December 28, 2024 • 32 mins
On this episode of Home with Dean Sharp, Dean dives into the trends and predictions homeowners should avoid next year and why your home should stay true to your unique story. From steering clear of overly polished, magazine-perfect looks to embracing organic shapes and the growing wave of Biophilic Design, Dean unpacks how to create a space that feels authentically yours. Plus, why "design influencers" say triangles are out, nature is in for 2025, and how even the sound of bird song can transform your home into a sanctuary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp The
House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app, live
streaming in HD everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Hey, welcome home.
I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. I design custom homes,
I build custom homes, and I'm your guide to better
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understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
it is the it's our second to last show. This
is the last weekend of twenty twenty four, and today
and tomorrow we're going to be taking a look forward
as much as we humanly can in a realistic way
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at predictions and trends for design and decor for your
home for twenty twenty five. So that's where we're going today.
And of course it's going to be in my own
inimitable style, my approach to this, which I hope you
will find to be grounded and rational and encouraging and
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inspiring all the like. But we're going to push aside
as much of the BS as possible that you hear
or read. If you've looked at all at trends and
predictions like online, there's just so much BS out there
about this kind of stuff. I don't want you to
get caught up in it. So we're going to talk
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about that today, especially today as well. And of course
we're also going to take your calls as we do.
The number to reach me here at the program eight
three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral
two Ask Dean A three three two ask Dean. The
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phone lines are open now. Producer Keana is standing by
ready to take your calls and she'll tell you everything
you need to know. Pop you into the queue. I'm
talking trends and predictions today and tomorrow. But when it
comes to your calls, you get to set the agenda.
Anything that's got you scratching your head about your home design, construction, DIY,
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whatever the case may be. If you just want to
wish somebody a happy New Year, that's cool to give
us a call. It is a friendly place to land
here on a Saturday morning. Let me introduce our awesome
team to you. Guess is here. Elma is on the
board this morning. Good morning, Bud Saturdays. There he is, there,
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he is. He's getting in some extra hours this week.
It's cool, it's cool. I'm not used to hearing him
on a Saturday morning. I know, three hours earlier, exactly exactly.
But he's home. Yeah, he's awake, he's alive. You're ready
for it. I'm so ready, Like I said, Now, she's
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nowhere near a microphone. Producer. Oh, she's already screening calls.
I'm looking down at the board here there are calls
rolling in. Uh so, producer Keana is with us today.
She's awesome. Happy to have her and my buddy Eileen
Gonzalez at the news desk, so busy. Good morning, Eileen,
Good morning. How are you doing today? I hit the
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wrong button. I was talking to myself. How's it going.
How's your week? It was good. I actually I worked
all week. I picked up shifts for you know, other
people so they could have the holiday off, and then
did my usual regular job and now working again. It's
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been a working week. Those of us who have not
taken the holidays off, we have the right to just
call everybody else lazy, cowards and no exactly right, because
we're here, we're here getting it downe And by the way,
if anybody I always get, even after we do the
show on a holiday weekend, I always get, you know,
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emails and comments on social media, like you know where
you guys actually in this weekend, we're here. It's December. Wait,
twenty eighth, it is December twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.
Do we have a newspaper? Can we take a proof
of life photo? What everybody's like, what's that newspaper? That
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definitely means you pre recorded this show like eight years ago,
twenty five years ago. Yeah, I can hold up my phone.
That's it. I can hold up my phone. See it
says all right there, December twenty eighth, Saturday morning, a
few minutes after six. We're really here, and I will
really be here tomorrow as well. And here you just
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heard her sitting across the table from me, my better half,
my design partner, and my best buddy in all the world.
Tina is here. So is that me? Somebody asked yesterday
somebody somebody We ran into somebody at Costco and they're like,
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what's why is the what's what the elephant sound on
the show. It's just say Teama's favorite animal. That's all. Yeah,
that's all there is. You don't have to read into it.
There's nothing more than that. How you doing, I'm good? Yeah,
your eyes aren't completely open? Well, I feel great. Okay.
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Good you and Sammy the beagle who is sitting next
to you on the sofa, so his eyes aren't open
at all. Yeah, No, he's very content, that little one.
All right, y'all, let's dive in. H here's the number
one more time eight three three two Ask Dean A
three three the numeral to ask Dean if you want
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to call in, and we'll talk about what's going on
with your home. But we're going to dive into trends
and predictions for YEP twenty twenty five. It's right around
the corner.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Thanks for joining us on this misty southern California morning.
It's cool. I wouldn't say it's cold. Is it cold?
What's the cutoff for cold? It all depends on where
you're used to living, right, It's not cold. It's cool outside,
very misty where we are. Like I came out, We've
got an outdoor Christmas tree sitting in the backyard, and
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when I came out through the back doors this morning,
you could see it glowing in the distance. You know
what I mean, that glow that you get when there's
like fog and mist in the air, was very, very beautiful.
Still is the case. I don't know. I'm sure it's
going to burn off later at some point, but I
really like it. I like drippy, misty mornings. It's as
close as we're getting to winter this year so far.
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So I'm down. I'm down. I'm glad you're here and
we are talking about this next year ahead. Are you
ready for that? That's all right, you know what, it's
not gonna be. I'm not taking you there too quickly.
We're going to get there together, I promise. But I
do want to talk about trends and predictions because it's fun,
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and also I want to issue some warnings to you
along the way as you start to look around and
you know, look at stuff on social media and Pinterest
and articles that every designer and design influencer in the world.
And I am drawing a distinction between those and I'll
clarify that in a second, but there's just so many
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articles out there right now, so many sources of saying, hey,
this is what's going to happen. I want to give
you as rational and sane approach as possible and help
you navigate through all of that. Also taking your calls.
The phone lines are open, the number to reach me.
You're going to be going to the phones in a
bit eight three three two ask the A three three
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the numeral to ask Dean producer Keana standing by anything
that's scott You scratching your head about your house, give
me a call. We'll put our heads together and figure
it out. And of course traffic is always light on
Saturday mornings, so if you've ever been frustrated not being
able to get through, it's good, good odds, better odds,
I should say, all right. Home Trends and Predictions for
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twenty twenty five. I've subtitled this topic for us this weekend,
separating the brilliant from the bs. You know, as always
there's a lot of great stuff happening in the world
of home design. There really always is. There's always some
really cool things happening. It's one of the reasons I
love this field that I am in. But as always,
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there's a lot of bogus advice out there on what's
hot and what's not and so. And you know, for
u A students, you may be sitting there saying, well, yeah,
Dean and you're a designer, so why should we trust
your list? Well, you don't have to, but I will
tell you this. I'm here to help you, you know that.
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And I got nothing to sell you either, and so
I'm going to try and give you as much you know,
unvested commentary as possible as always. First of all, what's
hot for you? Design advice that helped you tell your story?
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Your story? Okay. One of the things that is a
frustration to me every year is to see designers just
take off and say, well, here's our here's our advice.
And what they do is they start telling you what
you should be doing with your home because of the
fashion trends that are out there. To that, I say, nah,
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nanna uh. The most important thing as a custom home designer,
and that's all I do is custom homes. All right. Now, again,
for those of you who aren't familiar with the program,
maybe you're listening for the first time, let me make
it really clear. That's not a conceit to say that,
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it's just something that I have been fortunate to be
able to do a custom home and a luxury home.
That's what most people think when they're like, oh, he's
a custom home designer. He designs for the rich and famous.
Well a little that is true. But the point is
a custom home and luxury homes totally different categories. Okay,
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they're not even in the same category. I will say
it this way. It doesn't matter what your home is
made at. Well, let's use the tailoring metaphor, because I
think it works really well. It doesn't matter what fabric
your clothing is made from. All right, you might be
wearing burlap this morning. I hope you're not, but you
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might might be. You might just be wearing one hundred
percent cotton T shirt, right, or you could be wearing
silk or you know, it doesn't matter how fancy the
fabric is that you're wearing. The question of whether it's
custom or not has to do with whether it's been
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fit to your body or not. That's tailoring, Okay, that's
not necessarily luxurious versus inexpensive. So a custom home is
simply a home, be it ever so humble like our
little cottage here, that has been you know, tailored fit
to the story of its occupants. And that can be
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a condo, an apartment, it can be a mansion or
anything in between. Okay, and Yeah, there are lots, especially
these days, lots of mansionesque eight properties that are not
custom in any way, shape or form. They're just speculatative,
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typical almost you know. We call them mic mansions because
they're kind of mass produced, tracked, kind of big fancy houses.
That's not what I want, That's not how I operate
with our clients. And so the very first bit of
a divine design advice for you from me for twenty
twenty five is keep it real, keep it authentic to you,
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because if you really are investing in your home, then
your home needs to find a way to tell your story.
And I don't care if your story is not on
the front page of every design magazine for twenty twenty five.
That is irrelevant. That means nothing. Your story is relevant
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to your life and that's what your home should be. Okay.
So that's the very first bit of advice. And I'll
give you one warning and this is gonna I'm gonna
set you up for where for my little rant next.
But I'll tell you what is not what is not
hot for twenty twenty five influencers I hate that word,
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who are encouraging you to buy into this year's trends
who did that already and are now telling you that
that stuff is so yesterday. It drives me crazy when
I hear that kind of stuff, treating the home design
world as if it was the world of clothing fashion. Okay,
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and I've got nothing against the world of clothing fashion.
And I understand that, you know, trends change whatever, Okay,
but here's the thing, your home that you just spent
I don't know, tens of thousands of dollars remodeling or
you're planning on. Okay, that's not just like throwing away
al blause. No, no, no. And so to think that
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somebody drives you this year towards do this, this is
what's hot and trending, and then in about eighteen months
they're gonna tell you, no, that's so, that's so twenty
twenty four. It really is. We just got to get
away from that stuff all together, all right. So we're
gonna take a step back from that. I've got no
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use for that. More on that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Dean Sharp the House whisper here with you on this
misty Saturday morning, the last Saturday of twenty twenty four.
It's about dang time. Now. It's been a year. It
has been a year, especially the end of the year
for a team and me, and we've been through some things,
and it seems like we've had a lot of friends
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and family going through things as well. So you know what,
Let's lift our heads up and look anticipate. Anticipate, anticipatingly tee,
what how is? Don't look at me like that. Let's
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anticipate twenty twenty five. Together, we're gonna be going to
the phones in just a bit. The number to reach
me eight three three two. Ask dean eight three three
the numeral two, ask Dean. All right, back to it.
So right before the break, I said, one of the
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things that drives me craziest about the whole subject of
trends and predictions this time of year are influencers who
encouraged you to buy into this year's trend but are
now telling you that it is so yesterday. You're not
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going to hear that from me, I promise. I want
you to be aware of this. And it's not that
you can't glean some interesting or maybe some inspiring ideas
from trends and prediction lists that you might be reading
or seeing online something like that. But just be aware
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that the same stuff gets said every year. I mean seriously,
And there are filler words. And if you're reading an
article that you find too many of these filler words
in them, then just move away. You're not actually hearing
anything substantive, I promise you. And that's one of the problems.
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I said, I was going to draw a distinction between
designers and design influencers. I wish this wasn't the case,
but there is a huge difference. Tina, back me up
on this. There's a huge difference between designers and design
influencers generally speaking, real life design. Okay, And if you're
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reading an article, or you're looking at some or you know,
watching somebody's YouTube or whatever the case, maybe TikTok, whatever
it is. If you're on Instagram and you're seeing somebody
talking about twenty twenty five, find out if they are
actually a home designer or if they're just a design influencer.
Here's the problem. Design influencers need to feather their nest
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with stuff that in a little while now there now
they tell you if this is in and in a
little while they're going to tell you that it's out
because they need to flip over their inventory and keep new,
fresh stuff coming your way. Designers don't work that way.
Real designers with real clients, you know. Yeah, we take
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on new projects every year, and those projects will shift
with trends, you know, the the the ebb and flow
of the tides of cold design. Sure they do, but
not for the same clients. Okay, And that's the That's
the thing that get people all kind of get their
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underwear all up in a bunch. Is that that you know,
you're spending tens of thousands of dollars maybe remodeling or
a few thousand dollars redecorating your home, only to find
out that you know, pretty soon it's going to be
oh so yesterday. So design influencers are a diamond dozen.
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There are thousands of them out there in social media
and online in various places. They are just there to
rehash what they think is going to be something to
you know, get your interest. Real designers who are posting
information they work from a different perspective because we work
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in the real world and we know that what we're
going to set up for a client has got to last.
It has to last. Otherwise, Uh, you know, we're out
of a job, honestly, or we're out of a reference
at least. So look for these filler words when you're
reading this kind of stuff. Words and phrases. I just
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I literally pulled up two or three this morning, and
I found the same words and phrases in several of them. Ah.
When when it says, oh, this year we're going to
be big on incorporating personal touches. What yeah, here, grab
your well, pull your MinC closer, give me some feedback. Yeah,
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but they're everywhere. This phrase is everywhere in person, incorporating
personal touches. Hello, it's your house. I would hope that
that would always be the case. It's always the case
incorporating personal touch. Oh, isn't it lovely? If your designer
has given you permission to have something of your own
in the room. That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard,
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incorporating personal touches. Your whole home should be a personal touch.
All right? How about this, oh, very big this year
in twenty twenty five. Classic charm and timelessness. Wow, classic
charm and timelessness. Yeah, this is the exact article that
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in eleven months. People are gonna be like, oh, yeah,
that's so last year. Timelessness. The whole point is it's timeless. Yeah.
Organic shapes and materials very big this year, Tina. Organic
shapes and materials. What? All right, let's just think through this,
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let's break this do what What is an organic what's
an inorganic shape? I guess something that highly geometric? Okay,
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. All right.
So they're saying triangles are out for you know, it's
in very organic shapes and material When are organic shapes
and materials not in exactly? They're organic as in like nature,
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everything you need, everything you need is in nature. Tina
likes to say nature not in in twenty twenty five. Apparently,
Oh no, no it isn't. Oh I'm sorry. Nature will
be thrilled to find out that it is in. Let
me guess. Are they saying like bring the outside in?
Is that kind of No? No, that's a that's a
legitimate thing that we're going to be talking about here.
But that's not a trend. But that sounds like right, oh,
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it sounds so trending, which would be like, of course, yeah,
of course, how about this very big in twenty twenty five.
Approaches that create a sense of comfort. Well, I hope
that all your design not like twenty twenty four. That
was the year that being uncomfortable was in. Yes, being
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oddly uncomfortable in your home. All right, one more, maybe
a couple, a couple more, we got to go to
a break. Uh. Bold patterns and color choices. Yeah, okay, great, Yeah,
colors be bold. Uh and then uh, this is a
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word that's getting thrown around a lot, chicer, chic er,
and it looks like cheeser. It's just bet Yeah, be
more cheker showers, very big thing this year enlists cheeker showers.
Cheeker So your shower isn't she How chic is your shower?
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Is it cheak enough? Do they do? They can be cheaper.
They're just thrown out there for you to kind of
get a sense of what they mean. They're thrown out
there to shame you on your existing shower. That's terrible,
you see, because your shower obviously needs to be chicer. Right,
all right, let's get into some actual real things that
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are coming your way that you might want to embrace.
We'll do that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Welcome home, Thanks for joining us on this lovely cool misty.
Where we are Saturday morning, last Saturday in I was
gonna say last Saturday in December. That's true too, last
Saturday in twenty twenty four, end of the year. Here
we are. We're talking about design trends and predictions for
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twenty twenty five specifically, though I also am warning you
against too much of this kind of stuff. It'll rot
your teeth, as it were, just because so much of
it is just fluff and influencer kind of respeak along
the way, trying to separate the bs from the brilliant stuff.
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And there is some brilliant stuff that I want to
draw your attention to. Next right after the next break,
we are going to the phones as well. Here is
the number to reach me, and we've got room on
the callboard for you. So if there's anything I'm talking
design predictions, yes, but if there's anything that you've got
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scratching your head about your home, now is the time,
anything at all you set the agenda design construction DIY
eight three three two ask Dean eight three three The
numeral two ask Dean eight three three two ask Dean
producer Keana standing by, She'll tell you everything you need
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to know. Poppy into the queue and we'll put our
heads together and we'll figure it out. All right, Let's
get back to it. Uh what did I say? I
was going to talk about? What did I promise? And
I haven't been Okay? Some agay, Yeah, I want to
off the negative stuff. In other words, the stuff that
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I'm warning you about. Tell you about a real thing
that I want you to be aware of if you're remodeling,
especially making some changes and or you know, even down
to the decor level. Let's talk about the word that.
One of the hottest words for twenty twenty five is
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going to be the word bio philia. Biophilia. Now, it
sounds like a disease. It's not I promise, I am.
I'm afraid I've been diagnosed with biophilia. Biophilia is an
architectural term, a relatively new one. It means literally the
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love of nature. Okay, that's it, bio right, nature philia
like brotherly love love, nature love, all right. Biophilic design
is all about bringing the power of nature inside your home. Okay,
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it doesn't just you know, it could be anything from
I guess technically from a decore side bringing more plants,
living plants inside the actual interior space of a of
a room or a home. But on the larger scale,
and it really, its real impact goes beyond potted plants.
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Its real impact on a larger scale is the actual
architectural design of walls and spaces, more glass, more transitional
opening and vista between the outside and the inside. So
let me be really clear about this. It's gonna be
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on ninety percent of the good trends lists that you
might be perusing on Instagram or Pinterest. Okay, but I
want you to understand it is not not a trend.
It is trending, this is true. But biophilia and biophilic
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design is not a trend. And I say that because
I don't want you to think in any way, shape
or form it is going away. For those of us
in the architectural community, we know that biophilic design is
not a trend. It is an evolution in architectural thinking. Okay,
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we have reached the point in our technological abilities to
open up walls, to increase the surface area of glass
and vista inside and outside a house. As a result,
we are also learning in our modern culture, in this
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world that we live in, that most people from a
behavioral science perspective are desperately missing out on enough nature. Now,
I've talked at length about this before. I'm just going
to touch on for a couple of minutes here the
longstanding health facts about this. We are creatures of this planet,
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creatures who for some two million years primarily lived their
lives outside. It's part of our evolutionary shaping of our bodies,
of our mindscapes, of our emotional systems. We've talked in
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the past about the idea that, for instance, bird song
in the morning is proven scientifically to be more relaxive
and peace inducing than total silence. And the only thing
that explains that, the only thing that explains if we
talk about piecing quiet, the only thing that explains that
bird's song is more relaxing to a human mind than silence,
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is two million years of taking a queue from birds
nearby that everything is okay, because if there are predators
or danger or threats nearby, the very first thing that
shuts up is a bird, okay, not wanting to alert
anything to its location. Okay, So to walk out, like
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if you go backpacking or camping or anything, to walk
out into an open space and hear no bird song
is actually a little bit of a tense It's like,
you know, you've heard people say it's quiet to quiet. Yes,
that's exactly where that comes from. So to hear the
birds chirping is something that lowers blood pressure, as the
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mind and so on. That's one tiny, tiny example of
a whole universe of examples of the effect that nature has,
the beneficial effect that nature has on the human psyche,
the human body, the human emotional system. Therefore, in the
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world of architecture, we are catching up. We are catching
up and embracing it as much as possible. It is
not a trend, but it is trending, and it's a
trending wave that if you're considering a remodel or changing
the architectural bones of your house. Uh, it's a wave
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that you should grab onto and incorporate into. I'm going
to be We're working on a book right now. Biophilic
design is a major part of that design guide that
we're working on. The reason I'm putting it in there
is because it is not going out of fashion. An ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, Okay,
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because your embrace of more nature, even though you're inside
your home is nothing but a positive for all of us.
So there you go. First hot trend of twenty twenty
five that you're gonna see a lot of, you can
hear a lot of. I just want you to understand
it is trending, but it's more than a trend. It's
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something you can count on to last a lifetime. Biophilic design,
whether it be just increasing green inside your space. You're
an apartment and or a condo, and you don't have
control over throwing open walls understood, whether it's that or
whether you can really start opening up some critical vistas
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and bring what you're doing outside your house visually inside.
It's all a good idea. All right, back to our
list of trends and predictions for twenty twenty five when
we return to this subject, but right after the news,
we're gonna go to the phones. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live
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broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning from
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I am Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer. I design custom homes,
I build custom homes, and I'm your guide to better
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understanding that place where you live. Today on the show,
it is the it's our second to last show. This
is the last weekend of twenty twenty four, and today
and tomorrow we're going to be taking a look forward
as much as we humanly can in a realistic way
(00:44):
at predictions and trends for design and decor for your
home for twenty twenty five. So that's where we're going today.
And of course it's going to be in my own
inimitable style, my approach to this, which I hope you
will find to be grounded and rational and encouraging and
(01:05):
inspiring all the like. But we're going to push aside
as much of the BS as possible that you hear
or read. If you've looked at all at trends and
predictions like online, there's just so much BS out there
about this kind of stuff. I don't want you to
get caught up in it. So we're going to talk
(01:26):
about that today, especially today as well. And of course
we're also going to take your calls as we do.
The number to reach me here at the program eight
three three two. Ask Dean eight three three the numeral
two Ask Dean A three three two ask Dean. The
(01:47):
phone lines are open now. Producer Keana is standing by
ready to take your calls and she'll tell you everything
you need to know. Pop you into the queue. I'm
talking trends and predictions today and tomorrow. But when it
comes to your calls, you get to set the agenda.
Anything that's got you scratching your head about your home design, construction, DIY,
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whatever the case may be. If you just want to
wish somebody a happy New Year, that's cool to give
us a call. It is a friendly place to land
here on a Saturday morning. Let me introduce our awesome
team to you. Guess is here. Elma is on the
board this morning. Good morning, Bud Saturdays. There he is, there,
(02:35):
he is. He's getting in some extra hours this week.
It's cool, it's cool. I'm not used to hearing him
on a Saturday morning. I know, three hours earlier, exactly exactly.
But he's home. Yeah, he's awake, he's alive. You're ready
for it. I'm so ready, Like I said, Now, she's
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nowhere near a microphone. Producer. Oh, she's already screening calls.
I'm looking down at the board here there are calls
rolling in. Uh so, producer Keana is with us today.
She's awesome. Happy to have her and my buddy Eileen
Gonzalez at the news desk, so busy. Good morning, Eileen,
Good morning. How are you doing today? I hit the
(03:19):
wrong button. I was talking to myself. How's it going.
How's your week? It was good. I actually I worked
all week. I picked up shifts for you know, other
people so they could have the holiday off, and then
did my usual regular job and now working again. It's
(03:39):
been a working week. Those of us who have not
taken the holidays off, we have the right to just
call everybody else lazy, cowards and no exactly right, because
we're here, we're here getting it downe And by the way,
if anybody I always get, even after we do the
show on a holiday weekend, I always get, you know,
(04:00):
emails and comments on social media, like you know where
you guys actually in this weekend, we're here. It's December. Wait,
twenty eighth, it is December twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.
Do we have a newspaper? Can we take a proof
of life photo? What everybody's like, what's that newspaper? That
(04:23):
definitely means you pre recorded this show like eight years ago,
twenty five years ago. Yeah, I can hold up my phone.
That's it. I can hold up my phone. See it
says all right there, December twenty eighth, Saturday morning, a
few minutes after six. We're really here, and I will
really be here tomorrow as well. And here you just
(04:45):
heard her sitting across the table from me, my better half,
my design partner, and my best buddy in all the world.
Tina is here. So is that me? Somebody asked yesterday
somebody somebody We ran into somebody at Costco and they're like,
(05:06):
what's why is the what's what the elephant sound on
the show. It's just say Teama's favorite animal. That's all. Yeah,
that's all there is. You don't have to read into it.
There's nothing more than that. How you doing, I'm good? Yeah,
your eyes aren't completely open? Well, I feel great. Okay.
(05:27):
Good you and Sammy the beagle who is sitting next
to you on the sofa, so his eyes aren't open
at all. Yeah, No, he's very content, that little one.
All right, y'all, let's dive in. H here's the number
one more time eight three three two Ask Dean A
three three the numeral to ask Dean if you want
(05:47):
to call in, and we'll talk about what's going on
with your home. But we're going to dive into trends
and predictions for YEP twenty twenty five. It's right around
the corner.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Thanks for joining us on this misty southern California morning.
It's cool. I wouldn't say it's cold. Is it cold?
What's the cutoff for cold? It all depends on where
you're used to living, right, It's not cold. It's cool outside,
very misty where we are. Like I came out, We've
got an outdoor Christmas tree sitting in the backyard, and
(06:32):
when I came out through the back doors this morning,
you could see it glowing in the distance. You know
what I mean, that glow that you get when there's
like fog and mist in the air, was very, very beautiful.
Still is the case. I don't know. I'm sure it's
going to burn off later at some point, but I
really like it. I like drippy, misty mornings. It's as
close as we're getting to winter this year so far.
(06:54):
So I'm down. I'm down. I'm glad you're here and
we are talking about this next year ahead. Are you
ready for that? That's all right, you know what, it's
not gonna be. I'm not taking you there too quickly.
We're going to get there together, I promise. But I
do want to talk about trends and predictions because it's fun,
(07:14):
and also I want to issue some warnings to you
along the way as you start to look around and
you know, look at stuff on social media and Pinterest
and articles that every designer and design influencer in the world.
And I am drawing a distinction between those and I'll
clarify that in a second, but there's just so many
(07:38):
articles out there right now, so many sources of saying, hey,
this is what's going to happen. I want to give
you as rational and sane approach as possible and help
you navigate through all of that. Also taking your calls.
The phone lines are open, the number to reach me.
You're going to be going to the phones in a
bit eight three three two ask the A three three
(08:01):
the numeral to ask Dean producer Keana standing by anything
that's scott You scratching your head about your house, give
me a call. We'll put our heads together and figure
it out. And of course traffic is always light on
Saturday mornings, so if you've ever been frustrated not being
able to get through, it's good, good odds, better odds,
I should say, all right. Home Trends and Predictions for
(08:27):
twenty twenty five. I've subtitled this topic for us this weekend,
separating the brilliant from the bs. You know, as always
there's a lot of great stuff happening in the world
of home design. There really always is. There's always some
really cool things happening. It's one of the reasons I
love this field that I am in. But as always,
(08:52):
there's a lot of bogus advice out there on what's
hot and what's not and so. And you know, for
u A students, you may be sitting there saying, well, yeah,
Dean and you're a designer, so why should we trust
your list? Well, you don't have to, but I will
tell you this. I'm here to help you, you know that.
(09:13):
And I got nothing to sell you either, and so
I'm going to try and give you as much you know,
unvested commentary as possible as always. First of all, what's
hot for you? Design advice that helped you tell your story?
(09:33):
Your story? Okay. One of the things that is a
frustration to me every year is to see designers just
take off and say, well, here's our here's our advice.
And what they do is they start telling you what
you should be doing with your home because of the
fashion trends that are out there. To that, I say, nah,
(09:55):
nanna uh. The most important thing as a custom home designer,
and that's all I do is custom homes. All right. Now, again,
for those of you who aren't familiar with the program,
maybe you're listening for the first time, let me make
it really clear. That's not a conceit to say that,
(10:15):
it's just something that I have been fortunate to be
able to do a custom home and a luxury home.
That's what most people think when they're like, oh, he's
a custom home designer. He designs for the rich and famous.
Well a little that is true. But the point is
a custom home and luxury homes totally different categories. Okay,
(10:36):
they're not even in the same category. I will say
it this way. It doesn't matter what your home is
made at. Well, let's use the tailoring metaphor, because I
think it works really well. It doesn't matter what fabric
your clothing is made from. All right, you might be
wearing burlap this morning. I hope you're not, but you
(10:59):
might might be. You might just be wearing one hundred
percent cotton T shirt, right, or you could be wearing
silk or you know, it doesn't matter how fancy the
fabric is that you're wearing. The question of whether it's
custom or not has to do with whether it's been
(11:22):
fit to your body or not. That's tailoring, Okay, that's
not necessarily luxurious versus inexpensive. So a custom home is
simply a home, be it ever so humble like our
little cottage here, that has been you know, tailored fit
to the story of its occupants. And that can be
(11:45):
a condo, an apartment, it can be a mansion or
anything in between. Okay, and Yeah, there are lots, especially
these days, lots of mansionesque eight properties that are not
custom in any way, shape or form. They're just speculatative,
(12:09):
typical almost you know. We call them mic mansions because
they're kind of mass produced, tracked, kind of big fancy houses.
That's not what I want, That's not how I operate
with our clients. And so the very first bit of
a divine design advice for you from me for twenty
twenty five is keep it real, keep it authentic to you,
(12:33):
because if you really are investing in your home, then
your home needs to find a way to tell your story.
And I don't care if your story is not on
the front page of every design magazine for twenty twenty five.
That is irrelevant. That means nothing. Your story is relevant
(12:56):
to your life and that's what your home should be. Okay.
So that's the very first bit of advice. And I'll
give you one warning and this is gonna I'm gonna
set you up for where for my little rant next.
But I'll tell you what is not what is not
hot for twenty twenty five influencers I hate that word,
(13:17):
who are encouraging you to buy into this year's trends
who did that already and are now telling you that
that stuff is so yesterday. It drives me crazy when
I hear that kind of stuff, treating the home design
world as if it was the world of clothing fashion. Okay,
(13:40):
and I've got nothing against the world of clothing fashion.
And I understand that, you know, trends change whatever, Okay,
but here's the thing, your home that you just spent
I don't know, tens of thousands of dollars remodeling or
you're planning on. Okay, that's not just like throwing away
al blause. No, no, no. And so to think that
(14:02):
somebody drives you this year towards do this, this is
what's hot and trending, and then in about eighteen months
they're gonna tell you, no, that's so, that's so twenty
twenty four. It really is. We just got to get
away from that stuff all together, all right. So we're
gonna take a step back from that. I've got no
(14:23):
use for that. More on that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1 (14:32):
Dean Sharp the House whisper here with you on this
misty Saturday morning, the last Saturday of twenty twenty four.
It's about dang time. Now. It's been a year. It
has been a year, especially the end of the year
for a team and me, and we've been through some things,
and it seems like we've had a lot of friends
(14:53):
and family going through things as well. So you know what,
Let's lift our heads up and look anticipate. Anticipate, anticipatingly tee,
what how is? Don't look at me like that. Let's
(15:15):
anticipate twenty twenty five. Together, we're gonna be going to
the phones in just a bit. The number to reach
me eight three three two. Ask dean eight three three
the numeral two, ask Dean. All right, back to it.
So right before the break, I said, one of the
(15:35):
things that drives me craziest about the whole subject of
trends and predictions this time of year are influencers who
encouraged you to buy into this year's trend but are
now telling you that it is so yesterday. You're not
(15:56):
going to hear that from me, I promise. I want
you to be aware of this. And it's not that
you can't glean some interesting or maybe some inspiring ideas
from trends and prediction lists that you might be reading
or seeing online something like that. But just be aware
(16:18):
that the same stuff gets said every year. I mean seriously,
And there are filler words. And if you're reading an
article that you find too many of these filler words
in them, then just move away. You're not actually hearing
anything substantive, I promise you. And that's one of the problems.
(16:39):
I said, I was going to draw a distinction between
designers and design influencers. I wish this wasn't the case,
but there is a huge difference. Tina, back me up
on this. There's a huge difference between designers and design
influencers generally speaking, real life design. Okay, And if you're
(17:01):
reading an article, or you're looking at some or you know,
watching somebody's YouTube or whatever the case, maybe TikTok, whatever
it is. If you're on Instagram and you're seeing somebody
talking about twenty twenty five, find out if they are
actually a home designer or if they're just a design influencer.
Here's the problem. Design influencers need to feather their nest
(17:26):
with stuff that in a little while now there now
they tell you if this is in and in a
little while they're going to tell you that it's out
because they need to flip over their inventory and keep new,
fresh stuff coming your way. Designers don't work that way.
Real designers with real clients, you know. Yeah, we take
(17:48):
on new projects every year, and those projects will shift
with trends, you know, the the the ebb and flow
of the tides of cold design. Sure they do, but
not for the same clients. Okay, And that's the That's
the thing that get people all kind of get their
(18:10):
underwear all up in a bunch. Is that that you know,
you're spending tens of thousands of dollars maybe remodeling or
a few thousand dollars redecorating your home, only to find
out that you know, pretty soon it's going to be
oh so yesterday. So design influencers are a diamond dozen.
(18:31):
There are thousands of them out there in social media
and online in various places. They are just there to
rehash what they think is going to be something to
you know, get your interest. Real designers who are posting
information they work from a different perspective because we work
(18:56):
in the real world and we know that what we're
going to set up for a client has got to last.
It has to last. Otherwise, Uh, you know, we're out
of a job, honestly, or we're out of a reference
at least. So look for these filler words when you're
reading this kind of stuff. Words and phrases. I just
(19:16):
I literally pulled up two or three this morning, and
I found the same words and phrases in several of them. Ah.
When when it says, oh, this year we're going to
be big on incorporating personal touches. What yeah, here, grab
your well, pull your MinC closer, give me some feedback. Yeah,
(19:37):
but they're everywhere. This phrase is everywhere in person, incorporating
personal touches. Hello, it's your house. I would hope that
that would always be the case. It's always the case
incorporating personal touch. Oh, isn't it lovely? If your designer
has given you permission to have something of your own
in the room. That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard,
(20:01):
incorporating personal touches. Your whole home should be a personal touch.
All right? How about this, oh, very big this year
in twenty twenty five. Classic charm and timelessness. Wow, classic
charm and timelessness. Yeah, this is the exact article that
(20:28):
in eleven months. People are gonna be like, oh, yeah,
that's so last year. Timelessness. The whole point is it's timeless. Yeah.
Organic shapes and materials very big this year, Tina. Organic
shapes and materials. What? All right, let's just think through this,
(20:49):
let's break this do what What is an organic what's
an inorganic shape? I guess something that highly geometric? Okay,
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. All right.
So they're saying triangles are out for you know, it's
in very organic shapes and material When are organic shapes
and materials not in exactly? They're organic as in like nature,
(21:14):
everything you need, everything you need is in nature. Tina
likes to say nature not in in twenty twenty five. Apparently,
Oh no, no it isn't. Oh I'm sorry. Nature will
be thrilled to find out that it is in. Let
me guess. Are they saying like bring the outside in?
Is that kind of No? No, that's a that's a
legitimate thing that we're going to be talking about here.
But that's not a trend. But that sounds like right, oh,
(21:37):
it sounds so trending, which would be like, of course, yeah,
of course, how about this very big in twenty twenty five.
Approaches that create a sense of comfort. Well, I hope
that all your design not like twenty twenty four. That
was the year that being uncomfortable was in. Yes, being
(22:00):
oddly uncomfortable in your home. All right, one more, maybe
a couple, a couple more, we got to go to
a break. Uh. Bold patterns and color choices. Yeah, okay, great, Yeah,
colors be bold. Uh and then uh, this is a
(22:20):
word that's getting thrown around a lot, chicer, chic er,
and it looks like cheeser. It's just bet Yeah, be
more cheker showers, very big thing this year enlists cheeker showers.
Cheeker So your shower isn't she How chic is your shower?
(22:43):
Is it cheak enough? Do they do? They can be cheaper.
They're just thrown out there for you to kind of
get a sense of what they mean. They're thrown out
there to shame you on your existing shower. That's terrible,
you see, because your shower obviously needs to be chicer. Right,
all right, let's get into some actual real things that
(23:05):
are coming your way that you might want to embrace.
We'll do that.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Welcome home, Thanks for joining us on this lovely cool misty.
Where we are Saturday morning, last Saturday in I was
gonna say last Saturday in December. That's true too, last
Saturday in twenty twenty four, end of the year. Here
we are. We're talking about design trends and predictions for
(23:40):
twenty twenty five specifically, though I also am warning you
against too much of this kind of stuff. It'll rot
your teeth, as it were, just because so much of
it is just fluff and influencer kind of respeak along
the way, trying to separate the bs from the brilliant stuff.
(24:01):
And there is some brilliant stuff that I want to
draw your attention to. Next right after the next break,
we are going to the phones as well. Here is
the number to reach me, and we've got room on
the callboard for you. So if there's anything I'm talking
design predictions, yes, but if there's anything that you've got
(24:21):
scratching your head about your home, now is the time,
anything at all you set the agenda design construction DIY
eight three three two ask Dean eight three three The
numeral two ask Dean eight three three two ask Dean
producer Keana standing by, She'll tell you everything you need
(24:41):
to know. Poppy into the queue and we'll put our
heads together and we'll figure it out. All right, Let's
get back to it. Uh what did I say? I
was going to talk about? What did I promise? And
I haven't been Okay? Some agay, Yeah, I want to
off the negative stuff. In other words, the stuff that
(25:02):
I'm warning you about. Tell you about a real thing
that I want you to be aware of if you're remodeling,
especially making some changes and or you know, even down
to the decor level. Let's talk about the word that.
One of the hottest words for twenty twenty five is
(25:24):
going to be the word bio philia. Biophilia. Now, it
sounds like a disease. It's not I promise, I am.
I'm afraid I've been diagnosed with biophilia. Biophilia is an
architectural term, a relatively new one. It means literally the
(25:49):
love of nature. Okay, that's it, bio right, nature philia
like brotherly love love, nature love, all right. Biophilic design
is all about bringing the power of nature inside your home. Okay,
(26:09):
it doesn't just you know, it could be anything from
I guess technically from a decore side bringing more plants,
living plants inside the actual interior space of a of
a room or a home. But on the larger scale,
and it really, its real impact goes beyond potted plants.
(26:31):
Its real impact on a larger scale is the actual
architectural design of walls and spaces, more glass, more transitional
opening and vista between the outside and the inside. So
let me be really clear about this. It's gonna be
(26:53):
on ninety percent of the good trends lists that you
might be perusing on Instagram or Pinterest. Okay, but I
want you to understand it is not not a trend.
It is trending, this is true. But biophilia and biophilic
(27:16):
design is not a trend. And I say that because
I don't want you to think in any way, shape
or form it is going away. For those of us
in the architectural community, we know that biophilic design is
not a trend. It is an evolution in architectural thinking. Okay,
(27:38):
we have reached the point in our technological abilities to
open up walls, to increase the surface area of glass
and vista inside and outside a house. As a result,
we are also learning in our modern culture, in this
(27:59):
world that we live in, that most people from a
behavioral science perspective are desperately missing out on enough nature. Now,
I've talked at length about this before. I'm just going
to touch on for a couple of minutes here the
longstanding health facts about this. We are creatures of this planet,
(28:27):
creatures who for some two million years primarily lived their
lives outside. It's part of our evolutionary shaping of our bodies,
of our mindscapes, of our emotional systems. We've talked in
(28:47):
the past about the idea that, for instance, bird song
in the morning is proven scientifically to be more relaxive
and peace inducing than total silence. And the only thing
that explains that, the only thing that explains if we
talk about piecing quiet, the only thing that explains that
bird's song is more relaxing to a human mind than silence,
(29:12):
is two million years of taking a queue from birds
nearby that everything is okay, because if there are predators
or danger or threats nearby, the very first thing that
shuts up is a bird, okay, not wanting to alert
anything to its location. Okay, So to walk out, like
(29:37):
if you go backpacking or camping or anything, to walk
out into an open space and hear no bird song
is actually a little bit of a tense It's like,
you know, you've heard people say it's quiet to quiet. Yes,
that's exactly where that comes from. So to hear the
birds chirping is something that lowers blood pressure, as the
(30:00):
mind and so on. That's one tiny, tiny example of
a whole universe of examples of the effect that nature has,
the beneficial effect that nature has on the human psyche,
the human body, the human emotional system. Therefore, in the
(30:21):
world of architecture, we are catching up. We are catching
up and embracing it as much as possible. It is
not a trend, but it is trending, and it's a
trending wave that if you're considering a remodel or changing
the architectural bones of your house. Uh, it's a wave
(30:42):
that you should grab onto and incorporate into. I'm going
to be We're working on a book right now. Biophilic
design is a major part of that design guide that
we're working on. The reason I'm putting it in there
is because it is not going out of fashion. An ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, Okay,
(31:05):
because your embrace of more nature, even though you're inside
your home is nothing but a positive for all of us.
So there you go. First hot trend of twenty twenty
five that you're gonna see a lot of, you can
hear a lot of. I just want you to understand
it is trending, but it's more than a trend. It's
(31:26):
something you can count on to last a lifetime. Biophilic design,
whether it be just increasing green inside your space. You're
an apartment and or a condo, and you don't have
control over throwing open walls understood, whether it's that or
whether you can really start opening up some critical vistas
(31:49):
and bring what you're doing outside your house visually inside.
It's all a good idea. All right, back to our
list of trends and predictions for twenty twenty five when
we return to this subject, but right after the news,
we're gonna go to the phones. This has been Home
with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the live
(32:11):
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