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Speaker 2: I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer, custom home Builder,
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Speaker 2: turning your ordinary house into something truly extraordinary. We're getting
Speaker 2: a little late start today, I'm telling you. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, Jesus, sometimes he just runs a little long.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Don't look
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Speaker 1: No, I'm up. I'm up exactly. Let the fan you
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Speaker 2: Anyhow, we're talking about a really cool subject today. I
Speaker 2: think you'll find it very useful. Today's show is about
Speaker 2: details that matter, or just the fact that details matter.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. Details are often overlooked in our
Speaker 2: day and age, just about everywhere, and when it comes
Speaker 2: to your home, this can be different. You can make
Speaker 2: a different decision about that, and the quality of details
Speaker 2: in your home can make a massive difference. And that's
Speaker 2: why it's so great because details small things do not
Speaker 2: by definition break the budget. And so this is an
Speaker 2: enabling conversation that we're having this morning so that you
Speaker 2: can make some big changes on some small cash for
Speaker 2: your home, really really important things. And of course we're
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Speaker 3: Eileen Gonzalez back at the news desk this morning, two
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Eileen, Good morning. How's it going.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm I was exhausted yesterday for yesterday's show.
Speaker 2: I just very little sleep, had some troubles on my mind.
Speaker 2: But I got a good night's sleep last night and
Speaker 2: we fell back. So we got the bonus out right.
Speaker 1: Love the Bonus hour.
Speaker 2: Loves the Bonus Hour, so forward, so much. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Spring is overrated. Hey and look at her. Look at her.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, sitting across the table from me. Clearly
Speaker 2: anybody who has met us, clearly my better half, uh
Speaker 2: and my design partner, the co owner and co founder
Speaker 2: of House Whisper, and most importantly, my best buddy in
Speaker 2: all the world. Tina is here. Oh that's a That
Speaker 2: was a loud elephant. That was hello, Tina's uh. Tina's
Speaker 2: spirit animal is h is the elephant, her favorite animal
Speaker 2: in the world. That's why there's an elephant sound in
Speaker 2: the back. Just to be clear, Tina in no way
Speaker 2: looks like an elephant at all, But.
Speaker 1: It would be cute.
Speaker 2: You will look more like a squirrel, wouldn't it be awesome?
Speaker 2: I mean, what would it be like if you could
Speaker 2: get like a like a beagle? Sized elephant.
Speaker 1: Maxim My gosh, it would be so cute just.
Speaker 2: To have it your little elephant right, slightly larger than
Speaker 2: a cat, like a small dog. Elephant the size of
Speaker 2: a small dog. Fun, how about it? Science, Let's get
Speaker 2: to work, all right. Speaking of getting to work, we
Speaker 2: should probably do exactly that. We've got some calls that
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Speaker 2: I am here to help you take it to the
Speaker 2: next level, and today especially that applies to everybody from
Speaker 2: castle to condo and everything in between, because we're talking
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Speaker 2: Also, I'm not gonna spend any time talking about it.
Speaker 2: This segment, But next segment, just just just know it's November.
Speaker 2: Guess what's happening right before Thanksgiving this month? The House
Speaker 2: Whisper Live audience holiday home show returning to KFI Studios
Speaker 2: yet again. It's going to be a great event. We'll
Speaker 2: be talking about that a little later in the show.
Speaker 2: So hang tai and we will give you details on
Speaker 2: how you can win a seat to this live audience
Speaker 2: event in just a bit. All right, let's dive in.
Speaker 2: You have heard it said, undoubtedly, don't sweat the small stuff.
Speaker 2: Somebody has said that in your life at some point,
Speaker 2: and you know that it's probably a really good advice
Speaker 2: in a lot of areas, but not when it comes
Speaker 2: to making an ordinary house truly extraordinary. When it comes
Speaker 2: to that, God is always in the details, as they
Speaker 2: would say, which is great news because it means you
Speaker 2: can move the needle quite a bit, even with limited resources.
Speaker 2: So this is a massive, massive list, by the way,
Speaker 2: and we're just going to move through what we can
Speaker 2: today and hopefully inspire you to figure out your own
Speaker 2: details as well, even if the ar ones that were
Speaker 2: not mentioning first thing I want you to understand about
Speaker 2: details in a home is how to build a room
Speaker 2: without building walls. And this is just a this is
Speaker 2: a design truth that not as many people utilize when
Speaker 2: they're laying out their furniture in their house that as
Speaker 2: as should. Okay, we have over the last few years
Speaker 2: gone open concept open concept. A lot of houses now
Speaker 2: have been remodeled or built brand new with this open concept,
Speaker 2: which means that we have at least one kind of
Speaker 2: supersized room in the house, the combo kitchen, family dining
Speaker 2: ish living area, and it's nice, big and open, no walls.
Speaker 2: Some of them have gone too open, but you know,
Speaker 2: we're not going to get into that today. But the
Speaker 2: point is this when we've got a larger space like that.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this applies even to small spaces
Speaker 2: that are open concept, like an apartment, okay, because you know,
Speaker 2: you walk in here, you walk in the door and boom,
Speaker 2: you're right there in the seating area or the living room,
Speaker 2: and there's the kitchen, and you know, it's all sort
Speaker 2: of this one main area other than the bedrooms are
Speaker 2: all just sort of right there in one open space.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to this particular detail, it is
Speaker 2: understanding that walls walls that we think of as the
Speaker 2: things that define a room. Walls are really a story
Speaker 2: of sorts. They are essentially a construct of our imagination.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not saying that your walls are imaginary. If
Speaker 2: you've got walls, they're real. But the point is this,
Speaker 2: a lot of folks think, well, if we're really gonna
Speaker 2: define a space better, then we got to do construction,
Speaker 2: and we got to You don't put up wall. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: not necessarily the case at all, because a wall can
Speaker 2: be many many things. We do this a lot when
Speaker 2: we talk about exterior landscape design. A wall can be
Speaker 2: so many things. Specifically, in this case, what I'm alluding
Speaker 2: to is that a wall can be a properly placed
Speaker 2: piece of furniture. So let's say we have an open
Speaker 2: space and we've got a sofa or a little sectional
Speaker 2: l sofa. The backside of that sofa as it stretches
Speaker 2: out into the room is essentially a wall because you're
Speaker 2: on the back side of the sofa. So aligning it
Speaker 2: in a room along the path of a hallway out
Speaker 2: of the main hallway, or aligning it with its back
Speaker 2: or its edge leading edge away from the front door
Speaker 2: can create.
Speaker 1: A space.
Speaker 2: Actually, by definition, creating two spaces where before there was
Speaker 2: just one. Okay, so understand that the arrangement of furniture
Speaker 2: in a room is a detail that, when done properly,
Speaker 2: can create rooms within the technical, physical structural room. Okay,
Speaker 2: a lot of you suffer from not having really much
Speaker 2: of an entryway, and entryways are important. That's a detail
Speaker 2: that I like to draw attention to as much as possible.
Speaker 2: But maybe you don't have an entryway in a structural
Speaker 2: technical sense. You open up the door and you're standing
Speaker 2: in a larger room. The reason why that is not
Speaker 2: the greatest thing in the world is simply because entryways,
Speaker 2: just like hallways and front porches and back decks, they
Speaker 2: are transitional spaces. They are kind of emotional airlocks, as
Speaker 2: it were. They're not quite out, they're not quite in.
Speaker 2: They give you that moment of pause. You can call
Speaker 2: them a punctuation in a sentence. They give you that
Speaker 2: moment of pause where you can reorient yourself and say, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, now I'm entering into this situation instead of
Speaker 2: just being thrown right into it. So instead of walking
Speaker 2: through the front door and just stepping into your living room,
Speaker 2: you step into an entryway. And you're like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm not outside anymore, but I'm not actually completely in
Speaker 2: the house, right.
Speaker 1: I'm not intruding on anyone.
Speaker 2: I'm not in anybody's space yet, because this is the entryway.
Speaker 2: So entryways that don't have walls around them can be
Speaker 2: created with small details. The properly sized area rug laying
Speaker 2: in front of an entryway. It defines a certain amount
Speaker 2: of floor space and says, while you're standing on this rug,
Speaker 2: you're not in the rest of the room. You understand
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. The lines of a rug create and
Speaker 2: of a psychological perimeter. Now, if you can emphasize that
Speaker 2: even more with the line of a sofa floating free
Speaker 2: floating in a room, not so that it's destroying usable
Speaker 2: space in the room, but so that it's clan a
Speaker 2: space unto itself. A sofa and a couple of chairs,
Speaker 2: or an L shaped sofa connected to a coffee table,
Speaker 2: all touching one area. Rug that combines those elements together.
Speaker 2: That's room with walls. There's a clear psychological sense in
Speaker 2: which you are either in that room or you are
Speaker 2: not in that room. You're on the other side of
Speaker 2: those edges. And because you're on the other side of
Speaker 2: the edges. You don't have to think of that space
Speaker 2: as being all a part of the greater, massive space
Speaker 2: that it finds itself in. You understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: And again I keep saying the word larger space as
Speaker 2: if I'm alluding to like a super big room. It's
Speaker 2: absolutely critical in super big rooms, but it's just as
Speaker 2: critical in smaller spaces like apartments and condos, where there
Speaker 2: aren't a lot of defining structural features. There's not oh,
Speaker 2: a dining room, clearly, that's the dining room. Clearly this
Speaker 2: is a living room, and there's the kitchen. It's all
Speaker 2: sort of you know, most apartment in condos, it's all
Speaker 2: sort of an amorphous one sort of open space, and
Speaker 2: that puts it upon you to carefully design the details
Speaker 2: of where the furniture sits so that we get entry away,
Speaker 2: a free passage to other rooms, other spaces like the kitchen,
Speaker 2: a place to eat, a place to sit, and so on.
Speaker 2: I think you get the point there, all right. So
Speaker 2: first tip of the day, building a room using the
Speaker 2: details of furniture and things like area, rugs, lamps, all
Speaker 2: that to create rooms without building walls, and in that
Speaker 2: Chiching money saved along the way. All right, so much
Speaker 2: more when we come back. Let's talk about controlling the
Speaker 2: size of a room with the detail of color, and
Speaker 2: integrating some of that old furniture that you inherited then
Speaker 2: and like but.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really feel one hundred percent of yours.
Speaker 2: How do you integrate that truly into your stuff and
Speaker 2: own it for yourself? All of that and more when
Speaker 2: we return your Home Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 1: That's me.
Speaker 2: We are talking about details that matter this morning, and
Speaker 2: we're going to continue to do so. But first let
Speaker 2: me give you the phone number to call us, because
Speaker 2: in just a bit we're gonna be going to the
Speaker 2: phones and talk about anything that is got you scratching
Speaker 2: your head about your house. Eight three three two. Ask
Speaker 2: Dean eight three three the numeral two. Ask Dean eight
Speaker 2: three three two Ask Dean. Producer Michelle is standing by
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Speaker 2: to know. Pop you into the queue. You can listen
Speaker 2: to the show while you wait, and then who knows
Speaker 2: you and I will put our heads together and we
Speaker 2: will figure it out. I promise you. Eight three three
Speaker 2: two ask Dean go into the phones in just a bit,
Speaker 2: all right, back to it. Right before the break, I
Speaker 2: alluded to the fact that I would tell you how
Speaker 2: to control the size of a room with color. This
Speaker 2: is a detail that you know, some people would say, well, listen,
Speaker 2: Dean color in a room, painting on the paint on
Speaker 2: the walls. That's not a small detail. No, it's not
Speaker 2: a small detail. But it is a detail, and it's
Speaker 2: an inexpensive way of radically changing a space. And so
Speaker 2: I just want you to be aware of this one thing,
Speaker 2: just this one simple thing. I shared this with the
Speaker 2: Conway on Thursday night in our normal like six twenty
Speaker 2: bit that we do. And it's this warm colors. If
Speaker 2: you're a human being, warm colors meaning anything on the
Speaker 2: warm side of the spectrum, they tend to come toward us.
Speaker 2: And I think you understand what I'm saying when I
Speaker 2: use that language, that they come toward us. Warm colors
Speaker 2: embrace us. They kind of approach us and wrap themselves
Speaker 2: around us. That's that warmth they are cozy, all right.
Speaker 2: Warmth radiates at us. Maybe that's the tie into nature, right,
Speaker 2: it comes at us. And therefore a warm color on
Speaker 2: the walls of a room, and warm color in terms
Speaker 2: of furnishings, accents, all of that. These are things that
Speaker 2: come at us and as a result make a room
Speaker 2: feel smaller, okay, more comfortable, cozier, more homey in that side.
Speaker 2: In that sense, cool colors the inverse of that, anything
Speaker 2: on the cool side of the spectrums, the blues, the greens,
Speaker 2: and so on. These colors tend to move away from us.
Speaker 2: They recede from us sort of psychologically, emotionally, the sides
Speaker 2: of the vastness of the ocean, the blueness of the
Speaker 2: sky above us, the height of trees. Cool moves away
Speaker 2: from us. Warm comes toward us. So in this case,
Speaker 2: how do you apply this, Well, let's say you've got
Speaker 2: a small room. You've got a small space, and you
Speaker 2: don't want it to get any smaller because it's already
Speaker 2: maybe smaller than you want.
Speaker 1: It to be.
Speaker 2: Then favor cool colors, especially when it comes to the
Speaker 2: walls and furnishings and accents, and that room will be
Speaker 2: as roomy and open feeling as it can be without
Speaker 2: actually physically moving the walls. And the inverse of this,
Speaker 2: of course, is we've got a large space, and I
Speaker 2: actually deal with this a lot. You know, we have
Speaker 2: clients well with very large spaces, very large homes, and
Speaker 2: sometimes some of these large spaces really need to be
Speaker 2: made more intimate because they get away from you after
Speaker 2: a while. All of the pomp and circumstance of having,
Speaker 2: you know, big cavernous space doesn't always feel great. In fact,
Speaker 2: it rarely feels great in terms of making people feel
Speaker 2: good about being in the space. And so we want
Speaker 2: warmer colors there in spaces like that that sort of
Speaker 2: reach out and embrace you, draw you in, and make
Speaker 2: you feel more comfortable about being in that larger space.
Speaker 2: So warm colors come at you and shrink the size
Speaker 2: of rooms. Cool colors move away from you and expand
Speaker 2: the size of the room, all of which happens without
Speaker 2: actually moving walls.
Speaker 1: Got it all right.
Speaker 2: One aspect of a rustic or a vintage item something
Speaker 2: that you have inherited that can be changed, is its color.
Speaker 2: But we very very rarely recommend changing the color of
Speaker 2: something entirely, unless you're just convinced. You know, you're all
Speaker 2: into that. But changing the color of a thing is
Speaker 2: a way emotionally of taking ownership of it from a
Speaker 2: decore sense. I'm interesting to think about that for a second.
Speaker 2: Let's say you've inherited this, this grand old dining room
Speaker 2: table from great grandma, and you love it. You love
Speaker 2: the table, and you want to honor her and the heritage.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: You're not going to give it away. You're going to
Speaker 2: keep this item. But here's the thing. It doesn't quite
Speaker 2: tie in with everything else you got going on that's
Speaker 2: yours around it. You can see the dining room table
Speaker 2: from the living room and it just seems a little loft,
Speaker 2: It seems a little out of your color scheme or
Speaker 2: what have you. So here's the thing that we have
Speaker 2: often seen can be a relatively small detail that can
Speaker 2: make a big difference. Most tables, and I'm just talking
Speaker 2: tables right now. Apply this theory to any piece of
Speaker 2: furniture that you've got. But you know tables, right below
Speaker 2: the table top, there's a skirt underneath that table. Unless
Speaker 2: it's a glass top table, if it's wood, there's a
Speaker 2: skirt of some sort underneath it. You know, relatively small,
Speaker 2: you know, three four inch skirt from which the legs
Speaker 2: are extending down to the floor. That skirt is not
Speaker 2: a huge, glaring detail, but it is something that's visible
Speaker 2: from the room, from other rooms when you're room adjacent
Speaker 2: to it. And to take that skirt and make the bold,
Speaker 2: sexy jougi decision, you know what we're gonna do, just
Speaker 2: the skirt. We're not gonna touch Grandma's table any other way.
Speaker 2: Just the skirt underneath the tabletop. We are going to
Speaker 2: take some paint, the same kind of paint that we
Speaker 2: used on these other items in this room, or matching
Speaker 2: the color of some of these accent items in the
Speaker 2: other room, and we're going to put that accent color
Speaker 2: on just the skirt or just the legs. Or you're
Speaker 2: getting what I'm saying. By putting just that element of
Speaker 2: color onto that table, you have owned it, You've integrated
Speaker 2: it into the decor complement of everything else in the room,
Speaker 2: and suddenly you're doing both the best of both worlds.
Speaker 2: You're honoring this great piece from your great grandma, and
Speaker 2: also it now belongs in your space. It's a detail
Speaker 2: that matters. Tina, and I did it a while back.
Speaker 2: We have had a grandfather clock. It's not a great grandfather,
Speaker 2: great grandma. It's not a super awesome, fancy grandfather clock.
Speaker 2: It's kind of early nineteen eighties, a grandfather clock that
Speaker 2: Tina's grandparents bought, and it was always a part of
Speaker 2: their home and it was always something that she loved seeing,
Speaker 2: I mean, just reminds her of them. And we've had
Speaker 2: it in various places in the house for a number
Speaker 2: of years, and finally Tina said, you know what, I
Speaker 2: really really want that clock to be theirs and ours both,
Speaker 2: and so she decided to paint several of the elements
Speaker 2: of that clock the exact same color that we used
Speaker 2: to paint the walls of our dining room, because the
Speaker 2: clock is not in the dining room, but it is
Speaker 2: sitting right across a walk path from the dining room.
Speaker 2: And man, did it make a massive difference. That clock
Speaker 2: now belongs with us and it belonged to them, And
Speaker 2: it's a great way of kind of straddling the historical
Speaker 2: fence there, So a detail that matters, just a little
Speaker 2: bit of paint, kind of paint on the right aspect
Speaker 2: of a piece of furniture can take those older, out
Speaker 2: of date, used to belong to somebody else things and
Speaker 2: make them yours. All right, when we come back, let's
Speaker 2: talk about not neglecting utilitarian fixtures and how important is
Speaker 2: that in terms of details and what I mean by
Speaker 2: that light switches, lamp chords, outlets, even heating and air
Speaker 2: conditioning vents.
Speaker 1: What can you do with those?
Speaker 4: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for joining us on the program today. We
Speaker 2: are approaching the top of the hour. Did you turn
Speaker 2: your clock back last night or did it do it
Speaker 2: by itself most of the time. You know, we kind
Speaker 2: of run our lives off of our phones, and so
Speaker 2: we don't worry about setting our clocks back. But we
Speaker 2: have some like the grandfather clock I was talking about
Speaker 2: in the last segment. You know, those things have to
Speaker 2: be turned back, but we don't really rely on them
Speaker 2: too much other than their beauty. So I hope you
Speaker 2: turned your clock back last night and got an extra
Speaker 2: hour of sleep. I'm glad you're here with us now.
Speaker 2: We're talking about details that matter, and I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: you know next segment. Right after the next news break,
Speaker 2: we are going to the phones, and so I will
Speaker 2: give you our number once again, eight three to three two.
Speaker 2: Ask dean eight three to three the numeral two. Ask
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Speaker 2: by ready to take your call. She'll tell you everything
Speaker 2: you need to know. Pop you into the queue, and
Speaker 2: then we will get to that thing that you've been
Speaker 2: scratching your head about and we will get it solved.
Speaker 2: That coming up right after the next news break. All right,
Speaker 2: back to the deats, the details that matter. Where are
Speaker 2: we at on our list here? What did I say?
Speaker 2: We're oh to not neglect extending your design efforts to
Speaker 2: often overlooked utilitarian fixed Oh that's a mouthful, right, What
Speaker 2: do I mean by that? I mean, what is the
Speaker 2: utilitarian fixture? It's stuff that just got to be there, right,
Speaker 2: It's got to be there, and we kind of take
Speaker 2: it for granted, and it's often overlooked. Light switches, outlets,
Speaker 2: chords coming from lamps, those kinds of things. And so
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I know somebody's listening right now saying,
Speaker 2: you know, can we get the major changes that make
Speaker 2: a difference. And I'm just going to underscore this one
Speaker 2: more time. Sure, we talk about the major changes all
Speaker 2: the time, but today we're talking about details that not
Speaker 2: in and of themselves just one of these changes. But
Speaker 2: if you start really kind of obsessing over the details
Speaker 2: in your home, layer after layer after layer, pretty soon
Speaker 2: what you've got is something that everywhere somebody turns, they
Speaker 2: see caring inserted in. And that's really what the details
Speaker 2: really provide. There's this underscoring of the care with which
Speaker 2: you are designing your home. Details matter. You know, we
Speaker 2: always say when we go to a restaurant, right, oh,
Speaker 2: the service was wonderful. Detail that matters, you know, in
Speaker 2: a hotel, you stay in a hotel, hospitality industry in general,
Speaker 2: whether it's food or overnight stays in places, it's the
Speaker 2: little details that matter. Fresh flowers in a room, if
Speaker 2: you've ever stayed in a room in which after housekeeping
Speaker 2: has been through they've left behind fresh flowers, or the
Speaker 2: mint on your pillow, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a mint.
Speaker 2: It costs like a penny, all right, It's not like, wow,
Speaker 2: these guys are breaking the bank for us, but just
Speaker 2: the idea, Hey, somebody took the time. Somebody took the time,
Speaker 2: and you know, we are an emotional people, and so
Speaker 2: when somebody takes the time for us, those things have
Speaker 2: an impact. Details matter, So that's the idea. So we
Speaker 2: obsess over lights in our home, lights and recess can lights,
Speaker 2: way too many of them.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a bit.
Speaker 2: But lamps, right, And you get this great lamp and
Speaker 2: it's got this really utilitarian chord, you know, the either
Speaker 2: the black or brown, you know, rubberized plastic key cord.
Speaker 2: And that's fine if the lamp cord isn't going to
Speaker 2: show based on the way that you are setting the
Speaker 2: lamp up in the room. But let's say it is
Speaker 2: going to show. Let's say that you can see the cord.
Speaker 2: I've got a lamp, a free standing lamp in my
Speaker 2: living room that there's no way to not see the cord.
Speaker 2: It's kind of just tossed and spooled down around the
Speaker 2: base of the lamp. And in those cases, if you're
Speaker 2: serious about getting the details right, then you think about, well,
Speaker 2: what can we do to that cord? What can we
Speaker 2: do to the chord? And so you start looking and
Speaker 2: you suddenly you realize there's a whole world. You look
Speaker 2: on Amazon and find there's a whole world of lamp
Speaker 2: replacement cords out there, And if you don't want to
Speaker 2: wire in a new replacement cord, and by that I
Speaker 2: mean fabricy chords, velvety chords, chords of every imaginable color, beautiful,
Speaker 2: lovely chords that nobody is offended by seeing. And is
Speaker 2: anybody ever going to walk into your home and say, hey,
Speaker 2: nice chord. Chances are no. But does that mean that
Speaker 2: you shouldn't do it? No, not at all, because what
Speaker 2: they'll see is they'll see a beautiful lamp and nothing
Speaker 2: will distract them from it, including the whole effect of
Speaker 2: the chord finding its way over to the plug and
Speaker 2: so on. If you don't want to rewire a light
Speaker 2: on what I was about to say, is that a lamp,
Speaker 2: then there are sheaths, sheaths trying to make that sound
Speaker 2: right in my ears. There are cord sheaths that you
Speaker 2: can purchase for cheap that just slide over, kind of
Speaker 2: like scrunchies, that slide over an existing cord in order
Speaker 2: to make it far more attractive. And there are ways
Speaker 2: and places in a house where you're wanting to plug
Speaker 2: something in and you just can't avoid the cord. And
Speaker 2: in those situations, you take the extra effort and you
Speaker 2: change it out. Okay, the same is true with switches
Speaker 2: and outlets again, do they matter? Yeah, they do matter.
Speaker 2: They're right there on the wall. So you're trying to
Speaker 2: go for this effect, this vintage, look this old house,
Speaker 2: look this, whatever the case may be, and then you
Speaker 2: just got the plane old. There they are the plain
Speaker 2: old white outlet, the plain old white you know light switch,
Speaker 2: the plain old plate that everybody else has in the universe. Well,
Speaker 2: if you want to stand out, if you want to
Speaker 2: make a difference, then there are a billion plates and switches.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Again, just to use our little place as an example,
Speaker 2: Tina and I went with an early kind of early
Speaker 2: nineteen hundred's of nineteen twenty esque French American motif throughing
Speaker 2: our home. It looks dated. We actually went out to
Speaker 2: did we get them at restoration Hardware or I don't
Speaker 2: remember exactly where, but to the website. We actually bought
Speaker 2: the old style push button light switches. Okay, not fancy.
Speaker 2: What was that house of antique hardware? There it is
Speaker 2: and these are like the ones that you would find
Speaker 2: in one hundred year old home, but they're brand new.
Speaker 2: They're totally code compliant, brand new, wonderful, gonna last forever.
Speaker 2: Light switches and they just add that little and do
Speaker 2: people notice those?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah they do.
Speaker 2: People are like, whoa, I love that light switch in
Speaker 2: the bathroom, thank you. Yeah, just details matter, all right?
Speaker 2: There you go so much more to talk about. We're
Speaker 2: gonna pick up this conversation, uh in just a bit.
Speaker 2: But when we return, we're gonna go to the phones.
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