October 13, 2024 • 34 mins
Dean covers ants inside a wall socket and how to eliminate them. Dean talks about attic installation and the savings it could bring. He discusses the importance of peace and quietness – as it could be a sound retreat in part of sound installation. Lastly, Dean recaps the tips on remodeling of bedrooms and making it a great environment.
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Thanks for joining us here live this morning for the
third hour of our show. It's a beautiful day outside, gorgeous,
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gorgeous fall day here in southern California, and we're talking
about bedroom design. But because it's the top of the hour.
It is time to go back to the phones where
you get to tell me anything you want about your home.
Let's talk to Kelly. Hey, Kelly, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dean.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Hi, I have probably one of the worst things to
have in a bedroom, and that is an ant attack.
And they came in. They look they were coming out
of the wall, come out of the light socket. Is
there anything besides pentting or a guy out take care
of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean I don't want you
to go to that extreme yet. So okay, so first
of all, step one, and you know, you can say
yourself a lot of potential pest control cost hassles if
you just do these two or three steps step one,
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chances are they're not traveling all that far. So outside
the bedroom, okay, a little bit of of Tara and uh,
there's a sprinkle ant deterrent that you can put along
just the outside of the foundation. This will help keep
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them away from getting up into the wall in the
first place, and some baits out there. I'm I'm a
big fan of Tara just because they've got some really
excellent products and they're they're safe for pets and wildlife
and all this other kind of stuff. So go take
a look at what ant bates and the and the
sprinkle prevention on the outside of the foundation around the room.
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Secondly inside the room. And I want you to do
this carefully, so it's a good idea. Just like hit
the breaker, but take off the light fixture or take
out the electrical outlet cover. You don't have to pull
anything else out other than that. But the reason they
actually are attracted to electrical boxes in the wall is
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quite honestly, because those are little warm pockets in the
wall and answer attracted to the warmth. That's happening because
those boxes are technically open to the room, so they
are warmer than the other places in the wall. They're
not just looking for a way to get into the room.
They just are attracted to the warmth there. So if
you took a little bit of caulking, Okay, they could
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do door door window calking or silicone calking, you can
do the thing that almost nobody has in their walls,
and that is you can calk the edge of the
actual electrical box to the edge of the dry wall
to eliminate the gap for them to come through. And
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then if you see any holes or gaps in the
electrical box itself. Put a little bit of calking in
those holes as well. To seal the box off so
that even though they're attracted to it in the wall,
they're not actually using it as a portal to get
into the room. And then the final step here would
be to actually, while you've got the plate off the
electrical outlet, to actually put a little bit of ant
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bait there. Again, tear is an excellent one to use.
You can put a little droplet or two of ant
bait there and anyone who gets in there you have
to be patient. But anyone who gets in there, they're
going to grab that bait, take it back to the colony,
and everybody is going to get sick and go away. Now,
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that could take two three days to see the results
of that. So again, seal them off from the room first,
and just as a backup, put a little amp bait
in the box, put the electrical cover back on, and
you should be golden. It works ninety nine times out
of one hundred to keep them from coming inside. That
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sounds perfect, all.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Right, Thanks, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You are so welcome, Kelly. Thank you for the question
do we have time. No, we're up against the break.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When we come back, we'll take one or two at
the most more calls, and then we will get back
onto designing your bedroom, Your home Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Here in the third hour of our fine little program
on this beautiful, beautiful autumn day, October thirteenth, Tina's birthday. Yeah,
it's a good day. All right. We're gonna get back
to talking about designing your bedroom in just a bit,
but I'm taking calls right now. Last calls of the show.
Let's start with Jane. Hey, Jane, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Thank you. Dean. We had an air conditioning technician check
the insulation in my attic. He had a marked guide
to measure the level of insulation by the year the
house was built, nineteen fifty six. He said, my level
is really really low and can cause the temperature to
be too hot, too cold, among other things. I assume
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this happens, but I wanted to check with you and
then see how I remedy it, who could replace it,
and about how much should it cost?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, let's talk about that. So we're talking about blowing
in insulation up in your attic nineteen fifty five. It
is minimal, minimal. I mean, you know, I've talked about
this before when we do our insulation shows that you know,
in southern California, especially before the late seventies, there were
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hardly any energy codes whatsoever controlling how much insulation went
into the house. So we've had we've had a radical
change in that. Okay, So they're right. I'm assuming that
they're on point with this, and they're right about not
that the key to a really great HVAC system is
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not only the quality of the equipment and the size
of the system and the proper operation of the system,
but the insulation in the house. Because the whole idea
is that once the the heater or the air conditioner
has done its job of getting the room to temperature,
how hard it works after that has everything to do
with how long the house holds on to that temperature,
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holds on to the heat, or holds on to the
cool right because if it leaks right out, then it's
got to turn right back on and it's got to
work some more. A really really brilliantly insulated home. All
we have to do is get it up to the
temp that we want or down to the temp that
we want, depending on heating or cooling, and then it
holds for a long period of time, and then the
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AC just nudges it a little nudge, little nudge, topping off,
topping off. That's the ideal situation. And of all places
to insulate the house because heat rises and cold air descends,
it's the attic. So fortunately it's not expensive. Now I
can't quote you a price because it depends on the
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size of your attic and all sorts of configurations like
access and roof pitching up. But I will tell you this,
it is not expense. It is a fraction of number
one paying for an extra large HVAC system. It will
pay for itself in heating and cooling savings. And we're
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talking about blown in insulation, and what you're looking for
up there is R thirty R thirty levels of insulation
blown in across the whole attic, sealing up all the holes,
all the gaps, a nice, big, thick, beautiful blanket and
you won't have to worry with today's insulation. Blown in
insult you won't have to worry about it's settling down
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and minimizing itself for decades to come. So that's the thing,
and there are all sorts of companies ready to work
that for you to clean out the old stuff if necessary.
But if there's no let's say, like rodent intrusion or
anything like that up in the attic, the simple fact
of the matter is that you may not have to
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clear out the old stuff. It's not like the old
stuff is stale or anything like that. They can just
blow in right on top of it. It is such
a common thing these days. You can even rent your
own insulation blower at places like home Depot and buy
the blocks of insulation. I'm not saying you should do
it yourself, but I'm just saying that's that's the thing
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if you're DIY minded. So yeah, have an insulation company
come out. And the way to know again what a
thing is really going to cost for your particular home
is always get two or three estimates from a reputable company.
Make sure they're bi you know, they're bidding the thing
apples to apples, And then you look at the numbers
and you realize, oh, look at that, Look at they
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all fall within this range. This is kind of and
then there if there's an outlier who's unusually inexpensive or
unusually expensive, then you can deal with that. But you
will find them clumping from reputable contractors right in one zone,
and you'll find out real quick. So you have the
confidence of knowing, like, you know what, I bid this
thing out four times, uh, and I know this is
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what it should cost for my addic. So that's where
you go, my friend, and uh, and it's going to
be quick and easy. We're talking about a one day
deal that's going to radically change the way your whole
your whole house holds on to the heat and the
AC from here on out. Jane, thanks for the call.
I appreciate the question. Dorive room. Just can I squeeze
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one more in? Sure? Let's try it. Uh, let's talk
to uh. Let's see Jack. Hey Jack, welcome home. Hello Jack.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, this is a Jack.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
What can I do for you? I'm here?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, regarding my roof, I have cement tiles. The house
is not that old. It's only about twelve years old.
But I've had several weeks in a couple of different places,
and they talked to the roofer, and I asked them,
is there some kind of a spray or something that
you can spray on these cement cement tiles, I mean
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they're they're not. I prefer asphalt, but the house had
you ask all, I mean the cementele Is there anything
I can do about that?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
No? No, that would be a waste of time actually,
because here's the thing cement tiles. In fact, this is
something that that that I talk about often that everybody
needs to understand about their roof. Is that the tile,
the shingle, whatever the case may be, whatever else the
surface is that you've got up there, that is not
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your primary line of defense from keeping your house waterproof.
It is the underlayment underneath. And a cement tile has
already been treated to whatever degree that it needs to
be treated to not be like normal cement, which means
super porous and just a giant water sponge. So there's
no additional coating to put on a cement tile that's
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going to solve the problem if you've got a leak.
If you have a leak with a cement tile roof,
guarantee that it has something to do with the underlayment
and or the flashings around it. So a qualified roofer
needs to get up there, figure out where this leak
is coming from, pull back a few tiles, get to
the paper and or the membrane underneath, get to the
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flashing problem, get that fixed, and put the tiles back
in place in order to seal you up. It's not
the tiles. It's not going to be the tiles, not
unless somehow there's no paper underneath whatsoever. But again that's
a paper problem, so it's really not your cement tiles.
We don't need to waterproof the top surface of the tiles.
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We just need to let them do their job. But
they have to get the major assist from the moisture
membrane underneath the tiles, and where that membrane connects to
the flashings. That's the metal stuff on the edges of
the roof, and where it meets the chimney and all
of that kind of stuff. All those things have to
be tied together in order for the tiles on top,
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which essentially you could make the argument are just there
to look at from the street and to protect that
critical waterproofing membrane from the elements like direct exposure to UV, sun, wind, rain,
all of that kind of stuff. But the real key
is the membrane underneath, and then the tile on top
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is the cherry on top of the Sunday. There you go,
my friend. Thanks for the question, thanks for the call,
Thanks for all of our callers today. It's time now
to turn back to you designing our bedrooms.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Thanks for
joining us on the program today. What a beautiful day
it is. We are talking about designing your bedroom specifically.
I'm focused on not just every bedroom, you know, because
that would take us all afield, the kids room and
guest rooms and so on. But I'm really focused on
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the primary bedroom, the master bedroom, the bedroom where you,
the master of the house, spend your time doing what
you do in a bedroom. So well, where are we
at now now? I left you dangling when we last
spoke of this before I took calls this last hour
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with the idea of the soaker tub out in the room.
I know, listen, I'm a designer, so again I'm giving you,
you know, all sorts of different options. Maybe your bedroom,
like mine, has no prayer whatsoever of having anything like
that in the room, because we can barely fit in
our bed into our bedroom. I feel you, all right,
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But a lot of folks do these days, especially if
you live in a house that was built in the
eighties forward. That was a period of time in which
all of a sudden, builders, in order to hush it up,
started kind of oversizing master bedrooms. And here's the problem,
oversizing master bedrooms to the detriment of the bathroom in
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the master suite. Okay, and now we have definitely turned
a corner from that period of time in which bathrooms
have become far, far more important. And yet okay, third
point along this line, we live in a time in
which most people are really scratching their heads about those
oversized jacuzzi tubs in their bathrooms and whether they want
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a tub or all at all. Are advice are kind
of standard, you know. Template advice is that keep a
tub in a house somewhere, a tub somewhere, because whether
it's you, kids, grandkids, guests, somebody could practically use a
tub resale value. You sell to a young family, they
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need a tub for washing little ones. So keep a
tub somewhere in the house. But if it doesn't work
for the primary bathroom, then you know, lose the tub
in the primary bathroom unless you are a soaker. Okay,
if you're a soaker, if you're a person who just
loves that long, luxurious soaking bath and you've got room
for it in the bathroom, great, If not, if you've
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got an oversized bedroom. What about the room itself? And
the reason I say that is because free standing tubs
are absolutely stunningly gorgeous. And I could show you one
hundred images right now of high end hotel rooms in
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which the room itself, the bed room utilizes its extra
space with a soaker tub out in the room. You
think about this that you know the bedroom itself right,
maybe the TV is out there, maybe it's the best lighting,
and so on, and so many folks these days have
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floors that could handle the soaker tub. Now I'm one
to tell you that even if you have a hardwood
floor in a in a primary bedroom, that it qualifies
for a soaker tub. You just have to be you know,
adult about it and not have a big splash party
in the tub, you know, soaking your hardwood floor constantly.
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But most hardwood floors that are polyurethaned and well finished.
They can handle, you know, a little bit of moisture
dropped on them as long as you twel it up
after the fact. But even at that, going beyond that,
so many homes have tile in the bedroom or have
these days luxury vinyl plank. These are waterproof materials. Okay.
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So the idea of like right over there in that
unused corner, if you're not gonna sit there in a
chair and read, if you're going to put a work
desk there, think about pulling that tub out of the bathroom,
giving the bathroom more space and putting it as a
pure luxury decor idea in the corner of the bedroom.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying it's possible. Okay. Also,
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get creative with closets and closet doors, right, They don't
just have to be another sliding mirror door. Now, I
don't have anything to have any issues with sliding mirror
doors on a closet, especially a smaller bedroom. Mirrors obviously
are a way of making a small space seem larger,
but they just don't have to be the conventual, the conventional,
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you know, the little brass framed, you know, full size,
full height sliding mirror doors. You could use louver doors.
You could use doors that match the other doors in
the house. Literally, you can hang those doors as closet
doors and get that uniformity throughout the house. You could
use draperes. Don't you go telling me that that's a
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cheap way out. It is inexpensive, less expensive than most
closet door setups. But draperes over a closet can be
sexy as hack. Okay, ask Tina, because we've got draperes
in front of our closets. And also, can I mention
not only can they be super sexy, but they can
be twice as practical as a conventional door. You know
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why because let's say you've got an eight foot wide
closet and you've got two four foot slider doors. You
slide one right, nice big opening, but it's not the
whole thing, right, because there's always a door covering half
your closet. But guess what happens in my draped closet opening.
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I can push the whole thing back and there it
is before me, the entire closet, all of my options
right before me. This is one of the advantages of
shower curtains in a bathroom and drapes in front of
a closet door. Just an option, Just an option. I'm
just giving you permission to dream beyond the convention. Right
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You could, if you really want to get funky and fancy,
set up closet doors with bookshelves mounted on the front
of them, so that you've got bookshelves in your bedroom
if it's a reading kind of room, and secretly behind
the bookshelves the closet, or if you've got a weird
shaped room and a lot of these oversized post nineteen
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eighty bedrooms, they are narrow and way longer than really
practically they should be. And so you think, well that
I'm going to have to set the bed on the
long wall. But if the if the bed, if the
bed is uh is, can fit on the shorter wall
with nightstands and so on, UH, then possibly, if you
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need more closet space, then slide a wall in and
pull the old closet behind the bed. Trick in which
you actually build a partition wall in that room with
a door access either side and door both sides and
uh and actually run a walk through closet behind the bedwall.
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Mm hmm, you got lots and lots of options. Okay, finally, uh,
some points for you bedroom art. Just know that this
is your private gallery. Don't uh, don't skimp on it,
because again, it's a place where you are spending your time.
The view outside those bedroom windows, make it what it
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should be. Treat each window like a diorama. Make that
view what it should and could be. Landscape the outside
to complement inside of the bedroom. Cool colors in the
bedroom make for better sleep. They do. Dark walls may
help shift workers who have to sleep at odd times
or during the day. Your sleep temperature, ideally for a bedroom,
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somewhere between sixty and sixty seven degrees. Yeah. That means no,
I'm not talking about running your ac all night long,
but it means that you know if you can and
if you feel safe to do so. When you're hitting
the hay at night, especially this time of year, it's
time to crack those windows open. Sleep cooler, Okay, the
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air temperature. I don't care how snugly you are underneath,
that's one of the joys of it. But let the
air temperature go a little cooler, you will sleep better.
That's just science. Vaulted ceilings, tall walls, all ago for
a bedroom, think about it, because the volume in the room,
the volume up can make up for a small square
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footage space. Okay, and then decorating the bed, of course,
you know you've got everything from nice tight, formalized military
style bed dreat you know, comforters and so on, all
the way to the ever popular intentionally messy bed with
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big soft pillows and linens and all sorts of fluff
going on, throws, layers of texture, draping. Last thing, last
thing for today, don't forget And if this bedroom redo
is part of a significant remodel that you're doing to
the room, if you're really going to get serious about it.
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Sound peace and quiet in that bedroom. What does that mean?
It means sound insulation in the walls. Now, I'm not
trying to protect the rest of the house from the
noise you're making in the bedroom, although it does work
both ways. But what I'm talking about is peace and
quiet for you in that room. Let it be a
sound retreat as well, so that when you sleep at night,
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you're not having to hear every little thing everything all
the time, and the rest of the house can be
active and you are still getting a good night's sleep.
Sound insulation That means insulation in the interior as well
as the exterior walls that your bedroom shares. Does that
all makes sense? There you go. Those are some key
guidelines for you, all right when we return, a few
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extra thoughts on the bedroom and some closing thoughts for
the day. So go nowhere.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
We've been talking about designing your bedroom, giving you tips,
giving you perspective on the things that you can do
for your primary bedroom at your house. I hope you
have found them stimulating, nudging, right, eye opening and good good.
You know why because design matters most, and it's time
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for us to start all approaching our homes from that perspective.
I get asked all the time, Dean, I know you
talk about design, design, Design. Is design gonna save me money?
That's an interesting question. The answer is no, No, design
is not going to save you money. But I will
tell you this design is going to maximize the budget
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that you have for what it is that you're doing.
That's why it matters most. You're not going to spend
less necessarily could. You could, but you're not going to
spend less. Don't plan on spending less necessarily because you're
approaching the project from a heavy design perspective, but don't
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expect to spend more either. What you can expect is
the better you design a project, the further that dollar
go bang for the buck of the results that you
get when you are done. And that's the whole point
behind design matters. Most One other comment for you today
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unrelated directly to bedroom design, and that is something I
alluded to at the beginning of the show. I talked
about this yesterday morning at the beginning of yesterday's show,
the Saturday Show, and that is permission, okay, around the holidays,
which we are now. You know, we are now on track, right,
we are, we are in the shoot. We are on
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our way. Around the holidays, people give themselves permission for
a level of creative decor, decorating and playfulness that normal
people don't give themselves permission for throughout the rest of
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the year. And I am here to tell you because
the experience of your home is not just a thing
that happens in the holidays, but it is a three
sixty five experience. Okay, Uh, give yourself permission to take
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the kind of perspective that you take during the holidays.
And you know what I'm talking about. During the holidays,
you're like, where should we put the tree? Where would
this look the best? How are we going to get
this homiest? How is this gonna be oh twinkling and
ooh that's gonna that's gonna's gonna make us feel really special.
I'm talking about taking that attitude and applying it for
the rest of the year. Now, don't get me wrong.
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I'm not talking about you being the person who never
takes down their Christmas lights'. That's not it. It's not
about Christmas decor. It's not about holiday decor. It's just
this attitude that you know what creativity is for you
year round. And I would say even more important than
the holidays is the rest of the year, day in,
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day out, your experience of home. Give yourself permission to
reach further and to make every space, every angle, every view,
every possibility. It does not have to break the bank,
not if you make it a lifestyle choice. That listen,
I'm in it to win it. I'm in it for
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the long run for my home. Okay, A lot of
people say, listen, I haven't made any changes to my
house because I've just you know, we've been here twenty
years and still we don't have the money for a
major remodel. Okay, I get that, Okay, But you do
have small increments along the way, Okay, And that's ultimately
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those layers, those small changes, change after change after change
after change, gradually, gradually, gradually, gradually, these are the things
that can make worlds, worlds of difference. And if you
don't believe me, just think. You know, it's the vitamin analogy. Right,
Do you take your vitamins right on any given day?
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When you take that, you know, you pop your supplements
for the day. Whether you take it that day or
miss it that day, nothing's gonna change in your life
that day, right, nothing. Let's face it. It's not like, ohh,
I took my vitamins this morning, I'm ready to go. No.
But day after day after day, increment by increment by increment,
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as the weeks and months and years roll on, it
makes a massive difference whether you've been taking your vitamins
or not. Right, same with brushing your teeth, same with
every small incremental thing. And you can master design your
house the same way more often than not. Okay, got
a big budget, great design matters, most don't have much
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of a budget. Fine design matters most. There you go,
all right, y'all? Well, uh, turns out today this week
a lot of birthdays this week. Okay, a lot of
birthdays this week. You know. Sitting in the booth right now,
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Elmer's birthday was this week. Yes, yes, Tina, by the way,
is back in studio with me. I am. Turns out
I didn't know this, but Tina just informed me Tim
Conway's birthdays. Do you share a birthday with Tim Conway?
Tim and I share a birthday? There you go? Uh,
today is Tina's birthday. Wednesday was my daughter in law's,
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Christie's birthday. Just two more reasons why autumn is my
favorite time of year. What gifts these two women are
to me? They're both on my mind, so I figured
i'd give them a joint shout out today. Okay, there
is not enough time to tell you how much these
two women mean to me. Just know that there are
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no two human beings more dear, and there's nothing nothing
I wouldn't do to see both of them safe and
fulfilled in this life. They are strong, capable women, both
whip smart, both utterly unique, both extremely quirky, vulnerable, hard working,
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devoted and fierce fierce friends, and one of the great
blessings for me is that over the years I've had
the joy of watching them become the fiercest of friends
to one another. And I'm just speaking for myself here,
but It's not been my experience that strong independent women
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tend to bond easily with other strong independent women. Okay,
these two are the exception. They have got each other's back,
and I hope they I know they know that I've
got theirs. I love them both, of course, but even better,
I really really like them. They are each in their
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own way, both strong and vulnerable, serious and playful, wise
and ditsy, mature and childlike. As far as I know,
their only true character defect is a shared obsession with
true time podcasts. But you know, for the sake of
all the good that you learn to live with certain
(32:27):
things in life. Right now, both of them claim it
is a fascination with the human psyche, but there is
definitely also some bloodthirsty quest for justice mixed in there. Okay,
I'm not accepting any other answer to that, which I
have to admit is strangely comforting on some level, kind
of like that. Nevertheless, all of that pales in comparison
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with how committed they both are to health, transparency, healing,
growing and becoming. In fact, I don't know two people
more humbly committed to becoming Now. Yesterday, Tina received a
birthday card from my mom, who, by the way, is
a master gift giver, and I thought the sentiment was
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absolutely perfect for both of these women that I love.
It simply said this you're awesome, has layers your classy,
sassy and a whole lot kick assy, And yeah, I
think that just about sums it up. Love you, Tina,
Love you, Love you, Sparks, Love you so much. Happy
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birthdays now today, And it may not be the birthday
of somebody you love, but that doesn't mean it isn't
a perfect day to celebrate your best people. Maybe get
together and definitely get out there and get busy building
yourself a beautiful life. Everybody enjoyed the day. Go Dodgers,
and we'll see you right back here next weekend. This
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Thanks for joining us here live this morning for the
third hour of our show. It's a beautiful day outside, gorgeous,
(01:08):
gorgeous fall day here in southern California, and we're talking
about bedroom design. But because it's the top of the hour.
It is time to go back to the phones where
you get to tell me anything you want about your home.
Let's talk to Kelly. Hey, Kelly, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dean.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Hi, I have probably one of the worst things to
have in a bedroom, and that is an ant attack.
And they came in. They look they were coming out
of the wall, come out of the light socket. Is
there anything besides pentting or a guy out take care
of Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean I don't want you
to go to that extreme yet. So okay, so first
of all, step one, and you know, you can say
yourself a lot of potential pest control cost hassles if
you just do these two or three steps step one,
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chances are they're not traveling all that far. So outside
the bedroom, okay, a little bit of of Tara and uh,
there's a sprinkle ant deterrent that you can put along
just the outside of the foundation. This will help keep
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them away from getting up into the wall in the
first place, and some baits out there. I'm I'm a
big fan of Tara just because they've got some really
excellent products and they're they're safe for pets and wildlife
and all this other kind of stuff. So go take
a look at what ant bates and the and the
sprinkle prevention on the outside of the foundation around the room.
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Secondly inside the room. And I want you to do
this carefully, so it's a good idea. Just like hit
the breaker, but take off the light fixture or take
out the electrical outlet cover. You don't have to pull
anything else out other than that. But the reason they
actually are attracted to electrical boxes in the wall is
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quite honestly, because those are little warm pockets in the
wall and answer attracted to the warmth. That's happening because
those boxes are technically open to the room, so they
are warmer than the other places in the wall. They're
not just looking for a way to get into the room.
They just are attracted to the warmth there. So if
you took a little bit of caulking, Okay, they could
(03:37):
do door door window calking or silicone calking, you can
do the thing that almost nobody has in their walls,
and that is you can calk the edge of the
actual electrical box to the edge of the dry wall
to eliminate the gap for them to come through. And
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then if you see any holes or gaps in the
electrical box itself. Put a little bit of calking in
those holes as well. To seal the box off so
that even though they're attracted to it in the wall,
they're not actually using it as a portal to get
into the room. And then the final step here would
be to actually, while you've got the plate off the
electrical outlet, to actually put a little bit of ant
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bait there. Again, tear is an excellent one to use.
You can put a little droplet or two of ant
bait there and anyone who gets in there you have
to be patient. But anyone who gets in there, they're
going to grab that bait, take it back to the colony,
and everybody is going to get sick and go away. Now,
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that could take two three days to see the results
of that. So again, seal them off from the room first,
and just as a backup, put a little amp bait
in the box, put the electrical cover back on, and
you should be golden. It works ninety nine times out
of one hundred to keep them from coming inside. That
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sounds perfect, all.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Right, Thanks, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You are so welcome, Kelly. Thank you for the question
do we have time. No, we're up against the break.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When we come back, we'll take one or two at
the most more calls, and then we will get back
onto designing your bedroom, Your home Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Here in the third hour of our fine little program
on this beautiful, beautiful autumn day, October thirteenth, Tina's birthday. Yeah,
it's a good day. All right. We're gonna get back
to talking about designing your bedroom in just a bit,
but I'm taking calls right now. Last calls of the show.
Let's start with Jane. Hey, Jane, welcome home.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Thank you. Dean. We had an air conditioning technician check
the insulation in my attic. He had a marked guide
to measure the level of insulation by the year the
house was built, nineteen fifty six. He said, my level
is really really low and can cause the temperature to
be too hot, too cold, among other things. I assume
(06:20):
this happens, but I wanted to check with you and
then see how I remedy it, who could replace it,
and about how much should it cost?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, let's talk about that. So we're talking about blowing
in insulation up in your attic nineteen fifty five. It
is minimal, minimal. I mean, you know, I've talked about
this before when we do our insulation shows that you know,
in southern California, especially before the late seventies, there were
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hardly any energy codes whatsoever controlling how much insulation went
into the house. So we've had we've had a radical
change in that. Okay, So they're right. I'm assuming that
they're on point with this, and they're right about not
that the key to a really great HVAC system is
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not only the quality of the equipment and the size
of the system and the proper operation of the system,
but the insulation in the house. Because the whole idea
is that once the the heater or the air conditioner
has done its job of getting the room to temperature,
how hard it works after that has everything to do
with how long the house holds on to that temperature,
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holds on to the heat, or holds on to the
cool right because if it leaks right out, then it's
got to turn right back on and it's got to
work some more. A really really brilliantly insulated home. All
we have to do is get it up to the
temp that we want or down to the temp that
we want, depending on heating or cooling, and then it
holds for a long period of time, and then the
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AC just nudges it a little nudge, little nudge, topping off,
topping off. That's the ideal situation. And of all places
to insulate the house because heat rises and cold air descends,
it's the attic. So fortunately it's not expensive. Now I
can't quote you a price because it depends on the
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size of your attic and all sorts of configurations like
access and roof pitching up. But I will tell you this,
it is not expense. It is a fraction of number
one paying for an extra large HVAC system. It will
pay for itself in heating and cooling savings. And we're
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talking about blown in insulation, and what you're looking for
up there is R thirty R thirty levels of insulation
blown in across the whole attic, sealing up all the holes,
all the gaps, a nice, big, thick, beautiful blanket and
you won't have to worry with today's insulation. Blown in
insult you won't have to worry about it's settling down
(09:02):
and minimizing itself for decades to come. So that's the thing,
and there are all sorts of companies ready to work
that for you to clean out the old stuff if necessary.
But if there's no let's say, like rodent intrusion or
anything like that up in the attic, the simple fact
of the matter is that you may not have to
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clear out the old stuff. It's not like the old
stuff is stale or anything like that. They can just
blow in right on top of it. It is such
a common thing these days. You can even rent your
own insulation blower at places like home Depot and buy
the blocks of insulation. I'm not saying you should do
it yourself, but I'm just saying that's that's the thing
(09:44):
if you're DIY minded. So yeah, have an insulation company
come out. And the way to know again what a
thing is really going to cost for your particular home
is always get two or three estimates from a reputable company.
Make sure they're bi you know, they're bidding the thing
apples to apples, And then you look at the numbers
and you realize, oh, look at that, Look at they
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all fall within this range. This is kind of and
then there if there's an outlier who's unusually inexpensive or
unusually expensive, then you can deal with that. But you
will find them clumping from reputable contractors right in one zone,
and you'll find out real quick. So you have the
confidence of knowing, like, you know what, I bid this
thing out four times, uh, and I know this is
(10:28):
what it should cost for my addic. So that's where
you go, my friend, and uh, and it's going to
be quick and easy. We're talking about a one day
deal that's going to radically change the way your whole
your whole house holds on to the heat and the
AC from here on out. Jane, thanks for the call.
I appreciate the question. Dorive room. Just can I squeeze
(10:48):
one more in? Sure? Let's try it. Uh, let's talk
to uh. Let's see Jack. Hey Jack, welcome home. Hello Jack.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, this is a Jack.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
What can I do for you? I'm here?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, regarding my roof, I have cement tiles. The house
is not that old. It's only about twelve years old.
But I've had several weeks in a couple of different places,
and they talked to the roofer, and I asked them,
is there some kind of a spray or something that
you can spray on these cement cement tiles, I mean
(11:29):
they're they're not. I prefer asphalt, but the house had
you ask all, I mean the cementele Is there anything
I can do about that?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
No? No, that would be a waste of time actually,
because here's the thing cement tiles. In fact, this is
something that that that I talk about often that everybody
needs to understand about their roof. Is that the tile,
the shingle, whatever the case may be, whatever else the
surface is that you've got up there, that is not
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your primary line of defense from keeping your house waterproof.
It is the underlayment underneath. And a cement tile has
already been treated to whatever degree that it needs to
be treated to not be like normal cement, which means
super porous and just a giant water sponge. So there's
no additional coating to put on a cement tile that's
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going to solve the problem if you've got a leak.
If you have a leak with a cement tile roof,
guarantee that it has something to do with the underlayment
and or the flashings around it. So a qualified roofer
needs to get up there, figure out where this leak
is coming from, pull back a few tiles, get to
the paper and or the membrane underneath, get to the
(12:46):
flashing problem, get that fixed, and put the tiles back
in place in order to seal you up. It's not
the tiles. It's not going to be the tiles, not
unless somehow there's no paper underneath whatsoever. But again that's
a paper problem, so it's really not your cement tiles.
We don't need to waterproof the top surface of the tiles.
(13:07):
We just need to let them do their job. But
they have to get the major assist from the moisture
membrane underneath the tiles, and where that membrane connects to
the flashings. That's the metal stuff on the edges of
the roof, and where it meets the chimney and all
of that kind of stuff. All those things have to
be tied together in order for the tiles on top,
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which essentially you could make the argument are just there
to look at from the street and to protect that
critical waterproofing membrane from the elements like direct exposure to UV, sun, wind, rain,
all of that kind of stuff. But the real key
is the membrane underneath, and then the tile on top
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is the cherry on top of the Sunday. There you go,
my friend. Thanks for the question, thanks for the call,
Thanks for all of our callers today. It's time now
to turn back to you designing our bedrooms.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (14:10):
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper. Thanks for
joining us on the program today. What a beautiful day
it is. We are talking about designing your bedroom specifically.
I'm focused on not just every bedroom, you know, because
that would take us all afield, the kids room and
guest rooms and so on. But I'm really focused on
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the primary bedroom, the master bedroom, the bedroom where you,
the master of the house, spend your time doing what
you do in a bedroom. So well, where are we
at now now? I left you dangling when we last
spoke of this before I took calls this last hour
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with the idea of the soaker tub out in the room.
I know, listen, I'm a designer, so again I'm giving you,
you know, all sorts of different options. Maybe your bedroom,
like mine, has no prayer whatsoever of having anything like
that in the room, because we can barely fit in
our bed into our bedroom. I feel you, all right,
(15:14):
But a lot of folks do these days, especially if
you live in a house that was built in the
eighties forward. That was a period of time in which
all of a sudden, builders, in order to hush it up,
started kind of oversizing master bedrooms. And here's the problem,
oversizing master bedrooms to the detriment of the bathroom in
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the master suite. Okay, and now we have definitely turned
a corner from that period of time in which bathrooms
have become far, far more important. And yet okay, third
point along this line, we live in a time in
which most people are really scratching their heads about those
oversized jacuzzi tubs in their bathrooms and whether they want
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a tub or all at all. Are advice are kind
of standard, you know. Template advice is that keep a
tub in a house somewhere, a tub somewhere, because whether
it's you, kids, grandkids, guests, somebody could practically use a
tub resale value. You sell to a young family, they
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need a tub for washing little ones. So keep a
tub somewhere in the house. But if it doesn't work
for the primary bathroom, then you know, lose the tub
in the primary bathroom unless you are a soaker. Okay,
if you're a soaker, if you're a person who just
loves that long, luxurious soaking bath and you've got room
for it in the bathroom, great, If not, if you've
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got an oversized bedroom. What about the room itself? And
the reason I say that is because free standing tubs
are absolutely stunningly gorgeous. And I could show you one
hundred images right now of high end hotel rooms in
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which the room itself, the bed room utilizes its extra
space with a soaker tub out in the room. You
think about this that you know the bedroom itself right,
maybe the TV is out there, maybe it's the best lighting,
and so on, and so many folks these days have
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floors that could handle the soaker tub. Now I'm one
to tell you that even if you have a hardwood
floor in a in a primary bedroom, that it qualifies
for a soaker tub. You just have to be you know,
adult about it and not have a big splash party
in the tub, you know, soaking your hardwood floor constantly.
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But most hardwood floors that are polyurethaned and well finished.
They can handle, you know, a little bit of moisture
dropped on them as long as you twel it up
after the fact. But even at that, going beyond that,
so many homes have tile in the bedroom or have
these days luxury vinyl plank. These are waterproof materials. Okay.
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So the idea of like right over there in that
unused corner, if you're not gonna sit there in a
chair and read, if you're going to put a work
desk there, think about pulling that tub out of the bathroom,
giving the bathroom more space and putting it as a
pure luxury decor idea in the corner of the bedroom.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying it's possible. Okay. Also,
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get creative with closets and closet doors, right, They don't
just have to be another sliding mirror door. Now, I
don't have anything to have any issues with sliding mirror
doors on a closet, especially a smaller bedroom. Mirrors obviously
are a way of making a small space seem larger,
but they just don't have to be the conventual, the conventional,
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you know, the little brass framed, you know, full size,
full height sliding mirror doors. You could use louver doors.
You could use doors that match the other doors in
the house. Literally, you can hang those doors as closet
doors and get that uniformity throughout the house. You could
use draperes. Don't you go telling me that that's a
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cheap way out. It is inexpensive, less expensive than most
closet door setups. But draperes over a closet can be
sexy as hack. Okay, ask Tina, because we've got draperes
in front of our closets. And also, can I mention
not only can they be super sexy, but they can
be twice as practical as a conventional door. You know
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why because let's say you've got an eight foot wide
closet and you've got two four foot slider doors. You
slide one right, nice big opening, but it's not the
whole thing, right, because there's always a door covering half
your closet. But guess what happens in my draped closet opening.
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I can push the whole thing back and there it
is before me, the entire closet, all of my options
right before me. This is one of the advantages of
shower curtains in a bathroom and drapes in front of
a closet door. Just an option, Just an option. I'm
just giving you permission to dream beyond the convention. Right
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You could, if you really want to get funky and fancy,
set up closet doors with bookshelves mounted on the front
of them, so that you've got bookshelves in your bedroom
if it's a reading kind of room, and secretly behind
the bookshelves the closet, or if you've got a weird
shaped room and a lot of these oversized post nineteen
(20:47):
eighty bedrooms, they are narrow and way longer than really
practically they should be. And so you think, well that
I'm going to have to set the bed on the
long wall. But if the if the bed, if the
bed is uh is, can fit on the shorter wall
with nightstands and so on, UH, then possibly, if you
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need more closet space, then slide a wall in and
pull the old closet behind the bed. Trick in which
you actually build a partition wall in that room with
a door access either side and door both sides and
uh and actually run a walk through closet behind the bedwall.
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Mm hmm, you got lots and lots of options. Okay, finally, uh,
some points for you bedroom art. Just know that this
is your private gallery. Don't uh, don't skimp on it,
because again, it's a place where you are spending your time.
The view outside those bedroom windows, make it what it
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should be. Treat each window like a diorama. Make that
view what it should and could be. Landscape the outside
to complement inside of the bedroom. Cool colors in the
bedroom make for better sleep. They do. Dark walls may
help shift workers who have to sleep at odd times
or during the day. Your sleep temperature, ideally for a bedroom,
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somewhere between sixty and sixty seven degrees. Yeah. That means no,
I'm not talking about running your ac all night long,
but it means that you know if you can and
if you feel safe to do so. When you're hitting
the hay at night, especially this time of year, it's
time to crack those windows open. Sleep cooler, Okay, the
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air temperature. I don't care how snugly you are underneath,
that's one of the joys of it. But let the
air temperature go a little cooler, you will sleep better.
That's just science. Vaulted ceilings, tall walls, all ago for
a bedroom, think about it, because the volume in the room,
the volume up can make up for a small square
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footage space. Okay, and then decorating the bed, of course,
you know you've got everything from nice tight, formalized military
style bed dreat you know, comforters and so on, all
the way to the ever popular intentionally messy bed with
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big soft pillows and linens and all sorts of fluff
going on, throws, layers of texture, draping. Last thing, last
thing for today, don't forget And if this bedroom redo
is part of a significant remodel that you're doing to
the room, if you're really going to get serious about it.
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Sound peace and quiet in that bedroom. What does that mean?
It means sound insulation in the walls. Now, I'm not
trying to protect the rest of the house from the
noise you're making in the bedroom, although it does work
both ways. But what I'm talking about is peace and
quiet for you in that room. Let it be a
sound retreat as well, so that when you sleep at night,
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you're not having to hear every little thing everything all
the time, and the rest of the house can be
active and you are still getting a good night's sleep.
Sound insulation That means insulation in the interior as well
as the exterior walls that your bedroom shares. Does that
all makes sense? There you go. Those are some key
guidelines for you, all right when we return, a few
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extra thoughts on the bedroom and some closing thoughts for
the day. So go nowhere.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (24:46):
We've been talking about designing your bedroom, giving you tips,
giving you perspective on the things that you can do
for your primary bedroom at your house. I hope you
have found them stimulating, nudging, right, eye opening and good good.
You know why because design matters most, and it's time
(25:08):
for us to start all approaching our homes from that perspective.
I get asked all the time, Dean, I know you
talk about design, design, Design. Is design gonna save me money?
That's an interesting question. The answer is no, No, design
is not going to save you money. But I will
tell you this design is going to maximize the budget
(25:30):
that you have for what it is that you're doing.
That's why it matters most. You're not going to spend
less necessarily could. You could, but you're not going to
spend less. Don't plan on spending less necessarily because you're
approaching the project from a heavy design perspective, but don't
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expect to spend more either. What you can expect is
the better you design a project, the further that dollar
go bang for the buck of the results that you
get when you are done. And that's the whole point
behind design matters. Most One other comment for you today
(26:13):
unrelated directly to bedroom design, and that is something I
alluded to at the beginning of the show. I talked
about this yesterday morning at the beginning of yesterday's show,
the Saturday Show, and that is permission, okay, around the holidays,
which we are now. You know, we are now on track, right,
we are, we are in the shoot. We are on
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our way. Around the holidays, people give themselves permission for
a level of creative decor, decorating and playfulness that normal
people don't give themselves permission for throughout the rest of
(26:53):
the year. And I am here to tell you because
the experience of your home is not just a thing
that happens in the holidays, but it is a three
sixty five experience. Okay, Uh, give yourself permission to take
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the kind of perspective that you take during the holidays.
And you know what I'm talking about. During the holidays,
you're like, where should we put the tree? Where would
this look the best? How are we going to get
this homiest? How is this gonna be oh twinkling and
ooh that's gonna that's gonna's gonna make us feel really special.
I'm talking about taking that attitude and applying it for
the rest of the year. Now, don't get me wrong.
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I'm not talking about you being the person who never
takes down their Christmas lights'. That's not it. It's not
about Christmas decor. It's not about holiday decor. It's just
this attitude that you know what creativity is for you
year round. And I would say even more important than
the holidays is the rest of the year, day in,
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day out, your experience of home. Give yourself permission to
reach further and to make every space, every angle, every view,
every possibility. It does not have to break the bank,
not if you make it a lifestyle choice. That listen,
I'm in it to win it. I'm in it for
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the long run for my home. Okay, A lot of
people say, listen, I haven't made any changes to my
house because I've just you know, we've been here twenty
years and still we don't have the money for a
major remodel. Okay, I get that, Okay, But you do
have small increments along the way, Okay, And that's ultimately
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those layers, those small changes, change after change after change
after change, gradually, gradually, gradually, gradually, these are the things
that can make worlds, worlds of difference. And if you
don't believe me, just think. You know, it's the vitamin analogy. Right,
Do you take your vitamins right on any given day?
(29:03):
When you take that, you know, you pop your supplements
for the day. Whether you take it that day or
miss it that day, nothing's gonna change in your life
that day, right, nothing. Let's face it. It's not like, ohh,
I took my vitamins this morning, I'm ready to go. No.
But day after day after day, increment by increment by increment,
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as the weeks and months and years roll on, it
makes a massive difference whether you've been taking your vitamins
or not. Right, same with brushing your teeth, same with
every small incremental thing. And you can master design your
house the same way more often than not. Okay, got
a big budget, great design matters, most don't have much
(29:51):
of a budget. Fine design matters most. There you go,
all right, y'all? Well, uh, turns out today this week
a lot of birthdays this week. Okay, a lot of
birthdays this week. You know. Sitting in the booth right now,
(30:12):
Elmer's birthday was this week. Yes, yes, Tina, by the way,
is back in studio with me. I am. Turns out
I didn't know this, but Tina just informed me Tim
Conway's birthdays. Do you share a birthday with Tim Conway?
Tim and I share a birthday? There you go? Uh,
today is Tina's birthday. Wednesday was my daughter in law's,
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Christie's birthday. Just two more reasons why autumn is my
favorite time of year. What gifts these two women are
to me? They're both on my mind, so I figured
i'd give them a joint shout out today. Okay, there
is not enough time to tell you how much these
two women mean to me. Just know that there are
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no two human beings more dear, and there's nothing nothing
I wouldn't do to see both of them safe and
fulfilled in this life. They are strong, capable women, both
whip smart, both utterly unique, both extremely quirky, vulnerable, hard working,
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devoted and fierce fierce friends, and one of the great
blessings for me is that over the years I've had
the joy of watching them become the fiercest of friends
to one another. And I'm just speaking for myself here,
but It's not been my experience that strong independent women
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tend to bond easily with other strong independent women. Okay,
these two are the exception. They have got each other's back,
and I hope they I know they know that I've
got theirs. I love them both, of course, but even better,
I really really like them. They are each in their
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own way, both strong and vulnerable, serious and playful, wise
and ditsy, mature and childlike. As far as I know,
their only true character defect is a shared obsession with
true time podcasts. But you know, for the sake of
all the good that you learn to live with certain
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things in life. Right now, both of them claim it
is a fascination with the human psyche, but there is
definitely also some bloodthirsty quest for justice mixed in there. Okay,
I'm not accepting any other answer to that, which I
have to admit is strangely comforting on some level, kind
of like that. Nevertheless, all of that pales in comparison
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with how committed they both are to health, transparency, healing,
growing and becoming. In fact, I don't know two people
more humbly committed to becoming Now. Yesterday, Tina received a
birthday card from my mom, who, by the way, is
a master gift giver, and I thought the sentiment was
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absolutely perfect for both of these women that I love.
It simply said this you're awesome, has layers your classy,
sassy and a whole lot kick assy, And yeah, I
think that just about sums it up. Love you, Tina,
Love you, Love you, Sparks, Love you so much. Happy
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birthdays now today, And it may not be the birthday
of somebody you love, but that doesn't mean it isn't
a perfect day to celebrate your best people. Maybe get
together and definitely get out there and get busy building
yourself a beautiful life. Everybody enjoyed the day. Go Dodgers,
and we'll see you right back here next weekend. This
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