1: a break. Uh. Bold patterns and color choices. Yeah, okay, great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: colors be bold. Uh and then uh, this is a
Speaker 1: word that's getting thrown around a lot, chicer, chic er,
Speaker 1: and it looks like cheeser. It's just bet Yeah, be
Speaker 1: more cheker showers, very big thing this year enlists cheeker showers.
Speaker 1: Cheeker So your shower isn't she How chic is your shower?
Speaker 1: Is it cheak enough? Do they do? They can be cheaper.
Speaker 1: They're just thrown out there for you to kind of
Speaker 1: get a sense of what they mean. They're thrown out
Speaker 1: there to shame you on your existing shower. That's terrible,
Speaker 1: you see, because your shower obviously needs to be chicer. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into some actual real things that
Speaker 1: are coming your way that you might want to embrace.
Speaker 1: We'll do that.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Welcome home, Thanks for joining us on this lovely cool misty.
Speaker 1: Where we are Saturday morning, last Saturday in I was
Speaker 1: gonna say last Saturday in December. That's true too, last
Speaker 1: Saturday in twenty twenty four, end of the year. Here
Speaker 1: we are. We're talking about design trends and predictions for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five specifically, though I also am warning you
Speaker 1: against too much of this kind of stuff. It'll rot
Speaker 1: your teeth, as it were, just because so much of
Speaker 1: it is just fluff and influencer kind of respeak along
Speaker 1: the way, trying to separate the bs from the brilliant stuff.
Speaker 1: And there is some brilliant stuff that I want to
Speaker 1: draw your attention to. Next right after the next break,
Speaker 1: we are going to the phones as well. Here is
Speaker 1: the number to reach me, and we've got room on
Speaker 1: the callboard for you. So if there's anything I'm talking
Speaker 1: design predictions, yes, but if there's anything that you've got
Speaker 1: scratching your head about your home, now is the time,
Speaker 1: anything at all you set the agenda design construction DIY
Speaker 1: eight three three two ask Dean eight three three The
Speaker 1: numeral two ask Dean eight three three two ask Dean
Speaker 1: producer Keana standing by, She'll tell you everything you need
Speaker 1: to know. Poppy into the queue and we'll put our
Speaker 1: heads together and we'll figure it out. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: get back to it. Uh what did I say? I
Speaker 1: was going to talk about? What did I promise? And
Speaker 1: I haven't been Okay? Some agay, Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: off the negative stuff. In other words, the stuff that
Speaker 1: I'm warning you about. Tell you about a real thing
Speaker 1: that I want you to be aware of if you're remodeling,
Speaker 1: especially making some changes and or you know, even down
Speaker 1: to the decor level. Let's talk about the word that.
Speaker 1: One of the hottest words for twenty twenty five is
Speaker 1: going to be the word bio philia. Biophilia. Now, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a disease. It's not I promise, I am.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I've been diagnosed with biophilia. Biophilia is an
Speaker 1: architectural term, a relatively new one. It means literally the
Speaker 1: love of nature. Okay, that's it, bio right, nature philia
Speaker 1: like brotherly love love, nature love, all right. Biophilic design
Speaker 1: is all about bringing the power of nature inside your home. Okay,
Speaker 1: it doesn't just you know, it could be anything from
Speaker 1: I guess technically from a decore side bringing more plants,
Speaker 1: living plants inside the actual interior space of a of
Speaker 1: a room or a home. But on the larger scale,
Speaker 1: and it really, its real impact goes beyond potted plants.
Speaker 1: Its real impact on a larger scale is the actual
Speaker 1: architectural design of walls and spaces, more glass, more transitional
Speaker 1: opening and vista between the outside and the inside. So
Speaker 1: let me be really clear about this. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: on ninety percent of the good trends lists that you
Speaker 1: might be perusing on Instagram or Pinterest. Okay, but I
Speaker 1: want you to understand it is not not a trend.
Speaker 1: It is trending, this is true. But biophilia and biophilic
Speaker 1: design is not a trend. And I say that because
Speaker 1: I don't want you to think in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form it is going away. For those of us
Speaker 1: in the architectural community, we know that biophilic design is
Speaker 1: not a trend. It is an evolution in architectural thinking. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have reached the point in our technological abilities to
Speaker 1: open up walls, to increase the surface area of glass
Speaker 1: and vista inside and outside a house. As a result,
Speaker 1: we are also learning in our modern culture, in this
Speaker 1: world that we live in, that most people from a
Speaker 1: behavioral science perspective are desperately missing out on enough nature. Now,
Speaker 1: I've talked at length about this before. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to touch on for a couple of minutes here the
Speaker 1: longstanding health facts about this. We are creatures of this planet,
Speaker 1: creatures who for some two million years primarily lived their
Speaker 1: lives outside. It's part of our evolutionary shaping of our bodies,
Speaker 1: of our mindscapes, of our emotional systems. We've talked in
Speaker 1: the past about the idea that, for instance, bird song
Speaker 1: in the morning is proven scientifically to be more relaxive
Speaker 1: and peace inducing than total silence. And the only thing
Speaker 1: that explains that, the only thing that explains if we
Speaker 1: talk about piecing quiet, the only thing that explains that
Speaker 1: bird's song is more relaxing to a human mind than silence,
Speaker 1: is two million years of taking a queue from birds
Speaker 1: nearby that everything is okay, because if there are predators
Speaker 1: or danger or threats nearby, the very first thing that
Speaker 1: shuts up is a bird, okay, not wanting to alert
Speaker 1: anything to its location. Okay, So to walk out, like
Speaker 1: if you go backpacking or camping or anything, to walk
Speaker 1: out into an open space and hear no bird song
Speaker 1: is actually a little bit of a tense It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you've heard people say it's quiet to quiet. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's exactly where that comes from. So to hear the
Speaker 1: birds chirping is something that lowers blood pressure, as the
Speaker 1: mind and so on. That's one tiny, tiny example of
Speaker 1: a whole universe of examples of the effect that nature has,
Speaker 1: the beneficial effect that nature has on the human psyche,
Speaker 1: the human body, the human emotional system. Therefore, in the
Speaker 1: world of architecture, we are catching up. We are catching
Speaker 1: up and embracing it as much as possible. It is
Speaker 1: not a trend, but it is trending, and it's a
Speaker 1: trending wave that if you're considering a remodel or changing
Speaker 1: the architectural bones of your house. Uh, it's a wave
Speaker 1: that you should grab onto and incorporate into. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be We're working on a book right now. Biophilic
Speaker 1: design is a major part of that design guide that
Speaker 1: we're working on. The reason I'm putting it in there
Speaker 1: is because it is not going out of fashion. An ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, Okay,
Speaker 1: because your embrace of more nature, even though you're inside
Speaker 1: your home is nothing but a positive for all of us.
Speaker 1: So there you go. First hot trend of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five that you're gonna see a lot of, you can
Speaker 1: hear a lot of. I just want you to understand
Speaker 1: it is trending, but it's more than a trend. It's
Speaker 1: something you can count on to last a lifetime. Biophilic design,
Speaker 1: whether it be just increasing green inside your space. You're
Speaker 1: an apartment and or a condo, and you don't have
Speaker 1: control over throwing open walls understood, whether it's that or
Speaker 1: whether you can really start opening up some critical vistas
Speaker 1: and bring what you're doing outside your house visually inside.
Speaker 1: It's all a good idea. All right, back to our
Speaker 1: list of trends and predictions for twenty twenty five when
Speaker 1: we return to this subject, but right after the news,
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