1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: house Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Your 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: guide to better understanding that place where you live. Hey, 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: every home has a path forward. Once you see it, 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: that's when everything changes. That is why design matters most. 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: And I'm here to help you with just that, plus 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: your construction issues, home maintenance issues, repair stuff, all of it, 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: all of it, all of it, all of it. Today 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: we're talking about the you know, I don't want to 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: put it as a secondary a lot of people to 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: treat home makeovers as well. We don't have a budget 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: to do a real change to the house. We don't 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: have a budget for the big remodel. So yeah, we're 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: just going to have to settle for a makeover. Don't 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: think of it that way. The fact is that makeovers 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: provide layers of important esthetic change to a home that 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: every major remodel has within it as well. And so 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: all we're doing is adding layers, and those layers build 19 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: up and they count. They count. At the beginning of 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: the show, when I talked to you about the house 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: that makes you smile in your neighborhood, you know, I 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: mean there are a couple of neighborhoods in southern California 23 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: where it makes you smile because well, I actually I'll 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: take that back. Well, that makes you smile because they're 25 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: so big and fancy, and you know that's not the 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: house I'm talking about. I'm talking about the house in 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: your neighborhood that you drive by it and you're like, 28 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: it's just so sweet. It's just so nice, it's nicely proportioned. 29 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: They are little thoughtful details everywhere there's something about it. 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: Spend more time staring at that house, by the way, 31 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: until you figure out what's different about it than yours, 32 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: and then take those thoughts and come back and say, 33 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: how can we add those little details. It's always the 34 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: details that matter, always, always, always, you know, Tina told 35 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: you I was whisked away to Palm Springs for a 36 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: couple of days to just have some fun for my birthday. 37 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: She took me out there and we stayed at this place, 38 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: the Sparrow Lodge. If you were going to Palm Springs 39 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: to stay and you don't have kids, by the way, 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: it's a twenty one and up place. It's not because 41 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: there's anything weird. It's just an adult place. So it's 42 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: peaceful and quiet and that kind of thing. But anyway, 43 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: the whole experience there, it's very rustic and it's not 44 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: a you know, if you're thinking it's like, oh, Dean's 45 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: recommending something like it's a four seasons or no. No, 46 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: it's not that at all, not that at all. It's 47 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: just thoughtful. That's the best way to describe it. It's 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: a thoughtful place, and it's simple. It's rustic and it's thoughtful. 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: It's the little things that count, that's what I'm saying, 50 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: little things like, well, at this hotel, what would be 51 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: an example, Oh, after you've had dinner and if you're 52 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: back at the lodge, or you can have dinner at 53 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: the lodge, but if you decide to go out and 54 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: lounge around one of their fire pits, guess what they 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: have sitting in the bar area. S'mores kits. And they're like, hey, 56 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: come on, come on in and grab some smores. Make 57 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: some smores around the fire pit. Wow. You know right, Yeah, 58 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: it's a thing. It's a vibe. Dang right. We made 59 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: s'mores and it was great. So that's kind of thing 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. So makeovers are little layers, no one 61 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: layer does not change the whole house. But layer after layer, 62 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: layer after layer, suddenly something starts emerging and it's beautiful. 63 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: And you can't just point at one thing and say 64 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: that's the thing that makes the house. That's never a 65 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: good idea, and that's never the right way to approach 66 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: a remodel, even a remodel. Okay, it's always the layers. 67 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: And so back to it. We're in the bathroom. We 68 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: talked about the mirror, talked about the toilet. You know, 69 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: something as simple as a new shower head can make 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: a huge difference repainting the bathroom. How about we do 71 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: it this time instead of the stuff that peels off, 72 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: we do it in moist resistant matte paint. Bathrooms are 73 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: always shiny, and you know why they're always shiny. They're 74 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: shiny because the painters recommend that you put a you know, 75 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: a glossy paint in there because of all the moisture, 76 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: because the glossier that a paint is traditionally the more resistant, 77 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: the tougher it is, the more moisture resistant it is. 78 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: You don't want to put flat, regular flat paint in 79 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: a bathroom. However, there are certain brands of paint Benjamin 80 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: Moore that have spent a lot of time and energy 81 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: coming up with brilliant moisture, steam and vapor resistant paints 82 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: that have a matte finish, not the shine, a sexy, 83 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: silky like any other room in the house kind of finish. 84 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: Just the right paint. Repaint the bathroom, change the bathroom, 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: change your life. That's the idea. Okay, little bits of trim. 86 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,559 Speaker 1: You can add a wainscot in the bathroom. You could 87 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 1: use moisture resistant wallpaper in a bathroom. Okay. And if 88 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: there are no windows in a bathroom, like you got 89 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: a hall centered or central bathroom, hey go dark with it. 90 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: Go dark and glorious and sexy like a like a 91 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: like a moody, sexy restroom at a dark romantic restaurant. 92 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: Why not, it's your powder room, So go for it. 93 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: Get creative. It makes a difference the bedroom. What are 94 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: we doing in the bedroom? How about trim on the windows? 95 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: What does that mean? I don't mean getting new windows. 96 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: You've got windows, but a lot of you have windows 97 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: that simply like my house here was you know, the 98 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: drywall comes and it makes a ninety and heads in 99 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: and hits the window, and there you go, it's just 100 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: a clear window. Now, if you've got a contemporary house, 101 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: you're trying to stay modernist with the whole thing, then okay, 102 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: maybe you don't want trim on the windows. But if 103 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: you're trying to add a mood and you've are in 104 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: moldings would be a thing. How about just a little 105 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: bit of casing, a little wood insert jam, a partial 106 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: jam in towards the window, and then maybe a little 107 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: sill and a little apron underneath. These are not expensive things. 108 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: They are not expensive, and they're not expensive to pay 109 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: somebody to do. We're talking about, you know, a half 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: an hour of work for a finished carpenter to trim 111 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: out a window, okay, and a few dollars worth of moldings. 112 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 1: It can make a huge difference. How about creating a 113 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: feature wall in a bedroom, maybe behind the headboard of 114 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: the bed. The bed wall tends to get the most 115 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: attention anyway. Low ceiling, maybe we remove those surface lights 116 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 1: and we put in and we take out the hanging lights, 117 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: and we take out the ceiling fans. Uh, and well 118 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: maybe you get to keep the ceiling fan if if 119 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: if the ac sucks, okay, but how about we take 120 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: out the stuff that's hanging down from the ceiling, and 121 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: we reinvest our attention in the magic of lamps to 122 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,559 Speaker 1: light a room. Yes, it creates shadow and depth, mood. 123 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: This is the kind of stuff that we can do. 124 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: Fresh paint again, maybe some wainscot, maybe some wallpaper, window treatments. Okay, 125 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: new baseboard, taller base boards. Now here's a trick. When 126 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: we come back from break, I want to talk to 127 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: you about. If you've listened to the show for any 128 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: length of time, you know the Dean thinks that your 129 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: baseboards are too short. And by the way, Dean is 130 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: right about that your baseboards are too short. Uh, there's 131 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: the seven percent rule, right. Seven percent of the height 132 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: of the wall is about where we want the height 133 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: of our baseboard. That means an eight foot ceiling should 134 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: have nearly a seven inch tall base board in that room. 135 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: H Are you kidding me? No? Serious? How do we 136 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: get that without taking off the baseboards that you've got? What? Yeah, 137 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: hang tight. We'll talk about it on the other side. 138 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer. 139 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 140 00:07:58,720 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: KFI AM six four. 141 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: We're talking little makeover tips and tricks along the way. 142 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: This is not superficial stuff. This is real stuff, real 143 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: change to a room that can last and last. It's 144 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: not temporary. It's not like you know, go Ahwa's suggesting 145 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: this for renters, although renters could take advantage of a 146 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: lot of these ideas. But no, this is real change 147 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: to your house, short of the remodel, but real, layered, 148 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 1: effective change that really makes a shift in the room. 149 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: One of the things I said that you can do 150 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: to any room is increase the baseboard height. And yes, yeah, 151 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: the seven percent rule. What is this seven percent rule 152 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: that you speak of, Dean. It is a rule more 153 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: of a guideline or a suggestion. There are no hard 154 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: laws in architecture, but there are rules and trends and tendencies. 155 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: And this one dates back to oh my gosh, the 156 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: Enlightenment I think, or the Renaissance, I think, pre Renaissance. 157 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: This is a general thought that proportionately, you can take 158 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: the height of a room from floor to ceiling and 159 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: at the wall, at the wall edge, and take seven 160 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: percent of that and that's a good proportion for a 161 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: baseboard height. Right. That means an eight foot room is 162 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: going to have nearly a seven inch baseboard. In fact, 163 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: you can totally have a seven inch baseboard. I have 164 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: seven inch baseboarts running through my little cottage and you know, 165 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: all eight foot ceilings everywhere, perfectly beautiful. It strengthens the wall, 166 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: does not make the room shrink. It's a massive improvement. 167 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: Now you've already got a baseboard, it's probably too short. 168 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: It's probably you know, three and a quarter inches tall. 169 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: How does he know that? Because that's just builder stock baseboarts, 170 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: so that's literally half the height that it could be. 171 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: It's like, well, I don't want to tear it all up. 172 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: And here's the thing I suggested before the break that 173 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: there's a way to do this so you don't have 174 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: to take out the baseboards you got. And this is 175 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: what you do. You go down down to the lumberyard 176 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 1: and you pick yourself up a few sticks of flat 177 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: panel mold. A panel mold is got a detail on it, 178 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: lovely detail, and it's got a detail on both edges. 179 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: It's made to go flat against the wall and to 180 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: create wall panel kind of motifs. Okay, a panel mold 181 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: right now, you know wood pine finger joint pine panel mold. 182 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: We're talking. Let's just say it's about a buck, maybe 183 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: a little more than a dollar a lineal foot. Okay, 184 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: so you got a fifteen by twelve bedroom, all right, 185 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: you got about fifty four dollars worth of molding that 186 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: you pick up at the store. And here's what you do. 187 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: You come in and off the top of that three 188 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: and a half inch molding, you give yourself another, you know, 189 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: couple inches of wall space, and then you nail in 190 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: and apply this panel mold against the wall. So the 191 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: panel mold is running parallel to your baseboard a couple 192 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: three inches above your baseboard. And then the panel mold. 193 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: And then what do we do. We take the paint 194 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: that is the accent paint for the moldings in the house. 195 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: It could be the same color as the wall, but 196 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: just a little shinier sheen, or maybe it's a different color, 197 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: and we paint the baseboard and the panel mold and 198 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: the gap of wall in between the baseboard color. And 199 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: what have we just done. We've used two moldings and 200 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: the wall in between and the unifying quality of paint 201 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: to create a seven inch tall base board visually seven 202 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: inches tall because where your eye sees the change in 203 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: the paint and the line in the wood that's where 204 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: the baseboard starts. And it's just that simple. You see. 205 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a crazy expensive rem model 206 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: or redo. Sometimes you can just add a layer and 207 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: accent it properly with paint, and you know, end up 208 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: changing your room, changing the vibe of the whole room. Right. 209 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: Costs a little bit of money, but that's the point. 210 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: It costs a little bit of money, not a lot 211 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: bit of money. Okay, out in the living room, got 212 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: an ugly fireplace. I know we already talked about electric fire. 213 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: I just mean your masonry fireplace, right or your gas 214 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: fired fireplace. It's got ugly soot stains all over it 215 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: and so on. You've heard me say this before. Go 216 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: get yourself a ten dollars can of outdoor black matte 217 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: heat resistant high heat barbecue paint, the paint that they 218 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: sell to repaint your barbecue high heat because you know barbecue. 219 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: Take that. Clean up the firebox best you can, just 220 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: the loose dust and stuff. You don't have to make 221 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: it sparkling clean. You can't because it's got these soot 222 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: stains on it now, and heat stains. Paint the inside 223 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: of your firebox black the whole thing. Every fire you 224 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: have in there from now on will look like a 225 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: jewel on a jeweler's velvet cloth. Beautiful. Also, the log 226 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: set will look better. And if you're not using the fireplace, 227 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: then do something else with it. Stack it full of cordwood, firewood, 228 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 1: put candles in there, put a bouquet of flowers in there. 229 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: Do something with that fireplace to make it a focal 230 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: point that it was meant to be. But you don't 231 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: have to rebuild yourself a fireplace. Think creatively, all right, 232 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: I got more for you. Right on the other side, 233 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 234 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 235 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 236 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: We're talking makeover tips and tricks, ways of getting your 237 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: house to be the house that makes people smile without 238 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: the major remodel budget. We talk about that plenty here 239 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: on the show. We're going to be talking about again soon. 240 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: But there are a lot of us who are just listen. 241 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: I want to keep moving my home forward, but I 242 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: you know, I haven't saved up. I don't. It's not 243 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: the year for the big remodel, is there? Anything I 244 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: can do. There's tons of things you can do. There's 245 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: tons of things that everybody should be doing, regardless, because 246 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: it is layers of great design that make a house 247 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: just that special thing. It is. The little things. Don't 248 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: discount the little things, don't discount them. They're powerful, layer 249 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: upon layer upon layer. All right, back to our list 250 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: of things that can be done to the house. Mirrors. 251 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: I talked about making the mirror in the bathroom, that 252 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: giant wall to wall plate mirror smaller with a frame 253 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: around it. I want to reduce that mirror in the 254 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: bathroom and just make it sexy and essential. But I'd 255 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: love to add mirrors elsewhere in the house. It's a 256 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: great trick and all styling trick for making your home 257 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: feel more spacious. They never failed to work. They are mirrors. 258 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: You know, We've got a small house. As I've told 259 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: you many times. Right at the end of my dining 260 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: room table is a big old mirror with a beautiful 261 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: kind of French gilded frame around it. And it really 262 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: takes that what is otherwise a relatively small, tight corner 263 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: and just opens it up because you can see the 264 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: entire family room behind it in that mirror. So it's 265 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: that sense that there's a room beyond where that wall 266 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: is that without the mirror would just be the wall. 267 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: So mirrors strategically placed. I'd rather spend money on a 268 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: mirror in a room like a family room. I'd rather 269 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: spend money on a mirror and floor lamps than paying 270 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: an electrician to come out and put in recess can 271 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: lighting everywhere, for sure, for sure, no brainer, Way better 272 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: use of of space and style. How about this. This 273 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: is something that almost everybody, well a lot of people 274 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: don't even know it can be done, or you don't 275 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: really think it through. And that is if you've got, 276 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: if you're going for a period, look in your house 277 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: like a just a you know, old homey nostalgic vibe. 278 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: Then the one thing. And I've seen entire homes done 279 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: this way, brand new, build brand new, and here's the 280 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,239 Speaker 1: one thing that never gets done. You've got a multimillion 281 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: dollar house that's got this very specific design vibe to it, 282 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: and you look up and the HVAC registers, the heating 283 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: and air conditioning registers, the grills, they're just this cheap 284 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: stamped white thing that's just there, and you know it 285 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: could it's the same grill you see at the doctor's office, 286 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: same drill in the office building, same grill that you 287 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: see in a warehouse. What's the deal with this. I'll 288 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: tell you what the deal is. Contractors are always looking 289 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 1: to save money, period, and very likely nobody came to 290 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: you and said, you know, those grills could be changed out. 291 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: They could be sexy as heck. All right, so how 292 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: about just changing out the HVAC registers in the most 293 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: important rooms or throughout the entire house. It's these little details. 294 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: They are brand new, twenty first century. You don't have 295 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: to go find them at an antique shore store. They're online. 296 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: You can find them at places like I want to say, 297 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: I always get this wrong because I always say the 298 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: wrong one and then Tina has to correct me. I 299 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: want to say it is Signature hardware. Go to Signature 300 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,479 Speaker 1: Hardware online signature hardware dot com. You'll see what I'm 301 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: talking about. They've got brass, bronze, black, steel, brushed, stainless. 302 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: They've got every imaginable caul They've got matt ones that 303 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: you just will paint finished with every imaginable pattern scroll work. 304 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: They look like old cast iron grills. They can look 305 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: just about any way, shape or form except the cheap 306 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: stamped sheet metal that is in every room of your house. 307 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: It's a detail. You're like, well, nobody ever, even I 308 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: never even thought about changing out the HVAC registers to 309 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: become an actual architectural detail. I guarantee you back in 310 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties. We used to think about it. In 311 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: the thirties, and then when cost became king, everybody stopped 312 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: doing it. The builders stopped doing it. And as with 313 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: the builders and the developers, so go the buying public. 314 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: Because you've just been trained to think, well, that's that, 315 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: that's just that. You don't change that. Of course you do, 316 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: of course you do. Okay, where does it? See buy customers? 317 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: You know what? Oh, how about letting more natural light 318 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: into a dark hallway? How do you get that done? 319 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: How about this, If you've got those cheap hollow core 320 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 1: doors anyway going throughout your house, how about you finally 321 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: decide to replace some of the bedroom doors down that hallway, 322 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: not just with solid core doors, but how about single 323 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: pane glass or French divided light doors going into every room. 324 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: Now you're like, wait a second, dean, privacy, so put 325 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: privacy glass in them? Frosted privacy glass in a French 326 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: door or a single pane wood framed door. So you've 327 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: got a big old pane of glass. And guess what 328 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: happens when that happens. It means it's a window into 329 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: the hallway from a room that has windows. So the room, 330 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: the bedroom has got natural light coming into it. And 331 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: now you let that natural light bleed into the hallway 332 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: through a glass door into the hallway. And if you've 333 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: got three or four or five doors leading into the hallway, suddenly, 334 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,479 Speaker 1: layer by layer, piece by piece, that dark hallway, without 335 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: putting a skylight in that dark hallway gets natural light 336 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: for the first time ever. Done, You are welcome. And 337 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: speaking of light, let's talk about artificial lights. Artificial lights 338 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: throughout your house. It's critical everywhere. If there's one thing 339 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: that I tell a homeowner, they asked me, Okay, I 340 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: understand you've got a certain way of setting up your 341 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: lighting patterns, but my recess can lights are already up there, 342 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: and what is the one thing I could do right away, 343 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: dean to make the lighting in my house better? And 344 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: I would say, dimmers, dimmers, dimmers everywhere. When I'm laying 345 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: out lighting plans, for every lighting circuit in a house, 346 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: somewhere on that circuit, with very very few exceptions, very 347 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 1: few exceptions, sometimes no exceptions. Dimmers on every circuit. If 348 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: it's a three way light controlled by more than one place, 349 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: then one of them has a dimmer, not two, just one. 350 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: But everything has a dimmer. Everything has a dimmer because 351 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: artificial lighting in a house is theater, and you want 352 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: those sliders to be able to troll the mood of 353 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: every single light in your home. Dimmers everywhere so you 354 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: can set it up beautifully based on time of day, 355 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: time of night, the mood, how you want to use 356 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: those lights. You bring them down for movie night, you 357 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: bring them up for parties. You get the idea. Dimmers 358 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: are just a switch sitting at the hardware store right 359 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: now that a conscientious homeowner could change out if you're 360 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: di wire, or you pay a handy person, not even 361 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: a license electrician, a qualified handy person to change out 362 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: for you, lickety split, add dimmers to your home all right. 363 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: More on the other side, your Home with Dean Sharp, 364 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: the house whisper. 365 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 2: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 366 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 367 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: Every home deserves great design. We're doing it layer by layer, 368 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: step by step as we try to save money and 369 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: move your house forward towards being that house in the 370 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: neighborhood that makes everybody smile, you know, that one that 371 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: you drive by and you're like, hmmm. So on that note, 372 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: let's talk about the outside of your house a little 373 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: bit as we wrap it up here today. What can 374 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: be done to the outside. Well, you know, paint and 375 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: a few other things are some of the least expensive 376 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: things that can be done to the outside of the house. 377 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: And you know, if the whole house has to be repainted, 378 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: that's a big deal. But if we're talking about just 379 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: changing a few things along the way, then we can 380 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: save some money and make a big impact. Yes, I'm 381 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: gonna talk about the roof edge. Yeah, Dean's famous roof 382 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: edge suggestion. What is that? If you've never heard me 383 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: say it before, it's very simply this. The vast majority 384 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: of homes tracked homes across our nation, especially here in 385 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: southern California, but it's everywhere I've found, typically builder special 386 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: tracked homes. You know, you've got whatever kind of roof 387 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: you got up there, Spanish tile roof asphalt composite shingle roof. 388 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: That's you know, the eighty percent of the homes in 389 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: southern California, probably seventy plus percent of the homes across 390 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 1: the US, have asphalt style roofs. Then you might have 391 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: a lightweight concrete roof for other materials up there. But 392 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: regardless of the darkness and the shade and the contours 393 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: and texture of that roof, it comes down typically onto 394 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: a bright white facial board, white gutters. That kind of thing. Well, 395 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: here's the thing. If your roof is a substantial element 396 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: of the view of your house, and what I mean 397 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: by that is is, you know, most roofs are not 398 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: super high pitched roofs. Most rich most roofs are kind 399 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: of moderate pitched roofs, like in the industry we call 400 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: three and a half or four and twelve or the 401 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: most six and twelve roofs is rising up at about 402 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: a twenty two and a half degree angle. If you 403 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: stand out in front of your house and just look 404 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: at your house and try not to see it like 405 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: you always see it, which is you're blind to a 406 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: lot of things. But you know, pinch your fingers together 407 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: and measure how much of your roof, you see, and 408 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: compare that to how big the walls of the house 409 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: are visually from underneath. Most of the time, a roof 410 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: takes up at least a third of the view of 411 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: your home. That means that roof is important. And to 412 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: finish it off so that it doesn't have that thin 413 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: layered look to it, which everybody's roof has, especially if 414 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,719 Speaker 1: you've got asphalt shingles on your roof, you've got that 415 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: just that thin layer, and then the rest of the 416 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: house to give it some real body, some real presence, 417 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: to make your house feel like it's got a thick 418 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: head of hair on it. How about take one of 419 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: the darker tones in your roof and paint that facier 420 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: board and the edge metal and the gutter that tone. Okay, 421 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: I'm including the gutter right now. I like to actually 422 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 1: paint gutters kind of metallic, I mean a cast iron black, 423 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: like charcoal black, and make them a really fancy architectural feature. 424 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: That's another tip along the way. But let's just talk 425 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: about the facier board in the trim, even the eves 426 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: running up back to the house. In other words, if 427 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: it's connected to the roof, the rafter's sticking out the 428 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: eve boards underneath the starterboards, up underneath where the rafters are, 429 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: underneath the eve all the way from the roofing material 430 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: to where the stucco or the siding on the wall 431 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: that all belongs to the roof. Let's color it along 432 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 1: with the roof dark. You know what that does, Oh 433 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: my gosh, it makes a roof so substantial, so significant. 434 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: It just it's like it's like eyeliner around a gorgeous eye. Okay, 435 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: it's it's it's even better than that. Honestly, it's just 436 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: simply a great idea. And while we're at it, let's 437 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: talk about the gut. Let's not hide them anymore. White 438 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: on white, you know, bronze on bronze. Let's take the gutters. 439 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: If it's metal on the front of your house, it's 440 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: an opportunity. You know, a gutter on the front of 441 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: most houses is like a piece of crown molding that 442 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: you're trying to hide from embarrassment. You shouldn't be doing that. 443 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: Let's take a gutter and let's make it metal. Let's 444 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: make it look like cast iron or steel. And let's 445 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: paint the down spout that way too. Let's add it 446 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, done are the days of the down spout 447 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: comes down, and then we change the color of the 448 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: down spout when it leaves the eve and transitions to 449 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,959 Speaker 1: the stucco, because we're trying to camouflage it as if 450 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: nobody's going to see the downspout. Why if it's a 451 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: house that has a gutter and a down spout as 452 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: part of its history, as part of its look, why 453 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: hide it. Let's accentuate it. It's that simple. A little 454 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: bit of paint in the right places. Okay, carriage door 455 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: hardware on your garage door. I've seen that it's been 456 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: used a lot. Now that's not really a new tip anymore. 457 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: But hey, if you've got shutters on the outside of 458 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: your house around your windows, if your shutters are really 459 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: narrow and your window is really wide, get rid of 460 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: the shutters. Okay. Drives me crazy that we stick these 461 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: little esthetic things on. I want those things to look 462 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: like they have a purpose. So if your window is 463 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: yay wide. Let's say you've got a four foot wide 464 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: window and you've got two foot wide shutters on each side, 465 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: then in theory, those shutters could be folded over and 466 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: actually protect that window during a storm. Right they look 467 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: proportional and proper. If you've got an eight foot wide 468 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: window with a one foot shutter on the side, why 469 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: let's just abandon that idea and go for another motif 470 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 1: to make the house sex. It's just one of those 471 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: things that's off. It's wrong, it's weak, and it doesn't serve. 472 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't serve. Now, if you do have shutters that 473 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: are appropriately sized proportionally to the window, how about we 474 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 1: take them up the notch by putting hinges on them. Now, 475 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about disconnecting. I know the shutters are 476 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,439 Speaker 1: screwed into the wall and they don't move. I just 477 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: want you to add some visible hinges, like a gate 478 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,719 Speaker 1: hinge kind of setup onto that shutter so that it 479 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,239 Speaker 1: looks like it hinges over. And then we accentuate that. 480 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: We're going to paint that hardware the exact same charcoal 481 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: gray that we painted your gutters. Why because it's made 482 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: out of metal. If it's metal, it gets painted like 483 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: metal and it stands out from the paint and it 484 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: becomes another detail. You know, how quickly you can just 485 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: screw in surface hinges that don't even have to work 486 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: onto a decorative thing like that that's like an afternoon project. 487 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: One trip to the hardware store and an afternoon project, 488 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: and it brings a whole level of detail to the 489 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: house that it never had before. Creativity, my friends, over 490 00:28:54,760 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: cost layers and layers and layers over the giant remodel. 491 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't replace it, but it's as critical as anything 492 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: ever is in moving our home from the neglected home, 493 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: the home with the bad ideas, or the filler house 494 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: that no one ever looks at, because it's just house 495 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: after house after house until you get to the one 496 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: that makes you smile. Well, I want your house to 497 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: be the house that makes everybody smile. Think about it, 498 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: and we will pick this up again as we do 499 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: every week, transforming your ordinary house into an extraordinary home 500 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: next weekend. Until then, get out here in this wonderful Sunday. 501 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: We got lots of stuff. We got football today, we 502 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: got great weather in southern California. Wherever you are, make 503 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: the most of this day and get busy building yourself 504 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: a beautiful life. We'll see you next week. This has 505 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. 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