February 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Dean says to free your mind when remodeling your home to help gain more creativity. Dean talks retrofitting an attic with fire& ember protective vents, how to remove gray spots/mold on a vinyl tub wall, advice on a chipping living room ceiling, Dean talks about replacing a mirrored-closet door, installing a sliding door in a mobile home, and marrying two different materials for countertops.
Dean believes that there are no bad ideas, just decisions... the thinking and planning needs to be expanded to be able to get inspired
Dean believes that there are no bad ideas, just decisions... the thinking and planning needs to be expanded to be able to get inspired
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to house whisper dot Design. All right, it's been a
morning of kind of just a casual conversation between friends,
of freeing your mind when it comes to approaching your remodel,
so that you think a little bit bigger, so you
dream a little bit bigger, a little bit more creatively,
include more thoughts, do more research in areas that you
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would normally limit yourself from going to learn more, see more,
experience more, demand a little bit more out of this
remodel instead of doing what you normally do, which is
to your credit of making do not when it comes
to customizing your home. Now is the time to not
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make do and get out of the way of your home.
Now is the time for the home to get out
of your way and for it to give and to move.
Got me all right? Well, a little more on this
as we go, But right now I'm taking calls on
I want to go back to the phones. I want
to talk to Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Hi bean. I have a question in regards to retrociting
my at events, I have an at a fan and
a whole house fan. Can we retrofit the event with
those two things in there?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, yes, you absolutely can. First of all, the whole
house fan is it does not need retrofitting. That's not
a part of the venting system. A whole house fan
is what is drawing air from your open windows at night,
you know, drawing air through the house and pushing it
out through the attic. And so a whole house fan
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number one only creates positive pressure out of the attic
and it is not a vent for embers to get
into one way or the other. The attic fan, an
attic fan is a fan that is attached to a
vent that you know, exhausts hot air out of an
attic and it creates a vacuum from another vent, probably
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just across the way. And yeah, and that's never a
problem because the attic fan is attached to a vent,
and it can be detached from the vent. It can
have like the the ember proof vent retrofit placed right
there and then reattached and remounted so or the mber
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proof vent can be mounted on the outside if need be.
And it's all done very attractively and very quickly. So yes,
there's absolutely no reason to not move forward with the
ember proof vents. Brand Guard they're my favorite, and they
will help you and whether you measure up the situation
yourself or if you call a place like brand Guard
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and say, hey, can you send somebody out. They don't
do direct installs, but what they do is they have
a full network of certified installers all over southern California,
so they'll put you in touch with somebody who will
come out and who will size up exactly your situation,
order exactly what you need, and get it popped in
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there right away.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Regisitting the vents, something that a homeowner to do is
just getting some fine mesh and putting it on the vents.
Maybe I'm like inside of the attic events.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, so itself, that's a really good question there are.
This is one of the reasons why a company like
brand Guard doesn't employ their own installers, because they do
a lot of just sending vents out to you know,
DIY capable homeowners. So yeah, homeowners are you know, if
you've got some DIY skills, it is. It's not a
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very complex thing at all. To do and and so yeah,
if you're willing to get up in the attic or
get up there and do a little work there, it
can be done pretty easily. The so I'm now I'm
drawing a quick little line here, splitting your question in
two or the answer into and yes, so, yes, a
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homeowner can do this. Some homeowners don't want to do it.
That's what the installers are for. But a homeowner can
do this. And when it comes to the vents themselves, yes,
getting some finer mesh is better than the stuff you've got. Okay,
a finer mesh and installing that is better than the
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stuff you've got. But finer mesh is not as good
as a fully certified and tested and proven ember proof vent. Okay,
it's not just an ember proof vent like for the
Brand Guard vents. They're not just a finer mesh system.
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They actually have a patented baffle system in which the
air gets redirected through and there are places where even
if an EMBER got through you know, mesh layer number one,
it gets trapped in a baffle and it can't get
into the attic. And that's just the first stage, that's
the ember stage. And these vents are also rated to
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shut down the transmission of radiant heat once the fire
actually gets close, and shut down the transmission of flames,
so flames and radiant heat won't get into the attic
and ignite things because of intense heat, and the flames
cannot come in through the vents because these vents will
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self seal once a flame reaches that point of nearing
the vents. So they are very very different than just
finer mesh. But finer mesh on your attic screens is
better than the big stuff that you've got, So I
just want to make it perfectly clear. Amberproof addict vents
is not just about finer mesh, but that is definitely
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better than taking no action at all.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Great.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Thank you so much, Jaanlie. I really appreciate her. You
help them all the homeowners out there.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Thank you so much, Lauren, thanks for listening. I really
appreciate your question. Really really good question, really good. I'm
not sure we've split that hair before, but now everybody
can benefit from that answer and from more answers, which
we will do, can't I being sharp the house whisper
at your service. Good Saturday morning to you. We're just
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having some nice conversations talking about getting our heads in
a remodeling space, being the best possible custom home owners
that we can be, because, you know, customizing your home
for most of us not a thing that we're trained
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to think about because we're so used to making do.
So I'm just helping you breathe a little deeper, have
a little bit more creative space and possibility around you
with some tips. And we'll have a few more of
those as we go. But right now I'm taking calls.
I want to go back to the phones, and I
want to talk to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh yeah, I had a tub shower vinyl combination and
on the top flip of the tub, there are some
great spots coming in and I'm very concerned it could
be some kind of resting molding that's coming through. It
doesn't seem I want to wash off. Should I be concerned?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna be conscientious here
and just qualify my answer with the I haven't seen
it or tested it, so but I'm gonna give you
my best guess. Okay, Okay, when it comes to that,
those gray blotches and gray spots that you find on
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the vinyl and or fiberglass tubs. Sometimes tubshower surrounds right
down there in the corners, right right on the top
lip kind of. And and I know that the very
first thought is that, oh, no, mold, and that's dangerous.
And so here's the thing. If it is mold, okay, uh,
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And let's assume I'm gonna assume for a momentary that
you know that you keep a clean house and that
you haven't neglected this bathroom for thir years, and all right, mold.
For as dangerous as mold can potentially be in some circumstances,
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the fact is mold out in the you know, out
in the daylight, out exposed where it can be easily cleaned.
It is. It is not tenacious as far as being
able to clean it. It does not fight cleaning very much.
It doesn't have a lot of fight to put up there.
So if it were mold, you'd be able to take
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a you know, you'd be able to take a bleach
mixture and wipe it on there and it would just
simply be going away. You'd be able to take just
a regular household cleaner and it would go away. Mold
is not like I'm not going anywhere and you're all dead.
That's just not mold. It likes to grow in the
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dark and in the moist and not get exposed out
where everybody can see it. So that being said, I'm
not one hundred percent ruling it out, but in my experience,
ninety nine times out of one hundred, when we've got
these gray spots and speckles and blotches happening, it is
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soap scum mixed with hard water, meaning mineralization leftover that
ends up collecting in the corners. And that's why it's
so dang hard to clean, because it's kind of this
resinous mixture of soap scum wrapped around leftover hard water minerals.
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And that's why they're gray, by the way, because they're
kind of rocky mineralization, and that's why it's tougher to clean.
And so there are some products that will help you
do that, like you know, but you just got to
find got to make sure, like is it CLR the
calcium lime and rust. You just got to make sure
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that a product like that which just knocks right through
mineral deposits isn't going to do damage to the actual
surface of the vinyl. The safest route to go to
start with at least, and I always recommend, you know,
do the least toxic approach. The safest route to start
with would be taking some baking soda, just regular old
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you know, baking soda, mixing it with some water and
making a paste and covering over those pasting it all
over and let it sit on there for several hours
and then come back with a little bit of elbow
grease and see if you can't get most of it
off that way. Baking soda does an amazing job of
cutting through that and also lifting up mineralization. But as
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far as your fear is concerned, my guess is that
it's hard water deposits mixed with soap scum, and that's
why it's being so tenacious to clean.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Good ideas in the corners. It's on the top shelf lid,
So that's what I was concerned. If it was rush
so good, I would clean it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Terry. Good luck with that.
I'm sure you're you're gonna you're gonna get the better
of it. I'm sure do we have you know, I've
got time to start a call. I might have to
pop you on the hold. But let's talk to Monica.
Hey Monica, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes? I can?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Oh, okay, I mean I'm walking around and someone can
hear me. But anyway, I miss last last week's show
on the ceiling drips or whatever. I look at my
ceiling and it's starting to peel and can I treat
it with some kind of you know, paint kind of
thing or do I have to get somebody to kind
of look at it on top?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And you know, okay, so you look at it, your ceiling.
Where where are we talking in the living room? Okay,
your living rooms? Cling and and the paint is starting
to peel off.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Of it, Yeah, starting to peel it like you could
say you could when you look at it, you just go, oh,
that's kind of like a leak. But we haven't found
any leaks. But it's you know, a big kind of
paints kind of starting to come off. I mean it's
ready to be.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you. Yeah. That sounds like
paint that has been applied over a surface that didn't
get primered properly, didn't get to the proper adhesion, so
the paint is failing to adhere because the surface wasn't
prepped right now, whether or not it's just one spot
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or whether the whole ceiling is, you know, in need
of attention, I think, I mean, if you're if you're
not prone to being a DIY painter, I think it's
time to probably have a qualified painter come in and
assess it, either to you know, patch what's happening and
contain it to keep your costs low at the moment,
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or you may just need to you know, want to
commit to you know, let's just redo the living room ceiling.
Let's paint the living room ceiling, but we got to
do it right, uh, and then address it and they'll
be able to sand it down and check for areas
that are clinging properly versus areas that aren't, and then
apply a new primer coat to everything, kind of stabilize
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it all and a new code of paint and it
shouldn't be in any way, shape or form an ongoing problem.
But everybody, remember remember when you were talking to a
painter or even just taking paint bids or estimates, you
know what you want to see in that list of
things you don't you know, don't be dazzled by the
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amazing paint, although amazing paints like Benjamin Moore are the
key to it lasting long. But remember that when it
comes to paint prep, prep is like ninety percent of
the game. You want to see all sorts of things
in the quote for we're doing this to prep, and
we're doing that to prep, and we're standing this, and
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we're getting this ready and we're patching that. And because
all of that preparation means that that one or two
coats of paint that go up when it's all said
and done, are going to cling and hold and last long,
long time. Paint is ninety percent prep. All right, thanks
so much for the question, and we actually got that out.
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I'm running a little bit late, so let's do this.
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty, CAFI AM six forty, live streaming,
and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You are Home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper that is me. We're
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having a conversation this morning about kind of freeing up
your mind as remodeling season is approaching, becoming a custom homeowner,
not just expecting a custom home to appear before your eyes.
To get a custom home, you need to be a
custom homeowner. We got to stop thinking so much about
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making do and giving ourselves the freedom to dream a
little bit bigger. We're going to talk a little bit
more about that in the next segment, but right now
I'm still taking calls. We've still got some calls on
the board. I want to go back and answer some
questions about your home. Let's talk to Spencer. Hey, Spencer,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Heydan, can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I can?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
So I have a closet door that is broken. It's
in a church, it's on a wall full of mirrors,
and it's quite old. Let's go at forty years old,
and so matching the door is a little hard. I'm
just checking to see am I going the right path.
I called around, got a bunch of really high quotes,
and then somebody said, why don't you talk to a
a contractor And they said, oh, you're getting screwed. You
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need to call this company and just have them come
in to replace just the glass. And they said, you know,
that's probably going to be like maybe two hundred and fifty
dollars where I was quoted four hundred and fifty dollars initially.
Have somebody fixed the glass? Am I on the right track?
That's basically my question?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah? I think so, I think generally now is the door?
Is it? Is it a regular framed door, like it
has a wood frame all around it and there's a
mirror inset into it?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Metal? But yeah, yeah, okay, so there's so you're saying
it's metal on the on the edge, So is the
whole door? Can you know? Cause there are sliding closet
doors that are basically just all all mirror with metal
edging around them, and then there are you're talking about
that's what we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
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here's here's where you're on the right track. You're on
the right track by exploring all of your options. So, yeah,
one thing to replace the whole door. You may not
be able to find one that matches right, And so
I'm thinking the same way, you know, call a glass company,
call a couple of glass companies and have them come
out and take a look at it. And then you know,
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because it's it's relatively thin glass, it's not heavy duty glass,
and they're used to this kind of stuff. And if
that frame can in any way be disassembled to free
up the glass and then put a new piece in,
You're probably totally on the right track. That's it, all right, buddy.
That was an easy one. Wow, I was so easy.
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I got time for another one. Let's talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
welcome home.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Hey Dean.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Cool? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
So, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I have because of finances, I probably have two projects.
And then an older mobile home. It's paneled, not drywall
to dry wall well, actually the entire place in the
area I want to dry wall. Now, there's also a
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large sliding glass door that needs to be replaced, frame
and all, and I just don't know which order to
do it in. Should I do the door first? Should
I do the wall first?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Change out the door, change out the door first? Uh,
there's no there's no switching out. Yeah there, it's just
it's yes, surgically, you know, like if you came and said, listen,
here's our challenge. I need to change out this, uh,
this sliding glass door without disturbing any of the dry
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wall around it. And you know, it could it be done. Yeah, yeah,
it could be done, but it's a lot of hassle
and uh is there still a risk of doing some
damage to the dry wall anyway. Yes. So in that circumstance,
if you've got some uh some uh, you know, major
member of a wall fixture on a wall, like a
door or a window that needs replacing, and you're also
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planning on, you know, refinishing the inside of the room,
then the classic typical order in construction would be, you know,
doors and windows. We build a brand new house, doors
and windows go in before the before we ever get
to drywalling. Okay, So in your case, I'm going to
say the same thing, just to change out the side
and glass door and then you've got nothing to worry about.
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You know exactly where to cut the drywall to. It'll
go in, it'll fit right, nice and tight. Nothing you'll
be disturbing it.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
That sounds tabulous. Thank you, Dean, you and Tina have
a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Appreciate it well, Thank you, buddy, Thank you so much.
Appreciate you guys. You guys are so kind. Wow, that's
a second call. I'm going to try and do three. Jeff,
Welcome home. Jeff, are you there? Did we lose Jeff?
Oh Man? I really wanted to do three calls? Jeff,
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are you with me? Now? Maybe not? All right? Dang
here I was finally in a position to get three
calls in one segment, and all right, that's fine, No,
it's fine. No, sorry, all right. Uh, let's transition back
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then to to where I started today's show. There are
no bad ideas. There are only bad decisions. And by
saying that, what I'm trying to communicate is the front
end here, that ideas, the I, the ideation, the thinking
up and the planning and the dreaming, I want you
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to expand that and not worry about like somehow, oh
this is gonna lead to me being over budget and
I'm gonna be, you know, spending stupid money on things
that I shouldn't be spending money. Ideas are not decisions.
A decision is taking a set of ideas or an idea,
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shaping it into a you know, a strategy, and then
pulling the trigger. That's a decision. And bad decisions are bad,
I mean bad decisions, you know, to take things on
the wrong track. And bad decisions can cost you time,
can cost you money, can cost you all sorts of things.
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But an idea is not a decision. It's just an idea,
and the best decisions come from a rich pool of
fully developed ideas. And if the reason I'm making such
a big thing about this is in my experience in
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working with hundreds thousands of homeowners, at this point, the
thing I see perhaps most common in the typical homeowner
is this self editing at the very beginning. I walk
in the door, and I'm there to help you dream
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and to think of things, And already I see you're
editing yourself and not even allowing yourself to think certain
thoughts about what's possible. And I get that because you're
just so used to making do with what you've got,
kind of just moving around it because it's there and
you haven't had the means or the or the will
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or the desire to move it out of your way.
But a custom home, a custom remodel. Now it's time
for the house to move out of your way. But
that also puts something on you that you're not used
to doing so much, and that is thinking bigger thoughts
and collecting more creative ideas. All right, more on that,
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right after we find out what is going on? Gean
Sharp the house whisper, Welcome home. Thanks for joining us
on the program today. All right, I've got some final
thoughts about our topic today. Of there are no bad ideas,
only bad decisions, kind of freeing your mind as you
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approach your remodel. Some of you are like, why doesn't
he just get down to the brass tax of like
how to install a toilet. We've spent plenty of time
doing that, my friend, plenty of time doing that. But
when it comes to approaching anything you change on your home.
You know what I always say, design matters most. And
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to get to that place of getting the right design,
you as the homeowner, need to stop self editing so
early upfront. You need to free yourself up. So let's
review where what we've already discussed so far, and then
I'm going to give you still a couple of more
great tips along the way. Here Custom home starts with
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a custom thinking homeowner. Okay, freeing yourself not to make
do now the house is going to move out of
your way. Create a judgment free sandbox. I'm using air quotes,
can you hear them? A judgment free sandbox to play
in that could be a folder on your computer. Maybe
it's a physical folder sitting on your desk, maybe it's
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a maybe it's a Pinterest board, whatever the case is.
But a sandbox is a place where you can just
collect ideas judgment free. You're not judging them. You're putting
things in there because you like them. Period. It's all
that you know need be or you're interested in it,
or you're gonna pursue it and check it out. Okay,
give yourself that freedom. And what does a judgment free
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area look like? When like, if we're working with two people,
like a couple working on a remodel, you know, designing
it in your minds together, dreaming it up together. I
would say this one of the most important lessons I
ever opted into the design process is and I would say,
you know what I'm just going to say life in
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general is the rules of improv comedy. Okay, improv. If
you've ever seen improv done and done it well, I
think most people have seen it done. Is when you
know somebody on stage just starts kicking out an idea,
unscripted idea, and then they've got a partner up there
and they just work off of that idea. And they
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just create a whole thing. They're improvising as they go,
and the people who do it, well, it's just genius
and it's super entertaining. At the root of all of
that is a principle or a rule, and the rule
is that improv that good improvisation, good creative process is
all about. It starts with yes. And that's the response
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to somebody yes. And the opposite, which is the death
of improvisation and the death of creativity, is no. But okay,
So what I mean is you you have a thought.
You know, maybe I'm your partner and you have a thought,
and you're like, you know, here's a crazy thought. What
if our home could do? Right? My role as your partner,
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because these are not decisions, these are ideas. My role
of your partner is to acknowledge that, Yes, that is
a crazy thought, but yeah, I see the value there.
That's that's interesting. You know. I'm not saying that we
should enact it tomorrow, but yeah, yes, and and maybe
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I can feed something else into that. And now all
of a sudden, see that's yes and yes. And the
opposite of that in communication and in life is no. No, No,
that's ridiculous. And that's where we crush these these potentially
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really value ideas, and we keep them from growing into
something else, something that really will make a difference. So
it's yes and you know, and not always no or
well but but you know that you know that's the
kind of thing. So the rule is yes and not
no and but got it all right, because remember, an
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idea is not a decision. So there's no need to
fear an idea. It's not a decision. It's an idea.
Embrace it, play with it. Window shopping is free. There's
no need to narrow it to your budget, research, explore, learn,
don't pre categorize yourself. Know that most of your ideas
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won't make it into the project in the form that
they first arrive, but they may spark the most important
idea that does change the game. And I'll give you
these last two little tidbits here. Give yourself time. You
always hear me harping on spending time and slowing it down.
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Nothing truly outstanding is designed or built overnight. Even with
a well thought out design. We encourage you to layer
a project as much as you can, because you know what,
with every new completed phase of the project, that project.
As your home starts to change shape, it's going to
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alter the way you experience the space, and it's gonna
give birth to other ideas. Take the time, layer things out,
take the time to allow it even as you change it,
allow it to change you, because that's what happens in
a really good custom design scenario. Remember the iron triangle.
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You've got three sides time, quality, and cost, and the
rule is inviolable. You can have any two of those
sides of the triangle that you want, and you're gonna
pay for it with the third side. Okay, so if
you want it done fast and excellent but overnight like
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fast and excellent, time and quality, get ready to write
a big check. You're going to pay for it in
the cost. If you want it done fast and cheap, hey,
no problem. All you're going to sacrifice is quality, that's right.
But if you're like most people and you want it
the best value possible and the best quality possible, then
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guess what you have to spend. You pay for it
by taking your time. And that's the thing. Give yourself time.
Don't last tip, don't try to design the space. Don't
just jump into the space. Okay, don't be a designer,
be a homeowner, be the person living in the space.
Describe what you want to do in it, and how
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you want to feel in it, and what you want
to experience in it. Those are the most important questions
to ask you and yourself right up front. Those are
the questions I ask you right up front, so you
ask them of yourself. All right, that's all we've got
time for today. We have spent the time wisely. I
think we're going to be right back here tomorrow for
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the big show. Tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking
with two Los Angeles attorneys who specialize in damage law,
specialize in claims to insurance companies after a disaster, or
a pipe breaks or an entire neighborhood burns down, all
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of the above and more. It's going to be a super,
super interesting and informative show. That's tomorrow's show. Don't miss
it until then, though, Get out there in this beautiful
day and get busy building yourself a beautiful life, and
we'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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to house whisper dot Design. All right, it's been a
morning of kind of just a casual conversation between friends,
of freeing your mind when it comes to approaching your remodel,
so that you think a little bit bigger, so you
dream a little bit bigger, a little bit more creatively,
include more thoughts, do more research in areas that you
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would normally limit yourself from going to learn more, see more,
experience more, demand a little bit more out of this
remodel instead of doing what you normally do, which is
to your credit of making do not when it comes
to customizing your home. Now is the time to not
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make do and get out of the way of your home.
Now is the time for the home to get out
of your way and for it to give and to move.
Got me all right? Well, a little more on this
as we go, But right now I'm taking calls on
I want to go back to the phones. I want
to talk to Let's talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, welcome home.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Hi bean. I have a question in regards to retrociting
my at events, I have an at a fan and
a whole house fan. Can we retrofit the event with
those two things in there?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, yes, you absolutely can. First of all, the whole
house fan is it does not need retrofitting. That's not
a part of the venting system. A whole house fan
is what is drawing air from your open windows at night,
you know, drawing air through the house and pushing it
out through the attic. And so a whole house fan
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number one only creates positive pressure out of the attic
and it is not a vent for embers to get
into one way or the other. The attic fan, an
attic fan is a fan that is attached to a
vent that you know, exhausts hot air out of an
attic and it creates a vacuum from another vent, probably
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just across the way. And yeah, and that's never a
problem because the attic fan is attached to a vent,
and it can be detached from the vent. It can
have like the the ember proof vent retrofit placed right
there and then reattached and remounted so or the mber
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proof vent can be mounted on the outside if need be.
And it's all done very attractively and very quickly. So yes,
there's absolutely no reason to not move forward with the
ember proof vents. Brand Guard they're my favorite, and they
will help you and whether you measure up the situation
yourself or if you call a place like brand Guard
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and say, hey, can you send somebody out. They don't
do direct installs, but what they do is they have
a full network of certified installers all over southern California,
so they'll put you in touch with somebody who will
come out and who will size up exactly your situation,
order exactly what you need, and get it popped in
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there right away.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Regisitting the vents, something that a homeowner to do is
just getting some fine mesh and putting it on the vents.
Maybe I'm like inside of the attic events.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, so itself, that's a really good question there are.
This is one of the reasons why a company like
brand Guard doesn't employ their own installers, because they do
a lot of just sending vents out to you know,
DIY capable homeowners. So yeah, homeowners are you know, if
you've got some DIY skills, it is. It's not a
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very complex thing at all. To do and and so yeah,
if you're willing to get up in the attic or
get up there and do a little work there, it
can be done pretty easily. The so I'm now I'm
drawing a quick little line here, splitting your question in
two or the answer into and yes, so, yes, a
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homeowner can do this. Some homeowners don't want to do it.
That's what the installers are for. But a homeowner can
do this. And when it comes to the vents themselves, yes,
getting some finer mesh is better than the stuff you've got. Okay,
a finer mesh and installing that is better than the
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stuff you've got. But finer mesh is not as good
as a fully certified and tested and proven ember proof vent. Okay,
it's not just an ember proof vent like for the
Brand Guard vents. They're not just a finer mesh system.
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They actually have a patented baffle system in which the
air gets redirected through and there are places where even
if an EMBER got through you know, mesh layer number one,
it gets trapped in a baffle and it can't get
into the attic. And that's just the first stage, that's
the ember stage. And these vents are also rated to
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shut down the transmission of radiant heat once the fire
actually gets close, and shut down the transmission of flames,
so flames and radiant heat won't get into the attic
and ignite things because of intense heat, and the flames
cannot come in through the vents because these vents will
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self seal once a flame reaches that point of nearing
the vents. So they are very very different than just
finer mesh. But finer mesh on your attic screens is
better than the big stuff that you've got, So I
just want to make it perfectly clear. Amberproof addict vents
is not just about finer mesh, but that is definitely
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better than taking no action at all.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Great.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Thank you so much, Jaanlie. I really appreciate her. You
help them all the homeowners out there.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Thank you so much, Lauren, thanks for listening. I really
appreciate your question. Really really good question, really good. I'm
not sure we've split that hair before, but now everybody
can benefit from that answer and from more answers, which
we will do, can't I being sharp the house whisper
at your service. Good Saturday morning to you. We're just
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having some nice conversations talking about getting our heads in
a remodeling space, being the best possible custom home owners
that we can be, because, you know, customizing your home
for most of us not a thing that we're trained
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to think about because we're so used to making do.
So I'm just helping you breathe a little deeper, have
a little bit more creative space and possibility around you
with some tips. And we'll have a few more of
those as we go. But right now I'm taking calls.
I want to go back to the phones, and I
want to talk to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh yeah, I had a tub shower vinyl combination and
on the top flip of the tub, there are some
great spots coming in and I'm very concerned it could
be some kind of resting molding that's coming through. It
doesn't seem I want to wash off. Should I be concerned?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna be conscientious here
and just qualify my answer with the I haven't seen
it or tested it, so but I'm gonna give you
my best guess. Okay, Okay, when it comes to that,
those gray blotches and gray spots that you find on
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the vinyl and or fiberglass tubs. Sometimes tubshower surrounds right
down there in the corners, right right on the top
lip kind of. And and I know that the very
first thought is that, oh, no, mold, and that's dangerous.
And so here's the thing. If it is mold, okay, uh,
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And let's assume I'm gonna assume for a momentary that
you know that you keep a clean house and that
you haven't neglected this bathroom for thir years, and all right, mold.
For as dangerous as mold can potentially be in some circumstances,
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the fact is mold out in the you know, out
in the daylight, out exposed where it can be easily cleaned.
It is. It is not tenacious as far as being
able to clean it. It does not fight cleaning very much.
It doesn't have a lot of fight to put up there.
So if it were mold, you'd be able to take
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a you know, you'd be able to take a bleach
mixture and wipe it on there and it would just
simply be going away. You'd be able to take just
a regular household cleaner and it would go away. Mold
is not like I'm not going anywhere and you're all dead.
That's just not mold. It likes to grow in the
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dark and in the moist and not get exposed out
where everybody can see it. So that being said, I'm
not one hundred percent ruling it out, but in my experience,
ninety nine times out of one hundred, when we've got
these gray spots and speckles and blotches happening, it is
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soap scum mixed with hard water, meaning mineralization leftover that
ends up collecting in the corners. And that's why it's
so dang hard to clean, because it's kind of this
resinous mixture of soap scum wrapped around leftover hard water minerals.
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And that's why they're gray, by the way, because they're
kind of rocky mineralization, and that's why it's tougher to clean.
And so there are some products that will help you
do that, like you know, but you just got to
find got to make sure, like is it CLR the
calcium lime and rust. You just got to make sure
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that a product like that which just knocks right through
mineral deposits isn't going to do damage to the actual
surface of the vinyl. The safest route to go to
start with at least, and I always recommend, you know,
do the least toxic approach. The safest route to start
with would be taking some baking soda, just regular old
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you know, baking soda, mixing it with some water and
making a paste and covering over those pasting it all
over and let it sit on there for several hours
and then come back with a little bit of elbow
grease and see if you can't get most of it
off that way. Baking soda does an amazing job of
cutting through that and also lifting up mineralization. But as
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far as your fear is concerned, my guess is that
it's hard water deposits mixed with soap scum, and that's
why it's being so tenacious to clean.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Good ideas in the corners. It's on the top shelf lid,
So that's what I was concerned. If it was rush
so good, I would clean it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Terry. Good luck with that.
I'm sure you're you're gonna you're gonna get the better
of it. I'm sure do we have you know, I've
got time to start a call. I might have to
pop you on the hold. But let's talk to Monica.
Hey Monica, welcome home.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes? I can?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Oh, okay, I mean I'm walking around and someone can
hear me. But anyway, I miss last last week's show
on the ceiling drips or whatever. I look at my
ceiling and it's starting to peel and can I treat
it with some kind of you know, paint kind of
thing or do I have to get somebody to kind
of look at it on top?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And you know, okay, so you look at it, your ceiling.
Where where are we talking in the living room? Okay,
your living rooms? Cling and and the paint is starting
to peel off.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Of it, Yeah, starting to peel it like you could
say you could when you look at it, you just go, oh,
that's kind of like a leak. But we haven't found
any leaks. But it's you know, a big kind of
paints kind of starting to come off. I mean it's
ready to be.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you. Yeah. That sounds like
paint that has been applied over a surface that didn't
get primered properly, didn't get to the proper adhesion, so
the paint is failing to adhere because the surface wasn't
prepped right now, whether or not it's just one spot
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or whether the whole ceiling is, you know, in need
of attention, I think, I mean, if you're if you're
not prone to being a DIY painter, I think it's
time to probably have a qualified painter come in and
assess it, either to you know, patch what's happening and
contain it to keep your costs low at the moment,
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or you may just need to you know, want to
commit to you know, let's just redo the living room ceiling.
Let's paint the living room ceiling, but we got to
do it right, uh, and then address it and they'll
be able to sand it down and check for areas
that are clinging properly versus areas that aren't, and then
apply a new primer coat to everything, kind of stabilize
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it all and a new code of paint and it
shouldn't be in any way, shape or form an ongoing problem.
But everybody, remember remember when you were talking to a
painter or even just taking paint bids or estimates, you
know what you want to see in that list of
things you don't you know, don't be dazzled by the
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amazing paint, although amazing paints like Benjamin Moore are the
key to it lasting long. But remember that when it
comes to paint prep, prep is like ninety percent of
the game. You want to see all sorts of things
in the quote for we're doing this to prep, and
we're doing that to prep, and we're standing this, and
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we're getting this ready and we're patching that. And because
all of that preparation means that that one or two
coats of paint that go up when it's all said
and done, are going to cling and hold and last long,
long time. Paint is ninety percent prep. All right, thanks
so much for the question, and we actually got that out.
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I'm running a little bit late, so let's do this.
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty, CAFI AM six forty, live streaming,
and HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You are Home
with Dean Sharp, the house whisper that is me. We're
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having a conversation this morning about kind of freeing up
your mind as remodeling season is approaching, becoming a custom homeowner,
not just expecting a custom home to appear before your eyes.
To get a custom home, you need to be a
custom homeowner. We got to stop thinking so much about
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making do and giving ourselves the freedom to dream a
little bit bigger. We're going to talk a little bit
more about that in the next segment, but right now
I'm still taking calls. We've still got some calls on
the board. I want to go back and answer some
questions about your home. Let's talk to Spencer. Hey, Spencer,
welcome home.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Heydan, can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I can?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
So I have a closet door that is broken. It's
in a church, it's on a wall full of mirrors,
and it's quite old. Let's go at forty years old,
and so matching the door is a little hard. I'm
just checking to see am I going the right path.
I called around, got a bunch of really high quotes,
and then somebody said, why don't you talk to a
a contractor And they said, oh, you're getting screwed. You
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need to call this company and just have them come
in to replace just the glass. And they said, you know,
that's probably going to be like maybe two hundred and fifty
dollars where I was quoted four hundred and fifty dollars initially.
Have somebody fixed the glass? Am I on the right track?
That's basically my question?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah? I think so, I think generally now is the door?
Is it? Is it a regular framed door, like it
has a wood frame all around it and there's a
mirror inset into it?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Metal? But yeah, yeah, okay, so there's so you're saying
it's metal on the on the edge, So is the
whole door? Can you know? Cause there are sliding closet
doors that are basically just all all mirror with metal
edging around them, and then there are you're talking about
that's what we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
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here's here's where you're on the right track. You're on
the right track by exploring all of your options. So, yeah,
one thing to replace the whole door. You may not
be able to find one that matches right, And so
I'm thinking the same way, you know, call a glass company,
call a couple of glass companies and have them come
out and take a look at it. And then you know,
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because it's it's relatively thin glass, it's not heavy duty glass,
and they're used to this kind of stuff. And if
that frame can in any way be disassembled to free
up the glass and then put a new piece in,
You're probably totally on the right track. That's it, all right, buddy.
That was an easy one. Wow, I was so easy.
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I got time for another one. Let's talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
welcome home.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Hey Dean.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
How you doing?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I am well, sir. How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Cool? Well?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
So, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I have because of finances, I probably have two projects.
And then an older mobile home. It's paneled, not drywall
to dry wall well, actually the entire place in the
area I want to dry wall. Now, there's also a
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large sliding glass door that needs to be replaced, frame
and all, and I just don't know which order to
do it in. Should I do the door first? Should
I do the wall first?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Change out the door, change out the door first? Uh,
there's no there's no switching out. Yeah there, it's just
it's yes, surgically, you know, like if you came and said, listen,
here's our challenge. I need to change out this, uh,
this sliding glass door without disturbing any of the dry
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wall around it. And you know, it could it be done. Yeah, yeah,
it could be done, but it's a lot of hassle
and uh is there still a risk of doing some
damage to the dry wall anyway. Yes. So in that circumstance,
if you've got some uh some uh, you know, major
member of a wall fixture on a wall, like a
door or a window that needs replacing, and you're also
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planning on, you know, refinishing the inside of the room,
then the classic typical order in construction would be, you know,
doors and windows. We build a brand new house, doors
and windows go in before the before we ever get
to drywalling. Okay, So in your case, I'm going to
say the same thing, just to change out the side
and glass door and then you've got nothing to worry about.
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You know exactly where to cut the drywall to. It'll
go in, it'll fit right, nice and tight. Nothing you'll
be disturbing it.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
That sounds tabulous. Thank you, Dean, you and Tina have
a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Appreciate it well, Thank you, buddy, Thank you so much.
Appreciate you guys. You guys are so kind. Wow, that's
a second call. I'm going to try and do three. Jeff,
Welcome home. Jeff, are you there? Did we lose Jeff?
Oh Man? I really wanted to do three calls? Jeff,
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are you with me? Now? Maybe not? All right? Dang
here I was finally in a position to get three
calls in one segment, and all right, that's fine, No,
it's fine. No, sorry, all right. Uh, let's transition back
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then to to where I started today's show. There are
no bad ideas. There are only bad decisions. And by
saying that, what I'm trying to communicate is the front
end here, that ideas, the I, the ideation, the thinking
up and the planning and the dreaming, I want you
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to expand that and not worry about like somehow, oh
this is gonna lead to me being over budget and
I'm gonna be, you know, spending stupid money on things
that I shouldn't be spending money. Ideas are not decisions.
A decision is taking a set of ideas or an idea,
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shaping it into a you know, a strategy, and then
pulling the trigger. That's a decision. And bad decisions are bad,
I mean bad decisions, you know, to take things on
the wrong track. And bad decisions can cost you time,
can cost you money, can cost you all sorts of things.
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But an idea is not a decision. It's just an idea,
and the best decisions come from a rich pool of
fully developed ideas. And if the reason I'm making such
a big thing about this is in my experience in
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working with hundreds thousands of homeowners, at this point, the
thing I see perhaps most common in the typical homeowner
is this self editing at the very beginning. I walk
in the door, and I'm there to help you dream
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and to think of things, And already I see you're
editing yourself and not even allowing yourself to think certain
thoughts about what's possible. And I get that because you're
just so used to making do with what you've got,
kind of just moving around it because it's there and
you haven't had the means or the or the will
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or the desire to move it out of your way.
But a custom home, a custom remodel. Now it's time
for the house to move out of your way. But
that also puts something on you that you're not used
to doing so much, and that is thinking bigger thoughts
and collecting more creative ideas. All right, more on that,
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right after we find out what is going on? Gean
Sharp the house whisper, Welcome home. Thanks for joining us
on the program today. All right, I've got some final
thoughts about our topic today. Of there are no bad ideas,
only bad decisions, kind of freeing your mind as you
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approach your remodel. Some of you are like, why doesn't
he just get down to the brass tax of like
how to install a toilet. We've spent plenty of time
doing that, my friend, plenty of time doing that. But
when it comes to approaching anything you change on your home.
You know what I always say, design matters most. And
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to get to that place of getting the right design,
you as the homeowner, need to stop self editing so
early upfront. You need to free yourself up. So let's
review where what we've already discussed so far, and then
I'm going to give you still a couple of more
great tips along the way. Here Custom home starts with
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a custom thinking homeowner. Okay, freeing yourself not to make
do now the house is going to move out of
your way. Create a judgment free sandbox. I'm using air quotes,
can you hear them? A judgment free sandbox to play
in that could be a folder on your computer. Maybe
it's a physical folder sitting on your desk, maybe it's
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a maybe it's a Pinterest board, whatever the case is.
But a sandbox is a place where you can just
collect ideas judgment free. You're not judging them. You're putting
things in there because you like them. Period. It's all
that you know need be or you're interested in it,
or you're gonna pursue it and check it out. Okay,
give yourself that freedom. And what does a judgment free
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area look like? When like, if we're working with two people,
like a couple working on a remodel, you know, designing
it in your minds together, dreaming it up together. I
would say this one of the most important lessons I
ever opted into the design process is and I would say,
you know what I'm just going to say life in
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general is the rules of improv comedy. Okay, improv. If
you've ever seen improv done and done it well, I
think most people have seen it done. Is when you
know somebody on stage just starts kicking out an idea,
unscripted idea, and then they've got a partner up there
and they just work off of that idea. And they
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just create a whole thing. They're improvising as they go,
and the people who do it, well, it's just genius
and it's super entertaining. At the root of all of
that is a principle or a rule, and the rule
is that improv that good improvisation, good creative process is
all about. It starts with yes. And that's the response
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to somebody yes. And the opposite, which is the death
of improvisation and the death of creativity, is no. But okay,
So what I mean is you you have a thought.
You know, maybe I'm your partner and you have a thought,
and you're like, you know, here's a crazy thought. What
if our home could do? Right? My role as your partner,
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because these are not decisions, these are ideas. My role
of your partner is to acknowledge that, Yes, that is
a crazy thought, but yeah, I see the value there.
That's that's interesting. You know. I'm not saying that we
should enact it tomorrow, but yeah, yes, and and maybe
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I can feed something else into that. And now all
of a sudden, see that's yes and yes. And the
opposite of that in communication and in life is no. No, No,
that's ridiculous. And that's where we crush these these potentially
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really value ideas, and we keep them from growing into
something else, something that really will make a difference. So
it's yes and you know, and not always no or
well but but you know that you know that's the
kind of thing. So the rule is yes and not
no and but got it all right, because remember, an
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idea is not a decision. So there's no need to
fear an idea. It's not a decision. It's an idea.
Embrace it, play with it. Window shopping is free. There's
no need to narrow it to your budget, research, explore, learn,
don't pre categorize yourself. Know that most of your ideas
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won't make it into the project in the form that
they first arrive, but they may spark the most important
idea that does change the game. And I'll give you
these last two little tidbits here. Give yourself time. You
always hear me harping on spending time and slowing it down.
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Nothing truly outstanding is designed or built overnight. Even with
a well thought out design. We encourage you to layer
a project as much as you can, because you know what,
with every new completed phase of the project, that project.
As your home starts to change shape, it's going to
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alter the way you experience the space, and it's gonna
give birth to other ideas. Take the time, layer things out,
take the time to allow it even as you change it,
allow it to change you, because that's what happens in
a really good custom design scenario. Remember the iron triangle.
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You've got three sides time, quality, and cost, and the
rule is inviolable. You can have any two of those
sides of the triangle that you want, and you're gonna
pay for it with the third side. Okay, so if
you want it done fast and excellent but overnight like
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fast and excellent, time and quality, get ready to write
a big check. You're going to pay for it in
the cost. If you want it done fast and cheap, hey,
no problem. All you're going to sacrifice is quality, that's right.
But if you're like most people and you want it
the best value possible and the best quality possible, then
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guess what you have to spend. You pay for it
by taking your time. And that's the thing. Give yourself time.
Don't last tip, don't try to design the space. Don't
just jump into the space. Okay, don't be a designer,
be a homeowner, be the person living in the space.
Describe what you want to do in it, and how
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you want to feel in it, and what you want
to experience in it. Those are the most important questions
to ask you and yourself right up front. Those are
the questions I ask you right up front, so you
ask them of yourself. All right, that's all we've got
time for today. We have spent the time wisely. I
think we're going to be right back here tomorrow for
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the big show. Tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking
with two Los Angeles attorneys who specialize in damage law,
specialize in claims to insurance companies after a disaster, or
a pipe breaks or an entire neighborhood burns down, all
(32:35):
of the above and more. It's going to be a super,
super interesting and informative show. That's tomorrow's show. Don't miss
it until then, though, Get out there in this beautiful
day and get busy building yourself a beautiful life, and
we'll see you tomorrow. This has been Home with Dean Sharp,
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the House Whisper. Tune into the live broadcast on ka
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