December 8, 2024 • 35 mins
Dean gives advice to a caller who wants to place a fireproof vent on their roof and sound proofing windows. Dean talks about different eclectic decor patterns: floral, abstract, geometric, stripes, solids, animal prints. Lastly, Dean says that when working on the décor, take it as a ruthless creative and cut out things that don’t need to be in place.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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just go to house Whisperer dot Design. All right, get
back to the show. Now here we go. We're talking
about interior decore, specifically what I call the secrets of Ish,
which is aclectic design. It's how you take your modern
farmhouse decor theme and make sure that it doesn't get
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compromised even though there are other things that aren't modern
farmhouse added to it. That's just one example. That's why
we say everybody's decor theme is an Ish modern farmhouse ish.
It's cottage ish right, it's colonial ish right, because those
soft edges, that's where the real life of the real
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world come into play. And that's where we can tell
whether you're following the rules or whether you just got
lucky or for a lot of people got unlucky in
terms of like, yeah, that's so just messes up the
theme of this room. So that's what I'm trying to
help you with today. We're going to get back to
that in just a bit. But right now it's top
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of the hour. Time to go to the phones, and
I want to talk to Kathleen. Hey, Kathleen, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm here. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, I can there, you are welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sorry. I just wanted to thank you and Tina for
what you do. You've given me so much knowledge and
knowledge is power.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh, thank you so much. How can I help you today?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, Dean, I know I'm asking questions about a subject
you talked about a lot, which is fire protection. I'm
an old person that lives in the sixty year old house.
I had my roof completely redone last year, very happy
about you know, about the roofers. And at the time,
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they put on O'Hagan low profile vents, and I guess
I had never done this before, so I think I
might have had four events. But anyway, they told me
they thought I needed more, so they put six on.
And after they put them on, you know, I was
reading and I saw that there's o haagen fire and
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ice vents, which you know have smaller mesh like one
eight inch, And I asked them just about it's going
to put the roof on it was rainy season. Asked
them about at it and they said, no, they're on
back order. They didn't know where they would come in. So,
you know, I just had them do the low profile ones.
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So now we're at a little over a year later,
and you know, I get nervous every time there's Santa
Ana winds. I want to number one protect my house
from you. Know, wildfires before I worry about any home
design or anything. Do you think that it would be
too late to go back and you know, replace those
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vents with you know, the fire and ice ones.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, Yeah, here's the thing. I mean, it's never too
late if if you want to actually spend the money
on doing it that way, because you know, the Hagen
vent is flashed into your roofing material now, right, it's
all tied into the roof so to change it out
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would be too basically, and you're not going to get
a credit on that vent. It can't be reused for
another client of theirs, right, so you're basically double buying
the vent. You're gonna have to throw those away and
put in the other one. So and you know what, honestly,
I mean, if it's that important, I'd be willing to
step up and uh and do that for myself. But
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but here's the thing. I want you to do a
little shopping research and give a phone call to a
couple of different plays. Well here's one right now, Brand
Guard Vents and Embers Out Okay bo, both companies that
create these vents. I believe I believe that Embers Out
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specifically is willing to customize some of their ember reduction
material so that you could apply this to the underside
from the attic side of the roof underneath your o'hagen vent, okay,
where it actually comes into the attic. If you if
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you got a basic frame from them that screwed on
and on the underneath side, you'd basically be emberproofing your
existing vent from the backside, and it would work equally well,
and you wouldn't have to dig into your roofing material.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The thing is, though, Dean, I have the I have
a long roofline. The house is about twenty six hundred
square feet and it's the attic. You know. You you
basically can reach the attic by like inside hall of
my house, and you can. You can get up there.
The heat and stuffs up there, but you can't stand
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up there. So I think even at one end I had,
you know, at one end where there might be say
three vents, they wouldn't I don't know that they would
be able to get in there and do it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm sure they could get in. I'm sure they could
get in, but it's gonna be I understand, it's just
a tricky access. I mean if it's attic, it's attic
and so so. Yeah, it's not as simple as you
just going up on a ladder and screwing these in.
That I clearly, I clearly understand, but I still think,
I still think, and you'd have to price it out,
just price it out. But I still think it would
be less expensive for you to uh to buy some
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of this retrofit material and have a handyman, uh you know,
a contractor even uh you know, maybe even the roofer
would come back and make an attic crawl for you
and install these on the backside. I still think that
would be less expensive than tearing out the O'Hagan vents
from the top of the room and reflashing it all
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and repapering it all in to make sure that they
get it all right. Again, I still think that would
be a less expensive Even if you're paying somebody to
crawl your attic for you, I'm guessing that it's going
to be considerably less expensive and in the end, you
don't mess up your roof and you get the same
level of protection.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, because you mentioned quickly the other thing you've talked
about vulcan vents and brand guard, and you know, I've
heard you talk about those several times, and I have
two I think what you would call gable vents, you know,
one at each end of the house that are fairly large,
and so you know, I wanted to see if I could.
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I just haven't done it because I haven't felt well,
but I wanted to see if I could call, like
say brand Guard and maybe another like say Embers out
and see what they could do to put smaller you know,
mesh there because you know, the house is as old
as can be. So yeah, absolutely would be a good thing.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Absolutely it can be done. And that I mean you'll
find those products for like end gable retrofit vents right
on their websites. Absolutely can be done. But I again,
I think you're taking the right tact. I want you
to actually just talk to them, call them, talk to them,
say here, here's my situation. As soon as you say, Ohagen,
they're going to know exactly what you're talking about. Everybody
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else who's listening to us is like, what's an o'hagen event.
That's not important right now, everybody. What's important is that
you know that there are, there is a way to
retrofit your exist most existing roof vents, whether it's end gable,
whether it's high ridge vents, whether it's low events, there's
a way to retrofit them without tearing up the roof
or tearing up the house in order to ember protect it.
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And so yeah, give give a conversation with them, and
they're going to guide you in the right direction, because
that's what they're all about. They're all about helping you out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Okay, And one more real, real question. So would someone
like a brand Guard be able to tell me based
on you know, whatever they would do if let's let's
say they could do something on the inside of the
events I have and would recommend something from the gable vents,
then would they you know, tell me again based on
the square footage and what you've talked about, you know
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what that'll give me enough ventilation in my attic?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, and these.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Too, Yeah, is I want to you know, I want
to decrease, but I want to make sure I still
have enough ventilation in my attic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
These companies, they they the ones that I continually recommend
Vulcan vent embers out, brand Guard Vents. The reason why
I recommend these companies specifically and The reason why these
three companies are all cow Fire a Fire Marshall recommended
in the state of California is because they produce a
fantastic ember deterrent vent without that still breathes basically, that
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still breathes effectively because you know, I, I mean, we
could emperproof your attic just by sealing it all up,
but now you don't have at events, and so we
don't want to diminish the attic ventilation capacity while at
the same time protecting you. We want to do both.
We want them both. We want to have our cake
and eat it too, and Kathleen that they're going to
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help you do exactly that. So don't worry about that.
You have a good conversation with them, and it's going
to work. We've seen it happen again and again. Kathleen.
Thank you so much for your call and for your kindness.
Good luck on the house. I know it's going to
work out for you, y'all when we come back.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Dean Sharp the House Whisper at your service. We're talking
about eclectic decor and how to do it well. That's
what we're going to return to in just a bit.
But right now we're going to the phones. I want
to talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Here's hi, good morning. I have a bank of five
single pane aluminum windows about thirty four inches by fifty
eight inches. I'm trying to sound proof of them. I'm
looking at insets for them, but anything you could recommend,
or any company you could recommend.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So you want to do it. You want to do
an insert on the inside of the window, just to
give it a little bit more sound capture.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Is that what you're saying, If that's the most practical thing?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, well yeah, is there a real let me just
ask in I want to be budget sensitive. Is there
a reason why, if this is a priority, that we
don't want to just switch out those windows? Change out
those windows because single glazed aluminum windows, that's definitely an
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older window weather wise, energy wise and sound wise. And
is it a hesitation because we don't want to disrupt
the outside surface of the house.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Because that's that's part of it. I'm a renter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh I got you, I hear you. So they're not
your window?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
No, no, they're not my windows. So and they install
these windows probably about three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh really, single glazed aluminum windows. They put them in
three years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That's what I'm assuming it is. I may be wrong,
but that's what I'm assuming They are.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Now install them illegally. Actually, do you do? You know
your landlord?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I do, But they might be double pain I don't know.
But they're still letting them a lot of sound.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, all right? Yeah? Yeah? You know, you could go
to a lot of expense putting a clear panel insert
inside the window jam in order to block the sound.
And I see clear panel because obviously, I mean it's windows.
So I mean I could tell you how to soundproof
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or how to drastically sound reduce those windows just by
getting some foam sound resistant panels off of Amazon and
cutting one to size and putting it in. But you
wouldn't have a window anymore, right, So is there a
time when you need it to be quieter when the
window aspect is not important. I'm trying to get creative
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with a solution here, because that would be the best
thing here. Another pane of glass at this point is
going to help a little bit, a little bit, but
not really produce a whole lot of bang for the
buck that you'll be spending on them, and they're not
even your windows. And so if it's like, well, when
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we sit down, or I've got to do I have
to do a podcast, or I want to watch movies
at a certain time of day. And I mean, if
it's something like that where the window itself does not
have to keep doing its job of letting light in,
then the easiest way and the least expensive way, in
the most effective way would be to, you know, come
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up and spend just a few dollars on a place
like Amazon and uh and buy some inexpensive sound baffling
foam that you could cut as an insert into the window.
But it's going to block the I mean, it essentially
closes down the window. But the sound wise, there's nothing
better that you could do for that situation. If you're
not going to switch out the window, I just don't
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have a mean, there's no magic bullet that's going to
solve the problem and continue to let the light in
of a of a leaky window, sound leaky, uh, you know, weather, leaky,
you know all the same.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
But so I'm looking, can I mention the name of
the company that I'm looking at sure it's called the
inn window mm hm. And they're they're quoting me about
three thousand dollars for the inserts.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
They're saying anywhere up like fifty to seventy percent soundproofy.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, so again, uh, it's pricey. Three thousand dollars is pricey.
And I want you to be really aware of this,
that that that that is a you know, fifty to
seventy percent reduction of sound through the window. That's not
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a fifty to seventy percent of reduction of sound in
the room, Okay, because the window is just one component,
and so loud sounds could still be finding their way
A large majority of them are finding their way just
through the wall. Okay. So I just want you to
be clear on that. I'm not going to tell you
not to use a company like that. I just want
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you to be aware that. You know, sometimes it's said like, hey,
ninety percent reduction of sound. Well, okay, for that two
square three square feet, that that area ninety percent reduction,
But when the rest of the wall is still transmitting sound,
you may only see a ten percent reduction of overall
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sound in the room that you're struggling with. And if
that's the case, then you have to measure that against
the three thousand dollars that you're going to spend for
the window. Answer.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So again, so you're recommending the phone sound buffering.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I'm recommending a thick I mean literally, you know
the kind of foam of sound absorption material that you
can find on a website like Amazon for just pennies
on the dollar that will when you need it to
be quiet, you can plug the windows with as opposed
to spending big bucks. Because you know what, for three
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thousand how many windows are there by the way, five? Yeah, windows?
For three thousand dollars, you're almost spending the You may
actually be spending as much, if not more than putting
retrofit windows in those openings. And that's the thing. I'm
just it's just a it's a high price to pay.
I'm not saying it's not a good product. It's just
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the kind of thing that you use in an extreme
situation when literally no other solution presents itself. And I
would really want to explore other options, including when do
you need it to be quiet? Right? And if that's
the thing, then just plug the window home if that
makes sense. Ron, Thank you for your question. Not everything
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is an easy solve, right, And some products that are
advertised that kind of say, hey, here's the miracle. Price
is going to be aware. You know, there's a lot
of sound that actually moves through a wall, not just
the window. Yes, windows are leaky holes, But spend that
much money trying to get a reduction of the glass
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transmission and find out that you've only reduced the overall
room sound by ten fifteen percent. Now, maybe that's good enough,
but for three thousand dollars, you have to evaluate whether
that's the case. All Right, y'all when we return, let's
dive back into our conversation about eclectic decor, and I'll
be hitting up the phones again in just a bit.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, feng Shui. Feng Shui is not a decourse style.
It's a methodology. Yeah, and no, it doesn't really fit
in the ish category because it's not a decorese style. Yeah,
I'm sorry, all right, everybody, I'm just answering a question.
Answering a question here in the studio. I am so
glad you've joined us on the show today we are
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talking about the secrets of ISH, and by ish, I
mean that kind of eclectic decor where your theme that
you really we'd really like to establish for your place,
for a room, for a space, whatever the case may be,
and how you're never going to achieve. I mean, the
bad news is you're never going to achieve purity, one
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hundred percent purity with your decor theme. It's always going
to be an ish, right, It's like, well, it's going
to be contemporary ish, it's going to be a modern
farmhouse ish. It's going to be craftsman ish. Why because life,
because real life, Because because if you have relationships with
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other people, if you walk out into the world, you
come home with things that are meaningful and special and beautiful,
but don't necessarily line up precisely with that theme, that period.
That's not and it's not even just about those elements.
Maybe you live in a century old house. Maybe your
house was built in the nineteen twenties, and you would
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like to use your living room to watch a twenty
first century flatsk TV. You know, integrating that into a
home that was never designed even to conceive of a
video screen is a challenge. From a decor perspective, and
that's what makes it ish. But if we do it,
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if we follow the rules, we follow the best advice available,
which of course you will receive right here, then you
can be really, really successful at this. So dive back
into this conversation with me, shall we. That sounds good,
all right, So again I want to underscore this. Oh
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Check it out. So I want to underscore aiming for
the intentionality of a gallery for your home. That doesn't
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mean that it has to be austere and plane or
anything like that. I just mean, I want you to
be very, very intentional about your decor. Eclectic is a
word that gets thrown around a lot by hoarders, by
people who have way too much stuff, uh, and and
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people who have essentially given up on an attempt to
do a decor theme and just say, well, I'm a
collecting and so it's an excuse for not being thoughtful
and for allowing a little bit of design chaos to
enter into your home. So yeah, yeah, let's use the
word and give it the honor that it's due. Eclectic
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decor is a discipline and it's one that you can
really achieve. But it takes intention. It takes the intentionality
of a gallery owner. It's not random, it's thoughtful, and
it's curated curated carefully. Okay, all right, so now on
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to the next tip. As we go here, the next
thing I want to talk to you about just is patterns.
Be aware of patterns. Patterns, meaning whether visible printed patterns
in furniture, on paintings, on furnishings like blankets, throws, pillows, fabrics,
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those kinds of things. The two questions that are most
important to ask about patterns are this, do the geometries
of the patterns of a couple of different patterns play
well together? Okay, I'll explain that in just a second.
But do the actual shapes of two different patterns do
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they play well together? And number two, does the scale
of the patterns play well together? Okay, and I'm not
talking about one pattern. I'm talking about an eclectic design
in which there's more than one pattern in the space,
in the room, on the sofa, whatever the case may be.
So we've got to ask these critical questions. Do the
geometries play well together? And does the scale play well together?
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So what kind of patterns are out there? Anyway? Well,
I'm sure that we could split hairs and create more
than these six categories, But in general, in general, a
pattern falls into one of these six categories. It's either
floral and organic. Right, floral organic meaning there's patterns of
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leaves or tree branches or you know, you know what
I'm saying, I know, a sense of organic representation in
the pattern. Number two abstract, it's not representing anything in particular.
It's a weird amorphous shape or a blending of shapes
and tones. That's an abstract pattern. Then you've got number
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three geometric patterns and that should be self explanatory. It's circles, squares,
it's rounds, it's triangles, it's geometry, geometric shapes coming through
really strongly. Four Technically this is a geometry but stripes.
Stripes get their own pattern category because it's such a
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common theme. So there's stripes, there is solids. That's number five,
just solid color, solid, you know, which is really kind
of I don't know why it's on the list, but
it's it's the non pattern essentially. And number six animal prints.
Animal prints are different than floral and organic. They are organic,
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but we're talking about like, you know, leopard skin, that
kind of thing, those those kinds of elements. Animal prints.
Those are the six main categories of patterns, and the
way these work together in an eclectic decor is typically
typically nine times out of ten, maybe ninety nine out
of one hundred. You want to have the patterns, two
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different patterns in a room, coming from two different categories
of patterns and two different scales, meaning that we don't
want a strong pattern of squares right here smashed up
against a strong pattern of circles. They're both out of
the geometry category and they're tough to meld together, especially
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if the squares in the circles are the exact same
size or relatively the same size in those patterns, that's
the scale. That's where the scale enters in a strong
pattern of stripes or squares with some floral or organic pattern,
especially when one of them is significantly larger and the
other pattern is reduced in scale in its repetition. That's
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the kind of two patterns that could play well together.
Got it?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Welcome home. We're talking about eclectic decor, which, to one
degree another is everybody's decor, because no matter how pure
you attempt to do a decor theme in your home,
there's always gonna be something, something finding its way in
that doesn't match up, doesn't match up with the period,
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doesn't match up with the style that you know, and
so is that a fail? Do you have to purge
your life from all variables in order to have a
beautiful home? No, no, you don't know. We start with
the eighty twenty rule, which if you can get eighty
percent of it headed in the right direction, the other
twenty percent can, if well done, can integrate in and
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not be a problem. But we're just talking in general.
But how do you blend these diverse pattern styles and
themes in an efficient and beautiful ways. So hope you're
encouraged by today. This was this was a heavy lift
for me, honestly, because this is the kind of thing
that not everybody gets right out of the you know,
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right out of the gate. And it's the kind of thing,
honestly that I'd rather show you pictures. But you know,
here I am on the radio with you. But I
hope that you're getting the idea, and I'll tell you why.
In one sense, maybe this is better if I'm not
showing you pictures, because you can go online, like I
said at the top of the show, and ask this
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very question, how do I do aclectic decor? And you
know what you're gonna find. You're gonna find that everybody
very much devolves almost immediately into just showing you things
to do. Okay, not principles to apply to your house,
but just showing you what they did. Like you know,
and learning by example is great, but when when a website,
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you know, advice point number six is add plants. That's
not being very specific to your home. Right, anybody can
say that, oh, add plants. Okay, well, what if this
is a room where that's not going to happen. Then See,
now we're just giving examples of things and not actually
telling you. This is the give a man a fish,
(28:37):
teach a man to fish idea, trying to help teach
you how to fish for a collectic decre All right,
the metaphors are all breaking down now, so I'm gonna
move on. By the way, right after our next break,
we're going back to the phones. So a three three two,
Ask dean, A three to three the numeral two, ask dean.
That's right after the next break. All right, back to
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our list. Now this should be very very self explanatory.
I hope by the way you understood the idea of patterns.
Do the geometries play well together, does the scale play
well together? The goal there just to summarize when it
comes to patterns, if you're going to combine two or
three patterns together diverse patterns, right, then it's best to
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pick a pattern from a different category. That there are
three different categories. So the categories were floral and organic, abstract,
geometric stripes, solids, and animal prints. So you get three
animal prints together from three different animals, all at the
same size scale. It looks weird. They just they're fighting
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with each other. They're fighting for attention as opposed to
complimenting each other. But you get a floral pattern, you know,
I'm looking, I'm staring at one right across the table
from me. You know, this kind of embossed white on
white rose pattern with rows, stems, and blooms in this
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sofa that's directly across from me here. And then add
to that a geometric pattern, a stripe, a solid, squares, circles,
And then add to that solids or even an animal print.
Those three things could go well together, could go well
together if we've got the scales right. So the question
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is do they play well together? Your chance of success
is going to be most high if the patterns come
from different categories, and if the scales are different between
the three patterns put together, right, that's just the rule
of thumb when it comes to matching those things. It
should go without saying my next point here, don't ignore
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a room's functionality for the sake of decor. That is
real life designed advice. I cannot tell you how many
times again I've opened up a magazine spread and I'm like, yeah,
that's a lovely art piece there. You can't live in
that room. Somebody standing next to me says why not,
and I say, well, take a look. Take a look
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at how they've arranged these two chairs in this corner here.
Do you see how close the sofa is or that
bouquet of flowers is. See that big bouquet sitting on
the table in between the two chairs. Now imagine yourself
sitting in those two chairs having a conversation with a friend.
That bouquet of flowers has to be moved because the
vase is like three feet tall. And when I sit
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down in this chair and I look to my left,
I can't see you. You're right on the other side
of these flowers. So that but when you're standing across
the room looking at all of this compressed into a
two D image, yeah, looks great. You know, first impressions
are it looks great. You don't really think about moving
through the space. So my point is, again, don't ignore
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the room's functionality. When the question comes up, should we
emphasize form or function, the answer is always the same. Both.
Don't sacrifice either. I refuse to say form first, function
later no no, no, no no. The goal is both.
That's what we're shooting for. That's the target. That's the bullseye. Okay,
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all right now, next piece of advice for you who
we're up. Yeah, okay, I'm going to slide this one
in when you're doing this as you work on the
decor in your home, just as if you were an
author or any kind of creative creator. But let's stick
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with the author metaphor for the moment. I want you
to find yourself a ruthless editor. A ruthless editor. You
know what the role of an editor is to go into,
you know, the work of an author and go snipping through,
or if we want to use editors in the turn
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in the sense of filmmakers as well, to cut out
dialogue that just doesn't need to be there, to remove
certain things, to connect certain thoughts. And the best editors
are what I call ruthless. Now that they're not ruthless
people kind wonderful people who love you. That's who I
want helping you with your living room or whatever room
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that we're doing this decor in. But I want them
to I want you to permit them the freedom to
ruthlessly edit the things that you're talking about, especially when
it comes to like pulling things out saying yeah, I'm
not really seeing that that's working. Somebody who's just completely,
one hundred percent honest with you about what they're seeing.
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And why get yourself a partner in this, or at
least the assistance of a ruthless editor when it comes
to decor, and you will find yourself being more successful
than you ever imagine. It's an emotional step that a
lot of people have because they don't want to be
critiqued when it comes to artistic and creative stuff. But
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trust me when I tell you, as an artist and
as a creator, I felt the same way in the beginning.
I'm like, no, no, don't say things, don't say bad
things about what I did. Now, believe me, you need them,
You want them, You want them in your life. You
want somebody who can come along iron sharpening, iron sharpening
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the blade of what it is that you're trying to create.
So another tip for you today, find yourself a ruthless
editor to assist you in the process of making selections
when it comes to an eclectic design. All right, we
got so much more to cover when we come back
from the news, we'll be going back to the phones.
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just go to house Whisperer dot Design. All right, get
back to the show. Now here we go. We're talking
about interior decore, specifically what I call the secrets of Ish,
which is aclectic design. It's how you take your modern
farmhouse decor theme and make sure that it doesn't get
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compromised even though there are other things that aren't modern
farmhouse added to it. That's just one example. That's why
we say everybody's decor theme is an Ish modern farmhouse ish.
It's cottage ish right, it's colonial ish right, because those
soft edges, that's where the real life of the real
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world come into play. And that's where we can tell
whether you're following the rules or whether you just got
lucky or for a lot of people got unlucky in
terms of like, yeah, that's so just messes up the
theme of this room. So that's what I'm trying to
help you with today. We're going to get back to
that in just a bit. But right now it's top
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of the hour. Time to go to the phones, and
I want to talk to Kathleen. Hey, Kathleen, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I'm here. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yes, I can there, you are welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sorry. I just wanted to thank you and Tina for
what you do. You've given me so much knowledge and
knowledge is power.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh, thank you so much. How can I help you today?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, Dean, I know I'm asking questions about a subject
you talked about a lot, which is fire protection. I'm
an old person that lives in the sixty year old house.
I had my roof completely redone last year, very happy
about you know, about the roofers. And at the time,
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they put on O'Hagan low profile vents, and I guess
I had never done this before, so I think I
might have had four events. But anyway, they told me
they thought I needed more, so they put six on.
And after they put them on, you know, I was
reading and I saw that there's o haagen fire and
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ice vents, which you know have smaller mesh like one
eight inch, And I asked them just about it's going
to put the roof on it was rainy season. Asked
them about at it and they said, no, they're on
back order. They didn't know where they would come in. So,
you know, I just had them do the low profile ones.
(03:31):
So now we're at a little over a year later,
and you know, I get nervous every time there's Santa
Ana winds. I want to number one protect my house
from you. Know, wildfires before I worry about any home
design or anything. Do you think that it would be
too late to go back and you know, replace those
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vents with you know, the fire and ice ones.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, Yeah, here's the thing. I mean, it's never too
late if if you want to actually spend the money
on doing it that way, because you know, the Hagen
vent is flashed into your roofing material now, right, it's
all tied into the roof so to change it out
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would be too basically, and you're not going to get
a credit on that vent. It can't be reused for
another client of theirs, right, so you're basically double buying
the vent. You're gonna have to throw those away and
put in the other one. So and you know what, honestly,
I mean, if it's that important, I'd be willing to
step up and uh and do that for myself. But
(04:45):
but here's the thing. I want you to do a
little shopping research and give a phone call to a
couple of different plays. Well here's one right now, Brand
Guard Vents and Embers Out Okay bo, both companies that
create these vents. I believe I believe that Embers Out
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specifically is willing to customize some of their ember reduction
material so that you could apply this to the underside
from the attic side of the roof underneath your o'hagen vent, okay,
where it actually comes into the attic. If you if
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you got a basic frame from them that screwed on
and on the underneath side, you'd basically be emberproofing your
existing vent from the backside, and it would work equally well,
and you wouldn't have to dig into your roofing material.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
The thing is, though, Dean, I have the I have
a long roofline. The house is about twenty six hundred
square feet and it's the attic. You know. You you
basically can reach the attic by like inside hall of
my house, and you can. You can get up there.
The heat and stuffs up there, but you can't stand
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up there. So I think even at one end I had,
you know, at one end where there might be say
three vents, they wouldn't I don't know that they would
be able to get in there and do it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm sure they could get in. I'm sure they could
get in, but it's gonna be I understand, it's just
a tricky access. I mean if it's attic, it's attic
and so so. Yeah, it's not as simple as you
just going up on a ladder and screwing these in.
That I clearly, I clearly understand, but I still think,
I still think, and you'd have to price it out,
just price it out. But I still think it would
be less expensive for you to uh to buy some
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of this retrofit material and have a handyman, uh you know,
a contractor even uh you know, maybe even the roofer
would come back and make an attic crawl for you
and install these on the backside. I still think that
would be less expensive than tearing out the O'Hagan vents
from the top of the room and reflashing it all
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and repapering it all in to make sure that they
get it all right. Again, I still think that would
be a less expensive Even if you're paying somebody to
crawl your attic for you, I'm guessing that it's going
to be considerably less expensive and in the end, you
don't mess up your roof and you get the same
level of protection.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay, because you mentioned quickly the other thing you've talked
about vulcan vents and brand guard, and you know, I've
heard you talk about those several times, and I have
two I think what you would call gable vents, you know,
one at each end of the house that are fairly large,
and so you know, I wanted to see if I could.
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I just haven't done it because I haven't felt well,
but I wanted to see if I could call, like
say brand Guard and maybe another like say Embers out
and see what they could do to put smaller you know,
mesh there because you know, the house is as old
as can be. So yeah, absolutely would be a good thing.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Absolutely it can be done. And that I mean you'll
find those products for like end gable retrofit vents right
on their websites. Absolutely can be done. But I again,
I think you're taking the right tact. I want you
to actually just talk to them, call them, talk to them,
say here, here's my situation. As soon as you say, Ohagen,
they're going to know exactly what you're talking about. Everybody
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else who's listening to us is like, what's an o'hagen event.
That's not important right now, everybody. What's important is that
you know that there are, there is a way to
retrofit your exist most existing roof vents, whether it's end gable,
whether it's high ridge vents, whether it's low events, there's
a way to retrofit them without tearing up the roof
or tearing up the house in order to ember protect it.
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And so yeah, give give a conversation with them, and
they're going to guide you in the right direction, because
that's what they're all about. They're all about helping you out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Okay, And one more real, real question. So would someone
like a brand Guard be able to tell me based
on you know, whatever they would do if let's let's
say they could do something on the inside of the
events I have and would recommend something from the gable vents,
then would they you know, tell me again based on
the square footage and what you've talked about, you know
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what that'll give me enough ventilation in my attic?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, and these.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Too, Yeah, is I want to you know, I want
to decrease, but I want to make sure I still
have enough ventilation in my attic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
These companies, they they the ones that I continually recommend
Vulcan vent embers out, brand Guard Vents. The reason why
I recommend these companies specifically and The reason why these
three companies are all cow Fire a Fire Marshall recommended
in the state of California is because they produce a
fantastic ember deterrent vent without that still breathes basically, that
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still breathes effectively because you know, I, I mean, we
could emperproof your attic just by sealing it all up,
but now you don't have at events, and so we
don't want to diminish the attic ventilation capacity while at
the same time protecting you. We want to do both.
We want them both. We want to have our cake
and eat it too, and Kathleen that they're going to
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help you do exactly that. So don't worry about that.
You have a good conversation with them, and it's going
to work. We've seen it happen again and again. Kathleen.
Thank you so much for your call and for your kindness.
Good luck on the house. I know it's going to
work out for you, y'all when we come back.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
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Speaker 1 (10:41):
Dean Sharp the House Whisper at your service. We're talking
about eclectic decor and how to do it well. That's
what we're going to return to in just a bit.
But right now we're going to the phones. I want
to talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome home.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Here's hi, good morning. I have a bank of five
single pane aluminum windows about thirty four inches by fifty
eight inches. I'm trying to sound proof of them. I'm
looking at insets for them, but anything you could recommend,
or any company you could recommend.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
So you want to do it. You want to do
an insert on the inside of the window, just to
give it a little bit more sound capture.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Is that what you're saying, If that's the most practical thing?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, well yeah, is there a real let me just
ask in I want to be budget sensitive. Is there
a reason why, if this is a priority, that we
don't want to just switch out those windows? Change out
those windows because single glazed aluminum windows, that's definitely an
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older window weather wise, energy wise and sound wise. And
is it a hesitation because we don't want to disrupt
the outside surface of the house.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Because that's that's part of it. I'm a renter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh I got you, I hear you. So they're not
your window?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
No, no, they're not my windows. So and they install
these windows probably about three four years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh really, single glazed aluminum windows. They put them in
three years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That's what I'm assuming it is. I may be wrong,
but that's what I'm assuming They are.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Now install them illegally. Actually, do you do? You know
your landlord?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I do, But they might be double pain I don't know.
But they're still letting them a lot of sound.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, all right? Yeah? Yeah? You know, you could go
to a lot of expense putting a clear panel insert
inside the window jam in order to block the sound.
And I see clear panel because obviously, I mean it's windows.
So I mean I could tell you how to soundproof
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or how to drastically sound reduce those windows just by
getting some foam sound resistant panels off of Amazon and
cutting one to size and putting it in. But you
wouldn't have a window anymore, right, So is there a
time when you need it to be quieter when the
window aspect is not important. I'm trying to get creative
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with a solution here, because that would be the best
thing here. Another pane of glass at this point is
going to help a little bit, a little bit, but
not really produce a whole lot of bang for the
buck that you'll be spending on them, and they're not
even your windows. And so if it's like, well, when
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we sit down, or I've got to do I have
to do a podcast, or I want to watch movies
at a certain time of day. And I mean, if
it's something like that where the window itself does not
have to keep doing its job of letting light in,
then the easiest way and the least expensive way, in
the most effective way would be to, you know, come
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up and spend just a few dollars on a place
like Amazon and uh and buy some inexpensive sound baffling
foam that you could cut as an insert into the window.
But it's going to block the I mean, it essentially
closes down the window. But the sound wise, there's nothing
better that you could do for that situation. If you're
not going to switch out the window, I just don't
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have a mean, there's no magic bullet that's going to
solve the problem and continue to let the light in
of a of a leaky window, sound leaky, uh, you know, weather, leaky,
you know all the same.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
But so I'm looking, can I mention the name of
the company that I'm looking at sure it's called the
inn window mm hm. And they're they're quoting me about
three thousand dollars for the inserts.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
They're saying anywhere up like fifty to seventy percent soundproofy.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, so again, uh, it's pricey. Three thousand dollars is pricey.
And I want you to be really aware of this,
that that that that is a you know, fifty to
seventy percent reduction of sound through the window. That's not
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a fifty to seventy percent of reduction of sound in
the room, Okay, because the window is just one component,
and so loud sounds could still be finding their way
A large majority of them are finding their way just
through the wall. Okay. So I just want you to
be clear on that. I'm not going to tell you
not to use a company like that. I just want
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you to be aware that. You know, sometimes it's said like, hey,
ninety percent reduction of sound. Well, okay, for that two
square three square feet, that that area ninety percent reduction,
But when the rest of the wall is still transmitting sound,
you may only see a ten percent reduction of overall
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sound in the room that you're struggling with. And if
that's the case, then you have to measure that against
the three thousand dollars that you're going to spend for
the window. Answer.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So again, so you're recommending the phone sound buffering.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I'm recommending a thick I mean literally, you know
the kind of foam of sound absorption material that you
can find on a website like Amazon for just pennies
on the dollar that will when you need it to
be quiet, you can plug the windows with as opposed
to spending big bucks. Because you know what, for three
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thousand how many windows are there by the way, five? Yeah, windows?
For three thousand dollars, you're almost spending the You may
actually be spending as much, if not more than putting
retrofit windows in those openings. And that's the thing. I'm
just it's just a it's a high price to pay.
I'm not saying it's not a good product. It's just
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the kind of thing that you use in an extreme
situation when literally no other solution presents itself. And I
would really want to explore other options, including when do
you need it to be quiet? Right? And if that's
the thing, then just plug the window home if that
makes sense. Ron, Thank you for your question. Not everything
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is an easy solve, right, And some products that are
advertised that kind of say, hey, here's the miracle. Price
is going to be aware. You know, there's a lot
of sound that actually moves through a wall, not just
the window. Yes, windows are leaky holes, But spend that
much money trying to get a reduction of the glass
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transmission and find out that you've only reduced the overall
room sound by ten fifteen percent. Now, maybe that's good enough,
but for three thousand dollars, you have to evaluate whether
that's the case. All Right, y'all when we return, let's
dive back into our conversation about eclectic decor, and I'll
be hitting up the phones again in just a bit.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
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Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, feng Shui. Feng Shui is not a decourse style.
It's a methodology. Yeah, and no, it doesn't really fit
in the ish category because it's not a decorese style. Yeah,
I'm sorry, all right, everybody, I'm just answering a question.
Answering a question here in the studio. I am so
glad you've joined us on the show today we are
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talking about the secrets of ISH, and by ish, I
mean that kind of eclectic decor where your theme that
you really we'd really like to establish for your place,
for a room, for a space, whatever the case may be,
and how you're never going to achieve. I mean, the
bad news is you're never going to achieve purity, one
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hundred percent purity with your decor theme. It's always going
to be an ish, right, It's like, well, it's going
to be contemporary ish, it's going to be a modern
farmhouse ish. It's going to be craftsman ish. Why because life,
because real life, Because because if you have relationships with
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other people, if you walk out into the world, you
come home with things that are meaningful and special and beautiful,
but don't necessarily line up precisely with that theme, that period.
That's not and it's not even just about those elements.
Maybe you live in a century old house. Maybe your
house was built in the nineteen twenties, and you would
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like to use your living room to watch a twenty
first century flatsk TV. You know, integrating that into a
home that was never designed even to conceive of a
video screen is a challenge. From a decor perspective, and
that's what makes it ish. But if we do it,
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if we follow the rules, we follow the best advice available,
which of course you will receive right here, then you
can be really, really successful at this. So dive back
into this conversation with me, shall we. That sounds good,
all right, So again I want to underscore this. Oh
and by the way, by the way, sorry sorry sorry,
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Check it out. So I want to underscore aiming for
the intentionality of a gallery for your home. That doesn't
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mean that it has to be austere and plane or
anything like that. I just mean, I want you to
be very, very intentional about your decor. Eclectic is a
word that gets thrown around a lot by hoarders, by
people who have way too much stuff, uh, and and
(21:43):
people who have essentially given up on an attempt to
do a decor theme and just say, well, I'm a
collecting and so it's an excuse for not being thoughtful
and for allowing a little bit of design chaos to
enter into your home. So yeah, yeah, let's use the
word and give it the honor that it's due. Eclectic
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decor is a discipline and it's one that you can
really achieve. But it takes intention. It takes the intentionality
of a gallery owner. It's not random, it's thoughtful, and
it's curated curated carefully. Okay, all right, so now on
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to the next tip. As we go here, the next
thing I want to talk to you about just is patterns.
Be aware of patterns. Patterns, meaning whether visible printed patterns
in furniture, on paintings, on furnishings like blankets, throws, pillows, fabrics,
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those kinds of things. The two questions that are most
important to ask about patterns are this, do the geometries
of the patterns of a couple of different patterns play
well together? Okay, I'll explain that in just a second.
But do the actual shapes of two different patterns do
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they play well together? And number two, does the scale
of the patterns play well together? Okay, and I'm not
talking about one pattern. I'm talking about an eclectic design
in which there's more than one pattern in the space,
in the room, on the sofa, whatever the case may be.
So we've got to ask these critical questions. Do the
geometries play well together? And does the scale play well together?
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So what kind of patterns are out there? Anyway? Well,
I'm sure that we could split hairs and create more
than these six categories, But in general, in general, a
pattern falls into one of these six categories. It's either
floral and organic. Right, floral organic meaning there's patterns of
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leaves or tree branches or you know, you know what
I'm saying, I know, a sense of organic representation in
the pattern. Number two abstract, it's not representing anything in particular.
It's a weird amorphous shape or a blending of shapes
and tones. That's an abstract pattern. Then you've got number
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three geometric patterns and that should be self explanatory. It's circles, squares,
it's rounds, it's triangles, it's geometry, geometric shapes coming through
really strongly. Four Technically this is a geometry but stripes.
Stripes get their own pattern category because it's such a
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common theme. So there's stripes, there is solids. That's number five,
just solid color, solid, you know, which is really kind
of I don't know why it's on the list, but
it's it's the non pattern essentially. And number six animal prints.
Animal prints are different than floral and organic. They are organic,
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but we're talking about like, you know, leopard skin, that
kind of thing, those those kinds of elements. Animal prints.
Those are the six main categories of patterns, and the
way these work together in an eclectic decor is typically
typically nine times out of ten, maybe ninety nine out
of one hundred. You want to have the patterns, two
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different patterns in a room, coming from two different categories
of patterns and two different scales, meaning that we don't
want a strong pattern of squares right here smashed up
against a strong pattern of circles. They're both out of
the geometry category and they're tough to meld together, especially
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if the squares in the circles are the exact same
size or relatively the same size in those patterns, that's
the scale. That's where the scale enters in a strong
pattern of stripes or squares with some floral or organic pattern,
especially when one of them is significantly larger and the
other pattern is reduced in scale in its repetition. That's
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the kind of two patterns that could play well together.
Got it?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (26:28):
Welcome home. We're talking about eclectic decor, which, to one
degree another is everybody's decor, because no matter how pure
you attempt to do a decor theme in your home,
there's always gonna be something, something finding its way in
that doesn't match up, doesn't match up with the period,
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doesn't match up with the style that you know, and
so is that a fail? Do you have to purge
your life from all variables in order to have a
beautiful home? No, no, you don't know. We start with
the eighty twenty rule, which if you can get eighty
percent of it headed in the right direction, the other
twenty percent can, if well done, can integrate in and
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not be a problem. But we're just talking in general.
But how do you blend these diverse pattern styles and
themes in an efficient and beautiful ways. So hope you're
encouraged by today. This was this was a heavy lift
for me, honestly, because this is the kind of thing
that not everybody gets right out of the you know,
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right out of the gate. And it's the kind of thing,
honestly that I'd rather show you pictures. But you know,
here I am on the radio with you. But I
hope that you're getting the idea, and I'll tell you why.
In one sense, maybe this is better if I'm not
showing you pictures, because you can go online, like I
said at the top of the show, and ask this
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very question, how do I do aclectic decor? And you
know what you're gonna find. You're gonna find that everybody
very much devolves almost immediately into just showing you things
to do. Okay, not principles to apply to your house,
but just showing you what they did. Like you know,
and learning by example is great, but when when a website,
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you know, advice point number six is add plants. That's
not being very specific to your home. Right, anybody can
say that, oh, add plants. Okay, well, what if this
is a room where that's not going to happen. Then See,
now we're just giving examples of things and not actually
telling you. This is the give a man a fish,
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teach a man to fish idea, trying to help teach
you how to fish for a collectic decre All right,
the metaphors are all breaking down now, so I'm gonna
move on. By the way, right after our next break,
we're going back to the phones. So a three three two,
Ask dean, A three to three the numeral two, ask dean.
That's right after the next break. All right, back to
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our list. Now this should be very very self explanatory.
I hope by the way you understood the idea of patterns.
Do the geometries play well together, does the scale play
well together? The goal there just to summarize when it
comes to patterns, if you're going to combine two or
three patterns together diverse patterns, right, then it's best to
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pick a pattern from a different category. That there are
three different categories. So the categories were floral and organic, abstract,
geometric stripes, solids, and animal prints. So you get three
animal prints together from three different animals, all at the
same size scale. It looks weird. They just they're fighting
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with each other. They're fighting for attention as opposed to
complimenting each other. But you get a floral pattern, you know,
I'm looking, I'm staring at one right across the table
from me. You know, this kind of embossed white on
white rose pattern with rows, stems, and blooms in this
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sofa that's directly across from me here. And then add
to that a geometric pattern, a stripe, a solid, squares, circles,
And then add to that solids or even an animal print.
Those three things could go well together, could go well
together if we've got the scales right. So the question
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is do they play well together? Your chance of success
is going to be most high if the patterns come
from different categories, and if the scales are different between
the three patterns put together, right, that's just the rule
of thumb when it comes to matching those things. It
should go without saying my next point here, don't ignore
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a room's functionality for the sake of decor. That is
real life designed advice. I cannot tell you how many
times again I've opened up a magazine spread and I'm like, yeah,
that's a lovely art piece there. You can't live in
that room. Somebody standing next to me says why not,
and I say, well, take a look. Take a look
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at how they've arranged these two chairs in this corner here.
Do you see how close the sofa is or that
bouquet of flowers is. See that big bouquet sitting on
the table in between the two chairs. Now imagine yourself
sitting in those two chairs having a conversation with a friend.
That bouquet of flowers has to be moved because the
vase is like three feet tall. And when I sit
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down in this chair and I look to my left,
I can't see you. You're right on the other side
of these flowers. So that but when you're standing across
the room looking at all of this compressed into a
two D image, yeah, looks great. You know, first impressions
are it looks great. You don't really think about moving
through the space. So my point is, again, don't ignore
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the room's functionality. When the question comes up, should we
emphasize form or function, the answer is always the same. Both.
Don't sacrifice either. I refuse to say form first, function
later no no, no, no no. The goal is both.
That's what we're shooting for. That's the target. That's the bullseye. Okay,
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all right now, next piece of advice for you who
we're up. Yeah, okay, I'm going to slide this one
in when you're doing this as you work on the
decor in your home, just as if you were an
author or any kind of creative creator. But let's stick
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with the author metaphor for the moment. I want you
to find yourself a ruthless editor. A ruthless editor. You
know what the role of an editor is to go into,
you know, the work of an author and go snipping through,
or if we want to use editors in the turn
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in the sense of filmmakers as well, to cut out
dialogue that just doesn't need to be there, to remove
certain things, to connect certain thoughts. And the best editors
are what I call ruthless. Now that they're not ruthless
people kind wonderful people who love you. That's who I
want helping you with your living room or whatever room
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that we're doing this decor in. But I want them
to I want you to permit them the freedom to
ruthlessly edit the things that you're talking about, especially when
it comes to like pulling things out saying yeah, I'm
not really seeing that that's working. Somebody who's just completely,
one hundred percent honest with you about what they're seeing.
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And why get yourself a partner in this, or at
least the assistance of a ruthless editor when it comes
to decor, and you will find yourself being more successful
than you ever imagine. It's an emotional step that a
lot of people have because they don't want to be
critiqued when it comes to artistic and creative stuff. But
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trust me when I tell you, as an artist and
as a creator, I felt the same way in the beginning.
I'm like, no, no, don't say things, don't say bad
things about what I did. Now, believe me, you need them,
You want them, You want them in your life. You
want somebody who can come along iron sharpening, iron sharpening
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the blade of what it is that you're trying to create.
So another tip for you today, find yourself a ruthless
editor to assist you in the process of making selections
when it comes to an eclectic design. All right, we
got so much more to cover when we come back
from the news, we'll be going back to the phones.
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