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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the
house Whisper on demand on the Ihearted Radio app. Whether
home for you is a castle, congratulations or a cottage,
it matters not, you know why, because luxury does not
a great homemake. It is design that matters most. Think
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of it this way. When you put in new parts,
that's home repair, new paint that's home maintenance. But new
design that is truly home improvement. Good design makes all
the difference. Every house deserves it, every house should enjoy
it because once it is at work, design works its magic,
and every house is given a path forward toward becoming
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a great home. And that's why we're here every week
helping you find that path forward to make your house
a truly, truly extraordinary home. Today on the show, because
it is December.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is the twenty
twenty five House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay, enough of that. You know we have these things.
We're very fancy. We do I hardly ever use them,
as you can tell. All right, Yeah, today it is
the House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. Here on the show.
I do this every year the first Sunday after Thanksgiving.
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Black Friday was just two days ago. Yesterday was small
Business Saturday. Today is something. I don't know what it is.
I know that every like the five days after Thanksgiving.
Now they all have a name, and I admit I
do not know what today is. It's something Sunday, Sunda.
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The something Sunday. It's holiday gift guide Sunday. That's what
it is. So I have set aside my own picks
for you for the home improvement home person in your life,
twenty five beautifully curated gift options. And you need to
know that this guide is available if you want to
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follow along, or if you want to download it onto
your computer or device or your phone for yourself, with
live links to the places where these things can be purchased.
It is available at the KFI website. It's also available
right now. The easiest place to go is our social
media home with Dean on Instagram and Facebook. And I
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don't know if it's on Twitter or not. I have
to ask Tina, and she'll be here in just a second,
so I will ask her also today. Of course, your
calls the number to reach me eight three three two
Ask Dean eight three to three the numeral two. Ask Dean, design, construction, landscape,
DIY decor whatever has you scratching your head about your home.
I got you. We'll our heads together, we will get
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it figured out. You can call. We're going to be
going to the phones in a little bit, usually round
mid show, but you can call any time you like.
Jump into the queue and listen to the show while
you wait. Eight three three two ask Dean is the
number to call. Sit across the table from me, the
gal with all the answers, my design partner, my better half, truly,
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my best friend in all the world. Absolutely, Tina is here.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Welcome home?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hey there?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Does that mean I will be taking all the calls today?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Uh? Yeah, I have all the answers. You have all
the answers. Well, you just weren't in here. A couple
of minutes ago and I started talking about the Gift Guide,
and I said that the gift Guide is available on
the KFI website under our show, but the easiest way
to get to it is through our social media. You
can just go there now. You'll find the posts right
at the sitting right at the top of Instagram, Facebook,
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Are we on? Is it? They're on Twitter as well.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's on Twitter, and it's on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Oh. See, I didn't even know about TikTok.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
TikTok has pictures.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
But you know what, for the link, go to Instagram
or Facebook. Those are the most direct ways to Just
click on that link and you'll have access to the PDIA.
I think you can even download the PDF of the
gift guide of the gift guide, and then there are
actually hot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Hot links, live links, live links, hot link sausages, there
are sausages, free food, free.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Food, there are live links, so you can just click on.
It's a suggestion of where you can purchase.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The right certainly not the only place, not the only place,
but we're just proven that, like when we say there's
a price for this thing, and it's available for this
price that link.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Honestly, some of the prices are going down because of
all the Black Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Are you saying that my list is obsolete?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Are you saying saying that, hey, I mean you might
get an even better price, Okay, of already great prices.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That works for me.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Fact that we have anything to do with any of these.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Great prices, Yeah, we're slashing prices here on the program
of products. So we have nothing to do with or
no control over whatsoever. Yeah, just our recommendations. So we're
going to dive into that, and of course we'll be
taking some calls today. That's the plans that sound like
a good plan. Sounds like a good plan to me.
All right, let's get to it. We'll take a quick
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break and then we will dive in too. The House
Whisper Holiday Gift Guy twenty twenty five, More great stuff
on the way. You are listening to Home with Dean
Sharp The House Whisper.
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You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Just give us a follow. You're not gonna get spammed
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we post. Tino actually was reminding me that we've got
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where's it at? Where's it at? Where's the video of
Olivia and me putting together our aldic Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It's on Instagram, I believe it's also on Facebook. Especially
really sweet little video. It's if you want to just
yes putting together.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That just see us putting it. It's cute, all right.
So it's that kind of stuff. So follow us on
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some fun things planned for twenty twenty six. You're not
gonna want to miss out all right Now, before I
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dive into the first item on the holiday gift guide,
I've got a couple of housekeeping things to do here.
Number one very very important. Letting you know the fifteenth
annual KFI Pastathon is here. Yeah, Cheth Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club,
provides more than twenty five thousand meals every week to
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Your generosity is what makes it all happen. Our live
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Just a couple of days from now, Giving Tuesday, December second,
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I will be coming down a little later in the
evening to hang out with Tim Conway like I do
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on Thursday nights, but I'll be doing it on Tuesday
night this week, So come on down. Say hi, how
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you can donate, of course, right then and there at
giving Tuesday at the Anaheim White House, or you can
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and donate five dollars or more to Katerina's Club and
get a coupon book for Wendy's. It all starts now.
Find all the details that you need at KFIAM six
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forty dot com Forward slash pasta than Oh. By the way,
starting this week, well this already started, you can bid
on exclusive auction items okay, that are on the KFI website.
Auctions are open through Giving Tuesday, and Tina and I
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are up there on the auction block because we would
love to take a couple of you to a Dodger
game with us in twenty twenty six. So think about it,
Go visit, take a look at what the auction items are.
Put in a great bid. It all goes to a
good cost. Okay, who all right, I'm gonna save my
other thing because I want to get to the gift guide.
I promised everybody who was listening to the show yesterday,
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this Saturday Morning show, that I would share this bit
of news about the Stall the historic Stall House. I'm
going to talk about that, but not right now. It
will hang tight. I'll draw I'll drop that in a
little bit later in the show, because I really that
is a that's a piece of home design, historic home
design news that's taking place right now here in southern California. Big, big, big,
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big thing. Anyway, let's dive in to the twenty twenty
five Holiday Gift Guide. Things you need to know about
the gift guide. It is personally curated bymi Okay. Therefore
it is both trustworthy, creative and fun like me. It
has tools. It's not all tools, because life is more
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than tools. Oh, but it has tools. Most items on
the list are good or for good little girls and
boys alike. And there are no ties and no socks.
But if there were, you can bet your sweet Pippy
they would be awesome. So there you go. Shall we
dive in? All right, let's do it. Item number one
on the House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. This literally is
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probably number one just in my thinking, no matter what.
Not only is it first on the list, but I
just this is the year for electric pressure washers. It
is a two thousand psi one point two gallon per minute,
cold water corded electric pressure washer by Ryobi. Now, in
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the past, I will tell you Ryobi not necessarily my
favorite brand of tools in the past, but I got
to say the last few years they have upped their
game big time. Ryobi has upped their game big time
and not only making a really, really reliable tool, but
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also an affordable tool. So here's what we're talking about. Now.
You know, this is a gift. This is a gift
that you're going to give to somebody that you truly love,
because these guys are running about one hundred and ninety
nine bucks, about two hundred dollars, okay, But what you
get for two hundred dollars you get a pressure washer
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the size of a carry on suitcase. I think that's
the best way to describe. In fact, it very much
functions that way. It has an extendable handle like a
carry on suitcase. It has two big rolling wheels like
a carry on suitcase, and it is light and you
carry it around or you can roll it around wherever
you need to the value of a pressure washer, whether
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you are prepping the side of a wall for paint,
whether you are trying to clean that grease spot off
your concrete driveway, whether you are trying to clean up
just about anything. I mean, pressure washers are utterly amazing.
And I got to tell you they've got soap additive
reservoir if you want the water to come out and
be soapy, and all you do is plug them in
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and you cook up the garden hose and they're ready
to rock and roll. There are a thousand uses for
a pressure washer. Around the house, and you will just
find the owner of this pressure washer more and more
giddy reporting back to you every week telling you the
new thing that they used their pressure washer for. It
is unbelievable. That is the Ryobi two thousand psi electric
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pressure washer, about one hundred and ninety nine bucks. You
can find it on Amazon, you can find it at
home depot, you find anywhere right around in that price range.
All right, when we come back more from the Holiday
Gift Guide. You are Home with Dean Sharp the house.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Was You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand
from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Hey, middle of the show coming up in just a bit.
We'll be taking calls as we do. The number to
reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three
to three the numeral two Ask Dean that's coming up
middle of the show. You can call now, jump into
the queue, listen to the show while you wait. All right,
back to the twenty twenty five Holiday Gift Guide, coming
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up on number two and three. Here, I just think again,
when it comes to function around the house, some things
have changed over the years. You know, the classic shopvac
story has very very much changed and I've got one.
I've got two, and I got to tell you, ever
since I bought this little guy, He's been on the
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gift Guide list a couple of times before, but so
well worth it. Ever since I got this little guy,
those shop facts just sit there and collect a lot
of dust, generally speaking. And I'm talking about a battery
driven portable shop fac and the one that I've got
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on the list is the M eighteen to eighteen volt
cordless wet dry vacuum from Milwaukee. I own a lot
of Milwaukee tools. It's not all that I own, but
I encourage you, as is with all battery operated tools,
that if the kind of tool that you're looking for
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happens to fall in the family of tools that you
already own, that's a goodbye because you don't have to
have different chargers, and you can use the same batteries.
They can all share batteries together. Now, different tools take
different kinds of batteries, but the point is, I've got
M eighteen style batteries and I've got M twelve style
batteries and chargers set up in my workshop. A lot
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of Milwaukee chargers sitting out there, which means I just
grab any battery for whatever tool that I'm grabbing. The
cordless wet dry vacuum is not going to you know,
suck the paint off the walls. But the convenience of
just grabbing this little guy, you know, he's like the
size of a small toolbox, and being able to just
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grab him and just take him to the area of need,
as opposed to pulling out the trash can sized shop back,
getting it all plugged in and then going and emptying
it all. The convenience of the small shop back, And
what I've found is that by and large, I would
say maybe ninety eight percent of the stuff that I
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need to clean up after I've made a mess with something,
this little guy can handle just fine. So it really
has changed, and I've noticed that reporting across the trades.
I'm seeing more and more guys all the time with
their portable cordless shopbacks as opposed to the big boys
sitting in the back of a truck somewhere. So I
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know this will be of value to you. T one
hundred and forty nine dollars for the Milwaukee It's a
brilliant shotback. Now, there are some other major brands that
have their own. I believe Dwald has their own, Mikita
might have their own, and so on. But I love
the Milwaukee and again it's in my family of tools,
and so I just the advantage again of that not
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only do you get to share, but you can buy
the tool what they call tool only. You'll and when
you walk into the power tool section of the hardware store,
the big box store, you're gonna see tools packaged. They're
gonna be with batteries, a lot of them, and occasionally,
well not occasionally, they're there. You have to look for them.
You'll find a lower price on that same tool, and
you're like, why is this a lower price? Because it's
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tool only, no battery, And if it's in your family
of tools, you don't need to buy the battery because
you've already got that battery sending it home. So you
can go tool only and save yourself some money. There
you go. So that's the M eighteen eighteen volts lithium
i on cordless wet dry vacuum from Milwaukee. Same same
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the line of thought, Okay, is a blower, all right,
So you've got the vacuum to suck up all the
dust and stuff. But what about just blowing off a
work area, getting dust cleared out of a zone, blowing
off the material that you've just been working on. Right,
We're not talking about the big backpack blowers that the
blow and go gardeners use. I'm talking about a small
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hand held blower. Okay, two hundred and twenty nine dollars.
It is a quality tool. It lasts and lasts and
lasts and last. Again, these come from different manufacturers. The
one on the gift guide happens to be a Milwaukee
not a sponsor of the show. Wish they were maybe
one day, who knows. But again, great, great little tool.
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Just grab it, blow off the area that I'm working on,
right back to work again. It is brilliant. That is
about two hundred and twenty nine dollars. You can find
it on sale for less than two hundred in a
few places. You'll just have to do a little searching
around for it as you go. All right. Number four,
This is something that I truly believe that every home
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that does any kind of decor or remodel stuff or
diy projects at all, even if it's just coming down
to hanging paintings and or family photos in a room
should have one, and that is a self life as
leveling laser now used to be, These things were the
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exclusive domain of professional builders and engineers, because who else
in the world would ever need one? Who else in
the world could ever afford one? Not the case anymore. Uh,
The one that I particularly love for you in this
case is made by Bosh Brilliant Tool Company, Super reliable,
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very very accurate. It is a one hundred and twenty
five foot range five point green self lezling laser. Okay,
it throws out a level line in one hundred and
eighty degrees across an entire room. Okay, it reaches far.
You could use it outside. Not really designed to be
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used outside in bright sunlight. You need a little bit
of a of an interior dimmer view in order to
get that line really clear. But what in the world
would you use a self leveling laser for just about
any And how do you get it down to where
you need it? You don't really need to. You set
it up in the room wherever the line gets thrown,
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You measure down or up from that line to whatever
it is that you're working on, and then you continue
that measurement. So, for instance, you want to hang pictures
all the way across the room, and you want them
on three different walls to be at the exact same height.
You set up the laser boomp, there it goes. You
measure and position that first picture, boom, put it into place.
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There it is. Then your tape measure from the top
of that picture down to the green laser line. Let's
say it's thirty six inches, all right. Then every other
picture in that room you just measure up from the
green laser line, no matter what wall you're on, thirty
six inches, and you will set those pictures all at
the same level. That's just one tiny little example. Of course,
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the building applications for this go on and on and
on and on. So what is this amazing piece of
laser science? Worth about one hundred and forty three dollars
and whoever receives it from you as a gift under
the tree will thank you and thank you and thank
you because it is just tons of fun and makes
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life so so much easier. It reaches way beyond you
know where a normal level could reach in the first place.
All right, were you We're off to a good start.
Let's keep moving on. But first, when we come back
from break. I'm going to tell you about the Stall House,
and then we'll return to our gift guide. The historic
Stall House in the Hollywood Hills up above Los Angeles.
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Something is happening. What is this house? What's it all about?
What's all the fuss? Hang tight, I'll tell you. On
the other side, your Home with Dean Sharp of the
house whispering.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty, especially.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yours because that's where you live, my friend. You have
a unique, special life. I want you to have a
unique special home that reflects and amplifies and facilitates that
life of yours. And if that is something that's still
aspirational for you, then I want to push you, I do,
in the best and gentlest and most friendly of ways,
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to have the courage to, you know, be the full
you that you deserve to be and let your home
reflect all of those things. You know. For me, it's not,
it's not. It's really not about homes. It really isn't.
The whole reason I decided to take my architectural design
career and focus it on homes is really because the
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role they play in human beings building themselves beautiful lives.
That's the thing that I want for you. Whether you
live in a home or not, which you know, everybody
lives at home somewhere. But whether you live in a
home or not, you know, it's your life, and I
want to nudge you to not back away from it,
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to not surround and to allow yourself the courage despite
your fears of being the full you, the one full you,
and taking those risks and watching them pay off, because
I know they will. Okay, anyway, just a little encouragement
for you. Here in the holiday season. We are in
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the middle of our house Whisper holiday gift guide for
this year. I'm going to get back to that in
a bit. I want to talk about a little bit
of architectural design courage. Because this has been in the
news for the last week. It's not one of those,
you know, leading news story because there's not enough bad
news about it to put it on the top of
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the pile. It's very simply this the Stall House, Stahl Stall,
the Stall family, the Stall family have have owned and
caretaken what is arguably the most famous I think I
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get most people would agree, most architectural critics would agree
It is the most famous modernist home in maybe in America,
but definitely in southern California. It was built back in
the late nineteen fifties in the Hollywood Hills, right up
just off of Laurel Canyon, up above Sunset, on a
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piece of pretty much unbuildable land, back at a time
when those that canyon and those lots up there were
of no repute whatsoever. I mean, it just wasn't a thing.
It wasn't a big deal. And this was a purchasing
agent for huge aircraft, Buckstall, and he was a sign painter,
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a graphic designer. I think he played a little pro
football at some point. I don't know for who. But
the point is they purchased a lot on a hill
in the Hollywood Hills, Tina for thirteen five hundred dollars. Okay,
a pretty a tiny lot, not a big lot at all,
and all hill, the whole lot is hill, the whole thing. Okay.
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He and his wife, Carlatta, they spent two years putting
retaining walls up on the site themselves in order to
round out the site, to get as much of a pad,
if that's what you want to call it, as possible
to reclaim as much of the site. And then they
had a dream. And his dream was that he wanted
to stand in his living room and take in this
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amazing view, and it is an amazing view of the
entire southern California La Basin from the ocean all the
way to the mountains. He wanted to be able to
take in this view from his living room without anything
in the way. He wanted, essentially, in the late nineteen fifties,
a glass house, and he wanted somebody to build this
glasshouse for him to design it, and interviewed a bunch
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of architects and designers. All of them told him unbuildable, Sorry,
cannot do, cannot do. This is why I get upset
about this kind of s because they were used to
building a certain way and therefore they just simply told him,
can't be done, can't be done, can't be done. Then
they ran into Pierre Koenig, young, young, upstart architect Pierre Koenig,
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who was at the time experimenting with glass and steel construction.
And Pierre Koenig said, oh, heck, yeah, let's do it.
Let's do it, and he ended up building for them
a house that's a little over two thousand square feet.
It cost them about thirty mm guessing now because I
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don't have my notes from front of it. Oh, it
cost them a look at here, it is thirty seven
five hundred dollars right now. This was in nineteen fifty nine,
so that was a pretty penny, right, but it was
equivalent about four hundred thousand in today's terms, right, So
it was a build. It was a normal house build
cost wise. Right at the time, Pierre Koenig was participating
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in uh well, right after World War twoitect Art and
Architecture Digest magazine had put together a challenge for architects
to submit designs for replicatable, affordable modernist homes. And this
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house for a long time is it's still known as
case study number twenty two of that series of homes.
It's the Stall House, or it's known as one of
the case study houses, famous case study houses, case Study
number twenty two. It cantilevers over the edge of the lot,
about ten feet out over the edge of the lot.
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It floats out there in the middle of the air.
It has a pool running next to it. It has
an iconic photo that was taken years later. You guys
got to look it up of two women sitting in
the corner of the living room chatting as the house
floats over Los Angeles. Okay, and uh so that's the
Stall House. All of these things. It is amazing, it's famous.
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You've seen it in movies and movies and TV shows
and the Dad all through the years. Now, what is
happening with the Stall House. Well, you have to wait
till the other side of the break to find out
what's going on. And I will tell you when we
return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This
has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune
into the live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every
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Saturday morning from six to eight Pacific time and every
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house Whisper on demand on the Ihearted Radio app. Whether
home for you is a castle, congratulations or a cottage,
it matters not, you know why, because luxury does not
a great homemake. It is design that matters most. Think
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of it this way. When you put in new parts,
that's home repair, new paint that's home maintenance. But new
design that is truly home improvement. Good design makes all
the difference. Every house deserves it, every house should enjoy
it because once it is at work, design works its magic,
and every house is given a path forward toward becoming
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a great home. And that's why we're here every week
helping you find that path forward to make your house
a truly, truly extraordinary home. Today on the show, because
it is December.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is the twenty
twenty five House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay, enough of that. You know we have these things.
We're very fancy. We do I hardly ever use them,
as you can tell. All right, Yeah, today it is
the House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. Here on the show.
I do this every year the first Sunday after Thanksgiving.
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Black Friday was just two days ago. Yesterday was small
Business Saturday. Today is something. I don't know what it is.
I know that every like the five days after Thanksgiving.
Now they all have a name, and I admit I
do not know what today is. It's something Sunday, Sunda.
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The something Sunday. It's holiday gift guide Sunday. That's what
it is. So I have set aside my own picks
for you for the home improvement home person in your life,
twenty five beautifully curated gift options. And you need to
know that this guide is available if you want to
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follow along, or if you want to download it onto
your computer or device or your phone for yourself, with
live links to the places where these things can be purchased.
It is available at the KFI website. It's also available
right now. The easiest place to go is our social
media home with Dean on Instagram and Facebook. And I
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don't know if it's on Twitter or not. I have
to ask Tina, and she'll be here in just a second,
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I think you can even download the PDF of the
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actually hot.
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Hot links, live links, live links, hot link sausages, there
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It's a suggestion of where you can purchase.
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The right certainly not the only place, not the only place,
but we're just proven that, like when we say there's
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price that link.
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Honestly, some of the prices are going down because of
all the Black Friday.
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Are you saying that my list is obsolete?
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Are you saying saying that, hey, I mean you might
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That works for me.
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Fact that we have anything to do with any of these.
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Great prices, Yeah, we're slashing prices here on the program
of products. So we have nothing to do with or
no control over whatsoever. Yeah, just our recommendations. So we're
going to dive into that, and of course we'll be
taking some calls today. That's the plans that sound like
a good plan. Sounds like a good plan to me.
All right, let's get to it. We'll take a quick
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break and then we will dive in too. The House
Whisper Holiday Gift Guy twenty twenty five, More great stuff
on the way. You are listening to Home with Dean
Sharp The House Whisper.
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It's on Instagram, I believe it's also on Facebook. Especially
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That just see us putting it. It's cute, all right.
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(06:32):
dive into the first item on the holiday gift guide,
I've got a couple of housekeeping things to do here.
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Put in a great bid. It all goes to a
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other thing because I want to get to the gift guide.
I promised everybody who was listening to the show yesterday,
(09:01):
this Saturday Morning show, that I would share this bit
of news about the Stall the historic Stall House. I'm
going to talk about that, but not right now. It
will hang tight. I'll draw I'll drop that in a
little bit later in the show, because I really that
is a that's a piece of home design, historic home
design news that's taking place right now here in southern California. Big, big, big,
(09:23):
big thing. Anyway, let's dive in to the twenty twenty
five Holiday Gift Guide. Things you need to know about
the gift guide. It is personally curated bymi Okay. Therefore
it is both trustworthy, creative and fun like me. It
has tools. It's not all tools, because life is more
(09:45):
than tools. Oh, but it has tools. Most items on
the list are good or for good little girls and
boys alike. And there are no ties and no socks.
But if there were, you can bet your sweet Pippy
they would be awesome. So there you go. Shall we
dive in? All right, let's do it. Item number one
on the House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. This literally is
(10:08):
probably number one just in my thinking, no matter what.
Not only is it first on the list, but I
just this is the year for electric pressure washers. It
is a two thousand psi one point two gallon per minute,
cold water corded electric pressure washer by Ryobi. Now, in
(10:30):
the past, I will tell you Ryobi not necessarily my
favorite brand of tools in the past, but I got
to say the last few years they have upped their
game big time. Ryobi has upped their game big time
and not only making a really, really reliable tool, but
(10:51):
also an affordable tool. So here's what we're talking about. Now.
You know, this is a gift. This is a gift
that you're going to give to somebody that you truly love,
because these guys are running about one hundred and ninety
nine bucks, about two hundred dollars, okay, But what you
get for two hundred dollars you get a pressure washer
(11:11):
the size of a carry on suitcase. I think that's
the best way to describe. In fact, it very much
functions that way. It has an extendable handle like a
carry on suitcase. It has two big rolling wheels like
a carry on suitcase, and it is light and you
carry it around or you can roll it around wherever
you need to the value of a pressure washer, whether
(11:31):
you are prepping the side of a wall for paint,
whether you are trying to clean that grease spot off
your concrete driveway, whether you are trying to clean up
just about anything. I mean, pressure washers are utterly amazing.
And I got to tell you they've got soap additive
reservoir if you want the water to come out and
be soapy, and all you do is plug them in
(11:53):
and you cook up the garden hose and they're ready
to rock and roll. There are a thousand uses for
a pressure washer. Around the house, and you will just
find the owner of this pressure washer more and more
giddy reporting back to you every week telling you the
new thing that they used their pressure washer for. It
is unbelievable. That is the Ryobi two thousand psi electric
(12:16):
pressure washer, about one hundred and ninety nine bucks. You
can find it on Amazon, you can find it at
home depot, you find anywhere right around in that price range.
All right, when we come back more from the Holiday
Gift Guide. You are Home with Dean Sharp the house.
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We'll be taking calls as we do. The number to
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up on number two and three. Here, I just think again,
when it comes to function around the house, some things
have changed over the years. You know, the classic shopvac
story has very very much changed and I've got one.
I've got two, and I got to tell you, ever
since I bought this little guy, He's been on the
(13:20):
gift Guide list a couple of times before, but so
well worth it. Ever since I got this little guy,
those shop facts just sit there and collect a lot
of dust, generally speaking. And I'm talking about a battery
driven portable shop fac and the one that I've got
(13:40):
on the list is the M eighteen to eighteen volt
cordless wet dry vacuum from Milwaukee. I own a lot
of Milwaukee tools. It's not all that I own, but
I encourage you, as is with all battery operated tools,
that if the kind of tool that you're looking for
(14:02):
happens to fall in the family of tools that you
already own, that's a goodbye because you don't have to
have different chargers, and you can use the same batteries.
They can all share batteries together. Now, different tools take
different kinds of batteries, but the point is, I've got
M eighteen style batteries and I've got M twelve style
batteries and chargers set up in my workshop. A lot
(14:25):
of Milwaukee chargers sitting out there, which means I just
grab any battery for whatever tool that I'm grabbing. The
cordless wet dry vacuum is not going to you know,
suck the paint off the walls. But the convenience of
just grabbing this little guy, you know, he's like the
size of a small toolbox, and being able to just
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grab him and just take him to the area of need,
as opposed to pulling out the trash can sized shop back,
getting it all plugged in and then going and emptying
it all. The convenience of the small shop back, And
what I've found is that by and large, I would
say maybe ninety eight percent of the stuff that I
(15:11):
need to clean up after I've made a mess with something,
this little guy can handle just fine. So it really
has changed, and I've noticed that reporting across the trades.
I'm seeing more and more guys all the time with
their portable cordless shopbacks as opposed to the big boys
sitting in the back of a truck somewhere. So I
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know this will be of value to you. T one
hundred and forty nine dollars for the Milwaukee It's a
brilliant shotback. Now, there are some other major brands that
have their own. I believe Dwald has their own, Mikita
might have their own, and so on. But I love
the Milwaukee and again it's in my family of tools,
and so I just the advantage again of that not
(15:53):
only do you get to share, but you can buy
the tool what they call tool only. You'll and when
you walk into the power tool section of the hardware store,
the big box store, you're gonna see tools packaged. They're
gonna be with batteries, a lot of them, and occasionally,
well not occasionally, they're there. You have to look for them.
You'll find a lower price on that same tool, and
you're like, why is this a lower price? Because it's
(16:14):
tool only, no battery, And if it's in your family
of tools, you don't need to buy the battery because
you've already got that battery sending it home. So you
can go tool only and save yourself some money. There
you go. So that's the M eighteen eighteen volts lithium
i on cordless wet dry vacuum from Milwaukee. Same same
(16:36):
the line of thought, Okay, is a blower, all right,
So you've got the vacuum to suck up all the
dust and stuff. But what about just blowing off a
work area, getting dust cleared out of a zone, blowing
off the material that you've just been working on. Right,
We're not talking about the big backpack blowers that the
blow and go gardeners use. I'm talking about a small
(16:59):
hand held blower. Okay, two hundred and twenty nine dollars.
It is a quality tool. It lasts and lasts and
lasts and last. Again, these come from different manufacturers. The
one on the gift guide happens to be a Milwaukee
not a sponsor of the show. Wish they were maybe
one day, who knows. But again, great, great little tool.
(17:20):
Just grab it, blow off the area that I'm working on,
right back to work again. It is brilliant. That is
about two hundred and twenty nine dollars. You can find
it on sale for less than two hundred in a
few places. You'll just have to do a little searching
around for it as you go. All right. Number four,
This is something that I truly believe that every home
(17:43):
that does any kind of decor or remodel stuff or
diy projects at all, even if it's just coming down
to hanging paintings and or family photos in a room
should have one, and that is a self life as
leveling laser now used to be, These things were the
(18:04):
exclusive domain of professional builders and engineers, because who else
in the world would ever need one? Who else in
the world could ever afford one? Not the case anymore. Uh,
The one that I particularly love for you in this
case is made by Bosh Brilliant Tool Company, Super reliable,
(18:25):
very very accurate. It is a one hundred and twenty
five foot range five point green self lezling laser. Okay,
it throws out a level line in one hundred and
eighty degrees across an entire room. Okay, it reaches far.
You could use it outside. Not really designed to be
(18:46):
used outside in bright sunlight. You need a little bit
of a of an interior dimmer view in order to
get that line really clear. But what in the world
would you use a self leveling laser for just about
any And how do you get it down to where
you need it? You don't really need to. You set
it up in the room wherever the line gets thrown,
(19:06):
You measure down or up from that line to whatever
it is that you're working on, and then you continue
that measurement. So, for instance, you want to hang pictures
all the way across the room, and you want them
on three different walls to be at the exact same height.
You set up the laser boomp, there it goes. You
measure and position that first picture, boom, put it into place.
(19:28):
There it is. Then your tape measure from the top
of that picture down to the green laser line. Let's
say it's thirty six inches, all right. Then every other
picture in that room you just measure up from the
green laser line, no matter what wall you're on, thirty
six inches, and you will set those pictures all at
the same level. That's just one tiny little example. Of course,
(19:51):
the building applications for this go on and on and
on and on. So what is this amazing piece of
laser science? Worth about one hundred and forty three dollars
and whoever receives it from you as a gift under
the tree will thank you and thank you and thank
you because it is just tons of fun and makes
(20:13):
life so so much easier. It reaches way beyond you
know where a normal level could reach in the first place.
All right, were you We're off to a good start.
Let's keep moving on. But first, when we come back
from break. I'm going to tell you about the Stall House,
and then we'll return to our gift guide. The historic
Stall House in the Hollywood Hills up above Los Angeles.
(20:37):
Something is happening. What is this house? What's it all about?
What's all the fuss? Hang tight, I'll tell you. On
the other side, your Home with Dean Sharp of the
house whispering.
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Yours because that's where you live, my friend. You have
a unique, special life. I want you to have a
unique special home that reflects and amplifies and facilitates that
life of yours. And if that is something that's still
aspirational for you, then I want to push you, I do,
in the best and gentlest and most friendly of ways,
(21:16):
to have the courage to, you know, be the full
you that you deserve to be and let your home
reflect all of those things. You know. For me, it's not,
it's not. It's really not about homes. It really isn't.
The whole reason I decided to take my architectural design
career and focus it on homes is really because the
(21:36):
role they play in human beings building themselves beautiful lives.
That's the thing that I want for you. Whether you
live in a home or not, which you know, everybody
lives at home somewhere. But whether you live in a
home or not, you know, it's your life, and I
want to nudge you to not back away from it,
(21:58):
to not surround and to allow yourself the courage despite
your fears of being the full you, the one full you,
and taking those risks and watching them pay off, because
I know they will. Okay, anyway, just a little encouragement
for you. Here in the holiday season. We are in
(22:19):
the middle of our house Whisper holiday gift guide for
this year. I'm going to get back to that in
a bit. I want to talk about a little bit
of architectural design courage. Because this has been in the
news for the last week. It's not one of those,
you know, leading news story because there's not enough bad
news about it to put it on the top of
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the pile. It's very simply this the Stall House, Stahl Stall,
the Stall family, the Stall family have have owned and
caretaken what is arguably the most famous I think I
(23:00):
get most people would agree, most architectural critics would agree
It is the most famous modernist home in maybe in America,
but definitely in southern California. It was built back in
the late nineteen fifties in the Hollywood Hills, right up
just off of Laurel Canyon, up above Sunset, on a
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piece of pretty much unbuildable land, back at a time
when those that canyon and those lots up there were
of no repute whatsoever. I mean, it just wasn't a thing.
It wasn't a big deal. And this was a purchasing
agent for huge aircraft, Buckstall, and he was a sign painter,
(23:41):
a graphic designer. I think he played a little pro
football at some point. I don't know for who. But
the point is they purchased a lot on a hill
in the Hollywood Hills, Tina for thirteen five hundred dollars. Okay,
a pretty a tiny lot, not a big lot at all,
and all hill, the whole lot is hill, the whole thing. Okay.
(24:05):
He and his wife, Carlatta, they spent two years putting
retaining walls up on the site themselves in order to
round out the site, to get as much of a pad,
if that's what you want to call it, as possible
to reclaim as much of the site. And then they
had a dream. And his dream was that he wanted
to stand in his living room and take in this
(24:27):
amazing view, and it is an amazing view of the
entire southern California La Basin from the ocean all the
way to the mountains. He wanted to be able to
take in this view from his living room without anything
in the way. He wanted, essentially, in the late nineteen fifties,
a glass house, and he wanted somebody to build this
glasshouse for him to design it, and interviewed a bunch
(24:50):
of architects and designers. All of them told him unbuildable, Sorry,
cannot do, cannot do. This is why I get upset
about this kind of s because they were used to
building a certain way and therefore they just simply told him,
can't be done, can't be done, can't be done. Then
they ran into Pierre Koenig, young, young, upstart architect Pierre Koenig,
(25:16):
who was at the time experimenting with glass and steel construction.
And Pierre Koenig said, oh, heck, yeah, let's do it.
Let's do it, and he ended up building for them
a house that's a little over two thousand square feet.
It cost them about thirty mm guessing now because I
(25:37):
don't have my notes from front of it. Oh, it
cost them a look at here, it is thirty seven
five hundred dollars right now. This was in nineteen fifty nine,
so that was a pretty penny, right, but it was
equivalent about four hundred thousand in today's terms, right, So
it was a build. It was a normal house build
cost wise. Right at the time, Pierre Koenig was participating
(25:58):
in uh well, right after World War twoitect Art and
Architecture Digest magazine had put together a challenge for architects
to submit designs for replicatable, affordable modernist homes. And this
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house for a long time is it's still known as
case study number twenty two of that series of homes.
It's the Stall House, or it's known as one of
the case study houses, famous case study houses, case Study
number twenty two. It cantilevers over the edge of the lot,
about ten feet out over the edge of the lot.
(26:43):
It floats out there in the middle of the air.
It has a pool running next to it. It has
an iconic photo that was taken years later. You guys
got to look it up of two women sitting in
the corner of the living room chatting as the house
floats over Los Angeles. Okay, and uh so that's the
Stall House. All of these things. It is amazing, it's famous.
(27:06):
You've seen it in movies and movies and TV shows
and the Dad all through the years. Now, what is
happening with the Stall House. Well, you have to wait
till the other side of the break to find out
what's going on. And I will tell you when we
return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This
has been Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune
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