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Speaker 1 (00:07):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF.
This is the CDBIA Hour on this Friday morning with
your host Donna Barrett. Donna, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am doing well. How are you this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Wonderful? What's going on? We've missed you. It was just
Todd and I last time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I think I was in Tallahassee.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You were sending all kinds of pictures from Tallahassee. How
was it up there? Do you have a good time?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It was, It was very exciting. I took a spring break.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
My daughter was actually a messenger for Danny Nixon the
house side, so she got to see things. You know,
she's eighteen. She's going to vote for the first time
next year. And I am praying that I'm raising her
correctly to understand how important.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well she's getting research, she's getting opportunities like that. Then yeah, yeah,
I think you've done I think you've done a fine job. Well,
she'll she'll get a very good opportunity to you know,
read people, meet people to see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And figure it out the correct information when it comes
to making informed decisions. And you know, I don't raise
my children to be a political party. I raised them
to know where to get the sources and where to
get the information and to understand what matters most to
them when it comes to voting.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And yeah, I'm really proud of her. And then right
after that, we had our state meetings.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
At the Florida home Builders Association and that was that
was a great time. It was probably one of our
most exciting meetings where we had seven new members that
actually came with us to help strengthen our voice. When
we went into go see Senate President Ben Auburton, we
had about thirty of us.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And what was on the agenda? What were some of
the things on the agenda that you guys wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
There's a couple of bills that were one of the
ones that was most near and dear to our heart
when we met with Florida Homebuilders early last year. It
was a construction fraud bill. I know, a lot of
it was what we've seen here in our community, what
happened after the hurricane with unlicensed companies coming into town
and you know, taking advantage of people. We are a
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very trusting community and it's sad that I have to
tell people stop doing that and stop trusting people.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean we you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Who we are, that's how we've run, that's that's been
our you know, that's been our badge of honor. But
when it comes to transactions with your finances, don't be
so trusting. So just a couple of different things, and
of course even doubling the fines or raising the fines
is what we were asking for. And you know, felony
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and just you know, raising what kind of charges. So
that was the one bill that was the most near
and dear. And then a couple of things were extraordinary circumstances.
What that meaning is on impact fees right now, there
is not one. There's no definition in our state. So
those are two of the bills that we're.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Not until the extraordinary circumstance happens before the well they
wind up defining what it means.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, yeah, well this well right now, it's basically that
the leaders are in the community could say do we
want to do this, Yeah, sure, it's okay, we deem
it extraordinary. So to give a definition is that was
one of our biggest things.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And then there's lean laws that are out there.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You know, there's everything that we do is focused on
helping the homeowner and helping of course the industry be
able to take care of certain things so the way
they can build and rebuild and we can keep going.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
On our way.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, you've brought some guests with you today.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yes, today is going to be a very lit show.
We have our exciting friends from the local lighting shop here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh okay, for.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Any of our members that are listening, of course they
get to see Suzanne.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
She comes to a lot of our meetings. Alicia as well.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But we have the leaders the Queen's Jamie and Jackie
are here today.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You were you weren't expecting this, right? You love it?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If I could just say this first, what captivated me
about these ladies. I love how you individualize every one
of your customers. At one point we even had one
of their builders say, we don't want them to join
the association because we don't want everybody using them because
they you specialize things for them. They have two shops
in town and they'll go into this. But this is
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homegrown product right here. You know, Jamie grew up here,
she was born here. Jackie was born in Hollywood, Florida,
but they both went to school here. And this is
a true success of what comes from our community, what
our community breeds. And like I said, you light up
our community.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So go back into this. How did you ladies start.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In the industry?
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Or we want to talk about our beginnings at Charlotte
High School?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Oh gosh, we need to go that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, I had to meet I'll say that then.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Long ago when we were twelve of them in the locker.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Room, Yes, at Pontagordon Middle School.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Is uh crying over something I feel like and call
it spilled milk. Spilled milk, and Uh Jamie came up
to me and told me basically to suck it up, Buttercup.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Get dressed, tray to get in trouble. We got to
go to the gym.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And that's how our our best friend love started.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So now take me after graduation. You graduate high school
and what happened there? Where does that word go?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
So we both our first sons are six days apart,
so we got pregnant young and family started families and
you know, raised our boys together, trying to figure out
how to be mothers as children, babies.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Having babies, and the beach every weekend had a good.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Time, enjoyed, enjoyed Boca Green Beach because.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It was free.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
And then we, I don't know, life just kind of
started moving, you know, I think it just started picking up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I I went straight in.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
When right in I was waiting tables at the Old
Breakers restaurant that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Now is oh wow, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You know, that was really cool for a minute when
it first opened.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Three different fo yeah, two different.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But they just from what I recall, remember, they just
waited too long to open or you know.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
What's interesting is that if they were doing it now
as a micro brew, it'd be like the coolest.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It would be out because that was neat you know,
the glass you could look right through and see the tanks.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It was wrong time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, bad timing.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, man, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That tells you how long tho it was.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I remember the bar and.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think the second four and then upstairs was more
like the dance floor.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah it was. It was a cool It
was a cool, cool.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Restaurant definitely, and I started work We did you work
there with me?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You know?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I did not know that was but I started working
there when I was probably like fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And then waited tables.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
When I was eighteen, and then I waited a couple
I had been in part of Junior Leadership Charlotte over
at Chelle High, which is an amazing program still today,
and there was a gentleman, John Roberts at that particular time.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He owned Light Ideas up before Charlotte.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
And he and his wife Heidi happened to start coming
into breakers when I was waiting tables, and he remembered
me from Junior Leadership Charlotte, and it became one of
those things like every Friday they came in and I
always knew what he drank and what she drank, and
it was ready for them. And one day he's like, Hey,
do you want to come work for me? And I
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was like, okay, so, you know, we I thought about it,
and eventually yes, I ended up going and working. So
I started at Light Ideas when I was you know,
eighteen or so in there, and then I worked there
until probably.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What twenty twenty one, twenty two.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I did celebrate my twenty first birthday working out Light Ideas,
because I do remember going out.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Not twenty twenty one or twenty twenty twenty one years ol.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
When I was twenty one years old.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I knew we had this in there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh jingle, do you have a jingle?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, it was the old light idea.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that shows. And then kind of from there it
just grew.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I went, I have a fantastic friend and she owns
a rep agency and I hounded her for months to
hire me because I wanted to understand the manufacturing and
distribution side of our business overall. And so she finally
hired me. And then she honestly, she was actually the
only female I ever worked for, and she was the
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one who taught me how to pet a professional woman,
how to dress, how to talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Awesome. We have to take our first break and we'll
be right back with more on News Radio fifteen eighty
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
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CDBIA hours. What you're listening to with your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Donna, this is why we love you. Kennan, have you here?
I'm not one for radio.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He So again, we're here with the local lighting shop
and Jamie, Jackie and Susanna here, and so they're getting
ready to tell us how how you came to be
So Jackie, you were talking about working for a woman
and oh.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Yeah, and she taught me how to be a professional
business woman, which was awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And I don't know, just kind of rolling through that.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
The economy crashed in two thousand and eight in September,
and I went home and told my husband at the time, Hey,
I think I'm gonna lose my job. And I said,
you know, I've always wanted to own a business. I
think we should just start something. And actually I borrowed
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five thousand dollars from our savings account, and that January
of nine is when we started. And he was in
school full time, going to school to become a firefighter,
so he wasn't even working.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So it was you know how it is in life.
Really got to rip that band aid off, yeah, really
ripping it off. And I worked from home.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
And I actually will tell you that one of my
very first jobs I signed three in like the first
three months. One was a church in Lehigh Acres, New
Life Assembly of God.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The second one was the Lashly Crab House. Oh yep.
I went into the trailer. I'll never forget.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I'm like, I'm just going in this job trailer and
Jimmy Priquette was the contractor and this young. I mean
back then, I was like twenty four. I mean, I
was like a baby. I knew nothing. By the way
I was winging it, I was like fake it till
you make it kind of deal. And uh I walked
right in that trailer, and you know, I was like saying,
I really want to do this job. I went to school,
you know, with some of the people that are a
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part of this, and I've loved this community my whole
Like well, you know, you use the whole spiel, right,
And he's like, I'm sorry, but you need to talk
to Grey Brown with Greg Electric I'm not in charge
of that.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And I said, okay. So I'm like I walk out.
I'm like yes because then I worked at that ideas.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Greg and John are really good friends and we had
worked together before, and so I called Greg and I'm oh,
and by the way, I'm leaving the parking lot where
they're building the crab house and I'm so excited. I
run the stop light at Marion in forty one and
a city officer pulls me over and I was like,
couldn't wait to tell someone.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And pay attention, all right, get at it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
He's like he's like, oh my gosh, that's so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Did he give you a ticket?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No, let me go, Let me go.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And and then my third project was actually in Naples
and it was a private residence in Port Royal, so
it was I don't know, it was just like the trifecta.
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I called Greg and I was like, hey, Greg, this
is Jackie.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Remember me.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I used to work at Lighted.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
He's like, oh, hey, and Greg and Barber such fantastic people.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And so anyways, he ended up like letting me.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Come on board and we ended up doing the crabhouse
and the building together, so it was really cool. And
then from there, you know, you kind of get your stride,
and you know, it was a weird time because the
guy everyone who had worked really hard their whole lives
that were small business owners and in the construction industry
as well as many others were so deeply affected by
the recession. I think it was it was a great
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time for me because I was new. I didn't have
anything to lose, you know, I was at the very
bottom trying to gain momentum, and then what it was
like everything else around me was collapsing. It was a
really interesting enlightening and teaching time, because I will tell
you it taught me to prepare for the worst.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And to be a little paranoid, I guess, and a
certain degree. But I'm thankful for everyone who helped. I mean,
it was. It did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
When they say that it takes a village to raise
a child, it takes a village to help small business
owners and us youngsters starting off and growing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I love that. So how did Jamie get into
the mix?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
A boy.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Had went into short stint with medical and worked in
extremely busy office, which is where my kind of like
take charge and management skills were very honed. I did
multiple jobs, wore many hats, and worked a lot of
hours with two young children, usually leaving when it was
dark and coming home when it was dark. So those
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things were progressing. And one day I met my friend
and she.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Said, let's go have a beer at ice House.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
At ice House and because I was working upon a
goord of office, so we met and I'm talking about
work and oh my gosh, this is so much and
we're talking and she was like, h she goes.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I remember her telling me that.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
I kind of was like, oh wow, she's really this
is a lot like I feel like she can do more.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
And two days later she called and she was like,
do you want to come work with me? And I
was like, are we going to do it? Finally? Because
everyone used to say like, why don't you guys.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Work together, like you're the perfect pair, like you worked
on and we were like no, you know, you don't
want to cloud the friendship. We had whole lives together
with our kids and everything, families, and we were like no.
But then she said, do you want to work with me?
I'm like, yeah, let's just go ahead. So at the time,
she was doing a lot of out of state work.
So I went to work on July seventh for the
first time to an empty office because my best friend
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was like, sink or swim, baby, figure it out.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
At least I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I didn't know the password for and I couldn't hold her.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
I don't under there's no training. Yeah, wait, it doesn't
work that way in our lives. But I learned very
quickly and started to do a lot of things. And
initially I was doing things to help her more of
like a support staff type of thing, and that quickly
changed into just doing everything that needed done, and then
it was let's open a showroom.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So let's go into what exactly we is the local
lighting shop for our community that sees your store and
drives buy and hasn't been in there.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
We are a boutique style lighting showroom. What we bran
is very curated. It's a lot of just what we
like and what we know sells. So we mix things
that are extremely affordable with some higher end things mid
and higher end. We've accessed to everything in the market.
You know, it's very very easy for people to go
and buy something on Amazon. It's our job to convince
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them that what we have is better. Based on customer service.
Every single job takes hours and hours and hours of
customer service to see it through, even to maintaining our
own products, helping with troubleshooting. I mean you're talking jobs
that go two years sometimes from initial meeting to install.
And even at that point, there's always a broken fan.
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So there's always a fan making a noise.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Jamie's nemesis, the fane of my exist since our sailing fans, because.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I just can't have a three speed pool chain.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There are there now are.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Everything is very smart is actually not, no, they're not
smart at all.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Progress sometimes regress.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yes, and I have a warehouse gentleman that knows how
to do it all, and that poor guy probably troubleshoots
ten fans a week.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
So I don't know what they're doing to them now
or they making.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Them, but it's rough. It's rough.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, it's the pine of my.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So if somebody is purchasing a new home and they're
building a home and working with their builder, can they
come in and meet with you or they better have
do you work better with the builder? How would that
work in the process for the people that are building
right now.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
So, whether it's new construction or remodel. On the residential side,
there's actually two different like funnels. Usually the general contractors
are who are referring us, and then we're meeting with
that particular homeowner in that process. So it's it's an
initial meeting coming in seeing the shops. We do have
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the two locations, so both shops offer completely different products
and a completely different feel. Both showrooms look totally different
from one another. So once the client has a chance
to kind of preview that, then one of our sales
associates they're now you know, they're assigned, I say, but
we kind of project manage through everything.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
So it's our job once that process.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Starts, to become your lighting expert, and it's our job
to understand what your home is supposed to look like,
how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Move in your home, how do you live in your home.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Yes, how you want it to feel, and us to
curate that particular lighting package and design for you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So the product is kind of in the.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Showrooms the aha moment, like I really really really really.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Love handblown glass.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Okay, it might not be that handblown glass fixture that
we've brought in for you to see, but now you
know what the handblown glass looks like in comparison to
a press clae us, you know, and something that's made
in the United States versus something that's not, something that's
plated versus something that's painted. All coming from all different
parts of the world, by the way, not just China.
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I know everybody kind of assumes it's always China.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That is always imagine you're talking about that is European?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Isn't it actually European and American made in America.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
A lot we have in the United stuff we have.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
We have a manufacturer that makes some beautiful stuff out
of Salt Lake city.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
It's all American made cool, so it's important to a
lot of people.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
So if somebody is looking at remodeling their home, one
of some of the suggestions you would give to them,
we actually have.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Our team is able to go in from the very
beginning with a contractor to basically walk the job with
them when there's studs, when they rip all the drywall out,
when they're doing all the changes, and they're able to
let you know where your recess cans go. Maybe we
should put a fan here, let's switch and change the subway.
We have no walls, so we start from very beginning.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sorry I mean interrupt you.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
So one of the great things that Jamie brings up
is is lighting actually is a full gamut. Right. I
think a lot of people think of a lighting showroom
in a traditional style, meaning decorative lighting and fans.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We are not that.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
We actually are lighting experts, and we deal and touch
every piece of lighting. So at the very beginning of
your project, like Jamie's mentioning, when you're down to this
stuzz we do the architectural lighting.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And layouts, and with that we're going to be back
with more. We got top of the hour news and traffic,
and we'll be back on news Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Of in.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
See that's why I wanted to wear headphones. So she
dances in her chair. News Radio fifteen eighty WCCF one
hundred point nine FM. This is a Cdbia Hour with
your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Donna and we are here with our special guests from
the local lighting Shop. Before we go any further, can
we get your contact information so people can look at
your website and know how to call you if they
have any questions.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Let's see Ponta Gorda store website. Website, So website is easy.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
It's the local Lightingshop dot com, so it's easy to remember,
and we have all of our products on there. We
have our portfolio of jobs. Also, I would say social
media wise, Facebook, Instagram, it is constantly being fed with news, designs,
new projects we've completed, and a great way to reach
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out to us as well. And then for our Pontagorda store,
I'm gonna jam through the phone number.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Okay, we're at eleven oh five tailor, so everybody knows
this as being right next to Befo Brady's and Puana
Gorda and that phone number is nine four one six forty.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
One eighty and our go ahead, no go.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Our Poor Charlotte location is right at forty sixty one
Tamami Trail. It's pretty much across from Bob Evans, more
of like the Charlotte Harbor area.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So you like the food, we do like food by
Chubbys too, tell me a right, bas.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
B ANDNG Markets Allen in town. We love those girls.
They see us coming. But in that story you can
reach out to them at nine four one two five
eleven o six.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So take us back.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
We talked a little bit about the showroom and some
of the detail, but what are the services like you
offer and if anybody is looking regarding lighting?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
So everything from our Poor Charlotte stands to be a
little more retail driven.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
So you walk in.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Those girls are able to on the spot help you
find what you're looking for with a little bit of
information from you. So if you come in with a
picture and say I saw this and I really love it,
they're either going to match it up because it may
be out of your price range and it may not
be they will find that particular one or they can
match it to something more affordable for you. It can
go either direction. So there's something as simple as a
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walk in and then what we were kind of touching
on before, you may see us come in at the
beginning of a remodel with the house completely gooded, so
it's really all facets. We can go in and control
all of the architectural lighting, so we can light up
that beautiful wine case.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That you're building.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
We can put lights on the toe kick in your
bathroom that turn on at night when you walk in
there so you don't trip and fall on your way
to the body. We can do all of those things,
So I mean, anyway, I mean we're literally putting lighting
in walls.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Now of walls and ceilings, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
All regressed.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I'm sure it's a lot easier regarding wiring if you
start it from the beginning. But if somebody is just
doing a remodel or just wanting to update their living
room or home, can you still do those changes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
With the lighting.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, definitely, So it just excuse me, Hi, caller, you're
on the air.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Hey, good morning, it's TJ.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Thornberry, our favorite contractor.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're on here. Everybody can hear that one of your
favorite he's a politician.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Because the feeling is mutual. And good morning to you all,
And I just want to give you a plug from
a builder's perspective, the service that you give our customers,
you know, with Kayla and our count rep and you know,
coming out to the job and laying out the fixtures
and dealing with warranty issues, and you know, there's much
more to just selling a light fixture, for sure. And
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as you know, these fixtures are becoming more and more
technically advanced. You almost need to be a lighting engineer
to put them together sometimes. So Kayla comes out and
you know, it actually tells our electrician how to assemble
them half the time. We can't appreciate that more. It's
an awesome service. You guys take ownership and everything you
sell and we love working with you guys. Couldn't recommend anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Thank you so much. TJ. That was awesome.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
I mean I'm tearing up a little bit actually, so
we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, so we do really care.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So to hear it from somebody on the other side of.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We've had TJ on this air and he talks that
he's never built the same home twice, which I think
is one thing that is so important for people to understand.
If they want a uniqueness in their home, how you
can add that even if they were to buy a
spec home or buy from a production builder, you have
the ability to look make that home unique and perfect
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for them.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it reflects the client at the end.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And you can see it too. Just check out their website,
the Local Lightingshop dot com and TJ's some of his
works right there. It is, as well as some other
works as well.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
So yeah, we're getting ready to atograph a couple of
really awesome projects that we finished with him.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
So we're excited about that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nice TJ.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Thank you anything more you want to add, Great job, guys,
keep up the great work.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Thank you all right, take care, bye bye, And with that,
we have to take another break and we'll be right
back on News Radio fifteen eighty News Radio fifteen eighty
one hundred point nine FM WCCF. This is the Cdbia
(25:30):
Hour with your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Donna, Hello, and we are with our friends from the
Local Lighting Shop. We have Jamie, Jackie and Susanne. I
know she's in the back over there. But she's still
here and she matters so much. Let's go back into
the industry that it's ever evolving. What do you think
the top or best current trends are for the clientele
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in this area towards lighting.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I would natural. I think material is a big
deal right now.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It's coastal, which is slightly painful to say sometimes. So
we've tried to make coastal a little bit of our
own style and bring it into today's world and add
in some of the more current styles and things.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
A lot of natural material.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
A lot of natural woods. We're tans, I would say too.
You're we're seeing a warmer trend. So I'm gonna touch
on this for a little bit for like four seconds.
So during the recession, we're gonna go back there for
just one second. In two thousand and eight, you see
a trend in a drive towards Gray's cooler colors. We're
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you know, and I know this sounds weird, but if
you just look at the runway too, runway actually dictates
our design business.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So when you when you see, oh we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Have another we have another car, do you want to
pause that runway?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You're paused on the runway and paused on the runway
the air.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Hello, my name is Tony. When the LESCo solutions right husband,
I just.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Heard five minutes ago. Congratulations Tony, good one, lucky man.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Thank you, thank you. I am I am so Jackie
and Jamie. I have a few questions for you. I'll
have a lesser contractor local in the area. I was
wondering what added benefits you offer to us contractors that
we may or may not get from a local box
store and or spouse. What would make me want to
come to you to buy my products?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
That makes sense, I would say an individualized attention. So
one of the things that we love about all of
our electrical contractors in the industry is that each one
of you have unique needs. So it might be today
I have a random question about why this particular track
doesn't fit into this particular application, and we'll go and
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we'll research, and we'll make sure we understand application, how
we teach you about that product and is it really
right for the job, And we also will always fix
it if there's something wrong. And we also have a
very competitively priced EC program that we tailor for each
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one of our electrical contractors. So if your primary business
is more focused on residential. We're going to pull particular
product products and we're going to stock those for you,
and we're going to price them at a aggressively so
you're able to go into the market and be able
to win the jobs that you need to win and
be successful with that. And then on the commercial side,
because we do do a lot of commercial work.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
We don't talk about that a lot, but we do
do a lot.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Of commercial work, and we will tailor those programs for
that ec that's more focused on that particular side of
the business as well.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
In particular on the residential side.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
She's talking about products like under cabinet lighting, tape lighting,
recess first, small pucks, anything for you know, that type
of actual lighting, not just fixtures, And I get.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I would I would make the assumption that you don't
stock these items. What's the tip will turn around time
for me to get products from.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
You if we so we we actually are. One of
the things that we're trying to do right now is
actually stock. So one of the things we're learning with
price increases in the you know, just kind of the
uncertainty right now that we're facing is by stocking, we're
able to actually control our pricing a little bit better.
But if for some reason we do not have it available,
it usually takes us seven to ten business days, depending
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on which vendor we're working with and where it's coming
from in the country. Some are shipping from California and
some ship from Georgia. If it's coming from Georgia, we
can have it in a couple of days. If it's
coming from California, we're looking at seven to ten.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Got Okay, So I think that we need to make
the world know that you offer way more than just
decorative fixtures, and we should also.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Let them know that she treats every contract or the same.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Somewhere.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
They're all just as important.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And we have another call coming in.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
But Tony, you're absolutely right bringing up the fact that
working with Mom and pops smaller companies here too, you
get that individualized attention.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Absolutely, Thank you, Tony. Thanks son, Hi.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Caller, you're on the air more Ooh terribly sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Call back.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That was a bad call connection.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
He's probably on a great job site right now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Or over the border. So let's go back to trends
and runways.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Okay, So the fashion industry actually dictates, dictates the design
industry so and also the condition of the world around us.
So eight is a great example of why we went
to the cooler colors. And when you look at the runway,
people's outfits become less flowy, less fun. They become tighter
because we're becoming more reserved with our money, and like
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there's a lot of things that you're going to you
start seeing happening, and that then follows into furniture, fabrics, colors,
hard surfaces, lighting. So turning through all that, we went
through about ten fifteen years of gray and cool colors
because of how we all were feeling about the environment
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around us. Really and now I think with COVID, we
all realized how much we really should love life, and
how much we loved nature, and how much we loved
our homes actually because we spent a lot of time there,
and how we wanted to create warmth together as families.
And now you're seeing the trends starting to change, and
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we're seeing browns and greens and blues and textures.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
You know, rich you know woods.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Also you're seeing the introduction of mid century modern coming
back in. But instead of it being cold, which made centener,
winter never really should be, but you're seeing that walnut,
the richness in the brown and adding in to soften
that that mid century space a Rafael or a Ratan.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
They were finally seeing the exit of brushed nickel.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Anyway, the bronze is the golds, a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Of mapple popular, so it's there is definitely a richness.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
And then if you look at the design shrends on
the runway, that's all being reflected. I mean, listen, I
want to target the other day and bought some you know,
like Wickery shoes.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You know, kind of kind of itchy, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
They were lined, so they're lined, but they're super cute.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
So you you see it in all avenues of design,
including fashion, which definitely dictates that for us.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Yeah, and across the pond there always a couple of
years ahead of us they are.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
This is mind blowing to hear all of this. So
once again, let's go into remodeling. There are a lot
of people that are remodeling their homes right now. When
should they come into your showroom just to get an
idea of what they're looking at?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Should they do it beforehand? Should they do it after?
Where do you find that?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
When does the lighting come in.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
So.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Unfortunately usually not soon enough. It's a rush at the end,
which is why I bring it up. So lighting actually
should be the one of the first components when you're
thinking about designing your space, no matter whether you're doing
a remodel or a new construction. It should be a
part of that the backbone of the space because without lighting,
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lighting affects one of your five senses. Without lighting, the
space doesn't function, and with bad lighting, it doesn't function properly.
So being able to be one of the first in
the design process, it'll actually help you in many ways.
One your actual intent of your job, what your goal is,
how you're living in the space that's going to be
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fulfilled properly, because we're going to work in the beginning
with all of the other pieces. If you're remodeling your kitchen,
it's working alongside the cabinet manufacturer. And how is that
layout and how deep are the cabinets? And are we
lighting on the insides? And are we toe kick lighting?
Do we need pendants here? Where are your recess cans place?
We don't want to have any shadowing. How is that
lighting really hitting you your task? Your task oriented places
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are we doing it. How are we controlling it? Do
we need the voltage? Like all of that. It's a
coordination between all trades. So so your design intents met,
the functionality of.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
Your space, drywall goes.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
And the ideally yes, and then it also affects your budget.
So if you plan appropriately and you allow the lighting
to happen in the very beginning, you know where you
stand from a cost perspective. And that's not just with
the actual product. That's the electrical contractor, the general contract.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah pain, yeah, yes, no.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
One to do drywall.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
No unless you're the drywall contractor.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
They love it, they love it, they love it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Ah yeah yeah, yeah you put it up before the yeah, yeah,
we'll be we need to cut out of.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Fort do it twice.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
So is there researching remodeling contractors at that point they
should be coming into your office and having those conversations.
Do you then even take the opportunity to tour their home?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Just yee?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
So we love site visits.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Site visits are amazing.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
We love it.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
I mean even that even applies to retail. So come in,
we'll come check out your space. Let's make an appointment.
We'd love to come to your home or your construction
site or whatever. So stepping in from the very beginning
is what is very important. Lots of planning, so it's
nice if we are in there from the get go,
things are done correctly, they are place where they're supposed
to be. We don't We're not lighting the top of
cabinets with recess slites. We're lighting the island where you're
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going to chop all your food.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
So one is very important and one of the great
advantages to remodel work versus over over new construction, which
we love new construction too, but new construction starts one dimension.
So we're working on drawings, which is a part of
our lighting design service that we have in specification design work.
We are handling like, uh, the very beginning stages, but
with the client, you're thinking of that in a one
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dimensional space, remodel work is actually a gift because we
can go there and see the actual space dimensionally and
for someone who needs visual that a rendering really isn't
going to cut it for you. You actually can stand
that space with the client and say, hey, listen, tell
us about it, walk us through, and you're really there
walking through the space.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I love that we're coming close to the end of
the show. Here, we have just a few more minutes left,
so we have a little bit of time. Do you
have anything going on specials, features or anything that Again,
if there's one more takeaway from our that our listeners can.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Yeh man, thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
We actually yeah, yeah, you get you get to work
with Jackie and Jamie.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
That's the best bugger you hopefully actually don't get us.
We have wonderful sales staff. We like wonderful. We like
to work back at the house, so we're back at
the house in front of the house. But yeah, we
actually are coming to a point where we do our
markets around the beginning of the year, so we're bringing
in a lot of new products. So we've been just
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plugging and ticking with all of that. A lot of
new stuff in both showrooms, probably about sixty to seventy percent,
and each showroom is new, so you definitely have to
stop it and.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
See some of that.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Again, we still have a couple of minutes. What's your
favorite newest item that you're seeing from the last show.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I love alabaster.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Alabaster is such a beautiful stone, alabaster, and I would
say I love the fact I love all.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The wood components as well. The texture is a big thing.
We texture is a big deal.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Yes, we were really impressed by there's some really cool
new LED mirrors. Oh yeah, the mere size wise, I
mean they're massive now and they're back lighting them like
they're beautiful. We just hung on and hung one in
Puntagar yesterday at the shot. How big forty eight It's massive.
It's got to be five feet around a circle and
it lights from the back lights from the front like
it's beautiful. They're integrating wood into laed marors now like
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it's cool. They're doing some cool stuff. It's impressive. We
have some I mean, we even have a beautiful medicine
cabinet coming that's all finished inside, mirrored lit everything. I
mean it is today for if you can say that
about medicine cabinets.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Absolutely, And what are your showroom? Omurs?
Speaker 8 (38:25):
Both show rooms are open from nine to five when
I do Thursday, and then we let the girls out
on four on Friday Fridays. Everyone no one likes thirt
till five on a Friday.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
So and they can get the address and phone numbers
right from your website, which was easy to remember.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Website social media.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Social media and to one of the things. So during
season we are opened on Saturdays. Unfortunately, we do give
everybody a break throughout the summer months because we go
on our vacations with our families and we're kind of
like shifting around. But if you guys, if anyone works
like the rest of us and needs to come in
on a Saturday, we will meet you.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah, we're happy to comedy. You do buy appointment on Saturday.
So the Saturdays are ticking down in both locations, but
we're from ten to. You can still find girls in
both shops on Saturdays through the end of April, I believe.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
End of April again.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
And the website, the local Lightingshop dot com very good.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
We have one minute, one last word. What do you
want to say?
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Okay, So I will tell you that we love where
we live and where we were raised, and we've raised
our families here and invested our lives in this community.
Being able to service all of you and own a
small business has been an absolute gift, and we are
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very excited for what our community is heading towards and
how we're growing, and we love that we're a part
of it.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
For letting us do that and where we live, let
me add that's reciprocal. We are so blessed to have you,
that you both grew up here, you share your talents,
and I can't thank you enough for everything that you do.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Thanks, thank you, and thank you all for coming in
the best of success, continued success for both of you
and Donna. We'll see you again next week next week
right here on the CDBIA were on news radio fifteen
eighty Yes,
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM WCCF.
This is the CDBIA Hour on this Friday morning with
your host Donna Barrett. Donna, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am doing well. How are you this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Wonderful? What's going on? We've missed you. It was just
Todd and I last time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, I think I was in Tallahassee.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You were sending all kinds of pictures from Tallahassee. How
was it up there? Do you have a good time?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It was, It was very exciting. I took a spring break.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
My daughter was actually a messenger for Danny Nixon the
house side, so she got to see things. You know,
she's eighteen. She's going to vote for the first time
next year. And I am praying that I'm raising her
correctly to understand how important.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well she's getting research, she's getting opportunities like that. Then yeah, yeah,
I think you've done I think you've done a fine job. Well,
she'll she'll get a very good opportunity to you know,
read people, meet people to see what's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And figure it out the correct information when it comes
to making informed decisions. And you know, I don't raise
my children to be a political party. I raised them
to know where to get the sources and where to
get the information and to understand what matters most to
them when it comes to voting.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And yeah, I'm really proud of her. And then right
after that, we had our state meetings.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
At the Florida home Builders Association and that was that
was a great time. It was probably one of our
most exciting meetings where we had seven new members that
actually came with us to help strengthen our voice. When
we went into go see Senate President Ben Auburton, we
had about thirty of us.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And what was on the agenda? What were some of
the things on the agenda that you guys wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
There's a couple of bills that were one of the
ones that was most near and dear to our heart
when we met with Florida Homebuilders early last year. It
was a construction fraud bill. I know, a lot of
it was what we've seen here in our community, what
happened after the hurricane with unlicensed companies coming into town
and you know, taking advantage of people. We are a
(02:07):
very trusting community and it's sad that I have to
tell people stop doing that and stop trusting people.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean we you know, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Who we are, that's how we've run, that's that's been
our you know, that's been our badge of honor. But
when it comes to transactions with your finances, don't be
so trusting. So just a couple of different things, and
of course even doubling the fines or raising the fines
is what we were asking for. And you know, felony
(02:34):
and just you know, raising what kind of charges. So
that was the one bill that was the most near
and dear. And then a couple of things were extraordinary circumstances.
What that meaning is on impact fees right now, there
is not one. There's no definition in our state. So
those are two of the bills that we're.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Not until the extraordinary circumstance happens before the well they
wind up defining what it means.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, yeah, well this well right now, it's basically that
the leaders are in the community could say do we
want to do this, Yeah, sure, it's okay, we deem
it extraordinary. So to give a definition is that was
one of our biggest things.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And then there's lean laws that are out there.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You know, there's everything that we do is focused on
helping the homeowner and helping of course the industry be
able to take care of certain things so the way
they can build and rebuild and we can keep going.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
On our way.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, you've brought some guests with you today.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yes, today is going to be a very lit show.
We have our exciting friends from the local lighting shop here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh okay, for.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Any of our members that are listening, of course they
get to see Suzanne.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
She comes to a lot of our meetings. Alicia as well.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But we have the leaders the Queen's Jamie and Jackie
are here today.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You were you weren't expecting this, right? You love it?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
If I could just say this first, what captivated me
about these ladies. I love how you individualize every one
of your customers. At one point we even had one
of their builders say, we don't want them to join
the association because we don't want everybody using them because
they you specialize things for them. They have two shops
in town and they'll go into this. But this is
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homegrown product right here. You know, Jamie grew up here,
she was born here. Jackie was born in Hollywood, Florida,
but they both went to school here. And this is
a true success of what comes from our community, what
our community breeds. And like I said, you light up
our community.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So go back into this. How did you ladies start.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In the industry?
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Or we want to talk about our beginnings at Charlotte
High School?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Oh gosh, we need to go that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, I had to meet I'll say that then.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Long ago when we were twelve of them in the locker.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Room, Yes, at Pontagordon Middle School.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Is uh crying over something I feel like and call
it spilled milk. Spilled milk, and Uh Jamie came up
to me and told me basically to suck it up, Buttercup.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Get dressed, tray to get in trouble. We got to
go to the gym.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And that's how our our best friend love started.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So now take me after graduation. You graduate high school
and what happened there? Where does that word go?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
So we both our first sons are six days apart,
so we got pregnant young and family started families and
you know, raised our boys together, trying to figure out
how to be mothers as children, babies.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Having babies, and the beach every weekend had a good.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Time, enjoyed, enjoyed Boca Green Beach because.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It was free.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
And then we, I don't know, life just kind of
started moving, you know, I think it just started picking up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I I went straight in.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
When right in I was waiting tables at the Old
Breakers restaurant that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Now is oh wow, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You know, that was really cool for a minute when
it first opened.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Three different fo yeah, two different.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But they just from what I recall, remember, they just
waited too long to open or you know.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
What's interesting is that if they were doing it now
as a micro brew, it'd be like the coolest.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It would be out because that was neat you know,
the glass you could look right through and see the tanks.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It was wrong time.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, bad timing.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, man, that was.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That tells you how long tho it was.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I remember the bar and.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think the second four and then upstairs was more
like the dance floor.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yes, yeah, yeah it was. It was a cool It
was a cool, cool.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Restaurant definitely, and I started work We did you work
there with me?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You know?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I did not know that was but I started working
there when I was probably like fifteen or sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And then waited tables.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
When I was eighteen, and then I waited a couple
I had been in part of Junior Leadership Charlotte over
at Chelle High, which is an amazing program still today,
and there was a gentleman, John Roberts at that particular time.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He owned Light Ideas up before Charlotte.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
And he and his wife Heidi happened to start coming
into breakers when I was waiting tables, and he remembered
me from Junior Leadership Charlotte, and it became one of
those things like every Friday they came in and I
always knew what he drank and what she drank, and
it was ready for them. And one day he's like, Hey,
do you want to come work for me? And I
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was like, okay, so, you know, we I thought about it,
and eventually yes, I ended up going and working. So
I started at Light Ideas when I was you know,
eighteen or so in there, and then I worked there
until probably.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What twenty twenty one, twenty two.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I did celebrate my twenty first birthday working out Light Ideas,
because I do remember going out.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Not twenty twenty one or twenty twenty twenty one years ol.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
When I was twenty one years old.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I knew we had this in there.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh jingle, do you have a jingle?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, it was the old light idea.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that shows. And then kind of from there it
just grew.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I went, I have a fantastic friend and she owns
a rep agency and I hounded her for months to
hire me because I wanted to understand the manufacturing and
distribution side of our business overall. And so she finally
hired me. And then she honestly, she was actually the
only female I ever worked for, and she was the
(08:42):
one who taught me how to pet a professional woman,
how to dress, how to talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Awesome. We have to take our first break and we'll
be right back with more on News Radio fifteen eighty
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
(09:09):
CDBIA hours. What you're listening to with your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Donna, this is why we love you. Kennan, have you here?
I'm not one for radio.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He So again, we're here with the local lighting shop
and Jamie, Jackie and Susanna here, and so they're getting
ready to tell us how how you came to be
So Jackie, you were talking about working for a woman
and oh.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Yeah, and she taught me how to be a professional
business woman, which was awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And I don't know, just kind of rolling through that.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
The economy crashed in two thousand and eight in September,
and I went home and told my husband at the time, Hey,
I think I'm gonna lose my job. And I said,
you know, I've always wanted to own a business. I
think we should just start something. And actually I borrowed
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five thousand dollars from our savings account, and that January
of nine is when we started. And he was in
school full time, going to school to become a firefighter,
so he wasn't even working.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So it was you know how it is in life.
Really got to rip that band aid off, yeah, really
ripping it off. And I worked from home.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
And I actually will tell you that one of my
very first jobs I signed three in like the first
three months. One was a church in Lehigh Acres, New
Life Assembly of God.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The second one was the Lashly Crab House. Oh yep.
I went into the trailer. I'll never forget.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I'm like, I'm just going in this job trailer and
Jimmy Priquette was the contractor and this young. I mean
back then, I was like twenty four. I mean, I
was like a baby. I knew nothing. By the way
I was winging it, I was like fake it till
you make it kind of deal. And uh I walked
right in that trailer, and you know, I was like saying,
I really want to do this job. I went to school,
you know, with some of the people that are a
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part of this, and I've loved this community my whole
Like well, you know, you use the whole spiel, right,
And he's like, I'm sorry, but you need to talk
to Grey Brown with Greg Electric I'm not in charge
of that.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And I said, okay. So I'm like I walk out.
I'm like yes because then I worked at that ideas.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Greg and John are really good friends and we had
worked together before, and so I called Greg and I'm oh,
and by the way, I'm leaving the parking lot where
they're building the crab house and I'm so excited. I
run the stop light at Marion in forty one and
a city officer pulls me over and I was like,
couldn't wait to tell someone.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And pay attention, all right, get at it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
He's like he's like, oh my gosh, that's so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Did he give you a ticket?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No, let me go, Let me go.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And and then my third project was actually in Naples
and it was a private residence in Port Royal, so
it was I don't know, it was just like the trifecta.
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I called Greg and I was like, hey, Greg, this
is Jackie.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Remember me.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I used to work at Lighted.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
He's like, oh, hey, and Greg and Barber such fantastic people.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And so anyways, he ended up like letting me.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Come on board and we ended up doing the crabhouse
and the building together, so it was really cool. And
then from there, you know, you kind of get your stride,
and you know, it was a weird time because the
guy everyone who had worked really hard their whole lives
that were small business owners and in the construction industry
as well as many others were so deeply affected by
the recession. I think it was it was a great
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time for me because I was new. I didn't have
anything to lose, you know, I was at the very
bottom trying to gain momentum, and then what it was
like everything else around me was collapsing. It was a
really interesting enlightening and teaching time, because I will tell
you it taught me to prepare for the worst.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And to be a little paranoid, I guess, and a
certain degree. But I'm thankful for everyone who helped. I mean,
it was. It did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
When they say that it takes a village to raise
a child, it takes a village to help small business
owners and us youngsters starting off and growing.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I love that. So how did Jamie get into
the mix?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
A boy.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Had went into short stint with medical and worked in
extremely busy office, which is where my kind of like
take charge and management skills were very honed. I did
multiple jobs, wore many hats, and worked a lot of
hours with two young children, usually leaving when it was
dark and coming home when it was dark. So those
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things were progressing. And one day I met my friend
and she.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Said, let's go have a beer at ice House.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
At ice House and because I was working upon a
goord of office, so we met and I'm talking about
work and oh my gosh, this is so much and
we're talking and she was like, h she goes.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I remember her telling me that.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
I kind of was like, oh wow, she's really this
is a lot like I feel like she can do more.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
And two days later she called and she was like,
do you want to come work with me? And I
was like, are we going to do it? Finally? Because
everyone used to say like, why don't you guys.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Work together, like you're the perfect pair, like you worked
on and we were like no, you know, you don't
want to cloud the friendship. We had whole lives together
with our kids and everything, families, and we were like no.
But then she said, do you want to work with me?
I'm like, yeah, let's just go ahead. So at the time,
she was doing a lot of out of state work.
So I went to work on July seventh for the
first time to an empty office because my best friend
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was like, sink or swim, baby, figure it out.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
At least I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I didn't know the password for and I couldn't hold her.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
I don't under there's no training. Yeah, wait, it doesn't
work that way in our lives. But I learned very
quickly and started to do a lot of things. And
initially I was doing things to help her more of
like a support staff type of thing, and that quickly
changed into just doing everything that needed done, and then
it was let's open a showroom.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So let's go into what exactly we is the local
lighting shop for our community that sees your store and
drives buy and hasn't been in there.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
We are a boutique style lighting showroom. What we bran
is very curated. It's a lot of just what we
like and what we know sells. So we mix things
that are extremely affordable with some higher end things mid
and higher end. We've accessed to everything in the market.
You know, it's very very easy for people to go
and buy something on Amazon. It's our job to convince
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them that what we have is better. Based on customer service.
Every single job takes hours and hours and hours of
customer service to see it through, even to maintaining our
own products, helping with troubleshooting. I mean you're talking jobs
that go two years sometimes from initial meeting to install.
And even at that point, there's always a broken fan.
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So there's always a fan making a noise.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Jamie's nemesis, the fane of my exist since our sailing fans, because.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I just can't have a three speed pool chain.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There are there now are.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Everything is very smart is actually not, no, they're not
smart at all.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Progress sometimes regress.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yes, and I have a warehouse gentleman that knows how
to do it all, and that poor guy probably troubleshoots
ten fans a week.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
So I don't know what they're doing to them now
or they making.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Them, but it's rough. It's rough.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, it's the pine of my.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So if somebody is purchasing a new home and they're
building a home and working with their builder, can they
come in and meet with you or they better have
do you work better with the builder? How would that
work in the process for the people that are building
right now.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
So, whether it's new construction or remodel. On the residential side,
there's actually two different like funnels. Usually the general contractors
are who are referring us, and then we're meeting with
that particular homeowner in that process. So it's it's an
initial meeting coming in seeing the shops. We do have
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the two locations, so both shops offer completely different products
and a completely different feel. Both showrooms look totally different
from one another. So once the client has a chance
to kind of preview that, then one of our sales
associates they're now you know, they're assigned, I say, but
we kind of project manage through everything.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
So it's our job once that process.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Starts, to become your lighting expert, and it's our job
to understand what your home is supposed to look like,
how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Move in your home, how do you live in your home.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Yes, how you want it to feel, and us to
curate that particular lighting package and design for you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So the product is kind of in the.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Showrooms the aha moment, like I really really really really.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Love handblown glass.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Okay, it might not be that handblown glass fixture that
we've brought in for you to see, but now you
know what the handblown glass looks like in comparison to
a press clae us, you know, and something that's made
in the United States versus something that's not, something that's
plated versus something that's painted. All coming from all different
parts of the world, by the way, not just China.
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I know everybody kind of assumes it's always China.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That is always imagine you're talking about that is European?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Isn't it actually European and American made in America.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
A lot we have in the United stuff we have.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
We have a manufacturer that makes some beautiful stuff out
of Salt Lake city.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
It's all American made cool, so it's important to a
lot of people.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
So if somebody is looking at remodeling their home, one
of some of the suggestions you would give to them,
we actually have.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Our team is able to go in from the very
beginning with a contractor to basically walk the job with
them when there's studs, when they rip all the drywall out,
when they're doing all the changes, and they're able to
let you know where your recess cans go. Maybe we
should put a fan here, let's switch and change the subway.
We have no walls, so we start from very beginning.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sorry I mean interrupt you.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
So one of the great things that Jamie brings up
is is lighting actually is a full gamut. Right. I
think a lot of people think of a lighting showroom
in a traditional style, meaning decorative lighting and fans.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
We are not that.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
We actually are lighting experts, and we deal and touch
every piece of lighting. So at the very beginning of
your project, like Jamie's mentioning, when you're down to this
stuzz we do the architectural lighting.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And layouts, and with that we're going to be back
with more. We got top of the hour news and traffic,
and we'll be back on news Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Of in.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
See that's why I wanted to wear headphones. So she
dances in her chair. News Radio fifteen eighty WCCF one
hundred point nine FM. This is a Cdbia Hour with
your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Donna and we are here with our special guests from
the local lighting Shop. Before we go any further, can
we get your contact information so people can look at
your website and know how to call you if they
have any questions.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Let's see Ponta Gorda store website. Website, So website is easy.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
It's the local Lightingshop dot com, so it's easy to remember,
and we have all of our products on there. We
have our portfolio of jobs. Also, I would say social
media wise, Facebook, Instagram, it is constantly being fed with news, designs,
new projects we've completed, and a great way to reach
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out to us as well. And then for our Pontagorda store,
I'm gonna jam through the phone number.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Okay, we're at eleven oh five tailor, so everybody knows
this as being right next to Befo Brady's and Puana
Gorda and that phone number is nine four one six forty.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
One eighty and our go ahead, no go.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Our Poor Charlotte location is right at forty sixty one
Tamami Trail. It's pretty much across from Bob Evans, more
of like the Charlotte Harbor area.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So you like the food, we do like food by
Chubbys too, tell me a right, bas.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
B ANDNG Markets Allen in town. We love those girls.
They see us coming. But in that story you can
reach out to them at nine four one two five
eleven o six.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So take us back.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
We talked a little bit about the showroom and some
of the detail, but what are the services like you
offer and if anybody is looking regarding lighting?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
So everything from our Poor Charlotte stands to be a
little more retail driven.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
So you walk in.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Those girls are able to on the spot help you
find what you're looking for with a little bit of
information from you. So if you come in with a
picture and say I saw this and I really love it,
they're either going to match it up because it may
be out of your price range and it may not
be they will find that particular one or they can
match it to something more affordable for you. It can
go either direction. So there's something as simple as a
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walk in and then what we were kind of touching
on before, you may see us come in at the
beginning of a remodel with the house completely gooded, so
it's really all facets. We can go in and control
all of the architectural lighting, so we can light up
that beautiful wine case.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That you're building.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
We can put lights on the toe kick in your
bathroom that turn on at night when you walk in
there so you don't trip and fall on your way
to the body. We can do all of those things,
So I mean, anyway, I mean we're literally putting lighting
in walls.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Now of walls and ceilings, which is really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
All regressed.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I'm sure it's a lot easier regarding wiring if you
start it from the beginning. But if somebody is just
doing a remodel or just wanting to update their living
room or home, can you still do those changes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
With the lighting.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, definitely, So it just excuse me, Hi, caller, you're
on the air.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Hey, good morning, it's TJ.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Thornberry, our favorite contractor.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're on here. Everybody can hear that one of your
favorite he's a politician.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Because the feeling is mutual. And good morning to you all,
And I just want to give you a plug from
a builder's perspective, the service that you give our customers,
you know, with Kayla and our count rep and you know,
coming out to the job and laying out the fixtures
and dealing with warranty issues, and you know, there's much
more to just selling a light fixture, for sure. And
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as you know, these fixtures are becoming more and more
technically advanced. You almost need to be a lighting engineer
to put them together sometimes. So Kayla comes out and
you know, it actually tells our electrician how to assemble
them half the time. We can't appreciate that more. It's
an awesome service. You guys take ownership and everything you
sell and we love working with you guys. Couldn't recommend anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Thank you so much. TJ. That was awesome.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
I mean I'm tearing up a little bit actually, so
we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, so we do really care.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
So to hear it from somebody on the other side of.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
We've had TJ on this air and he talks that
he's never built the same home twice, which I think
is one thing that is so important for people to understand.
If they want a uniqueness in their home, how you
can add that even if they were to buy a
spec home or buy from a production builder, you have
the ability to look make that home unique and perfect
(24:42):
for them.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it reflects the client at the end.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And you can see it too. Just check out their website,
the Local Lightingshop dot com and TJ's some of his
works right there. It is, as well as some other
works as well.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
So yeah, we're getting ready to atograph a couple of
really awesome projects that we finished with him.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
So we're excited about that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nice TJ.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
Thank you anything more you want to add, Great job, guys,
keep up the great work.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Thank you all right, take care, bye bye, And with that,
we have to take another break and we'll be right
back on News Radio fifteen eighty News Radio fifteen eighty
one hundred point nine FM WCCF. This is the Cdbia
(25:30):
Hour with your host Donna Barrett.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Donna, Hello, and we are with our friends from the
Local Lighting Shop. We have Jamie, Jackie and Susanne. I
know she's in the back over there. But she's still
here and she matters so much. Let's go back into
the industry that it's ever evolving. What do you think
the top or best current trends are for the clientele
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in this area towards lighting.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I would natural. I think material is a big
deal right now.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It's coastal, which is slightly painful to say sometimes. So
we've tried to make coastal a little bit of our
own style and bring it into today's world and add
in some of the more current styles and things.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
A lot of natural material.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
A lot of natural woods. We're tans, I would say too.
You're we're seeing a warmer trend. So I'm gonna touch
on this for a little bit for like four seconds.
So during the recession, we're gonna go back there for
just one second. In two thousand and eight, you see
a trend in a drive towards Gray's cooler colors. We're
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you know, and I know this sounds weird, but if
you just look at the runway too, runway actually dictates
our design business.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So when you when you see, oh we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Have another we have another car, do you want to
pause that runway?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You're paused on the runway and paused on the runway
the air.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Hello, my name is Tony. When the LESCo solutions right husband,
I just.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Heard five minutes ago. Congratulations Tony, good one, lucky man.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Thank you, thank you. I am I am so Jackie
and Jamie. I have a few questions for you. I'll
have a lesser contractor local in the area. I was
wondering what added benefits you offer to us contractors that
we may or may not get from a local box
store and or spouse. What would make me want to
come to you to buy my products?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
That makes sense, I would say an individualized attention. So
one of the things that we love about all of
our electrical contractors in the industry is that each one
of you have unique needs. So it might be today
I have a random question about why this particular track
doesn't fit into this particular application, and we'll go and
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we'll research, and we'll make sure we understand application, how
we teach you about that product and is it really
right for the job, And we also will always fix
it if there's something wrong. And we also have a
very competitively priced EC program that we tailor for each
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one of our electrical contractors. So if your primary business
is more focused on residential. We're going to pull particular
product products and we're going to stock those for you,
and we're going to price them at a aggressively so
you're able to go into the market and be able
to win the jobs that you need to win and
be successful with that. And then on the commercial side,
because we do do a lot of commercial work.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
We don't talk about that a lot, but we do
do a lot.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Of commercial work, and we will tailor those programs for
that ec that's more focused on that particular side of
the business as well.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
In particular on the residential side.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
She's talking about products like under cabinet lighting, tape lighting,
recess first, small pucks, anything for you know, that type
of actual lighting, not just fixtures, And I get.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I would I would make the assumption that you don't
stock these items. What's the tip will turn around time
for me to get products from.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
You if we so we we actually are. One of
the things that we're trying to do right now is
actually stock. So one of the things we're learning with
price increases in the you know, just kind of the
uncertainty right now that we're facing is by stocking, we're
able to actually control our pricing a little bit better.
But if for some reason we do not have it available,
it usually takes us seven to ten business days, depending
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on which vendor we're working with and where it's coming
from in the country. Some are shipping from California and
some ship from Georgia. If it's coming from Georgia, we
can have it in a couple of days. If it's
coming from California, we're looking at seven to ten.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Got Okay, So I think that we need to make
the world know that you offer way more than just
decorative fixtures, and we should also.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Let them know that she treats every contract or the same.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Somewhere.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
They're all just as important.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And we have another call coming in.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
But Tony, you're absolutely right bringing up the fact that
working with Mom and pops smaller companies here too, you
get that individualized attention.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Absolutely, Thank you, Tony. Thanks son, Hi.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Caller, you're on the air more Ooh terribly sorry.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Call back.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
That was a bad call connection.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
He's probably on a great job site right now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Or over the border. So let's go back to trends
and runways.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Okay, So the fashion industry actually dictates, dictates the design
industry so and also the condition of the world around us.
So eight is a great example of why we went
to the cooler colors. And when you look at the runway,
people's outfits become less flowy, less fun. They become tighter
because we're becoming more reserved with our money, and like
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there's a lot of things that you're going to you
start seeing happening, and that then follows into furniture, fabrics, colors,
hard surfaces, lighting. So turning through all that, we went
through about ten fifteen years of gray and cool colors
because of how we all were feeling about the environment
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around us. Really and now I think with COVID, we
all realized how much we really should love life, and
how much we loved nature, and how much we loved
our homes actually because we spent a lot of time there,
and how we wanted to create warmth together as families.
And now you're seeing the trends starting to change, and
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we're seeing browns and greens and blues and textures.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
You know, rich you know woods.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Also you're seeing the introduction of mid century modern coming
back in. But instead of it being cold, which made centener,
winter never really should be, but you're seeing that walnut,
the richness in the brown and adding in to soften
that that mid century space a Rafael or a Ratan.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
They were finally seeing the exit of brushed nickel.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Anyway, the bronze is the golds, a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Of mapple popular, so it's there is definitely a richness.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
And then if you look at the design shrends on
the runway, that's all being reflected. I mean, listen, I
want to target the other day and bought some you know,
like Wickery shoes.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You know, kind of kind of itchy, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
They were lined, so they're lined, but they're super cute.
Speaker 7 (32:40):
So you you see it in all avenues of design,
including fashion, which definitely dictates that for us.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Yeah, and across the pond there always a couple of
years ahead of us they are.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
This is mind blowing to hear all of this. So
once again, let's go into remodeling. There are a lot
of people that are remodeling their homes right now. When
should they come into your showroom just to get an
idea of what they're looking at?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Should they do it beforehand? Should they do it after?
Where do you find that?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
When does the lighting come in.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
So.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Unfortunately usually not soon enough. It's a rush at the end,
which is why I bring it up. So lighting actually
should be the one of the first components when you're
thinking about designing your space, no matter whether you're doing
a remodel or a new construction. It should be a
part of that the backbone of the space because without lighting,
(33:36):
lighting affects one of your five senses. Without lighting, the
space doesn't function, and with bad lighting, it doesn't function properly.
So being able to be one of the first in
the design process, it'll actually help you in many ways.
One your actual intent of your job, what your goal is,
how you're living in the space that's going to be
(33:58):
fulfilled properly, because we're going to work in the beginning
with all of the other pieces. If you're remodeling your kitchen,
it's working alongside the cabinet manufacturer. And how is that
layout and how deep are the cabinets? And are we
lighting on the insides? And are we toe kick lighting?
Do we need pendants here? Where are your recess cans place?
We don't want to have any shadowing. How is that
lighting really hitting you your task? Your task oriented places
(34:21):
are we doing it. How are we controlling it? Do
we need the voltage? Like all of that. It's a
coordination between all trades. So so your design intents met,
the functionality of.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
Your space, drywall goes.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
And the ideally yes, and then it also affects your budget.
So if you plan appropriately and you allow the lighting
to happen in the very beginning, you know where you
stand from a cost perspective. And that's not just with
the actual product. That's the electrical contractor, the general contract.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah pain, yeah, yes, no.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
One to do drywall.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
No unless you're the drywall contractor.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
They love it, they love it, they love it.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Ah yeah yeah, yeah you put it up before the yeah, yeah,
we'll be we need to cut out of.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Fort do it twice.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
So is there researching remodeling contractors at that point they
should be coming into your office and having those conversations.
Do you then even take the opportunity to tour their home?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Just yee?
Speaker 6 (35:24):
So we love site visits.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Site visits are amazing.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
We love it.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
I mean even that even applies to retail. So come in,
we'll come check out your space. Let's make an appointment.
We'd love to come to your home or your construction
site or whatever. So stepping in from the very beginning
is what is very important. Lots of planning, so it's
nice if we are in there from the get go,
things are done correctly, they are place where they're supposed
to be. We don't We're not lighting the top of
cabinets with recess slites. We're lighting the island where you're
(35:50):
going to chop all your food.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
So one is very important and one of the great
advantages to remodel work versus over over new construction, which
we love new construction too, but new construction starts one dimension.
So we're working on drawings, which is a part of
our lighting design service that we have in specification design work.
We are handling like, uh, the very beginning stages, but
with the client, you're thinking of that in a one
(36:12):
dimensional space, remodel work is actually a gift because we
can go there and see the actual space dimensionally and
for someone who needs visual that a rendering really isn't
going to cut it for you. You actually can stand
that space with the client and say, hey, listen, tell
us about it, walk us through, and you're really there
walking through the space.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I love that we're coming close to the end of
the show. Here, we have just a few more minutes left,
so we have a little bit of time. Do you
have anything going on specials, features or anything that Again,
if there's one more takeaway from our that our listeners can.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Yeh man, thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
We actually yeah, yeah, you get you get to work
with Jackie and Jamie.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
That's the best bugger you hopefully actually don't get us.
We have wonderful sales staff. We like wonderful. We like
to work back at the house, so we're back at
the house in front of the house. But yeah, we
actually are coming to a point where we do our
markets around the beginning of the year, so we're bringing
in a lot of new products. So we've been just
(37:19):
plugging and ticking with all of that. A lot of
new stuff in both showrooms, probably about sixty to seventy percent,
and each showroom is new, so you definitely have to
stop it and.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
See some of that.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Again, we still have a couple of minutes. What's your
favorite newest item that you're seeing from the last show.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I love alabaster.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Alabaster is such a beautiful stone, alabaster, and I would
say I love the fact I love all.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The wood components as well. The texture is a big thing.
We texture is a big deal.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Yes, we were really impressed by there's some really cool
new LED mirrors. Oh yeah, the mere size wise, I
mean they're massive now and they're back lighting them like
they're beautiful. We just hung on and hung one in
Puntagar yesterday at the shot. How big forty eight It's massive.
It's got to be five feet around a circle and
it lights from the back lights from the front like
it's beautiful. They're integrating wood into laed marors now like
(38:09):
it's cool. They're doing some cool stuff. It's impressive. We
have some I mean, we even have a beautiful medicine
cabinet coming that's all finished inside, mirrored lit everything. I
mean it is today for if you can say that
about medicine cabinets.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Absolutely, And what are your showroom? Omurs?
Speaker 8 (38:25):
Both show rooms are open from nine to five when
I do Thursday, and then we let the girls out
on four on Friday Fridays. Everyone no one likes thirt
till five on a Friday.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
So and they can get the address and phone numbers
right from your website, which was easy to remember.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Website social media.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Social media and to one of the things. So during
season we are opened on Saturdays. Unfortunately, we do give
everybody a break throughout the summer months because we go
on our vacations with our families and we're kind of
like shifting around. But if you guys, if anyone works
like the rest of us and needs to come in
on a Saturday, we will meet you.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah, we're happy to comedy. You do buy appointment on Saturday.
So the Saturdays are ticking down in both locations, but
we're from ten to. You can still find girls in
both shops on Saturdays through the end of April, I believe.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
End of April again.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
And the website, the local Lightingshop dot com very good.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
We have one minute, one last word. What do you
want to say?
Speaker 7 (39:21):
Okay, So I will tell you that we love where
we live and where we were raised, and we've raised
our families here and invested our lives in this community.
Being able to service all of you and own a
small business has been an absolute gift, and we are
(39:41):
very excited for what our community is heading towards and
how we're growing, and we love that we're a part
of it.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
For letting us do that and where we live, let
me add that's reciprocal. We are so blessed to have you,
that you both grew up here, you share your talents,
and I can't thank you enough for everything that you do.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Thanks, thank you, and thank you all for coming in
the best of success, continued success for both of you
and Donna. We'll see you again next week next week
right here on the CDBIA were on news radio fifteen
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