May 24, 2025 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into the Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show
on Fox Sports ninet twenty in your iHeartRadio app coming
live from the Donovan and Jorgenson Heating and Cooling Studios.
So I heard an ad for somebody who said, Hey,
we're giving away a free air conditioner. I just you're
smarter than that. You're not getting a free her conditioner
(00:22):
from anybody. Donovan Jorganson Heating Cooling, the largest employee owned
HVAC company in the state of Wisconsin, been serving our
community for over forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's where I would go.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Donovanjorgenson dot Com sitting in for Bingo Emmons. He is,
I don't know if there's some race or something going on.
I think tomorrow that he's at ray Hoffman representing Creative
Construction Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Raymond, how you been.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I am great. I've actually had a great week. We
have Operation Finding Home five K going on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Unfortunately I'm not going to make it. And I got
introduced to another charity, as you know, I love charities
right and it's Journey twenty one. They work with adults
with intellectual development disabilities and teach them how to live
on their own, so I got to spend some time
there this week and it's been a great week. My
heart is full.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That a boy, that's awesome. Our special guest, Well, first
we should introduce his son because his son's in studio too.
Dan and Rory Anheuser from Bizarre Home Decorating, Inspired Closets
of Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We'll get to Rory later.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Dan, how you been fantastic Catholic Memorial krat Yes, look
at ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Seven ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I said, Hey, Billy young Man my favorite favorite high
school football coach. He said, Hey, I played golf, but
I certainly know about coach young and he is coaching
again this year and I'm a big fan of his.
How long have you been involved with Bizarre Home Decorating
and Inspired Closets?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, my whole life.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
My grandma grandpa started Bizar home decorating in nineteen sixty nine,
so I grew up in the business when my parents
needed to be there was there, uh, And then we started.
My wife and I we started Inspired Closets seven years
ago or the Inspired Closets Milwaukey location.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You and Katie?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, and talking to Ray before you got here, he said,
The cool part if you go to their office, is
one side you can do. There are a lot of
things you can do there. One side is window treatments
and and and things in that space. The other side
is Inspired Closets, and we talk about garage and pantry
and laundry rooms and and boy a number of things
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you do in in that space. Which is one side
busier than the other at this point or or.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Both sides pretty busy. Both sides are pretty busy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
They're very complimentary of each other. Uh, And we try
to once we get customer in on one side, we
talk about, you know, hey, do you have any window
treatment needs or do you have any closet needs? And
with having the great showrooms side by side, it makes
it really easy to walk them back and forth.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So growing up it was the It was more the
window treatment that you grew up with. And then seven
years ago you and Katie started Inspired Closet. Did you
see a fit for the two of those and that's
the reason you got involved in both.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So in twenty ten we added custom closets to our
product mix up as our home decorating and during the
economy downturn, I needed another source of revenue and so
we had this otherther division on the same sales floor.
And what my dad and I realized is that for
the closet area to really grow, it needed its own
sales staff, it needed its own installers. It was a
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whole separate entity. It wasn't just an add on to
a blind sale. And we saw the potential and we
were offered the dealership and walking we jumped the chance.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Did you think going in that it was just going
to be kind of a smaller part of what you
guys do and then you quickly found out that it
was going to be a separate entity.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So when we started out, I met a gentleman in
Chicago who is our supplier, and I was the designer,
the measurer, the installer, doing everything. And that's what I
quickly realized, This is way more than what I anticipated.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But we can do this.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And it was finding the right individuals, but knowing that
the right individuals to do the installation part at Inspired
Closets really was a completely different skill level than what
installing window treatments is. You're looking more for a carpenter
with closets and more for a technician with window treatments.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know, it's interesting, and we talked about this before
it went on the air. My wife and I live
in a condo out in Pewaukee with one car garage,
and we lived in this home on eighty eighth and
Townsend for thirty years. Small house, but it held a lot,
and so when it was time to kind of get
rid of a bunch of stuff, we were able to
do that. And I thought we did a really good
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job with the stuff that's inside our home. But the
client or the garage part, it's a one car garage
and not a lot of space. And what I didn't
realize is maybe I should have gotten rid of a
few more things because our garage is it's really tight.
To get my wife's car in the garage is difficult.
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It's just it's real tight. And we talked about one
car garage is, especially in the condo world, there's just
not a lot of space. And there's some things that
you guys offer in the garage space that could could
help us.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So one of the things that we have that can
be unique to us that's not a lot of people
have is we have bypass cabinets, so we have doors
that slide back and forth rather than open up, so
as your car is parked there, you can still have
a door on a cabinet and not have to worry about, well,
I can't I'm with the back of the car out
to open the door. Like that's that's not practical, right,
And so we're able to provide cabinet doors with bypassed cabinets.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So seemless sliding storage is a seamless sliding storage. Yeah,
I'm looking at in your website.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's a great website, by the way, Inspired closets dot com,
Inspired closets dot Com, the Milwaukee location and look at
you can go to the garage part of it. Because
that for me, we're in the middle of this, right
we've and I told you I didn't know a lot
about you guys, and we brought in a couple of
your competitors and have not pulled the trigger on any
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of it. So maybe, well we'll have you come out
and take a look at what we're we're doing. But
this seamless sliding storage could be the answer for us
because we look, we have bins everywhere, We've got, you know,
just stuff. And the person that we bought the condo from,
she did she flipped it put some some just some
cabinets up on the wall that and I tried to
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take them out, but shut up, Ray, time might be quiet, right,
We don't say shut up by this, But I saw
you starting to laugh as soon as I said I
tried to take them out on my own and couldn't
figure it out and didn't want to call Zach Emans
or Bengo or devor Sam one of the Emmons.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Plan to come help me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I figured, well, once we have a company like yours,
come in and to direct us and help us through this.
They can take out those cabinets. But for no apparent reason,
she has these up on the wall. Takes a lot
of space and very little storage in these wall cabinets
that she put up. But that seamless sliding storage thing
that I'm looking on your website that might be perfect
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for what we need. How much do you guys do
in the garage space compared to the closet space in
the home.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The garage space is definitely an area that we are
looking to grow in right now. You know about fifteen
twenty percent of our sales come from garages. But it's
an area of growth and we it's a area that
we do very well.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And the idea of having making sure that you have
the guys at the right skill set to be able
to install it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's the look.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You can get the product, but to get it installed
correctly is what you need in your space.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
How hard is it to find people that are really
good at that skill set? Hard?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's very hard looking for people that are willing to
that want to do the work, that want to do
a good job, that they're detail orientated and can keep
the customer's house as clean as their own house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On you on your website, there's a line that I
feel like you wrote it just for me, and it
says that disorganized garage can make you unbelievably frustrated. You're
looking at them right here, and my wife's like, no, no,
we're good. I'm like, we're not.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
We're not. We've got to move this and move this.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We don't have space to put four tires that that
you know, you're your snow tires. We've got to storm
somewhere else. Like we should be able to do all
of that and not on our own. Because the installation part,
I can go out and buy this stuff and then
to try to have it installed or have Ray come over.
We're not going to get that stuff. And right, we
need your we need your people to come in and
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do that. What I love the fact that, look, if
somebody has a a if they have a need for
a new closet and they also pantry, laundry, room, garage,
it's a one stop shop and then you can walk
through you know, the hallway and then talk window treatments.
I think that's a really good business move for you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Guys. How many employees we are.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Now up to nineteen employees as of yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Great and as of yesterday, does that mean you added
one or subtracted one, added added.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Or in the process of adding.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yes, they has the offer been outer or if they're listening,
do they know they're they're they've accepted.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We've talked to them yesterday. So good for you. What
in what what space? And where you guys work installations
at Inspired Closets.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go somebody who's done that work before, or
somebody that that you feel like as the skills had
to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Not a lot of people grow up saying I want
to be a closet installer.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, what we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Is we're always looking for people with no matter what position,
with the right attitude, the manner and the drive, always
have had a job, had a longer job, and we
can train them to do what we do. There's intangibles
that you can't train that you look for with candidates
you're hiring.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It took you did that that part of your company.
That take you a while to figure that that that
part of that out, because interviewing and hiring the right
people sometimes is very difficult.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's very difficult. It's very difficult. If you don't have
the right person. You can train them all you want,
and it's not it's not going to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Your dad is still involved in the company.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
My parents are still involved still your mom and dad. Yes,
So we have our Thursday management meetings. My sister and
brother in law own it to the trade only furniture
showroom and to the trade only window treatment showroom. And
so we get together with my sister and my brother
in law, me and my wife and my mom and
my dad every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man that song, It is a family affair, right slide
the family stone and Thanksgiving, You guys talk about life
or do you talk about window treat bitching closets.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Uh, we talk about life. It's still growing up in
the business, especially my sister and I. We've kind of
learned my parents did a good job set in an
example of work stays at work and home life stays
at home. But you know, work bleeds into everything.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And when you've got two companies, and I asked you
before house business, she said good. You know, when you
when you've done things for really well and and and
and treated people the way we've treated people, from my
grandparents to my parents to us, you get to be
pretty busy.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you've been doing this a while.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Where do you find time to coach softball and coach
baseball and and and run your kids through the sporting events?
I know Rory is playing you know, three sports, and
your daughter plays fast pitched.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Where do you find time to do all that? Uh?
You eliminate sleep.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Katie is she's out running and she's at games too,
and uh, we like we we have that conversation about that.
My daughter's got four boys, and three are very active
in sports. And thank goodness, we lived ten minutes apart.
Yesterday at noon, my freshman grandson Keegan was his last
day at lcl SO on Thursday I picked him up
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to get him to his finals. And then Friday I
picked him up at noon and he walked out and
now he was done with his freshman year, a big,
huge smile on his face. My daughter's like, I'm not
quite sure how we could do this. You guys weren't
helping us out. And I said, no problem. You guys
are running from field to court all over the place,
and I think that make sure that that you don't
try not to miss many of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Right. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
We also have my mom and my dad, my sister,
my brother in law, my aunt and my uncle. They
all help us, you know, because there's there's another there's
times where we can't be everywhere all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hey, Rory, if you could come up, come up and
stand by your dad from and I get a question
for you. Hey, Ray, Before I get to Rory, you
would talk to about how much respect you have for
Dan and the company, and you had asked him to
speak at an event and you said, look, this is
a really good company.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You're a big fan of theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh yeah, absolutely. I actually got the pleasure not too
far after he did the seminar at the NBA to
actually go to his office and when he's talking about family,
I mean, ye had his family's all involved, But at
the same time, it's a complete family atmosphere. I remember
talking to him. He says, yeah, I have to come
and cover for a couple hours because one of his
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sales reps was getting married. She had to go pick
her wedding dress that day, right, and so I ran
into her and asked her if she chose it. She said, yep,
I chose to dress. I said yes to the dress,
and we laughed about that. But the family atmosphere around
that office is just amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man, that's awesome. Well, it's good to meet Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And I've heard a lot about a bizarre I've heard
a lot of inspired closets. Before we get to a break,
Young Rory's ten years old, Rory, how you doing today?
Are you done with school now? Getting close?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah? Are you nice to your teachers?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes? Do you think you'll get into the business that
your dad and mom are running and your grandparents? You're
not sure yet. Hey, when you play what's your favorite sport?
Who do you hear when you're playing baseball?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Out of the.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Grandparents, mom, dad, I aunt, and uncle's family who do
you hear the most when you're playing?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Who's the loudest? Yell and say, go Rory, dad Dan,
you know what, that's awesome. He didn't he didn't even
hesitate my dad. No, No, you're the loudest.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I love encouraging him, you know, like it's, uh, we're
fortunate enough to be able to get him through some
coaching and stuff and try and you know, you listen
to what the coaches says, and so you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Try to repeat that right before he's about ready to hit.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Hey, Rory, come on back, Rory, who's a better baseball player?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or your sister?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Me?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Who he's a better basketball player? You're your sister who's
a better student? You're your sister? You had a boy?
Or Hey? That that's good stuff. Man? What what great
is Rory? In fourth? Yeah? And what other sports do
you play other than baseball?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Golf?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Best in basketball?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah? Four of them? Are you a pretty good golfer? Yes?
I am not, but I'm trying, Rory.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You and I'll go out maybe one day and uh,
you can't beat me because I'm old. You got to
be nice to me. That's none of my friends ever
let me beat him. So maybe you'll, uh, you'll let me.
You get a chance to go hit it a little
bit with Rory.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, we're gonna get out this weekend as a family.
So Katie plays as well, she does. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So my daughter plays as well. What is your daughter's name, Alice?
Alice plays as well and she's eight years old.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
She's eight years old.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Wow, you what's in Did you know when you were
his age that you would eventually get into this business
or you like most people, going, look my mom and
dad run that business, and I'm not getting involved in that,
and then realizing as you got older that that was
something you wanted to get involved in.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
When I was his age, I was probably, yes, I
should say probably. I wanted to be involved in family business.
That's all I wanted to do. And then as I
got into high school, I started working for my friend's
parents hardware store and said, you know, maybe there's other
opportunities out there. And then I went to school at
University of Arizona and said, you know, I'm not really
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interested in window treatments. And then you get out in
the real world and you realize, hey, maybe what dad's
got going on over here isn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You know when when when Bingo's here and you talk
to him, Zach didn't want to be involved in it.
Sam didn't want to get be involved in that. And
they they they said, go do your thing, knowing figuring
that they would realize that this is really good company
and then they'd come back. And that's and that's exactly
what happened. And and uh why Arizona.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
By the way, my aunt and uncle, my uncle went
to the University of Arizona, they've lived in Tucson, and
they'd always talk about it, and.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You're a wildcat through and through my dad.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Uh my dad told me, if you get in, we'll
go down and take a look. And when we went
down and took a look, it was the year Arizona
won the National Basketball championship.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But uh a big, big golfer.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And so being down there, the weather and the campus
was it has a mall with let's just lined in
palm trees and.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
What you're at your best? What was your handicap? I
was a two point four man.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, we're not playing Rory, mean, you will play, but
I'm not playing against.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That was before kids and two businesses. Yeah, but I
don't care. Yeah that trust me.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We played a Skins game for a buck that that
two or three handicap would come out quick, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, I get really bored watching me play. Yeah, I
can't partner with them on the field on I just.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Love being out there. Yeah I should in the eighties now, so.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm more like Mike. If I get through the golf course,
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
My goal a year ago was to break fifty for
not that was my goal, and I didn't do it.
I shot fifty twice. But there's no gimmeis right. I
mean the idea was one in one out. You lose
a ball, one in one out, No gimmeis because if
I ever did break fifty, then I truly did it
twice this year shout of forty four.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To forty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But it goes away so quick. What I don't understand
about that game? Similar to business, sometimes nothing happens in
your life to change it, and all of a sudden
things change.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I first four holes, great, pick up the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
My wife didn't leave me. I don't have a dog anymore.
The dog didn't run away. My kids still like me.
Pick up the ball in four, go to five, and
all of a sudden, I can't hit the ball three
feet and I don't understand it. It's the most difficult,
frustrating sport. I think you can never be perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
In basketball, you can go five for five from the line,
hit three threes, you can have what you consider a
perfect game, but you can't. In golf, you always think, well,
if I wouldn't hit that button, I could have you know,
if I would have managed the course here, I could
have done that, And it all goes through your head
and you can play horrible. You're playing nine holes for
the first eight and then have one good hole and
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you're like, oh, I'm back. I can do this thing.
I can't figure it out. Similar to business, right.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You got to keep trying, don't give up. It's my
wife and I's biggest motto is we really don't take
no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We don't give up.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
There's always a way, there's always a workaround, there's always
something we can do to help a customer out to
find the solution, and you just got to dig harder,
search for it, keep going and don't give.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Up before you get to your break. You've heard the
termout kicked your coverage.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Right, yes, very much, so one hundred percent. Yeah, yeah,
you're you're incredibly lucky.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, I'm the president raised the vice president, but you're
you're right there, you'd be the secretary.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
How did you and Katie meet? Uh the old fashioned
way in Milwaukee at a bar? Really? Yes, look at you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You see Catholic memorial gave you that good rap to
go up and talk to a pretty girl in.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
A bar all you know, growing up and.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
My group of friends that went to a bar and
she had a group of friends and it ended up
that uh, two of my friends and two other of
her friends that all got married as well.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So wow, what bar was it? Rascals? I don't know
where it is, but good, well done.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, next time we'll have Katie come in and and
we'll have some conversation with with her. I love the
fact that you know that these kids that you guys
are are so invested in in what they do, and
that tells me a lot about this company. You know
it does, because if if you're like, look, we we
we have to get away from the business to make
sure we're at the field. Getting these kids on the
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golf course tells me a lot about what what kind
of the company you have and Miss Katie, Yeah, you
get well done.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Rory's a really nice young young man and you guys
done a nice job with that. We're gonna get to
a break. I got a number of questions when it
comes to window treatments, it comes to closets, comes to garages.
I've got a couple with with all of it. And
when Dan Anheuser, the owner of Bizarre Home Decorating Inspired
Closets of Milwaukee, came in, I said, what direction you
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want to go? He goes, I talk about this stuff
all day. Whatever direction you want to go. So I've
got a bunch of questions regarding some of the things
that you do, and we'll get to those on the
other side of the break. My co host is Ray
Hoffman and he is representing Creative Construction of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Today. This is the Creative.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Construction Wisconsin Home improvement Show only on Fox Sports ninety
twenty and your iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The Creative Construction Wisconsin Home Improvement Show on Fox Sports
nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app. As always, coming
live from the Donovan Jordanson, he didn't and Cooling Studios.
I'm Mike McGivern alongside Ray Hoffman. He is representing Creative
Construction of Wisconsin. Our special guest Dan Anheuser Bizarre home
decorated insparred Closets of Milwaukee, and his son Rory, And
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I'm sorry during the break and the reason we're a
little late coming back is we went outside into the
parking lot and Io drove Rory about one hundred yards
or something.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
No, we were talking about how you got stuck in
a closet.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
R hows me a dollar, Rory holds me a dollar.
Yeah we did.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
R knows he's going to beat you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You we're stuck in a closet and you had to
call your wife. Now, Mike's kind of giving me an
evil you know what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This is the last time ray Hoffin is going to
be in studio for getting back to having Aaron be
my co host and Bigo can't make it. Yeah, I
told you the story, and you've heard some horror stories,
but I'll give you mine and and go on.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The air with it.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
We we had in our walking closet and our condo
there or the really cheap wire and you know exactly
what I'm talking about date that it was bad and
we had a bunch of stuff, including all of these
Christmas ornaments and garland, all that stuff, and they were
boating a little bit. So I was just gonna brace
them up. And I braced two of them up and
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did the third one. It wasn't really working, and my
wife said, well, wait till I get back from Pick
and Save and I'll help you.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I thought, I can do this on my own. I
host a home improvement show.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So I went in there and as I lifted they
all came down, all the clothes, all the ornaments, I
had garland.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
In my hair.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It was just I just got there's a big metal
star that just missed my head. Who ended up having
somebody come out And my favorite part of the home
right now is that walking closet. It's beautiful. I love
the work that people can do in that space. And
you don't know what you don't know, right Dan, You
don't know. And until somebody comes out and says, look,
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let me tell you what we've done in a similar space,
or this is what we recommend. Man, it makes a
world of the difference when you get done doing jobs
for people, especially in their home, especially in the closet space.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They've got to be so thankful. Oh, they're incredibly thankful.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
One of the best parts about working with Inspire Closets
is the fact that we have three D design software
and so as you're when you have one of our
designers out if the depending on the project size and
time availability, we can design the closet right in your
home on our software and then show you what that's
going to look like and walk you through it in
three D. If it's a bigger project, we always bring
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the client into the showroom because not only can we
show them in three D, but now we have envisioned
by Inspired Closets which allows us to put on the
virtual reality goggles and you can walk through your closet
in a one to one scale. Actually and sale they can't. Yes,
absolutely come on in. So I would love to do
your garage and you can walk through your garage before
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you buy it, so you can see exactly what that's
going to look like.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Here's the issue with doing this show is my wife listens.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You know last week we had water doctors coming in
stall because four weeks ago that the owner's water doctors
and thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
She's so happy by the way we did.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Again, you don't know what you don't know the hard
water out in Milwaukee different than Milwaukee, and it's it
is totally different. And the people from water Doctors came
out because she listened to the show when they were here,
and she's like, oh, can we just meet with them
because I really think we need this.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And sure enough they came out and I.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Said, look, we don't have any space because of where
the air conditioner and furnace and the water heater and there.
And John was like, no, no, we're good, We're fine.
We'll do it this way and I'll put it here
and we'll have our guy put this here and and
it worked out really well.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So understand, my wife is listening.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
When you just said that, she's going to want to
have those goggles on to take a look at what
her new garage is going to be. Stop saying stuff
like that, Daniel.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
It gets It takes all of the anxiety and the
is this really gonna work? Is this really gonna Am
I going to like this? And allows you to see, yes,
this is going to work.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We do have enough space.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
At least your wife listens.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's all I got Yeshi.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Mary I came in last week and said, did you
listen to the show and she said no, If I
listen to you on every show that you do, I
would have no time.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, okay, hopefully hopefully Katie and Alice are listening. We're
hoping that they're listening. Hey, I got a text. What's
the best material to use for built in closets in
the home.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Sure, So we use a three quarter inch for an
inture grade thermal foil laminate or TfL product. And the
biggest difference between us and all of our competition is
that we use a two millimeter edge band and it's
a thicker edge banding instead of the half millimeter edge band.
And what that allows us to do is provide a
lifetime warranty and everything that we sell a limited lifetime
warranty and everything we sell so as long as that
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customer owns that home, we will come out if that
product warps, cracks, chips, fades.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
He is dan Anheiser again. Bizarre Home Decorating and Inspired
Closets of Milwaukee. Go to Inspired Closets dot com or
Bizarre Bizarre HDC dot com is where you're gonna want
to go. And we're gonna talk window treatments in the
next segment. We're gonna talk more to this segment about
the inspired closets and some of the systems. How much
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has changed in that in that industry when it comes
to closets and garages and things like that, since you know,
for the many years you've been involved in this, everything changes.
How much change? Is there more color than there used
to be? Is there a better material?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
What do you think has been the change in in
in that industry?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
The material has stayed the same, the technology in installing
the cabinets. The colors have changed, obviously. So now we've
gotten great colors in we have navy, we have twenty
different colors to choose from. The biggest change that we've
seen in the past just seven years is lighting and
the amount of lighting or putting in customers closet spaces.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
One thing that a siever never thought, I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to cut you out, or I never saw
that coming. Never I asked a question and I thought,
you know, there's a lot of different things and materials.
Never thought of the lighting part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
A sixty year old needs five times as much lighting
as an eighteen year old to tell the difference between
navy blue and black.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Why are you looking at me? Pal? Why are you staring?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Because I know, I know you know exactly what I'm
talking about, because you're you'll go somewhere else to see.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is this blue or is this black? I do it
shingle more. Yeah, it's every here.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
These socks I have these black are blue, and I
have to go into the bathroom where I've got two
bright lights, or I've got to open up the shade,
make sure I put my shirt on, open up the
shade and take a look because I don't know it.
And there are times I walk out and I got
a black shirt on in blue socks on because I
couldn't see the difference.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Kind of makes me feel good. I feel a little
advanced in my age now because I have to use
my flashlight every time I go to my class.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I don't feel good. Rory, look at him, and you
don't be just.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Pointing at the old guy in here. Look at young
Rory laughing and making fun. You got to respect your elders,
young man.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
And so in a closet, you know your light is
going to be above your space. So as you're standing
there looking for your clothes. You're standing in between the
light source to light up what you have. So we
put the lights in that shine down and allows you
to light up the closet, making it easier to get ready.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And it's a little.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Investment on the front end, but on the back end
in your experience because you use that closet every single day,
multiple times a day and be able to walk in,
find what you want and walk out is worth every
single penny. It's an investment in you and it's an
investment in your home.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Wow, never saw that answer come and thank you for that.
How much work do you do in the in like
the mudroom space? That seems to be that the shows
that my wife likes to watch, which is you know,
Flipid and Love It or listed those shows where people
are doing a lot of different things. When when there's
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a family that has three four kids, they're always looking
for that either mudroom or when they're coming in from
playing sporting events or being out in the snow or whatever.
Where can they put this? And you guys have some
really really nice options when it comes to that space.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sports bags, dance bags, shoes are one of the hardest
things for my wife and I just control in our
own home. We have a lot of experience with it
and it's one of the places that I enjoy helping
clients with.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
The most organization for athletics, which is right on your website.
And obviously that that brought my attention because you know,
my grandkids and my kids, and but we talk about
having a space for the gym bags and the.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Sports gear and all of that.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Again, when you go in my daughter's home, when you
walk into the right is their lacrosse equipment. There is
their shoes there, you know, their basketball equipment, their football equipment,
and to have a space like that, most people put
those If they don't have that entry way, they can
or another room off the entryway.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Do they utilize the garage space for that.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
We're experts and helping people store golf clubs in the
garages and organize that because not only just you know,
usually just the daughter son golf, but the whole family golf.
So now you have five six sets of golf clubs,
golf shoes, golf balls, golf towels, and we can pread
the cabinets so it's all nice, all neat. When it's
time to go golfing, everyone knows where all.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Their stuff is. You and Katie play who wins? I
do you do that? A boy? But why do you
have that big smile on your point at me? And
Rory's pointing at you. That's sorry, Katie.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Was wondering if he should actually say it or not.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I play to shoot the best score I can, and
I'm out there to have fun. It's not about beating
someone on people like oh yeah whatever, Like no, it's
I'm just out there just to play.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's real good.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I can play, and if I win, I would be
other people great. If not, I just want to improve
myself and that's what's important to me.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That good for you.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I'm telling you the game is so frustrating to me.
And and uh, I think I could beat Ray, but
there is anybody else? Well maybe Spence, right, I don't know,
but I got no shot with you or with Rory
maybe Katie and I I guante there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I'll get to the point where golfing is is leisure
and it's it's relaxing, and that's where it is.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, I'll have a bad shot here and there, but
you know what, I just love being out there. Being
out with my friends.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm one hundred percent Irish, so I don't have a
ton of patience. And Jeff Tricky was in Jeff Tricky
maybe the quarterback. You're guru in the Midwest and you
you've heard that name. I golf with Matt Tricky A
lot you do I do. Jeff I said, Hey, if
you want to go fast, play hockey if you you want,
you know what golf is not fast, take your time,
have fun, relax, be outdoors and I go. I can't
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like I just want to get up there and hit it.
And if there's slow, force them in front of me.
It's kind of tough. Hey, before we get to a
break in the closet world, how much did did a
couple of years ago with COVID change what you guys
do as far as home office. You know, everybody is like,
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look our homes. We've got to expand or we've got
to make this a better place for us because we're
at home all the time. How much work did you
and do you guys do in the home office with closets.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We do a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So our Murphy bed system is a piston driven system
allows you to take that spare bedroom that you need
for guests and allows you to put that bet up
and then we can create a desk in that space
and make it a multi use space where it's easy
to clean up, easy to stay clean. So when you
have that guess come over, it's not like you're changing
your whole entire world.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, I'll tell you that that page on your website
when you look at at the Bold Library built ins
or the work from Home Hub custom Craft Corner, But
you get a really good idea by looking at your
website on some things that you can you can do
in your office and in your home that would just
be so much more efficient than my office, my wife's office.
(34:12):
And hopefully she's no longer listening because you're gonna be.
She's going to ask you to move in for a
couple of days. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
We are experts that come in the chaos in your home.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There's a slogan that's a good slogan, that is a
good slogan.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
He is Dan Anheuser. He is a Bizarre owner of
Bizarre Home Decorating. Inspired Closets of Milwaukee. Go to Inspired
Closets dot com, Inspired Closets dot com. Hey when you
get and I asked this question a lot when you
get when you get invited into an open house or
somebody who's redid some things in their home, can you
just go and just go out and have a hamburger
(34:48):
and and an ice cold soda? Are you looking at
what they did in their closet, what they did in
their garage and shaking your head like why didn't they
call me?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
No, I put no pressure on any of my friends
or family to buy any of my products. If they do,
I feel very fortunate that they trust me. I'm there
to enjoy myself and so it doesn't make a difference
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well good for you. You're you're one of very few
people to give us that answer. A lot of people
are like, it's hard because this is what they do
for a living. And you know, I go into a
into somebody's home and they redid their closet, and I'm thinking,
I wonder why they pick those colors. Hey, a lot
of different colors available now in the closet space compared
to when you know back in the day, right you
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had one or two different colors.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Now a number of different color options.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Twenty different colors for interior eight different colors for garages,
and then we can use some of our interior product
in the garage depending on what you're looking for. And
then we have six different colors of slat wall as well.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Well, that's a huge difference.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
It's a big different y're right, and our slat wall
colors are just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They explain what a slat wall is.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Slat wall is the storage you put on the garage
wall that can hang. Uh, you can hang your car
tires from.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
You can really knock it all. Yeah, baskets, you can
do whatever you're looking to store.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
We love doing overheadshelves going around the top of garages
so you can store your bins, get them out of
out of the off the floor, up on top where
it's still easy to get You're not going up in
the rafters.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
You got like twenty you can borrow me, right because
you know what?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I got a tax we know
where the stresses.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I got a text. I'm gonna have you to Pewaukee.
I've got a number of questions regarding window treatments.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
We're going to get to.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
On the other side of the break, here is dan
Anheiser again. Go to Inspired Closets dot Com. Inspired Closets
dot Com. Uh, they're here in the their office in
Waukesha on Watertown Road. They handle this area and then
Bizarre HTC dot Com. We're gonna get to some questions
regarding window treatments again with Dan Anheiser on the other
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side of the break.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
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Speaker 2 (37:28):
I am Mike.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
When you were alongside my co host, he's Ray Hoffman.
He's representing Creative Construction of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Ray.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
When we were talking during the break and I was
telling more about this closet problem I had. Your recommendation
is to not to try to do that stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
On my own, absolutely not call somebody like Dan. Let
his team take care of it and you'll never have
any problems in the future.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Dan, My wife has Zach Emmons on speed down because
anytime I try something on my own, she just calls
me and said, he's trying to take the mirrors off
the wall.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Can't do it.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He's got goggles and all this stuff. Would you come helpless?
And Zach starts laughing. He comes over. So trust me.
When they're saying that, you'll probably hear from the mcgiverern
family on Tuesday after Memorial Day, probably going to have
you out to to just give us some ideas on
that garage.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
That's how I met you. You tried doing something on
your own.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
No, and you came to visit me in the hospital.
I think, No, there is no hospital. I'm only kidding.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
When it comes to the window treatment side of it,
that that side of your your business has really changed
over the years as well. Text it and we get
asked questions specific considerations that somebody should consider when selecting
window treatments for different rooms in their home. What would
you how would you answer that it depends.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
No, our designers are doing very well and asking the questions.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
So is privacy a concern?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Do you get what direction does that window face is
a face east is a face or third west? Because
each of those windows will have different different needs as
far as when the sun comes around.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And then are you looking for a shade that multifunctions
do on top down, bottom up? We have a lot
of different features, and so we interview the client and
we look forward what are they looking for?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
And then we make recommendations based on.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
If somebody just wants, you know, their their the way,
their window in the living room a new shade. Are
you willing to do one window or is it is
it the first floor?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Are you able to do small jobs? And then hopefully
they you know, you do a good job, and and
and later in the year they're going to want.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
To come back. Or do you have a minimum one
window or a thousand windows? You give us a call.
Do you guys do much in the commercial space. We
don't chase commercial projects.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
We end up doing a lot of commercial projects because
we did the homeowners or the business owners home and
then they trust us, they want us to come in
and do their business.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You know, we talked that last segment about how closet
space and different colors and the different materials and how
things have changed over the years.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
You want to talk about an.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Industry that has changed over the years, window treatments. It's
Ray and I are both really well versed when it
comes to that space. And it's amazing to me that
you can be on a beach in Mexico and decide
that you want to have your shades for safety purposes,
you know, and you can on your phone get the
shades to come up and down. For a guy my age,
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that's crazy to me. You can do it with voice actification, right,
you can say hey, go halfway shades and they come
down half.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
That industry has really changed over the years, oh, incredibly different.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I mean from twenty years ago was when we first
started really seeing motorized window treatments, and we'd sell.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Like probably five percent.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
We're up to about forty five, almost fifty percent of
those shades that we sell have a motor.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
In them, really, and it's with either via a remote
control or your phone or voice activation.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Right, that's correct for remote control shades, smart shades. And
then we also do have what's called soft touch shades,
which you can just push a wand up the shade'll
go up. Pull a wand down the shade'll come down,
which are really nice and easy because depending on your
features and budget and everything, you still you don't want
to be sitting there cranking this ninety inch wide shade
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up and down with the beachain.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Hey app is very easy to use. I actually have
motorized shades in my office and I can literally just
say hey, Google, shut my shades, and it'll shut my shades.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yeah, it's really cool. It is.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Do you guys sell more shades or blinds or shutters
or verticals? Drape drapes are I don't.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Think they've made any kind of comeback. Is that a
big part of what you guys do.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
So when people think of draperies and curtains and everything,
they think of like the huge Victorian, old heavy We're
not doing those, absolutely not. But what we do a
lot of is we do a lot of stationary panels
on the side of windows. You're getting these bigger homes
with wood floors and all metal surfaces, and you need
something that softens up that space, and we do a
lot of side panels. We have like over forty thousand
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skews of fabric to choose from, and then we do
cornice boards and simpler balances and adding softness to the room.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Hey, you have people that will help you with those decisions, right, absolutely,
that's a nightmare for me.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You walk into your showroom and as soon as you
walk in the right hand side is all fabrics all
over the place. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
When it comes to to window treatments, do you go
out to the home more? Do you have people come
in to your office more?
Speaker 4 (42:35):
So if you search for window treatments, you're kind of
familiar with what's out there. We absolutely one hundredercent. We'll
just come right out do a shopping appointment. But if
you haven't shop for window treatments in fifteen twenty years,
we recommend coming into our showroom. We have over one
hundred and fifty shades on display and really be able
to see and touch and feel all the differences, all
the new products that have come out and how you
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can cover up get privacy, but have that shade look
and have that shade's going to filter the sunlight coming
into your home.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Do you guys do a lot in when when when
you go into a home, there are different rooms that
you would recommend different materials in different products for right,
So like my office, which is kind of a sporty
kind of offense, would be different than what you would.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Recommend in the living room or the bedroom. I would think, right, yes, if.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
You're looking for different if you have different needs in
different rooms, we definitely would recommend different products. Some customers
really like having the same look throughout their whole entire
home and will recommend products and colors that will work
in every single room.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So when you go to change that room, you can.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Hey, when when it comes to the when it comes
to the process, if somebody goes to your website and
again it's bizarre HGC dot com, Bizarre HTC dot com.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
B A Z A a R.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Located in in Waksha, serving metro Milwaukee for a for
fifty five years.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
This family has been doing this.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
When when people decide that they want to try this,
do they do they normally have ideas for what they're
looking for or are they asking you guys to kind
of consult and what is the process that you're seeing
now for people? Again, with so much you people can
go online and get ideas, and I think that's probably
good for your business rather than having a blank slate
(44:25):
and having no idea what they want. At least come
up with some ideas on colors of the kind of
material they want.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
The Internet is fantastic for our industry really showcases all
the different products that we have and allows customers to
kind of gather that knowledge that they weren't able to
have before. And then when we come out to their
home where they come into the show and we'll show
them most specific products, but then ask them, you know,
what are they doing? And sometimes the products they find
online aren't going to really function and look the way
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that they wanted to look.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Which I and again and the color side there is
so much different than than what it was. And when
you you talked about those big drapes, I mean, that's
what I grew up with, right that? And it kind
of like the sound of music, Right she made a
bunch of clothes on those drapes that they had and
those days are are gone, I think, right are they?
They're not coming back.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Well, there's there's different styles and there's different ways we
can do movable draperies because nothing functions, nothing looks like
a drapery. And doing updated pattern on updated rods and
having that be a motorized tracks. You just press a
button and the drapes move and it's it's phenomenal. I
love the look at draperies. Yes, I understand I grew
up in the industry, but nothing will give you the
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customization and the look and feel of a custom drapery.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Man, that's awesome. When did you guys do anything in
the outdoor space outdoor living?
Speaker 4 (45:46):
We just got into doing a lot of outdoor shades
with our Magnatract Progressive screen shades. It is a fast
growing industry and it's one that we are excelling in
and we have.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
The best product on the market. You do, we do, barn.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
I will hands down, sit here all day long and
tell you we have the best product.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Well, Dan, I can tell you that I'll see you
again within within five to seven days. I've gotten the
text message from my wife Terry, I sure like to
meet him. That was you know what she's saying to me.
I know, baby, I will have him, have him stop out.
He is Dan Anheuser Bizarre Home Decorating. Inspired Closets of Milwaukee.
(46:26):
Go to Inspired Closets dot com. Go to BIZARREHDC dot com.
Located in Wakship but handles southeast Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Correct, that's correct, and.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Really quickly people call in and set up an appointment.
What are we looking at time Wiseay to have somebody
come out.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
Right now, we're booking out. Probably about a week out,
depending on your location and where we can fit you
on the schedule. But yeah, with the shortened week coming up,
probably a week out Okay, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
We'll be out there.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Timeline, you know from data order of installation for both companies,
it's about four to six weeks depending on product. He
charged are talking to Draperes outdoor shades that gets stays
twelve weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Say hi to Katie and Alice. For me, Rory did
a great job. I'm happy that he's not interested in
taking my job. He is Dan Heiser, owner of Bazar
Home Decorated Inspired Closets, Ray Hoffen representing Creative Construction, Wisconsin.
Have a good weekend Memorial Day, I know, special, very
special for you being a veteran. Thank you for your service,
(47:24):
and you know I have a good weekend. Relaxed a
little bit. You've got a big graduation coming up.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Huh Yeah, I got a big graduation in a few weeks,
and I have to say thank you. To Bingo for
letting me host co host with your last couple of weeks,
and thank you to deb for not reminding you of
my song.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
She did not, and I forget about it, so thank
you for that. Dan. It's good to meet you. Nice
meeting you too.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, I look forward to seeing you here in the
next couple of weeks because thanks for having it. If
I need to come out and coach third base on
the Girls Fast Pitch, if that's what it takes to
get over and give us an idea in the garage
and you let me know, I just send everybody home
so you're then come on, yeah, over doing aggressive third
base coach.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin home improvement show on
Fox Sports ninet twenty and your iHeart Radio app.
Welcome into the Creative Construction of Wisconsin home improvement show
on Fox Sports ninet twenty in your iHeartRadio app coming
live from the Donovan and Jorgenson Heating and Cooling Studios.
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from anybody. Donovan Jorganson Heating Cooling, the largest employee owned
HVAC company in the state of Wisconsin, been serving our
community for over forty years.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's where I would go.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Donovanjorgenson dot Com sitting in for Bingo Emmons. He is,
I don't know if there's some race or something going on.
I think tomorrow that he's at ray Hoffman representing Creative
Construction Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Raymond, how you been.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I am great. I've actually had a great week. We
have Operation Finding Home five K going on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Unfortunately I'm not going to make it. And I got
introduced to another charity, as you know, I love charities
right and it's Journey twenty one. They work with adults
with intellectual development disabilities and teach them how to live
on their own, so I got to spend some time
there this week and it's been a great week. My
heart is full.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That a boy, that's awesome. Our special guest, Well, first
we should introduce his son because his son's in studio too.
Dan and Rory Anheuser from Bizarre Home Decorating, Inspired Closets
of Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We'll get to Rory later.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Dan, how you been fantastic Catholic Memorial krat Yes, look
at ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Seven ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I said, Hey, Billy young Man my favorite favorite high
school football coach. He said, Hey, I played golf, but
I certainly know about coach young and he is coaching
again this year and I'm a big fan of his.
How long have you been involved with Bizarre Home Decorating
and Inspired Closets?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, my whole life.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
My grandma grandpa started Bizar home decorating in nineteen sixty nine,
so I grew up in the business when my parents
needed to be there was there, uh, And then we started.
My wife and I we started Inspired Closets seven years
ago or the Inspired Closets Milwaukey location.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You and Katie?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, and talking to Ray before you got here, he said,
The cool part if you go to their office, is
one side you can do. There are a lot of
things you can do there. One side is window treatments
and and and things in that space. The other side
is Inspired Closets, and we talk about garage and pantry
and laundry rooms and and boy a number of things
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you do in in that space. Which is one side
busier than the other at this point or or.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Both sides pretty busy. Both sides are pretty busy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
They're very complimentary of each other. Uh, And we try
to once we get customer in on one side, we
talk about, you know, hey, do you have any window
treatment needs or do you have any closet needs? And
with having the great showrooms side by side, it makes
it really easy to walk them back and forth.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So growing up it was the It was more the
window treatment that you grew up with. And then seven
years ago you and Katie started Inspired Closet. Did you
see a fit for the two of those and that's
the reason you got involved in both.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So in twenty ten we added custom closets to our
product mix up as our home decorating and during the
economy downturn, I needed another source of revenue and so
we had this otherther division on the same sales floor.
And what my dad and I realized is that for
the closet area to really grow, it needed its own
sales staff, it needed its own installers. It was a
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whole separate entity. It wasn't just an add on to
a blind sale. And we saw the potential and we
were offered the dealership and walking we jumped the chance.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Did you think going in that it was just going
to be kind of a smaller part of what you
guys do and then you quickly found out that it
was going to be a separate entity.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
So when we started out, I met a gentleman in
Chicago who is our supplier, and I was the designer,
the measurer, the installer, doing everything. And that's what I
quickly realized, This is way more than what I anticipated.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But we can do this.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And it was finding the right individuals, but knowing that
the right individuals to do the installation part at Inspired
Closets really was a completely different skill level than what
installing window treatments is. You're looking more for a carpenter
with closets and more for a technician with window treatments.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know, it's interesting, and we talked about this before
it went on the air. My wife and I live
in a condo out in Pewaukee with one car garage,
and we lived in this home on eighty eighth and
Townsend for thirty years. Small house, but it held a lot,
and so when it was time to kind of get
rid of a bunch of stuff, we were able to
do that. And I thought we did a really good
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job with the stuff that's inside our home. But the
client or the garage part, it's a one car garage
and not a lot of space. And what I didn't
realize is maybe I should have gotten rid of a
few more things because our garage is it's really tight.
To get my wife's car in the garage is difficult.
(05:12):
It's just it's real tight. And we talked about one
car garage is, especially in the condo world, there's just
not a lot of space. And there's some things that
you guys offer in the garage space that could could
help us.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So one of the things that we have that can
be unique to us that's not a lot of people
have is we have bypass cabinets, so we have doors
that slide back and forth rather than open up, so
as your car is parked there, you can still have
a door on a cabinet and not have to worry about, well,
I can't I'm with the back of the car out
to open the door. Like that's that's not practical, right,
And so we're able to provide cabinet doors with bypassed cabinets.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So seemless sliding storage is a seamless sliding storage. Yeah,
I'm looking at in your website.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's a great website, by the way, Inspired closets dot com,
Inspired closets dot Com, the Milwaukee location and look at
you can go to the garage part of it. Because
that for me, we're in the middle of this, right
we've and I told you I didn't know a lot
about you guys, and we brought in a couple of
your competitors and have not pulled the trigger on any
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of it. So maybe, well we'll have you come out
and take a look at what we're we're doing. But
this seamless sliding storage could be the answer for us
because we look, we have bins everywhere, We've got, you know,
just stuff. And the person that we bought the condo from,
she did she flipped it put some some just some
cabinets up on the wall that and I tried to
(06:36):
take them out, but shut up, Ray, time might be quiet, right,
We don't say shut up by this, But I saw
you starting to laugh as soon as I said I
tried to take them out on my own and couldn't
figure it out and didn't want to call Zach Emans
or Bengo or devor Sam one of the Emmons.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Plan to come help me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I figured, well, once we have a company like yours,
come in and to direct us and help us through this.
They can take out those cabinets. But for no apparent reason,
she has these up on the wall. Takes a lot
of space and very little storage in these wall cabinets
that she put up. But that seamless sliding storage thing
that I'm looking on your website that might be perfect
(07:19):
for what we need. How much do you guys do
in the garage space compared to the closet space in
the home.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
The garage space is definitely an area that we are
looking to grow in right now. You know about fifteen
twenty percent of our sales come from garages. But it's
an area of growth and we it's a area that
we do very well.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And the idea of having making sure that you have
the guys at the right skill set to be able
to install it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's the look.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You can get the product, but to get it installed
correctly is what you need in your space.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
How hard is it to find people that are really
good at that skill set? Hard?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's very hard looking for people that are willing to
that want to do the work, that want to do
a good job, that they're detail orientated and can keep
the customer's house as clean as their own house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On you on your website, there's a line that I
feel like you wrote it just for me, and it
says that disorganized garage can make you unbelievably frustrated. You're
looking at them right here, and my wife's like, no, no,
we're good. I'm like, we're not.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
We're not. We've got to move this and move this.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We don't have space to put four tires that that
you know, you're your snow tires. We've got to storm
somewhere else. Like we should be able to do all
of that and not on our own. Because the installation part,
I can go out and buy this stuff and then
to try to have it installed or have Ray come over.
We're not going to get that stuff. And right, we
need your we need your people to come in and
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do that. What I love the fact that, look, if
somebody has a a if they have a need for
a new closet and they also pantry, laundry, room, garage,
it's a one stop shop and then you can walk
through you know, the hallway and then talk window treatments.
I think that's a really good business move for you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Guys. How many employees we are.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Now up to nineteen employees as of yesterday.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Great and as of yesterday, does that mean you added
one or subtracted one, added added.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Or in the process of adding.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yes, they has the offer been outer or if they're listening,
do they know they're they're they've accepted.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We've talked to them yesterday. So good for you. What
in what what space? And where you guys work installations
at Inspired Closets.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go somebody who's done that work before, or
somebody that that you feel like as the skills had
to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Not a lot of people grow up saying I want
to be a closet installer.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now, what we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Is we're always looking for people with no matter what position,
with the right attitude, the manner and the drive, always
have had a job, had a longer job, and we
can train them to do what we do. There's intangibles
that you can't train that you look for with candidates
you're hiring.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It took you did that that part of your company.
That take you a while to figure that that that
part of that out, because interviewing and hiring the right
people sometimes is very difficult.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
It's very difficult. It's very difficult. If you don't have
the right person. You can train them all you want,
and it's not it's not going to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Your dad is still involved in the company.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
My parents are still involved still your mom and dad. Yes,
So we have our Thursday management meetings. My sister and
brother in law own it to the trade only furniture
showroom and to the trade only window treatment showroom. And
so we get together with my sister and my brother
in law, me and my wife and my mom and
my dad every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man that song, It is a family affair, right slide
the family stone and Thanksgiving, You guys talk about life
or do you talk about window treat bitching closets.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Uh, we talk about life. It's still growing up in
the business, especially my sister and I. We've kind of
learned my parents did a good job set in an
example of work stays at work and home life stays
at home. But you know, work bleeds into everything.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And when you've got two companies, and I asked you
before house business, she said good. You know, when you
when you've done things for really well and and and
and treated people the way we've treated people, from my
grandparents to my parents to us, you get to be
pretty busy.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And you've been doing this a while.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Where do you find time to coach softball and coach
baseball and and and run your kids through the sporting events?
I know Rory is playing you know, three sports, and
your daughter plays fast pitched.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Where do you find time to do all that? Uh?
You eliminate sleep.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Katie is she's out running and she's at games too,
and uh, we like we we have that conversation about that.
My daughter's got four boys, and three are very active
in sports. And thank goodness, we lived ten minutes apart.
Yesterday at noon, my freshman grandson Keegan was his last
day at lcl SO on Thursday I picked him up
(12:15):
to get him to his finals. And then Friday I
picked him up at noon and he walked out and
now he was done with his freshman year, a big,
huge smile on his face. My daughter's like, I'm not
quite sure how we could do this. You guys weren't
helping us out. And I said, no problem. You guys
are running from field to court all over the place,
and I think that make sure that that you don't
try not to miss many of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Right. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
We also have my mom and my dad, my sister,
my brother in law, my aunt and my uncle. They
all help us, you know, because there's there's another there's
times where we can't be everywhere all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hey, Rory, if you could come up, come up and
stand by your dad from and I get a question
for you. Hey, Ray, Before I get to Rory, you
would talk to about how much respect you have for
Dan and the company, and you had asked him to
speak at an event and you said, look, this is
a really good company.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You're a big fan of theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh yeah, absolutely. I actually got the pleasure not too
far after he did the seminar at the NBA to
actually go to his office and when he's talking about family,
I mean, ye had his family's all involved, But at
the same time, it's a complete family atmosphere. I remember
talking to him. He says, yeah, I have to come
and cover for a couple hours because one of his
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sales reps was getting married. She had to go pick
her wedding dress that day, right, and so I ran
into her and asked her if she chose it. She said, yep,
I chose to dress. I said yes to the dress,
and we laughed about that. But the family atmosphere around
that office is just amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man, that's awesome. Well, it's good to meet Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And I've heard a lot about a bizarre I've heard
a lot of inspired closets. Before we get to a break,
Young Rory's ten years old, Rory, how you doing today?
Are you done with school now? Getting close?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah? Are you nice to your teachers?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yes? Do you think you'll get into the business that
your dad and mom are running and your grandparents? You're
not sure yet. Hey, when you play what's your favorite sport?
Who do you hear when you're playing baseball?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Out of the.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Grandparents, mom, dad, I aunt, and uncle's family who do
you hear the most when you're playing?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Who's the loudest? Yell and say, go Rory, dad Dan,
you know what, that's awesome. He didn't he didn't even
hesitate my dad. No, No, you're the loudest.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I love encouraging him, you know, like it's, uh, we're
fortunate enough to be able to get him through some
coaching and stuff and try and you know, you listen
to what the coaches says, and so you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Try to repeat that right before he's about ready to hit.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Hey, Rory, come on back, Rory, who's a better baseball player?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or your sister?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Me?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Who he's a better basketball player? You're your sister who's
a better student? You're your sister? You had a boy?
Or Hey? That that's good stuff. Man? What what great
is Rory? In fourth? Yeah? And what other sports do
you play other than baseball?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Golf?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Best in basketball?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah? Four of them? Are you a pretty good golfer? Yes?
I am not, but I'm trying, Rory.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You and I'll go out maybe one day and uh,
you can't beat me because I'm old. You got to
be nice to me. That's none of my friends ever
let me beat him. So maybe you'll, uh, you'll let me.
You get a chance to go hit it a little
bit with Rory.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, we're gonna get out this weekend as a family.
So Katie plays as well, she does. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So my daughter plays as well. What is your daughter's name, Alice?
Alice plays as well and she's eight years old.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
She's eight years old.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Wow, you what's in Did you know when you were
his age that you would eventually get into this business
or you like most people, going, look my mom and
dad run that business, and I'm not getting involved in that,
and then realizing as you got older that that was
something you wanted to get involved in.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
When I was his age, I was probably, yes, I
should say probably. I wanted to be involved in family business.
That's all I wanted to do. And then as I
got into high school, I started working for my friend's
parents hardware store and said, you know, maybe there's other
opportunities out there. And then I went to school at
University of Arizona and said, you know, I'm not really
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interested in window treatments. And then you get out in
the real world and you realize, hey, maybe what dad's
got going on over here isn't so bad.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You know when when when Bingo's here and you talk
to him, Zach didn't want to be involved in it.
Sam didn't want to get be involved in that. And
they they they said, go do your thing, knowing figuring
that they would realize that this is really good company
and then they'd come back. And that's and that's exactly
what happened. And and uh why Arizona.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
By the way, my aunt and uncle, my uncle went
to the University of Arizona, they've lived in Tucson, and
they'd always talk about it, and.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You're a wildcat through and through my dad.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Uh my dad told me, if you get in, we'll
go down and take a look. And when we went
down and took a look, it was the year Arizona
won the National Basketball championship.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But uh a big, big golfer.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And so being down there, the weather and the campus
was it has a mall with let's just lined in
palm trees and.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
What you're at your best? What was your handicap? I
was a two point four man.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, we're not playing Rory, mean, you will play, but
I'm not playing against.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That was before kids and two businesses. Yeah, but I
don't care. Yeah that trust me.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
We played a Skins game for a buck that that
two or three handicap would come out quick, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, I get really bored watching me play. Yeah, I
can't partner with them on the field on I just.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Love being out there. Yeah I should in the eighties now, so.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I'm more like Mike. If I get through the golf course,
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
My goal a year ago was to break fifty for
not that was my goal, and I didn't do it.
I shot fifty twice. But there's no gimmeis right. I
mean the idea was one in one out. You lose
a ball, one in one out, No gimmeis because if
I ever did break fifty, then I truly did it
twice this year shout of forty four.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To forty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But it goes away so quick. What I don't understand
about that game? Similar to business, sometimes nothing happens in
your life to change it, and all of a sudden
things change.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I first four holes, great, pick up the ball.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
My wife didn't leave me. I don't have a dog anymore.
The dog didn't run away. My kids still like me.
Pick up the ball in four, go to five, and
all of a sudden, I can't hit the ball three
feet and I don't understand it. It's the most difficult,
frustrating sport. I think you can never be perfect.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
In basketball, you can go five for five from the line,
hit three threes, you can have what you consider a
perfect game, but you can't. In golf, you always think, well,
if I wouldn't hit that button, I could have you know,
if I would have managed the course here, I could
have done that, And it all goes through your head
and you can play horrible. You're playing nine holes for
the first eight and then have one good hole and
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you're like, oh, I'm back. I can do this thing.
I can't figure it out. Similar to business, right.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You got to keep trying, don't give up. It's my
wife and I's biggest motto is we really don't take
no for an answer.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
We don't give up.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
There's always a way, there's always a workaround, there's always
something we can do to help a customer out to
find the solution, and you just got to dig harder,
search for it, keep going and don't give.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Up before you get to your break. You've heard the
termout kicked your coverage.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Right, yes, very much, so one hundred percent. Yeah, yeah,
you're you're incredibly lucky.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, I'm the president raised the vice president, but you're
you're right there, you'd be the secretary.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
How did you and Katie meet? Uh the old fashioned
way in Milwaukee at a bar? Really? Yes, look at you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You see Catholic memorial gave you that good rap to
go up and talk to a pretty girl in.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
A bar all you know, growing up and.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
My group of friends that went to a bar and
she had a group of friends and it ended up
that uh, two of my friends and two other of
her friends that all got married as well.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So wow, what bar was it? Rascals? I don't know
where it is, but good, well done.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, next time we'll have Katie come in and and
we'll have some conversation with with her. I love the
fact that you know that these kids that you guys
are are so invested in in what they do, and
that tells me a lot about this company. You know
it does, because if if you're like, look, we we
we have to get away from the business to make
sure we're at the field. Getting these kids on the
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golf course tells me a lot about what what kind
of the company you have and Miss Katie, Yeah, you
get well done.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Rory's a really nice young young man and you guys
done a nice job with that. We're gonna get to
a break. I got a number of questions when it
comes to window treatments, it comes to closets, comes to garages.
I've got a couple with with all of it. And
when Dan Anheuser, the owner of Bizarre Home Decorating Inspired
Closets of Milwaukee, came in, I said, what direction you
(21:27):
want to go? He goes, I talk about this stuff
all day. Whatever direction you want to go. So I've
got a bunch of questions regarding some of the things
that you do, and we'll get to those on the
other side of the break. My co host is Ray
Hoffman and he is representing Creative Construction of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Today. This is the Creative.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
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Speaker 2 (21:51):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The Creative Construction Wisconsin Home Improvement Show on Fox Sports
nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app. As always, coming
live from the Donovan Jordanson, he didn't and Cooling Studios.
I'm Mike McGivern alongside Ray Hoffman. He is representing Creative
Construction of Wisconsin. Our special guest Dan Anheuser Bizarre home
decorated insparred Closets of Milwaukee, and his son Rory, And
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I'm sorry during the break and the reason we're a
little late coming back is we went outside into the
parking lot and Io drove Rory about one hundred yards
or something.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
No, we were talking about how you got stuck in
a closet.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
R hows me a dollar, Rory holds me a dollar.
Yeah we did.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
R knows he's going to beat you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You we're stuck in a closet and you had to
call your wife. Now, Mike's kind of giving me an
evil you know what.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This is the last time ray Hoffin is going to
be in studio for getting back to having Aaron be
my co host and Bigo can't make it. Yeah, I
told you the story, and you've heard some horror stories,
but I'll give you mine and and go on.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The air with it.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
We we had in our walking closet and our condo
there or the really cheap wire and you know exactly
what I'm talking about date that it was bad and
we had a bunch of stuff, including all of these
Christmas ornaments and garland, all that stuff, and they were
boating a little bit. So I was just gonna brace
them up. And I braced two of them up and
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did the third one. It wasn't really working, and my
wife said, well, wait till I get back from Pick
and Save and I'll help you.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I thought, I can do this on my own. I
host a home improvement show.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So I went in there and as I lifted they
all came down, all the clothes, all the ornaments, I
had garland.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
In my hair.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It was just I just got there's a big metal
star that just missed my head. Who ended up having
somebody come out And my favorite part of the home
right now is that walking closet. It's beautiful. I love
the work that people can do in that space. And
you don't know what you don't know, right Dan, You
don't know. And until somebody comes out and says, look,
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let me tell you what we've done in a similar space,
or this is what we recommend. Man, it makes a
world of the difference when you get done doing jobs
for people, especially in their home, especially in the closet space.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They've got to be so thankful. Oh, they're incredibly thankful.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
One of the best parts about working with Inspire Closets
is the fact that we have three D design software
and so as you're when you have one of our
designers out if the depending on the project size and
time availability, we can design the closet right in your
home on our software and then show you what that's
going to look like and walk you through it in
three D. If it's a bigger project, we always bring
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the client into the showroom because not only can we
show them in three D, but now we have envisioned
by Inspired Closets which allows us to put on the
virtual reality goggles and you can walk through your closet
in a one to one scale. Actually and sale they can't. Yes,
absolutely come on in. So I would love to do
your garage and you can walk through your garage before
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you buy it, so you can see exactly what that's
going to look like.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Here's the issue with doing this show is my wife listens.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You know last week we had water doctors coming in
stall because four weeks ago that the owner's water doctors
and thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
She's so happy by the way we did.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Again, you don't know what you don't know the hard
water out in Milwaukee different than Milwaukee, and it's it
is totally different. And the people from water Doctors came
out because she listened to the show when they were here,
and she's like, oh, can we just meet with them
because I really think we need this.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And sure enough they came out and I.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Said, look, we don't have any space because of where
the air conditioner and furnace and the water heater and there.
And John was like, no, no, we're good, We're fine.
We'll do it this way and I'll put it here
and we'll have our guy put this here and and
it worked out really well.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So understand, my wife is listening.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
When you just said that, she's going to want to
have those goggles on to take a look at what
her new garage is going to be. Stop saying stuff
like that, Daniel.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
It gets It takes all of the anxiety and the
is this really gonna work? Is this really gonna Am
I going to like this? And allows you to see, yes,
this is going to work.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We do have enough space.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
At least your wife listens.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's all I got Yeshi.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Mary I came in last week and said, did you
listen to the show and she said no, If I
listen to you on every show that you do, I
would have no time.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, okay, hopefully hopefully Katie and Alice are listening. We're
hoping that they're listening. Hey, I got a text. What's
the best material to use for built in closets in
the home.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Sure, So we use a three quarter inch for an
inture grade thermal foil laminate or TfL product. And the
biggest difference between us and all of our competition is
that we use a two millimeter edge band and it's
a thicker edge banding instead of the half millimeter edge band.
And what that allows us to do is provide a
lifetime warranty and everything that we sell a limited lifetime
warranty and everything we sell so as long as that
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customer owns that home, we will come out if that
product warps, cracks, chips, fades.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
He is dan Anheiser again. Bizarre Home Decorating and Inspired
Closets of Milwaukee. Go to Inspired Closets dot com or
Bizarre Bizarre HDC dot com is where you're gonna want
to go. And we're gonna talk window treatments in the
next segment. We're gonna talk more to this segment about
the inspired closets and some of the systems. How much
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has changed in that in that industry when it comes
to closets and garages and things like that, since you know,
for the many years you've been involved in this, everything changes.
How much change? Is there more color than there used
to be? Is there a better material?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
What do you think has been the change in in
in that industry?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
The material has stayed the same, the technology in installing
the cabinets. The colors have changed, obviously. So now we've
gotten great colors in we have navy, we have twenty
different colors to choose from. The biggest change that we've
seen in the past just seven years is lighting and
the amount of lighting or putting in customers closet spaces.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
One thing that a siever never thought, I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to cut you out, or I never saw
that coming. Never I asked a question and I thought,
you know, there's a lot of different things and materials.
Never thought of the lighting part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
A sixty year old needs five times as much lighting
as an eighteen year old to tell the difference between
navy blue and black.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Why are you looking at me? Pal? Why are you staring?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Because I know, I know you know exactly what I'm
talking about, because you're you'll go somewhere else to see.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is this blue or is this black? I do it
shingle more. Yeah, it's every here.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
These socks I have these black are blue, and I
have to go into the bathroom where I've got two
bright lights, or I've got to open up the shade,
make sure I put my shirt on, open up the
shade and take a look because I don't know it.
And there are times I walk out and I got
a black shirt on in blue socks on because I
couldn't see the difference.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Kind of makes me feel good. I feel a little
advanced in my age now because I have to use
my flashlight every time I go to my class.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I don't feel good. Rory, look at him, and you
don't be just.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Pointing at the old guy in here. Look at young
Rory laughing and making fun. You got to respect your elders,
young man.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
And so in a closet, you know your light is
going to be above your space. So as you're standing
there looking for your clothes. You're standing in between the
light source to light up what you have. So we
put the lights in that shine down and allows you
to light up the closet, making it easier to get ready.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And it's a little.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Investment on the front end, but on the back end
in your experience because you use that closet every single day,
multiple times a day and be able to walk in,
find what you want and walk out is worth every
single penny. It's an investment in you and it's an
investment in your home.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Wow, never saw that answer come and thank you for that.
How much work do you do in the in like
the mudroom space? That seems to be that the shows
that my wife likes to watch, which is you know,
Flipid and Love It or listed those shows where people
are doing a lot of different things. When when there's
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a family that has three four kids, they're always looking
for that either mudroom or when they're coming in from
playing sporting events or being out in the snow or whatever.
Where can they put this? And you guys have some
really really nice options when it comes to that space.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sports bags, dance bags, shoes are one of the hardest
things for my wife and I just control in our
own home. We have a lot of experience with it
and it's one of the places that I enjoy helping
clients with.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
The most organization for athletics, which is right on your website.
And obviously that that brought my attention because you know,
my grandkids and my kids, and but we talk about
having a space for the gym bags and the.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Sports gear and all of that.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Again, when you go in my daughter's home, when you
walk into the right is their lacrosse equipment. There is
their shoes there, you know, their basketball equipment, their football equipment,
and to have a space like that, most people put
those If they don't have that entry way, they can
or another room off the entryway.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Do they utilize the garage space for that.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
We're experts and helping people store golf clubs in the
garages and organize that because not only just you know,
usually just the daughter son golf, but the whole family golf.
So now you have five six sets of golf clubs,
golf shoes, golf balls, golf towels, and we can pread
the cabinets so it's all nice, all neat. When it's
time to go golfing, everyone knows where all.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Their stuff is. You and Katie play who wins? I
do you do that? A boy? But why do you
have that big smile on your point at me? And
Rory's pointing at you. That's sorry, Katie.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Was wondering if he should actually say it or not.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I play to shoot the best score I can, and
I'm out there to have fun. It's not about beating
someone on people like oh yeah whatever, Like no, it's
I'm just out there just to play.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
It's real good.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I can play, and if I win, I would be
other people great. If not, I just want to improve
myself and that's what's important to me.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That good for you.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I'm telling you the game is so frustrating to me.
And and uh, I think I could beat Ray, but
there is anybody else? Well maybe Spence, right, I don't know,
but I got no shot with you or with Rory
maybe Katie and I I guante there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
I'll get to the point where golfing is is leisure
and it's it's relaxing, and that's where it is.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, I'll have a bad shot here and there, but
you know what, I just love being out there. Being
out with my friends.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I'm one hundred percent Irish, so I don't have a
ton of patience. And Jeff Tricky was in Jeff Tricky
maybe the quarterback. You're guru in the Midwest and you
you've heard that name. I golf with Matt Tricky A
lot you do I do. Jeff I said, Hey, if
you want to go fast, play hockey if you you want,
you know what golf is not fast, take your time,
have fun, relax, be outdoors and I go. I can't
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like I just want to get up there and hit it.
And if there's slow, force them in front of me.
It's kind of tough. Hey, before we get to a
break in the closet world, how much did did a
couple of years ago with COVID change what you guys
do as far as home office. You know, everybody is like,
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look our homes. We've got to expand or we've got
to make this a better place for us because we're
at home all the time. How much work did you
and do you guys do in the home office with closets.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
We do a lot of work.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So our Murphy bed system is a piston driven system
allows you to take that spare bedroom that you need
for guests and allows you to put that bet up
and then we can create a desk in that space
and make it a multi use space where it's easy
to clean up, easy to stay clean. So when you
have that guess come over, it's not like you're changing
your whole entire world.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, I'll tell you that that page on your website
when you look at at the Bold Library built ins
or the work from Home Hub custom Craft Corner, But
you get a really good idea by looking at your
website on some things that you can you can do
in your office and in your home that would just
be so much more efficient than my office, my wife's office.
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And hopefully she's no longer listening because you're gonna be.
She's going to ask you to move in for a
couple of days. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
We are experts that come in the chaos in your home.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
There's a slogan that's a good slogan, that is a
good slogan.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
He is Dan Anheuser. He is a Bizarre owner of
Bizarre Home Decorating. Inspired Closets of Milwaukee. Go to Inspired
Closets dot com, Inspired Closets dot com. Hey when you
get and I asked this question a lot when you
get when you get invited into an open house or
somebody who's redid some things in their home, can you
just go and just go out and have a hamburger
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and and an ice cold soda? Are you looking at
what they did in their closet, what they did in
their garage and shaking your head like why didn't they
call me?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
No, I put no pressure on any of my friends
or family to buy any of my products. If they do,
I feel very fortunate that they trust me. I'm there
to enjoy myself and so it doesn't make a difference
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well good for you. You're you're one of very few
people to give us that answer. A lot of people
are like, it's hard because this is what they do
for a living. And you know, I go into a
into somebody's home and they redid their closet, and I'm thinking,
I wonder why they pick those colors. Hey, a lot
of different colors available now in the closet space compared
to when you know back in the day, right you
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had one or two different colors.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Now a number of different color options.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Twenty different colors for interior eight different colors for garages,
and then we can use some of our interior product
in the garage depending on what you're looking for. And
then we have six different colors of slat wall as well.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Well, that's a huge difference.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
It's a big different y're right, and our slat wall
colors are just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They explain what a slat wall is.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Slat wall is the storage you put on the garage
wall that can hang. Uh, you can hang your car
tires from.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
You can really knock it all. Yeah, baskets, you can
do whatever you're looking to store.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
We love doing overheadshelves going around the top of garages
so you can store your bins, get them out of
out of the off the floor, up on top where
it's still easy to get You're not going up in
the rafters.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
You got like twenty you can borrow me, right because
you know what?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I got a tax we know
where the stresses.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I got a text. I'm gonna have you to Pewaukee.
I've got a number of questions regarding window treatments.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
We're going to get to.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
On the other side of the break, here is dan
Anheiser again. Go to Inspired Closets dot Com. Inspired Closets
dot Com. Uh, they're here in the their office in
Waukesha on Watertown Road. They handle this area and then
Bizarre HTC dot Com. We're gonna get to some questions
regarding window treatments again with Dan Anheiser on the other
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side of the break.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
This is the Creative Construction of.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
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Speaker 2 (37:28):
I am Mike.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
When you were alongside my co host, he's Ray Hoffman.
He's representing Creative Construction of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Ray.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
When we were talking during the break and I was
telling more about this closet problem I had. Your recommendation
is to not to try to do that stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
On my own, absolutely not call somebody like Dan. Let
his team take care of it and you'll never have
any problems in the future.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Dan, My wife has Zach Emmons on speed down because
anytime I try something on my own, she just calls
me and said, he's trying to take the mirrors off
the wall.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Can't do it.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
He's got goggles and all this stuff. Would you come helpless?
And Zach starts laughing. He comes over. So trust me.
When they're saying that, you'll probably hear from the mcgiverern
family on Tuesday after Memorial Day, probably going to have
you out to to just give us some ideas on
that garage.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
That's how I met you. You tried doing something on
your own.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
No, and you came to visit me in the hospital.
I think, No, there is no hospital. I'm only kidding.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
When it comes to the window treatment side of it,
that that side of your your business has really changed
over the years as well. Text it and we get
asked questions specific considerations that somebody should consider when selecting
window treatments for different rooms in their home. What would
you how would you answer that it depends.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
No, our designers are doing very well and asking the questions.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
So is privacy a concern?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Do you get what direction does that window face is
a face east is a face or third west? Because
each of those windows will have different different needs as
far as when the sun comes around.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And then are you looking for a shade that multifunctions
do on top down, bottom up? We have a lot
of different features, and so we interview the client and
we look forward what are they looking for?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
And then we make recommendations based on.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
If somebody just wants, you know, their their the way,
their window in the living room a new shade. Are
you willing to do one window or is it is
it the first floor?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Are you able to do small jobs? And then hopefully
they you know, you do a good job, and and
and later in the year they're going to want.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
To come back. Or do you have a minimum one
window or a thousand windows? You give us a call.
Do you guys do much in the commercial space. We
don't chase commercial projects.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
We end up doing a lot of commercial projects because
we did the homeowners or the business owners home and
then they trust us, they want us to come in
and do their business.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You know, we talked that last segment about how closet
space and different colors and the different materials and how
things have changed over the years.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
You want to talk about an.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Industry that has changed over the years, window treatments. It's
Ray and I are both really well versed when it
comes to that space. And it's amazing to me that
you can be on a beach in Mexico and decide
that you want to have your shades for safety purposes,
you know, and you can on your phone get the
shades to come up and down. For a guy my age,
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that's crazy to me. You can do it with voice actification, right,
you can say hey, go halfway shades and they come
down half.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
That industry has really changed over the years, oh, incredibly different.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I mean from twenty years ago was when we first
started really seeing motorized window treatments, and we'd sell.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Like probably five percent.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
We're up to about forty five, almost fifty percent of
those shades that we sell have a motor.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
In them, really, and it's with either via a remote
control or your phone or voice activation.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Right, that's correct for remote control shades, smart shades. And
then we also do have what's called soft touch shades,
which you can just push a wand up the shade'll
go up. Pull a wand down the shade'll come down,
which are really nice and easy because depending on your
features and budget and everything, you still you don't want
to be sitting there cranking this ninety inch wide shade
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up and down with the beachain.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Hey app is very easy to use. I actually have
motorized shades in my office and I can literally just
say hey, Google, shut my shades, and it'll shut my shades.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yeah, it's really cool. It is.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Do you guys sell more shades or blinds or shutters
or verticals? Drape drapes are I don't.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Think they've made any kind of comeback. Is that a
big part of what you guys do.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
So when people think of draperies and curtains and everything,
they think of like the huge Victorian, old heavy We're
not doing those, absolutely not. But what we do a
lot of is we do a lot of stationary panels
on the side of windows. You're getting these bigger homes
with wood floors and all metal surfaces, and you need
something that softens up that space, and we do a
lot of side panels. We have like over forty thousand
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skews of fabric to choose from, and then we do
cornice boards and simpler balances and adding softness to the room.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Hey, you have people that will help you with those decisions, right, absolutely,
that's a nightmare for me.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You walk into your showroom and as soon as you
walk in the right hand side is all fabrics all
over the place. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
When it comes to to window treatments, do you go
out to the home more? Do you have people come
in to your office more?
Speaker 4 (42:35):
So if you search for window treatments, you're kind of
familiar with what's out there. We absolutely one hundredercent. We'll
just come right out do a shopping appointment. But if
you haven't shop for window treatments in fifteen twenty years,
we recommend coming into our showroom. We have over one
hundred and fifty shades on display and really be able
to see and touch and feel all the differences, all
the new products that have come out and how you
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can cover up get privacy, but have that shade look
and have that shade's going to filter the sunlight coming
into your home.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Do you guys do a lot in when when when
you go into a home, there are different rooms that
you would recommend different materials in different products for right,
So like my office, which is kind of a sporty
kind of offense, would be different than what you would.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Recommend in the living room or the bedroom. I would think, right, yes, if.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
You're looking for different if you have different needs in
different rooms, we definitely would recommend different products. Some customers
really like having the same look throughout their whole entire
home and will recommend products and colors that will work
in every single room.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So when you go to change that room, you can.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Hey, when when it comes to the when it comes
to the process, if somebody goes to your website and
again it's bizarre HGC dot com, Bizarre HTC dot com.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
B A Z A a R.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Located in in Waksha, serving metro Milwaukee for a for
fifty five years.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
This family has been doing this.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
When when people decide that they want to try this,
do they do they normally have ideas for what they're
looking for or are they asking you guys to kind
of consult and what is the process that you're seeing
now for people? Again, with so much you people can
go online and get ideas, and I think that's probably
good for your business rather than having a blank slate
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and having no idea what they want. At least come
up with some ideas on colors of the kind of
material they want.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
The Internet is fantastic for our industry really showcases all
the different products that we have and allows customers to
kind of gather that knowledge that they weren't able to
have before. And then when we come out to their
home where they come into the show and we'll show
them most specific products, but then ask them, you know,
what are they doing? And sometimes the products they find
online aren't going to really function and look the way
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that they wanted to look.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Which I and again and the color side there is
so much different than than what it was. And when
you you talked about those big drapes, I mean, that's
what I grew up with, right that? And it kind
of like the sound of music, Right she made a
bunch of clothes on those drapes that they had and
those days are are gone, I think, right are they?
They're not coming back.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Well, there's there's different styles and there's different ways we
can do movable draperies because nothing functions, nothing looks like
a drapery. And doing updated pattern on updated rods and
having that be a motorized tracks. You just press a
button and the drapes move and it's it's phenomenal. I
love the look at draperies. Yes, I understand I grew
up in the industry, but nothing will give you the
(45:37):
customization and the look and feel of a custom drapery.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Man, that's awesome. When did you guys do anything in
the outdoor space outdoor living?
Speaker 4 (45:46):
We just got into doing a lot of outdoor shades
with our Magnatract Progressive screen shades. It is a fast
growing industry and it's one that we are excelling in
and we have.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
The best product on the market. You do, we do, barn.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
I will hands down, sit here all day long and
tell you we have the best product.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Well, Dan, I can tell you that I'll see you
again within within five to seven days. I've gotten the
text message from my wife Terry, I sure like to
meet him. That was you know what she's saying to me.
I know, baby, I will have him, have him stop out.
He is Dan Anheuser Bizarre Home Decorating. Inspired Closets of Milwaukee.
(46:26):
Go to Inspired Closets dot com. Go to BIZARREHDC dot com.
Located in Wakship but handles southeast Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Correct, that's correct, and.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Really quickly people call in and set up an appointment.
What are we looking at time Wiseay to have somebody
come out.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
Right now, we're booking out. Probably about a week out,
depending on your location and where we can fit you
on the schedule. But yeah, with the shortened week coming up,
probably a week out Okay, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
We'll be out there.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
Timeline, you know from data order of installation for both companies,
it's about four to six weeks depending on product. He
charged are talking to Draperes outdoor shades that gets stays
twelve weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Say hi to Katie and Alice. For me, Rory did
a great job. I'm happy that he's not interested in
taking my job. He is Dan Heiser, owner of Bazar
Home Decorated Inspired Closets, Ray Hoffen representing Creative Construction, Wisconsin.
Have a good weekend Memorial Day, I know, special, very
special for you being a veteran. Thank you for your service,
(47:24):
and you know I have a good weekend. Relaxed a
little bit. You've got a big graduation coming up.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Huh Yeah, I got a big graduation in a few weeks,
and I have to say thank you. To Bingo for
letting me host co host with your last couple of weeks,
and thank you to deb for not reminding you of
my song.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
She did not, and I forget about it, so thank
you for that. Dan. It's good to meet you. Nice
meeting you too.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, I look forward to seeing you here in the
next couple of weeks because thanks for having it. If
I need to come out and coach third base on
the Girls Fast Pitch, if that's what it takes to
get over and give us an idea in the garage
and you let me know, I just send everybody home
so you're then come on, yeah, over doing aggressive third
base coach.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
This is the Creative Construction Wisconsin home improvement show on
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