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First Impressions, Front Doors, and Faux Finishes · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning everybody. Happy Saturday. Happy Saturday. Indeed, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you all had a great week. Hope you're pumped
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  Speaker 1: for the weekend. I am. I got to get my
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  Speaker 1: sprinkler pump working this weekend, so I'm pumped for the weekend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's just leave that there. You're listening to the Repcolite
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  Speaker 1: Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And what I
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  Speaker 1: want to start with today is this. I have to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the worst first impressions people that I know.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm the worst, you know. To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure i'm the worst.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Once people get to know me, if they take the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get to know me, after that initial
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous meeting that we have, they usually realize I'm all right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've literally had people, In fact, this should
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  Speaker 1: tell you everything you need to know. I've literally had people,
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  Speaker 1: after meeting me for a third or fourth time, say
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  Speaker 1: you know what, You're actually fine. I always hear the
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  Speaker 1: surprise in their voice when they say it. They never
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  Speaker 1: saw it coming, not from that first interaction. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: think I'd be fine at all, but they're surprised. Three
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  Speaker 1: or four meetings later to realize, you know, I'm actually okay.
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  Speaker 1: And when whenever they do that, whenever they you know,
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  Speaker 1: express that surprise to me, I can always think back
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  Speaker 1: to the very first interaction that I had with them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't remember everything. My memory is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, in certain regards. In this regard, it's flawless.
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  Speaker 1: I catalog and chronicle every ridiculous first meeting that I
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  Speaker 1: have with people because they're so horribly painful. For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: my mind likes to collect those like baseball cards. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: whenever they express surprise that I'm actually okay, I can
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  Speaker 1: always think back to the first meeting that I had
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  Speaker 1: with them. Like the lady at church you know here,
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  Speaker 1: just to give you an example, a lady at church
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  Speaker 1: who came up and introduced herself to me one Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: She said, hey, hello, I just want to introduce myself
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  Speaker 1: because our kids always do stuff together at church, they're
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  Speaker 1: always serving. Just wanted to say hello, you know, normal
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  Speaker 1: human interaction. In that instance, I actually talked. I did
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  Speaker 1: alright with that, and maintained a conversation for you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a minute and a half or so, and I
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  Speaker 1: was feeling pretty good about myself. But then as we
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  Speaker 1: were kind of wrapping things up, I smiled and I said,
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  Speaker 1: very warmly, thank you for letting me introduce yourself to me.
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  Speaker 1: And my daughter, who was there for the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: is still laughing about the look on that poor lady's
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  Speaker 1: face as she, you know, walked back to her car,
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  Speaker 1: just just kept looking over her shoulder back at me
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  Speaker 1: to see if I was real or something. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she was completely fluw mixed. She didn't know what to
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  Speaker 1: say to my ridiculous statement. You know, someday I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to meet her and it's going to be like the
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  Speaker 1: third or fourth interaction, and she'll probably say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: You're actually fine. Another one at Grand Valley. I love
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  Speaker 1: this one because it was so painful physically and you
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  Speaker 1: know what, emotionally, I don't know, it's just painful. It
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  Speaker 1: was painful socially and physically. Anyway, I'm in a class
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  Speaker 1: at Grand Valley and I introduced myself to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just a whole group of people. You know, we're just
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  Speaker 1: starting the semester, and I stand up and for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shake hands, you know, I'm just talking
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  Speaker 1: to people. I'm doing everything right, is what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not shrinking from physical contact. I'm shaking hands,
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  Speaker 1: I'm making eye contact, I'm announcing you know who I am,
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  Speaker 1: and all the things you're supposed to do when you
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  Speaker 1: meet people. And I'm doing that, and I'm feeling pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about myself, except for the fact that I leaned
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  Speaker 1: on the desk, you know, the desktop, to reach out
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  Speaker 1: and shake somebody's hands. And this desk was designed by somebody,
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  Speaker 1: some sadistic person who only put legs under the chair,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that was the support system for this desk
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  Speaker 1: that we would sit at. The chair had four legs
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  Speaker 1: under it and the little tabletop none. So when I
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  Speaker 1: leaned on that, you can only imagine what happened. I
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  Speaker 1: went tipping forward. The desk went flying across the room,
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  Speaker 1: knocking over other desks. It was chaos, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: about ten minutes or so. As people were laughing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as the lecture starts, people are still laughing, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they're laughing about me. Later on, I'm doing a
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  Speaker 1: group project with one of those people and I get
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  Speaker 1: that same old standard response, you know, the guy says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're actually all right, You're actually fine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm actually fine, am I though? Am I
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  Speaker 1: really fine?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I wish those were my only two instances of that,
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  Speaker 1: but I've lived an entire lifetime of them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe not when I was a baby, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I could do all right then, But at least
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  Speaker 1: fifty of my fifty two years have been painful first impressions.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, If you don't believe me,
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  Speaker 1: come to some repcolite events sometime and find me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: usually there, start a conversation and just wait for it.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your popcorn. Nine times out of ten, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do or say something appol ly ridiculous, and then watch
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  Speaker 1: my face because it'll register how ridiculous I've been, and
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  Speaker 1: then it just gets worse. All right, So do that,
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  Speaker 1: all right? First impressions they're not, and never have been
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  Speaker 1: my strong suit. And that brings me to the paint point.
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  Speaker 1: And of course there's no way I'm going to try
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  Speaker 1: to give you advice on, you know, making a good
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  Speaker 1: first impression in a social setting. That's a mystery to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a treasure chest I will never be able
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  Speaker 1: to unlock. You know, I'm never going to get there,
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  Speaker 1: but I can talk about first impressions on another level,
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  Speaker 1: on the home level. And when it comes to our homes,
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  Speaker 1: the first impression pretty much every guest, visitor, traveling salesperson,
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  Speaker 1: you name it, every passerby the first impression they have
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  Speaker 1: of our home, it's usually our front door. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people take in and check out all different aspects of
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  Speaker 1: our homes exterior. I get that, but the primary focal
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  Speaker 1: point is always that front door. Even if people don't
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  Speaker 1: use that door as the main entrance, it's still the
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  Speaker 1: part of the house that first draws your eye. And
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  Speaker 1: we know that's true because when we walk past houses,
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  Speaker 1: that is what we notice. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: just because normally they have, you know, a bright pop
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  Speaker 1: of color there compared to the rest of the home.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about it, maybe some
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  Speaker 1: psychological thing about the door and the entrance to the home,
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  Speaker 1: but that's where our eyes are drawn as we walk
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  Speaker 1: past houses, as we unless it's dark, unless it's evening
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  Speaker 1: and dark and the windows are open, then everybody looks
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  Speaker 1: inside the house. Right. We try to act like we're
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  Speaker 1: not doing that, but we're all scoping out their decor
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  Speaker 1: or trying to figure out what's on TV or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But if it's normal, you know, if it's normal,
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  Speaker 1: if it's daytime, you're generally checking out that front door,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that front door is so important. It
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  Speaker 1: sets the tone for the entire exterior of the home.
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  Speaker 1: A new paint job and a perfect color on that
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  Speaker 1: front door can dramatically boost the curb appeal, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it can even make your home look better maintained and
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  Speaker 1: more valuable, all for the cost of a quart of
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  Speaker 1: paint and a little bit of time. So painting your
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  Speaker 1: front door it's easily one of the fastest and most
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  Speaker 1: affordable ways to freshen up your home's exterior. And that's
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  Speaker 1: really important, you know. Right now, in an economy where
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  Speaker 1: everybody's you know, a little bit up in the air,
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  Speaker 1: not sure where things are going. Maybe you've got remodels
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  Speaker 1: that you'd like to do, but they're kind of on
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  Speaker 1: pause right now. This is a project you can jump into,
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  Speaker 1: you can feel good about, and it's going to have
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  Speaker 1: a huge impact for very little money. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the project. And to begin with, you need
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  Speaker 1: to start by picking the right day to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a number of things to think about
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  Speaker 1: when I say look for the right day. First off,
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  Speaker 1: you want to look for a day when the temperatures
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  Speaker 1: are somewhere between fifty and eighty five degrees. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a crazy big range, but I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: it because there are always people out there who want
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  Speaker 1: to know how hot can it be when I put
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  Speaker 1: the paint on? You know, how hot before it's too
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  Speaker 1: hot if you're one of those people. The eighty five
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  Speaker 1: is too hot if you're using latex paint. But with
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  Speaker 1: that said, it's going to be ideal if you can
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  Speaker 1: work in temperatures a little bit below that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So work in the right temperature range. That's first. Second,
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  Speaker 1: choose a day when it's not too windy, right, too
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  Speaker 1: much wind can cause the paint to dry too quickly. Third,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to choose a day when the humidity is
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  Speaker 1: in the forty to seventy percent range. That's ideal, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're looking for. Fourth, choose a day when rain
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  Speaker 1: isn't predicted for the next twenty four hours. And fifth, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, who believed there were five points I was
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  Speaker 1: going to make about choosing the right day. Fifth, and
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  Speaker 1: this one's not really a weather condition, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: so much about picking the right day, it's about working
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  Speaker 1: in the right time frame. What I'm getting at is,
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  Speaker 1: don't work in the direct sunlight. The heat, just like
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  Speaker 1: the wind, can cause your paint to dry too quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And similarly, don't start painting a surface that's recently been
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  Speaker 1: exposed to direct sunlight, or at least check that surface
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  Speaker 1: temperature before you start. A door that's in the shade
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  Speaker 1: now but that's been exposed to the sun for hours
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  Speaker 1: can often be way too hot and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: cause the paint to dry quickly, all right, So pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to weather, can do the predictions that are coming,
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  Speaker 1: and the surface temperature of the material that you're painting.
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  Speaker 1: Keep all of that stuff in mind. Pick the right
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  Speaker 1: day and the right time to do your work, all right. Next,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to gather your supplies, all right. And I've
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  Speaker 1: got all of this online at repco light dot com,
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  Speaker 1: backslash front doors if you want to go and check
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  Speaker 1: it out, if that's just easier than listening to me,
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  Speaker 1: or if you want to double check you're not taking
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  Speaker 1: your notes, maybe you didn't have your little Repcolllite Home
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  Speaker 1: Improvement show notepad out ready to go, or your pen
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  Speaker 1: was dry. It's frustrating you licked the end of it
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  Speaker 1: still didn't work well, you couldn't find another pen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I don't know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: even talking about first impressions. You know, this isn't your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of me. But that's the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: I do. In a first impression. I ramble, and when
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  Speaker 1: I realize I'm off trail, I ramble even further and faster,
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  Speaker 1: thinking that that's somehow going to help me. Anyway. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't have notes, you're not taking notes, and you
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  Speaker 1: need notes, head to Repcolight dot com, backslash front doors
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  Speaker 1: and you'll find everything there, all right, So gather your supplies.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to need a good cleaner like TSP tri
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  Speaker 1: sodium phosphate. Crudcutter will work. Don dish soap will work.
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  Speaker 1: Get a good cleaner, Get some two twenty grit sandpaper.
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  Speaker 1: You probably want to grab some painter's tape, maybe frog tape,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you like to work with. Get a good masking
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  Speaker 1: tape though, and then a high quality angled brush, you
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  Speaker 1: know angled sash brush and a microplush roller cover all right,
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  Speaker 1: So get all of those things, and of course you'll
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  Speaker 1: need a tray and all the things that you'd need
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  Speaker 1: to make the roller cover work, a little frame. You
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  Speaker 1: can't use the roller cover without a frame. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't pinch it between your fingers and make it work.
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  Speaker 1: Need the frame. So get all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the paint, I would recommend Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Moore's Aura Exterior in a soft gloss that would work
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  Speaker 1: really well. Benjamin Moore's Regal Select Exterior that would also
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  Speaker 1: work really well. Both of those are going to offer
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  Speaker 1: incredible durability, rich color. It's going to retain the color,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to fade very quickly, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to really make the door look great. So those would work.
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  Speaker 1: Repcolites and Dura is another option that will hold up
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  Speaker 1: just like those Benjamin Moore products. So three different options there. Again.
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  Speaker 1: That's all at repcolite dot com. Backslash front Doors. All
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  Speaker 1: of those recommendations are there. You can check them out,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So you've got all of that stuff together
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's time to actually start prepping the door
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  Speaker 1: and doing the work and I think probably what is
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  Speaker 1: the prudent thing to do is to take a break
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  Speaker 1: right now, play some commercials, and then actually get to
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  Speaker 1: the project itself, the work of the project on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. So stick around, hang with me. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: back in just a minute. And we're back here listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Repcolite Home improvement show is sponsored by Benjamin Moore,
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  Speaker 1: and we're kind of in the middle of a front
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  Speaker 1: door repaint project. I'm basically trying to walk you through
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  Speaker 1: all the things that you need to know to pull
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  Speaker 1: this project off flawlessly, perfectly, beautifully, And really I should
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  Speaker 1: have said this much earlier in the show. But just
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  Speaker 1: because you're maybe not interested in painting your front door
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that all of this info is worthless. You know,
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  Speaker 1: don't tune it out. Most of this stuff applies to
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  Speaker 1: pretty much any painting project, so it's incredibly valuable for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody out there listening, this is gold. So stay tuned in,
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  Speaker 1: hang on my every word like it's honey from the comb.
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  Speaker 1: All right. In the last segment, I talked about gathering
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  Speaker 1: your supplies and I made some paint recommendations. If you
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  Speaker 1: missed any of that, and you'd like a full guide
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  Speaker 1: for painting your front door, Just head to repcolite dot
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  Speaker 1: com backslash front Doors. You can get one for free
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  Speaker 1: right there. All right, Once you've got your supplies and
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  Speaker 1: your paint, it's time to prep the door. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to start by removing the hardware if you can. If
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that, that's fine. Just tape around it
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  Speaker 1: and cover it over really well that way. Once you've
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  Speaker 1: got that done, wash the door thoroughly with TSP or
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  Speaker 1: whatever cleaner you picked. And you're doing this to remove
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  Speaker 1: any grease, residue things like that. Even a brand new,
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  Speaker 1: pre prime door needs a good cleaning, so make sure
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  Speaker 1: you do that washing and then rinse it well with
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  Speaker 1: clean water. After that's dry, lightly scuff sand the surface
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  Speaker 1: with your two twenty grit sandpaper and then feather out
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  Speaker 1: any areas where old paint may have peeled so that
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  Speaker 1: you can smooth that transition out and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: any paint that's left on the door is not even
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  Speaker 1: close to peeling. All the paint that stays on the door,
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  Speaker 1: if it's been painted before, needs to be stuck down
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  Speaker 1: really well. So if you've got peeling areas, really work
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  Speaker 1: them over a little bit to make sure that you've
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  Speaker 1: got all the peeling paint off. Once you've done all
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  Speaker 1: of that and you've done that sanding, wipe the whole
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  Speaker 1: door down with a damp cloth to remove your dust. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've got bear metal or bare wood in any
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  Speaker 1: spots at that point, you do need to spot prime
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  Speaker 1: those areas. Metal doors especially are going to need a
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  Speaker 1: rust inhibitive primer, so be sure to prime those bear
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  Speaker 1: spots if you've got them. Now, once you've done that,
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to paint. And I'm going to walk you
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  Speaker 1: through the order of how you would paint the door
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  Speaker 1: if you've got inset panels or something like that. And
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  Speaker 1: I know this is going to probably be confusing on
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  Speaker 1: the radio, so again head to repco light dot com
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  Speaker 1: backslash front Doors and you can see what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, if you've got inset panels, that's where you
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  Speaker 1: want to start, and you're gonna brush carefully into the
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  Speaker 1: corners and the edges. Then you're gonna use a microplush
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  Speaker 1: roller cover to roll the panels themselves. And something that
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  Speaker 1: works beautifully for projects like this are the Wooster Jumbo
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  Speaker 1: coders I talk about them all the time on the show.
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  Speaker 1: They're four inch mini rollers, and what sets them apart
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  Speaker 1: from other mini roller systems is that the little Jumbo
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  Speaker 1: Coder covers match the larger wooster covers exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the same nap, the same materials, all of that. So
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  Speaker 1: basically that means you can roll part of the door
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  Speaker 1: with a larger cover if you want to, and then
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  Speaker 1: the smaller sections with a Jumbo coder and the way
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  Speaker 1: the cover leaves off the paint will be identical no
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  Speaker 1: matter which cover you use. That's really important and really cool.
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  Speaker 1: So check out those Jumbo coders. They're definitely worth picking up,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So you roll the panels on the door
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  Speaker 1: if you've got them. Once you've done that, you roll
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  Speaker 1: the mullions. Now those are the vertical sections between the panels.
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  Speaker 1: After that it's time to paint the rails, which are
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  Speaker 1: the horizontal pieces on the door. And once you've done that,
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  Speaker 1: you roll the outside edges. All of that is going
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  Speaker 1: to just be the best order in which to paint
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  Speaker 1: that door. And again I've got all of that at
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  Speaker 1: repco light dot com. Backslash front doors. Everybody can say
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  Speaker 1: it from memory right now, Repco Light dot com backslash
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  Speaker 1: front doors. Check that out all right. As you're doing
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  Speaker 1: your painting, plan your timing carefully. You know you picked
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  Speaker 1: the right day. Plan your timing carefully. Ideally you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be putting your first coat on around eight or
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  Speaker 1: nine in the morning something like that. You want the
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  Speaker 1: do to be you know, off the door, or you
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  Speaker 1: know the door to be dry before you start. But
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  Speaker 1: if the sooner you can start, the better. Let it
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  Speaker 1: drive for about four hours after you've painted it, and
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  Speaker 1: then apply the second coat, probably around noon one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: or so. And then after that final code, try to
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  Speaker 1: keep the door open as long as possible, hopefully till
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: about seven pm. And that's going to give the paint
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: time to set up properly and prevent it from sticking
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: when you close it. All right, last thing I got
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: for you are just a handful of tips pro tips
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: to get the best results possible. First thing, do not
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: skimp on the roller cover, the applicator or the brush,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you know, whatever you're using to apply it. You know
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: you probably need both of those. Don't cheap out on
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: those things. We talk about it on the show all
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the time, and I talk about it because I've seen
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: it happen so many times. People will try to save
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit of money, which is completely understandable. I'm
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: in that boat most of the time, but I speak
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: from experience. Normally I try to skimp out and save
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: money on things that I shouldn't be saving money on,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and I always always regret that decision. In this instance,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: this is absolutely one of those that you'll regret. Don't
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: skimp out on the roller cover, don't skimp out on
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the brush. Get good tools for this, especially the roller cover.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: You know, a cheap roller cover can be two to
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: three bucks. Maybe an expensive roller cover, top of the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: line roller cover is going to be five bucks, you know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: five and a half bucks. You don't want to save
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: two dollars and fifty cents and have the tool that's
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: putting your high quality paint on. You don't want that
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: tool to produce results that don't look good. So use
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a good roller cover. I'd recommend the Wooster microplush roller covers.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Love those. You're going to get an almost sprayed like
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: finish on the door if you use that. And the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: other great thing about those Wooster microplush covers is that
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: they come in the Wooster Jumbo coder size, which is
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the four inch or the six inch mini rollers, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: they also come all the way up in a nine
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: inch of fourteen inch and eighteen inch cover. Whatever size
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: cover you'd want to use on the door, even if
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you have to mix sizes, you'll have the exact same cover,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the exact same roller, nap and finish, so you're not
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: going to have any differences when you switch your roller cover.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So Wooster Microplush roller covers, that's the way to go.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Another thing, make sure you're choosing the right paint for
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the project. Again, I recommended Benjamin Moore's Aura Exterior, Benjamin
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Moore's Regal Select Exterior, and Repcolites Endure. All of those
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: are going to hold up really well. They'll be tough
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: on the door, they'll hold up to whatever you throw
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: at it. And also they're going to resist fading better
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: than a lot of other products out there, So keep
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: those things in mind. Last little tip, if you've got
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: any questions at all, if you're getting ready to start
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: this project, just swing out to any Repco Light store,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: tell us what you're working on, and we'll walk you
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: through all the ins and outs. Because I can't cover
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: every situation that you might run into on that door.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I can't do that on the radio, but they can
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: certainly help you with your exact situation in the store
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: at any Repco Light. So stop out and see us.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And that's pretty much it. With a little bit of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: prep work and some good products, you can completely transform
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the look of your home for a minimal investment. You know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Quarta paint and some supplies. It's only going to take
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you a couple hours and you're gonna have a big
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: payoff at the end. All right, let's take a break.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: When we come back, I'll be in the studio with
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Barbara Klein, a decorative painter who's got a lot of
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: great stories. We're gonna get to that in just a minute.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Stick around and we're back. You're listening to the Repco
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  Speaker 1: LIGHTE Home Improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And right
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: now I want to play a portion of a conversation
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that I had earlier this week with Barbara Klein, owner
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of Creative Impressions. Now, Barbara's a decorative artist and she's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: been doing all sorts of faux finishes on walls since
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the late nineteen nineties. Now what I'm going to air
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: is just a small portion of the full conversation. You
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: can find the entire interview on repco Lights YouTube series
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: The Interviews, So by all means check that out. But
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: for right now, here's Barbara. So let's go way back,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: before faux finishes, before doing decorative walls, doing all of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: those things, you were in respiratory therapy. What in the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: world was that jump like to go from medicine to painting.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Tell me about that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Well, it was I've always had a creative background. It's
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: always something I've dabbled with, and respiratory was one thing
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: that was a two year school for me. It was easy,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: it was to make good money, but it just wasn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: filling my soul, if you will. And it just the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: medical field just got too complicated.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And how long were you doing this respiratory therapy stuff.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I was doing it for over twenty.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Years, oh so good, long time.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: And teaching CPR as well. And just in nineteen ninety
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: eight I took a couple of little decorative painting classes
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: in a store in a city near me and got
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the bug. Started doing it for myself, started doing it
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: for family and friends.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: And they said, you know, you're really good at this.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: You should consider this. Being a business and having young children,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: it was something that I could work my schedule around
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: shechem in daycare and I actually did both jobs for
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: a while.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: The respiratory therapy and the yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: And trying to do the folk finishing. Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And then in ninety nine I joined an organization called
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: at the time it was called SALLY and then it
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: changed to IDELL, which is SALLY was Stencil's Artisans League, Okay,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: because back in the eighties stenciling was very.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Big, and it was the thing in the eighties.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then people started incorporating full finishes with their stenciling.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So the organization regrouped in the mid two thousands and said,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: you know, we be we need to be more inclusive,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: and so IDELL is actually International Decorative Artisans League. Through
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: that I have learned from the best in the industry.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: And I don't any job I do, you know, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: take it very seriously.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So I want training.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I want to know when I'm giving my clients.
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  Speaker 1: So when you started this, what was the big faux
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: finishing thing going on? I mean way back, I mean
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: we're sponge painting, rag painting. I mean, is that what
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we were doing at that point.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I learned through the years that yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: you might use a sponge, but you might use a rag.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But a true ful finished professional is it going to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: allow you to see what tools used?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, so when I did it, you could tell what
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: tools were used. You could even tell how I held it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Right exactly, and that that's being having too much paint
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: on your tool and just going at it. So the
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: whole idea too, is a light touch, going easy on
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: putting the product on the tool. Even with stenciling, you
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: dip the tip of the brush, because it's a flat brush,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: you dip the tip of the brush in the paint
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: and you off roll it on a piece of paper towel.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: So what that does is it works that paint up
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: into the bristles. So as you're tapping or swirling your
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: brush into the stencil, the paint is gradually coming off.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: It's not this big blob blob, and it prevents the
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: paint from bleeding.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Underneath the stencil.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Also, you spray the stencil with adhesive spray, so you
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: have a good stick, right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I know that I've done that one before.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but felt finishing has really evolved over the years,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: and you might use a sponge and a granite technique
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: just because you're blending multiple colors to build the look
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: of stone or build the.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Look of brick.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: If you look at an actual piece of stone or brick,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: there's a light, medium, and dark tone. So I've actually
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: mimicked like your wall behind you. I've actually replicated a
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: wall like that to look like actual brick.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You said that you just weren't feeling it in the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: respiratory in the medicine, and you said medicine got more
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: complicated or I don't know if that was the word
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you used for me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: It became less about patient care and more about making money.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: The hospitals started changing. Instead of nonprofit, they became more
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: money makers. And then the insurance companies changed in them
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I guess the mid eighties to what they call a DRG,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: and the DRG is they were dictating how long a
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: patient could stay in a hospital depending on what they
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: were there for.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, we all heal.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Differently, and sometimes there's complications that prevent us from leaving
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: when the insurance companies want us to leave.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And so with.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Hospital workers, we were beginning to be overworked, not compensated
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: for it, and it was for me. The reason I
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: got into it was for patient care.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Right, And now you feel like you're kind of short
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: shifting that a little bit.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were just robots trying to get as many
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: treatments done in a day, not really being able to
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: spend the time with our patients like we should.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I also specialized in pediatrics.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I worked with cystic fibrosis and asthmatic and I did
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: home teaching for the parents for these children and try
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: to teach them how to not only care.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: For their child, but to care for their home.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: With asthmatics, you have to set up your home differently
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: due to dust and carpets and smoking, and so I
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: was teaching as well as you know, doing the therapy.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: So with respiratory therapy you're working with the heart and lungs,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: so you're really a heart and lung specialist. I still
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: it's very part of me. I'm still very passionate about
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: my knowledge that I know from the years of working
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: and respiratory, but it just didn't fulfill me anymore. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: so and having a young family as well, it was
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: very difficult.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: So what made this switch, I mean, what made you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: go into you know, from that to full finishing, you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: or or creating.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I love paint color. It brought me joy and it
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: became a passion of mine. I just really loved transforming
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: people's homes.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: You started with your own, you said, and then you
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: had friend and friends say, hey, you got something? Did
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you have artistic ability? Like before this was this something
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that you already knew you had.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Well. I believe we all have a creative side. It's
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: just whether you embrace it or not. It comes from
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: your right side of your brain. So I believe that
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: color really dictates a mood to a room.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: There are are some clients that I had worked with that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Are very specific about how a color allows them to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: go into a room. I had one client that I
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: changed even though she had it painted and she had
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: a designer in there redesigning her TV room. She couldn't
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: go in there because the color was it was in
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the blue family and there was just too much blue
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: in that room.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: And she goes, I can't go in there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: She can't go in there. She hated it, yeah, badly.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So what I did instead of really changing the
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: whole process there, she had a lot of off white
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: in there. So what I did was I took a paint,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I added a glaze, and I did an off white
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: street a over her blue. And a strea is done
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: with a wallpaper brush. Okay, so you're putting the paint
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: on and you're streeing through it to leave that linear
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: design through there. And so her blue still poked through,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: but it wasn't dominant, and it really yeah, and it
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: really coordinated all the fabrics and stuff that she had
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: in her room, and it was it was more inviting
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: for her than Have.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: You ever done ceilings? Have you ever done? What are
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: some of the most common a ceiling.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Some ceilings have been with metallic textures trialed on and
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: some of them Venetian plaster. Sometimes it's stenciled. I have
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: stenciled medallions around light fixtures. I do also with stenciling.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I also do embossing, so the texture medium is trialed.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Over a stencil.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: So when you remove the stencil, now you have a
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: three D image of that design.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Sure ceiling work is tough.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about that. What does the system look like?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, are you on a scaffolding? I just watched
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the agony and the ecstasy. Have you seen that? It's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: an old name with Charlton Heston. Oh, and Charlton Heston
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: is playing Michaelangelo and he's painting the Sistine Chapel and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: he creates these huge scaffolds and he's laying up on
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the painting it. How do you do it?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: So I worked on in the mid two thousands, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: worked with another artist on an eighteen thousand square foot
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: home up in Holly, Michigan, and we were on scaffolding there,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: not on our backs. I actually was in charge. The
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: girl whose job it was did not like stenciling. She
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: knew that I was good at it, and so she
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: hired me on to do in this eighteen thousand square
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: foot home.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: All of the stenciling was done by me and possibly
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: an assistant.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: On the main floor, I did fifteen hundred square feet
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: of ceiling with a Moroccan design stencil. It took me
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: a month and a half within as woww yeah it was.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The main living space was very huge.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: But I had to.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Fortunately one of the contractors on the job site because
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: there was about sixty people working at this home on
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: a daily basis. They taught me how to use a
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: stringline to keep my stencil pattern straight because you have
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: to go linear down a line.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And there's registration marks that help you keep.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: It a line, but then you have to move a
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: stencil over to do the next row. And so to
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: keep my rose straight, the stringline was like, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: an answer to my prayer. Yeah, we were on.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Scaffolding the whole time.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: We use the little neck braces so we have something
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: to lay our head on.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, my yodness. How long straight would you do
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that before you'd take a break for the day. We
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: were usually working eight hour days.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a lot.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: How'd you drive home?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Well, fortunately the girl we worked for gave us a
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: massage that me and my assistant gave me assage after
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: that month and a half of just doing just that.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: So it was a full finisher's dream and a faux finisher's.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Name nightmare all at once.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: How long ago was that, back in the two thousands, Yeah,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: I mean it was like a museum.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: We did. We did barrel ceilings.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: In this home. We did tray ceilings, We did all
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: kinds of different barrels. I mean, my dad was a
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: carpenter and the amount of craftsmanship that went into this
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: home blew my mind, not only just us, because we're
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the last to come in, right, So the carpenters have
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: already done their work. The painters kind of were doing
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: their work and then coming in after us to finish
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: their work. The electricians were after us. So it was
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I would have to say the job for the main contractor,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: it was very choreographed well as to who was going
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: in when. But I would say a majority of that
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: job was all working for scaffolding.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: All right, let's pause the conversation right here. We'll take
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll be back in a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: few minutes with the conclusion. Stick around, and we're back.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Repcollite Home improvement shows sponsored by
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, and I'm continuing my conversation with Barbara Klein
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: from Creative Impressions. And if you miss the first part,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: don't worry. You can catch that full interview in all
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of its glory on our YouTube series the Interviews, So
• 32:53
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• 32:56
  Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of good stuff there. Definitely check
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: it out. All right, let's get back to the conversation
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: with Barbara Klein. Now, you also do furniture, right or
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I do that? Is that something you're starting to do
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: more of?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, as a full finisher, I'm sixty four now,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: so the body isn't as flexible as f olden.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Dase when you're just cranking out ceilings left and right right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: So yeah, the flexibility in my body and actually in
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: my organization. When I go to conventions, I talk a
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: lot to the other full finishers who are in my
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: age range, and they're looking for something to do when
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: they can get off the ladder but still create and
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: do what they love to do. And so I love
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: transforming furniture. A lot of millennials don't like antiques, and
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: so it's a way to update and give it new life.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: You can give it new legs, you can give it
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: new hardware. I can add a stenttal design to it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I can add a boss design and it looks like
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: kind of carved wood. Well, and I work with foils,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: and foils came from the furniture company originally, and there's
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: a pattern to foils, or there's.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Explain more about foils just for people.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Foils are done where there's a decorative foil attached to
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: a cellophane the.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Cellophane is actually on top.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: So if you're going to use a foil, you have
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: to put an adhesive down, let it dry, so there's
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: tac and then the foil goes on and you scrub
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: it with a brush so when when it releases, what
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: you pull off is just clear cellophane. So the foil
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: is now left on the furniture piece. I can even
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  Speaker 3: foil through a stencil so that it's a stencil design,
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  Speaker 3: but then it has that foil in the background, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really using paint.
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  Speaker 2: I'm using the foil as the decorative part.
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  Speaker 3: And there's cow hide, there's animal print, there's hologram, there's
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  Speaker 3: there's all kinds.
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  Speaker 2: There's a stencil or there's.
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  Speaker 3: A foil company in California. She's got florals and she's
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  Speaker 3: got all kinds of categories. And again it elevates a
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  Speaker 3: piece of furniture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely a way to elevate furniture in a big way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the last little bit that we've got, I know
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  Speaker 1: your dad was a carpenter, and I know that he
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  Speaker 1: taught you a fair amount about you know, carpentry and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. I'm curious how that went down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: did you follow him around as a little kid.
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  Speaker 3: I followed him around, you know, as long as he
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  Speaker 3: allowed us to. Sometimes it was you know, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: want the kids in the room, but sometimes we were
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  Speaker 3: the laborers for him, you know, going and picking up
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  Speaker 3: his scraps. And actually the house, God rest his soul.
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  Speaker 3: He died in March of twenty twenty from COVID, but
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  Speaker 3: he had other complication health complications. The house that we
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  Speaker 3: lived in the last for forty five years, actually he built.
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  Speaker 3: My mom designed it, and my dad built it along
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  Speaker 3: with many of his friends who were trades people.
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  Speaker 2: So he was a beautiful carpenter.
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  Speaker 3: Never really he didn't really grow up with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of self esteem, so he didn't realize that he was
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  Speaker 3: as talented as he was. He built furniture, he built
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  Speaker 3: I have the first grandson, and he built a cradle
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  Speaker 3: for him, which is in our basement right now. It
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: went through all the all the grandchildren. My sister has
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  Speaker 3: two kids and now we're on the next generation.
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  Speaker 1: So that is so cool. I mean, just at the
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  Speaker 1: legacy of that, you know, like you said, it's still there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you put this work in and it stays.
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  Speaker 3: And he built actually the bunk beds for our boys,
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  Speaker 3: and my oldest granddaughter has one of those now. So
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  Speaker 3: my oldest son is very sentimental about his papa and
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't want to give anything away that belongs to him.
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  Speaker 1: So you learned a fair amount from that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you build as well? Do you do a
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  Speaker 1: little carpentry stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't build, but I have an understanding. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I can change a light fixture. I've gotten my husband
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: to do a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: My husband's in car sales, so for him to do
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: things around the house isn't always easy.
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  Speaker 3: But I just have the knowledge of how a house
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  Speaker 3: is built, how it should look. So when I hire
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: contractors for my own stuff to be fixed, I probably
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: am a big thorn in their side.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you want, and you know what's possible
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and what.
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  Speaker 3: Should I know what it should and I have such
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  Speaker 3: an eagle eye of precision that.
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  Speaker 1: I bet they love working for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I just have expectations.
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  Speaker 1: You have a website that we can check out. How
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: do you have your stuff on?
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  Speaker 3: I am on LinkedIn, I am on Facebook, and I
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: am on Instagram.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll put links to all of that in
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  Speaker 1: the description of the video on the radio show. In
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  Speaker 1: the show notes, Barbara, thanks so much for hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with me today.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Dan, thanks for having me.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And that's going to do it. Remember you can catch
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• 38:39
  Speaker 1: All right, last thing I want to leave you with
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: this week is in regards to the first half of
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the show. Now, I talked about painting front doors, and
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I also doled out some brilliant, absolutely brilliant color advice. Now,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: if you're thinking about tackling a front door project, do
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: yourself a favor. I talk about it all the time
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: on the show, our guests talk about it when they
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: come on. Do yourself a favor. Get the best paint
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• 39:03
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• 39:05
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  Speaker 1: whatever you do today, make sure paints a part of it.
• 39:12
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• 39:15
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  Speaker 1: and i'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hansome. Thanks
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