December 29, 2024 • 39 mins
Dean advices a caller dealing with a door that gets stuck and how to fix the issue.
Dean provides details on the type of installation one should use for an outdoor shed and finishing a tub and what type of paint to use in a shower. Dean talks about a growing trend with flooring with Herringbone. Dean explains color drenching and the do’s and don'ts.
Dean provides details on the type of installation one should use for an outdoor shed and finishing a tub and what type of paint to use in a shower. Dean talks about a growing trend with flooring with Herringbone. Dean explains color drenching and the do’s and don'ts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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dot Design. All right, we are spending today as we
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spent yesterday, this weekend, this last weekend in twenty twenty four,
talking about trends and predictions for homes, home decor and
all that kind of stuff for twenty twenty five. I
have a very unique take on it because I am
a real home designer and therefore I don't participate in
all of the bs that it ends up on social
(01:34):
media and interest ye kinds of things. I love all
that stuff. By the way, as far as you know
the site, you know, the ability for people to see
things that they haven't seen before. I'm not criticizing that,
but this time of year, Uh, everybody and their brother
has a list of trends, and most of them don't
come from professional designers or architects, and as a result,
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what we get is a lot of information. So I'm
trying to cut through that for you so you understand
what is legit and what is not. What's legit and
what should you quit? Oh my gosh, did he actually
do that? Yes? He did. All right, we're going to
get back to that subject in just a bit. But
top of the hour. You know what that means, it's
time to go to the phones. I'm going to talk
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to Brad. Hey, Brad, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have
a back door of my house that sticks and it.
I will stand the doorframe, and it will seem to
last for about two or three months, and then all
of a sudden it begins to stick again, and it
makes it very difficult for my wife to open the door.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, you said you stand the doorframe, in other words,
the jam in the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, Well, a couple of things. Number One, when we
say that it sticks, do we know is it the
entire side of the door that is sticking or is
it sticking near the top?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is sticking near the top?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, okay, I got you. Why how did he know that?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Here is the thing, my friend. Number one, stop standing
the jam. Okay, let the jam just be what it is.
If if we are and sometimes it's worth doing this.
If we're going to make a modification to a door
that is sticking, we actually alter the door. We cut
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and or plane and or sand the door, not the frame. Okay,
we stand the door, which means, you know, maybe taking
off weather stripping temporarily and getting to the door itself.
There does need to be an adequate clearance. So the
idea of just standing just enough to make it clear
right now and then cold weather hot weather kicks in
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or a little bit of moisture or a little bit
of dry and it changes the dem intionality of the
door and it gets stuck again. So just as a
general rule, As a general rule, you want to be
addressing the door. Now I say all this, and you're
going to tell me it's a steel door, exactly, Okay,
all right, So it's a steel door. So there's no
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standing the door. So in this situation, how long did
it function well before it started sticking on you?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I would say it's I haven't had a problem probably
for ten years, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All all of a sudden. Okay, yeah, all right, So
here's the other thing, and here's where I'm going to
earn my keep. Okay, this is what I want you
to do. I don't put down the sander, don't go
any further with any of that. Right now, what I
want you to do is I want you to open
up the door, and I want you to take your
Phillip's head screwdriver, and I want you to remove one
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of the screws from one of the hinges in the
jam side of the door. Okay, I want you to
take that screw down to the hardware store, the big
box store, wherever. And the reason you're taking it with
you is because you're looking at the width of that screw.
And you're also most importantly looking at this size of
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the head of the screw and the fact that it's
a beveled back, beveled head. And I want you to
find the longest screw that you can find. Would screw
that you can find that has that same size head.
In other words, we're going to replace some screws on
your hinges that whose heads will fit nicely, seat nicely
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into the hinge. Okay, But when I say long, I'm
not talking about the you know, the screw that you're
going to pull out is going to be three quarters
to an inch long, that's screwed into the jam the
doorframe as it were. Right, the screw that you're going
to replace it with, I want that screw to be
three inches long, Okay. And here's what happens. Okay, we
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don't really notice it, Okay, it's not super noticeable, but
the weight of a whole door on a three hinge door,
half of the weight of the door is hanging off
that top hinge. Okay, And even though the hinge itself
is solid and doing its job. The fact is that
hinge was installed in that door jam with a short screw.
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Now that if the plate of the butt of the
hinge is even at all starting to loosen up and door,
if the frame that it's in, if the jam has
shifted at all, this is what causes a door to
start sticking. And the reason I knew it was sticking
at the top corner is that it's because not because
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the door is swelling, because if the door was swelling,
or if the jam was swelling, it would swell uniformly
down the length of the side and you would be
stuck top to bottom. But because it's rubbing at the top,
it means that when the door is shut, it's actually tilted.
It's leaning. And the only reason it's leaning is even
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if it's not perceptible to you those that top hinge
has shifted in the jam itself. So here's what we're
gonna do with these three inch long screws that you're
gonna buy at the hardware store. You're gonna come back
and you're gonna take all of the screws out of
the top hinge, not the door side, but the jam
side and we're gonna get your screw gun and we're
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gonna go all the way and we're going through the
jam itself. We're going it's not we're not gonna any
longer support this door off the jam. We're gonna drill
right through it, and we're gonna go right into the
two by four trimmer, the wood stud that's on the
back side of this thing. And when you do, you're
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gonna snug it up, and you're gonna actually see the
hinge snug and you might even see the jam leg
shift and move a little bit. But you're going to
put three or four, however many screws your hinge takes
of these long guys right on through, and then you're
gonna close the door and you're going to be amazed
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because suddenly the door is not going to be rubbing
at the top anymore. Okay, I will do that, all right,
my friend. That's the trick. It's something that not a
lot of people notice at first, but it's not rocket
science to fix, and it's going to save you a
lot of labor trying to the problem is when you
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said that you've sanded it and then it was free,
and then it got loose again, it's just because the
door just tips, is still tipping, and it's still falling
into the jam. So the problem is on the hinge side,
not on the you know, not on the latch side
of the door, and it's at the top because it's leaning.
So I hope that makes sense to every feel free.
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If you've got a door that has been problematic or
even a little wobbly, go ahead and use the long
screw trip. And I will tell you this. When I
hang a door, okay as a door, hanging as a
finished carpenter for years and years now has been the case.
Number one. I will set the jam itself at the
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very top with a hidden long three inch screw that's
down in the actual routered area of the hinge where
the hinge going to cover that screw. And then we
will go ahead and use longer screws to dig into
the stud that's on the other side of the jam.
And guess what happens. These doors They never rub, they
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never sag for the life of the door. That's all
it takes. Got to tie into the framing better and
it's not going to failure.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I promise you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
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Speaker 1 (10:03):
We're talking trends and predictions for twenty twenty five today.
But right now I am taking calls. I want to
go back to the phones. Let's talk to Sandy. Sandy,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yes, Hi, Hi Diane, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You're very welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yes, I have a shed top got it from top shed.
It's six by twelve sheet. It's on the side of
the house. But we would like to insulate the roof
the ceiling. I just want to get an input from
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you and you know what kind of insulation should be
be seen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What are you planning on doing with the shed? Why
are we insulating the shed?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's just in the summer, it just gets a lot
of sun in that part of the property. And I'm
putting all my most of my gardening tools there, and
you know, for delster, all that stuff, and also some
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probably cushions for a part of set, and any extra
stuff that we need to put away, like the coolers,
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Right, Okay, I got you. And you just don't want
it excess, you know, you don't want things melting down
in there. I get it. A tough shed, a tough shed,
a typical framed gardens. I'm very familiar with tough sheds.
We have several on our property. Tough sheds use kind
of a two by four truss kind of roofing system,
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which makes it very strong, small roof, but very lightweight
at the same time, And and so you only got
a limited depth as far as the kind of insulation
that you would put up in there, I would absolutely
recommend that you go because it's not a big area,
and so this is not going to break the bank
that you would go with rigid foam insulation. Rigid you know,
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rigid foam panels that and for two reasons. One, when
you're whenever you're using rigid foam, you're getting better insulating
value for a thinner area. And secondly, the rigid foam
insulation will be foil backed, and that foil is going
to help a heck of a lot that shiny foil
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backing because it's going to effectively reflect back and kind
of shut down a lot of infrared transmission that's coming
in that wants to come into the shed. So a
tough shed roof I would absolutely, without question use rigid
foam with foil backing, and if you're not worried about,
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you know, the aesthetic inside it, you could just leave
it at that. You can just put it up there,
cut it nice and let it be and it will
serve you well.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
And do we do I have to put drywall?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You don't have to put drywall. Not with the rigid foam.
You'll be able to attach it into place, even with
some toennailed screws or even nails that will hold it
into place for you and you'll be good to go.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Oh okay, Because I've been looking at the insulation available
at the big box stores. They're R ratings, ours thirteen,
R thirty. It's just so many choices. And those are
not the rigid pham panels that you're talking about right
right now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You can find the rigid foam panels at the big
box store further down the aisle. Just be looking for them.
But yeah, they don't come into big packages. They're not
the lofty fiberglass, squishy stuff or the blown in stuff.
These are just ridgid foam panels. And you're not going
to get our thirty in there. But you don't need
our thirty. You don't need our thirty because it's not
a living space. You just need to be able to
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knock down a good amount of that heat, and the
rigid foam is going to do it best for you,
I promise. Sandy. Thank you for your question, thanks for
the call, Thanks for hanging on as long as you
did today. I hope that helps, and good luck on
that shed. Let's talk to Leslie. Leslie, welcome home, Hide.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I am well? How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I'm renovating my dad's house. I inherit it in San
Marino and one hundred years old, and I've been painting
and chasing and doing this well. The realtor lady was
telling me I should refinish the tubs, but I personally
don't think I should because now I'm going to maybe
open a can of worms with potential plumbing issues, but
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I would They're not in bad shape. Do you recommend
any good kind of cleaner or something to make it
kind of sparkle?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay, so the tub cast iron tub under year old house.
Is the porcelain chipped or is it just dull? What's what?
What are you dealing with?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I don't think there's really much going on with it.
I think the only thing is like one hundred years ago.
In hell, not too long ago, probably about maybe fifteen
twenty years ago. My dad put a little touch up
around the faucet itself, like a little white kind of thing,
you know, just to I guess maybe some of that
metal was coming through. But other than that, it's an
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excellent condition. So I hate to get it refinished because
I've seen where they peel and they do all crazy things.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's tough. Well, let's see so
and and you're not looking to you're not looking to
pull those tubs out because you just don't want to
mess with it. You don't want to mess with the
tile around it.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah, because I have the original pile from back then
and they're beautiful and they're in excellent shape. So I
hope that somebody will enjoy it as much as we have.
But it's one of those things where I just want
to kind of clean it up a bit and just
kind of give it a little more oomph. And the
same thing with the flooring. I have those little piles
and I was wondering about that as well. And one
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other question about in the shower, you know, they had
the wall up on the top. So I was wondering
if you had a suggestion of what kind of pain
I should use up there.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, So it's like a closeted shower, like a like
a correct Yeah, I know these very well. Those literally
back in the day where we were first doing showers,
and we're like, well, just put them in a closet.
Just put them in a closet. It's dark, you're surrounding, Okay,
So all right, the tub, there's there's not a ton Unfortunately,
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there's no magic bullet for the tub or the tile, honestly,
but there are if you'd do your research, if you
go to your local tile shop, you can find some
high coil and not the big box store, but your
local tile shop. You can find some decent, decent okay,
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not bomb proof, but decent glazes that like a seiler
that has a pretty good glaze on it that brings
a little bit more shine out. You could use that
for the tub and for the tile. It's not going
to last forever, okay, but it can bring a little
more gloss and a little more out of the tile
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and the tub, especially if it's not something that's just
getting used constantly, day in and day out. I agree
with you. If the tub is in decent shape, even
if it's a little dull, just go with it. Just
just go with it, go with the fact that you
give it a good cleaning. You can clean it with
just any number of materials. I would just stay away
from the abrasives, okay at this point, and we'll be
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a tub like that. Stay away from the even the
barkeeper's front, you know. Just I wouldn't use the abrasive cleansers.
You could use bleach, you could use white vinegar or
anything like that that that will do a good job
of getting in and getting a really good clean out
of it, and some light brushing, But stay away from
the abrasives, especially if you're not wanting it to look
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any duller than it is. It'll be brighter, but it'll
leave it duller. So right, yeah, there you go. There
you go. That that kind of stuff would be the
way that I would direct you for those things. But
you could get it. You can get a seiler that
once it's really really clean. This is true of the tub,
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porcelain and the tile, that you can put a seiler
on it and get some you know, short term I
mean it'll it'll it'll be shining for as long as
nobody starts using it and then but if somebody's showering
in the day in and day out, then you know,
six months down the road, it's going to be back
to it's Matt finishkin, which is at the end of
the world because it's not expensive stuff and you could
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just reglaze it again if you wanted to. That's about
as much as I don't paint it. Please don't paint it,
because that's I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Going that'll be the upper part of that shower stall,
the box shower. Is there recommendations for some kind of
paint or it doesn't bubble or something else when you
have the moisture.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, so this is true, and I would do this
with the whole bathroom by the way, personally. Uh. And
that is that first of all, you're going to get
all that chipping and peeling stuff off, You're going to
get it sanded down and prepped really really well. You're
going to get a really high quality primer on there, Okay,
onto the walls, and then I want you to go
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to your local Benjamin Moore dealer and get Aura A U. R.
A Aura Bath and Spa. Okay. It is literally the
and and you can get it in Matt. It doesn't
have to be glossy and shiny. You can get it
in Matt.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Finish.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It is literally a paint that is designed to take
heat and steam and moisture. That's why it's called bath
and spa and look JUGI gorgeous without reacting to the
water in a negative way. Literally, it's made for that
kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Then spell that out for me one more time.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Aura A U r A Okay, Benjamin, it's a Benjamin
Moore live is Okay. So you want Aura Bath and
Spa spa perfect?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Okay, you're the best. Thank you, you're so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Thank you so much for your call. Happy New Year,
and good luck on that San Marino house. San Marino.
That's uh, that's Father of the Bride neighborhood right there,
my friend Sam. I grew up very close to there,
not in it. How I would have been so fortunate. No, No,
I grew up near enough so San Marino.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But yeah, what a class gorgeous Los Angeles actually Pasadena neighborhood.
Beautiful stuff, all right, y'all. When we return I'm gonna
give you more off of my list of predictions and
trends for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. That's me.
We're here talking about predictions of trends for home decor
and design for twenty twenty five. Nearing the end of
my list, but I still got some good stuff to
talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's get back into it, shall we. Uh Here, I say,
I teased you before we were taking calls that the
next thing I was going to talk to you about
was flooring. Flooring, there's one very specific trend that is
growing in temperature. It's hot, It's I don't know if
it's hot, but it's deafly getting hotter. And I'm again
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glad about it. Seems like there's a theme that several
of the items that are on this year's trending list,
the legitimate items, they're harkening back to an older time
and we're seeing them manifest again. And this one is
no exception to that. This is a wonderful example of that.
And that is whether it's tile or wood flooring. Herringbone, herringbone.
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You know what herringbone is, right, It's that zigzag pattern. Now,
herringbone is about as classic a flooring pattern as a
flooring pattern can get. What's amazing about it is that
it's so classic that you can put any period of
furniture with it, and it works. If you tour through
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Europe and look at one hundred two hundred, three hundred
plus year old homes and villas, you will find herringbone floors.
If you travel and find ultra contemporary homes, you will
find herringbone floors. Because it's such a heavy geometric pattern,
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it works with absolute contemporary design, and it works with
old world design, and designers are rediscovering it and pushing
their clients toward at least considering it. I love herringbone floors.
I absolutely love them. They solve all sorts of problems too.
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By the way, let's say you got this, and these
are problems sometimes brought on by open concept, open plan
flooring ideas, and that is that you've got one room
that runs kind of lengthwise this way, and it's now
connected without walls to another space that runs ninety degrees
perpendicular to it in another direction. So if you've got
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traditional plank flooring, you've got to ask the question, well,
which way should we run the pl playing flooring. Now
I have a cheat for that too. If you want
to use plank flooring, you set it at a diagonal,
at a forty five degree diagonal for both spaces, and
it works. But herringbone is an absolute example of just that,
just in shorter format with more detail on the floor.
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And so here's the thing that I want you to consider,
taking this from the mouth of a professional home designer
as opposed to getting caught up in the retail cyclone
of well, I want our new floors to make such
an impact, we've got to step up the budget and
let's just let's just buy more expensive and more expensive
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and more flooring material. Yeah, you could go that way,
or you could make a powerfully beautiful, elegant impact by
simply taking a modest flooring material and installing it in
a classic pattern. And that is my love for herringbone
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as a pattern for flooring. Okay, Also, by the way,
also my love for herringbone as a backsplash tile or
anything like that. But whether you're using porcelain tile, planks
or whether you're using hardwood or even there are now
luxury vinyl planks a few on the market who are
that are designed to be capable of being installed in
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a herringbone pattern. You know what, give it a solid look.
Look online, look at photos of herringbone floors. You don't
have to have all this drama in the wood itself,
in the tile itself. If right back behind that lovely
surface is this pattern. It's not a loud pattern, it's
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not you know, it doesn't jump out and take over. Okay,
it's a floor, but it's such an elegant way of
doing a floor, and it's such a beautifully detailed pattern.
And what goes with it everything with it. Round furniture
goes with it, Square furniture goes with it, Rectangular furniture
goes with herringbone. Herringbone fits in any room, running in
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virtually any direction. Okay. And as I said before, it
is so old world that you could go back and
emulate a three hundred year old period room, or you
could be installing it in an ultra modern, ultra contemporary setting,
and it works perfectly fine. Herringbone Rediscover Herringbone in twenty
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twenty five. It's not for everybody, and it's not for
every house, but I will tell you this, if you
haven't thought of it, if you haven't considered it, and
you're thinking about putting in new floors, pump the brakes
and take a look and see if the entire level
of the room can't be elevated and amplified by a beautiful,
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consistent floor pattern like that laying down on your floor.
There you go. Now need to know this. Is there
any additional cost to herringbone? Dean installers are probably gonna
charge you a little bit more to run herringbone than
just straight plank, okay, And because the herringbone floor is
going to be hitting the walls at a forty five
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degree angle, that means it's going to create a little
bit more waste that can't be recouped and used like
on the other side of the room, which is sometimes
what we can do with plank flooring. But is it
worth it? And will you save money by purchasing a
less expensive, lessugi loud draw attention to itself flooring material
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and installing it herringbone over something really really expensive set
on a traditional pattern, Yes you will. You'll save money
and you'll have a better result in the end. There
you go. Last thing that I'm gonna I'm gonna leave
this for the other side of the break. Do you
know what color drenching is? Okay, Well, if you don't
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hang tight, and when we come back, I will explain
to you why it is a well deserved hot trend
for twenty twenty five and beyond, go nowhere. Color drenching
coming up.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was just talking to Elmer. He was checking out
Elmer was checking out herringbone floor. He's like, man, I
need so cool for me. Aren't they cool? They're awesome?
And then I was telling him that it actually came
from it literally comes from, you know, a herring, the
fish fishbone. If you look at their skeleton from the
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side and or from the top, you'll see that diagonal
pattern the way that the bones tie in. And I
don't know who named it. It was hundreds of years ago.
Somebody said it's like a herring, the bones of a herring. Okay,
that's fine, but yeah, that's where it comes from. Very
very cool, and it's always nice It always feels good
when even my colleagues here at the station are like,
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you know what, you know what you just said? That
was actually cool. Thanks all the time. I'm glad. I'm glad.
I'm here to help. All right, I got one more
for you? Do I I? Oh, yeah, I do. I
teased you before the break whether you knew anything about
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color drenching. You know what color drenching is, well, you
could sort of imagine. It probably has to do with
taking a color and just like saturating everything everywhere with it.
It is pretty much kind of that thing. But you know,
we gotta standard control here, so color drenching you're gonna
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hear about it if you're going through trending lists. Color
drenching is take some random sound, and color drenching is
taking a single color in a room and using it
on all the walls and the ceiling. Now, Dean, I've
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been listening to your show for years, and you are
a huge advocate of feature walls, of bold color and
letting the other things go. Because you say that when
we paint every wall and the ceiling all some wild color,
it gets to be like a cave. And you're absolutely right,
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and I really am not being hypocritical or turning a
one eighty when I tell you that to color drenching
is the exception to that rule. Here's how we do
color drenching in a room. What we do. Number one,
the plan is we're not using wild warm colors. Okay.
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I do not color drench a room with anything on
the warm side of the spectrum. No reds, no oranges,
no yellows, because that just gets crazy town. Okay. Number two,
I don't use overly dark colors because unless we're literally
just trying to create that dark, deep, moody space, but
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a pleasant color drenched room, a room that could be
a bedroom or a dining room or anything like it.
What we're going to use is we're going to use
muted paints in the cool side of things. Greens and blues, okay,
not gray. Gray is boring for this kind of thing.
We want color, Okay, gray is technically not a color.
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So we want these cool, you know, colors that set
a mood almost I dare I say pastel, cool pastels,
but not like baby blue or anything like that. Right,
A muted, naturalistic color. And then we're not just painting
a room. What we're doing is actually we're using this
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technique to increase the amount of detail on a wall
and a ceiling. So what I mean by that is
we take this room and we say, you know what,
I want to panel this room. I mean, I want
to put panel applicas all over this room. I want
to take flat moldings and create all sorts of panel
designs geometric floor to ceiling on all these walls. But
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I love that look, but I'm afraid it's gonna get
too busy. I want that big old base board coming
off the floor, but I'm afraid that, you know, once
I paint the wall and the baseboard is standing out,
that it's gonna get too busy. Or these panels, once
they stand out against the rest of the room color,
it's gonna get too loud and too busy. Or if
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I put even applicase like Dean was talking about earlier
in the show Feature Ceilings, if I put the same
kind of applicate panel on the ceiling, it's just gonna
get too busy. And you're right, it could, and it
seems a little counterintuitive. But all I can tell you
is the tension that is created by what I'm about
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to describe ends up becoming in most cases just stunningly elegant.
And it's this go ahead, panel out, crazy town, trim
all over this room, okay, and then ceiling included if
you want, and then paint it all the same color,
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no differential from the floor edge right on up across
the ceiling, all one color, the trim, the wall, the
window trims, everything all one cool, muted, naturalistic color. And
you know what the floor stands out in contrast. That's it,
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and then all the furnishings in the room that's it.
And it, if it's done well, can be I don't know, scrumptious, elegant, beautiful, tasty,
You pick the adjective of your choice. If you need
to see it, absolutely you need to see it. So again,
go online search color drenched room and you'll see, hopefully
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a good example of what I'm talking talking about. It's bold,
it's a bold move for you to make, but it's
not bold in the sense of loud or gaudy or
anything like that. When it's done well, it's done with
just this beautiful. It's as if we've done all the
paneling and that's a bold move forward, and then we've
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painted it all the same color, which, by the way,
you could also do with white, okay, And by painting
it all the same color, we've muted the paneling and
pulled it back a step. So we've taken a bold
step forward and then we pull it back half a step,
and what we get is this tension in between anyway,
color drenching. Look it up. It is a hot new trend.
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I'm glad, but it's got to be done well. All right,
It's got to be done tastefully. It's got to be
executed with a good amount of planning. But it's worth
you taking a look at. It's worth your attention. It
could make all the difference in a room for years
and years to come. All Right, That's about all we've
got today for this weekend, everybody, This last weekend for
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us in twenty twenty. For the new year is looming
right around the corner. It's coming at us on Wednesday.
And I'm sorry, what was that, Tina, No, don't worry
about that. I'm going to leave you with this thought today.
Some people hate New Years, isn't that true? Yeah? I
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run into a lot of them. Actually, they say, you
know what, it's a day just like any other day.
There's nothing magical about it or the hope that it
promises us, because you know what, life just turns out
to be the same. I totally get that. I feel
you so much on that. Okay, so I'm going to
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jump in that camp just for a second, not hating
New Year's but acknowledging the truth about it. There's nothing
intrinsically magical about New Year's Day. If you didn't know
January first was New Year's Day, nothing would alert you
to its arrival. It would just feel like any other day.
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It's not nothing, though, Okay, it's the beginning of another lap.
Astronomically speaking, within a few hours of New Year's Day,
the Earth will be at its closest point to the Sun.
It's called the perihelion. And no, you're not going to
feel it, but it's true. And here, in the first
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days of winter, which is where we're at right now,
floating in the vast expanse of the universe, our tiny
blue world begins another year long journey around our star.
And what makes New Year special for those who choose
to make it special is that we mark its arrival.
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We all know it's far too easy for us to
allow one day to roll into the next, and the
next and the next, and before we know it, we're
wondering where the time is gone. So human finds ways
to mark our laps. We mark birthdays, we mark wedding anniversaries,
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we mark work anniversaries, we mark any anniversary. We can
get our hands on any lap that we can number
in order to remind us the time is passing and
we're not getting any younger. So yeah, it's true. Nothing
about the clock striking midnight makes us new people, with
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new lives, unburdened from our past, free from our present circumstances.
New Year's is not you. New Year's is not absolution.
New Year's is not healing. New Year's is not a
fresh new start, unless, of course, we choose to make
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it so. And there is the magic, our resolve to
do better, be better, live better. For a bunch of
little monkeys caught up with big burdens and even bigger worries,
I think it's a good thing to get some perspective,
to mark a lap. Remember that life is short, time
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is passing, and we're not getting any younger. So if
we're looking for things to change, we want to get
free from the past. If we want to heal, if
we want to be better and do better and live better,
then hey, let's pick a day and celebrate. If there's
magic in New Year's Day, you, my friend, are that magic,
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your dreams, your resolve, your choices. No, the New year
will not do it for you, but if you want
it to be so, today can be the day that
you choose to build or rebuild yourself a beautiful life.
And I hope you do. And so with that, I'm
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going to wish all of you, from Tina and I
and everyone in the Sharp Plam a very very happy
New Year, and we will see you right back here
next weekend. We'll see you next year. Until then, have
a great one. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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spent yesterday, this weekend, this last weekend in twenty twenty four,
talking about trends and predictions for homes, home decor and
all that kind of stuff for twenty twenty five. I
have a very unique take on it because I am
a real home designer and therefore I don't participate in
all of the bs that it ends up on social
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media and interest ye kinds of things. I love all
that stuff. By the way, as far as you know
the site, you know, the ability for people to see
things that they haven't seen before. I'm not criticizing that,
but this time of year, Uh, everybody and their brother
has a list of trends, and most of them don't
come from professional designers or architects, and as a result,
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what we get is a lot of information. So I'm
trying to cut through that for you so you understand
what is legit and what is not. What's legit and
what should you quit? Oh my gosh, did he actually
do that? Yes? He did. All right, we're going to
get back to that subject in just a bit. But
top of the hour. You know what that means, it's
time to go to the phones. I'm going to talk
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to Brad. Hey, Brad, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have
a back door of my house that sticks and it.
I will stand the doorframe, and it will seem to
last for about two or three months, and then all
of a sudden it begins to stick again, and it
makes it very difficult for my wife to open the door.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, you said you stand the doorframe, in other words,
the jam in the wall.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, Well, a couple of things. Number One, when we
say that it sticks, do we know is it the
entire side of the door that is sticking or is
it sticking near the top?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is sticking near the top?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, okay, I got you. Why how did he know that?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Here is the thing, my friend. Number one, stop standing
the jam. Okay, let the jam just be what it is.
If if we are and sometimes it's worth doing this.
If we're going to make a modification to a door
that is sticking, we actually alter the door. We cut
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and or plane and or sand the door, not the frame. Okay,
we stand the door, which means, you know, maybe taking
off weather stripping temporarily and getting to the door itself.
There does need to be an adequate clearance. So the
idea of just standing just enough to make it clear
right now and then cold weather hot weather kicks in
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or a little bit of moisture or a little bit
of dry and it changes the dem intionality of the
door and it gets stuck again. So just as a
general rule, As a general rule, you want to be
addressing the door. Now I say all this, and you're
going to tell me it's a steel door, exactly, Okay,
all right, So it's a steel door. So there's no
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standing the door. So in this situation, how long did
it function well before it started sticking on you?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I would say it's I haven't had a problem probably
for ten years, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All all of a sudden. Okay, yeah, all right, So
here's the other thing, and here's where I'm going to
earn my keep. Okay, this is what I want you
to do. I don't put down the sander, don't go
any further with any of that. Right now, what I
want you to do is I want you to open
up the door, and I want you to take your
Phillip's head screwdriver, and I want you to remove one
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of the screws from one of the hinges in the
jam side of the door. Okay, I want you to
take that screw down to the hardware store, the big
box store, wherever. And the reason you're taking it with
you is because you're looking at the width of that screw.
And you're also most importantly looking at this size of
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the head of the screw and the fact that it's
a beveled back, beveled head. And I want you to
find the longest screw that you can find. Would screw
that you can find that has that same size head.
In other words, we're going to replace some screws on
your hinges that whose heads will fit nicely, seat nicely
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into the hinge. Okay, But when I say long, I'm
not talking about the you know, the screw that you're
going to pull out is going to be three quarters
to an inch long, that's screwed into the jam the
doorframe as it were. Right, the screw that you're going
to replace it with, I want that screw to be
three inches long, Okay. And here's what happens. Okay, we
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don't really notice it, Okay, it's not super noticeable, but
the weight of a whole door on a three hinge door,
half of the weight of the door is hanging off
that top hinge. Okay, And even though the hinge itself
is solid and doing its job. The fact is that
hinge was installed in that door jam with a short screw.
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Now that if the plate of the butt of the
hinge is even at all starting to loosen up and door,
if the frame that it's in, if the jam has
shifted at all, this is what causes a door to
start sticking. And the reason I knew it was sticking
at the top corner is that it's because not because
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the door is swelling, because if the door was swelling,
or if the jam was swelling, it would swell uniformly
down the length of the side and you would be
stuck top to bottom. But because it's rubbing at the top,
it means that when the door is shut, it's actually tilted.
It's leaning. And the only reason it's leaning is even
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if it's not perceptible to you those that top hinge
has shifted in the jam itself. So here's what we're
gonna do with these three inch long screws that you're
gonna buy at the hardware store. You're gonna come back
and you're gonna take all of the screws out of
the top hinge, not the door side, but the jam
side and we're gonna get your screw gun and we're
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gonna go all the way and we're going through the
jam itself. We're going it's not we're not gonna any
longer support this door off the jam. We're gonna drill
right through it, and we're gonna go right into the
two by four trimmer, the wood stud that's on the
back side of this thing. And when you do, you're
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gonna snug it up, and you're gonna actually see the
hinge snug and you might even see the jam leg
shift and move a little bit. But you're going to
put three or four, however many screws your hinge takes
of these long guys right on through, and then you're
gonna close the door and you're going to be amazed
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because suddenly the door is not going to be rubbing
at the top anymore. Okay, I will do that, all right,
my friend. That's the trick. It's something that not a
lot of people notice at first, but it's not rocket
science to fix, and it's going to save you a
lot of labor trying to the problem is when you
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said that you've sanded it and then it was free,
and then it got loose again, it's just because the
door just tips, is still tipping, and it's still falling
into the jam. So the problem is on the hinge side,
not on the you know, not on the latch side
of the door, and it's at the top because it's leaning.
So I hope that makes sense to every feel free.
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If you've got a door that has been problematic or
even a little wobbly, go ahead and use the long
screw trip. And I will tell you this. When I
hang a door, okay as a door, hanging as a
finished carpenter for years and years now has been the case.
Number one. I will set the jam itself at the
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very top with a hidden long three inch screw that's
down in the actual routered area of the hinge where
the hinge going to cover that screw. And then we
will go ahead and use longer screws to dig into
the stud that's on the other side of the jam.
And guess what happens. These doors They never rub, they
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never sag for the life of the door. That's all
it takes. Got to tie into the framing better and
it's not going to failure.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I promise you're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We're talking trends and predictions for twenty twenty five today.
But right now I am taking calls. I want to
go back to the phones. Let's talk to Sandy. Sandy,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yes, Hi, Hi Diane, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You're very welcome. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yes, I have a shed top got it from top shed.
It's six by twelve sheet. It's on the side of
the house. But we would like to insulate the roof
the ceiling. I just want to get an input from
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you and you know what kind of insulation should be
be seen.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What are you planning on doing with the shed? Why
are we insulating the shed?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's just in the summer, it just gets a lot
of sun in that part of the property. And I'm
putting all my most of my gardening tools there, and
you know, for delster, all that stuff, and also some
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probably cushions for a part of set, and any extra
stuff that we need to put away, like the coolers,
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Right, Okay, I got you. And you just don't want
it excess, you know, you don't want things melting down
in there. I get it. A tough shed, a tough shed,
a typical framed gardens. I'm very familiar with tough sheds.
We have several on our property. Tough sheds use kind
of a two by four truss kind of roofing system,
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which makes it very strong, small roof, but very lightweight
at the same time, And and so you only got
a limited depth as far as the kind of insulation
that you would put up in there, I would absolutely
recommend that you go because it's not a big area,
and so this is not going to break the bank
that you would go with rigid foam insulation. Rigid you know,
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rigid foam panels that and for two reasons. One, when
you're whenever you're using rigid foam, you're getting better insulating
value for a thinner area. And secondly, the rigid foam
insulation will be foil backed, and that foil is going
to help a heck of a lot that shiny foil
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backing because it's going to effectively reflect back and kind
of shut down a lot of infrared transmission that's coming
in that wants to come into the shed. So a
tough shed roof I would absolutely, without question use rigid
foam with foil backing, and if you're not worried about,
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you know, the aesthetic inside it, you could just leave
it at that. You can just put it up there,
cut it nice and let it be and it will
serve you well.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
And do we do I have to put drywall?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You don't have to put drywall. Not with the rigid foam.
You'll be able to attach it into place, even with
some toennailed screws or even nails that will hold it
into place for you and you'll be good to go.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Oh okay, Because I've been looking at the insulation available
at the big box stores. They're R ratings, ours thirteen,
R thirty. It's just so many choices. And those are
not the rigid pham panels that you're talking about right
right now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
You can find the rigid foam panels at the big
box store further down the aisle. Just be looking for them.
But yeah, they don't come into big packages. They're not
the lofty fiberglass, squishy stuff or the blown in stuff.
These are just ridgid foam panels. And you're not going
to get our thirty in there. But you don't need
our thirty. You don't need our thirty because it's not
a living space. You just need to be able to
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knock down a good amount of that heat, and the
rigid foam is going to do it best for you,
I promise. Sandy. Thank you for your question, thanks for
the call, Thanks for hanging on as long as you
did today. I hope that helps, and good luck on
that shed. Let's talk to Leslie. Leslie, welcome home, Hide.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I am well? How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I'm renovating my dad's house. I inherit it in San
Marino and one hundred years old, and I've been painting
and chasing and doing this well. The realtor lady was
telling me I should refinish the tubs, but I personally
don't think I should because now I'm going to maybe
open a can of worms with potential plumbing issues, but
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I would They're not in bad shape. Do you recommend
any good kind of cleaner or something to make it
kind of sparkle?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay, so the tub cast iron tub under year old house.
Is the porcelain chipped or is it just dull? What's what?
What are you dealing with?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I don't think there's really much going on with it.
I think the only thing is like one hundred years ago.
In hell, not too long ago, probably about maybe fifteen
twenty years ago. My dad put a little touch up
around the faucet itself, like a little white kind of thing,
you know, just to I guess maybe some of that
metal was coming through. But other than that, it's an
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excellent condition. So I hate to get it refinished because
I've seen where they peel and they do all crazy things.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's tough. Well, let's see so
and and you're not looking to you're not looking to
pull those tubs out because you just don't want to
mess with it. You don't want to mess with the
tile around it.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Yeah, because I have the original pile from back then
and they're beautiful and they're in excellent shape. So I
hope that somebody will enjoy it as much as we have.
But it's one of those things where I just want
to kind of clean it up a bit and just
kind of give it a little more oomph. And the
same thing with the flooring. I have those little piles
and I was wondering about that as well. And one
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other question about in the shower, you know, they had
the wall up on the top. So I was wondering
if you had a suggestion of what kind of pain
I should use up there.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, So it's like a closeted shower, like a like
a correct Yeah, I know these very well. Those literally
back in the day where we were first doing showers,
and we're like, well, just put them in a closet.
Just put them in a closet. It's dark, you're surrounding, Okay,
So all right, the tub, there's there's not a ton Unfortunately,
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there's no magic bullet for the tub or the tile, honestly,
but there are if you'd do your research, if you
go to your local tile shop, you can find some
high coil and not the big box store, but your
local tile shop. You can find some decent, decent okay,
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not bomb proof, but decent glazes that like a seiler
that has a pretty good glaze on it that brings
a little bit more shine out. You could use that
for the tub and for the tile. It's not going
to last forever, okay, but it can bring a little
more gloss and a little more out of the tile
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and the tub, especially if it's not something that's just
getting used constantly, day in and day out. I agree
with you. If the tub is in decent shape, even
if it's a little dull, just go with it. Just
just go with it, go with the fact that you
give it a good cleaning. You can clean it with
just any number of materials. I would just stay away
from the abrasives, okay at this point, and we'll be
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a tub like that. Stay away from the even the
barkeeper's front, you know. Just I wouldn't use the abrasive cleansers.
You could use bleach, you could use white vinegar or
anything like that that that will do a good job
of getting in and getting a really good clean out
of it, and some light brushing, But stay away from
the abrasives, especially if you're not wanting it to look
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any duller than it is. It'll be brighter, but it'll
leave it duller. So right, yeah, there you go. There
you go. That that kind of stuff would be the
way that I would direct you for those things. But
you could get it. You can get a seiler that
once it's really really clean. This is true of the tub,
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porcelain and the tile, that you can put a seiler
on it and get some you know, short term I
mean it'll it'll it'll be shining for as long as
nobody starts using it and then but if somebody's showering
in the day in and day out, then you know,
six months down the road, it's going to be back
to it's Matt finishkin, which is at the end of
the world because it's not expensive stuff and you could
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just reglaze it again if you wanted to. That's about
as much as I don't paint it. Please don't paint it,
because that's I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Going that'll be the upper part of that shower stall,
the box shower. Is there recommendations for some kind of
paint or it doesn't bubble or something else when you
have the moisture.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, so this is true, and I would do this
with the whole bathroom by the way, personally. Uh. And
that is that first of all, you're going to get
all that chipping and peeling stuff off, You're going to
get it sanded down and prepped really really well. You're
going to get a really high quality primer on there, Okay,
onto the walls, and then I want you to go
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to your local Benjamin Moore dealer and get Aura A U. R.
A Aura Bath and Spa. Okay. It is literally the
and and you can get it in Matt. It doesn't
have to be glossy and shiny. You can get it
in Matt.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Finish.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It is literally a paint that is designed to take
heat and steam and moisture. That's why it's called bath
and spa and look JUGI gorgeous without reacting to the
water in a negative way. Literally, it's made for that
kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Then spell that out for me one more time.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Aura A U r A Okay, Benjamin, it's a Benjamin
Moore live is Okay. So you want Aura Bath and
Spa spa perfect?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Okay, you're the best. Thank you, you're so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Thank you so much for your call. Happy New Year,
and good luck on that San Marino house. San Marino.
That's uh, that's Father of the Bride neighborhood right there,
my friend Sam. I grew up very close to there,
not in it. How I would have been so fortunate. No, No,
I grew up near enough so San Marino.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But yeah, what a class gorgeous Los Angeles actually Pasadena neighborhood.
Beautiful stuff, all right, y'all. When we return I'm gonna
give you more off of my list of predictions and
trends for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You are Home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper. That's me.
We're here talking about predictions of trends for home decor
and design for twenty twenty five. Nearing the end of
my list, but I still got some good stuff to
talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Let's get back into it, shall we. Uh Here, I say,
I teased you before we were taking calls that the
next thing I was going to talk to you about
was flooring. Flooring, there's one very specific trend that is
growing in temperature. It's hot, It's I don't know if
it's hot, but it's deafly getting hotter. And I'm again
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glad about it. Seems like there's a theme that several
of the items that are on this year's trending list,
the legitimate items, they're harkening back to an older time
and we're seeing them manifest again. And this one is
no exception to that. This is a wonderful example of that.
And that is whether it's tile or wood flooring. Herringbone, herringbone.
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You know what herringbone is, right, It's that zigzag pattern. Now,
herringbone is about as classic a flooring pattern as a
flooring pattern can get. What's amazing about it is that
it's so classic that you can put any period of
furniture with it, and it works. If you tour through
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Europe and look at one hundred two hundred, three hundred
plus year old homes and villas, you will find herringbone floors.
If you travel and find ultra contemporary homes, you will
find herringbone floors. Because it's such a heavy geometric pattern,
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it works with absolute contemporary design, and it works with
old world design, and designers are rediscovering it and pushing
their clients toward at least considering it. I love herringbone floors.
I absolutely love them. They solve all sorts of problems too.
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By the way, let's say you got this, and these
are problems sometimes brought on by open concept, open plan
flooring ideas, and that is that you've got one room
that runs kind of lengthwise this way, and it's now
connected without walls to another space that runs ninety degrees
perpendicular to it in another direction. So if you've got
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traditional plank flooring, you've got to ask the question, well,
which way should we run the pl playing flooring. Now
I have a cheat for that too. If you want
to use plank flooring, you set it at a diagonal,
at a forty five degree diagonal for both spaces, and
it works. But herringbone is an absolute example of just that,
just in shorter format with more detail on the floor.
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And so here's the thing that I want you to consider,
taking this from the mouth of a professional home designer
as opposed to getting caught up in the retail cyclone
of well, I want our new floors to make such
an impact, we've got to step up the budget and
let's just let's just buy more expensive and more expensive
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and more flooring material. Yeah, you could go that way,
or you could make a powerfully beautiful, elegant impact by
simply taking a modest flooring material and installing it in
a classic pattern. And that is my love for herringbone
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as a pattern for flooring. Okay, Also, by the way,
also my love for herringbone as a backsplash tile or
anything like that. But whether you're using porcelain tile, planks
or whether you're using hardwood or even there are now
luxury vinyl planks a few on the market who are
that are designed to be capable of being installed in
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a herringbone pattern. You know what, give it a solid look.
Look online, look at photos of herringbone floors. You don't
have to have all this drama in the wood itself,
in the tile itself. If right back behind that lovely
surface is this pattern. It's not a loud pattern, it's
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not you know, it doesn't jump out and take over. Okay,
it's a floor, but it's such an elegant way of
doing a floor, and it's such a beautifully detailed pattern.
And what goes with it everything with it. Round furniture
goes with it, Square furniture goes with it, Rectangular furniture
goes with herringbone. Herringbone fits in any room, running in
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virtually any direction. Okay. And as I said before, it
is so old world that you could go back and
emulate a three hundred year old period room, or you
could be installing it in an ultra modern, ultra contemporary setting,
and it works perfectly fine. Herringbone Rediscover Herringbone in twenty
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twenty five. It's not for everybody, and it's not for
every house, but I will tell you this, if you
haven't thought of it, if you haven't considered it, and
you're thinking about putting in new floors, pump the brakes
and take a look and see if the entire level
of the room can't be elevated and amplified by a beautiful,
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consistent floor pattern like that laying down on your floor.
There you go. Now need to know this. Is there
any additional cost to herringbone? Dean installers are probably gonna
charge you a little bit more to run herringbone than
just straight plank, okay, And because the herringbone floor is
going to be hitting the walls at a forty five
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degree angle, that means it's going to create a little
bit more waste that can't be recouped and used like
on the other side of the room, which is sometimes
what we can do with plank flooring. But is it
worth it? And will you save money by purchasing a
less expensive, lessugi loud draw attention to itself flooring material
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and installing it herringbone over something really really expensive set
on a traditional pattern, Yes you will. You'll save money
and you'll have a better result in the end. There
you go. Last thing that I'm gonna I'm gonna leave
this for the other side of the break. Do you
know what color drenching is? Okay, Well, if you don't
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hang tight, and when we come back, I will explain
to you why it is a well deserved hot trend
for twenty twenty five and beyond, go nowhere. Color drenching
coming up.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I was just talking to Elmer. He was checking out
Elmer was checking out herringbone floor. He's like, man, I
need so cool for me. Aren't they cool? They're awesome?
And then I was telling him that it actually came
from it literally comes from, you know, a herring, the
fish fishbone. If you look at their skeleton from the
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side and or from the top, you'll see that diagonal
pattern the way that the bones tie in. And I
don't know who named it. It was hundreds of years ago.
Somebody said it's like a herring, the bones of a herring. Okay,
that's fine, but yeah, that's where it comes from. Very
very cool, and it's always nice It always feels good
when even my colleagues here at the station are like,
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you know what, you know what you just said? That
was actually cool. Thanks all the time. I'm glad. I'm glad.
I'm here to help. All right, I got one more
for you? Do I I? Oh, yeah, I do. I
teased you before the break whether you knew anything about
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color drenching. You know what color drenching is, well, you
could sort of imagine. It probably has to do with
taking a color and just like saturating everything everywhere with it.
It is pretty much kind of that thing. But you know,
we gotta standard control here, so color drenching you're gonna
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hear about it if you're going through trending lists. Color
drenching is take some random sound, and color drenching is
taking a single color in a room and using it
on all the walls and the ceiling. Now, Dean, I've
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been listening to your show for years, and you are
a huge advocate of feature walls, of bold color and
letting the other things go. Because you say that when
we paint every wall and the ceiling all some wild color,
it gets to be like a cave. And you're absolutely right,
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and I really am not being hypocritical or turning a
one eighty when I tell you that to color drenching
is the exception to that rule. Here's how we do
color drenching in a room. What we do. Number one,
the plan is we're not using wild warm colors. Okay.
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I do not color drench a room with anything on
the warm side of the spectrum. No reds, no oranges,
no yellows, because that just gets crazy town. Okay. Number two,
I don't use overly dark colors because unless we're literally
just trying to create that dark, deep, moody space, but
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a pleasant color drenched room, a room that could be
a bedroom or a dining room or anything like it.
What we're going to use is we're going to use
muted paints in the cool side of things. Greens and blues, okay,
not gray. Gray is boring for this kind of thing.
We want color, Okay, gray is technically not a color.
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So we want these cool, you know, colors that set
a mood almost I dare I say pastel, cool pastels,
but not like baby blue or anything like that. Right,
A muted, naturalistic color. And then we're not just painting
a room. What we're doing is actually we're using this
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technique to increase the amount of detail on a wall
and a ceiling. So what I mean by that is
we take this room and we say, you know what,
I want to panel this room. I mean, I want
to put panel applicas all over this room. I want
to take flat moldings and create all sorts of panel
designs geometric floor to ceiling on all these walls. But
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I love that look, but I'm afraid it's gonna get
too busy. I want that big old base board coming
off the floor, but I'm afraid that, you know, once
I paint the wall and the baseboard is standing out,
that it's gonna get too busy. Or these panels, once
they stand out against the rest of the room color,
it's gonna get too loud and too busy. Or if
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I put even applicase like Dean was talking about earlier
in the show Feature Ceilings, if I put the same
kind of applicate panel on the ceiling, it's just gonna
get too busy. And you're right, it could, and it
seems a little counterintuitive. But all I can tell you
is the tension that is created by what I'm about
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to describe ends up becoming in most cases just stunningly elegant.
And it's this go ahead, panel out, crazy town, trim
all over this room, okay, and then ceiling included if
you want, and then paint it all the same color,
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no differential from the floor edge right on up across
the ceiling, all one color, the trim, the wall, the
window trims, everything all one cool, muted, naturalistic color. And
you know what the floor stands out in contrast. That's it,
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and then all the furnishings in the room that's it.
And it, if it's done well, can be I don't know, scrumptious, elegant, beautiful, tasty,
You pick the adjective of your choice. If you need
to see it, absolutely you need to see it. So again,
go online search color drenched room and you'll see, hopefully
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a good example of what I'm talking talking about. It's bold,
it's a bold move for you to make, but it's
not bold in the sense of loud or gaudy or
anything like that. When it's done well, it's done with
just this beautiful. It's as if we've done all the
paneling and that's a bold move forward, and then we've
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painted it all the same color, which, by the way,
you could also do with white, okay, And by painting
it all the same color, we've muted the paneling and
pulled it back a step. So we've taken a bold
step forward and then we pull it back half a step,
and what we get is this tension in between anyway,
color drenching. Look it up. It is a hot new trend.
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I'm glad, but it's got to be done well. All right,
It's got to be done tastefully. It's got to be
executed with a good amount of planning. But it's worth
you taking a look at. It's worth your attention. It
could make all the difference in a room for years
and years to come. All Right, That's about all we've
got today for this weekend, everybody, This last weekend for
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us in twenty twenty. For the new year is looming
right around the corner. It's coming at us on Wednesday.
And I'm sorry, what was that, Tina, No, don't worry
about that. I'm going to leave you with this thought today.
Some people hate New Years, isn't that true? Yeah? I
(35:44):
run into a lot of them. Actually, they say, you
know what, it's a day just like any other day.
There's nothing magical about it or the hope that it
promises us, because you know what, life just turns out
to be the same. I totally get that. I feel
you so much on that. Okay, so I'm going to
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jump in that camp just for a second, not hating
New Year's but acknowledging the truth about it. There's nothing
intrinsically magical about New Year's Day. If you didn't know
January first was New Year's Day, nothing would alert you
to its arrival. It would just feel like any other day.
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It's not nothing, though, Okay, it's the beginning of another lap.
Astronomically speaking, within a few hours of New Year's Day,
the Earth will be at its closest point to the Sun.
It's called the perihelion. And no, you're not going to
feel it, but it's true. And here, in the first
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days of winter, which is where we're at right now,
floating in the vast expanse of the universe, our tiny
blue world begins another year long journey around our star.
And what makes New Year special for those who choose
to make it special is that we mark its arrival.
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We all know it's far too easy for us to
allow one day to roll into the next, and the
next and the next, and before we know it, we're
wondering where the time is gone. So human finds ways
to mark our laps. We mark birthdays, we mark wedding anniversaries,
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we mark work anniversaries, we mark any anniversary. We can
get our hands on any lap that we can number
in order to remind us the time is passing and
we're not getting any younger. So yeah, it's true. Nothing
about the clock striking midnight makes us new people, with
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new lives, unburdened from our past, free from our present circumstances.
New Year's is not you. New Year's is not absolution.
New Year's is not healing. New Year's is not a
fresh new start, unless, of course, we choose to make
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it so. And there is the magic, our resolve to
do better, be better, live better. For a bunch of
little monkeys caught up with big burdens and even bigger worries,
I think it's a good thing to get some perspective,
to mark a lap. Remember that life is short, time
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is passing, and we're not getting any younger. So if
we're looking for things to change, we want to get
free from the past. If we want to heal, if
we want to be better and do better and live better,
then hey, let's pick a day and celebrate. If there's
magic in New Year's Day, you, my friend, are that magic,
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your dreams, your resolve, your choices. No, the New year
will not do it for you, but if you want
it to be so, today can be the day that
you choose to build or rebuild yourself a beautiful life.
And I hope you do. And so with that, I'm
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going to wish all of you, from Tina and I
and everyone in the Sharp Plam a very very happy
New Year, and we will see you right back here
next weekend. We'll see you next year. Until then, have
a great one. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI
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