November 23, 2025 • 29 mins
Dean reveals his famous 80-20 rule for holiday decorating: 80% of the wow comes from just 20% of the zhoosh – learn exactly where to spend your time and money for maximum impact. Then it’s a mindset shift: Stop decorating only the front of the house for the neighbors and start turning the back of your home (the part YOU see every day) into your personal winter wonderland. Dean and Brian debate garlands vs. wreaths, real vs. artificial, and how to make the holidays feel more about YOU and your family than impressing the guests.
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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 iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is our live holiday home show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Here, so glad that you can join us, So thrilled
to have you aboard. And here we are at started
the second hour of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sitting next to me, Amy King, All these eyes just
went open. We're gonna turn your mic on.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Good morning, Amy, Thanks for coming by, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I love this show. I love this show. And can
I just say this tree is spectacular, isn't it great?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I love that she's decorating it during the show, I know,
right inspiring me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And then at the end of the show we're giving
it away to somebody sitting in this who not you though,
Sorry you guys know I'm on with Amy every Friday
morning on Wake Call. Amy does Wake Up Call from
five to six every single morning, Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
An ungodly hour.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But if you have to be up, we hope you'll
join us because we have a lot of fun and
get you all the information, let you know what happened
while you were sleeping.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's a fantastic show.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So many people now just listen to Amy, and then
after Amy's done, they're.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, yeah, that's moving.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, right, right, you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Know that's true. You know it's true.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now I'm just a lead in for the big guy.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Anyway, We've had a great time over the years. We're
both huge fans of Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yes we are, and we you know what, last year
we were supposed to go to Disneyland at the Holidays
together and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Are we going to go this year?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah? We should?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, we should.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, last year, you know what, we had a little
unexpected hiccup in our lives.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Tina ended up having.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Us that's right, a surgery, that's right, and so we
were kind of grounded for the holidays last year.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay, Well, she's better now.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
She is better.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
She's around here somewhere doing push ups or something. She
is more than better. She's like beat me up up
quality of recovery now.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Which is how she was before.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's her normal state. That's why she's the boss. I
just do what I'm told. I do what I'm told.
I asked Amy to be on the show because she
has meant so much to me over the years. Here
and it's always great to have her on and to
talk about stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you love the holidays as well.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yeah, Christmas is that's my jam.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah. Have you started decorating it?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I haven't. I have a confession.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I just finally got all of Halloween down yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh that's right. You told me that on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You're like, I still have Halloween, and you said you've
got Thanksgiving stuff up yep, yep. So for you, and
now this is different for everybody. For you, what is
Thanksgiving decor other than because I just imagine for most
people it's like, you know, well, maybe it's a wreath
made out of some leaves.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yep, it's wreathed.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And this year I got some really cool twink twinkly
lights that are like oranges and browns that are out
on my little front walkway and lots.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of pumpkins that of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I mean, it's a very orange themed, okay, which is
also my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But now you're ready to transition.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I am ready, I am ready ready.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
To start, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So now we got to talk about this thing that
I talked about last year. I've actually talked about it
two years ago. But we talked about last year you
went out and got one.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I did the ho ho ho h two oh.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow. You remember it so well.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's because it is life changing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you guys remember me saying anything.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, So this is actually the name of it, the
ho ho ho h two oh. It is for those
of you who do a natural tree every year, right,
and you know, you know the biggest thing about having
a natural tree is keeping it watered. And you know
the biggest thing about keeping it watered is getting the
water into the bowl.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Right, And there's all on your hands and knees and
sticking your face in the branches every day.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There's all sorts of devices you can do, elongated funnels
that come out one side of the tree that you
can just walk up with a picture and that's that
out helps you know, I had for years on my tree,
and it was it helped because you don't have to
dig through the presence to get to the bowl because
the funnel helps it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But still you got to remember to do it, and
you're never.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Quite sure how full the bowl is, and so you
still kind of got to get into there and check it.
But long comes this serious piece of decortech and you
guys can check this out on You can check it
out on Amazon right now. But don't stop listening to
the show. Just check it out, wait till noon. But yeah,
it's called the Ho Ho ho H two to oh,
(04:32):
and it is an automatic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Tree filler reservoir. It holds three galt, I want.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
To say it holds three. Is about this big, it's
about eighteen by twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It holds several bowls worth of water. Several of the
tree stand bowls worth of water in it. And it
has a sensors as a line, a tube, a feed tube,
and a sensor that goes into the bowl that you
strap onto the side of the bowl. So a little
electronic sensor that knows when the water when it's not
(05:04):
getting connectivity with the water, it knows to fill the
bowl and then it knows when the bowl is full.
And it shuts off and it's completely silent. And the
best thing is this big old thing sitting next to
your chree. You're like, I don't want to ruin the
aesthetic of Christmas, Dean, Well, you don't have to, because
it's disguised as a Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I just tuck it behind the tree and then it
just looks like one of the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Presents, So it looks like a Christmas present sitting under
the tree. And the version I have has like Santa
and his reindeer motif on the box.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's the one I have. I think there's a there's
a red and white one too.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, And on top there's a Rudolph on top, and
Rudolph's nose actually has a little led light.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And all you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Have to do is as you walk by the tree,
look down, and if Rudolph's nose is lit up, it
means it's time to refill the reservoir of the actual
unit itself, if not the tree bowl, which I feel
like we did maybe twice the entire season.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It lasts for a while.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And I will tell you that I was nervous because
I have like one of the coolest tree stands. I
would love to show it to you, but it has
a very small reservoir. So it was literally watering it
twice a day with like just a small container because
it didn't hold much.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And so I put it in and I sat there
and I just watched it.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're like this is and.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I was like, well, this isn't very exciting. But then
you do hear just a little bit of sound, you
hear a little.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And so I went over and ran.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Over to check it because I thought that reservoir so small,
if it overflows, we're going to have an issue.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And then I just hear it kind of go off
every once in a while, and I just sit there
and go, ah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Have to go water in the tree. And it did.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It lasted for I don't remember the exact timeframe it
whether it was a week or two weeks, but it
was quite a while. And it's just like one other
thing that you don't have to do at Christmas and
you just enjoy your tree and I love it. It
was it was like, is it ninety Yeah, the best
ninety ever spend.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, it really is fantastic and it works so absolutely works.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I can't wait to put my tree up and go
stare at my package.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Not only does it help in terms of just not
bothering with it, but you know, it's that first time
you forget to water the.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Tree and then the trees does.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
At the tree seals off at the bottom, and now
you know you're basically shortened its life.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
During the holiday season, all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, we're going to talk about this more more on
holiday decor, more with Amy King, more with Brian Gold.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
When we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
We're broadcasting live from the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles. It is the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
We've got a live studio audience with us asking me
all sorts of questions. We're going to try and maybe
get a couple of those questions on the air before
we're done.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We've got a lot to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I've got our sponsor who is very very greataciously taking
care of this entire event for us, Aldacombe.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Brian Gold from Al Dick is with us today. That's right,
give him a hand and just walking in.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Our very special guest, Amy King is with us this
morning as well.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
All right, so you and I we're going.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
To get some lessons in tree design theory from Brian
in a second. But I want, but I want to
ask you huh. So we talked about this last year,
but I love asking you this question. Where'd you grow
up and what was Christmas like in your childhood?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What's your fondest memory.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of fondest, fondest memory or like single fondest.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh, okay, Well, so Christmas was always a big thing.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We have a small family, but the core family group
always got together and we still do. And I grew
up in the Berry in Walnut Creek and then also
up in Oregon, and so we still go up to
Oregon every year and celebrate.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And my mom, like I don't have.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
The space to do what she does. She puts up
like seven trees. She she doesn't even undecorate them anymore.
She goes, I just put them in a bag and
put them in the basement for the year.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So she really does it up.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And she's a huge fan and has passed this along
to me. Of like Nativity sets, She's got like two
hundred of them, two hundred. We stopped count We used
to count every year, but we stop counting. But it's
all just the whole house. Just you walk in and
it is just Christmas. It's probably like walking into Alto Coombs, right,
I mean, like it's just over the top, but it
(09:34):
doesn't look like you know how sometimes you go into
a house and you go, somebody just threw up Christmas
on this house.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's not like that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's seen that, it's not like that, and it's but
it's just it's a special time to get together with
family and have a good time. And yeah, we just
I love it and I love the feeling of Christmas.
I love people who do generous things at Christmas that
they maybe should do all year long.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But you know, if you only do it once a year,
do it at Christmas time.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, what does Christmas look around your place? What part
of that do you emulate and hang on to?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, I have too much in too small of a space.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But Christmas, like the decorations and all that stuff, almost
everything really means something.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Like my tree, I don't have a lot of just.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The balls on them, which are spectacular, and I do
have some, but I like pick up different ornaments when
I go places or do things, or if it has
something to do with a friend, or when I've traveled,
like I got a little nativity, a little merry and
baby in Jerusalem and it's made out of the olive wood,
and so things like that. And then we got to
(10:39):
go to Africa and so I got a little lion
and a little zebra and that kind of stuff. But like,
so all the ornaments pretty much mean something to me,
so like a.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Personal nostalgia, personal memory of everything.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, So the tree becomes a scaffolding for just like
looking back at some of the best parts of life. Absolutely, Absolutely,
that's that is a ritual worth engaging in every year.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And then there's other stuff, you know, the more traditional
things to kind of round it out. But like I
just I love that I can look at my tree
and go, oh, that reminds me of this, and that
reminds me of that, and that reminds me of this,
and I think that that's you know, part of Christmas
is looking back and remembering what Christmas is about, but
you know, and enjoying being where you are and enjoying
your family and enjoying your friends.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, So I'm going to build off of that, Okay,
and I'm going to throw it over to Brian here. So,
so what Amy just described, I think every you know,
most everybody can resonate with, right, I mean, you know,
so meaningful things hanging on the tree, just decorating the house,
and yet you know, we all look at stuff this
time of year in department store windows and online. And
(11:48):
I was going to say magazines, but you know, it's
like twenty twenty five, so I don't even know if
magazines exist anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They have special editions and they're all really expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, so yeah, they're like coffee table books now.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But the idea is like, okay, so also you look
at some you know, really sexy JUGI tree, like what
Rosie is creating right in front of us right now, and.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I love what she's putting on right now right and
it's very blinky.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And so can you have both? I mean, that's the
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Do I have to choose between like like uber design,
really sophisticated, the kind of jaw dropping trees that we
see at Al Dick, Or.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Do I have to choose between that and you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Know, my nostalgic stuff, which is kind of a hodgepodge
of all sorts of different things.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
How can you do both at once? I think you
can do both.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
You can have a kind of a palette of kind
of what Rosy's working on right now, and then work
in some of those ornaments that mean a lot to you.
I just set up my tree yesterday with my with
my fan family, and it's it's the best day of
the year to watch your kids pick out the ornaments
that they picked out, and they pick out like a
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special one from the story every year, and just watch
them kind of fall in love with Christmas again and
remember this, remember when I made this, and things like that,
and I think you can you can build off of
it with design as well.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So it was kind of that was a slow pitch
over the plate for you because I wanted to set
up that idea and that is we don't really have
to choose. You can imagine even with what Rosie is
working on right now, interspacing now in between.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's what we call the eighty twenty rule.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And we'll talk about that when we come back, The
eighty twenty rule. In Design and Decor Your Home with
Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We are live from the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is the.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
House Whisper Holiday home show sitting in here. This is
like an check this out Amy Amy King, by the way,
with me in studio a special guest here for as
long as she can hang around with us. You know,
Amy and I have been doing events here for well,
I've been here for nine years now and this is
(14:16):
the first year that this place has looked like this.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, the Helpful Honda Lounge has been redesigned and.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It is so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
It's like because it used to be you know, rows
of chairs and stuff, and now it's like it's like
a home.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's like they read it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Just it is a home.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's like it's like a really cool you know, like
jazz cafe. Somebody, We're going to get you us instead
of bongo drums and you can do some beat poetry here.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, everybody wants to hear that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, everyone wants to hear that, all right. So and
Brian Gold from Aldacombe with us also decorating this gorgeous
tree that we're going to give away before the end
of the show. So we were talking about this area.
Amy told us about her childhood growing up and how
(15:05):
she likes to decorate her tree full of you know,
memory laden ornaments, special things and as you collect those
kinds of ornaments over time, you know, I don't know
if you call it a problem. One of the facets
of collecting those kind of ornaments very very rarely do
they all follow the same theme, right, They're a hodgepodge,
(15:27):
is kind of a patchwork quilt of certain you know things,
but they're important and so right before the break, I asked, Brian,
all right, so you got on one side, I think
most people can resonate with the idea of the you know,
collected ornaments that mean a lot to the family. And
on the other side, you've got these you know, departments
store the just beautiful artistics spread on uber design trees,
(15:52):
and sometimes people are like, well, I mean, I love
my memorabilia stuff, but it'd be really nice.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
To have a JUGI tree.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
One year and I asked you the question, Brian, whether
you could do both, and you alluded to the fact that, yeah,
you can use you can pick a theme that becomes
kind of the background or the backdrop the palette for
it all, and then intersperse those things. And I have
found over the years, actually that's not only a interesting
(16:21):
suggestion to make it doable, but I actually find and
trying to imagine whether you would think this is true,
amy that it actually accents those pieces that much more. Okay,
it's in design and decor what we call the eighty
twenty rule, all right, And it's not just how you
decorate a Christmas tree or how you can decorate a
Christmas tree, but it's also how you can decorate your home,
(16:44):
any given room in your home, and that is that
you pick a primary theme, primary set of colors and textures,
and eighty percent of what's going on that room follows
that theme, and you work it out, and you work
it out so all of that theme is developing, and
then into that eighty percent we drop twenty percent of unique,
(17:09):
of something different. Now it could be if it's not
a memory laden room or tree. It could simply be
after we've done the eighty percent in one color theme complementary,
that we drop in something all together different and that
really pops. Or it can be all of that unique
family mementos, family photos and all of that kind of stuff.
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So think of it in terms of not only a
Christmas tree, but also a room as a whole. Right,
think of it in terms of even eighty twenty even
applies to fashion design. I mean, it is a it
just kind of and it's not a law. But it's
a rule that is a strong suggestion because it works.
It can be in terms of fashion design where you've
(17:53):
set up an outfit, and I never allow Tina to
use that term with my clothes, right because she's off,
like I really like your outfit. I'm like, I wear clothes.
I don't wear outfits. Okay, you wear outfits and I
wear clothing, but just she's not in here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So basically my outfit.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The idea of setting up like eighty percent following a
certain theme and then boom, you pop in something.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's what I was going to say. It's a Papa color,
all right.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, just like if you have your sofa, you have
a very neutral, beautiful sofa and then put some cool
pillows on it, that's a popa color exactly exactly the
same thing with the tree, Like this tree is sort
of an icy winter theme, which makes a fabulous backdrop
then because it's lots of silvers and some blues. And
then say you put the American flag you got at
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the White House, the little ornament on there, or you
put your Cheshure cat which is a pink on another
part of it, just so you'd have these pops.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Of color all over it, And like I was saying,
what I was alluding to is the fact that that
actually can show off those pieces far more then if
the entire theme of the tree is just all memorabilia,
all of it everywhere, because it becomes a framework that
actually points to it because of the contrast to it.
Because if everything is everything, then it can actually be
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so much that you're not actually focusing in on one piece. Okay,
in other words, all of the unique memorabilia, like a
patchwork quilt, the whole patchwork look becomes the overall look
and you see it as a whole, and you don't
zero in as much. But if you were to set
like on this tree here, your memorabilia ornaments, every single
(19:38):
one of them would stand out. And as I walk
up to the tree, just like kind of be dazzled
as it.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Is because you have the cool tree.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, you got the Jugi tree.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And now I'm zeroing in on ooh and look at
this and oh oh, this came from Druid and then
then it's got a story to tell.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
And are you sure I can't take this tree home
with me?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You can't take this one home, go to Alvic with
us later and get one furnished out though, Is that?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay? Yeah? Okay, all right? Where are we at here?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I got a little bit of time left. So Brian,
what about filling holes? And what about what rose? I mean,
here's the thing for a seven and a half foot
tall tree. What Rosie has done here for most people
I think in their thinking would be kind of impossible,
which she's got. How many of those like eight inch
diameter ornaments do you have on those are huge relative
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to this tree.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I think there's twelve on there right now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Okay, and yet they're so cool?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So what about using oversized ornaments or what I'm calling
over what I think most people would call oversized ornaments.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's about layering.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
You start with those on the interior of the tree,
and you work your way out with the smaller ornaments.
And a tree style like this where Rosy's kind of
transformed it in the last ten minutes by adding the
hanging ornaments on the stems.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That stick out. That's where you could put.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Your sentimental ornaments as well. It's just about kind of
utilizing the style of the tree. This when she's hanging
the long ornaments and kind of the cascading crystal swag
that's going across. It's just about adding texture, different shapes,
different colors, and kind of working in layers.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Another thing that I see you guys do all the time,
and that we try and accomplish in design and decore
for a home is that the tree is not uniform
in the sense that I think a lot of people
take a look at their tree and they think, all right,
I'm going to start setting things up and get equal
spacing in between all the ornaments, and so everything kind
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of goes across and just becomes a uniform space blanket
around it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
She started with.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
The big ornaments, pushing them into some of the voids
on the tree, some of those big spaces, like you said,
in closer to the trunk. But then some of the
smaller ones are in the mid size or they're kind
of those balls are several of them are kind of
clumped together, and then there's space, and then there's another clump.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So it's not this process.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Of like, hey, equally space the whole thing, because again
that's just one of I mean, yeah, that covers up
the entire tree.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But then nothing really pops.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Right, nothing has weight when they're all equally spaced.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So it kind of defies I think a lot of
traditional tree decorating theory. And yet this tree is outstanding spectacular.
All right, mor on holiday decor. When we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI am six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
In your cute little Disneyland mug.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, this is my favorite Disneyland mug, Amy King, who
is sitting next to me, and I'm thrilled about it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Welcome home, Amy King, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's good to be home.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
This Disney mug on like three levels.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
One it's it's good sized, it holds a nice amount
of coffee. Two, it's taller than it is wide, so
the coffee stays a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Three it fits in my cup holder in my car,
unlike so many that don't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It's a winner all the way around.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But I love this quote.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This is like this was Walt saying Disneyland will never
be completed as long as there is imagination left in
the world.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And that's how I feel about homes.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
That's what I was just going to say, it's like
your home is an ongoing project.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So sometimes I pick it up and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Time to get back to work. So yeah, that's that's
what it means to me. Hey, welcome to the program.
We're doing our live audience show from the helpful Honda
Lounge right here at iHeart Studio's Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The house was for holiday home show. We do this
every year. Folks reach out and they come, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So grateful for everybody, everybody who's listening, everybody who's here
with us right now, and it's just a fun time
to kind of kick off the holidays talk about design
and decourse, specifically for holiday decoration. And to help us
do that, I've got Brian Gold from al to Come,
who's the sponsor of our whole show, and we're we're
(24:25):
gonna continue to talk about tree and holiday decor at large.
Let me tell you a couple of things you need
to know. We are having all the food here today
came from Dots Cafe and Bakery.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And everybody was good with the food. The guys you
like the food. It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So celebrate all your holiday celebrations with Dots cupcakes. You
go to Dots Cafe Bakery dot com. Okay, Dots Cafe
Bakery dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Great also said this before I'm going to say it again.
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Speaker 2 (25:27):
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Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We're gonna kick it off with wake up call and
go all the way until eight o'clock at night. And
I heard you say as I was driving in that
you're going to hang out with Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
But you know what, well, I start at five.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I'd love to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right. So here's the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
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Speaker 2 (26:01):
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Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Speaker 2 (27:25):
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Speaker 4 (27:27):
I have not, but Bill Handle has quite the package.
You need to check it out. Okay, that didn't sound right.
All right, You see he has put together.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
He's got a really cool auction item this year.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
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It's a chance to go to his house. He's going
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Speaker 4 (27:46):
He's got to he's not going to make dinner. Well,
he's going to have somebody make dinner, and uh scat.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Ordering Dominoes is what he's going to know.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, no, no, it's going to be catered by Dominoes.
It's going to be much higher than that.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And then he's got a whole set of his cookware
that he has had for years and years that is
like total high end stuff. And of course there's gonna
be a lot of Zelman's MINTI mouth there.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, all right, well sounds good or really cool?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Or or you can go to a Dodger game with
Tina and me. That's what I'm talking about. Tina and I.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Will take you to the Dodger game. We'll sit there
and we'll talk for hours.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They'll go into.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Extra innings and no, I can't guarantee that, but it's
gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It's always fun.
Tina loves the Dodgers. She's go Dodgers, so we'll have
some fun with that. Okay, Oh really that was it.
That was all all right. We gotta go to break
when we come back. More on Home decor more with
(28:48):
Amy King? Can you hang around her?
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You got to Okay?
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is our live holiday home show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Here, so glad that you can join us, So thrilled
to have you aboard. And here we are at started
the second hour of the program.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Sitting next to me, Amy King, All these eyes just
went open. We're gonna turn your mic on.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Good morning, Amy, Thanks for coming by, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I love this show. I love this show. And can
I just say this tree is spectacular, isn't it great?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I love that she's decorating it during the show, I know,
right inspiring me.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And then at the end of the show we're giving
it away to somebody sitting in this who not you though,
Sorry you guys know I'm on with Amy every Friday
morning on Wake Call. Amy does Wake Up Call from
five to six every single morning, Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
An ungodly hour.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But if you have to be up, we hope you'll
join us because we have a lot of fun and
get you all the information, let you know what happened
while you were sleeping.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's a fantastic show.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So many people now just listen to Amy, and then
after Amy's done, they're.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Like, yeah, that's moving.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, right, right, you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Know that's true. You know it's true.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now I'm just a lead in for the big guy.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Anyway, We've had a great time over the years. We're
both huge fans of Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yes we are, and we you know what, last year
we were supposed to go to Disneyland at the Holidays
together and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Are we going to go this year?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah? We should?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, we should.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, last year, you know what, we had a little
unexpected hiccup in our lives.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Tina ended up having.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Us that's right, a surgery, that's right, and so we
were kind of grounded for the holidays last year.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Okay, Well, she's better now.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
She is better.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
She's around here somewhere doing push ups or something. She
is more than better. She's like beat me up up
quality of recovery now.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Which is how she was before.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's her normal state. That's why she's the boss. I
just do what I'm told. I do what I'm told.
I asked Amy to be on the show because she
has meant so much to me over the years. Here
and it's always great to have her on and to
talk about stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you love the holidays as well.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yeah, Christmas is that's my jam.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah. Have you started decorating it?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I haven't. I have a confession.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I just finally got all of Halloween down yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh that's right. You told me that on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You're like, I still have Halloween, and you said you've
got Thanksgiving stuff up yep, yep. So for you, and
now this is different for everybody. For you, what is
Thanksgiving decor other than because I just imagine for most
people it's like, you know, well, maybe it's a wreath
made out of some leaves.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yep, it's wreathed.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And this year I got some really cool twink twinkly
lights that are like oranges and browns that are out
on my little front walkway and lots.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of pumpkins that of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I mean, it's a very orange themed, okay, which is
also my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But now you're ready to transition.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I am ready, I am ready ready.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
To start, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So now we got to talk about this thing that
I talked about last year. I've actually talked about it
two years ago. But we talked about last year you
went out and got one.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I did the ho ho ho h two oh.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow. You remember it so well.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's because it is life changing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you guys remember me saying anything.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, So this is actually the name of it, the
ho ho ho h two oh. It is for those
of you who do a natural tree every year, right,
and you know, you know the biggest thing about having
a natural tree is keeping it watered. And you know
the biggest thing about keeping it watered is getting the
water into the bowl.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Right, And there's all on your hands and knees and
sticking your face in the branches every day.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There's all sorts of devices you can do, elongated funnels
that come out one side of the tree that you
can just walk up with a picture and that's that
out helps you know, I had for years on my tree,
and it was it helped because you don't have to
dig through the presence to get to the bowl because
the funnel helps it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
But still you got to remember to do it, and
you're never.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Quite sure how full the bowl is, and so you
still kind of got to get into there and check it.
But long comes this serious piece of decortech and you
guys can check this out on You can check it
out on Amazon right now. But don't stop listening to
the show. Just check it out, wait till noon. But yeah,
it's called the Ho Ho ho H two to oh,
(04:32):
and it is an automatic.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Tree filler reservoir. It holds three galt, I want.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
To say it holds three. Is about this big, it's
about eighteen by twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It holds several bowls worth of water. Several of the
tree stand bowls worth of water in it. And it
has a sensors as a line, a tube, a feed tube,
and a sensor that goes into the bowl that you
strap onto the side of the bowl. So a little
electronic sensor that knows when the water when it's not
(05:04):
getting connectivity with the water, it knows to fill the
bowl and then it knows when the bowl is full.
And it shuts off and it's completely silent. And the
best thing is this big old thing sitting next to
your chree. You're like, I don't want to ruin the
aesthetic of Christmas, Dean, Well, you don't have to, because
it's disguised as a Christmas present.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I just tuck it behind the tree and then it
just looks like one of the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Presents, So it looks like a Christmas present sitting under
the tree. And the version I have has like Santa
and his reindeer motif on the box.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's the one I have. I think there's a there's
a red and white one too.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, And on top there's a Rudolph on top, and
Rudolph's nose actually has a little led light.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And all you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Have to do is as you walk by the tree,
look down, and if Rudolph's nose is lit up, it
means it's time to refill the reservoir of the actual
unit itself, if not the tree bowl, which I feel
like we did maybe twice the entire season.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It lasts for a while.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And I will tell you that I was nervous because
I have like one of the coolest tree stands. I
would love to show it to you, but it has
a very small reservoir. So it was literally watering it
twice a day with like just a small container because
it didn't hold much.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And so I put it in and I sat there
and I just watched it.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You're like this is and.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I was like, well, this isn't very exciting. But then
you do hear just a little bit of sound, you
hear a little.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh no.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And so I went over and ran.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Over to check it because I thought that reservoir so small,
if it overflows, we're going to have an issue.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it didn't.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And then I just hear it kind of go off
every once in a while, and I just sit there
and go, ah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Have to go water in the tree. And it did.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It lasted for I don't remember the exact timeframe it
whether it was a week or two weeks, but it
was quite a while. And it's just like one other
thing that you don't have to do at Christmas and
you just enjoy your tree and I love it. It
was it was like, is it ninety Yeah, the best
ninety ever spend.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, it really is fantastic and it works so absolutely works.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I can't wait to put my tree up and go
stare at my package.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Not only does it help in terms of just not
bothering with it, but you know, it's that first time
you forget to water the.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Tree and then the trees does.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
At the tree seals off at the bottom, and now
you know you're basically shortened its life.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
During the holiday season, all.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, we're going to talk about this more more on
holiday decor, more with Amy King, more with Brian Gold.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
When we return your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
We're broadcasting live from the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles. It is the House Whisper Holiday Home Show.
We've got a live studio audience with us asking me
all sorts of questions. We're going to try and maybe
get a couple of those questions on the air before
we're done.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We've got a lot to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I've got our sponsor who is very very greataciously taking
care of this entire event for us, Aldacombe.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Brian Gold from Al Dick is with us today. That's right,
give him a hand and just walking in.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Our very special guest, Amy King is with us this
morning as well.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
All right, so you and I we're going.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
To get some lessons in tree design theory from Brian
in a second. But I want, but I want to
ask you huh. So we talked about this last year,
but I love asking you this question. Where'd you grow
up and what was Christmas like in your childhood?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What's your fondest memory.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Of fondest, fondest memory or like single fondest.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh, okay, Well, so Christmas was always a big thing.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We have a small family, but the core family group
always got together and we still do. And I grew
up in the Berry in Walnut Creek and then also
up in Oregon, and so we still go up to
Oregon every year and celebrate.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And my mom, like I don't have.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
The space to do what she does. She puts up
like seven trees. She she doesn't even undecorate them anymore.
She goes, I just put them in a bag and
put them in the basement for the year.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So she really does it up.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And she's a huge fan and has passed this along
to me. Of like Nativity sets, She's got like two
hundred of them, two hundred. We stopped count We used
to count every year, but we stop counting. But it's
all just the whole house. Just you walk in and
it is just Christmas. It's probably like walking into Alto Coombs, right,
I mean, like it's just over the top, but it
(09:34):
doesn't look like you know how sometimes you go into
a house and you go, somebody just threw up Christmas
on this house.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's not like that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's seen that, it's not like that, and it's but
it's just it's a special time to get together with
family and have a good time. And yeah, we just
I love it and I love the feeling of Christmas.
I love people who do generous things at Christmas that
they maybe should do all year long.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But you know, if you only do it once a year,
do it at Christmas time.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, what does Christmas look around your place? What part
of that do you emulate and hang on to?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, I have too much in too small of a space.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But Christmas, like the decorations and all that stuff, almost
everything really means something.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Like my tree, I don't have a lot of just.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The balls on them, which are spectacular, and I do
have some, but I like pick up different ornaments when
I go places or do things, or if it has
something to do with a friend, or when I've traveled,
like I got a little nativity, a little merry and
baby in Jerusalem and it's made out of the olive wood,
and so things like that. And then we got to
(10:39):
go to Africa and so I got a little lion
and a little zebra and that kind of stuff. But like,
so all the ornaments pretty much mean something to me,
so like a.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Personal nostalgia, personal memory of everything.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, So the tree becomes a scaffolding for just like
looking back at some of the best parts of life. Absolutely, Absolutely,
that's that is a ritual worth engaging in every year.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And then there's other stuff, you know, the more traditional
things to kind of round it out. But like I
just I love that I can look at my tree
and go, oh, that reminds me of this, and that
reminds me of that, and that reminds me of this,
and I think that that's you know, part of Christmas
is looking back and remembering what Christmas is about, but
you know, and enjoying being where you are and enjoying
your family and enjoying your friends.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, So I'm going to build off of that, Okay,
and I'm going to throw it over to Brian here. So,
so what Amy just described, I think every you know,
most everybody can resonate with, right, I mean, you know,
so meaningful things hanging on the tree, just decorating the house,
and yet you know, we all look at stuff this
time of year in department store windows and online. And
(11:48):
I was going to say magazines, but you know, it's
like twenty twenty five, so I don't even know if
magazines exist anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They have special editions and they're all really expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, so yeah, they're like coffee table books now.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
But the idea is like, okay, so also you look
at some you know, really sexy JUGI tree, like what
Rosie is creating right in front of us right now, and.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I love what she's putting on right now right and
it's very blinky.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And so can you have both? I mean, that's the
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Do I have to choose between like like uber design,
really sophisticated, the kind of jaw dropping trees that we
see at Al Dick, Or.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Do I have to choose between that and you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Know, my nostalgic stuff, which is kind of a hodgepodge
of all sorts of different things.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
How can you do both at once? I think you
can do both.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
You can have a kind of a palette of kind
of what Rosy's working on right now, and then work
in some of those ornaments that mean a lot to you.
I just set up my tree yesterday with my with
my fan family, and it's it's the best day of
the year to watch your kids pick out the ornaments
that they picked out, and they pick out like a
(13:06):
special one from the story every year, and just watch
them kind of fall in love with Christmas again and
remember this, remember when I made this, and things like that,
and I think you can you can build off of
it with design as well.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So it was kind of that was a slow pitch
over the plate for you because I wanted to set
up that idea and that is we don't really have
to choose. You can imagine even with what Rosie is
working on right now, interspacing now in between.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's what we call the eighty twenty rule.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And we'll talk about that when we come back, The
eighty twenty rule. In Design and Decor Your Home with
Dean Sharp the House Whisper.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We are live from the Helpful Honda Lounge at iHeart Studios,
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is the.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
House Whisper Holiday home show sitting in here. This is
like an check this out Amy Amy King, by the way,
with me in studio a special guest here for as
long as she can hang around with us. You know,
Amy and I have been doing events here for well,
I've been here for nine years now and this is
(14:16):
the first year that this place has looked like this.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, the Helpful Honda Lounge has been redesigned and.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It is so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
It's like because it used to be you know, rows
of chairs and stuff, and now it's like it's like
a home.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's like they read it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Just it is a home.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's like it's like a really cool you know, like
jazz cafe. Somebody, We're going to get you us instead
of bongo drums and you can do some beat poetry here.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, everybody wants to hear that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, everyone wants to hear that, all right. So and
Brian Gold from Aldacombe with us also decorating this gorgeous
tree that we're going to give away before the end
of the show. So we were talking about this area.
Amy told us about her childhood growing up and how
(15:05):
she likes to decorate her tree full of you know,
memory laden ornaments, special things and as you collect those
kinds of ornaments over time, you know, I don't know
if you call it a problem. One of the facets
of collecting those kind of ornaments very very rarely do
they all follow the same theme, right, They're a hodgepodge,
(15:27):
is kind of a patchwork quilt of certain you know things,
but they're important and so right before the break, I asked, Brian,
all right, so you got on one side, I think
most people can resonate with the idea of the you know,
collected ornaments that mean a lot to the family. And
on the other side, you've got these you know, departments
store the just beautiful artistics spread on uber design trees,
(15:52):
and sometimes people are like, well, I mean, I love
my memorabilia stuff, but it'd be really nice.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
To have a JUGI tree.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
One year and I asked you the question, Brian, whether
you could do both, and you alluded to the fact that, yeah,
you can use you can pick a theme that becomes
kind of the background or the backdrop the palette for
it all, and then intersperse those things. And I have
found over the years, actually that's not only a interesting
(16:21):
suggestion to make it doable, but I actually find and
trying to imagine whether you would think this is true,
amy that it actually accents those pieces that much more. Okay,
it's in design and decor what we call the eighty
twenty rule, all right, And it's not just how you
decorate a Christmas tree or how you can decorate a
Christmas tree, but it's also how you can decorate your home,
(16:44):
any given room in your home, and that is that
you pick a primary theme, primary set of colors and textures,
and eighty percent of what's going on that room follows
that theme, and you work it out, and you work
it out so all of that theme is developing, and
then into that eighty percent we drop twenty percent of unique,
(17:09):
of something different. Now it could be if it's not
a memory laden room or tree. It could simply be
after we've done the eighty percent in one color theme complementary,
that we drop in something all together different and that
really pops. Or it can be all of that unique
family mementos, family photos and all of that kind of stuff.
(17:32):
So think of it in terms of not only a
Christmas tree, but also a room as a whole. Right,
think of it in terms of even eighty twenty even
applies to fashion design. I mean, it is a it
just kind of and it's not a law. But it's
a rule that is a strong suggestion because it works.
It can be in terms of fashion design where you've
(17:53):
set up an outfit, and I never allow Tina to
use that term with my clothes, right because she's off,
like I really like your outfit. I'm like, I wear clothes.
I don't wear outfits. Okay, you wear outfits and I
wear clothing, but just she's not in here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So basically my outfit.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The idea of setting up like eighty percent following a
certain theme and then boom, you pop in something.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's what I was going to say. It's a Papa color,
all right.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, just like if you have your sofa, you have
a very neutral, beautiful sofa and then put some cool
pillows on it, that's a popa color exactly exactly the
same thing with the tree, Like this tree is sort
of an icy winter theme, which makes a fabulous backdrop
then because it's lots of silvers and some blues. And
then say you put the American flag you got at
(18:45):
the White House, the little ornament on there, or you
put your Cheshure cat which is a pink on another
part of it, just so you'd have these pops.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Of color all over it, And like I was saying,
what I was alluding to is the fact that that
actually can show off those pieces far more then if
the entire theme of the tree is just all memorabilia,
all of it everywhere, because it becomes a framework that
actually points to it because of the contrast to it.
Because if everything is everything, then it can actually be
(19:15):
so much that you're not actually focusing in on one piece. Okay,
in other words, all of the unique memorabilia, like a
patchwork quilt, the whole patchwork look becomes the overall look
and you see it as a whole, and you don't
zero in as much. But if you were to set
like on this tree here, your memorabilia ornaments, every single
(19:38):
one of them would stand out. And as I walk
up to the tree, just like kind of be dazzled
as it.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Is because you have the cool tree.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, you got the Jugi tree.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And now I'm zeroing in on ooh and look at
this and oh oh, this came from Druid and then
then it's got a story to tell.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
And are you sure I can't take this tree home
with me?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
You can't take this one home, go to Alvic with
us later and get one furnished out though, Is that?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay? Yeah? Okay, all right? Where are we at here?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I got a little bit of time left. So Brian,
what about filling holes? And what about what rose? I mean,
here's the thing for a seven and a half foot
tall tree. What Rosie has done here for most people
I think in their thinking would be kind of impossible,
which she's got. How many of those like eight inch
diameter ornaments do you have on those are huge relative
(20:31):
to this tree.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I think there's twelve on there right now.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Okay, and yet they're so cool?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So what about using oversized ornaments or what I'm calling
over what I think most people would call oversized ornaments.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's about layering.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
You start with those on the interior of the tree,
and you work your way out with the smaller ornaments.
And a tree style like this where Rosy's kind of
transformed it in the last ten minutes by adding the
hanging ornaments on the stems.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
That stick out. That's where you could put.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Your sentimental ornaments as well. It's just about kind of
utilizing the style of the tree. This when she's hanging
the long ornaments and kind of the cascading crystal swag
that's going across. It's just about adding texture, different shapes,
different colors, and kind of working in layers.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Another thing that I see you guys do all the time,
and that we try and accomplish in design and decore
for a home is that the tree is not uniform
in the sense that I think a lot of people
take a look at their tree and they think, all right,
I'm going to start setting things up and get equal
spacing in between all the ornaments, and so everything kind
(21:43):
of goes across and just becomes a uniform space blanket
around it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
She started with.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
The big ornaments, pushing them into some of the voids
on the tree, some of those big spaces, like you said,
in closer to the trunk. But then some of the
smaller ones are in the mid size or they're kind
of those balls are several of them are kind of
clumped together, and then there's space, and then there's another clump.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So it's not this process.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Of like, hey, equally space the whole thing, because again
that's just one of I mean, yeah, that covers up
the entire tree.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But then nothing really pops.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Right, nothing has weight when they're all equally spaced.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So it kind of defies I think a lot of
traditional tree decorating theory. And yet this tree is outstanding spectacular.
All right, mor on holiday decor. When we return your
Home with Dean Sharp the house whisper.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI am six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
In your cute little Disneyland mug.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, this is my favorite Disneyland mug, Amy King, who
is sitting next to me, and I'm thrilled about it.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Welcome home, Amy King, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's good to be home.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
This Disney mug on like three levels.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
One it's it's good sized, it holds a nice amount
of coffee. Two, it's taller than it is wide, so
the coffee stays a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Three it fits in my cup holder in my car,
unlike so many that don't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It's a winner all the way around.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But I love this quote.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This is like this was Walt saying Disneyland will never
be completed as long as there is imagination left in
the world.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And that's how I feel about homes.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
That's what I was just going to say, it's like
your home is an ongoing project.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So sometimes I pick it up and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Time to get back to work. So yeah, that's that's
what it means to me. Hey, welcome to the program.
We're doing our live audience show from the helpful Honda
Lounge right here at iHeart Studio's Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The house was for holiday home show. We do this
every year. Folks reach out and they come, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So grateful for everybody, everybody who's listening, everybody who's here
with us right now, and it's just a fun time
to kind of kick off the holidays talk about design
and decourse, specifically for holiday decoration. And to help us
do that, I've got Brian Gold from al to Come,
who's the sponsor of our whole show, and we're we're
(24:25):
gonna continue to talk about tree and holiday decor at large.
Let me tell you a couple of things you need
to know. We are having all the food here today
came from Dots Cafe and Bakery.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And everybody was good with the food. The guys you
like the food. It was excellent.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So celebrate all your holiday celebrations with Dots cupcakes. You
go to Dots Cafe Bakery dot com. Okay, Dots Cafe
Bakery dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Great also said this before I'm going to say it again.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It is a pastathon time here at KFI in iHeart.
The fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef Bruno's charity,
Katerina's Club, providing more than twenty five thousand meals every
week to kids in need in southern California. Your generosity
makes it all happen. Our live broadcast is giving Tuesday,
(25:24):
that is December second, starting at five am.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I'm assuming that's you Amy King.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We're gonna kick it off with wake up call and
go all the way until eight o'clock at night. And
I heard you say as I was driving in that
you're going to hang out with Tim Conway Junior.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
But you know what, well, I start at five.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I'd love to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right. So here's the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I have to be in Dana Point first thing in
the morning that day, which is why I'm hitting Tim
on the way back.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
But if you want me on the show, I can
remote in if you want.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
But I we'll talk. Okay, I'm just giving you herd
to talk. All right, you have a pass.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You made me feel guilty, made me feel bad at
Christmas time. I'm going to put you on the naughty list.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Oh I'm been on that for a long time.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
All right, So let me finish this.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Donate anytime kfiam six forty dot com forward slash pastathon
one hundred percent. This is always the case. We are
just here to facilitate. One hundred percent of your donation
always goes to Katerina Club.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And let's see here.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You can go to Yamavah Resort and Casino just off
the two ten in Highland and if you're there, when
you cash your winning ticket at the kiosk, it'll ask
you if you want to donate your change. Say yes,
and then say then pick Katerina's Club as your donation.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Producer Michelle put a cute little video up on the
Instagram at cafi AM six forty and shows you how
easy it is to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Really, it's a great way to to just you know,
chip in a.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Little chip in, chip in caino.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Everything outs you are a pro.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, uh, You're going to go to any Windy's restaurant
in Southern California, donate five dollars and more any Smart
and Final in California or Arizona or Nevada. And when
you're a checkout, you can donate some money there. And
starting Monday tomorrow you can bid on our special auction.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Are you auctioning yourself off?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I have not, but Bill Handle has quite the package.
You need to check it out. Okay, that didn't sound right.
All right, You see he has put together.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
He's got a really cool auction item this year.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What is it? Give us the overview.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It's a chance to go to his house. He's going
to make dinner.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
He's got to he's not going to make dinner. Well,
he's going to have somebody make dinner, and uh scat.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Ordering Dominoes is what he's going to know.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, no, no, it's going to be catered by Dominoes.
It's going to be much higher than that.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
And then he's got a whole set of his cookware
that he has had for years and years that is
like total high end stuff. And of course there's gonna
be a lot of Zelman's MINTI mouth there.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, all right, well sounds good or really cool?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Or or you can go to a Dodger game with
Tina and me. That's what I'm talking about. Tina and I.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Will take you to the Dodger game. We'll sit there
and we'll talk for hours.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They'll go into.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Extra innings and no, I can't guarantee that, but it's
gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It's always fun.
Tina loves the Dodgers. She's go Dodgers, so we'll have
some fun with that. Okay, Oh really that was it.
That was all all right. We gotta go to break
when we come back. More on Home decor more with
(28:48):
Amy King? Can you hang around her?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You got to Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
More with Amy King, More with Brian Gold, More with
our live studio audience. Here, you're listening to Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. This has been Home with
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast
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