WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.080 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Hey, 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.359 welcome home. I'm Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I design 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.640 custom homes, build a few custom homes, and on the weekends, 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:22.280 I am your guide to better understanding that place where 6 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.199 you live. So glad that you are with us on 7 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:29.559 the program today. I will try not to disappoint today 8 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.960 on the show. I don't know if you've noticed, but 9 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:36.960 you know spring is Spring's already here in southern California. 10 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.679 I don't know what the weather is looking like exactly 11 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.119 where you may be across this great nation of ours. 12 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.960 I know there are some looking at the weather this morning, 13 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.960 there are some temperatures in the zero, in the tens, 14 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.280 and definitely in the single digits in places I know 15 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.719 for you, you're like, uh, yeah, no spring yet, Dean, 16 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:01.640 not yet. It's all right, It's all right, it's coming, right, 17 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:05.640 it is coming. We're only technically, what are we eighteen 18 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:11.400 nineteen days away from spring something like that? Just no, no, no, 19 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.719 I'm sorry, ten ten or eleven days away from spring. 20 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:19.920 That's where we're at anyway. Today on the show, we 21 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.439 are going to continue a theme that we started with 22 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.200 our previous episode that would be yesterday's broadcast, or if 23 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.640 you were one of our many podcast listeners, our previous 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.560 episode on the podcast. And it's a theme about where 25 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.760 to get the most space for the least amount of money. 26 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:44.680 And this is specifically geared toward a certain demographic in 27 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.359 our community, of which I belong to right now just 28 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.120 as much as so many of the rest of you. 29 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:56.239 And that is this. You know, you're you need a 30 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.920 little more space. Inflation has not left, funds are tight, 31 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.040 the stock market, investment portfolio is You're like, what what 32 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:11.120 does that mean? It's not looking as good as it 33 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:16.800 has been in the past, and funds are tight, but 34 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:20.360 so is the house, and so we're looking for a 35 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.240 little bit more elbow room. So I took it upon 36 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.319 myself this week to say, well, you know, there are 37 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.080 two somewhat I mean, they're not bizarre, but they're just 38 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.960 not the typical places we go to in our thinking. 39 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.840 Two places to get more space for the least amount 40 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.919 of money. One was where we went yesterday, which was 41 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:44.680 the garage. The garage is for most homeowners another four 42 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.439 hundred feet of flexible space that is often neglected and 43 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.719 not utilized fully. And here's another space today that we're 44 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.759 going to spend even more time on, and that is 45 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:01.639 very simply outside. Outside. There is space, literally all of 46 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:05.960 the space, everything that isn't inside your own skin and 47 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.800 the few odds and ends that you have within reach 48 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:12.960 of you in your little cubicle that you live in. 49 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.680 Everything else in the universe is outside, and that's where 50 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:22.560 there is unquestionably the most space. Yes, even if you 51 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:27.159 live in a condo and have just a very small patio, 52 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.879 they are still space to be reclaimed. The question is 53 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.680 do we want to go out there? Is it set 54 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.680 up for us to go out there? And is in 55 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.919 a condition or a design condition where we can enjoy outside? 56 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.800 Because if you can enjoy outside, then instantly we've got 57 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:53.199 more space without adding on, without hiring a contractor without 58 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.479 having to do all the things that we normally think 59 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.000 of doing in terms of getting more space. So today 60 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:05.199 we're gonna be talking about utilizing outdoors wherever we can 61 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.759 find it in order to, you know, give ourselves a 62 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.639 little bit of more elbow room for living, especially when 63 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.240 budgets are tight and they're just you know, we want 64 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:19.240 it we'd love to, we'd love to expanding, but not 65 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:22.959 gonna happen this year. So let's get creative, all right, 66 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:25.000 And we're going to and we're gonna ask the tough 67 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:28.759 questions too. We're gonna start off with asking maybe the 68 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:33.439 toughest question of all, but I'm gonna set that to 69 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.240 the side for a moment so that I can introduce 70 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.879 you to our awesome team. Elmer is on the board 71 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:46.279 as always. Good morning, Elmer. Oh, hey, good morning. I 72 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.800 missed you last week. I gotta tell you, yeah, I 73 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.360 miss you to day. Producer Michelle Cube is with us 74 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.000 this morning. She is screening call. Oh she's already busy 75 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.600 screening calls, which is the cue for me to tell 76 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.199 you that. And of course we're going to be taking 77 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.519 your calls today as well. And the phone lines are 78 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.839 open right now. And of course there is no somebody 79 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:11.560 apologized yesterday for calling in on something that was off topic. 80 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.439 There is no off topic when it comes to your calls. 81 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.319 Whenever I take calls, anything you want to discuss that's 82 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:26.319 got you scratching your head about your home, indoors, outdoors, landscape, hardscape, construction, design, DIY, 83 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.480 whatever the case may be fire it at me. I'm 84 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.160 going to help you out with it. The number to 85 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.800 reach me. The phone lines are open now and the 86 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.160 legendary Michelle Cube is standing by to take your call 87 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:38.839 and tell you everything you need to know and pop 88 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.439 you into the queue. The number to reach me eight 89 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:46.000 three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two, 90 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.160 ask Dean give me a call. You can listen to 91 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.480 the show while you wait, and who knows, we can 92 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.519 put our heads together and figure out what's going on 93 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.439 with your place. Eileen Gonzalez at the news desk, Good morning, Eileen, 94 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.600 Good morning. How is this time change treating you? You 95 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.879 know what? I actually intentionally slept in a little bit 96 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.519 more today and I woke up thinking I had slept 97 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.519 in longer than I had nice. I'm like, hey, I 98 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.079 got two extra hours. No, no, no, I didn't, I 99 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.360 got one. Yeah. 100 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.480 I need an extra cup of coffee today or tea 101 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.160 because I I don't drink coffee. 102 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.199 Well, what's the tea of choice for this morning? It's 103 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:24.800 green tea. 104 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.199 I love tea. 105 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.519 There you go, there you go. I love green tea. 106 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.319 You know what? I don't do well with his macha? 107 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:40.519 Oh I like that? Well, sorry, kids to offend. I'm 108 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.959 just saying. I'm just saying, there's just something a little 109 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.920 I don't know what it is. It's a I don't know, 110 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:48.920 I don't know. I'm going to try and figure it 111 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.920 out and we'll talk about it later. All right. Across 112 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.439 the table from me, my better half, my design partner, 113 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.480 and my best friend in all the world, tea of 114 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:01.319 course is. 115 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.959 Well, excuse me, clear your throat without the mic on, 116 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:11.279 Oh my goodness, welcome home, Good to see you. 117 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.560 Good to see you. It's gonna say good to be seen. 118 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.199 It sounds like you need some macha. You need a 119 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.920 little macha. I like macha because it's kind of earthy. 120 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:23.600 It is earthy. I had something about the powder that's 121 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.959 I don't know, I don't know. Maybe that's a good 122 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.560 word for it. It's a little too. I liked it. 123 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.920 We were we were at five oh seven yesterday. We 124 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.399 were talking to Amber when five oh seven is our 125 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:38.480 favorite local coffee hangout, and Amber, one of the owners, 126 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.040 was saying, I said, what is this drink? 127 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.240 And she goes, well, it's basically dirt, and I go, 128 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:44.600 I can think I'll pass. 129 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:45.639 I don't really want to. 130 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.560 Drink you said, it's very healthy for you. It's earthy 131 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.480 and but like literally it is literally what. 132 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:52.839 Was the name of that. I don't remember. I have 133 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.879 to look it up. All right, we'll figure it out anyway. 134 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.920 I'm just drinking coffee. Coffee comes from the coffee bean 135 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:04.759 and a little water, and that's all. And it works 136 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.720 for me. All right, y'all. When we come back, I'm 137 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.879 going to start today by asking you the most important 138 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:16.800 and maybe the hardest question when it comes to outdoor living. 139 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.800 You know what that is? Well, you hang tight. 140 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.319 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 141 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:25.920 KFI AM six forty. 142 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:30.160 Thanks for joining us on the program today. Glad you 143 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.279 are with us. We are talking about where to get 144 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.879 the most space for the least money, and today on 145 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.240 the program we are focusing on outside and right before 146 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:44.879 the break, I teased you with saying that I was 147 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:48.799 going to start this whole process by asking you an 148 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:53.159 important question I think, maybe the most important question when 149 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.759 it comes to outdoors and you are you ready for it? 150 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.320 Have you figured it out? Yeah? I'm gonna guess maybe not. 151 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.080 Because this is something that specifically, as designers, Tina and 152 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.799 I run into all the time. With folks, and it's 153 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:14.639 gonna make sense when I ask it, and you're asking 154 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.159 yourself the question, when is he going to get around asking? 155 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.080 Is he gonna just keep teasing us about it? No, 156 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:22.679 I'll do it in a minute or two. No, No, 157 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.559 I'm gonna do it right now here. 158 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:25.039 It is. 159 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.279 What will it take to get you outside? 160 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.080 Oh? 161 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:40.360 Think about that. We live in a very comfy, controlled world. 162 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.000 I mean, I know people who who swear up and down. Now, 163 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.960 this is a younger set of people, and I'm not 164 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.799 trying to stereotype the younger generation at all, but I'm 165 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.039 just saying I know people who literally have looked at 166 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.840 me with all honesty and sincerity in their face and say, 167 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:02.440 I'm not really an outside person. And I think, Wow, 168 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.879 by saying that, you realize, of course that you are. 169 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.279 And I know it doesn't seem this way to you, 170 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:17.960 but you are literally missing almost everything, almost everything. Now, 171 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.000 I just want you to consider the fact that it 172 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:23.120 doesn't matter whether you live in a cottage or a castle. 173 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.440 When I say this, because whether or not you've got 174 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:30.559 I don't know, two hundred square feet around you inside 175 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:34.799 your little space, or two thousand square feet in the 176 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.720 room that you happen to be standing in right now, 177 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.320 and my voice is echoing down through the chambers of 178 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.120 your estate. The fact of the matter is it ain't 179 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:51.440 that big compared to literally everything else in the universe. 180 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:59.600 Everything mostly is outside. And so the question becomes, as 181 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:03.759 we can continue to live our ever increasingly small lives, 182 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:06.559 and it doesn't seem that way because you know, those 183 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.000 little black screens that people are staring into right now 184 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.559 seem like they take you to all sorts of other 185 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:17.440 places and other things, But in reality, where you actually 186 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:22.440 are located, it's a pretty small, confined area. And so 187 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.159 I asked the question, what will it take to get 188 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:31.720 you outside? The amount of money that people spend to 189 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:47.679 stay insulated comfortable in controlled environments is egregious, egregious amounts 190 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.039 of money to stay that way. In fact, one of 191 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.559 the most common conversations about outside that I have with 192 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.559 a lot of clients are started by them saying, yeah, 193 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:00.799 we want to spend more time outs. We're thinking about 194 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.840 a California room, and I'm thinking, okay, well, and by 195 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.399 the way, I have nothing against a California room. And 196 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.480 if you don't know what a California room is, it's 197 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:14.080 basically a room addition onto your house with a lot 198 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.639 of glass in it. Okay, so a lot of glass, 199 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:20.519 and maybe some of those walls can open up, but 200 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.879 essentially it's a room with a full roof and heating 201 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.000 and air conditioning and a lot of it's a room 202 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.919 so in so many ways, and please again understand me, 203 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.639 I've got nothing against California rooms. They're beautiful if you 204 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.919 can afford them and have them and so on, but 205 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.120 they are not outside. The whole point of a California 206 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.879 room is that it's a hybrid of like almost outside. 207 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.600 We just spent seventy five thousand dollars to get almost outside, 208 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.440 a little get closered outside. I get it, I get it. 209 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.240 So one of the things you know today, we're not 210 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:10.639 talking to people who have the wherewithal to build a 211 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:16.960 California room. I'm talking to you and me. And you know, 212 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:21.200 budgets are tight, but the house is feeling a little tight. 213 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.639 And so one of those ways where we can loosen 214 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.000 things up and get a little bit more elbow space 215 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.440 is getting outside. But the biggest hurdle to doing that, 216 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.080 I would say, the only hurdle to doing that realistically 217 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.519 is somewhere up inside your cranium and answering this question, 218 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:47.240 what will it take to get you outside? Now? I 219 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.320 can see some of the answers formulating, well, I'm going 220 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.120 to have to be comfortable. Well, I agree with you 221 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.360 one hundred percent. To get you outside, we need to 222 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:03.039 be comfortable. I mean, there's no point in finding more 223 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.639 elbow space if if we're drowning in sweat, or we're 224 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.720 freezing cold, or we're wet, or we're just not, you know, 225 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.000 enjoying it. The point is enjoying the outside. And so 226 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:19.919 that's where we have to start breaking things down and 227 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:25.320 instead of jumping to all of the luxuries that get 228 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.720 pushed at you in all of the design magazines and 229 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.840 websites and everywhere you turn, like, oh, well, you know, 230 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.679 here are people who enjoy being outside because they've just 231 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:41.639 bought a sixty thousand dollars patio furniture set. Okay, well 232 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.919 that's not in the budget either, Dean, I get you. 233 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.039 I get you. So again, we're going to find the 234 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.919 key to this today by continuing to return to this 235 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.480 question what will it take to get us outside? It's 236 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.480 not just a big open ended question, No, I want 237 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.759 to answer it specifically, so that we can find, in 238 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:06.840 a minimalist but effective and efficient way, the ways to 239 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.279 get us from inside the house to outside the house 240 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:15.399 for as little cash out of pocket as possible. If 241 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.799 that's of interest to you, then don't go anywhere, because 242 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.320 that's where we're headed. We're gonna do it right after. 243 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.720 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 244 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.039 KFI AM six. 245 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.720 Forty Dean Sharp the House whisper with you like I 246 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.559 am live every Saturday morning from six to eight and 247 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:42.759 Sundays from nine to noon. Are you running ahead or 248 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.519 behind today because of daylight savings? Probably not. You know, 249 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.960 we don't really have that conversation much anymore now that 250 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.720 phones and electronic clocks just automatically change. Right. There was 251 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:57.440 that time. I remember when we used to have to 252 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:05.639 reset the sundial in the mornings. It is weird. It 253 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:08.799 is weird to feel older, right, And You're like, you 254 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:10.879 had to go. I mean, we still have some regular 255 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.320 clocks in the house, but not the ones that we 256 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.039 depend on to wake us up and to get us moving, right. 257 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:19.200 So Tina and I were like, where what clocks have 258 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.159 to be reset today? Oh? Just go room to room 259 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.960 and look around see if there's a clock in there, 260 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:29.399 that's a stupid clock. Anyway, I hope you are enjoying 261 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.600 your Sunday morning as much as we are, and we are. 262 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.960 We're talking about finding space without paying big bucks to 263 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:43.000 get it, and today specifically outdoors outdoors, And I've already 264 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.000 sprung the most important question on you. Yes, you can 265 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.360 count on Dean to ask a somewhat philosophical question, or 266 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.519 at least it sounds philosophical to start off the whole 267 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:56.600 design process. And you know why, by the way, it's 268 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:00.919 not just because that's just the way I rune. It isn't. 269 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.880 It isn't just that. Okay, not at least from my perspective, 270 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.079 it isn't. It's because you know, the reason we ask 271 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.640 the big questions here on Home, a show that's about home, 272 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.960 is that home is the place where we live our lives. 273 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.519 And you know that has everything to do with I 274 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:24.079 happen to be a designer who believes that good custom 275 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:28.640 home design has everything to do with matching that space 276 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:32.440 to the way people actually live, and that means crawling 277 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.880 inside people's heads from time to time and figuring out 278 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.720 what's important to you. Now, I am not here today 279 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.480 to twist anybody's arm and convince you if you are 280 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:48.519 an inside dweller, oh, it's a lovely music for us. 281 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.759 I'm not here to convince you that you've got to 282 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.920 get outside. All I'm sitting here is saying is that 283 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:02.480 outside is where most everything is, and there are inexpensive 284 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.920 ways of getting out there. And the key to finding 285 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.359 those ways and which ones work for you is asking, 286 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.599 what sounds like this big philosophical question, what will it 287 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.920 take to get you outside? Okay, but there's really a 288 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:23.319 deep practical element to it. In fact, I would say 289 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:29.799 the entire root of it is truly practical. I love 290 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:34.200 that Eileen covered this story at the La Arboretum. Right, 291 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:38.799 the La Arboretum is not a place that you would think, 292 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:40.960 you know, there's a certain there's a certain kind of 293 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:46.680 person who goes to the arboretum. Sweetheart, perhaps this weekend 294 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:52.519 we will visit the Arboretum. Right, but but today, what's 295 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.359 happening at the arboretum barks and bruise. How do you 296 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.359 get more people to the arboretum? How do you get 297 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:01.079 a different crowd to the La? R read them, well, 298 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.839 bring your dog in. There's beer, and you know what 299 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.920 that's smart. It's just smart thinking, all right. You know, hey, 300 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:18.359 dogs and beer at the tree Place today. That's the 301 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.640 kind of thinking that I would like to apply to 302 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:25.200 outdoors for you. Okay, Now, I don't want you roughing it, 303 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:31.200 I really don't. But the difference between being comfortable and 304 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:39.079 spending gobs of money on luxuries that go way beyond 305 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:44.599 comfortable and nice, that's a massive, massive, massive difference, and 306 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:48.680 it starts in levels of practicality that quite honestly, you 307 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.640 would think as well. He designs customer state homes, he 308 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.440 doesn't think like that. Oh yeah, I do, because I 309 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:57.240 live in a very small home and we have a 310 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.799 very simple outdoors that we love very much. I also 311 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:03.799 spent a good deal of my life and still do, 312 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:09.680 enjoying what other people might call camping. I don't really camp. 313 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:14.000 I don't really camp. I backpack and mountaineer. And so 314 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:17.720 for me, the idea of getting outside and spending a 315 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:24.559 night out in the outdoors is throwing everything you need 316 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:28.160 on your back and getting miles and miles and miles 317 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.559 away from the nearest automobile or even any road. And 318 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.599 when you grow up in that mindset, you really think 319 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.559 about what do I need to bring with me to 320 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:43.039 be comfortable. And it's not a lot because it's got 321 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.279 to fit on your back, right, So that's the mindset. 322 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:49.799 I'm just I'm only saying this to reassure you that 323 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:53.000 where I want to go with all of these things 324 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.799 and you today is the simplest, most basic, and yet 325 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:02.559 completely comfortable way. So let's start with down. Sitting down 326 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:12.319 outside comes speaks to a fundamental truth about furniture. Okay, 327 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:15.400 and this is a truth that quite often we have 328 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.400 to Well, if you've ever listened to any one of 329 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.839 my furniture shows about the inside of a house, you 330 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:27.000 will hear me say again and again and again that 331 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.839 the ergonomics and the design of a piece of furniture 332 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:35.559 is so critical to the furniture experience. Unless you're just again, 333 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:38.480 you've just got gazillions of dollars and you're going to 334 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:40.519 furnish a room that you're never gonna sit in, then 335 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.440 who cares? Just whatever it's supposed to look like to you, Fine, 336 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.039 they're not going to sit in it anyway. But so 337 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:49.559 many people get led astray when they end up going 338 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.359 furniture shopping because they're thinking, oh, we're looking for the thickest, 339 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:59.359 cushiest cushions. We're looking for the pillowiest pillows, right, because 340 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:04.400 soft equals comfortable, until, of course, you've sat in a 341 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.680 piece of furniture that has a really spongy, super soft 342 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:10.559 seat and a really spongy back for more than maybe 343 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:14.559 ten minutes, and you realize, wow, this thing is I 344 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.160 just find myself kind of shifting around because it's sort 345 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:21.839 of swallowing me up and it's actually not comfortable. It's 346 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:26.119 not the right depth of seat cushion for me. My 347 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:28.599 knees are sticking out too far or they're not sticking 348 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.680 out far enough. The back is too low, the back 349 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:34.960 is too high, the angle is weird, and so yeah, 350 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:39.119 when we're buying furniture, as a general rule, we always 351 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:44.039 always want to sit in that furniture for an extended 352 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:47.640 period of time in order to verify and as a 353 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.720 general rule, and this is really where it gets critical. 354 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.960 As a general rule, the firmer a piece of furniture, 355 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.640 the longer you will be able to sit in it comfortably. 356 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.039 I kid you not. I want you to think about 357 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.680 a car seat, and not a car seat for a child, 358 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.839 but a seat in an automobile. Okay, These are not 359 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:17.400 renowned for being super soft and cushy. Okay, they are 360 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.279 ergonomically well designed with just enough cushion in just the 361 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:27.920 right places, right right exactly. Okay, not big, overblown, puffy seats, 362 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.920 but well designed seats. And so how does this apply 363 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:36.880 to outdoors? It applies to outdoors and getting you outside 364 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.440 because one of the things I know that we need 365 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.640 to get you outside is to promise you a comfortable 366 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:49.359 seat for the show. Okay, a comfortable seat can be 367 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:55.119 a piece of furniture that has zero cushions on it, whatsoever, 368 00:23:55.720 --> 00:24:00.000 no cushions, because what are cushions? Maintenance issues? What are cushions? 369 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:03.359 They are luxuries that you not only have to spend 370 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:06.319 more money for, but you also have to spend more 371 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.480 time taking care of because no, we should cover them up. 372 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:11.759 Oh it's going to be raining this week. Bring all 373 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:14.039 the cushions in, put them in the garage, Stack them 374 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:15.960 in the garage. Oh now we can bring them all out. 375 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.119 Oh they just got dirty because a bird just did 376 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.559 its thing, and so on and so forth. Again, nothing 377 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:27.440 against cushioned patio furniture, but the basic, the basic, the 378 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:33.440 bare minimum to get you comfortably outside, what you could 379 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:39.319 be looking for is something that is simply the right 380 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:44.640 chair and the right chare set in the right configuration 381 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:50.079 with the right ergonomics. Could be a chair, and probably 382 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:54.039 is a chair that has zero cushion whatsoever. Just a 383 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.720 chair that can sit out there in the rain, in 384 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.759 the sleet, in the snow, in the heat, and be 385 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.839 ready for you at a moment's notice, and that you 386 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:06.359 did not break the bank to buy. Are those chairs 387 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:07.440 out there? Yes they are. 388 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.680 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 389 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.759 KFI AM six forty. 390 00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:19.720 Welcome home. We're going to be going to the phones 391 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:23.079 right after the next news break, so just know that 392 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.559 the number to reach me eight three to three to 393 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:29.960 ask Dean. I take calls randomly, and we've got quite 394 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.839 a few calls on the board. But there's still room 395 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:34.519 for you if you're thinking about it. Eight three three 396 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:41.519 two ask Dean. Okay, we're breaking down the essentials of 397 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:45.359 spending the least amount of money to get you the 398 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.480 most amount of space, and that means not getting into 399 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.119 a major remodel or room edition or anything like that, 400 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.920 but taking advantage of the spaces that you've got. Yesterday 401 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:59.759