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Impactful Home and Bathroom Upgrades: Little Things, Big Impact! · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, everybody, Happy weekend. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1: Repical Light home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and
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Speaker 1: today let's jump right in. I want to start the
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Speaker 1: show talking about the little things, right. You know, we've
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Speaker 1: all heard that phrase, it's the little things that make
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Speaker 1: all the difference, you know, like basically, when you don't
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Speaker 1: want to spend a lot of money on a big
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Speaker 1: gift for somebody, you tell them, hey, it's all about
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Speaker 1: the little things, right, It's the little things that really matter.
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Speaker 1: And then when people hear that, everybody just assumes that's true.
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Speaker 1: And even though you know, we really want to get
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Speaker 1: this big gift, we know we got the little things
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Speaker 1: and it's the little things that really matter, so we
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Speaker 1: feel good right now. When I was little, I always
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Speaker 1: thought that the whole little things that matter line, you know,
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Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of hokey. I didn't buy
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Speaker 1: it because I wanted the big things, you know, I
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Speaker 1: wanted nothing but the best. And I really thought mom
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Speaker 1: and Dad were just cheaping out on me, you know,
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Speaker 1: and just telling me, feeding me this line about the
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Speaker 1: little things and hoping to just get me to think,
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Speaker 1: you know, tricking me into thinking I really got something,
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Speaker 1: you know. It's the little things that matter. Danny. Well, anyway,
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Speaker 1: as I got older, I'm atured, you know, Believe it
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Speaker 1: or not. This is a matured version of what I
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Speaker 1: used to be, and I've come to see the truth
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Speaker 1: of it. It really is, for the most part, the
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Speaker 1: little things that make all the difference. Big things are
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Speaker 1: still pretty awesome sometimes, but the little things really can
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Speaker 1: surprise you. And one of my favorite examples of the
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Speaker 1: whole little things thing is this in my living room
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Speaker 1: is a ridiculous pillow that makes absolutely no sense in
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Speaker 1: the space. You know, picture this. The living room is
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Speaker 1: painted a goldish tan, absolutely beautiful, astonishing to look at.
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Speaker 1: The furniture is brown pleather, plether. It's not leather, and
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Speaker 1: it's not exactly plastic. It's kind of a finely crafted
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Speaker 1: amalgamation of those two materials, and this amalgamation the people
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Speaker 1: in the furniture industry refer to as plether. Anyway, I've
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Speaker 1: got tan walls, dark brown pleather furniture, and an antique
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Speaker 1: oak desk again dark brown, and so on. You get
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Speaker 1: the picture. And in the midst of all of that,
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Speaker 1: on one of those pleather chairs that I was telling
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Speaker 1: you about there sits this pink, you know, crazy pink,
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Speaker 1: bubblegum pink, shiny pink sequin pillow. It's a small pillow,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a foot square something like that, and
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Speaker 1: it sparkles like crazy in the light, absolutely crazy. It's hideous,
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Speaker 1: it's garish, it's jarring to look at. It's clearly cheaply made,
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Speaker 1: and it's one of my favorite presents of all time. See.
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Speaker 1: My daughter Maddie gave it to me. It was a
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Speaker 1: Christmas present a couple of years back, and it didn't
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Speaker 1: arrive in time, so I received it about two weeks late.
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Speaker 1: And Maddie spent all the time leading up to Christmas
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Speaker 1: and all the time leading up to the arrival of
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Speaker 1: the present really telling me and building up how amazing
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Speaker 1: this present was. She was so thrilled with it, and really,
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Speaker 1: despite my age, she got me all giddied up. I
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Speaker 1: was pumped. You know, presents are my thing. I love
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Speaker 1: giving them and I love getting them. And I got really,
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Speaker 1: really really excited. And of all the kids, Maddie had money,
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Speaker 1: she'd been working a fair amount at that point, and
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Speaker 1: she's a saver, so this gift could be really good,
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Speaker 1: really nice, really expensive, and so I was excited. I
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Speaker 1: was pumped. And then the present arrived and I came
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Speaker 1: home from work one day to find this little square
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Speaker 1: package waiting for me, you know, all wrapped up. Mattie's pumped,
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Speaker 1: she's excited. Everybody's gathered around something out of a movie,
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Speaker 1: is what it felt like. Well, I grabbed the box.
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Speaker 1: I said, Maddie, you shouldn't have spent so much on me,
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Speaker 1: and I started opening the thing and that's when I
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Speaker 1: saw the Sequin pillow, you know, that horrible, pink, ridiculous
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Speaker 1: Sequin pillow. And I had no idea what in the
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Speaker 1: world was going on at this point, but I'm smart
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Speaker 1: enough to think on my feet, so I acted excited
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Speaker 1: and I laughed because Mattie was laughing, and I figured
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Speaker 1: this was some kind of joke that I didn't get yet.
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Speaker 1: And then Mattie said, brush the sequence, Brush the sequence,
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Speaker 1: and I must have looked completely stupid, because she reached
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Speaker 1: out and brushed at a corner of the sequence on
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Speaker 1: the pillow to show me how to do it. Well.
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Speaker 1: When she did that, I looked and I saw that
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Speaker 1: the sequence flipped back and they revealed another color underneath.
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Speaker 1: So still confused, I started brushing them back, and as
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Speaker 1: I did so, I revealed this life sized photo of
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Speaker 1: Mattie's face smiling with this ridiculous grin. It was the
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Speaker 1: funniest present that I've ever received, and now it sits
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Speaker 1: in a place of honor on my pleather chair. I've
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Speaker 1: been given many more expensive presents by Mattie over the years,
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Speaker 1: but that one present really hits me as the best,
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Speaker 1: the absolute best. So much humor and personality were wrapped
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Speaker 1: up in that one dumb little pillow. You know, the
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Speaker 1: little things. Often it's the little things that really count, right,
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Speaker 1: the things that really make a difference. And that brings
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Speaker 1: me to the paint point for the week. Often on
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Speaker 1: the show we talk about big projects and huge undertakings,
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Speaker 1: you know, whole house generators last week, painting your exterior,
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Speaker 1: you know, the exterior of your home, or installing courts, countertops,
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Speaker 1: painting kitchen cabinets, you know, big stuff, And of course
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Speaker 1: those big projects have big payoffs. But I wanted to
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Speaker 1: take a step back this week and point out that
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of power in little projects, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the little things. And I'm not saying that the
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Speaker 1: little things have more power than the big things. You know,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to home projects, I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: probably true. It's wishful thinking, but I don't think it's true.
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Speaker 1: The little things, though they are important, they're accessible, they're doable,
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Speaker 1: so much more so than big projects. And when you
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Speaker 1: realize that these little projects can have a big time impact,
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Speaker 1: where you begin to see that even on a time
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Speaker 1: crunch or a budget crunch, you can still make big
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Speaker 1: impact improvements to your home. And that's pretty exciting. Now,
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Speaker 1: many of us have big projects that we'd love to tackle,
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Speaker 1: but right now, you know, maybe they seem financially out
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Speaker 1: of reach for you. You know, with the holidays, approaching car payments,
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Speaker 1: the cost of groceries, unexpected expenses. You know, I just
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Speaker 1: put in a new furnace and air conditioner completely unexpected
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Speaker 1: with those things, with medical bills, it can really feel overwhelmed.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention the time constraints that we get from
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Speaker 1: work and family life. You know, big projects seem out
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Speaker 1: of reach sometimes. Now, if you relate to this, if
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Speaker 1: any of that makes sense to you, you're not in
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Speaker 1: your head even a little. There's good news, and really
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Speaker 1: that's what this show is all about, right is delivering
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Speaker 1: the good news. Well, in this instance, the good news
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Speaker 1: is that there are many little projects that you can
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Speaker 1: tackle that will have a huge impact on your home.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to drain your wallet or take weeks
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Speaker 1: to complete, and yet they can transform your space into
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Speaker 1: something that more closely resembles the vision that you had
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Speaker 1: for your home. Now, today's show is going to focus
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Speaker 1: on a bunch of these little projects, specifically within the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: you know, just to give me a space, a specific
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Speaker 1: space to work in. But many of these ideas are
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Speaker 1: going to apply really to any room of your home. Now.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to have huge amounts of money and
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Speaker 1: time to make big changes. We can update our homes
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Speaker 1: and make big impact improvements for chump change in sometimes
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Speaker 1: ten minutes of work. So remember sometimes the little things
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Speaker 1: can have a huge impact. That's the pain point for today.
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Speaker 1: Now we're going to take a break. When we return,
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Speaker 1: we're going to explore nine simple updates that can completely
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Speaker 1: transform your bathroom. Stick around and we're back. You're listening
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Speaker 1: to the Repco Light Home improvement showing. Today we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the little things, you know, the little projects, the
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Speaker 1: little updates that matter, and specifically we're looking at these
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Speaker 1: in terms of updating a bathroom. But like I said
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Speaker 1: in the last segment, you can apply these projects, many
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Speaker 1: of them, not all of them, certainly, not all of them,
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Speaker 1: but you can apply many of them all over the house.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get started, and let's start here. What
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Speaker 1: does your bathroom look like? You know? Is it the
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Speaker 1: paradise on earth that you'd like it to be. Is
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Speaker 1: it a place of comfort and peace? Is it ready
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Speaker 1: for guests who are going to be coming soon as
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Speaker 1: the holidays draw closer? What's it look like now? When
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Speaker 1: I think about mine won't won't wall? Yikes? You know,
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Speaker 1: I've got two bathrooms and neither one is anything to
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Speaker 1: write home about. They're not exactly you know, pits of despair.
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Speaker 1: They're functional, They do their thing. I don't cry when
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Speaker 1: I'm in them, but they could certainly be better. You know,
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Speaker 1: I would certainly want to do a few things before
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Speaker 1: I had guests coming to use them on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: Even now, when I do have the random guest that
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Speaker 1: shows up and they announce or ask do you have
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Speaker 1: a restroom? Well, nobody asks that. They all assume that
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Speaker 1: we've got a restroom in the house, They'll say, where's
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Speaker 1: the bathroom or whatever. I've got to use the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: And there's always this inner fear that somebody is going
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Speaker 1: to walk into the bathroom and judge me harshly because
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Speaker 1: it's not a place you want to spend a lot
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Speaker 1: of time. Anyway. That's my bathroom, you know, That's what
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Speaker 1: I've got going on. But here's the thing, you know.
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Speaker 1: I want to fix them, I want to change them.
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Speaker 1: But I personally don't have a lot of extra budget
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Speaker 1: right now for bathroommodels, and I certainly don't have a
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Speaker 1: lot of excess time. So what in the world can
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Speaker 1: I do? Well? Happily, there are a lot of simple
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Speaker 1: updates that will dramatically improve our bathrooms in an economical
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Speaker 1: manner and without requiring huge time commitments. And I hinted
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Speaker 1: at it earlier. But seriously, if you entertain guests for
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving or Christmas, here's perhaps a startling fact for you.
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Speaker 1: We have, as of right now, thirty three days thirty
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Speaker 1: three days until Thanksgiving and sixty days until Christmas. So
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Speaker 1: if you've got a bathroom that's drooping a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and you've got guests coming over in the next few weeks,
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Speaker 1: or if you just want to make your bathroom nice
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Speaker 1: for you and your family, you know that's my boat.
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Speaker 1: Here are some ideas that might help you get there.
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Speaker 1: And let's just start. The very first update project that
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about is what a big surprise
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Speaker 1: this is going to be painting the walls. You know,
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Speaker 1: that's the big first project that we're going to talk about.
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Speaker 1: And maybe you might think of this one as a
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Speaker 1: bigger project, or maybe a project on the more expensive side,
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Speaker 1: but remember we're just talking about the bathroom here. It's
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Speaker 1: a small space. A gallon of paint is going to cover,
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Speaker 1: on average, about four hundred square foot with one coat,
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Speaker 1: so you're not looking at too much paint here. And
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Speaker 1: as for impact, there really isn't much bigger bang for
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Speaker 1: your buck when it comes to projects than painting. And
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Speaker 1: if you don't believe me, google it just right now.
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Speaker 1: Type in your phone search for the best bang for
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Speaker 1: your buck home improvement projects. And when you do that,
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Speaker 1: a new code of paint on the walls is going
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Speaker 1: to be in the top three almost every time. If
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Speaker 1: it's not the first one that's suggested, it's just you know,
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Speaker 1: economically speaking, you're going to get the best bang for
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Speaker 1: your buck with that kind of a project. And that's
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Speaker 1: because nothing you know really helps set the tone, I
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Speaker 1: guess is the way to say it, the tone or
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere of a room. Nothing sets that more than
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Speaker 1: the color on the walls. So one really straightforward project
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Speaker 1: with a big payoff is to freshen up the paint
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Speaker 1: in your bathroom. But I can't just leave it at
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Speaker 1: that and get to the other projects. It's a bathroom
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Speaker 1: and there are definitely some things to keep in mind
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Speaker 1: before I run on to the next thing. And first off,
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Speaker 1: when you're doing any painting, we talk about it on
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Speaker 1: the show all the time, but when you're doing any
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Speaker 1: painting at all, prep work is key. It's absolutely foundational.
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Speaker 1: But in a bathroom repaint, it's even more important to
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Speaker 1: make sure that you do this right. So make sure
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Speaker 1: that the walls are washed really well. There are a
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Speaker 1: lot of contaminants in a bathroom, hair spray, all kinds
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Speaker 1: of different things that can end up on the walls.
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Speaker 1: So wash the walls with a good cleaning agent like
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Speaker 1: Challenger or Spray nine. We carry both of those. You
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Speaker 1: could use don dish soap, but wash those walls really
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Speaker 1: well with that, and you might want to scrub them
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Speaker 1: slightly with a Scotch Bright pad, you know, one of
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Speaker 1: those little green pads, little green scrubbies that you use
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Speaker 1: for your dishes. If you're one of those people who
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Speaker 1: don't have a dishwasher, like the Hansen clan, we've got
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Speaker 1: little scrubbies that we use. Everybody's got their own personalized scrubby.
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Speaker 1: Get new scrubbies. Don't use your scrubbies that you use
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Speaker 1: for your dishes. Get a new Scotch Bright scrubby and
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Speaker 1: use that to wash the walls. It'll help cut through
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Speaker 1: some of those contaminants. So wash the walls really well
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Speaker 1: and then wipe them clean with a damp rag and
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Speaker 1: then let them dry. Now, if you've got nail holes
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Speaker 1: that need filling, do that now with a lightweight spackling compound.
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Speaker 1: And if the walls are shiny, you know it's a bathroom,
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Speaker 1: it's possible, in fact, it could be likely that there's
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Speaker 1: a fair amount of shine on those walls. If there is,
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Speaker 1: you really want to make sure that you do a
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Speaker 1: light scuff sanding with a one eighty grit sandpaper. You
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Speaker 1: need to create a surface profile. That's what you're looking
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Speaker 1: for here for that new paint to adhere to. So
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Speaker 1: do that stuff sanding, and once you're done with that,
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Speaker 1: wipe the walls with a damp rag to remove the
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Speaker 1: sanding dust and then let them dry. All right, if
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Speaker 1: you do happen to you know, in the course of
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Speaker 1: all of that work, it's not terribly uncommon that you
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Speaker 1: might stumble into mold or mildew. Now, if you do
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Speaker 1: find those things, you absolutely need to deal with those
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Speaker 1: clean those areas with bleach and water. You know, a
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Speaker 1: bleach and water solution, and that will kill the mold
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Speaker 1: and mildew and then you should be able to paint
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Speaker 1: over it. However, you do want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: there isn't a bigger problem going on that's causing those problems.
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Speaker 1: You know, it could be just poor ventilation, maybe not
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Speaker 1: using your fan, maybe your bathroom fan isn't working well.
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Speaker 1: You know, that could be leading to the issue. But
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Speaker 1: it could be something bigger than that. It could be
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Speaker 1: a leak or something along those lines. So make sure
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Speaker 1: that you know what caused the mold and mildew before
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Speaker 1: you completely move on, because if you don't fix that
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Speaker 1: core problem, it's just going to be a continuing problem
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Speaker 1: down the road. And you don't want to be dealing
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Speaker 1: with a mold problem in any regard in your home.
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Speaker 1: So if you do see mold, you definitely need to
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Speaker 1: figure that out. Mildew on the surface, most likely it's
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Speaker 1: a ventilation thing. Still clean it off, kill it with
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Speaker 1: the bleach and water solution. You'll be good to go.
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Speaker 1: If you have more questions about that, swing into any
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Speaker 1: Repcolite and we'll walk you through what you need to
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Speaker 1: do to get those walls ready for paint. All right,
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Speaker 1: once you've got all of that done and you're ready
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Speaker 1: for paint, i'd recommend using Aura Bath and Spa from
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore. It's specifically designed for moisture rich environments like
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Speaker 1: a bathroom, and as a bonus, at least to me,
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Speaker 1: it comes in a matte finish. You know, when you
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Speaker 1: use Aura Bath and Spy, you're going to get great coverage,
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Speaker 1: you're going to get supreme resistance to moisture and all
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Speaker 1: of the problems that moisture can cause. And you're going
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Speaker 1: to get all of that with a matte finish, which
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Speaker 1: means that your walls don't need to be overlay shining. Now,
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Speaker 1: some people like that other people. You know, that's a
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Speaker 1: real bummer for people when they get to painting their bathroom.
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Speaker 1: Before aur A Bath and Spa, before we had that
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Speaker 1: as an option, we always had to steer people to
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Speaker 1: shinier finishes because that will resist that moisture better. But
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Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't want to go to those
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Speaker 1: shinier finishes. They're a little trickier to work with. They
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Speaker 1: show more inconsistencies on the walls, more imperfections. A matte
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Speaker 1: finish is just softer on the eyes, You see the
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Speaker 1: color better and it hides those imperfections. So aur A
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Speaker 1: Bath and Spa you can use that. It's my favorite
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Speaker 1: bathroom paint. It's going to be a silver bullet. It's
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Speaker 1: going to resist all the problems that water can cause
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Speaker 1: in a bathroom, and it does it with a matte finish. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you don't want the matte finish, that's all right.
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Speaker 1: There are other options out there that have a shinier finish.
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Speaker 1: I know there are people who just like that shinier
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Speaker 1: look in the bathroom. We've got products that will do that.
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Speaker 1: Just stop out at any repco Light, tell us what
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Speaker 1: you want and we'll get you the right product. All right,
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Speaker 1: One last thing to say about all of this painting
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Speaker 1: the bathroom walls. One last thing is that color matters
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Speaker 1: a little more than you may think in the bathroom. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's not rocket science here, and to some people this
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Speaker 1: is crazy obvious. But you could pick a color in
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Speaker 1: the bathroom that looks great in your bathroom, but which
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Speaker 1: you know, often combined with your lighting, can make you
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Speaker 1: personally me can make us look terrible in the mirror,
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Speaker 1: no lie, Certain colors can make us look sickly or
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Speaker 1: washed out, or way worse than we really look in
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Speaker 1: real life. And some of us, some of us need
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Speaker 1: all the help we can get. The last thing we
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Speaker 1: need is the paint color on our bathroom walls working
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Speaker 1: against us. We need everything aligning in our favor to
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Speaker 1: be able to go out into the world and feel
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Speaker 1: okay about ourselves. We don't need the color hurting us.
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Speaker 1: So when it comes to picking your paint color, here
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Speaker 1: are just a few quick things to consider. And of
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Speaker 1: course these are for every space, but the bathroom being
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Speaker 1: a smaller space and a space in which we typically
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Speaker 1: view ourselves in a mirror. You know that all makes
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Speaker 1: these considerations a little more critical. All right. First, when
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Speaker 1: you're choosing your color, consider the lighting. If your bathroom
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Speaker 1: has a lot of natural light, you can choose a
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Speaker 1: boulder color. In low light bathrooms, you might want to
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Speaker 1: opt for lighter shades just to keep the space feeling
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Speaker 1: a little more bright. Next, be aware that warmer tones
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Speaker 1: like soft beiges, warm whites, light topes, even pinks, can
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Speaker 1: create a welcoming atmosphere without making you look washed out
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Speaker 1: in the mirror. One of Benjamin Moore's color Trend colors
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five is called tissue pink. Terrible name.
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Speaker 1: I hate that name, tissue pink. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: paint a wall tissue pink. Not at all, Not at all. No.
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Speaker 1: I was trying to think if there was a possibility
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Speaker 1: that I could. No, I hate that name. But it's
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Speaker 1: a decent color, and when it's paired with warm lighting,
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Speaker 1: it's great for a bathroom or a powder room, So
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Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Cooler tones, like icy blues or grays,
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Speaker 1: they can end up casting unflattering tones on our skin.
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Speaker 1: So can certain greens. And really that shouldn't come as
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Speaker 1: a surprise. You know, enough green in a small space
17:13
Speaker 1: that's usually pretty well lit is going to end up
17:16
Speaker 1: bouncing around the room, right, It's gonna cast us in
17:19
Speaker 1: this green glow in the mirror, and it's possible, maybe likely,
17:23
Speaker 1: that we're gonna end up looking seasick all the time
17:25
Speaker 1: that we're in there. So you don't want that. If
17:27
Speaker 1: you want to use cool tones, a soft shade of
17:30
Speaker 1: blue could be a good compromise. So think about that.
17:33
Speaker 1: If you're bound and determined that you're going to use
17:35
Speaker 1: bold colors, even if you don't have great lighting in there,
17:37
Speaker 1: bring those bold colors in with accents and with art.
17:40
Speaker 1: You know that keeps them more controlled and easy to
17:43
Speaker 1: tweak if you need to. Finally, last thing I'll say
17:46
Speaker 1: about color is that you should try it out in
17:48
Speaker 1: your lighting. We say that all the time, But try
17:51
Speaker 1: the color out. Don't just buy it and put it
17:53
Speaker 1: on and hope for the best sample it. Make sure
17:55
Speaker 1: that you're seeing it in your lighting. You can get
17:57
Speaker 1: Benjamin More color samples of any of the Benjamin More colors.
18:01
Speaker 1: They're about six bucks, and that's going to give you
18:03
Speaker 1: enough paint to brush on a piece of foam board
18:06
Speaker 1: and then look at it at different times of the
18:08
Speaker 1: day in your space. It's a great way to go.
18:10
Speaker 1: And right now, I want to make sure I mentioned
18:12
Speaker 1: this right now, until the end of October, you can
18:14
Speaker 1: get a free Benjamin More color sample of any one
18:18
Speaker 1: of the ten Color Trends twenty twenty five colors at
18:21
Speaker 1: repco Light. Now. That includes Benjamin Moore's Color of the
18:23
Speaker 1: Year cinnamon slate, and it also includes that tissue pink
18:27
Speaker 1: color that I don't like the name of, but the colors,
18:30
Speaker 1: all right, if you want to get a sample of
18:32
Speaker 1: that for free, you can do that now. That free
18:35
Speaker 1: color sample offers only good for one of those ten
18:37
Speaker 1: Color Trends colors, and it ends October thirty one, so
18:40
Speaker 1: check that out. We've got more info at repco light
18:43
Speaker 1: dot com if you want more information on that. All right,
18:46
Speaker 1: that's my long winded first recommended project to update your bathroom.
18:50
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and then we'll keep going
18:52
Speaker 1: with the rest of these on the other side. Stick around.
19:00
Speaker 1: We're back. You're listening to the Repcolite Home Improvement Show,
19:03
Speaker 1: and we're working our way to what I feel is
19:06
Speaker 1: a list of small, reasonable updates that we can make
19:09
Speaker 1: to our bathrooms. You know, these are meant to be
19:11
Speaker 1: relatively relatively little things that shouldn't cost too much money
19:16
Speaker 1: or take too much time, but which can still you know,
19:19
Speaker 1: have a big impact on the space. In the last segment,
19:22
Speaker 1: I spent a fair amount of time talking about painting
19:25
Speaker 1: the walls. The rest of these aren't going to take
19:27
Speaker 1: that much time, I promised, but there was a ton
19:29
Speaker 1: of info that I wanted to cover before I felt
19:32
Speaker 1: comfortable dropping that topic, so I took the time. Now,
19:35
Speaker 1: if you still have questions about a bathroom repaint, just
19:38
Speaker 1: swing into any Repcolite location and we'll walk you through it.
19:42
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. The second bathroom project that
19:46
Speaker 1: I'm going to recommend is and I feel really bad
19:50
Speaker 1: about this one. I do, I do, I really do.
19:53
Speaker 1: But the second one is paint the cabinets, which is
19:56
Speaker 1: different from the first one, which was painting the walls.
20:00
Speaker 1: But yes, it is still more painting. But hang with
20:02
Speaker 1: me here. It can make a huge impact. And even
20:06
Speaker 1: though you're painting cabinets, which you know, a lot of
20:08
Speaker 1: us it's not our favorite thing to think about. You know,
20:12
Speaker 1: you're painting cabinets here, but remember it's bathroom cabinets, and
20:15
Speaker 1: there aren't nearly as many of them as there are
20:18
Speaker 1: in a kitchen. It's a great way to dabble with
20:20
Speaker 1: a cabinet repaint and see if that's something you want
20:23
Speaker 1: to tackle on a bigger scale in your kitchen. All right,
20:26
Speaker 1: So bathroom cabinets, I think that's a great one. And
20:30
Speaker 1: of course, just like the walls, prep is crazy important
20:33
Speaker 1: here and I will spare you the details of all
20:36
Speaker 1: of that. If you are interested in this project, just
20:39
Speaker 1: stop out at any Repcolite location and we'll walk you
20:42
Speaker 1: through it. Or you can email me at radio at
20:44
Speaker 1: repco Light dot com and I can give you a
20:47
Speaker 1: detailed walkthrough so you know exactly what you need to do. Now.
20:50
Speaker 1: When it comes to recommended paint products for a bathroom
20:53
Speaker 1: cabinet project, I'd recommend Benjamin Moore's Advance. It's absolutely ideal.
20:57
Speaker 1: It self levels beautifully whether you brush it or roll it,
21:00
Speaker 1: and you're gonna end up with a remarkably smooth finish.
21:03
Speaker 1: It's almost almost gonna look sprayed. It cleans up with
21:06
Speaker 1: soap and water. But it's actually what's called a modified alkid,
21:10
Speaker 1: and that's just a fancy way of saying that it
21:12
Speaker 1: has some of the durability characteristics of an oil and
21:15
Speaker 1: some of the application characteristics of an oil, but with
21:18
Speaker 1: faster dry times and soap and water cleanup like a
21:20
Speaker 1: water based product would. So that's advanced from Benjamin Moore.
21:24
Speaker 1: That's a great product for cabinets. Another option for cabinets
21:28
Speaker 1: would be Repcolite's Optima, a water based product hold up
21:31
Speaker 1: really well on your cabinets and a great price point. Again,
21:33
Speaker 1: before you jump in, stop out at any Repcolite for
21:36
Speaker 1: a breakdown on the steps, or send me an email
21:38
Speaker 1: and I'll get you a step by step guide radio
21:41
Speaker 1: at repcolite dot com. All right, moving on third little
21:45
Speaker 1: project and we're going to finally break out of the
21:47
Speaker 1: paint world here upgrading your bathroom fan. It's another game
21:52
Speaker 1: changer for your bathroom. And it sounds boring as can be.
21:55
Speaker 1: I get that, but it's a big deal. You know,
21:57
Speaker 1: a quieter fan that effectively removes moisture can make a
22:01
Speaker 1: world of difference in your bathroom. And if you want
22:04
Speaker 1: to figure out the right size fan for your space,
22:07
Speaker 1: it's really simple. It's a simple formula and it's based
22:10
Speaker 1: on the room square footage. Basically, you need to get
22:13
Speaker 1: a fan that has a CFM rating, which stands for
22:15
Speaker 1: cubic feet per minute. That's how they're rated. Get a
22:18
Speaker 1: fan that has a CFM rating that's equal to the
22:21
Speaker 1: square footage of your room. So if you've got an
22:23
Speaker 1: eighty square foot bathroom, you're gonna need a fan rated
22:26
Speaker 1: for eighty cfm, all right, So really easy. Make sure
22:29
Speaker 1: you get the right size fan, get that installed, and
22:32
Speaker 1: for a lot of you probably you know, installing a
22:34
Speaker 1: new ceiling fan is a simple project. You know, others
22:37
Speaker 1: may need to get an electrician out there, and if
22:40
Speaker 1: that's the case, that definitely does make the project a
22:42
Speaker 1: little bigger. But like I said, it's still a great
22:46
Speaker 1: update for a bathroom. It's not fancy, it's not visual
22:49
Speaker 1: like new colors on your walls or your cabinets. But man,
22:52
Speaker 1: let me tell you when a guest walks into my bathroom,
22:55
Speaker 1: one of the fans. I've got two bathrooms, one of
22:58
Speaker 1: the fans is so loud. It's startling at first, and
23:01
Speaker 1: then eventually you just start to feel it buzzing, you know,
23:05
Speaker 1: deep down in your chest and brain, and it kind
23:08
Speaker 1: of lulls you into this state of disconnection. It's very strange.
23:12
Speaker 1: We can feel it through the whole house. The whole
23:14
Speaker 1: house reverberates when the fans on. It's strange, it's powerful,
23:18
Speaker 1: it's not very nice, all right, that's one bathroom. The
23:21
Speaker 1: other bathroom, fan, man, that one's sneaky. It's more diabolical.
23:26
Speaker 1: It's perfectly quiet about sixty percent of the time, and
23:30
Speaker 1: about thirty five percent of the time it makes kind
23:32
Speaker 1: of a slight humming sound, you know, barely audible. So
23:36
Speaker 1: that's ninety five percent of the time it's clicking along
23:38
Speaker 1: just fine. And then there's that remaining five percent, and
23:42
Speaker 1: in that time it screams like a banshee. And let
23:45
Speaker 1: me tell you, it never builds to the scream. The
23:49
Speaker 1: scream just starts, you know, full throated scream, out of
23:52
Speaker 1: the blue, and it's going to change your world. When
23:55
Speaker 1: it happens. It is so embarrassing. When guests are over
23:58
Speaker 1: and that happens, it's terrifying. And when it happens to us,
24:01
Speaker 1: you know, you're just sitting there, calm, you're at peace,
24:04
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, the fury
24:07
Speaker 1: of what sounds like a thousand deceased souls is screaming
24:11
Speaker 1: at you from just overhead. And all I can say is,
24:14
Speaker 1: when that happens, you're usually sitting in the right spot,
24:18
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Anyway, blah blah blah.
24:20
Speaker 1: The point is a bathroom fan is a great thing.
24:23
Speaker 1: It's not flashy, but a quiet fan gets used more often,
24:27
Speaker 1: which is really good. And a good fan is going
24:29
Speaker 1: to move moisture regularly out of your bathroom and that's
24:31
Speaker 1: going to prevent or at least hamper the growth of
24:33
Speaker 1: mold or mildew and all of those things. It's going
24:36
Speaker 1: to keep your paint looking better longer. So a good
24:38
Speaker 1: bathroom fan, go for it. Fourth update, Add some fun wallpaper.
24:44
Speaker 1: And this one's a little surprising. It can absolutely be done,
24:47
Speaker 1: but you do need to do it right. You know
24:49
Speaker 1: a lot of people think you can't do wallpaper in
24:51
Speaker 1: a bathroom. You can, but you do need to do
24:53
Speaker 1: it right. And you've got to be aware that some
24:55
Speaker 1: papers are going to be better, you know, better suited
24:58
Speaker 1: for these spaces than others. For example, there are vinyl
25:00
Speaker 1: wallpapers that are water resistant. Those would be ideal, but
25:03
Speaker 1: other papers can work. Really a lot depends on your situation.
25:07
Speaker 1: Make sure you install the paper the right way, keep
25:10
Speaker 1: it away from the area above the shower, use a
25:12
Speaker 1: wall sizer or appropriate primer. Make sure that you have
25:15
Speaker 1: a bathroom fan installed and that you run it. You know, again,
25:19
Speaker 1: like we just talked about, make sure that bathroom fan's there,
25:21
Speaker 1: make sure you're running it, and all of those things.
25:24
Speaker 1: If you do those, you definitely can have success with
25:27
Speaker 1: paper in the bathroom. And I know it can be
25:29
Speaker 1: done because I had it on my bathroom walls for years,
25:31
Speaker 1: about twenty years ago or more, probably probably more than.
25:35
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter, that's the old person ramble got to stop.
25:38
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter if the car was red or green. Grandma,
25:42
Speaker 1: it hit you, you know, let's not worry about the color
25:44
Speaker 1: of the car. Anyway. I just did that and exposed
25:47
Speaker 1: my age. Anyway, about twenty years or more ago, we
25:50
Speaker 1: had the paper installed on the upper third of the
25:52
Speaker 1: bathroom walls. The rest of the space the walls were speedboard,
25:57
Speaker 1: all right. Paper didn't go around, you know, the area
26:00
Speaker 1: above the tub surround. We didn't put it there. My
26:02
Speaker 1: kids splashed a ton in the tub, and the bathroom
26:04
Speaker 1: usually got pretty steamed up after showers. But with all
26:07
Speaker 1: of that said, the paper lasted for years. In fact,
26:10
Speaker 1: I never had peeling problems at all. Now that's not
26:13
Speaker 1: always going to be the case, and certain papers just
26:16
Speaker 1: won't hold up well in damp environments. But it is
26:19
Speaker 1: possible to bring paper in, especially if you just use
26:22
Speaker 1: it on a single accent wall. Now, wallpaper can instantly
26:26
Speaker 1: take a space to another level. And if you hate
26:29
Speaker 1: the very idea of wallpaper, because I know a lot
26:31
Speaker 1: of people do, if that's you, if you're one of
26:33
Speaker 1: those people hating the idea of wallpaper, I'm betting I
26:37
Speaker 1: can't be sure, but I'm betting that you haven't looked
26:40
Speaker 1: at many patterns recently. There are so many options out there,
26:44
Speaker 1: covering so many different design styles. It's really crazy. You know.
26:47
Speaker 1: You can flip through books at some of our stores
26:49
Speaker 1: and you see patterns that you can't believe. The color
26:52
Speaker 1: combinations are great, the visuals are great. These are pieces
26:55
Speaker 1: that can completely change a room, and that idea fits
26:58
Speaker 1: really nicely into this small changes, little updates concept that
27:02
Speaker 1: we're focusing on. It's not going to take much paper
27:04
Speaker 1: in a bathroom to make a huge difference. So if
27:07
Speaker 1: you're interested even a little in exploring paper options for
27:11
Speaker 1: a bathroom, stop out at one of our stores with
27:14
Speaker 1: a paper library and then just have that conversation, tell
27:17
Speaker 1: us what you're working on, and we can direct you
27:19
Speaker 1: to the right papers to consider and also walk you
27:22
Speaker 1: through the correct installation techniques to make sure you get
27:24
Speaker 1: the best results. Now, those Repcolite locations that have paper
27:29
Speaker 1: are the Byron Center location, the broad Moore, Fulton Street
27:32
Speaker 1: and Plainfield Avenue locations in Grand Rapids, Seventeenth Street and
27:36
Speaker 1: Lakewood Boulevard in Holland, the Kalamazoo rep Coolite if you're
27:39
Speaker 1: out there, that location has a library for wallpaper books.
27:43
Speaker 1: And on the east side of the state, the Repcolite
27:45
Speaker 1: locations in Birmingham, Farmington Hills and Gross Point all have wallpaper.
27:49
Speaker 1: I've got all of that info at repco light dot com.
27:52
Speaker 1: All you need to do is click the wallpaper banner
27:55
Speaker 1: on the homepage and check it out. All right, so
27:57
Speaker 1: wallpaper in a bathroom. What I want to do is
28:01
Speaker 1: take a break at this point because I've got five
28:03
Speaker 1: more that i want to get through. And yeah, I
28:06
Speaker 1: think the best way to do that is to take
28:08
Speaker 1: a break right now and pick this up on the
28:10
Speaker 1: other side, stick around, and we're back at it. You're
28:18
Speaker 1: listening to the ripcle Light home improvement show sponsored by
28:21
Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, and we're hitting the end of our episode
28:24
Speaker 1: on the little things. You know, it's the little things
28:26
Speaker 1: that matter, right. We spent the whole episode talking about that,
28:30
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned earlier in the show, I completely
28:33
Speaker 1: get it. You know, big home projects have a huge payoff.
28:37
Speaker 1: There's no disputing that at all. All I'm saying is
28:40
Speaker 1: that little projects, little updates, they can have a surprisingly
28:43
Speaker 1: powerful impact as well. And that's what we've been focused
28:46
Speaker 1: on today, little projects that make a difference. And I
28:49
Speaker 1: basically dialed in on the bathroom partly because it gave
28:52
Speaker 1: me a specific room, you know, to talk about, and
28:55
Speaker 1: that makes the conversation flow just a little bit better,
28:58
Speaker 1: but also partly because a bathroom is the perfect room
29:01
Speaker 1: to look at when you're talking about little updates. And
29:04
Speaker 1: really it's because it's generally one of the littler rooms
29:06
Speaker 1: in our homes. It's a big impact space, but it's
29:10
Speaker 1: small enough that a few changes can really start to
29:13
Speaker 1: push that space in completely new directions. And I guess
29:16
Speaker 1: one other reason I talked about bathrooms, or picked bathrooms,
29:19
Speaker 1: is because I really don't know many people who don't
29:22
Speaker 1: want to change something in their bathroom, you know, very
29:24
Speaker 1: few people that I've run into have created the perfect
29:27
Speaker 1: oasis there. You know, pretty much any help, any ideas
29:30
Speaker 1: are usually welcome when it comes to bathrooms in small spaces.
29:34
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what I picked. We've covered the first
29:37
Speaker 1: five simple updates that I had on my list. I've
29:39
Speaker 1: got five to go. Let's get right back to it.
29:42
Speaker 1: And my fifth idea is this, replace the shower head.
29:47
Speaker 1: It's usually again I said these were easy. I didn't
29:50
Speaker 1: say these were you know, the work of rocket scientists.
29:54
Speaker 1: This is easy stuff. Replace the shower head. It's usually
29:57
Speaker 1: as easy as unscrewing the old one in screwing on
30:00
Speaker 1: a new one. Sometimes you need plumber's tape, sometimes you don't.
30:05
Speaker 1: It depends on the shower head that you purchase. So
30:08
Speaker 1: read the little instruction packet for installation. But crazy easy.
30:12
Speaker 1: You barely need tools for it, and it can make
30:14
Speaker 1: a big difference. You know, we did this at our
30:16
Speaker 1: house and it's really maybe it's pathetic. You know, I
30:20
Speaker 1: like to use the word amazing, but it might just
30:23
Speaker 1: be pathetic. What a difference it made, you know. We
30:25
Speaker 1: went from a little, standard, boring, mineral deposit encrusted shower
30:30
Speaker 1: head to a much bigger one with options. You know,
30:34
Speaker 1: you could click it and it would do different things.
30:36
Speaker 1: Everybody in the house felt like we were showering in
30:39
Speaker 1: the writs for a while. You know, the writs. If
30:41
Speaker 1: that's still a fancy place to go to hang out
30:45
Speaker 1: to shower, I don't know. That's what it felt like
30:47
Speaker 1: at our house. Felt like the Ritz all for the
30:49
Speaker 1: price of a twenty dollars shower head and a five
30:52
Speaker 1: minute switch aerou So think about that, but don't stop there,
30:56
Speaker 1: you know, look at other things that you can swap
30:58
Speaker 1: out as well, shower hook and rings, towel racks, even
31:02
Speaker 1: the toilet paper holder. Don't forget about drawer pulls and
31:05
Speaker 1: cabinet knobs. You know, these little details can really elevate
31:08
Speaker 1: your bathroom's look. And while hardware for cabinets is usually
31:13
Speaker 1: you know, really expensive, again, in this instance, you're just
31:16
Speaker 1: doing a bathroom. It's a small space. You won't need
31:19
Speaker 1: that much and you'll be surprised, really surprised at the
31:22
Speaker 1: difference new hardware makes, especially if you choose to paint
31:26
Speaker 1: your cabinets. But even if you don't, new hardware almost
31:30
Speaker 1: is magical. That sounds really corny. It's got a superpower.
31:36
Speaker 1: That's the way I'd like to say it. It's got
31:37
Speaker 1: a superpower of making the cabinets themselves look new. Did
31:41
Speaker 1: this at my old house and I was blown away.
31:44
Speaker 1: My little brass knobs that we had that had I
31:47
Speaker 1: don't know, some little ceramic piece in the middle that
31:50
Speaker 1: had a little blue flower painted on it, you know,
31:52
Speaker 1: pretty old school stuff. We swapped them out for a
31:55
Speaker 1: burnished bronze at that point, and man, did everything look different.
32:01
Speaker 1: Cabinets looked really, they looked new in a sense. So
32:05
Speaker 1: if you're painting the cabinets, if you're not painting the cabinets,
32:08
Speaker 1: think about swapping out that hardware. Maybe that could make
32:11
Speaker 1: a big difference for very little money. All right, let's
32:14
Speaker 1: keep going. Another project a little on the larger side,
32:17
Speaker 1: is this one. Consider adding bad board or Wayne's coating.
32:20
Speaker 1: You know, it's a classic touch, can add character to
32:23
Speaker 1: the space. If you're thinking about doing that, when you're
32:25
Speaker 1: deciding on the height, you know, that's really the main
32:28
Speaker 1: question with badboard or wains coating, deciding on the height.
32:32
Speaker 1: When you're doing that, think about the proportions of your room.
32:34
Speaker 1: For a smaller bathroom, you're probably going to want to
32:36
Speaker 1: keep that Waine's coating around the thirty eight to forty
32:39
Speaker 1: two inch height, So keep it right around that zone.
32:42
Speaker 1: This is roughly going to be about a third of
32:44
Speaker 1: the wall height, and it's pretty standard. That's usually the
32:47
Speaker 1: way to go. If the bathroom's a little bit bigger,
32:49
Speaker 1: you know, if it's on the larger side, you could
32:51
Speaker 1: possibly go up to the forty eight inch height, but
32:53
Speaker 1: typically it's not recommended that you're going to go much
32:56
Speaker 1: higher than that in a bathroom setting. So Wain's coating
33:00
Speaker 1: board on the walls. For materials, there are moisture resistant
33:03
Speaker 1: options out there that you can look at. Wood that's
33:06
Speaker 1: properly painted also is going to work really well. So
33:08
Speaker 1: if you're on the handy side and you're comfortable with
33:11
Speaker 1: a project like that, something to think about. Another one
33:15
Speaker 1: moving quickly light fixtures another really easy update. For some people,
33:19
Speaker 1: it's going to be easier than others. You know, you
33:21
Speaker 1: might need again, maybe you've got to get an electrician
33:23
Speaker 1: out there to make that swap. For a lot of people,
33:26
Speaker 1: that's something they'll tackle. Do it carefully, you know. I
33:29
Speaker 1: don't give out any advice on on electrical stuff on
33:32
Speaker 1: the radio. It's not my gig. I have an electrician
33:35
Speaker 1: sun that I bring in to do all of my work.
33:37
Speaker 1: But I do know, regardless of how you get that
33:40
Speaker 1: put up there, new lighting can really brighten up haha,
33:44
Speaker 1: brighten up the space. It's really going to change things,
33:46
Speaker 1: and it's going to enhance the overall feel. You know.
33:49
Speaker 1: I've got to do that with mine. The light fixture
33:52
Speaker 1: that I've got in there. Mm mmm. The eighties called
33:56
Speaker 1: and turns out it wants my light fixture back, and
33:59
Speaker 1: I've got to take care of that. I'm not going
34:01
Speaker 1: to wait around till it becomes popular again. That things
34:04
Speaker 1: got to go. So that's on my list, and I,
34:06
Speaker 1: like I said, I've got that electrician kid who can
34:09
Speaker 1: take care of it for me. All right. So there's
34:11
Speaker 1: another one, a new shower curtain. Easy stuff here. Again,
34:15
Speaker 1: it's not rocket science, but a new shower curtain is
34:19
Speaker 1: crazy quick, it's really affordable, and it's going to refresh
34:22
Speaker 1: the whole bathroom style perhaps. I mean, it depends on
34:25
Speaker 1: what you go with, but there's a lot of power
34:28
Speaker 1: with something like that because there's a lot of surface
34:30
Speaker 1: area that it covers. So look into a new shower curtain,
34:33
Speaker 1: you know, I saw one not too long ago that
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Speaker 1: I think was Jeff Goldbloom, you know, just a great, big,
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Speaker 1: enormous Jeff Goldbloom. And I don't know that I need
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Speaker 1: that in my bathroom. But there's a lot of things
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Speaker 1: you could pull off with a shower curtain, So think
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Speaker 1: about that. That would be an easy one. How about
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Speaker 1: this one? Not quite as easy, but talk about a difference.
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Speaker 1: Change the toilet now. I said all along that a
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Speaker 1: lot of these could be used in other rooms. This
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Speaker 1: is the one that I can't imagine can be used
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Speaker 1: in another space other than a bathroom, you know, even
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Speaker 1: the shower curtain. I believe I'm thinking of somebody right now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say his name, but my daughter's fiance.
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Speaker 1: He's got a new house and he's got I think
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Speaker 1: he's the one with the Jeff Goldbloom shower curtain, and
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Speaker 1: he's got it hanging in his basement as wal Art.
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Speaker 1: So you could even use the shower curtain somewhere else
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Speaker 1: if you're really crazy and you really want to push boundaries.
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Speaker 1: The toilet. I don't want to go anywhere that's got
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Speaker 1: a toilet in the living room. I don't think. Boy,
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Speaker 1: I don't know I might want to think about that.
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Speaker 1: I can't think so. I can't think so. I think
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Speaker 1: that really needs to be in the bathroom. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: change the toilet. That's my greater point here. I know
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Speaker 1: it does sound like a big job, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not not just like hanging a picture on the wall.
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Speaker 1: But it is a manageable, you know, DIY project. And
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Speaker 1: most of us know somebody who's tackled this particular project before.
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Speaker 1: And maybe, if you're really nice, you offer them a
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Speaker 1: beverage of some sort, maybe a donut, maybe they'd be
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Speaker 1: willing to come over and help you do yours. If not,
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Speaker 1: watch some videos online and just check it out, see
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Speaker 1: if it's something you feel comfortable doing. If not, hiring
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Speaker 1: a pro that's always an option. But regardless, however, you
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Speaker 1: get that in a new toilet is a big change
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Speaker 1: for a bathroom. You know, we replaced ours a few
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Speaker 1: years back, switching from short, old fashioned toilets to larger,
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Speaker 1: modern ones. It's so much more comfortable, though, I joke
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Speaker 1: now that my legs swing, you know, when I sit there,
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Speaker 1: my little legs don't touch, my feet don't touch the floor.
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Speaker 1: My legs never touch the floor. They shouldn't touch the floor.
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Speaker 1: Feet need to touch the floor, not legs. But my
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Speaker 1: feet don't touch the floor anymore. They swing around, but
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Speaker 1: that's okay. The flushing power on the toilet crazy impressive.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I could theoretically flush a range bucket of
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Speaker 1: golf balls if I wanted to. Not that I ever would.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine a scenario where that would be required
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Speaker 1: or even desire, but I could if I wanted to.
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Speaker 1: And that alone that makes me happy. You know, this update,
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Speaker 1: that toilet update to my bathroom dramatically improve both the
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Speaker 1: function and the esthetics of our space. It's one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite things that I've done, and it didn't really
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Speaker 1: take me too long, and it wasn't too over the
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Speaker 1: top expensive. I mean, toilets aren't free, but still the
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Speaker 1: amount of impact that you get from it, the change
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Speaker 1: from it definitely something to think about. All right. Last one,
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Speaker 1: last bathroom update idea, and this one's a little bit controversial.
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Speaker 1: Hang some art in the bathroom. And it's controversial really
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Speaker 1: for the same reasons that the wallpaper suggestion raises eyebrows.
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Speaker 1: You know, bathrooms are full of heat and humidity, and
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Speaker 1: those things aren't typically great for wallpaper or for art,
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Speaker 1: a lot can go wrong and you run the risk
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Speaker 1: of damaging the art that you hang up. But like wallpaper,
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Speaker 1: it can absolutely work if you do it right. You know,
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Speaker 1: use the right materials, the right art, the right frames
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Speaker 1: and so on. Do that and it can work. Now,
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Speaker 1: next week I've got a full segment about everything that
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Speaker 1: you need to know to bring art into the bathroom
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Speaker 1: and have no problems, But I don't have time for
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Speaker 1: that this week. That's coming up next week. My greater
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Speaker 1: point here is to just throw out the idea that
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Speaker 1: the bathroom can be a canvas for more than just
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Speaker 1: the usual bathroom theme decor. You know, an unexpected art
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Speaker 1: piece in a bathroom that can really push the room
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Speaker 1: in a new direction. And like all of the other
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Speaker 1: updates that we talked about, it's crazy simple, crazy small.
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Speaker 1: It takes almost no time to hang something up, But
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Speaker 1: who knows that one little item you find and hang
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Speaker 1: up could completely revitalize that bathroom space and launch you
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Speaker 1: in an entirely new direction. Now, that was the point
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Speaker 1: of all of this today. If you're finding it tougher
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Speaker 1: to jump into the big projects, never forget the power
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Speaker 1: of the little stuff. And if any of your little
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Speaker 1: projects do involve paint, we'd absolutely love to help. Just
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Speaker 1: swing by any Repco Light and tell us what you're
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Speaker 1: working on. We'll get you moving in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it. If you want to
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Speaker 1: catch this one again, you can find it online at
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Speaker 1: repcol Light dot com. Whatever you do today makes your
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Speaker 1: paints a part of it. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hanson. Thanks for listening.