Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to the host of home on CAFI.
Speaker 1: It's our house, whisper Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dean, Good
Speaker 1: morning Amy. Okay, so let's talk about space. Everybody wants space.
Speaker 1: And I'm not only talking personal space. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: space in your house. Yes, all right, So you're talking
Speaker 1: about you know, revamping your space can cost a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but there are spaces where you can you know,
Speaker 1: get yourself a good little deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we're going to get a little unorthodox this
Speaker 2: weekend because you know, inflation has not left. Funds are
Speaker 2: tight for people. It's remodeling season. Some people are thinking, ugh, ugh,
Speaker 2: we need more space to live in this house. But
Speaker 2: I don't have a full on budget to just you know,
Speaker 2: add on or whatever. And so I get this question
Speaker 2: a lot. And so we're going to talk about two
Speaker 2: particular spaces this weekend that actually are sitting there waiting
Speaker 2: for that are the least expensive places to look in
Speaker 2: order to get more living space at your house. One
Speaker 2: is the garage and the other is going outside and
Speaker 2: getting taking as much outdoor space as possible. Now, by
Speaker 2: going outside, I don't mean doing a room edition, I
Speaker 2: mean living more outside and as a result not having
Speaker 2: to spend all of the money that we would spend
Speaker 2: on walls and floors and that kind of stuff in
Speaker 2: order to create more space for us to just, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, get by. But the garage to start is
Speaker 2: what we call a potential flex space, meaning that we
Speaker 2: don't have to abandon it as a garage in order
Speaker 2: for it to be other things at the same time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yourself, okay, well, I mean if you have you know,
Speaker 2: here's the thing with the garage. Let's talk about the
Speaker 2: lead developed garages out there. The least developed garages out
Speaker 2: there have a concrete floor, older homes that have studs,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, it's a garage, it's a room,
Speaker 2: but there's no drywall on the walls. The studs are
Speaker 2: all open exposed studs. The ceiling is open and exposed,
Speaker 2: but there is a floor, there are walls, there is
Speaker 2: a ceiling in there. So really we're just a few
Speaker 2: steps away. We're a little bit of insulation, maybe a
Speaker 2: little electrical work, and some dry wall away from creating
Speaker 2: a full fledged room out there. And those things up
Speaker 2: in the big scheme of thing are not all of
Speaker 2: that expensive. If we organize the garage. If we get
Speaker 2: our clutter under control, if we put laid down maybe
Speaker 2: a nicey POxy or a stained finished floor, and we
Speaker 2: get a little heat or cooling in that garage, then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we've got another four hundred or
Speaker 2: so square feet that can be used for things other
Speaker 2: than just parking the cars. And when we say flex space,
Speaker 2: I mean this room is ready to be used as
Speaker 2: soon as we pull the cars out for extra space.
Speaker 2: So let's say it's the weekend and it's time to
Speaker 2: entertain and there needs to be a place to watch
Speaker 2: the big game, or all of the kids need to
Speaker 2: hang out somewhere not in the house with the adults,
Speaker 2: just to give everybody some more elbow room. Well, it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that the garage can't be in the normal
Speaker 2: place where you park the cars. But if we pull
Speaker 2: the cars out, suddenly we've got all of that space.
Speaker 2: It's clean, it's neat, and it's ready to go. That's
Speaker 2: what we mean flex space. So I'm not talking about well, fine,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna park my cars outside for the rest
Speaker 2: of my life. No, you park the cars in the garage,
Speaker 2: but as soon as you pull them out for this
Speaker 2: special event, or to do crafting, or to because you
Speaker 2: need gym time. That's when the garage becomes a flex space.
Speaker 1: Okay, kind of like that I did, because spruce it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. And then it's also not it's
Speaker 1: a flex space, but it's also a versatile space because
Speaker 1: you can use it for different things. It doesn't it's
Speaker 1: not predefined exactly.
Speaker 2: Why not allow the garage to be that game room,
Speaker 2: the media room, a craft room, a gym, you know,
Speaker 2: all of these kinds of things, and also house the
Speaker 2: cars when it's time to park the cars at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 1: I love that. And then very quickly outdoors, you're saying,
Speaker 1: don't you're not putting a building out there, You're just
Speaker 1: putting making a living space out there. So are you
Speaker 1: talking about like couches and TVs and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about comfortable places for people to exist,
Speaker 2: for people to converse. If we put a little warmth
Speaker 2: out there, maybe it's a fire pit or something like that.
Speaker 2: If we've got comfortable furniture out there, a little bit
Speaker 2: of shade. A shade doesn't have to be a patio
Speaker 2: cover that costs thirty thousand dollars. It can be a
Speaker 2: twelve hundred dollars, really really nice, you know, umbrella, a
Speaker 2: little shade, a little cooling, a little warmth in the evening,
Speaker 2: some comfortable furniture. The floor can be something as simple
Speaker 2: as pea gravel raked across and nicely shaped. The point
Speaker 2: is outdoors is a place where you can get a
Speaker 2: lot of space. You can annex a lot of living
Speaker 2: space for your house without having to spend the kind
Speaker 2: of money that you would spend on a room edih.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Dean's going to have so many more tips
Speaker 1: and tricks than ideas for you this weekend. Where to
Speaker 1: get the most space for the least money. I love
Speaker 1: this topic six to eight am tomorrow and then nine
Speaker 1: to noon on Sunday right here on KFI. You can
Speaker 1: also follow Dean at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you soon.