October 13, 2024 • 33 mins
Dean talks about bedroom designs and about his vacation friends. Dean provides information on the building an indoor pool. He explains the differences between a certified roofer and licensed roofer.
Dean says setting up the bedroom set and design could help create a more spacious room.
Plus, Dean says to lighten a room and avoid any glares on bedroom items.
Dean says setting up the bedroom set and design could help create a more spacious room.
Plus, Dean says to lighten a room and avoid any glares on bedroom items.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, welcome
to home where. Every week we help you better understand
that place where you live. I am Dean Sharp the
House Whisper here with you live like I am every
weekend except for the last two because I was on
(00:20):
vacation Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time, Sunday
mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome to our program.
Welcome to the second hour of our program. We are
talking about bedroom specifically bedroom design today. We're going to
get back to that in just a bit. We're going
to be right now at top of the hour. We're
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taking calls. But can I say something? Of course I can,
because I'm it's my microphone right here. Let me get
on my soapbox. When are you not on your soapbox?
All right? I get it, I get it. I just
want to say something about design in general. You know,
when we were in Vermont, I had a converse sation
started up with some folks that we call vacation friends,
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which Tina and Robin just absolutely drives them crazy. When
Don and I make vacation friends because they don't want
to talk to anybody when we're on vacation. But Don
and I like making vacation friends. Anyway, we're making some
vacation friends and the subject of what we do came
up and so on, and somebody asked me, you know what,
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what's your what's the what's your real heart when it
comes to doing the radio show that you do as
a home designer? And here is the thing, here is
the thing I love. I mean, I'm about to go
back to the phones answer some design and some construction questions.
I've been a builder for years and year, I mean
decades now, uh, and I love all of that and
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I absolutely love it. But if you were to ask
me what lies at the at the root of what
my secret agenda is for home? If I could have
my ultimate wish come true, it would be changing the
national story about design. Design okay, because it's just that
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one phrase that you hear me say all the time,
design matters. Most billions of dollars are spent every year
on home improvement. And you would think that that means
that most homes would you know, actually improve, and yet
they don't really because there's a missing piece. Design, design
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matters most. And the thing is that most of us
mainstream homeowners have never been taught this truth, the importance
of it, the priority of it. The wealthy have always
had great design at their disposal. I know this because
I do some of those designs for them, and they're
great designs. But the rest of us, whose homes mean
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more to us because we have been the ones who've
scraped and sacrificed more to have them and to keep them,
we are far more likely to accept that when it
comes to your home, Yeah, you know, you get what
you get. You know, we this is the home you got.
And the fact of the matter is I want to
change that story, and I want to change it so
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badly because your home, there's nothing more important to it.
It's not going to be the design that ends up
in the fancy magazine somewhere right some big celebrity home,
some big layout and rooms that they've never even walked
into or ever use. But your home. It's the center
of your life. And that is what brings me to
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this microphone every weekend, helping you change it, and not
just change it by fixing the leaky toilet, by change
it in terms of applying really really great design to
the average home to make the ordinary extraordinary. All right,
that was my thing. All right, well, let's squeeze a
call in. We're going to take a couple of more
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or calls at least before we get back to the
subject of the bedroom. Let's see here, I want to
talk to Arthur. Hey, Arthur, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'd appreciate any thoughts on building a very short indoor
pool where you swim in place using a harness. The
concrete pool would be three feet deep at the back
corner of the new house. And for one thing, I
was wondering if it would help to heat that little
airspace between the water and the pool cover, so that
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by keeping that air a few degrees warmer, it might
reduce evaporation. I haven't ever heard of anybody doing that.
And generally, how to protect against damage to the house
and the foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, So indoor pool, covered pool, Yeah, I mean that's
just cover. But indoor, indoor, indoor Okay, So a couple
of things to know about an indoor pool. First of all,
I don't know if you are you already talking to
pool designers and.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Eating a but I haven't gotten to that point, Yet
it cheeks like there's an awful lot of different ideas
there are.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
There are a lot of different ideas. If you are
doing a swim in place pool and you get you
want to do it out of concrete as opposed to
buying a swim spot, I think so, yeah, okay, so
just know, just know that that when it comes to
swim in place, well actually just lap pools in general.
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There's varying opinion on this, but I would say that
you probably want to go deeper than three feet, okay,
just a little bit more efficient, maybe four or five
at the most. You don't need to go beyond five
for sure, but right about four feet or so. I
don't know if anybody, by the way, heard about this
controversy in and that's for swimming efficiency. And now you're
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talking to a guy who's not only built several indoor
pools but also swims just like every other day in
an indoor pool, and so not at my house. But
did you hear the controversy that happened in Paris with
all the swimmers, the fact that that no world records
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were set in Paris, even though we've got some of
the best swimmers ever in history there, and the criticism
was that the that the Paris Olympic pools that they
they they built it too shallow and they were getting
too much wave reverberation back off the bottom of the
pool to make their swimmers most efficient. So anyway, that's
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something to worth looking into. Anyway, the depth is not
the critical element here as far as the space itself
the key to indoor pool. And I wouldn't worry so
much about the heating because the with an indoor pool,
the space of the room and the pool worked together
to enable a balance of atmospheric heat control in the pool.
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But the key is this, with an indoor pool, there
are three things you want to be looking at. Number one,
you want to be looking at the lowest possible chlorine situation. Okay,
so you want to you know, you want to look
into all of the non you know, like the the
the saline options to every pool, by the way, has
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chlorine in. It's just a question of how the chlorine
comes about, whether you're pouring chlorine directly in or whether
your systems are creating chlorine gas in the midst of it,
which uh saline and ultraviolet and so on. Douce so
you want to look at that because the air inside
it in closed space, you don't want chlorine gas building
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up inside that space, so you want the best possible,
lowest possible chlorine situation for the pool. Secondly, uh you
want ventilation. Ventilation is critical, and you need to talk
to an experienced indoor pool designer who is in builder,
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who is who can tell you the specs on how
many air changes of that air space need to happen
per hour in order to keep the space, the breathable
air inside the space as absolutely fresh and clean as possible.
And then thirdly, you need that air not just fresh
and clean and air change, but you need a dehumidified
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because the indoor spaces, you know that water is going
to evaporate and it's going to evaporate into the interior
spaces on the walls and the ceiling and so on.
So we need to take that humidity out of the
air so that everything, you know, nothing gets moldy, mildyly
and gross inside being interior space. Those are your three
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primary concerns because ideally you're going to keep that pool
water right at about anywhere between seventy eight and eighty
two degrees that's optional, optimal fitness, competitive swimming water temperature
and that's warm for a pool. And now it's in
an enclosed space, so so dehumidification, airflow and then the
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lowest amount of a chlorine in order to keep the
pool fresh, but not to allow too much chlorine into
the air. Arthur, thanks for your question. I'm up against
a break, running a little late, got to go. Good
luck on that pool, and if you have any other questions,
you can, you know, reach out via email through the station.
You know, I'll try and give you any other advice.
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Is a very very interesting question, and not one I
don't think we've ever taken an indoor pool question before.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Thanks for joining us on the program today. Gosh, what
a gorgeous day it is outside. I hope you've got
plans to get out there and enjoy the day fully
right up until Bill this evening, when it's time to
sit down and watch the Dodgers dominate the Mets. That's
what I'm saying, That's what I'm calling it for today,
first game of the Pennant series. Gonna do it. We're
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gonna win. It's gonna just be five games straight through
the end. Done. That's my hope. Anyway, go Dodgers. All right,
we're talking about bedroom design. But I'm taking calls and
I'm loving it, and we're gonna take one or two
more calls just this segment year before we get back
to designing your bedroom because we've got so many calls
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on the board. I want to talk to Shelley. Hey, Shelley,
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Marning Dan, enjoy your show, and happy birthday to Tina.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I have a question about ruff. I recently got my
roof repaired and they said that my tiles Spanish titles
are all looking good, but the paper underneath needs to
be replaced. So my question is can I use my
old tiles? And then what's the approximate cost of that?
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And as I'm looking for a roofer, being confused as
what the difference between a sort of five roofer and
a licensed riffer is.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Ah? Okay, all right, really good questions. Okay, So first
of all, yeah, it is, so you think about about
it this way. A roof job can involve several different
phases tear off and that's just removing everything off of
an old roof and starting from scratch. In that case,
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you've got to pay for all of the demo, all
the removal, then all the new papering underneath, and then
new tiles and labor and materials. That's your most expensive
complete roofing job. Next to that, then we've got situations
where we can preserve the tile that's there and just repaper,
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which is the kind of situation you're looking at. In
this case, there's no tear off, and there's no additional material,
well just a teeny bit of additional material, and you're
just paying the labor for removal and replacements. So yes,
it is going to be less expensive than if you
just start off with new tiles. So if your tiles
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are in good shape, and quite often when it comes
to Spanish tile, they are because you know, that's the
thing about a good Spanish tile, I mean it could
last a century or more. You know, spend some time
traveling through Europe. You go to Italy, you find terra
cotta tiles that are up on roofs that have been
there for two or three hundred years. But the main
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waterproofing element of a modern roof is not the tile,
but the membrane, the sheathing membrane underneath. And so yeah,
that is that's where when that starts to go. Now
you're inviting the possibility of leaks. So you want to
find a roofer who is a willing to take the
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time to carefully remove the tiles. And I say this
because that's where the cost element, the additional cost element
for materials come in. Our expectation is that if a roof,
if the tiles are in decent shape, and a roofer
is uh doing a quality job taking their time on
removal reasonably, you could expect I'm three to five percent
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breakage of the existing tiles. Now, some homeowners have extra
tiles sitting around. I don't know if you do or not,
do you.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I I have like three or five Yeah, that's that's
not three or five percent.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So so what that means is, uh, it means that
we're going to, uh, we're going to first shop out
a matching tile. And I say matching tile with air
quotes here because even if it's the exact same tile,
the exact same color, exact same manufacture, but you know
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it's twenty years later that tile color is going to
be different because it hasn't been exposed to twenty or
thirty years of UV light and baking in the sun
and weather and all of that. So the key is
making sure that your roofer has this design concept in mind,
which is that we're going to prioritize which roof planes
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are most visible, like, for instance, the roof plane that's
visible from the street, and possibly the one visible from
the backyard. Depending on the shape and the contours of
your roof, there are probably areas of the roof, maybe
side yard roof planes, or hidden a little thing here
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or a little thing there that aren't actually visible or
easy to see from the ground. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna steal as we bring. We're going
to steal tiles from the areas of the roof that
aren't really that visible from the ground, and we're going
to use those old tiles to replace the broken ones
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that happened on the main plane, so that what we
get when we're done is all your old tiles, all visible,
all clean, no color changes, and if there is a need,
which there will be, for a few tiles to be
replaced that aren't quite the same color yet we're going
to stick those in places that that don't matter visually
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from the street or from the backyard. So you're going
to just prioritize those views and uh and put those
in those other places. But yeah, that's and that's what
you're looking at.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And how much would that What is the cost difference
with me just having you know, new versus just the pace,
What should I expect to pay to do them?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh? You know what? That's that's it's not easy for
me to give you a quote on that because it
has a lot to do with the contours of your roof,
the size of your roof, the pitch of your roof,
the quality of the existing tile. There are just a
lot of factors. But as always, I'm going to tell
you that yet it's going to be less. It's going
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to be a significant cost difference because you are not
buying new tile for your whole roof. You're just buying
a few replacement tiles. You're still paying for the labor
for the install, but the material cost is going to
be considerably considerably less. And like always, the way to
find out who is giving you the right price and
what this whole thing should cost is that you can
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vet two, three, even four really qualified roofers and have
them each bid the same way, and you're going to
look at those bids and you're going to see just
like a Venn diagram. You're going to see like, oh yeah,
look at that. They're all within a certain amount of money.
This is what my roof is going to cost.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And at least to my last question, what's I just
started shopping for roofers. What's the difference between certified license?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and I'm up
against a break, so I'm going to answer really quickly.
All roofers have to be licensed, all of them. They
should have to be licensed by the state of California.
They have to have a roofing contractor's license. Some roofers
are certified, and what that means is the brand of tile,
like if they install GAF tiles or they install, you know,
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certaintyed tiles. The roofing manufacturers will sometimes say, hey, if
you pass our certification course, then you can call yourself
certified for a particular brand of tile installed. Certification not
as important as licensing. Licensing is absolutely critical for everybody.
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Some are certified installers of certain brands. But that's a
private business thing that's going on. Does that makes sense?
All right? Thank you Shelly for the question.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
K six.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, and yes,
could it be a more perfect fall day? I don't
think so. Looks pretty beautiful. I hope wherever you are
across across our a great nation right now, you are
experiencing as beautiful a fall day as we are here
in southern California right now. All right, we're back from
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our vacation in Vermont and we're back at it getting
it done. Here on the show. We're talking about designing
a better bedroom and we're diving back in right now.
So when it comes to bedroom design, fundamentally, this has
probably been one of the sticking points for a lot
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of people, and that is you think about, oh, you're
going to design this whole thing around the bedroom set. Okay,
this is the problem that I have and that I
want to warn you about. I want to warn you
about the bedroom set air quotes set. Okay, I want
you to break loose from fixed stories at the furniture
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store about the bedroom set of course, the furniture store
has an entire set on sale for you there showing
you everything. And rightly, so it's not a crime, right,
nobody's doing anything wrong. It's just the idea that somehow
when you go to the furniture store, you need to
come home with the whole set, which means the bedroom,
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the bed, the headboard, the footboard, the night stands, the
dress or the armoir, you know, like the next thing.
You know. So the thing is, most bedrooms these days,
you know, may not have room for the whole bedroom set.
And I just don't get yourself wrapped up in that. Right,
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you decide ahead of time what it is that you're
looking for. There are so many ways to juge up
a bedroom that go beyond having to for the set. Okay,
now do bet should bedroom furniture correspond? Absolutely? Does it
have to match? No, it does not. It just has
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to correspond. It has to work together, it has to
compliment each other. Okay, those of you who are on
a tight budget, I'll tell you this. You can go
here's one of the the the rare instances when I
actually recommend that you go on to YouTube and look
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up I built my own headboard and find the hundreds
of myriad ways in which you can actually mount a
permanent headboard, a DIY headboard, gorgeous diway headboard to your wall,
and save yourself tons of money when it comes to
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purchasing a bedroom set. Look who is walking in right now.
It's Tina and Christy bo Look at you, guys, elephant,
Look at you and your fingers are all straight because
you've got wet nail polish. You guys have been to
the nail salon. Sit down, Christy, get over here. All right,
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I've got to be faithful to what I'm talking about.
You guys, hang on for a second. Anyway, So the
bedroom said, just don't feel obligated to do that whole thing, right,
I e. Do you have a big closet, right, there's
a really good chance if you really concentrate on proper
closet design and organization, meaning a modular system where you
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can control hanging, and you've got a room for shoes
and you've got maybe room for even drawers in the closet,
then you don't need a dresser. Right. If the bedroom
is an important waking retreat, like we talked about before,
a dresser could be standing in your way of being
replaced with an elegant writing desk or work desk or
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a chair for reading, if that is how you're going
to spend time in your bedroom, or if you're more
of a minimalist and you want a more classic look,
Now you're really gonna think I'm crazy, but I'm only
talking to minimalists here. Then remove the closet, open up
a little bit more space in the bedroom, and replace
it with a beautiful free standing wardrobe. Oh yeah, and
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if you have a giant closet okay, and a giant room,
then you can get super creative. Then you do one
of the first I would say uber creative designs I
ever had a chance to do early on in my career,
where I designed a twelve thousand square foot Italian villa
in Brentwood Park and we had realtors come in to
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preview the villa before we opened it up for public,
and they walked into these bedrooms, the guest bedrooms, and
they all they saw, because you know, are claim to
fame with this was a as authentic an Italian villa
as we could find. And they walked into the bedrooms
and they all came out saying Dean, Dean, I mean,
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the house is beautiful, but we got a problem. I'm like,
what's the problem. They're like, in each of the guest
bedrooms there's just a big wardrobe, a big, like eight
foot tall wardrobe. I mean they're gorgeous, they're antique wardrobes,
They're absolutely stunning. But I mean a house of this
magnitude needs a walking closet. And I said, you know what,
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I get that, but I wanted to keep the house
as authentic as possible. I said, you really should go
check out the wardrobe. Those are roomy wardrobes. And they're like, Dan,
we know they're big wardrobes, but this house needs walk
in closets in each of the bedrooms. Like you know what,
just you really these are really roomy wardrobes. So anyway,
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I actually led three of the realtors back upstairs and
we opened up the wardrobes for them to discover that
I had taken the back off of these antique wardrobes
and mounted them against the wall to hide the walk
in closet door because I didn't want the I didn't
want you to see the walking closet in the room.
I just wanted you to see this free standing, beautiful
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piece of furniture like it would have shown up in
an eighteenth century Italian villa, and the inside it was
very Narnia like. So you literally walk through the wardrobe
to get into the expansive walking closet. Beyond the point
is there are lots of tricks that you can play,
a lot of freedom that you've got in the bedroom.
And on the opposite side of what I just described,
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if you don't if you can utilize any closet space
at all to maximize your clothing organization, then you may
not need the dresser, or you may not need the
armoir or or whatever. So just don't make the mistake
of going to the furniture store and buying the set
air quotes and then come home and say, Okay, now
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we got to figure out how to squeeze this all
into this space. No, no, no. You make your design decisions first,
and you go looking for specific pieces of furniture to
make it work. And they don't have to match, they
don't have to all belong together. They just have to
work together. Right, So you find the beautiful headboard and
then a couple of night stands, and you're like you
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know what, These aren't part of the same set, but
they are beautiful. There you go. Now you're on the
right track, all right, more when we return.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We're talking about bedrooms today. Design and design as it
applies to your bedroom one of my favorite subjects because
it's trickier than most people think. Bedrooms are. They're just
for you. I mean, they really are mostly just for you, right,
So of all rooms, this is not the room that
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you want to You would design like a magazine spread
that you see on the internet or you know, on
a Pinterest board somewhere. You can get some inspiration from it.
But the real real heart of the bedroom is you
figuring out what works for you. But I want you
to use good design principles as always with everything. So
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we've already talked about your perspective in the room, pairing
down the stuff in the room to the design essentials,
you know, you know, allocating what you can to the
closets if that's even possible, not buying too much furniture
for the bedroom. Of course, I already touched on this,
but I'm gonna underscore this look at the room from
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the places where you're gonna spend most of your time.
If there is a seating area, then sit and look
around and decide what should you be seeing outside the windows?
What should you be seeing in the room. Mostly, though,
of all the places, right, I want you to prioritize
not just the look of the room when you come
in the door, but the look of the room when
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you're in bed. This is such a key deciding factor
for so much bedroom design. What can you see from bed?
I have walked into an amazing amount of bedrooms in
which there have been some, you know, big mistakes made,
even high end stuff like okay, there's a fireplace in
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the room, and the fireplace is down on the floor.
That looks great, great in you know, in a photograph
of the room, and like, oh, look at that fireplace,
just cozy, you know, I sit down on the floor
like a normal fireplace is. But you're gonna be in bed,
you would put You wouldn't put the TV on the floor,
would you? When you're in bed you can't see it.
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Why would you put the fireplace on the floor where
you can't see it from your bed? So these are
critical perspectives. Also underscoring what I talk to you about
all the time. Recess can lighting. Of all the rooms,
of all the rooms in your home that should not
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have too many or any recess can lights, the bedroom
is at the top of the list. Why because can
lights are sticking down out of the ceiling and you,
of all places in your home, are lying horizontally staring
up at the ceiling. Glare, glare from recess can lights.
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I have seen people make the mistake. They're like, oh, well,
you know what I've decided to do. The night light
or the reading light that we're going to use. We're
just gonna put two recess cans in the ceiling shining
down on each side of the bed for our reading lights.
Big mistake, big mistake in most cases. Why glare. You're
sitting there in bed and as you kind of slouch
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down in your pill all of a sudden, your eye
starts catching that light. Not a good thing. Not a
good thing. Let's draw some pendant lights down out of
the ceiling. If we want ceiling mounted reading lights or
sconce lights that are reading lights from each side of
the bed, or just you know, table lamps on top
of the nightstand. You got lots and lots of options.
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Let's not go with the recess can light because you're
gonna be staring straight up at them. Okay, Now, if
you have them already and you're like, oh no, you're right,
what do I do? Do I just not? Then let's
get some change out the trims. The trims are inexpensive.
Change out the trim on that light to get a
gimbal that means basically an adjustable directional light and point
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them toward the walls. I will say it again. I
will say it, you know, day after day, week after week,
year after year, until it finally soaks in for everybody.
Lighting design in a home is all about this. We
do not light a room. We light things in a room.
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We do not light rooms. We light things in a room.
That is the general and all important principal rule. So
if you got art on the wall, sure shine a
little light against that art. Light it up for you,
but avoid glare. And one of the best ways to
evaluate it, even as a novice, it's to lay down
in bed, lay there with your head on your pillow
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and look around the room and ask the question, what
do I want to see? And not want to see
from this position. Okay, remember that bedrooms are tactile. Of
all rooms, this is a unique place where you spend
a great amount of time actually still awake, but with
your eyes closed, okay, or in the dark, or with
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your eyes kind of blurry and half open. Bedrooms are
all about tactile feel, all right, The softness of the bed,
what the floor feels like when your sleepy, half open eyes,
have you flip your legs off the bed and make
that first trip to the bathroom in the middle of
the night, whatever the case may be. Remember the bedroom
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rooms are tactile experiences in many ways, more so than
other rooms in the house. And then, and we're going
to talk about this in a little bit more detail
when we come back to it. The bed. Obviously, the
bed is the focal point of a bedroom. The headboard
is what we might call if the bed is a book,
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a hardcover book, then the headboard is the book cover
of the bed. Okay. And a lot of you were
thinking when I gave the earlier advice, Hey, listen, go
on you know, YouTube and find out how to make
your own custom DIY headboard. Some of you are thinking, well,
the listen I've graduated past apartment dwelling. I don't need
to do that. I can afford to buy a really big,
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beautiful headboard. That's great, but I wasn't just talking to
people on a low budget. One of my favorite headboards
of all time, and it's been years and years since
I saw it, but absolutely I will never forget it.
I saw headboard custom made by the owner with a
sign post on it, and on that headboard were signs
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pointing to everywhere this couple had been together, and they
kept adding to it and adding to it, and you
know what, for their vibe, for who these people were,
for that bedroom, it was absolutely perfect. And what they
had done is instead of colorizing their whole room, which
is always usually a mistake, with a special color, they
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had also right behind the headboard, decided the wall behind
the headboard is a feature wall, and we're gonna put
our special favorite color right there and leave the rest
of the room bright and white and open, which is
always the best best idea. Otherwise you cover the entire
room walls and ceiling in your quote unquote favorite color,
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it gets cavy and weird really really fast. So I
would almost always recommend feature wall over that, and you know,
when we come back, I also want to talk about
how about this, if you have enough room, just if
you do all right, what are the chances of putting
a soaker tub out of the bathroom into the bedroom?
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M all right, yeah, I know, I know. Please, you're like, listen,
are you talking to ritzy people about Nana? Just understand,
if there's enough room, it's one of those options. Sitting area,
writing desk. How about the soaker tub? Anyway, we'll talk
more about that, but when we come back from the
top of the hour break here, we're gonna go back
to the phones. Answer a couple more calls. How's that
(33:35):
sound all right? Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House
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House Whisper here with you live like I am every
weekend except for the last two because I was on
(00:20):
vacation Saturday mornings from six to eight Pacific time, Sunday
mornings nine to noon Pacific time. Welcome to our program.
Welcome to the second hour of our program. We are
talking about bedroom specifically bedroom design today. We're going to
get back to that in just a bit. We're going
to be right now at top of the hour. We're
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taking calls. But can I say something? Of course I can,
because I'm it's my microphone right here. Let me get
on my soapbox. When are you not on your soapbox?
All right? I get it, I get it. I just
want to say something about design in general. You know,
when we were in Vermont, I had a converse sation
started up with some folks that we call vacation friends,
(01:04):
which Tina and Robin just absolutely drives them crazy. When
Don and I make vacation friends because they don't want
to talk to anybody when we're on vacation. But Don
and I like making vacation friends. Anyway, we're making some
vacation friends and the subject of what we do came
up and so on, and somebody asked me, you know what,
(01:26):
what's your what's the what's your real heart when it
comes to doing the radio show that you do as
a home designer? And here is the thing, here is
the thing I love. I mean, I'm about to go
back to the phones answer some design and some construction questions.
I've been a builder for years and year, I mean
decades now, uh, and I love all of that and
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I absolutely love it. But if you were to ask
me what lies at the at the root of what
my secret agenda is for home? If I could have
my ultimate wish come true, it would be changing the
national story about design. Design okay, because it's just that
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one phrase that you hear me say all the time,
design matters. Most billions of dollars are spent every year
on home improvement. And you would think that that means
that most homes would you know, actually improve, and yet
they don't really because there's a missing piece. Design, design
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matters most. And the thing is that most of us
mainstream homeowners have never been taught this truth, the importance
of it, the priority of it. The wealthy have always
had great design at their disposal. I know this because
I do some of those designs for them, and they're
great designs. But the rest of us, whose homes mean
(02:55):
more to us because we have been the ones who've
scraped and sacrificed more to have them and to keep them,
we are far more likely to accept that when it
comes to your home, Yeah, you know, you get what
you get. You know, we this is the home you got.
And the fact of the matter is I want to
change that story, and I want to change it so
(03:16):
badly because your home, there's nothing more important to it.
It's not going to be the design that ends up
in the fancy magazine somewhere right some big celebrity home,
some big layout and rooms that they've never even walked
into or ever use. But your home. It's the center
of your life. And that is what brings me to
(03:38):
this microphone every weekend, helping you change it, and not
just change it by fixing the leaky toilet, by change
it in terms of applying really really great design to
the average home to make the ordinary extraordinary. All right,
that was my thing. All right, well, let's squeeze a
call in. We're going to take a couple of more
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or calls at least before we get back to the
subject of the bedroom. Let's see here, I want to
talk to Arthur. Hey, Arthur, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'd appreciate any thoughts on building a very short indoor
pool where you swim in place using a harness. The
concrete pool would be three feet deep at the back
corner of the new house. And for one thing, I
was wondering if it would help to heat that little
airspace between the water and the pool cover, so that
(04:32):
by keeping that air a few degrees warmer, it might
reduce evaporation. I haven't ever heard of anybody doing that.
And generally, how to protect against damage to the house
and the foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, So indoor pool, covered pool, Yeah, I mean that's
just cover. But indoor, indoor, indoor Okay, So a couple
of things to know about an indoor pool. First of all,
I don't know if you are you already talking to
pool designers and.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Eating a but I haven't gotten to that point, Yet
it cheeks like there's an awful lot of different ideas
there are.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
There are a lot of different ideas. If you are
doing a swim in place pool and you get you
want to do it out of concrete as opposed to
buying a swim spot, I think so, yeah, okay, so
just know, just know that that when it comes to
swim in place, well actually just lap pools in general.
(05:29):
There's varying opinion on this, but I would say that
you probably want to go deeper than three feet, okay,
just a little bit more efficient, maybe four or five
at the most. You don't need to go beyond five
for sure, but right about four feet or so. I
don't know if anybody, by the way, heard about this
controversy in and that's for swimming efficiency. And now you're
(05:53):
talking to a guy who's not only built several indoor
pools but also swims just like every other day in
an indoor pool, and so not at my house. But
did you hear the controversy that happened in Paris with
all the swimmers, the fact that that no world records
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were set in Paris, even though we've got some of
the best swimmers ever in history there, and the criticism
was that the that the Paris Olympic pools that they
they they built it too shallow and they were getting
too much wave reverberation back off the bottom of the
pool to make their swimmers most efficient. So anyway, that's
(06:37):
something to worth looking into. Anyway, the depth is not
the critical element here as far as the space itself
the key to indoor pool. And I wouldn't worry so
much about the heating because the with an indoor pool,
the space of the room and the pool worked together
to enable a balance of atmospheric heat control in the pool.
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But the key is this, with an indoor pool, there
are three things you want to be looking at. Number one,
you want to be looking at the lowest possible chlorine situation. Okay,
so you want to you know, you want to look
into all of the non you know, like the the
the saline options to every pool, by the way, has
(07:25):
chlorine in. It's just a question of how the chlorine
comes about, whether you're pouring chlorine directly in or whether
your systems are creating chlorine gas in the midst of it,
which uh saline and ultraviolet and so on. Douce so
you want to look at that because the air inside
it in closed space, you don't want chlorine gas building
(07:46):
up inside that space, so you want the best possible,
lowest possible chlorine situation for the pool. Secondly, uh you
want ventilation. Ventilation is critical, and you need to talk
to an experienced indoor pool designer who is in builder,
(08:07):
who is who can tell you the specs on how
many air changes of that air space need to happen
per hour in order to keep the space, the breathable
air inside the space as absolutely fresh and clean as possible.
And then thirdly, you need that air not just fresh
and clean and air change, but you need a dehumidified
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because the indoor spaces, you know that water is going
to evaporate and it's going to evaporate into the interior
spaces on the walls and the ceiling and so on.
So we need to take that humidity out of the
air so that everything, you know, nothing gets moldy, mildyly
and gross inside being interior space. Those are your three
(08:52):
primary concerns because ideally you're going to keep that pool
water right at about anywhere between seventy eight and eighty
two degrees that's optional, optimal fitness, competitive swimming water temperature
and that's warm for a pool. And now it's in
an enclosed space, so so dehumidification, airflow and then the
(09:15):
lowest amount of a chlorine in order to keep the
pool fresh, but not to allow too much chlorine into
the air. Arthur, thanks for your question. I'm up against
a break, running a little late, got to go. Good
luck on that pool, and if you have any other questions,
you can, you know, reach out via email through the station.
You know, I'll try and give you any other advice.
(09:37):
Is a very very interesting question, and not one I
don't think we've ever taken an indoor pool question before.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
All right, you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Thanks for joining us on the program today. Gosh, what
a gorgeous day it is outside. I hope you've got
plans to get out there and enjoy the day fully
right up until Bill this evening, when it's time to
sit down and watch the Dodgers dominate the Mets. That's
what I'm saying, That's what I'm calling it for today,
first game of the Pennant series. Gonna do it. We're
(10:14):
gonna win. It's gonna just be five games straight through
the end. Done. That's my hope. Anyway, go Dodgers. All right,
we're talking about bedroom design. But I'm taking calls and
I'm loving it, and we're gonna take one or two
more calls just this segment year before we get back
to designing your bedroom because we've got so many calls
(10:36):
on the board. I want to talk to Shelley. Hey, Shelley,
welcome home.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Marning Dan, enjoy your show, and happy birthday to Tina.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I have a question about ruff. I recently got my
roof repaired and they said that my tiles Spanish titles
are all looking good, but the paper underneath needs to
be replaced. So my question is can I use my
old tiles? And then what's the approximate cost of that?
(11:08):
And as I'm looking for a roofer, being confused as
what the difference between a sort of five roofer and
a licensed riffer is.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Ah? Okay, all right, really good questions. Okay, So first
of all, yeah, it is, so you think about about
it this way. A roof job can involve several different
phases tear off and that's just removing everything off of
an old roof and starting from scratch. In that case,
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you've got to pay for all of the demo, all
the removal, then all the new papering underneath, and then
new tiles and labor and materials. That's your most expensive
complete roofing job. Next to that, then we've got situations
where we can preserve the tile that's there and just repaper,
(11:59):
which is the kind of situation you're looking at. In
this case, there's no tear off, and there's no additional material,
well just a teeny bit of additional material, and you're
just paying the labor for removal and replacements. So yes,
it is going to be less expensive than if you
just start off with new tiles. So if your tiles
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are in good shape, and quite often when it comes
to Spanish tile, they are because you know, that's the
thing about a good Spanish tile, I mean it could
last a century or more. You know, spend some time
traveling through Europe. You go to Italy, you find terra
cotta tiles that are up on roofs that have been
there for two or three hundred years. But the main
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waterproofing element of a modern roof is not the tile,
but the membrane, the sheathing membrane underneath. And so yeah,
that is that's where when that starts to go. Now
you're inviting the possibility of leaks. So you want to
find a roofer who is a willing to take the
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time to carefully remove the tiles. And I say this
because that's where the cost element, the additional cost element
for materials come in. Our expectation is that if a roof,
if the tiles are in decent shape, and a roofer
is uh doing a quality job taking their time on
removal reasonably, you could expect I'm three to five percent
(13:28):
breakage of the existing tiles. Now, some homeowners have extra
tiles sitting around. I don't know if you do or not,
do you.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I I have like three or five Yeah, that's that's
not three or five percent.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So so what that means is, uh, it means that
we're going to, uh, we're going to first shop out
a matching tile. And I say matching tile with air
quotes here because even if it's the exact same tile,
the exact same color, exact same manufacture, but you know
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it's twenty years later that tile color is going to
be different because it hasn't been exposed to twenty or
thirty years of UV light and baking in the sun
and weather and all of that. So the key is
making sure that your roofer has this design concept in mind,
which is that we're going to prioritize which roof planes
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are most visible, like, for instance, the roof plane that's
visible from the street, and possibly the one visible from
the backyard. Depending on the shape and the contours of
your roof, there are probably areas of the roof, maybe
side yard roof planes, or hidden a little thing here
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or a little thing there that aren't actually visible or
easy to see from the ground. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna steal as we bring. We're going
to steal tiles from the areas of the roof that
aren't really that visible from the ground, and we're going
to use those old tiles to replace the broken ones
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that happened on the main plane, so that what we
get when we're done is all your old tiles, all visible,
all clean, no color changes, and if there is a need,
which there will be, for a few tiles to be
replaced that aren't quite the same color yet we're going
to stick those in places that that don't matter visually
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from the street or from the backyard. So you're going
to just prioritize those views and uh and put those
in those other places. But yeah, that's and that's what
you're looking at.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And how much would that What is the cost difference
with me just having you know, new versus just the pace,
What should I expect to pay to do them?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Oh? You know what? That's that's it's not easy for
me to give you a quote on that because it
has a lot to do with the contours of your roof,
the size of your roof, the pitch of your roof,
the quality of the existing tile. There are just a
lot of factors. But as always, I'm going to tell
you that yet it's going to be less. It's going
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to be a significant cost difference because you are not
buying new tile for your whole roof. You're just buying
a few replacement tiles. You're still paying for the labor
for the install, but the material cost is going to
be considerably considerably less. And like always, the way to
find out who is giving you the right price and
what this whole thing should cost is that you can
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vet two, three, even four really qualified roofers and have
them each bid the same way, and you're going to
look at those bids and you're going to see just
like a Venn diagram. You're going to see like, oh yeah,
look at that. They're all within a certain amount of money.
This is what my roof is going to cost.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
And at least to my last question, what's I just
started shopping for roofers. What's the difference between certified license?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and I'm up
against a break, so I'm going to answer really quickly.
All roofers have to be licensed, all of them. They
should have to be licensed by the state of California.
They have to have a roofing contractor's license. Some roofers
are certified, and what that means is the brand of tile,
like if they install GAF tiles or they install, you know,
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certaintyed tiles. The roofing manufacturers will sometimes say, hey, if
you pass our certification course, then you can call yourself
certified for a particular brand of tile installed. Certification not
as important as licensing. Licensing is absolutely critical for everybody.
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Some are certified installers of certain brands. But that's a
private business thing that's going on. Does that makes sense?
All right? Thank you Shelly for the question.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
K six.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper, and yes,
could it be a more perfect fall day? I don't
think so. Looks pretty beautiful. I hope wherever you are
across across our a great nation right now, you are
experiencing as beautiful a fall day as we are here
in southern California right now. All right, we're back from
(18:25):
our vacation in Vermont and we're back at it getting
it done. Here on the show. We're talking about designing
a better bedroom and we're diving back in right now.
So when it comes to bedroom design, fundamentally, this has
probably been one of the sticking points for a lot
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of people, and that is you think about, oh, you're
going to design this whole thing around the bedroom set. Okay,
this is the problem that I have and that I
want to warn you about. I want to warn you
about the bedroom set air quotes set. Okay, I want
you to break loose from fixed stories at the furniture
(19:07):
store about the bedroom set of course, the furniture store
has an entire set on sale for you there showing
you everything. And rightly, so it's not a crime, right,
nobody's doing anything wrong. It's just the idea that somehow
when you go to the furniture store, you need to
come home with the whole set, which means the bedroom,
(19:29):
the bed, the headboard, the footboard, the night stands, the
dress or the armoir, you know, like the next thing.
You know. So the thing is, most bedrooms these days,
you know, may not have room for the whole bedroom set.
And I just don't get yourself wrapped up in that. Right,
(19:50):
you decide ahead of time what it is that you're
looking for. There are so many ways to juge up
a bedroom that go beyond having to for the set. Okay,
now do bet should bedroom furniture correspond? Absolutely? Does it
have to match? No, it does not. It just has
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to correspond. It has to work together, it has to
compliment each other. Okay, those of you who are on
a tight budget, I'll tell you this. You can go
here's one of the the the rare instances when I
actually recommend that you go on to YouTube and look
(20:33):
up I built my own headboard and find the hundreds
of myriad ways in which you can actually mount a
permanent headboard, a DIY headboard, gorgeous diway headboard to your wall,
and save yourself tons of money when it comes to
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purchasing a bedroom set. Look who is walking in right now.
It's Tina and Christy bo Look at you, guys, elephant,
Look at you and your fingers are all straight because
you've got wet nail polish. You guys have been to
the nail salon. Sit down, Christy, get over here. All right,
(21:17):
I've got to be faithful to what I'm talking about.
You guys, hang on for a second. Anyway, So the
bedroom said, just don't feel obligated to do that whole thing, right,
I e. Do you have a big closet, right, there's
a really good chance if you really concentrate on proper
closet design and organization, meaning a modular system where you
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can control hanging, and you've got a room for shoes
and you've got maybe room for even drawers in the closet,
then you don't need a dresser. Right. If the bedroom
is an important waking retreat, like we talked about before,
a dresser could be standing in your way of being
replaced with an elegant writing desk or work desk or
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a chair for reading, if that is how you're going
to spend time in your bedroom, or if you're more
of a minimalist and you want a more classic look,
Now you're really gonna think I'm crazy, but I'm only
talking to minimalists here. Then remove the closet, open up
a little bit more space in the bedroom, and replace
it with a beautiful free standing wardrobe. Oh yeah, and
(22:27):
if you have a giant closet okay, and a giant room,
then you can get super creative. Then you do one
of the first I would say uber creative designs I
ever had a chance to do early on in my career,
where I designed a twelve thousand square foot Italian villa
in Brentwood Park and we had realtors come in to
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preview the villa before we opened it up for public,
and they walked into these bedrooms, the guest bedrooms, and
they all they saw, because you know, are claim to
fame with this was a as authentic an Italian villa
as we could find. And they walked into the bedrooms
and they all came out saying Dean, Dean, I mean,
(23:10):
the house is beautiful, but we got a problem. I'm like,
what's the problem. They're like, in each of the guest
bedrooms there's just a big wardrobe, a big, like eight
foot tall wardrobe. I mean they're gorgeous, they're antique wardrobes,
They're absolutely stunning. But I mean a house of this
magnitude needs a walking closet. And I said, you know what,
(23:33):
I get that, but I wanted to keep the house
as authentic as possible. I said, you really should go
check out the wardrobe. Those are roomy wardrobes. And they're like, Dan,
we know they're big wardrobes, but this house needs walk
in closets in each of the bedrooms. Like you know what,
just you really these are really roomy wardrobes. So anyway,
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I actually led three of the realtors back upstairs and
we opened up the wardrobes for them to discover that
I had taken the back off of these antique wardrobes
and mounted them against the wall to hide the walk
in closet door because I didn't want the I didn't
want you to see the walking closet in the room.
I just wanted you to see this free standing, beautiful
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piece of furniture like it would have shown up in
an eighteenth century Italian villa, and the inside it was
very Narnia like. So you literally walk through the wardrobe
to get into the expansive walking closet. Beyond the point
is there are lots of tricks that you can play,
a lot of freedom that you've got in the bedroom.
And on the opposite side of what I just described,
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if you don't if you can utilize any closet space
at all to maximize your clothing organization, then you may
not need the dresser, or you may not need the
armoir or or whatever. So just don't make the mistake
of going to the furniture store and buying the set
air quotes and then come home and say, Okay, now
(24:59):
we got to figure out how to squeeze this all
into this space. No, no, no. You make your design decisions first,
and you go looking for specific pieces of furniture to
make it work. And they don't have to match, they
don't have to all belong together. They just have to
work together. Right, So you find the beautiful headboard and
then a couple of night stands, and you're like you
(25:19):
know what, These aren't part of the same set, but
they are beautiful. There you go. Now you're on the
right track, all right, more when we return.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We're talking about bedrooms today. Design and design as it
applies to your bedroom one of my favorite subjects because
it's trickier than most people think. Bedrooms are. They're just
for you. I mean, they really are mostly just for you, right,
So of all rooms, this is not the room that
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you want to You would design like a magazine spread
that you see on the internet or you know, on
a Pinterest board somewhere. You can get some inspiration from it.
But the real real heart of the bedroom is you
figuring out what works for you. But I want you
to use good design principles as always with everything. So
(26:20):
we've already talked about your perspective in the room, pairing
down the stuff in the room to the design essentials,
you know, you know, allocating what you can to the
closets if that's even possible, not buying too much furniture
for the bedroom. Of course, I already touched on this,
but I'm gonna underscore this look at the room from
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the places where you're gonna spend most of your time.
If there is a seating area, then sit and look
around and decide what should you be seeing outside the windows?
What should you be seeing in the room. Mostly, though,
of all the places, right, I want you to prioritize
not just the look of the room when you come
in the door, but the look of the room when
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you're in bed. This is such a key deciding factor
for so much bedroom design. What can you see from bed?
I have walked into an amazing amount of bedrooms in
which there have been some, you know, big mistakes made,
even high end stuff like okay, there's a fireplace in
(27:23):
the room, and the fireplace is down on the floor.
That looks great, great in you know, in a photograph
of the room, and like, oh, look at that fireplace,
just cozy, you know, I sit down on the floor
like a normal fireplace is. But you're gonna be in bed,
you would put You wouldn't put the TV on the floor,
would you? When you're in bed you can't see it.
(27:44):
Why would you put the fireplace on the floor where
you can't see it from your bed? So these are
critical perspectives. Also underscoring what I talk to you about
all the time. Recess can lighting. Of all the rooms,
of all the rooms in your home that should not
(28:05):
have too many or any recess can lights, the bedroom
is at the top of the list. Why because can
lights are sticking down out of the ceiling and you,
of all places in your home, are lying horizontally staring
up at the ceiling. Glare, glare from recess can lights.
(28:26):
I have seen people make the mistake. They're like, oh, well,
you know what I've decided to do. The night light
or the reading light that we're going to use. We're
just gonna put two recess cans in the ceiling shining
down on each side of the bed for our reading lights.
Big mistake, big mistake in most cases. Why glare. You're
sitting there in bed and as you kind of slouch
(28:48):
down in your pill all of a sudden, your eye
starts catching that light. Not a good thing. Not a
good thing. Let's draw some pendant lights down out of
the ceiling. If we want ceiling mounted reading lights or
sconce lights that are reading lights from each side of
the bed, or just you know, table lamps on top
of the nightstand. You got lots and lots of options.
(29:10):
Let's not go with the recess can light because you're
gonna be staring straight up at them. Okay, Now, if
you have them already and you're like, oh no, you're right,
what do I do? Do I just not? Then let's
get some change out the trims. The trims are inexpensive.
Change out the trim on that light to get a
gimbal that means basically an adjustable directional light and point
(29:34):
them toward the walls. I will say it again. I
will say it, you know, day after day, week after week,
year after year, until it finally soaks in for everybody.
Lighting design in a home is all about this. We
do not light a room. We light things in a room.
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We do not light rooms. We light things in a room.
That is the general and all important principal rule. So
if you got art on the wall, sure shine a
little light against that art. Light it up for you,
but avoid glare. And one of the best ways to
evaluate it, even as a novice, it's to lay down
in bed, lay there with your head on your pillow
(30:16):
and look around the room and ask the question, what
do I want to see? And not want to see
from this position. Okay, remember that bedrooms are tactile. Of
all rooms, this is a unique place where you spend
a great amount of time actually still awake, but with
your eyes closed, okay, or in the dark, or with
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your eyes kind of blurry and half open. Bedrooms are
all about tactile feel, all right, The softness of the bed,
what the floor feels like when your sleepy, half open eyes,
have you flip your legs off the bed and make
that first trip to the bathroom in the middle of
the night, whatever the case may be. Remember the bedroom
(31:00):
rooms are tactile experiences in many ways, more so than
other rooms in the house. And then, and we're going
to talk about this in a little bit more detail
when we come back to it. The bed. Obviously, the
bed is the focal point of a bedroom. The headboard
is what we might call if the bed is a book,
(31:21):
a hardcover book, then the headboard is the book cover
of the bed. Okay. And a lot of you were
thinking when I gave the earlier advice, Hey, listen, go
on you know, YouTube and find out how to make
your own custom DIY headboard. Some of you are thinking, well,
the listen I've graduated past apartment dwelling. I don't need
to do that. I can afford to buy a really big,
(31:43):
beautiful headboard. That's great, but I wasn't just talking to
people on a low budget. One of my favorite headboards
of all time, and it's been years and years since
I saw it, but absolutely I will never forget it.
I saw headboard custom made by the owner with a
sign post on it, and on that headboard were signs
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pointing to everywhere this couple had been together, and they
kept adding to it and adding to it, and you
know what, for their vibe, for who these people were,
for that bedroom, it was absolutely perfect. And what they
had done is instead of colorizing their whole room, which
is always usually a mistake, with a special color, they
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had also right behind the headboard, decided the wall behind
the headboard is a feature wall, and we're gonna put
our special favorite color right there and leave the rest
of the room bright and white and open, which is
always the best best idea. Otherwise you cover the entire
room walls and ceiling in your quote unquote favorite color,
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it gets cavy and weird really really fast. So I
would almost always recommend feature wall over that, and you know,
when we come back, I also want to talk about
how about this, if you have enough room, just if
you do all right, what are the chances of putting
a soaker tub out of the bathroom into the bedroom?
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M all right, yeah, I know, I know. Please, you're like, listen,
are you talking to ritzy people about Nana? Just understand,
if there's enough room, it's one of those options. Sitting area,
writing desk. How about the soaker tub? Anyway, we'll talk
more about that, but when we come back from the
top of the hour break here, we're gonna go back
to the phones. Answer a couple more calls. How's that
(33:35):
sound all right? Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House
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