October 26, 2025 • 30 mins
A caller is concerned about how the Trump tariffs will impact the price of cabinets he wishes to purchase from Canada. Plus, his new cooktop and microwave are too large for the kitchen, so he’s wondering how best to exchange them when they were purchased on sale.
Dean suggested it’s only getting worse, since Canada ran those Ronald Reagan attack ads!
Another caller wanted to know about which type of front door is best in hot-weather conditions. Should she go with steel, aluminum, wood, fiberglass — or something else?
Dean suggested it’s only getting worse, since Canada ran those Ronald Reagan attack ads!
Another caller wanted to know about which type of front door is best in hot-weather conditions. Should she go with steel, aluminum, wood, fiberglass — or something else?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the
House Whisper on demand on the iHeartRadio app, Custom home Builder,
Custom Home Designer, and every week your guide to better
understand that place where you live. Thanks for joining us
on the program. Today we are talking about how not
to live in a haunted house. This show right before
(00:22):
Halloween this year, meaning that there are weird sounds and
behaviors that our house makes, unwanted sounds and behaviors. Sometimes
they creep us out. But I'm just using that as
a as an excuse to give you some tips and
tricks along the way. Plus, I have my very very
special in studio guest sitting across the table from me,
my own kid sister, Darcy Staniforth, who has just I
(00:45):
am so proud of her all the things she's accomplished
in her life. She is a professor at cal State
Fullerton of American Studies. She also has a passion for
paranormal stuff. She's also involved with Haunted OC. You're now
directing What what are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm now the director of tour operations.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Director of tour operations of ghost history tours throughout the OC.
Great stuff I mean just really fun, educational fun and
educational and fun.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wait is it educational and fun?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's yes, educational and fun. That's and educational and fun.
So anyway, we're having some fun talking about it. I
wanna We're gonna be going to the phones, I promise,
but I wanted to finish up at least the intro
because time goes by so fast. Of the Hiram Kellogg House,
which is where we're gonna be doing our VIP ghost
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tour with you. You're gonna lead it tomorrow, you lead
them all, but you're gonna take it. I just haunted
OC has really blessed us with setting aside a ghost
tour on Halloween week. This is how important this is.
I take it as a great honor that they have
sponsored that with us along with Brand Guard events. So
(01:58):
here it is. We're gonna give away a couple of
tickets right now, and then you're gonna tell us some
more about the Kellogg House. So are you looking for
some growing up Halloween fun? Tomorrow night, October twenty seventh, Uh,
join Tina and I for a private VIP house whisper
ghost tour of the historic Kellogg House one hundred and
twenty seven year old, custom built Victorian mansion located on
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the beautiful grounds of the Heritage Museum of Orange County.
Space is limited, but for about twenty lucky listeners. Your
evening starts with an hour long meet and greet with
me and Tea on the steps of the mansion, and
then Darcy is gonna take us in. We're gonna enter
the Kellogg House for a ninety minute tour to explore
its architecture and its history and its hauntings and ooh,
(02:45):
will we return alive? Yes we will, of course we will.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No permanent editions, please, no permanent.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's like the listen. The tour is long enough. There
are enough ghosts at the Kellogg House. We don't need
yours added to it. It's gonna be super fun. We're
just doing it for fun. The Kellogg House Ghosts Whisper
Tour is brought to us courtesy of Haunted OC, Southern
California's original and largest ghost tour company. You can go
to HAUNTEDOC dot com for more info and brought to
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you by our very own brand Guard Vents, protecting homes
from fire with the finest ember proof events made harden
your home so that it will grow old enough to
maybe become haunted itself one day. That is our goal.
Go to brand guard vents dot com. All right, two
tickets to the house Whisper VIP Ghost Tour. Give us
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a call eight three three two ask Dean A three
three the numeral to ask Dean. The very first qualified
listener who our call screener picks up will win two
tickets and we'll give some more away later. Go there
you go, go, all right, Darsy in a couple three minutes,
here tell us some more about Hiram Kellogg and the
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Kellogg House.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So Hiram we mentioned before, civil engineer. He was also
Deputy County Surveyor of La County and then finishes his
career as Deputy County Surveyor of Orange County. So not
only there's like the localness of him and where he
had you've interacted with him, even if you didn't know it,
but he builds this house, and he builds this house
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with the design eye of an engineer and an artist really,
because there is a lot of art in this home
through its design. But also see I have a ship captain, yes,
which he never was.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He never was. I think in his heart he was,
but in his vocation he was not.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But he loved he traveled on ships because he did
work in Hawaii, and.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And he always lived in California. Right his family All right,
let me see if I remember his family came originally
to California with the Donner Party. Yes or right? Yes,
obviously they survived.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They made it. His dad made it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, which makes you one? Or how did he make it?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, So anyway they came over. Hiram was not with
He hadn't been born. He got he was, he got borned,
he got born. Come here for grammar lessons. He like
up in Napa, right, he in northern California.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ish No, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Sort of up and there. So Hiram lived in California,
northern and southern his whole life. Yeah, so he lived coastal.
But he never got actually into sailing.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
He did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't I don't think that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Like again, went on ships, traveled on ships, then designed
the hot.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Lake, but designed his house around this the theme like
like it, like it was a ship, Like it was
a ship. Now it doesn't look like a ship from
the outside.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's not like a weird like Atlas Obscura. Look at
this house shape like a boat.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Why is there a giant boat sitting in this name? No, no,
it's not like that.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But you see this beautiful kind of nautically themed house
from the outside right, it very much looks like a
house you would see in Nantucket or on the coast
near a body of water.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So, for instance, as a Victorian Queen Anne, it has
a widow's walk. It does have a meaning that railing
at the very top, which traditionally widows or wives looking
for their husbands to return from sea would be up
there looking out over the ocean. Yeah, pining away.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And while Santa Anna has a harbor boulevard, we've never
had a harbor.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Missus Kellogg over looking overlooking harbor, yes, waiting for her,
waiting to return.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean, to be fair, he did get the roads
in Santa Anna paved, so he would be driving in
his car because he was the first person in Santa
Ana have a car. Really, he was, yes, Oh, the cops.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Pulled him over one day before they had a car
and they're like, sir, you're driving radically And Hirom.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Was like, how did they catch him? Were they on horse.
They were running behind me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Probably wait, Keystone cops.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But then his retort to them was like, I got
these roads paved.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It was quite a character.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He could have just gotten away. He could have he
could have sped away at fifteen miles an hour, one
horsepower engine of his All right, Uh, we're gonna talk
more about the Kellogg House and the tour that's coming
up tomorrow and the historicity of it. It's just a
great custom home. It's a great example of what a
custom home can be because his passion inserted into the
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home fit his family and his lifestyle perfect. It was
the perfect home for the Kelloggs. It was in every way.
All right. We're gonna do more of that when we
come back, though, it's time to go to the phones.
We'll take a couple of calls. Sound good, all right?
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Hey. We are doing a very special pre Halloween show here,
just having fun talking about how not to live in
a haunted house, how to unhaunt your house, and by
that I just mean all the weird noises that it makes.
We're gonna get back to tips and tricks on that.
Just a few handing out today for fun. Plus, I've
got a very special in studio guest, my own sister,
(08:17):
Darcy Staniforth, who is an American study scholar at cal
State Fullerton, and she's got a bunch of other roles
there that she performs on a regular basis. She also
is a lover of things paranormal and death history in
the United States and all of these things. She is
actually leading our ghost tour tomorrow night at the historic
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Kellogg House, our VIP ghost tour that we just gave
two tickets away to Lisa and Don South. Congratulation Lisa
and Don. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Nightmorrow night, Lisa and come and join us.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yes, Darcy will talk partially with a pirate accent.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I hear I'm figuring out which part of the tour
that's maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, I'm not gay. I'm gonna leave it up to you.
You're way better at this than me, So there you go. Anyway,
that's what we're doing today on the program. But guess what,
it's time to go to the phones, and so let's
take a couple of calls if we can. I want
to talk to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
My wife and I are looking at my cabinets from
Canada and the salesperson tells us that we won't be
charged for the tariffs. But I'm not sure she's right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I don't know either. My first guess would have been, yeah,
you're gonna get charged for those tariffs. And as of
the first and second game of the World Series, I
hear it's gone up another ten percent. No, No, that's right.
Ontario ran Ontario ran A And I'm not getting into
politics here, I'm just quoting the facts of the matter.
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Ontario ran and is committed to continue to run a
TV spot during the World Series of Ronald Reagan discussing
tariffs and what a bad idea they were.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The president's response to that was to cut off all
trade negotiations with Canada. And also I read in the news,
I believe I read accurately in the news that he
also bumped things up another ten percent. So point being
if they are crossing the border, if those cabinets are
crossing the border. Now here's the thing. There are certain
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situations you just gonna have to dig deep on this one, Richard.
There are certain situations where trade exports have already been
assessed and warehoused, okay, and so they may not have
technically crossed the border yet, but they may have already
been pre assigned and so maybe they missed the tariffs
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or when it comes to tariffs, okay, this is just
just a part of business, manufacturers. Businesses that have tariffs
imposed on their materials can always elect to eat the
cost of the tariff and hand you the price as
per pre tariff usual thirty percent. That's pretty steep. That
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means that they're actually losing money. But some businesses have
decided that it's worth losing the money on a few
sales as opposed to losing our full future customer base.
So I couldn't tell you which is situation is, but
be very very careful about ordering cabinets from candidate at
this point. Just make sure before you sign on the
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dotted line that you're not going to pay a certain
price and then get a second bill for the tariff
that's charged at you know, pre delivery.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And my second question, we bought a cook top and
a h wall oven in anticipation of remodel in the
kitchen back in May, and now we're told they're too large,
So we what.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Do you mean too? Who told you they're too large?
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
The lady that we were talking with about buying the
cabinets in Canada.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh, you mean it that the cabinets that you've ordered
can't accommodate that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I'm so sorry, just that our kitchen is only eleven
feet long and by nine feet So we have a
thirty inch oven and a thirty six inch cooke top
we bought, but the we're told we better off with
a twenty seven inch oven and a thirty inch cook top.
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No way to return them. The big box company says
they won't take them back in the manufacturer says they
won't take them back. So we're trying to find some
way to trade them in or exchange them for smaller
koktops and wall ovans.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I got you, I got you. All I could suggest
to you is you could talk to local appliance stores
in your area. Tell them that you've got these completely
legally full, re receded, brand new appliances that have not
come out of the box. Could you make a deal
with them. I'm guessing that you'll take some kind of
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a loss on them, but not have to be stuck
with them. And the other choice is that you can
sell them yourself on a place like Facebook Marketplace and
you'd be surprised what you can do there. Richard, thanks
for your call. I'm gonna comment on that when we
come back. But we got to go to a break
your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Here to help you transform your ordin house into an
extraordinary home. Thanks for joining us on the program. Today.
We're going to get back to our conversation about the
historic Kellogg House with my very special in studio guest,
my sister Darcy Stana fourth, and we're going to get
back to some tips and tricks about how to calm
down the weird haunted noises that occur in your home.
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I mean, you know, squeaks and creaks and hisses and
all the stuff that is not paranormal I hope, but
just things that can be dealt with. We're going to
get back to all of that, but right now we're
taking calls and right before I go to my next caller,
I want to address something that our previous caller right
before the break, Richard, who bought some cabinets from Canada,
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concerned about the terraffs, but also got news from the
cabinet company or the cabinet gal who's helping them with
the cabinet company, that the appliances that they bought were
too large, meaning not too large for the cabinets, but
maybe too large for the kitchen. So I just want
to underscore a couple of things. Number one, and Richard,
if you're listing, please take this to heart. Number one,
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before you commit to getting rid of the appliances that
you bought. I want you to sit down with a
real cabinet designer and lay out the kitchen. I want
to know for sure. Now I understand you got a
smaller kitchen. I get that eleven by nine kitchen. That's
not the world's smallest kitchen, by the way, but sit
down and work out the cabinet layout to make sure
(15:26):
it sounds to me. I don't know why I feel
this way, just maybe it's years of experience and this
just sounds to me like maybe the cabinet company has
committed to a certain thing and they don't really want
to change or adjust, And I don't know, the whole
situation sounds a little off to me, and so I
just wouldn't take it face value at this point that
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you have the wrong cabinet sizes. You know, the difference
between a thirty and a thirty six inch cook top,
it ain't the end of the world, okay, the difference
between a thirty inch and a twenty seven inch oven, okay,
So let's just say it outright. It's a three inch difference,
and there's a six inch different that's nine inches, okay,
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in the entire scope of the kitchen, and you being
faced with having to return appliances that they won't take
back that you've already paid for nine inches. That's the
difference make between what's been suggested and what you have.
You know what, I'm thinking, figure it out and figure
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out how to accommodate that in your existing kitchen. These
are the appliances that you wanted nine inches in the
overall scope of cabinetry for the kitchen. No, I'm just
not buying it. So anyway, I just want you to
know that, Richard, give a serious look and by the way,
as a you know, as a cautionary tale. This is
why I beg you all design matters. Most you start
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with design and you end up with making the calls
to the contractors and the cabinet makers and the applying
companies and so on. Design first, work it out and
then acquire your materials. All right, there you go, end
of high Horse. Just wanted to make sure that you
knew what was going on there. I want to talk
to maybe Debbie. Hey, Debbie, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Hi there. I have a question on doors because I
have currently I have double doors. Their wood and the
hot sun comes in on that part of the house
in the morning, and the wood doors are probably from
eighty six maybe the house was built, and they're like,
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I'm almost can see through them when the sun is
shining through. So I have to get new doors, but
the wood may not hold up. They have fiberglass. They've
got iron doors, which I don't know is the same
as steel doors. And my house, I'm in North San
Diego County and I'm kind of more rural, a little
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bit of city, but more rural. I've got a couple acres.
The house has arches all over, so when you walk in.
My door is square. I have the double door, but
above it is a transom that's arched. Every window in
the house is pretty pretty much there's a lot of arches.
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So the architecture I think is more like a I
don't know if that's a Mediterranean teskin kind of feel
to it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I was kind of Spanish something like that.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I was thinking about maybe
even doing something decorative with the like a wrought iron accent.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
But then I'm worried about the sun, and they said, well,
so it's not quite so see through that. Maybe do
a low e glass and a sand blasted but I
don't know what you would recommend. And then I'm thinking, well, fire,
Now everybody's worried about fire. Is there such a thing
as like a fire rated door?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I get, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Yeah.
So here's the thing. All exterior doors are fire rated. Okay, okay,
so so I put you to rest there. Now, some
some are, you know, like doubly fire rated, but all
exterior doors that are available for sale and legal to
install in California are in fact twenty minute to one
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hour fire rated, depending on the door. That's all you need, okay.
As a fire rated door, just like your windows, it's
fire rated. You're you know, you're you're, you're in good shape. Okay.
As far as doors, so we want to stay focused
on design here again. Design you just want to pick
the right design look and then go and acquire the
door in the material that you want it to be. Okay,
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So your your choice is there, and I'm just kinda
try and narrow them having not seen the house, but
just like a visual image of lots of arches, lots
of round top openings throughout the house. And now you're
front door. Of course, it's squared off, probably a six
foot eight standard size front door, but it has a
glass transom up above it that is a full arch transom,
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so that's where you get the rounded effect. Okay. So
you know, the least expensive way to go about replacing
your doors is to keep the transom, keep the glass,
keep the jam, and then just switch out the doors
themselves to whatever new style of doors that you want
to do there, Okay, and those could be I'm not
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gonna recommend steel doors because steel steel is a very
very limited design selection of doors. I'll just put it
that way. So we're either going to go for a
wood or wood like like a fiberglass door, and or
you're going to go with something, let's like iron and glass. Okay,
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iron and glass can be a super amazing dramatic front door.
I mean it really can if you're gonna go iron
and glass. Though, you know, maybe you want to do
iron in the whole transom thing as well. Maybe that
means pulling it all out and going iron with the
whole look, or maybe you just insert the iron doors.
But normally we don't hang iron doors on a wood jam, Okay,
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so that's more work. Plus you get a sea through door. Okay. Now,
you could sand blast it or better yet instead, by
the way, that's called laser etching these days. You could
do that, or you could put a film on one
side that gives you that frosted look, but that kind
of disrupts the whole point of having a glass door.
(21:35):
So I would rather have you, say, decide whether or
not you want to see through entry door, and if
you don't, then let's go with the you know, the
Tuscan Mediterranean slash Spanish look and go for you know,
a wood door that maintains that vibe for the house.
That's probably my guess the way you'll end up heading.
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And so now we've narrowed it down to wood and
or a wood simulate, which would be fiberglass. And if
you are facing the sun and getting a lot of
weather esed abuse, then I would say, if you can
afford it, and if it works for you, find a
really nice, rugged, beautiful wood simulated fiberglass a clad door.
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And quite often these days you can get a door
that is fiberglass on the outside cladding and wood on
the inside, so you get that full on wood stained
texture on the inside where it doesn't have to compete
with the weather. And that's shooting from the hip without
having seen a thing. That's my recommendation, Debbie.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Okay, so you're saying fiberglass on the outside where the
sun hits, and then wood on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The inside, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, okay, and then he would call that contra clad okay, clad. Well,
the contractor said that my threshold would need to be
a half inch higher, So maybe that's what you're saying
that if I did something like that, that I would
have to change out the crone.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Framework yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So again, you know, I don't know, I don't know
your contractor, I don't know your trust relationship with your contractor.
And a lot of good contractors out there also a
lot of contractors who just want to do what's easiest
for them. My recommendation, Debbie, and I got to go
here because I'm up against the break, But my recommendation
is that you get yourself, take ownership, take responsibility. It
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sounds like you are, but get yourself down to take
some measurements of what you've got, and get yourself down
to an actual local door and window company. A lot
of good door companies in northern San Diego County. Go
walk into a showroom, bypass the contractor and get direct
input from door sellers who will say, oh, no, we
(23:44):
can do this, we could do that, Oh we can
have a door made to that size. You don't have
to change out the threshold or find out from them.
Yeah that's good idea change out that you know, get
direct input, and then take that knowledge back to your
contractor and have a conversation. Never never, and I'm not
trying to teach people to distrust their contractors, but I'll
just put it this way. Your contractor is one piece
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of the puzzle, and I just want to make sure
that we're always operating from a full plate of information.
And so your education is the key, not your contractor's knowledge.
Your education is the key to having this door replacement
project work out the right way, work out best for you.
Educate yourself first, go get a non biased, unvested information
(24:32):
from directly from door and window experts, and then come
back and have that conversation with your contractor. Debbie, thank
you so much for the call. Thanks everybody for your calls. Today.
We're going to get back to our conversation with Darcy
about the Kellogg house and about how to unhaunt the
noises that are going around in your home as well.
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We'll do it right after this. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Every home deserves great design, especially yours. Why especially yours
because you know it's your home, you live there, my friend,
and I want it to I want it to be
the HQ it deserves to be for your life. And
that's why we are here every weekend and this weekend.
We're having fun. We're talking about fixing little weird sounds
(25:25):
that your house makes, how not to live in a
haunted house, because you know, Friday is elloween. Also sitting
across the table from me, my very special in studio guest,
my own sister, American Studies scholar from cal State Fullerton
and also a parent lover of all things paranormal, and
a tour guide. And I'm sorry, tour coordinator now is
(25:47):
that director of Sure director? Okay, she's She's.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Like, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I do this stuff for Haunted OC Haunted Orange County,
which is a great, great, great ghost tour company in
Orange County. All sorts of stuff, right.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So much stuff, not just the Kellogg House, but but
we have tours all throughout Orange County. We do some
special events like the Disney Mansion and Lois Fela's right
now Bowers Museum, but we also sometimes bring in other
folks related to the paranormal, like in January we had
Amy Bruney from Kindred Spirits and ghost Hunter's Fame and
(26:25):
Amy Brunei's Paranormal Circle come and join us at Bowers
Museum for an amazing talk.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So we do all kinds of spooky stuff sooner.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Fun all year long, all year long. So, by the way,
if you miss Tomorrow Night's you know, VIP ghost tour,
if you can't get in, you can take this tour.
I mean you're doing it all year yeah, if you
It's just that Tomorrow night is the best one. I mean,
isn't that true? Isn't it true? Isn't it true? Missus
stand afford that Tomorrow Nights put her on the stand here.
(26:56):
The Tomorrow Night's tour is in fact the best one.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can't handle the true truth? What when did it
turn into a few good men?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I don't know. All right. By the way, I'm going
to give away two more tickets to that tour right now.
The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Dean eight three three the numeral two Ask dean A
three three two Ask Dean. We're giving away two tickets
to a private VIP House Whisper Ghost tour of the
historic Kellogg House Tomorrow night, Monday, the twenty seventh, Yes, Monday,
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the twenty seventh of October, Tomorrow night, Halloween Week. How
good does it get? And so if you want to
be a part of that. It's going to start with
a hour long meet and greet with me and Tea
out on the steps of the mansion, and then Darcy
herself is going to take us through a ninety minute tour.
We will enter the Kellogg House and explore. So eight
three three two ask Dean start calling right now, Nikki
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R callscreen. Are the very first qualified contestant that she
picks up, will win those two tickets. Boom, there you go. Okay,
dars Yes, the Kellogg House, yes, I forget where we
left off. But indoor plumbing, oh no, let's get back
to the ships. We were talking about the fact that
this is a custom, a customer home.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It is a custom home.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's a custom Queen Anne Victorian with Neoclassical, with neoclassical elements, elements.
It's a little confused on the outside as to you know,
it's Queen Anne because it was built in eighteen ninety eight,
that's when that's the Queen Anne period of Victorian homes.
But it has a lot of neoclassical design elements in front,
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which I will be happy to point out to our tour,
you know, participants tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I'm sure you're going to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I absolutely will. But it is a custom home in
the very best sense of the word. Yeah, and there's
a lot to learn about customizing a home for this perfon.
Now it is not sitting on the property it was
designed for. No, it is not like three or four
miles down the road something like that, about five about
five and a half.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, okay, so still in Santa Anna, just not in
its original location in Santa Anna.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So it has been restored and moved or moved and
restored to the Heritage Museum, of which there are other
buildings there as well. We've got like forty seconds, could
you give us a rundown to the other buildings that
are there before we go to break.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
So we have the Kellogg House, we have the beautiful
Mag Farmhouse along with its original water tower and carriage house.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Is the Mag Farmhouse restored now?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
And walk?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, it's still because last time I was there was
still just very.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's going to cost a lot to restore the Mag And.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That place looks haunted, just like Darrel Lick haunted, but
very cool.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
We'll talk a little bit about that tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, all right, Well they're playing us out, so we'll
talk more on the other side of the break. I
just wanted to give a sense of what the whole
Heritage Museum is there for and and everything you can
experience apart from the Kellogg House as well. We will
talk about that right after this Home with Dean Sharp,
The House Whisper. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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The House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on KFI
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Custom Home Designer, and every week your guide to better
understand that place where you live. Thanks for joining us
on the program. Today we are talking about how not
to live in a haunted house. This show right before
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Halloween this year, meaning that there are weird sounds and
behaviors that our house makes, unwanted sounds and behaviors. Sometimes
they creep us out. But I'm just using that as
a as an excuse to give you some tips and
tricks along the way. Plus, I have my very very
special in studio guest sitting across the table from me,
my own kid sister, Darcy Staniforth, who has just I
(00:45):
am so proud of her all the things she's accomplished
in her life. She is a professor at cal State
Fullerton of American Studies. She also has a passion for
paranormal stuff. She's also involved with Haunted OC. You're now
directing What what are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm now the director of tour operations.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Director of tour operations of ghost history tours throughout the OC.
Great stuff I mean just really fun, educational fun and
educational and fun.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wait is it educational and fun?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's yes, educational and fun. That's and educational and fun.
So anyway, we're having some fun talking about it. I
wanna We're gonna be going to the phones, I promise,
but I wanted to finish up at least the intro
because time goes by so fast. Of the Hiram Kellogg House,
which is where we're gonna be doing our VIP ghost
(01:37):
tour with you. You're gonna lead it tomorrow, you lead
them all, but you're gonna take it. I just haunted
OC has really blessed us with setting aside a ghost
tour on Halloween week. This is how important this is.
I take it as a great honor that they have
sponsored that with us along with Brand Guard events. So
(01:58):
here it is. We're gonna give away a couple of
tickets right now, and then you're gonna tell us some
more about the Kellogg House. So are you looking for
some growing up Halloween fun? Tomorrow night, October twenty seventh, Uh,
join Tina and I for a private VIP house whisper
ghost tour of the historic Kellogg House one hundred and
twenty seven year old, custom built Victorian mansion located on
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the beautiful grounds of the Heritage Museum of Orange County.
Space is limited, but for about twenty lucky listeners. Your
evening starts with an hour long meet and greet with
me and Tea on the steps of the mansion, and
then Darcy is gonna take us in. We're gonna enter
the Kellogg House for a ninety minute tour to explore
its architecture and its history and its hauntings and ooh,
(02:45):
will we return alive? Yes we will, of course we will.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No permanent editions, please, no permanent.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's like the listen. The tour is long enough. There
are enough ghosts at the Kellogg House. We don't need
yours added to it. It's gonna be super fun. We're
just doing it for fun. The Kellogg House Ghosts Whisper
Tour is brought to us courtesy of Haunted OC, Southern
California's original and largest ghost tour company. You can go
to HAUNTEDOC dot com for more info and brought to
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you by our very own brand Guard Vents, protecting homes
from fire with the finest ember proof events made harden
your home so that it will grow old enough to
maybe become haunted itself one day. That is our goal.
Go to brand guard vents dot com. All right, two
tickets to the house Whisper VIP Ghost Tour. Give us
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a call eight three three two ask Dean A three
three the numeral to ask Dean. The very first qualified
listener who our call screener picks up will win two
tickets and we'll give some more away later. Go there
you go, go, all right, Darsy in a couple three minutes,
here tell us some more about Hiram Kellogg and the
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Kellogg House.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So Hiram we mentioned before, civil engineer. He was also
Deputy County Surveyor of La County and then finishes his
career as Deputy County Surveyor of Orange County. So not
only there's like the localness of him and where he
had you've interacted with him, even if you didn't know it,
but he builds this house, and he builds this house
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with the design eye of an engineer and an artist really,
because there is a lot of art in this home
through its design. But also see I have a ship captain, yes,
which he never was.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
He never was. I think in his heart he was,
but in his vocation he was not.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But he loved he traveled on ships because he did
work in Hawaii, and.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And he always lived in California. Right his family All right,
let me see if I remember his family came originally
to California with the Donner Party. Yes or right? Yes,
obviously they survived.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They made it. His dad made it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, which makes you one? Or how did he make it?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, So anyway they came over. Hiram was not with
He hadn't been born. He got he was, he got borned,
he got born. Come here for grammar lessons. He like
up in Napa, right, he in northern California.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ish No, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Sort of up and there. So Hiram lived in California,
northern and southern his whole life. Yeah, so he lived coastal.
But he never got actually into sailing.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
He did.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't I don't think that.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Like again, went on ships, traveled on ships, then designed
the hot.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Lake, but designed his house around this the theme like
like it, like it was a ship, Like it was
a ship. Now it doesn't look like a ship from
the outside.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's not like a weird like Atlas Obscura. Look at
this house shape like a boat.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Why is there a giant boat sitting in this name? No, no,
it's not like that.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But you see this beautiful kind of nautically themed house
from the outside right, it very much looks like a
house you would see in Nantucket or on the coast
near a body of water.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So, for instance, as a Victorian Queen Anne, it has
a widow's walk. It does have a meaning that railing
at the very top, which traditionally widows or wives looking
for their husbands to return from sea would be up
there looking out over the ocean. Yeah, pining away.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And while Santa Anna has a harbor boulevard, we've never
had a harbor.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Missus Kellogg over looking overlooking harbor, yes, waiting for her,
waiting to return.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I mean, to be fair, he did get the roads
in Santa Anna paved, so he would be driving in
his car because he was the first person in Santa
Ana have a car. Really, he was, yes, Oh, the cops.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Pulled him over one day before they had a car
and they're like, sir, you're driving radically And Hirom.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Was like, how did they catch him? Were they on horse.
They were running behind me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Probably wait, Keystone cops.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But then his retort to them was like, I got
these roads paved.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It was quite a character.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He could have just gotten away. He could have he
could have sped away at fifteen miles an hour, one
horsepower engine of his All right, Uh, we're gonna talk
more about the Kellogg House and the tour that's coming
up tomorrow and the historicity of it. It's just a
great custom home. It's a great example of what a
custom home can be because his passion inserted into the
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home fit his family and his lifestyle perfect. It was
the perfect home for the Kelloggs. It was in every way.
All right. We're gonna do more of that when we
come back, though, it's time to go to the phones.
We'll take a couple of calls. Sound good, all right?
Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Hey. We are doing a very special pre Halloween show here,
just having fun talking about how not to live in
a haunted house, how to unhaunt your house, and by
that I just mean all the weird noises that it makes.
We're gonna get back to tips and tricks on that.
Just a few handing out today for fun. Plus, I've
got a very special in studio guest, my own sister,
(08:17):
Darcy Staniforth, who is an American study scholar at cal
State Fullerton, and she's got a bunch of other roles
there that she performs on a regular basis. She also
is a lover of things paranormal and death history in
the United States and all of these things. She is
actually leading our ghost tour tomorrow night at the historic
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Kellogg House, our VIP ghost tour that we just gave
two tickets away to Lisa and Don South. Congratulation Lisa
and Don. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Nightmorrow night, Lisa and come and join us.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yes, Darcy will talk partially with a pirate accent.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I hear I'm figuring out which part of the tour
that's maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, I'm not gay. I'm gonna leave it up to you.
You're way better at this than me, So there you go. Anyway,
that's what we're doing today on the program. But guess what,
it's time to go to the phones, and so let's
take a couple of calls if we can. I want
to talk to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
My wife and I are looking at my cabinets from
Canada and the salesperson tells us that we won't be
charged for the tariffs. But I'm not sure she's right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I don't know either. My first guess would have been, yeah,
you're gonna get charged for those tariffs. And as of
the first and second game of the World Series, I
hear it's gone up another ten percent. No, No, that's right.
Ontario ran Ontario ran A And I'm not getting into
politics here, I'm just quoting the facts of the matter.
(09:59):
Ontario ran and is committed to continue to run a
TV spot during the World Series of Ronald Reagan discussing
tariffs and what a bad idea they were.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
And so.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The president's response to that was to cut off all
trade negotiations with Canada. And also I read in the news,
I believe I read accurately in the news that he
also bumped things up another ten percent. So point being
if they are crossing the border, if those cabinets are
crossing the border. Now here's the thing. There are certain
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situations you just gonna have to dig deep on this one, Richard.
There are certain situations where trade exports have already been
assessed and warehoused, okay, and so they may not have
technically crossed the border yet, but they may have already
been pre assigned and so maybe they missed the tariffs
(10:58):
or when it comes to tariffs, okay, this is just
just a part of business, manufacturers. Businesses that have tariffs
imposed on their materials can always elect to eat the
cost of the tariff and hand you the price as
per pre tariff usual thirty percent. That's pretty steep. That
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means that they're actually losing money. But some businesses have
decided that it's worth losing the money on a few
sales as opposed to losing our full future customer base.
So I couldn't tell you which is situation is, but
be very very careful about ordering cabinets from candidate at
this point. Just make sure before you sign on the
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dotted line that you're not going to pay a certain
price and then get a second bill for the tariff
that's charged at you know, pre delivery.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And my second question, we bought a cook top and
a h wall oven in anticipation of remodel in the
kitchen back in May, and now we're told they're too large,
So we what.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Do you mean too? Who told you they're too large?
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
The lady that we were talking with about buying the
cabinets in Canada.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh, you mean it that the cabinets that you've ordered
can't accommodate that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
I'm so sorry, just that our kitchen is only eleven
feet long and by nine feet So we have a
thirty inch oven and a thirty six inch cooke top
we bought, but the we're told we better off with
a twenty seven inch oven and a thirty inch cook top.
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No way to return them. The big box company says
they won't take them back in the manufacturer says they
won't take them back. So we're trying to find some
way to trade them in or exchange them for smaller
koktops and wall ovans.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I got you, I got you. All I could suggest
to you is you could talk to local appliance stores
in your area. Tell them that you've got these completely
legally full, re receded, brand new appliances that have not
come out of the box. Could you make a deal
with them. I'm guessing that you'll take some kind of
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a loss on them, but not have to be stuck
with them. And the other choice is that you can
sell them yourself on a place like Facebook Marketplace and
you'd be surprised what you can do there. Richard, thanks
for your call. I'm gonna comment on that when we
come back. But we got to go to a break
your Home with Dean Sharp, the house whisper.
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Speaker 1 (13:58):
Here to help you transform your ordin house into an
extraordinary home. Thanks for joining us on the program. Today.
We're going to get back to our conversation about the
historic Kellogg House with my very special in studio guest,
my sister Darcy Stana fourth, and we're going to get
back to some tips and tricks about how to calm
down the weird haunted noises that occur in your home.
(14:20):
I mean, you know, squeaks and creaks and hisses and
all the stuff that is not paranormal I hope, but
just things that can be dealt with. We're going to
get back to all of that, but right now we're
taking calls and right before I go to my next caller,
I want to address something that our previous caller right
before the break, Richard, who bought some cabinets from Canada,
(14:41):
concerned about the terraffs, but also got news from the
cabinet company or the cabinet gal who's helping them with
the cabinet company, that the appliances that they bought were
too large, meaning not too large for the cabinets, but
maybe too large for the kitchen. So I just want
to underscore a couple of things. Number one, and Richard,
if you're listing, please take this to heart. Number one,
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before you commit to getting rid of the appliances that
you bought. I want you to sit down with a
real cabinet designer and lay out the kitchen. I want
to know for sure. Now I understand you got a
smaller kitchen. I get that eleven by nine kitchen. That's
not the world's smallest kitchen, by the way, but sit
down and work out the cabinet layout to make sure
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it sounds to me. I don't know why I feel
this way, just maybe it's years of experience and this
just sounds to me like maybe the cabinet company has
committed to a certain thing and they don't really want
to change or adjust, And I don't know, the whole
situation sounds a little off to me, and so I
just wouldn't take it face value at this point that
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you have the wrong cabinet sizes. You know, the difference
between a thirty and a thirty six inch cook top,
it ain't the end of the world, okay, the difference
between a thirty inch and a twenty seven inch oven, okay,
So let's just say it outright. It's a three inch difference,
and there's a six inch different that's nine inches, okay,
(16:08):
in the entire scope of the kitchen, and you being
faced with having to return appliances that they won't take
back that you've already paid for nine inches. That's the
difference make between what's been suggested and what you have.
You know what, I'm thinking, figure it out and figure
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out how to accommodate that in your existing kitchen. These
are the appliances that you wanted nine inches in the
overall scope of cabinetry for the kitchen. No, I'm just
not buying it. So anyway, I just want you to
know that, Richard, give a serious look and by the way,
as a you know, as a cautionary tale. This is
why I beg you all design matters. Most you start
(16:54):
with design and you end up with making the calls
to the contractors and the cabinet makers and the applying
companies and so on. Design first, work it out and
then acquire your materials. All right, there you go, end
of high Horse. Just wanted to make sure that you
knew what was going on there. I want to talk
to maybe Debbie. Hey, Debbie, welcome home.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Hi there. I have a question on doors because I
have currently I have double doors. Their wood and the
hot sun comes in on that part of the house
in the morning, and the wood doors are probably from
eighty six maybe the house was built, and they're like,
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I'm almost can see through them when the sun is
shining through. So I have to get new doors, but
the wood may not hold up. They have fiberglass. They've
got iron doors, which I don't know is the same
as steel doors. And my house, I'm in North San
Diego County and I'm kind of more rural, a little
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bit of city, but more rural. I've got a couple acres.
The house has arches all over, so when you walk in.
My door is square. I have the double door, but
above it is a transom that's arched. Every window in
the house is pretty pretty much there's a lot of arches.
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So the architecture I think is more like a I
don't know if that's a Mediterranean teskin kind of feel
to it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I was kind of Spanish something like that.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I was thinking about maybe
even doing something decorative with the like a wrought iron accent.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
But then I'm worried about the sun, and they said, well,
so it's not quite so see through that. Maybe do
a low e glass and a sand blasted but I
don't know what you would recommend. And then I'm thinking, well, fire,
Now everybody's worried about fire. Is there such a thing
as like a fire rated door?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I get, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Yeah.
So here's the thing. All exterior doors are fire rated. Okay, okay,
so so I put you to rest there. Now, some
some are, you know, like doubly fire rated, but all
exterior doors that are available for sale and legal to
install in California are in fact twenty minute to one
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hour fire rated, depending on the door. That's all you need, okay.
As a fire rated door, just like your windows, it's
fire rated. You're you know, you're you're, you're in good shape. Okay.
As far as doors, so we want to stay focused
on design here again. Design you just want to pick
the right design look and then go and acquire the
door in the material that you want it to be. Okay,
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So your your choice is there, and I'm just kinda
try and narrow them having not seen the house, but
just like a visual image of lots of arches, lots
of round top openings throughout the house. And now you're
front door. Of course, it's squared off, probably a six
foot eight standard size front door, but it has a
glass transom up above it that is a full arch transom,
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so that's where you get the rounded effect. Okay. So
you know, the least expensive way to go about replacing
your doors is to keep the transom, keep the glass,
keep the jam, and then just switch out the doors
themselves to whatever new style of doors that you want
to do there, Okay, and those could be I'm not
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gonna recommend steel doors because steel steel is a very
very limited design selection of doors. I'll just put it
that way. So we're either going to go for a
wood or wood like like a fiberglass door, and or
you're going to go with something, let's like iron and glass. Okay,
(20:52):
iron and glass can be a super amazing dramatic front door.
I mean it really can if you're gonna go iron
and glass. Though, you know, maybe you want to do
iron in the whole transom thing as well. Maybe that
means pulling it all out and going iron with the
whole look, or maybe you just insert the iron doors.
But normally we don't hang iron doors on a wood jam, Okay,
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so that's more work. Plus you get a sea through door. Okay. Now,
you could sand blast it or better yet instead, by
the way, that's called laser etching these days. You could
do that, or you could put a film on one
side that gives you that frosted look, but that kind
of disrupts the whole point of having a glass door.
(21:35):
So I would rather have you, say, decide whether or
not you want to see through entry door, and if
you don't, then let's go with the you know, the
Tuscan Mediterranean slash Spanish look and go for you know,
a wood door that maintains that vibe for the house.
That's probably my guess the way you'll end up heading.
(21:57):
And so now we've narrowed it down to wood and
or a wood simulate, which would be fiberglass. And if
you are facing the sun and getting a lot of
weather esed abuse, then I would say, if you can
afford it, and if it works for you, find a
really nice, rugged, beautiful wood simulated fiberglass a clad door.
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And quite often these days you can get a door
that is fiberglass on the outside cladding and wood on
the inside, so you get that full on wood stained
texture on the inside where it doesn't have to compete
with the weather. And that's shooting from the hip without
having seen a thing. That's my recommendation, Debbie.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Okay, so you're saying fiberglass on the outside where the
sun hits, and then wood on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The inside, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, okay, and then he would call that contra clad okay, clad. Well,
the contractor said that my threshold would need to be
a half inch higher, So maybe that's what you're saying
that if I did something like that, that I would
have to change out the crone.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Framework yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So again, you know, I don't know, I don't know
your contractor, I don't know your trust relationship with your contractor.
And a lot of good contractors out there also a
lot of contractors who just want to do what's easiest
for them. My recommendation, Debbie, and I got to go
here because I'm up against the break, But my recommendation
is that you get yourself, take ownership, take responsibility. It
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sounds like you are, but get yourself down to take
some measurements of what you've got, and get yourself down
to an actual local door and window company. A lot
of good door companies in northern San Diego County. Go
walk into a showroom, bypass the contractor and get direct
input from door sellers who will say, oh, no, we
(23:44):
can do this, we could do that, Oh we can
have a door made to that size. You don't have
to change out the threshold or find out from them.
Yeah that's good idea change out that you know, get
direct input, and then take that knowledge back to your
contractor and have a conversation. Never never, and I'm not
trying to teach people to distrust their contractors, but I'll
just put it this way. Your contractor is one piece
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of the puzzle, and I just want to make sure
that we're always operating from a full plate of information.
And so your education is the key, not your contractor's knowledge.
Your education is the key to having this door replacement
project work out the right way, work out best for you.
Educate yourself first, go get a non biased, unvested information
(24:32):
from directly from door and window experts, and then come
back and have that conversation with your contractor. Debbie, thank
you so much for the call. Thanks everybody for your calls. Today.
We're going to get back to our conversation with Darcy
about the Kellogg house and about how to unhaunt the
noises that are going around in your home as well.
(24:53):
We'll do it right after this. You're listening to Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
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Speaker 1 (25:03):
Every home deserves great design, especially yours. Why especially yours
because you know it's your home, you live there, my friend,
and I want it to I want it to be
the HQ it deserves to be for your life. And
that's why we are here every weekend and this weekend.
We're having fun. We're talking about fixing little weird sounds
(25:25):
that your house makes, how not to live in a
haunted house, because you know, Friday is elloween. Also sitting
across the table from me, my very special in studio guest,
my own sister, American Studies scholar from cal State Fullerton
and also a parent lover of all things paranormal, and
a tour guide. And I'm sorry, tour coordinator now is
(25:47):
that director of Sure director? Okay, she's She's.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Like, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I do this stuff for Haunted OC Haunted Orange County,
which is a great, great, great ghost tour company in
Orange County. All sorts of stuff, right.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So much stuff, not just the Kellogg House, but but
we have tours all throughout Orange County. We do some
special events like the Disney Mansion and Lois Fela's right
now Bowers Museum, but we also sometimes bring in other
folks related to the paranormal, like in January we had
Amy Bruney from Kindred Spirits and ghost Hunter's Fame and
(26:25):
Amy Brunei's Paranormal Circle come and join us at Bowers
Museum for an amazing talk.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So we do all kinds of spooky stuff sooner.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Fun all year long, all year long. So, by the way,
if you miss Tomorrow Night's you know, VIP ghost tour,
if you can't get in, you can take this tour.
I mean you're doing it all year yeah, if you
It's just that Tomorrow night is the best one. I mean,
isn't that true? Isn't it true? Isn't it true? Missus
stand afford that Tomorrow Nights put her on the stand here.
(26:56):
The Tomorrow Night's tour is in fact the best one.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can't handle the true truth? What when did it
turn into a few good men?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I don't know. All right. By the way, I'm going
to give away two more tickets to that tour right now.
The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Dean eight three three the numeral two Ask dean A
three three two Ask Dean. We're giving away two tickets
to a private VIP House Whisper Ghost tour of the
historic Kellogg House Tomorrow night, Monday, the twenty seventh, Yes, Monday,
(27:28):
the twenty seventh of October, Tomorrow night, Halloween Week. How
good does it get? And so if you want to
be a part of that. It's going to start with
a hour long meet and greet with me and Tea
out on the steps of the mansion, and then Darcy
herself is going to take us through a ninety minute tour.
We will enter the Kellogg House and explore. So eight
three three two ask Dean start calling right now, Nikki
(27:52):
R callscreen. Are the very first qualified contestant that she
picks up, will win those two tickets. Boom, there you go. Okay,
dars Yes, the Kellogg House, yes, I forget where we
left off. But indoor plumbing, oh no, let's get back
to the ships. We were talking about the fact that
this is a custom, a customer home.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It is a custom home.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's a custom Queen Anne Victorian with Neoclassical, with neoclassical elements, elements.
It's a little confused on the outside as to you know,
it's Queen Anne because it was built in eighteen ninety eight,
that's when that's the Queen Anne period of Victorian homes.
But it has a lot of neoclassical design elements in front,
(28:38):
which I will be happy to point out to our tour,
you know, participants tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I'm sure you're going to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I absolutely will. But it is a custom home in
the very best sense of the word. Yeah, and there's
a lot to learn about customizing a home for this perfon.
Now it is not sitting on the property it was
designed for. No, it is not like three or four
miles down the road something like that, about five about
five and a half.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, okay, so still in Santa Anna, just not in
its original location in Santa Anna.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So it has been restored and moved or moved and
restored to the Heritage Museum, of which there are other
buildings there as well. We've got like forty seconds, could
you give us a rundown to the other buildings that
are there before we go to break.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
So we have the Kellogg House, we have the beautiful
Mag Farmhouse along with its original water tower and carriage house.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Is the Mag Farmhouse restored now?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
And walk?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, it's still because last time I was there was
still just very.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
It's going to cost a lot to restore the Mag And.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That place looks haunted, just like Darrel Lick haunted, but
very cool.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
We'll talk a little bit about that tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, all right, Well they're playing us out, so we'll
talk more on the other side of the break. I
just wanted to give a sense of what the whole
Heritage Museum is there for and and everything you can
experience apart from the Kellogg House as well. We will
talk about that right after this Home with Dean Sharp,
The House Whisper. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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