S2:E19 Our Take on Home/Builder Tours

 Have you ever walked through a tour of homes or Builder showcase and found yourself thinking, what were they thinking? Guilty over here. I definitely have, well, in today's podcast we're talking about how these home tours can be just as educational for what not to do as they are for inspiration.

And guys, we have seen some things, I mean, awkward things, design fails. I. Even some personal items left out that really made us question if the homeowners knew that this was even open to the public. Oh my God, I was so embarrassed for them. And yes, I will be telling a story from years ago that still lives in my head, rent free.

And to be honest, it still lives in our friends group chat. Let's just say it left us wondering what exactly went on in that house.

So get your admission ticket out and get ready for some home tour tee, some gentle design roast, and some lessons you won't find in a builder's brochure. Right? Let's get to it.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Have you ever walked through atour of homes or builder

(00:03):
showcase and found yourselfthinking, what were they
thinking?
Guilty over here.
I definitely have, well, intoday's podcast we're talking
about how these home tours canbe just as educational for what
not to do as they are forinspiration.
And guys, we have seen somethings, I mean, awkward things,

(00:23):
design fails.
Even some personal items leftout that really made us question
if the homeowners knew that thiswas even open to the public.
Oh my God, I was so embarrassedfor them.
And yes, I will be telling astory from years ago that still
lives in my head, rent free.
And to be honest, it still livesin our friends group chat.

(00:45):
Let's just say it left uswondering what exactly went on
in that house.
So get your admission ticket outand get ready for some home tor
tee, some gentle design roastand some lessons.
You want finding a builder'sbrochure, right?
Let's get to it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:05):
Okay, boys, today we are discussing,
to,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (02:09):
No, we're gonna discuss why there's
a jar of sauerkraut on yourdesk.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:14):
well, uh, that is from our lovely, uh,
audience of one Kim who helpedus out.
And, you know, in that, uh, oneof our previous podcasts I
mentioned my love of sauerkraut.
And so when we got back frommarket, her hope was to have my
desk covered in jars of sourground.
But that's, that's as far as itgot, I guess.

(02:35):
I don't know.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (02:36):
Wow.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:38):
know, it's the thought that comes.
I need to ask her if she wantsme to take it home.
I figure like it's her, ourcrowd.
I don't, I mean, I'll eat it,but, you know.
Uh, okay, so

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (02:47):
What I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (02:47):
dinner

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (02:47):
night, kids

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:48):
What?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (02:50):
skr in.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:51):
kibo?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (02:51):
How's that for randomness,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:53):
KBOs.
Ska.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (02:55):
big sausage.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (02:56):
Well, I,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1 (02:56):
sausages?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (02:57):
Is it baska or k Basa?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (02:59):
Let's kill

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (03:00):
Well, I don't,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (03:01):
Well, I didn't know.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (03:02):
don't,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (03:02):
just making sure.
I thought maybe I misread it mywhole life.
I didn't know.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (03:06):
no, it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (03:07):
As

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (03:07):
as you get close.
It's okay.
Where do you, where do youtravel to

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (03:13):
Stewart

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_ (03:13):
Sometimes?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (03:15):
What's the island

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11 (03:16):
country.
I can't remember.
I always wanna say like a femalewoman part.
I think I get it wrong.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (03:21):
Yes.
You said urethra yesterday.
It's e.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (03:27):
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (03:30):
that.
And you, you did have a goodtime.
I think this is our, is this ourfirst podcast?
No, we had the, the market one.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (03:37):
since then.
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (03:38):
Okay.
Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (03:39):
a good time.
It was

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (03:40):
All right.
We all right.
Good.
Love

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (03:42):
Who's listening?
It's just a blur sometimes,isn't it?
It's just a blur.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (03:46):
is a blur.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (03:47):
Yeah, I will.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (03:48):
can get, we can get to today's
episode.
Um, we're discussing, tour ofhomes, kind of, uh, do you all
like to go to those.
Because we, I, we love to go to'em, but I usually go in a caddy
way.
I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (04:01):
I probably would like to do, I
don't know, it's slipping aroundfrom one hot house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (04:04):
house

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11 (04:05):
another.
I like the concept of it, andmaybe if you drive me around,
drop me off, I'd probably do it.
But honestly, right.
It's like, is it like, uh, I'venever done it.
I've never gone to one of them,nothing negative.
Uh, I come back to I'm, I'meither here or I'm mowing the
yard or I'm doing somebody'shouse, so that's, it feels like
playtime.

(04:25):
Uh, and so I just don't everstop to do it.
But, uh, did you en, do youenjoy those, Stewart, do you,
have you ever done any.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (04:33):
any?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (04:34):
Uh, we participated in, we
participated.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (04:36):
we've

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (04:37):
We participated.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (04:37):
has been many years since I've
actually the tour.
Two years in a row.
I was a judge for the tourhomes.
Um.
Which was a train wreck.
So, I mean, it just, it justwas.
But um, like I said, that wasyears ago and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (04:55):
It's uh,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (04:59):
you

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (04:59):
you have to want drive around.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (05:01):
be nosy.
I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (05:02):
I think, you know, because, and I
get it,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (05:05):
tour homes.
'cause you tour different partsof whatever city you're in, you
can't just go to every house onthe same street,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (05:11):
you know,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (05:11):
'cause

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (05:12):
more likely

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11 (05:12):
probably be by the same builder.
And you're

jeremy-host665_1_07-24 (05:15):
supposed to look at all different things,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (05:16):
or all different designs or all

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (05:18):
So it's like almost finding where's
Waldo.
You have to drive the differencesubdivisions and No,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (05:22):
It's not that difficult,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (05:23):
not that difficult, Jeremy.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (05:24):
Yeah, well it, it, it's different.
So, uh, here in our area, mostof them are homes in different
neighborhoods all over town.
Right.
And, and so I know that it's thesame for probably communities
around in Louisville.
And, and I have to be honest, I,we haven't been to one of their
home orama in, in.
I don't know how many years, butusually they have it, they're

(05:44):
all in like a or they're all inthe same area, or, uh, they're
all on the same street.
So sometimes you do have todrive, um, you know, a little
bit more than others, but youdon't have to go to every house.
Like you can pick and choose.
that's, I, I like that about theone that we have here.
And of course, you know, there'sbuilder tours and there's
renovation tours, and there's Imean, there's, you know, there's

(06:07):
all kinds of different tours.
I guess I'm gonna say it thatway.
Um, so we're not discussing onespecific, um.
One or one type.
But I, I had, um, been on oneand I that last year and I had
been thinking about it becausethere were like just horror
stories of just like what I sawand people always, um, someone

(06:28):
say, oh, I love doing these.
'cause they always gimme so muchinspiration.
And then I walk in and I'm like,well honey, this tells me what
in the hell not to do.
Because this is, this is a mess.
Uh, so, but yeah, but no, I, I,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (06:41):
What have you seen in the past?
So it sounds like you've seenthings in the past that's kind
of caught your attention.
Are, are we doing one here inLexington soon or,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (06:51):
they had, uh, I think they had a
builder tour there.
Maybe it might be going on now.
I think, I think it was lastweekend and maybe next weekend
too.
I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (07:00):
well, I've missed it and then our
audience will be Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (07:03):
Yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (07:03):
So, um, but what you've seen in the
past.
In other cities and inLexington.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (07:09):
Uhhuh.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (07:09):
Is that fair?
Okay.
In the past.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (07:11):
like to try'em out.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (07:13):
Okay.
Okay.
So you, you, you're relivingnightmares,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (07:17):
So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (07:17):
you're hoping that people go see it
this year, that they areinspired.
So what have you seen in thepast that has, uh, not, uh,
touched your inner soul?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (07:26):
Well, you know, uh, this is as recent
as of last year.
We, we went into a brand newhouse and it was, you know,
probably well over a milliondollars and they had glazed
cabinetry, glazed.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (07:38):
Okay,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (07:39):
rope

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (07:39):
there.
Explain what that means.
Not everybody even starts tounderstand what that note that
means.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (07:44):
in kitchens, you know, if you, you
have your cabinet front and youcan have them painted.
So they're all like one solidcolor.
And then they have, um, some,uh, cabinet.
Companies have options to add aglaze.
And so they'll rub some kind ofcolored glaze, brown, black,
gray, white cream, uh, into thecrevices.
And so then you get a little bitof color differentiation in

(08:05):
those, uh, lines.
Right?
Like, is there, you have abetter way to describe that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (08:11):
Yeah, no.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (08:12):
So I'm gonna show it this way, that
what this

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (08:15):
is,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (08:15):
is, I also said this is what not to
do.
So imagine a house built in 1983that is raised paneled, formal
cream colored, and then theytook watered down paint,
basically in charcoal colored,and they just

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (08:32):
smeared

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (08:33):
on the front of the cabinets and
then they wiped it back off.
And whatever was in the residue,in the corners and the crevices.
They left it in, it dried and itbecame chalky and charcoal and
it kind of highlighted that andit almost looks like dust has
settled in there,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (08:49):
Yes.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (08:50):
through glaze and they thought that was
attractive.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (08:53):
Mm-hmm.
Well, this was a new house

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (08:54):
And so I have been undoing that for
the last, and Stewart, I'm sure,and you, I had been undoing that
for the last 15 years and havingto take these beautiful
cabinetry and paint them.
White or cream or beige or tanor green to get rid of the
horrific glaze.
So you're telling me thatsomebody is trying to bring that

(09:15):
back from the debt?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (09:16):
Well, I'm not gonna say they're trying
to bring it back from the dead.
What I'm saying is they stilldoing it and it needs to be
ripped the hell out.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (09:23):
Yeah.
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (09:24):
was a

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (09:24):
Well, you don't do it for, okay, look,
you can make bad decisions.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (09:28):
You

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (09:28):
can make bad decisions, and that's a
bad decision.
I don't care who you are.
Right.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (09:32):
if I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (09:33):
If you love it, don't, don't listen
to the podcast today'cause I'mjust not gonna let you have it.
Uh, versus not.
And if you've got the cabinetryand you love it, okay, fine.
Sorry.
Um, I'm not gonna tell you,paint your cabinets.
Um, so somebody out there in thehome builder world, some
designer or builder or builder'swife who does, they know what to
do in, sorry, builder's wife,uh, you might edit that out.

(09:55):
Um, said,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (09:57):
or,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (09:57):
yeah, I probably would edit that.
Um.

jeremy-host665_1_07 (09:59):
Girlfriend.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (10:00):
Right?
Said, oh, let's just smear thaton there because it's trendy and
it's back again.
What are you saying to thepeople?
Stewart, what would you tellthem?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (10:08):
Oh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (10:08):
you go.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (10:09):
you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (10:10):
no.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (10:11):
and if I remember correctly, like
this, this was a while, a whilepast, but it was like a, they
tried to do like a more modernhome, so there were lots of
modern details, and then you hadthe GL cabinetry on top of it,
and it was like a traditionalraise panel door.
I mean, it just felt like, ohLord, like I, I don't know what
they were thinking, but it wasnot good.

(10:31):
And if I remember correctly, thehouse was not sold.
It was up for sale, and Ithought, good

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (10:36):
Wonder wasn't sold.
Huh?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (10:39):
It was, it was not

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (10:40):
Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (10:41):
Okay.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (10:41):
Learned that lesson.
Don't do, it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (10:43):
once another.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (10:44):
that unappealing.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (10:46):
with the that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (10:47):
been to, and I, and I always look at
this first is like, oh my God,why did they put that lighting
in here?
Because

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (10:53):
Mm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (10:54):
is

jeremy-host665_1_07-2 (10:55):
Horrible.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (10:56):
Or it doesn't even match the

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (10:57):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (10:57):
isn't

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (10:58):
Even

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (10:58):
for the house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (10:59):
the, it's like.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:00):
they got that lighting vendor to give
it to them for free to hang it

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (11:03):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:03):
be on a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (11:04):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:04):
So that's what they did through the
whole house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (11:06):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:06):
They didn't pay any attention to what
it should have

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (11:08):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:09):
You know,

jeremy-host665_1_07 (11:10):
Absolutely.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (11:11):
me.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (11:11):
Mm-hmm.
no, it, that is, uh, Idefinitely think in like some of
the more recent ones I've beento, it felt very, oh, this is
what they had in stock.
This is what they could let meborrow.
This is what they put up.
Um, and so it's just really outof place.
They're never the right color,they're not the right scale,
they're not the rightproportion, and most

(11:32):
importantly, the it doesn't giveoff enough light.
This is what I don't understand.
So this is why I'm gonna beg.
This is gonna be the my beg andbleed for our listeners.
The next time you go on one ofthese tours, I want you to go to
the bathroom.
Not physically use it, but goinside of the rest of the, the
restroom, go to the primary andsee if they have the lights
turned on.

(11:52):
Chances are they probably don't.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (11:54):
don't

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (11:55):
And they don't want you to have it
on, turn them lights on.
Now, I want you to imaginegetting ready in that room on a
dreary day.
You can't see.
I mean, and this is actually,this was, uh, this was
relatively recent.
Literally went into a bathroom.
My husband was with me.
We went in and this was like a,I, it was a kids' bathroom, but

(12:15):
still there was.
vanity

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (12:18):
have to see the brush their teeth,
and put deodorant on.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (12:20):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And it

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (12:21):
right?
Right.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (12:23):
uh, had one vanity light with three
lights above the, the sink andthen one recessed in the, in the
shower and it was in a bathroomwhere they're gonna up putting a
shower curtain.
So you gotta think when you pullthat shower curtain, all the
light's gonna kinda get stuck inthere.
It's gonna get filtered.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (12:41):
Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (12:42):
no other light.
Like there is no way anybody canget ready.
bathroom.
So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (12:47):
You know what this reminds me of?
I'm gonna tell you a story from1983,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (12:53):
I was two

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (12:53):
and it's a story.
So it was just 12.
Uh, it's, it's, it's Manie Clarkand she's long deceased from
this world, and she was aninterior designer and lovely and
quirky and antique dealer, andshe had a six foot tall bronze.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (13:11):
uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (13:11):
Pan in her dining room on Mintel
Park and Manie was all about 80when, uh, she shopped with me
and she had gray hair and it waskind of always up in a kind of a
weird clip thing.
And she was about a size zeroand she wore leggings at 83, uh,
years old in 1983.

(13:33):
Right?
So she was pre yoga bitch, preKardashian.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (13:39):
those

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (13:40):
were really.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_ (13:40):
pantyhose.
They weren't

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (13:41):
So they could have been.
So, you know, I always quite,you know these, I always think
it's Kardashians.
I dunno if it's true or not, butthese women that put, uh, eye
makeup on and it's really darkand kinda like raccoon eyes.
Right.
You know what I'm talking about.
Right.
And really a lot of makeup,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (13:55):
up,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (13:55):
Manie was doing that in 1983 at 83
years old with leggings.
And the other thing that she didis she wore men's polo cologne.
She was quirky, but verytalented.
But every time I look at her, Iwould say to myself, she looks
like she puts her makeup on inthe dark.
Well, I visited her house oneday and lo and behold, you see

(14:19):
this is a segue.
I go into her black flockeddames wallpapered bathroom

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (14:26):
oh

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (14:26):
you couldn't see your hand four feet
in front of it.
And I went, oh yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (14:30):
Yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (14:30):
does put makeup on in the dark.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (14:32):
the dark

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (14:33):
you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (14:33):
in a flocked room.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (14:35):
So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (14:35):
In a flocked bathroom.
So now kids, we don't need darkbathrooms because even though
Manie was cute and quirky andshe could pull it off,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (14:46):
Most stuff,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (14:46):
most of you can't.
So we don't need more re eyes,right?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (14:51):
God.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (14:51):
light.
This is like, they're a greatplace to look and see like, oh
yeah, no, I need more light.
Like, let's, let's always makesure we got like a recess over
the sink as well, is the vanity.
And the

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (15:01):
Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (15:01):
thing, this is the thing I remember
most recently is that a lot ofthese, um, the builders have
started putting in those.
God awful.
And listen, if you have this,I'm sorry if it puts out enough
light for you, good for you.
But they're, I just, I can'tstand'em.
Are those, um, the mirrors thathave the lights built into'em?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (15:18):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (15:18):
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (15:18):
There's never enough light that comes
out of'em.
Like you can't just depend on

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (15:22):
No, it's a supplement.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (15:24):
a su

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (15:24):
Right.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (15:25):
a supplement and it's also, I
don't see that as like anarchitectural element.
Right.
I did that for my bar onlymusically and heavily judge, but
we use that as the nightlight orthe, the modern aesthetic.
As much as I'm really thinkingI'm getting light from it, it
really is just the look that youwanted.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (15:42):
It's just a big

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (15:43):
mirror is all

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (15:45):
Yeah.
That's all it is.
Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (15:47):
doesn't cast any light on your face.
None.
Mm-hmm.
No.
Mm-hmm.
M unlike those

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (15:51):
Glow worm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (15:52):
had in the 1980s mm-hmm.
they, like, I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (15:55):
What, what's this new trend of you're
seeing these very modern lightsand they're all, let's say
circles or something, andthey're all LED lights in them
that first, I hate the color ofthem, but they're super, super
modern.
I'm seeing these in houses andI'm like, I just, I just think
that's not an attractive thing.
Did you see,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (16:14):
have

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (16:14):
seen that in the houses anywhere?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (16:16):
You mean

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (16:17):
Uh, it, it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (16:17):
a horizontal ring?
Is that what you're talking

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (16:19):
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
It's out there and I just,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (16:22):
Yeah.
I just recently

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (16:24):
just look at that and I'm thinking
that looks like this just rightoff the boat from China and, and
not in a good way.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (16:29):
does, it looks like, uh, there's a
company or it's a website calledLight in the Box, and I'm sure
it's a Chinese company.
Um, and you order from there andthey have like, uh, this stuff
you can't see, you can't touchand feel it.
And it gets here and it feels socheap.
Um, and it just looks bad.
Like it came straight outta thebox from like some really bad
factory in

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (16:49):
It.
It's the funny thing.
It is.
I, I don't know that I, I don'tknow.
I was getting to say you can't.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (16:55):
can't.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (16:56):
You can't mess up traditional as
badly as you can modern, butthat's not a hundred percent
true.
But it feels like you can dotraditional, it's, it's a little
harder to mess it up in a way.
But I swear this take on modern,this take on modern is there is
tasteful, classic modern, andthen there is

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (17:13):
is, yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_1108 (17:15):
funky, tacky,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (17:16):
Modern can

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (17:17):
And that,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (17:17):
real

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (17:18):
bad, real bad.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (17:18):
fast.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (17:19):
and I'm starting to see it in
Lexington in a bad way.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (17:22):
Yeah, I, I, I agree.
I think, I'm not gonna say thatyou can screw it up easier than
traditional.
'cause we all know that there'ssome,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (17:30):
I know I'm,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (17:31):
out

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (17:31):
I hesitated to say that I
hesitated.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (17:34):
the, but what I do think makes that
statement a little bit moreaccurate is that there's so much
more, modern pe what peopleclassify as,'cause I think
modern's really hard to classify'cause it can go a lot of
different directions.
Um, but I think there's a lotmore.
Options out there right now thatpeople can use to do a style
quote unquote modern home.

(17:55):
And a lot of them are like, oh,do y'all remember Z Gallery?
Like, I don't know if we, wenever had one, but, but like,
you know, it's just likeeverything polished now.
I'm not hating on Z Gallery'cause I only have a lot of
different looks, but like, it'sjust like the most.
Silvers or, uh, silvers, Lord,uh, the most chrome of whatever
you can find and everything isthat.

(18:15):
And it's all shiny.
And it's all white and it's all,ugh, pleather furniture.
I just,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (18:20):
Jeremy, let's do a flashback with you.
Just a weeks

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (18:24):
in Atlanta, and I ask you to hold
up this four foot, um mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (18:31):
had, um, little bedazzled all over it
and diamonds, whatever it was,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (18:34):
Cover the

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (18:35):
and yeah.
Cover America.
Well, I got the picture.
We'll post it and him loving onit and I, I posted, it's like
Jeremy, uh, and his inner tacky,uh, Uhhuh.
There you go.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (18:45):
the record, I did not like this
thing.
You just handed it to me andsaid, here, hold this and love
on it.
And I think the face

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (18:52):
Well, I was using you, I was using you
as, um.
If you will.
So long story is literally whenI saw that picture, went back
and looked at it, you know whatI thought of?
And I said, it looks likesomething be Z Gallery.
Yeah, it does make sense now.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (19:08):
does.
It does.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (19:10):
like the neighbor's house on, uh,
Christmas vacation.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (19:14):
Oh, Margo

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (19:15):
Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (19:15):
Margo and

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (19:16):
Yes,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (19:16):
and Todd,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (19:17):
yes,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1 (19:17):
horrible,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (19:18):
that is so bad.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (19:19):
yes.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1 (19:20):
horrible.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (19:21):
Yeah.
Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (19:22):
it can go real wrong.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (19:24):
Now I was not old enough.
So, question.
So at when that movie came out,which I don't remember what year
it was, but I was young, sosince you all are a little bit
older than me, was that like themodern, was that really the
modern craze at the time?
Like, was that, like, did peoplesee that and go, oh, that's,
that's stylish.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110 (19:41):
because you can also see it in the movie
mannequin.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (19:43):
Oh God.
Another classic that I love.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11 (19:48):
Eighties

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11 (19:48):
Reflect, just go back and reflect upon,
um, Miami Vice.
You know, if you just look atsome of the imagery.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (19:58):
yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (19:59):
Miami Vice,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (19:59):
on

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (20:00):
Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (20:00):
bad.
Modern,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (20:01):
know,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (20:01):
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (20:02):
I have a client who, um,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (20:04):
I still say, uh, seventies.
Were worse, by the way.
I still believe that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (20:08):
No,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (20:09):
hate I Well, I don't like anything.
See, I I know you love it.
You love it.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (20:15):
Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (20:15):
No, I guess it wasn't modern.
I just said it's tacky.
Uh, I know Stewart.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (20:21):
Stuart

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (20:22):
loves it.
Some mid-century modern stuff,and I just, honestly, I'm sorry
folks.
I just find that to be the one.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (20:29):
Uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (20:29):
Thing that's just relatively
unappealing to me.
I can, I can get somearchitectural elements to it.
I just find it unappealing.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (20:35):
when I'm in my elder years and we
sell Tara, I'm building amid-century modern one story
flat

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (20:41):
I know.
And you'll, you'll be livingwith, uh, Jennifer Aniston.
I think she leans toward thatvibe a little bit.
So, uh, there you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (20:48):
It's all wheelchair accessible.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (20:52):
Lord, I'm wanting that now.
Uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (20:57):
so give us another one that you've
seen.
Yeah, sorry.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (21:00):
I gotta go back to the art deco in
Miami.
I, so I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (21:03):
Yeah.
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (21:03):
client who I love and

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (21:05):
Don't like that either.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (21:06):
I, I, um.
When I went to her house thefirst time and I was trying to
like, look, look at her thingsand try to like get an an idea
of like where her taste was.
And we have been, she's been a,a client of mine for probably
12, 13, 14 years at this point.
And, um.
She would have, like I looked ather, I said, your taste is the

(21:30):
equivalent of a gay man in MiamiArt Deco in 1980.
Like that is what your taste is.
And luckily she looked at me andshe goes, oh, is it that bad?
I went, yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (21:43):
Yeah,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (21:43):
No, no one needs a, a mauve leather
sofa with matching, pink

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (21:49):
Oh God,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (21:51):
Hmm.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (21:52):
no, no.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (21:53):
can, we can bring you

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (21:53):
But I assure you, some designer will
bring it back and in one dayyou'll see it in a showcase
house somewhere, I assure you,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (22:02):
Um,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (22:02):
with glazed cabinetry again.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (22:03):
yeah, maybe, uh, a good thing to say.
And, you know, we talk aboutcolor of light all the time on
here.
Um, and so you'll see a lot of,uh, especially if they have
these modern fixtures that arein there though, you'll see like
the different colors.
But a lot of times, and I'm, andI'm don't wanna sound like I'm,
I'm beating up on builders, butlisten, builders have a skill
set that designers.
have for the most part.

(22:24):
Right.
And I'm just, and I'm talking ingeneralized terms.
I'm not talking to everyone.
And then vice versa.
Designers have a skillset setthat builders don't always have.
Right?
So the builders, most of thetime when they get one of these
tour homes, they get excited.
Their head gets so big, theirego gets so big that they just
wanna pick everything and do itall the way they want to do it.
Right.
Well, this is when the screw upshappen because they will put

(22:44):
lights a different color in thehouse.
I have literally been in houseswhere I walked.
They had the same recess lights.
One color in the hallway, onecolor in rooms, and one color in
in a bathroom.
And I was like, this, these arethe same lights.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (22:57):
pay attention.

jeremy-host665_1_07- (22:58):
attention.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (22:59):
Yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (22:59):
Mm-hmm.
So I say, turn every damn lighton in the house.
'cause I want you, that's whenyou'll

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110 (23:05):
Stewart Stewart, remind us what's the,
what's the range of number?
Uh, like 2007, whatever that I.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (23:12):
2,700 is optimal.
I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (23:16):
I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (23:16):
There you go.
Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025 (23:18):
acceptable.
Anything else?
Thrown the trash?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (23:20):
Yeah.
I mean,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_11081 (23:21):
There you go.

jeremy-host665_1_ (23:22):
Incandescent, like the old traditional, I
think it was more like around2,400.
You can't get that far with LED.
You can get to about 2,700,which is, that's, that's
preferable for me.
Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (23:33):
And that's warm light, basically
kids, it doesn't look like a, aneon, um, strip.
Um, that's warm light.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (23:40):
if you get to 500, or I'm sorry,
5,000, it's like you're, it'slike operating room, you know?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (23:48):
And they

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (23:48):
So bad.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (23:50):
I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (23:50):
Oh God.
Who wants us,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (23:52):
Yeah.
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (23:53):
Lord?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 (23:53):
That would burn my, my bald head.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (23:56):
Mm.
Everybody just looked like asmurf.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (23:59):
Oh my God.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (24:00):
Yeah, it's horrible.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (24:02):
Well, um, one of the, and this, oh
God, this was, this is one ofthose moments of where like
sometimes you go on these toursand nobody lives in the home.
Um, and sometimes it's clearthat people are actually living
in the home and I can't imagineliving in the home and then
putting the home on the tour.
Um,'cause you, you kind of haveto move out.

(24:22):
When that happens, right?
So we were at one, and I won'tsay what city this was in
because I don't wanna embarrassanybody to death.
but we were in this house and wewere turning the corner and I
saw this woman come out of, uh,one of the restrooms and it was
just a powder room.
And so I knew it wasn't verybig, and when her face came
outta the bathroom, it was likehorrified.
And I was like, oh, is it thatugly?

(24:43):
walk in.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (24:45):
did she sha

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (24:47):
She had not sat in the toilet.
No, she had, she had not donethat.
But on the back of the toiletwere feminine products.
Some had been opened lip gloss.
And a pair of panties

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (25:03):
Oh my God.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (25:04):
and like it was in the early morning
and I'm like, oh my God.
The home, like this is clearlythe home.
Like nobody has been in thisroom to do it.
Like it wasn't this woman thatwalked out.
'cause she, she, she was anolder lady, right?
She wouldn't have been wearingthese panties.
You know, another thing that wesee a lot of times when you go
on these tours, like, and I seeit more of this, like if you go
into like a bigger city, or likewhen I've been to sometimes in

(25:28):
Louisville, sometimes they willuse.
The craziest colors, likewhatever designers there,
they've decided to do, like,they're gonna boss the wall,
y'all, they're doing everything.
They're doing neon orange,they're doing purple.
They're doing like reallydramatic.
And I'm like, this is not this.
I mean, if this is thehomeowner, I love it, but if
it's

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (25:46):
Have you ever heard of a color called
Aine?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (25:50):
yes, I am.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (25:52):
Okay.
Have I told you the story ofAine?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (25:54):
Yes.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (25:55):
Okay.
Well, those, the listeningaudience will make it very
quickly.
Uh, showcase House.
Many years ago, decorate and Iwas the, uh,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (26:03):
minion

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:04):
and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (26:04):
the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:04):
the designer wanted to do

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (26:06):
regime,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:06):
ine.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (26:07):
So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:07):
the front door was ine, the bookcase
was ine.
The d Drapers

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (26:10):
ine.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:10):
ine the

jeremy-host665_1_07-24 (26:10):
curtains

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:11):
are ine and let's just say by the
end of it, and ine is a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (26:15):
kind

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:15):
of

jeremy-host665_1_07-2 (26:16):
perfectly

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11 (26:16):
burgundy color is the only way the color
of a grape.
Right.
I hate ine and it all goes backto one of these showcase houses

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (26:28):
Machine

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (26:28):
ine.
so when these decorators paintthings

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (26:31):
neon

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113 (26:31):
orange, you know, that takes me back to
ine.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (26:39):
Yeah.
Um,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (26:41):
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (26:41):
I the only reason why I mention
that is because like, I wantpeople to be inspired and I want
people to be able to take thingsfrom, you know, whatever they
see.
Like, and I don't wanna like harharbor that in any capacity, but
I also don't want think peopleto think, oh, this is what
people are doing now because nopeople are not doing that.
Somebody's wanting to catch yourattention.
Like, that's, that's what thatis.
Right?

(27:01):
That's.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (27:02):
a lot of people go to these things
because they're like, oh, thisis, this is what's happening.
This is what we're looking for.
This is what we're doing.
It's like mm-hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (27:08):
You know, I've said this, just
because you can, doesn't meanyou should.
Right?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (27:12):
is Right?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (27:13):
Um,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (27:14):
when we go to Atlanta, one of the
things is sometimes we'll end uphaving to sit in the floor, in
the hallway eating the Devil'sChicken,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (27:22):
look it

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (27:22):
it up.
If you don't know what I mean.
I'm not saying the name today.
They get nothing from us.
And, um.
What you do is then, now you'reat eye level with people's shoes
and cool locks and all thisstuff, and there are designers
in Atlanta, right, and shopowners.
Well, Jeremy.

(27:42):
dresses conservatively.
Stewart dresses conservatively.
I got my gray t-shirt on.
I'm not there to impressanybody.
I just need to get my work done.
These people show up in Shawsand bedazzled boots with their
teal colored and every piece ofjunk.
And so I called them now mylittle pony, right?
look at me, look at me, look atme.

(28:03):
Look at me.
And when I see my little ponywalking past, I look at it and
go,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (28:09):
would

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (28:10):
you really wanna hire that to
decorate your house?
Because if they don't know howto dress themselves
appropriately, and they looklike a clown.
I don't want you to, and I'msure these clowns are the ones
that are Do uhhuh, they doingthat neon orange and because
it's special.
Right?
It's special.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24 (28:28):
special.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (28:30):
it

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (28:31):
No

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (28:31):
No one else will have it.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (28:34):
For a reason.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (28:36):
Hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (28:37):
There

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (28:38):
I, for me, I think that's, that rep
said like the horse.
Oh no.
You know what other thing, okay,so this is, I was just recently
on a tour, um, and I noticedeverybody was doing wide plank
floors, which I'm not, I'm notagainst wide plank floors.
I prefer the smaller ones, butwhatever.
But what everybody had in everyhome was grayed roused.

(29:05):
Uh, trendy looking floors, and Ijust, every time I look at it,
and we've said this on herebefore,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110 (29:09):
Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (29:10):
oh, this is gonna look so dated in
five years.
So dated, dated.
So I guess when I, like I said,I don't wanna harbor anybody's
inspiration, but I want you,when you go into that, I just
don't want people Yeah, yeah.
I just want people

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (29:26):
Well, you know what just reminded me
is I'm doing a, um, a remodeland, uh, it's a house in
subdivision here in town andover hills.
So the house is what,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (29:37):
20

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (29:38):
years old?
25 years old.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24 (29:39):
actually

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (29:39):
just start, I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (29:40):
just started

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (29:41):
in

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (29:41):
Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (29:41):
as

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (29:42):
well.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (29:43):
it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (29:43):
26 years old.
Yeah,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (29:45):
Okay.
Going towards going toward 30.
Okay.
Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (29:48):
Yeah.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (29:48):
so this house, um, it's, it's, you
know, we're, we've actuallyspent more effort on getting the
outside done and new windows andthose kind of things.
But now it's turned attention tothe, the bathrooms.
But the first floor has.
Uh, hardwood floors on themajority of it, and it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (30:04):
stained

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:04):
like that pretty horrific yellow oaky
color that she hates, but,we'll, you know, we're not doing
the bottom floor right now.
We'll get there.
But what she said to me is, Iwanna put hardwood floors

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (30:15):
on the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:15):
the second floor

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (30:17):
in

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:17):
the, in the hallway,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (30:18):
and

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:19):
then the kids' bedrooms will be
carpeted and the master i'll,I'll do hardwood floors.
And she said, what kind ofhardwood floors should I do?
Kind of.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (30:26):
what you

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:27):
you just said, water planks and
stuff like that.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (30:29):
And

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:29):
And then we'll rip out the bottom
floor downstairs To it.
And I said, well, why would youwanna rip them out?
And she said,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (30:36):
said,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (30:36):
well, because, um, I don't like that
color.
And I said, well, no, no, youcan sand the floors and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (30:41):
and

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (30:42):
them.
They're oak and, and they're notred oak, they're just oak,
right?
So,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (30:45):
So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:46):
uh, I even have that as an
advantage.
I, we can stain them like a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (30:48):
them.
I,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:49):
nice walnut color or brown color.
She said, well.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (30:52):
well.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (30:52):
But they're just, again, you'll tell
me that two inch boards, threeinch boards, whatever that
typical size was during thattimeframe, so, so they're
smaller size.
She says, is, isn't that kind ofold fashioned and dated looking?
I said, no, no, I think that'sclassic and timeless.
And I said,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (31:09):
if

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:09):
you stand at the right color.
I would never rip those out, andI just repeat the, the, that
same size upstairs.
I think that's kind of classic.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (31:17):
Now

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:17):
if you want, you know, wider plank,
actually go for it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (31:21):
But

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_1 (31:21):
honestly, I think it would feel peculiar
to do the wider plank in thatage of house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (31:27):
because

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:27):
then it feels like, it feels like it
has been remodeled

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (31:30):
As

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113 (31:30):
opposed to that size.
Feels

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (31:32):
age

dwayne_2_07-24-202 (31:32):
appropriate, size appropriate.
Plus we just saved a lot ofmoney by not ripping them out.
So

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (31:38):
Just

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113 (31:39):
because

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (31:39):
people

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:40):
are doing it doesn't mean you have
to.
And sometimes

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (31:42):
what

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:42):
you already have is good.
You just gotta reimagine it alittle bit.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (31:47):
right,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (31:47):
Right?
Mm-hmm.
It's the same thing.
I mean, know, handover,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (31:52):
for people who aren't here,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (31:53):
it's very traditional.
Mm-hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (31:56):
Oh yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (31:57):
Two

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (31:57):
story,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (31:58):
you know.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (31:59):
know, lady window above front door.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110 (32:02):
There's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24 (32:02):
There's,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11 (32:02):
ranches, there's some not ranches, you

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (32:04):
you know.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (32:05):
in this house that I'm getting
ready to start, you know, that'swhat it is.
It's the two story brick acul-de-sac garage on the side.
But she is very modern, whichkind of goes back to our other.
So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (32:18):
Hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (32:18):
she's like,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (32:18):
So this is gonna be.

stuart_1_07-24-2025 (32:19):
traditional in the front and party in the
back, because.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (32:25):
call that a mullet, and Billy Billy
Ray is gone.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (32:29):
Right, and she's literally gutting the
entire first floor of the houseand taking all of those
traditional elements out.
I said, oh, so what kind of trimand new doors are we gonna put
down here?
She goes, oh, I wasn't gonna dothat.
I said, yeah, you are.
I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (32:44):
I said, if you're

stuart_1_07-24-202 (32:45):
streamlining

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (32:46):
this kitchen and streamlining
bathroom

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (32:48):
and waterfall.
islands and stuff,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24- (32:51):
Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (32:52):
we can't have fluted, trim and six
panel doors.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_1137 (32:56):
Right, right.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (32:56):
just is not gonna happen.
So, so yeah, it's gonna be a bigMary of, of

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (33:02):
Is she gonna do it?
Is she listening?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (33:04):
Yeah.
Yeah.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (33:05):
Okay, good.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110 (33:06):
because it's a new contractor and he
actually called me yesterday andhe's like, listen, she wants
what she wants, we're gonna giveher what she wants.
I said, that's fine.
I said, but she's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2 (33:13):
Gonna,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (33:14):
new doors and trim, even though she
doesn't know she needs it.
So,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (33:19):
well, I think I'd like to wrap up
today's podcast by telling you astory about a tour that we did
probably.
Eight years ago, and this was inLouisville and you know it,
these, I think, were these allon the same street?
I wanna think this was is notville.
Well, they, no.
Well, I I think that was wherethis one was.

(33:41):
Um, yeah, no, I know this iswhere it was.
'cause we, it's just stuck in mybrain ever since.
So we were going through thehouse and they had a sound
system in the house and theywere playing music all through
and it was all very religious.
Okay, fine.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (33:56):
Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (33:57):
play, You know, it's your home, you
play what you want.
Right?
but we will just say there weresome interesting design choices
and it just felt like it wastrying a little too hard.
Right?
Okay.
So then you get, you get to thebasement, and the weird thing
about this house was like thebedrooms that were upstairs had
been done, um, but they weren'tlike overly done.

(34:20):
Well, then you get to thebasement and there's three.
Kids bedrooms downstairs, whichI found really odd.
Um, because, you know, it justdoesn't seem right to have three
kids in the basement and it hadfull walk out in the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (34:34):
Okay.
Stop.
Stop you there.
It's kind of a, a religiousforefront, right?
Because children are, to be, um,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (34:42):
Uh,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (34:43):
not, heard from,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (34:44):
Okay.
well.
well.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_1108 (34:45):
that's what

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (34:46):
not seen, not heard.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (34:47):
what I thought.
Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (34:47):
We'll

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (34:48):
can see you, but we

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (34:48):
stick them in the basement.
So they were, it was in thebasement.
The first, uh, the first room wewent into was like a baby themed
room.
I say that because

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11 (35:01):
Nursery.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (35:05):
it had a regular bed in it, but

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (35:08):
Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (35:08):
of the decor and everything in
there was very child oriented,like, like infant oriented.
Okay.
Didn't think much about it atthe time.
Okay.
So we're like, oh, okay.
So this is like baby, you know,Hey, they have a baby

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (35:24):
Bed in a full,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (35:26):
and a full, well, I mean, I think it
was a queen.
I mean, it was a good sized bed.
And I'm like, what?
What the hell?
Okay.
So then we go to the secondbedroom and it's wicked themed.
Wicked, the musical themed.
And we're like, okay.
we're like, you know, half theroom's green, half the room's
pink.
You know, whatever movie or a

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 (35:43):
so you think that was.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-20 (35:45):
Room.
Well, yeah.
So we just kinda walked in.
We're like, okay, this is alittle more interesting.
Well, then we go into the thirdbedroom and it is, it's, and
it's baseball themed.
I'm like, okay, well, they

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (35:59):
Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-2 (35:59):
baseball.
All right,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113 (36:00):
Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_ (36:01):
So then there's the bathroom that's
on the floor.
And again, this is all in thebasement.
You walk into the bathroom, ithas six urinals to the wall.
Everything is tiled, floor,walls, ceiling, no barriers
between the urinals.
And then on the other side, andthis is the odd, the God's

(36:22):
honest truth, the other side ofthe room six shower heads people
to take showers.
No dividers all open.
And I looked at my, looked at myfriends looked at me'cause their
eyes got really big.
we all said at the same time,they're like, do you think they

(36:42):
shoot porn in this house?
We just decided this is wherethemed rooms, where they were
taming porn.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_11081 (36:50):
Lord, mercy.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-202 (36:53):
Now, I cannot confirm or deny that
that's what that house was for,but that to this day, all still
discuss the six urinals, the sixshowers, and the oddly designed
rooms.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (37:09):
Well, here's what I understand.
Why would, why were they playingreligious music?
I don't understand how thosetwo,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (37:13):
you

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_11372 (37:14):
okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025 (37:14):
you see It was just like.
you know, sometimes like, was ita front, like I don't, it was
the craziest, I mean, I'mtelling you, it still sticks
with me today because I'm like,I can see the white tile.
It even had like little baseballmats at the base of the, the, I
was like at the urinals.
I just remember the shower headsand it was clear like, you know,
the towel hooks were on thewall.

(37:35):
Right, like this is not likewhere people go in to
individually shower this.
like, over God.
They put this on the tour.
They invited people in.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 (37:45):
wow.
Well, they were looking for newcast members.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_1 (37:47):
I guess, I don't know.
So if, if any of our listenersout there have any more
information about this house, Ido wanna know, so well,
listeners, thank you as alwaysfor listening to this week's
episode.
Hopefully, uh, we inspired youin some kind of way and at least
made you laugh along the way.
Uh, if you have not downloadedour mobile shopping app, house

(38:07):
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It's linked down in the shownotes below.
And until next time, we'll seeyou then.
Bye bye.