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 --> 00:00:10.439 house Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Such a 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.599 privilege and a pleasure to spend time with you on 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.879 a Sunday morning talking about that most important of spaces 5 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.760 in your life, your home, and helping you make your 6 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.839 ordinary house a more extraordinary home. By the way, if 7 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:27.679 your home is in need of some personal house Whisper attention. 8 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.559 By personal I mean not here on the air, but 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.840 with me and the tea just standing there right next 10 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.600 to you, staring at the problem, whatever that may be, 11 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:42.200 and helping you change the game for your home, you 12 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.600 can book an in home design consult with us. Just 13 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:51.039 go to house Whisperer dot Design, house Whisper dot Design. 14 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.439 All Right, it is the top of the center hour, 15 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.640 the second hour, which means it is time to go 16 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.880 to the phones and find out what's going on with 17 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.400 you and your home. Okay, Bruce, I got about half 18 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.040 of your question. Uh, we were having a little trouble 19 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.519 with the callboard. Uh, you're thinking about putting in a 20 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.599 whole house fan or an attic fan. 21 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:15.920 Run't buy me one more time, addict fan. 22 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.640 Okay, at Attic Fan but I have about two dozen 23 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.519 can lights and I'm concerned about sucking cool air out 24 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:24.040 of the house. 25 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:28.640 Gotcha, gotcha? Okay, So what kind of insulation is on 26 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:32.840 the floor of the attic right now? That's bats of 27 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:36.719 insulation and your can lights are sticking through, and are 28 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.239 the insulate Is the insulation making contact with the can 29 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:42.319 lights or are they just pulled back away from it? 30 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:47.159 Some yes, some no? 31 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.840 Give me all right. So it's a you know, it's 32 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.400 it's a legitimate concern. H It's not. 33 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.079 It's not as severe as you might think, because the 34 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.040 idea of an attic fan is that you know, we're 35 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.359 blowing the hot air out of the attic and we're 36 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.079 not actually, you know, we don't want to be drawing 37 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.800 on that internal house air. That's different than a whole 38 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.080 house fan. But the attic fan is just in and 39 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.319 of itself. But the thing that you can do, and 40 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.599 it's a it's a relatively simple and inexpensive way to 41 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:23.840 deal with this, is you can buy housings these covers, basically, 42 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:30.719 these little heatproof insulation contact covers, and they're designed for 43 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:35.560 recess can lights who that aren't ICEE rated I see, 44 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.439 meaning insulation contact rated. Okay, Now it doesn't really matter 45 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:41.800 to me whether yours are rated that way or not. 46 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:47.080 Your concern is air infiltration through the can into the 47 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:50.120 attic and then losing cool or warm air, you know, 48 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.520 as you use your attic fan. So if you want 49 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.719 to guarantee that that does not happen, you can simply 50 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.879 for the number of attic based recess can that you've got. 51 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.800 You you can go online. You can find these on Amazon. 52 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:05.960 You can even find them at the big box stores, 53 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:10.800 but they in the electrical section. They are these little 54 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:16.159 boxes essentially, and they go over the can light and 55 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.759 they sit on the you the top level of the drywall. 56 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:22.400 And if you want to guarantee that you have no 57 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.719 air infiltration, you can even put a little line of 58 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.800 silicone around the bottom and quick just stick it down there. 59 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.120 And now what we've got is we have sealed your 60 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:39.080 ic housing, your your recess can housing in a insulation 61 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.919 contact matter to the top of the drywall, and there 62 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.800 is no more air infiltration between the two. Now, there 63 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.000 are different ways of doing it as well. Sometimes you 64 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.919 can actually just calk around the can lights, but a 65 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.400 lot of can lights, especially the older ones, are quote 66 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:58.039 unquote leaky as far as air infiltration goes, So better 67 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.759 to put the box over the top and then you're 68 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.439 good to go on anything you want to do in 69 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:04.879 you're attic. 70 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:07.319 Sounds good. 71 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.639 I'll look into it, all right, Bruce, Thank you for 72 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.520 your call, buddy, appreciate that. Sorry that we had issues. 73 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.319 Let's see if we can actually start up with Jim. Jim, 74 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:17.879 are you there? 75 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.199 Yes, I'm here. How are you doing? Deed? 76 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.480 I am good, Sorry, we had some phone issues. Here 77 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:27.920 are you and I we're going to get started with 78 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.720 your question. Then we're going to have to go to break, 79 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.480 but let's get started with it anyway. 80 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.319 Okay, Well, my question is I do a lot of 81 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.240 fixing up furniture, building furniture, stuff like that, but my 82 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:45.000 style is more mid century modern. But my house was 83 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.199 built in nineteen eighty nine, so it's got the plant 84 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:53.920 ledges all that. How how do I mesh these two together? 85 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.360 And you know it's an eclectic but how do I 86 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.879 mesh these two together to make it look cohesive? 87 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.519 Right? Right? Okay? You know what? 88 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.879 That is such a good question and I have such 89 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.720 a good answer for you, but we're going to let 90 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:14.759 everybody dangle on the end. 91 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.439 Of that question. Let me pop you on hold. 92 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.399 We're going to go to traffic, and then when we 93 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.680 come back, we're going to answer Jim's questions about how 94 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.920 do you mesh two different styles together inside a house, 95 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.360 especially since he's living in a house that is not 96 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:37.360 distinctly his preferred style. Great question, Jim, You hang tight, buddy. 97 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.800 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 98 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:43.399 KFI AM six forty. 99 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:49.040 We are talking about finding your style today, and I'm 100 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:52.399 taking calls right now, which means that the topics may 101 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.519 be on style or may not be, because you set 102 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.800 the agenda when it comes to calls. But Jim called 103 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:02.519 in and he's trying to figure out how his style 104 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.839 of preference, which is a little bit more mid century modern, 105 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.600 could possibly work, and how he's going to mesh that 106 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.079 with the fact that he lives in a nineteen eighties 107 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:20.439 southern California home complete with plant shelves and all sorts 108 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.519 of that bull nosed dry wall and heavy orange peel 109 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.560 on the walls and all sorts of fun stuff. Am 110 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.279 I hitting it right there? 111 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:30.600 Jim? 112 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.279 That is absolutely correct. 113 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.480 Okay, all right, So it's a big question, and there 114 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.519 are different ways of approaching this answer, I want to 115 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.759 do it kind of in phases. First of all, First 116 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:54.800 of all, we should not over estimate the power of 117 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.959 a kind of how do I want to put it, 118 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.399 I want to put it nicely. We should know overestimate 119 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.519 the power of the effect of attract home interior. Okay, 120 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.839 I know it has its own vibe for sure, but 121 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.000 usually if we want to, if we want to make 122 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:18.879 the least amount of moves, anybody living inside attract home 123 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.120 like a nineteen eighties tract home with all its little distinctives, 124 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.279 anybody living inside that home that has a strong sense of. 125 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:27.079 Their own style. 126 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:31.040 When it comes to you selecting furniture and rugs and 127 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:37.920 artwork and all of that, you will overpower the shell 128 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:42.240 that you're living in, and you can transform that and 129 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.240 get that vibe going without any big changes whatsoever. Okay, 130 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:51.079 on a general you know, generally speaking, Okay, now, there 131 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:55.560 may be some stark reminders of your homes, you know, 132 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.879 nineteenies construction pass. But I've seen it again and again 133 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.040 and again, and we have walked into homes and suggested 134 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.560 nothing but interior decor changes and sometimes help out with 135 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.079 a little bit of paint. But the fact of the 136 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.959 matter is that anybody who's got a strong style presence 137 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:19.639 in any home will in fact make that evident and 138 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.519 will not be out done by the house itself, especially 139 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.800 a tracked house. Okay, if you were trying to do 140 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.199 this in an eighteen nineties Victorian home, that might be challenge, 141 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.879 a bigger challenge, right or or craftsman home, it would 142 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.399 be a bigger challenge. A home that knows who it is, 143 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.960 has an architectural pedigree. These are homes that have to 144 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.159 be massaged in a different way if we're going to 145 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.120 change the style. But the fact of the matter is 146 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.879 the interior of a nineteen eighties tracked home is not 147 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.559 competing with you as much as you think if you 148 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.639 get creative with it. So that's Steed step one, which 149 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.960 I hope is an encouragement. The second thing, though, would 150 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:05.080 be to be making minimalist changes to the house, and 151 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.559 that would be in terms of not remodeling whole rooms 152 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.639 or anything like that, but maybe losing the heavy orange 153 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.919 peel texture on the drywall, maybe going for a smooth 154 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:21.000 finished drywall. Maybe while we're doing that, pulling off those 155 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:25.240 bull nosed corners, those rounded corners and replacing them those 156 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:31.080 outside corners with squared off edge metal corners so that 157 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.039 we get more of that geometric, tight, smooth finish. 158 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:36.879 You may or may. 159 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:40.879 Not want to fill in the plant shelf. Okay, And 160 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:42.960 by the way, if you don't understand what we're talking 161 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.720 about the plant shelf, if you've never been in a 162 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:48.559 nineteen eighties one, quite often they have vaulted ceilings, and 163 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.080 I'll tell you what they're actually for there, the builders 164 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.639 creative way of running soffets around so that they can 165 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.399 run air conditioning ducks and all sorts of funky stuff. 166 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.720 And all of a sudden, right up there, just a 167 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:04.240 few feet above you, there's a shelf, which most of 168 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.320 us have called the plant shelf because we're like, I mean, 169 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.480 nobody has actually ever called it anything in specific, but 170 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:12.399 I think we all kind of shrug our shoulders and 171 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:13.759 what are we going to put up there? 172 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.480 I guess plants. I don't know. 173 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.840 They're too high, they're too high up to water to 174 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:22.919 take care of, so we don't do anything up there. 175 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.240 So the point is this, you want to get creative. 176 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.440 It's a nice it's a nice flat shelf. If you've 177 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:32.399 got a some artwork that could go up above it 178 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.399 in the space above it. Then that flat shelf makes 179 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.799 a wonderful place to put some directional lighting up against 180 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.759 the wall, okay, and so we can transport. So you 181 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.360 see what I'm saying that the presence of a plant 182 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:51.279 shelf in an eighties home, it's not that hard to 183 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:55.200 redefine it. And the idea that a wall would ascend 184 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:58.240 upwards in a mid century modern house and then have 185 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.679 a niche in it, or take a jaw, get ninety 186 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.120 degrees back and then continue up. That's not unheard of 187 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.279 in a mid century modern motif, even if the architecture 188 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.879 itself was built that way from day one. So the 189 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:16.679 fact is, if it doesn't absolutely go against a mid 190 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.879 century style, then work with it to think, okay, well, 191 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.159 maybe that's a preason. Maybe that shelf becomes the presentation 192 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:27.919 of a light bar that shines up against the wall 193 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.159 and will highlight. 194 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.799 Some artwork or whatever higher up on the wall. 195 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.080 And now we don't have to worry about the dust, 196 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.000 and we don't have to worry about watering plants that 197 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.519 we can't reach, and it actually becomes a feature that 198 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.279 lifts your head up in the room. So that would 199 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.879 be like level one transformation, which is smoothing out the 200 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:49.240 dry wall, squaring off the corners, and yeah, that costs 201 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.480 some money, but it doesn't. It's not a major remodel, right, 202 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:57.000 We're just reworking some surfaces in the room and better 203 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.759 at tuning it to receive your decor and your furniture, 204 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.519 and then we would kind of proceed on from there. Now, 205 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:10.600 if you wanted to really really just say hey, you know, 206 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.840 I'm ready to gut this place and to go full bore, 207 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.799 then here is the most important thing I can tell you, Jim, 208 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.799 and the thing that I want to tell everybody who's listening. 209 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.799 You don't have to tear down your Spanish Mediterranean esque 210 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:31.960 home in order to have a different interior. We learn 211 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:38.039 this lesson from the Europeans. Okay, I have traveled extensively 212 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.440 through Europe looking at architecture, interior and exterior, and of 213 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:46.879 all the people in the world who are leading the 214 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:54.759 charge of contemporary and modern decor inside a home, smooth, organic, 215 00:12:55.240 --> 00:13:01.279 clean line surfaces, you know, minimalist detail, all sorts of 216 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:07.120 just really beautiful artistic approaches. It is the Europeans who 217 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.720 are doing this. And I here's my theory. On it, 218 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.919 and people are free to disagree with me. But the 219 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.279 sense that I get is that if you grow up 220 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.240 in a town that is literally eight hundred years old, 221 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.080 and all the buildings and the streets are cobblestoned and 222 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:27.120 the stone and all of these facades everywhere you turn, 223 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:27.840 it's all. 224 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.960 Old world, old world, old world. 225 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.399 You get you but you're doing this in the twenty 226 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.960 first century, right. You get a little tired of it eventually, 227 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:40.559 and on some level you respect it and appreciate it, 228 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.320 and in a lot of ways, you can't do anything 229 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.559 about it because it very likely your European city that 230 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.679 you live in is like, no, no, no, no, You're 231 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.600 not touching that eight hundred year old stone facade on 232 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.320 your building that you just bought your apartment or your 233 00:13:54.320 --> 00:14:00.559 flat on. But walk inside the door, and that eight 234 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:06.000 hundred year old building turns into an ultra modern, contemporary, 235 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:11.480 very sleek interior experience. And so that happens so often, 236 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.600 so often in European homes these days, and I think 237 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.320 it's because they already feel rooted in. They want to 238 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:19.320 move into the future. 239 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:19.679 Now. 240 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:23.759 Out Here in California, especially in southern California, we have 241 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.559 a tendency. I find most people have a tendency to 242 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.320 want kind of classic motifs because we want to feel 243 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.039 rooted in the past. Everything out here is new and young, 244 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:39.840 and you know, we don't feel we kind of feel rootless. Okay, 245 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:47.240 so we embrace historical design, whereas the Europeans are like, enough, 246 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.759 let's move on and so. But the point is this, 247 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:55.600 very simply, the point is that there's nothing wrong with 248 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:59.039 the exterior of a home telling one story and the 249 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:04.600 interior having a completely different vibe, because it is very, 250 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.759 very simply the fact that you can't see them both 251 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.559 at the same time. Right Once you're inside the house, 252 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.480 you're inside that environment, and when you're outside, you're outside. 253 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.600 And so the idea of historical preservation on the outside 254 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:21.360 of a house, just keep it, keep it, roll with it, 255 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:25.360 make it work. But feel free once you step in 256 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:31.360 the front door to change whatever, however and however much 257 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:34.799 you want, if you want to be embraced, if you 258 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.759 want to be embraced in a mid century interior that 259 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:42.200 just happens to exist in a you know, Spanish med 260 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:47.159 esque nineteen eighty shell, you know what, nothing wrong with that, whatsoever? 261 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.759 What would be weird is to start putting mid century 262 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.000 features on the outside of the house or trying to 263 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:55.600 share the two on the inside. But if you want 264 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:57.639 to go one way or the other, or one on 265 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:59.679 one side and one on the other, no. 266 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:05.320 Jim, Well, thank you. That answered a lot of my questions. 267 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:06.679 Gave me a lot of stuff think about. 268 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:08.679 All right, buddy, good luck with that. 269 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:11.360 All right, thank you? 270 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:13.120 All right. 271 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:15.799 You see, see, this is why we take calls, because 272 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:19.320 we learned some good stuff along the way. We're gonna 273 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:20.200 take more calls. 274 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.600 Right after you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on 275 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.480 demand from KFI Am sixty. 276 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:31.559 Dean Sharp, the house whisper, that's me, Thanks for joining 277 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.399 us on the program today on this beautiful spring morning. 278 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:40.399 Sunday, May eighteenth? Is that the date? Is that? Do 279 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.960 I get that right? Look at me? Look at me? 280 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.919 I got the date right. I always know what date 281 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.320 it is, by the way, but I rarely know the date. 282 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.559 It's just a fact of life around here. Tina is 283 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.039 always reminding me of what date it is. She's like, 284 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.759 what do you want to do on the seventeenth? I'm like, 285 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.799 I don't know. Is this a trick question? Is the 286 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.879 same seventeenth already passed us. I have no idea what 287 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:05.799 the number is, and then you show me that. Okay, 288 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.440 there it is. Okay, all right, we are taking calls. 289 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.039 We're in the middle hour of our fine program here. Also, 290 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.400 we are talking today about finding your style and handing 291 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.400 you as much information as I can, as much help 292 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.960 as I can for you to start really embracing the 293 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.799 idea of finding your own style for your home, because 294 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.480 that's we're all about here. We're all about turning your 295 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.319 ordinary house into an extraordinary home. And how does that 296 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.680 happen when it becomes more you. That's how it happened 297 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:37.559 along the way. So we're going to return to that discussion, 298 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.759 or we may have ben have some callers who want 299 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.160 to continue that discussion. But when it comes to calls, 300 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.640 you set the agenda and we can talk about anything 301 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.079 that's on your mind. I want to talk to guy, Hey, Guy, 302 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:49.160 welcome home. 303 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.240 Hello, Hello Sarah. 304 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:53.920 How can I help you? 305 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.160 Yeah? I am interested in rebuilding a house and Altadena 306 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:06.440 that would burnt down in fires. Oh thank you. I 307 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.720 was wondering if a modular or a stick home. It 308 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.200 doesn't make a big difference. 309 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.400 Okay, really good question. A modular or a stick home. 310 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.799 So let me explain this so that everybody who's listening 311 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.480 is tracking with the conversation. 312 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:22.799 Here. 313 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:27.480 Modular home, by the way, different than a manufactured home. 314 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:31.759 These are very confusing terms because they're both manufactured off site. 315 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.240 But a manufactured home is what we would call a 316 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.200 mobile home that gets built on a chassis, literally on 317 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.960 a trailer chassis. Different animal altogether. So just so we 318 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.079 know that we're going to set that one aside, that's 319 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.799 not what we're talking about. We're talking about a modular 320 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:50.119 home versus a stick framed home. Now a stick framed home, 321 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.599 and people are like, what is that? That's the home 322 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.720 you're living in. More than likely a stick frame home 323 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.480 means that it was built piece by piece, stick by stick, okay, 324 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.880 stud by stud on site, right there was nothing, and 325 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.319 then we poured a foundation, and then the carpenters showed 326 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.519 up and they started putting boards together and raising walls 327 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:14.480 and all of that kind of That is a stick framed, 328 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:17.640 stick built home. The difference between that and a modular 329 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:20.400 home is that a modular home built out of the 330 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:23.599 same materials, by the way, built in the same way, 331 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:27.799 built according to the same codes, built just as well, 332 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.200 if not arguably at points better, because a modular home 333 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.599 is a preset design that is constructed in a factory, 334 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:43.839 a factory that has fine tuned its waste materials. It's 335 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:51.359 material usage, the process by which every wall and every 336 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.920 roofline is constructed, and then those components, not the whole 337 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.440 house itself, but the components of the house, wall, panels, roofs, actions, 338 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.440 all of that are shipped out to the building location 339 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:08.759 and then assembled there much quicker. Okay, So now that 340 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:13.480 we've laid that foundation between the two, what is the difference. Well, 341 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:17.640 as I said, construction wise, they can be exactly the same. 342 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:21.240 They're built from the same processes, they are built according 343 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.839 to the same codes. They're just as strong, just as 344 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:27.400 safe when they're both built properly. Okay, it could be 345 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:31.200 argued that a modular home has tighter quality control than 346 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.559 a stick build home. I don't think that's necessarily true. 347 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:37.519 It's just the question of whether whoever's building the stick 348 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.480 build home is you know, a good builder or not, 349 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:44.599 and whether they're doing work with integrity. So in theory 350 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:46.920 they should have the same. If one is going to 351 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.839 fall behind, it would actually be the stick build home Okay, 352 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.640 So the advantages and disadvantage is what it really comes 353 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:57.920 down to, Guy, in your situation of rebuilding after the 354 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:02.799 Altadena buyers, it comes down to this. The pros and 355 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:08.200 cons are that a modular home is going to be 356 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:11.880 faster construction. They just build them faster, They assemble them 357 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:16.480 on site faster. There will be cost savings because they 358 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.759 build this home again and again and again, and they've 359 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:23.880 wired in their waste and they've tuned it down to 360 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.680 a minimum. So there are cost savings and quite often 361 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:30.799 better quality control because of factory fabrication. 362 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:31.359 Right. 363 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.880 And so those are the pros of a modular home. 364 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:41.880 Faster construction, less expensive, okay, stick built home, more flexibility 365 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.640 in design, and can be customized more as you built. 366 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.799 So the real issue is this, As you are selecting 367 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.000 between the two, and you're wise to look at both options, 368 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:55.680 the question really comes down if you want to save 369 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:58.480 the most money and rebuild as quickly as possible. The 370 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:03.759 question simply becomes, is there a modular home design that 371 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.799 really fits with you well enough? Off the shelf, because 372 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:10.200 that's really what it is, it's an off the shelf home. 373 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:14.200 Is there a design that fits with you well enough? 374 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:16.359 That you'd be willing to pull the trigger and say, yeah, 375 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.720 you know what, that home design right there that works. 376 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:20.920 I mean, that's good, that's good for us. We love 377 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:24.920 that we And if that's the case, then you're probably 378 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:27.319 if you were to build that exact same home in 379 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:30.440 both methods, the modular home is going to go faster, 380 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:31.559 and it's going to be. 381 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:37.440 Less expensive, and the quality is the same. 382 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.839 And the quality is the same, absolutely the same, because 383 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:46.240 those modular home factories, they are subject to the same 384 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:53.680 inspection and code requirement in factory as the building inspectors 385 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:54.759 who come out to the house. 386 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.720 The last question on that, does it lower the property value? 387 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:04.920 Not at all, not in any way, shape or form, 388 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:08.039 because it is not, like I said, not to be 389 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:11.839 confused with a manufactured home. Okay, a modular home is 390 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:14.799 a home. Once a modular home is built and installed 391 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:18.559 on site, we could stick frame a home right next 392 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:21.480 to it from the ground up. That's the exact same home. 393 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.400 They would be the exact same home with the exact 394 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:29.920 same effect on property value. Okay, So no, there's nothing 395 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:34.079 about a modular home that lowers the property value. If 396 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.839 it's a great home, a great design, and it fits 397 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:41.640 the lot in your life. Well there, and you can 398 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:44.880 find a design that works in that regard, there will 399 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:50.119 be no change long term value, equity, quality of construction, 400 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:54.279 all of it. It's simply about you know, I know, 401 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:57.920