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Holiday Stress, Two-Toned Walls, and Masking Tape Tips · 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: Repo Light Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. And
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Speaker 1: before I jump into everything that I've got planned for today,
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Speaker 1: I do want to thank everybody for giving me the
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Speaker 1: opportunity last week to share my interview with my dad.
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Speaker 1: I know that was a different show than we usually do,
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Speaker 1: but to honor Veterans Day and to do it by
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Speaker 1: sitting down with Dad and getting this story about his
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Speaker 1: time in Vietnam, well that was really really cool, really cool.
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Speaker 1: Got me some major brownie points. Let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: Dad even told me I was back in the will,
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Speaker 1: so I asked him to put a spending freeze on
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Speaker 1: everything since I'm back in the will, and maybe I'll
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Speaker 1: get something in the end. Anyway, thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: all of that. If you did miss that interview last week,
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Speaker 1: you definitely should check it out. You can find it
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Speaker 1: on repco Light's YouTube channel. It's worth the watch, worth
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Speaker 1: the watch. Check that out all right on the show.
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Speaker 1: Moving forward, on the show this week, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be spending some time going back to the topic of
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Speaker 1: two toned walls. We're going to talk about some frequently
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Speaker 1: asked questions that come up when trying to, you know,
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Speaker 1: pull off two toned walls in your home. And we're
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Speaker 1: also going to dig into the nitty gritty and talk
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Speaker 1: about how to do it, you know, everything you need
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Speaker 1: to know. We'll also be talking about how to store
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Speaker 1: masking tape. Uh huh, how to store masking tape. That's
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Speaker 1: what I called the segment at first. Uh but and
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Speaker 1: I guess I just did now. But when I when
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Speaker 1: I was looking that over as I made my notes,
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Speaker 1: I realized that was utterly ridiculous. Who in the right
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Speaker 1: mind would tune in to listen about how to store
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Speaker 1: masking tape? That is insane. Nobody wants to hear that.
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Speaker 1: So I went back to the drawing board, and here's
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Speaker 1: a couple alternate titles for that segment. I really like
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Speaker 1: these tape tails. How to keep your Roles Fresh and Fabulous.
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Speaker 1: That's got potential, right, kind of sounds like a weight joke,
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Speaker 1: but still keeping your roles fresh and fabulous that's coming
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Speaker 1: up next. I tune in for that, Or how about
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Speaker 1: this one, Keeping it Cool and Sticky, Your Guide to
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Speaker 1: Happy tape. Whatever you pick what you like. You know,
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Speaker 1: you can choose either one of those. The bottom line
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Speaker 1: is that we're going to be talking about how to
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Speaker 1: start masking tape coming up. But it's gonna be fun,
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Speaker 1: all right. Right now though, I want to talk about
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Speaker 1: the holidays, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and to
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Speaker 1: get me going on this, I want to start with
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Speaker 1: the elf. You know, you know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: I think elf on the shelf. We got one long
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Speaker 1: ago when they first came out, and it honestly started well,
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Speaker 1: you know, the kids named him Tinsel. It was funny,
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Speaker 1: it was cute, you know, ours only ever hid, which
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Speaker 1: was good. That was his thing. He didn't do naughty
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Speaker 1: things or make messes or any of that. He'd have
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Speaker 1: been short for this world if he tried any of
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Speaker 1: that Bologney in my house, No, our Tinsel, our little elf,
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Speaker 1: just hid. And every morning, for like fourteen mornings in
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Speaker 1: a row, the kids woke up and they were excited
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Speaker 1: to go looking for Tinsel and to find them. And
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Speaker 1: then on the fifteenth morning, that's when I realized this
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Speaker 1: whole idea might not be as great as we thought.
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Speaker 1: On the fifteenth morning, I realized that Tinsel had hidden
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Speaker 1: in pretty much every single reasonable place in our home,
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Speaker 1: and I know what you're thinking. Fourteen places. That's it.
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Speaker 1: Come on, you're being ridiculous. No, that's it. You know,
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Speaker 1: he could have hidden in a drawer, or in a cupboard,
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Speaker 1: or in the freezer, you know, behind the ice cream
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Speaker 1: carton it's been there since July. Could have hidden behind those,
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Speaker 1: you know. And yes, that ice cream it's in there
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Speaker 1: since July for a number of reasons. First off, there's
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Speaker 1: only a little left in it, you know, not enough
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Speaker 1: for anybody to eat, so it stays there. And secondly,
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Speaker 1: it's freezer burned, so nobody wants it, and of course
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Speaker 1: nobody throws it out because remember, there's still a little
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Speaker 1: bit in there. So anyway, he could have hidden behind
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Speaker 1: that curtain of ice cream or in the cupboard or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But with little kids, you know, the little olf has
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Speaker 1: to be at least find a ball or they get
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Speaker 1: mopi and then they cry or they drag their feet
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Speaker 1: in the morning, and then they make everybody late for
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Speaker 1: school because they were looking for Tinsel and he was
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Speaker 1: just in the cupboard or behind the ice cream, and
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Speaker 1: they never would have looked there, all right, So yes,
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Speaker 1: there really were only about fourteen places that Tinsel could
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Speaker 1: hide and be relatively hidden but still be able to
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Speaker 1: be spotted by the kids. And when day fifteen came around,
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Speaker 1: Tinsel started repeating his spots, and the kids did not
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Speaker 1: look kindly on that. The groaning began. Tinsel's in the
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Speaker 1: same place again, Dad, you know, blah blah blah, complain, complain, complained.
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Speaker 1: You know how it goes. You've got kids, you've got grandkids.
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Speaker 1: So that's what happened when he hid in the same spot.
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Speaker 1: And then God forbid some nights, after a long day
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Speaker 1: at work, in a long evening, you know, entertaining the children,
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Speaker 1: working around the house, cleaning, doing eight thousand different things,
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Speaker 1: you know, God forbid Tinsel's parents or you know whatever
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Speaker 1: we were for God to help him hide and find
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Speaker 1: a new spot some evening. Oh my, those were bad days,
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Speaker 1: you know, with that dumb elf. That got to the
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Speaker 1: point where I'd wake up in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: you know, two in the morning. I'd start awake, sit
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Speaker 1: up and think, crap, tinsil he didn't move. Worse yet,
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Speaker 1: I'd wake up on some mornings and I'd hear the
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Speaker 1: kids already walking through the house looking for him, and
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Speaker 1: then I'd remember he never moved, so I'd have to
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Speaker 1: sneak through the house, you know, peeking around doorways, crawling
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Speaker 1: behind furniture, trying to get to tinsel and move him
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Speaker 1: without being spotted. You know, the last time I did that,
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Speaker 1: I remember crashing into my chair, my heart pounding like
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Speaker 1: I just infiltrated some top secret government base like tom
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Speaker 1: Cruise in Mission Impossible, and just sitting there and realizing
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Speaker 1: things had gotten out of hand. This was ridiculous. And
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Speaker 1: that's just my story, you know, with our little elf
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Speaker 1: on the shelf and our elf only I get that
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Speaker 1: some other people have elves who cause creative mischief. Creative mischief.
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Speaker 1: I can only imagine the stress of maintaining that. Now,
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Speaker 1: all of that to say, if you need to walk
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Speaker 1: back the elf in your family, walk back the elf.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a psychologist. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: any damage is done to children, permanent or otherwise, but
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're gonna be fine. You know. The damage
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Speaker 1: done to parents is almost incalculable, And everybody's gonna be
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Speaker 1: happier when mom and dad are happier. So if you've
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Speaker 1: got to walk your elf back a little bit, go
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Speaker 1: for it. And yeah, I'm making a bit of a joke,
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Speaker 1: but I do think the core of everything that I
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Speaker 1: just said is really true. You know, as the holidays hit, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
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Speaker 1: New Year's, as we move into this season, parents and
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Speaker 1: grandparents put an incredible amount of pressure on themselves. You know.
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Speaker 1: We worry about, you know, making the perfect get together right,
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Speaker 1: cooking the perfect meal, finding the perfect outfits for the
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Speaker 1: care kids. I think women worry about that. Guys don't
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Speaker 1: worry about that so much. We'd put them in a
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Speaker 1: pillowcase if that would work, you know, just put a
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Speaker 1: belt around it. That's good enough. But women will worry
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Speaker 1: about perfect outfits, creating perfect greeting cards, you know, getting
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Speaker 1: just the right photo for the greeting card for this year.
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Speaker 1: All of that becomes stressed. We worry and we agonize
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Speaker 1: over Christmas presents, you know, finding the right ones, the
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Speaker 1: best ones, the most fun ones. And then if you've
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Speaker 1: got more than one kid, you worry about keeping all
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Speaker 1: of it as even as possible. You know, we're juggling
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Speaker 1: all of that, and then we start seeing the neighbors
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Speaker 1: put up their Christmas lights, you know, all the lights
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Speaker 1: around their home, and the pressure of that starts building
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Speaker 1: up in our minds. You know, do I have to
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Speaker 1: do that too? Should I? If I'm going to, I
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Speaker 1: better do it soon. Weather's only going to get colder.
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Speaker 1: You know, all of that's playing, you know what I'm saying, right,
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Speaker 1: you live in this zone too. And then we start
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Speaker 1: seeing homes, you know, on Instagram, Facebook, social media, whatever.
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Speaker 1: We see homes that are so impeccably created that it's crazy.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're like Currier and Ives postcards. It's annoying.
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Speaker 1: They're perfect, they're flawless. It's like Father Christmas himself lives there.
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Speaker 1: And then we look around our place and we see
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Speaker 1: our poultry stuff, you know, old ratty stockings, this Charlie
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Speaker 1: Brown Christmas tree that isn't intentionally you know, a Charlie
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Speaker 1: Brown Christmas tree. It's just really that old and that's sad.
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Speaker 1: And then some guy you know, comes on the radio
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Speaker 1: from Repcolite and periodically talks about, hey, you know, why
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Speaker 1: don't you paint something, you know, so your guests don't
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Speaker 1: hate your home when they come over. You know, you
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Speaker 1: got to hate that guy. Anyway. All of that adds
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Speaker 1: up and it all becomes guilt. It all becomes frustration.
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Speaker 1: You know, it leads to envy, it leads to jealousy,
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Speaker 1: it just leads to all kinds of sadness. And maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe that's small doses of those things that you experience.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's bigger doses, who knows. But even if it's
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Speaker 1: small doses, those things are certainly not in the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the season. Now, I've got five, my mom has
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Speaker 1: a ton of grandkids. I know what I'm talking about here.
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Speaker 1: I know the stress that the holidays can bring, and
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Speaker 1: I know it's often the case that we go into
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Speaker 1: them pumped up and excited, right, you know, we're heading
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Speaker 1: into Thanksgiving, and then it's the journey to Christmas. We're excited,
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Speaker 1: a lot of new stuff's going on, it's great, and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, we're gonna wake up on
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Speaker 1: a morning and we're gonna look at the calendar and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Christmas. Even we're gonna wonder where did
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Speaker 1: this whole season go? You know, for me, I fill
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Speaker 1: mine up with busyness, things that are worthwhile in and
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Speaker 1: of themselves. But you know, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: things that really, you know, aren't that important, they're just busy.
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Speaker 1: So where am I going with all of this, with
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Speaker 1: this long ramble. What's the point? Well, the point, the
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Speaker 1: main thing I'm trying to say is that it's okay
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Speaker 1: and it's important to cut yourself some slack, you know,
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Speaker 1: give yourself a break. Put the elf on the shelf
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Speaker 1: and leave them there, or put them back in the box,
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Speaker 1: or get them some sment shoes. Visit the pond and
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Speaker 1: the condos where Grandma lives, you know, whatever you've got
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Speaker 1: to do, just saying, find a way distance yourself from
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Speaker 1: that little guy. Don't stress yourself out about the meals,
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Speaker 1: don't agonize over the decorating or the outdoor lights. If
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Speaker 1: it's fun to you and it helps you celebrate, we'll
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Speaker 1: go for it. If it's a burden, if it's a job,
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Speaker 1: maybe cut it for the year, you know, go easy
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Speaker 1: on the present, stress the gifts, you know, lighten up
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Speaker 1: on the Instagram holiday home comparisons. Now. I know that
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Speaker 1: is ridiculously easy to say, and I don't usually listen
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Speaker 1: to my own advice in this regard anyway, but I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to do better because I'm right. I'm really right
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Speaker 1: about this stuff. You know. Every year I go nuts
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Speaker 1: trying to be so unbelievably creative with my gifts for
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Speaker 1: the kids. I put hours into brainstorming. I create spreadsheets. People,
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Speaker 1: I've talked about that before. It's real and it's weird
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Speaker 1: and it's a problem, and I do it. I do
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Speaker 1: it spreadsheets. I've got spreadsheets going back years. I peruse
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Speaker 1: them sometimes just for the fun and the memories. It's crazy.
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Speaker 1: I put superhuman effort into these things. And then, with
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Speaker 1: all of that said, the other day, we were sitting
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Speaker 1: around and started talking about Christmas and I realized nobody
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Speaker 1: can even remember what presents I bought for them last year.
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Speaker 1: And they were great gifts, they were brilliant gifts. I
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Speaker 1: had to bring out the spreadsheets and everybody said, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was really good. But really, at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, gifts don't live in people's hearts and minds. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: what the kids remember from last year, from that conversation
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Speaker 1: when we were sitting around, what the kids remember from
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Speaker 1: last year's Christmas most vividly is this. They decorated our
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Speaker 1: twenty year old artificial tree for the first time, our
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Speaker 1: little Charlie Brown Loser tree. I usually own this task
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Speaker 1: because I'm nitpicky about how it looks, but they did
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Speaker 1: it last year, and they did it up to my standards.
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Speaker 1: They still remember that. They remember that for Christmas Eve
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Speaker 1: we had a meal of pickles, olives, a charcuterie board, meatballs,
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Speaker 1: and little wieners, you know, wrapped in crescent rolls. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the other day I bought a jar of the same
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Speaker 1: expensive pickles that we had last year at Christmas Eve,
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Speaker 1: sucker punch pickles something like that. Andrew ate one and
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Speaker 1: he said, ah, tastes like Christmas, right, So they remember that.
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Speaker 1: They remember that we ended Advent and launched into Christmas
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Speaker 1: by going to Mass at midnight at the Basilica of
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Speaker 1: Santa Delbert and Grand Rapids. They're altar servers at that Mass,
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Speaker 1: and it's the pinnacle of Christmas for them. Every year.
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Speaker 1: You know, we get home around two in the morning
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Speaker 1: and everybody feels like we've truly experienced Christmas. Now. I
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Speaker 1: say all of that for me to remind myself that
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Speaker 1: that's what the kids remember, you know, all of those
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Speaker 1: little things. So many of the things that I agonized
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Speaker 1: over and stressed myself out about are things that they
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Speaker 1: don't even remember unless they actively start racking their brains
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Speaker 1: or check out my spreadsheets. You know, all of the
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Speaker 1: money that I spent on gifts is just money spent
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Speaker 1: on things that sat in a drawer or on a
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Speaker 1: shelf for whatever, for the better part of a year.
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Speaker 1: All of the stress about having a perfectly decorated Christmas
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Speaker 1: home like my grandma used to have was really silly
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day for me. You know,
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Speaker 1: one of the kid's main happy Christmas memories is the
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Speaker 1: sad little tree they decorated. You know, every year I
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Speaker 1: tell myself that if everything isn't a big production, you know,
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Speaker 1: if it's not movie magical, that somehow the experience is
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Speaker 1: going to be less. You know that my kids won't
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Speaker 1: have the best memories of Christmas and the holidays, and
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. That is so messed up. That's not
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Speaker 1: what's important, right We all know that, but we forget
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Speaker 1: it so easily. What's important is being together, enjoying each other.
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Speaker 1: That's what's important. Now I know that not all of
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Speaker 1: us have that luxury anymore. You know, kids have moved out,
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Speaker 1: We've lost people. And I can guarantee that anybody listening
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Speaker 1: who's in that boat and who's remembering back to those
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Speaker 1: days when their home was full of people and little voices.
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Speaker 1: None of those people are thinking that the season was
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Speaker 1: great because of all that busyness and the presence and
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Speaker 1: the decorating. It's the people. It's always the people. People
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Speaker 1: can be the worst, but they're also the best. So
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Speaker 1: for anybody who needs to hear it this year, slow
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Speaker 1: down as we head into the holidays, take a breath,
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Speaker 1: Ease up on yourself. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's. They're all
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Speaker 1: going to succeed even if we don't perfectly execute every meal,
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Speaker 1: every gift, every moment. All right, that's my two cents.
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Speaker 1: That's how I think we all survive the holidays this
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Speaker 1: year and really get the most out of them. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's enough of that. When we come back, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about tape tails, how to keep your
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Speaker 1: roles fresh and fabulous. This sounds amazing, And it's next
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Speaker 1: stick around and we're back here listening to the Repcolite
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Speaker 1: Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and it's time
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Speaker 1: to talk about how to keep our roles fresh and fabulous.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that sounds amazing, right, It's our tape rolls
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Speaker 1: for anybody out there, who's very curious about what's going on.
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Speaker 1: How to keep your tape rolls fresh and fabulous. All
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Speaker 1: this month November Painters Blue Masking tape inch and a
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Speaker 1: half blue masking tape is on special at Repcolite, and
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Speaker 1: whether you're buying it by a single roll or you're
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Speaker 1: grabbing a box at a time, it's a great deal.
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Speaker 1: And with that special in mind, I've spent the month
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Speaker 1: kind of sharing some masking tape tips to help you
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Speaker 1: get the best results. Today, let's talk about storage, because
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Speaker 1: really there is a right way and a wrong way
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Speaker 1: to store your masking tape, and of course storing it
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Speaker 1: the right way is going to get you better results
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Speaker 1: down the road. So quickly, let's just move through some
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Speaker 1: of these first things. First, you've got to when you're
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Speaker 1: storing your tape keep it out of direct sunlight. UV
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Speaker 1: light isn't great for your masking tape. Over time, the
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Speaker 1: UV rays can break down the adhesive even if the
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Speaker 1: tape is still in its packaging. So storing it in
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Speaker 1: a bright sunny spot, like on a window sill in
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Speaker 1: your kitchen, you know, let's say like a nice little
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Speaker 1: piece of decor storing it there, or storing it on
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Speaker 1: the dashboard of your truck, just laying it around on
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Speaker 1: your work bench with the window right above it. All
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Speaker 1: of those places aren't the best. They're not the best.
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Speaker 1: Your tape is like a cockroach. Think about that. It
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Speaker 1: longs for the darkness. Remember that, give it the darkness. Right.
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Speaker 1: Second thing, store your tape in a cool, dry place.
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Speaker 1: Extremes of heat and cold are masking tapes worst enemies.
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Speaker 1: And really, when you think about it, when are extremes
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Speaker 1: of heat or cold ever used in a positive manner
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Speaker 1: for anything? You never read on a package of anything
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Speaker 1: store only in extreme heat, right or best? If kept
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Speaker 1: in extreme cold? You never read that? Well, wait, you
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Speaker 1: might read that at a cryogenics lab. I suppose that's possible,
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Speaker 1: maybe likely, But for most situations, extremes of heat and
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Speaker 1: cold are not your friend. Same is true with tape.
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Speaker 1: High heat can turn the adhesive into a sticky and
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Speaker 1: usable mess, and on the other hand, storing your tape
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Speaker 1: and very cold temperatures can make it less sticky or worse,
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Speaker 1: maybe brittle and hard to work with. Long term exposure
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Speaker 1: to cold can ruin the adhesive altogether. So the solution
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Speaker 1: bomb store your tape in a cool, dry, climate controlled area,
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Speaker 1: think room temperature and low humidity. You know, a shelf
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Speaker 1: in your basement or an indoor closet is a great
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Speaker 1: spot out of the side. Right there you go. Third thing,
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Speaker 1: and this one's kind of dumb and obvious, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to say it anyway, don't unwrap your tape until
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Speaker 1: you're ready to use it. That original plastic wrapper is
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Speaker 1: going to keep it clean and free from dust and debris.
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Speaker 1: And also, if your tape came in a cool little
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Speaker 1: plastic container, hang on to that cool plastic container. It's
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Speaker 1: there for a reason. It's going to protect the tape
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Speaker 1: from dust and debris, but it's also going to protect
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Speaker 1: the edges from getting damaged. So use that container as
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Speaker 1: long as you've got the tape, and then afterward use
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Speaker 1: it for screws, nuts, bolts, buttons, whatever you want. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have one of those cool little containers
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Speaker 1: after you've unwrapped your tape, you could always store it
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Speaker 1: in a zip block bag and that will at least
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Speaker 1: keep that adhesive clean from dust and debris, so it's
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Speaker 1: ready to go the next time you need it. All right,
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Speaker 1: last thing, remember that masking tape has a shelf life.
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Speaker 1: Depending on the brand, you're going to want to use
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Speaker 1: your tape within twelve months of purchase for the best results.
17:53
Speaker 1: After that, the adhesive can start to break down a
17:55
Speaker 1: little bit and the tape just won't perform as well.
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Speaker 1: So if you're buying tape in bulk during this month's sale,
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Speaker 1: plan ahead to use it within the year, or share
18:04
Speaker 1: some roles with a friend Christmas. After all, is fast approaching.
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Speaker 1: Storing your masking tape properly. It doesn't take its ton
18:12
Speaker 1: of effort. It's not rocket science, but really, at the
18:15
Speaker 1: end of the day, it can make a world of
18:17
Speaker 1: difference when it's time to tackle your next painting project.
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Speaker 1: So keep it cool, keep it dry, keep it out
18:22
Speaker 1: of the direct UV light, keep it in the little case.
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Speaker 1: If you've got one and you're always going to have
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Speaker 1: a role, it's ready to go and work as hard
18:30
Speaker 1: as you do. It's going to work as hard as
18:32
Speaker 1: you think about that. You want your tape working as
18:35
Speaker 1: hard as you do, unless you really phone your projects in,
18:39
Speaker 1: then you want it working as hard as somebody else.
18:41
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That's how you keep your
18:43
Speaker 1: roles fresh and fabulous, and that's what we want right,
18:46
Speaker 1: fresh and fabulous roles. I know that's what I'm shooting for.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: I'm answering some common questions about two toned walls. That's
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Speaker 1: just ahead, stick around, welcome back. You're listening to the
19:03
Speaker 1: Repo Light home improvement shows sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I talked about two toned walls,
19:10
Speaker 1: and the main focus of all of that back then
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Speaker 1: was to basically highlight four or five. I think I
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Speaker 1: got through four of them. I had five, five brilliant
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Speaker 1: reasons why you might want to give this growing trend
19:23
Speaker 1: to try in your own space. I only got through
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Speaker 1: four of them. But that's what we talked about a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. If you missed that episode and
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Speaker 1: you've got no idea what I'm talking about, you know,
19:33
Speaker 1: if two toned walls, if that phrase is just you know,
19:37
Speaker 1: like Egyptian hieroglyphs to you, well, you know, audible ones. Anyway,
19:42
Speaker 1: if you're confused, let me just put your mind at ease.
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Speaker 1: Two toned walls they're like accent walls, only cooler. Right,
19:49
Speaker 1: we all know what accent walls are, so Instead of
19:52
Speaker 1: thinking of one highlight color on a given wall, think
19:55
Speaker 1: of a wall with two different colors on it, two
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Speaker 1: toned walls. They can be on a single wall, like
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Speaker 1: an accent wall, or it can wrap the entire room.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that you've seen examples of this all over
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Speaker 1: the place. It's a cool look, it's really popular right now,
20:10
Speaker 1: and it's an easy way to infuse a ton of
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Speaker 1: energy and interest into a space. Like I said a
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Speaker 1: couple episodes back, we talked about why you might want
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Speaker 1: to try them. Now, let's talk about some practical questions
20:21
Speaker 1: that always come up when people think about doing this
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Speaker 1: in their own home. And let's start here. Most of
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Speaker 1: the time, when we see two tone walls, we see
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Speaker 1: the walls split either horizontally or vertically. You know which
20:32
Speaker 1: one's right for your space? Which would you choose over
20:35
Speaker 1: the other? Now, I should say right off the bat,
20:37
Speaker 1: there are plenty of other ways to do this, but
20:40
Speaker 1: these are the two most common. So that's what we're
20:42
Speaker 1: going to look at. Now. Vertically, let's start with those,
20:45
Speaker 1: and as you can imagine, when we're talking about splitting
20:47
Speaker 1: walls vertically, we're saying that the line where the two
20:50
Speaker 1: colors meet, you know, runs from floor to the ceiling.
20:53
Speaker 1: It's cool look can be really effective in the right setting.
20:57
Speaker 1: For instance, if you've got you know, one of those
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Speaker 1: big open, you know, open area spaces in your home,
21:02
Speaker 1: a big multifunctional room. You've got you know, your living room,
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Speaker 1: your dining room, and who knows what else, all in
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Speaker 1: one big space. A vertical two tone design in a
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Speaker 1: space like that can help you create separate zones, you know,
21:15
Speaker 1: for lack of a better word. For example, imagine taking
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Speaker 1: a new color and splitting the wall vertically right where
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Speaker 1: your dining room table is doing. That's going to create
21:24
Speaker 1: this kind of a cozy dining look without closing off
21:28
Speaker 1: the space, without actually making a dining room or anything
21:31
Speaker 1: like that. It just kind of gives you that feel.
21:34
Speaker 1: Another application of this that's kind of interesting, and I've
21:37
Speaker 1: seen it used most often in bedrooms. It's this and
21:42
Speaker 1: it's really tough to describe on the radio. I'll do
21:45
Speaker 1: my best, but picture a neutral canvas color on all
21:48
Speaker 1: the walls in a plain square bedroom. But then in
21:51
Speaker 1: one corner, imagine that there's a vertical bar that's about
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Speaker 1: four foot wide, you know, comes out from the corner
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Speaker 1: about four foot and then it runs all the way
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Speaker 1: up just one wall. Now, sometimes people will take that
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Speaker 1: color and they'll actually carry it onto the ceiling in
22:05
Speaker 1: something like a four x four four foot by four
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Speaker 1: foot square. Now, maybe that color on that stripe that
22:11
Speaker 1: vertical bar is a navy blue. Maybe it's a rich
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Speaker 1: terra cotta in that you know, otherwise neutral room. Who
22:17
Speaker 1: knows the idea or the main main point is that
22:20
Speaker 1: it's unusual. It's incredibly eye catching. And what you end
22:23
Speaker 1: up doing is taking this boring, kind of squared off
22:26
Speaker 1: room and you create a nook. Often I see people
22:30
Speaker 1: put a reading lamp and a rocking chair in that corner,
22:32
Speaker 1: and even though the room has no physical architectural nooks
22:37
Speaker 1: or cozy little areas, they can visually create something, you know,
22:40
Speaker 1: a reading area, a writing area, a relaxing corner. With
22:44
Speaker 1: just paint, you could do a lot with something like this.
22:46
Speaker 1: It's really cool. You could take that color and put
22:49
Speaker 1: it on the two walls that meet in that corner,
22:52
Speaker 1: you know, just come out four foot onto each wall
22:54
Speaker 1: and then leave it off the ceiling. Put it on
22:56
Speaker 1: the ceiling. Either way, it's going to create a very
22:58
Speaker 1: defined nook in that It's an interesting concept. It demonstrates,
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Speaker 1: you know, the power of paint and creativity to do
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Speaker 1: some really cool things in even the most plain and
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Speaker 1: potentially boring spaces. So vertical two tone walls. Before we
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Speaker 1: move on, though, I got one other thing. One other
23:16
Speaker 1: cool benefit of the vertical lines is that they actually
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Speaker 1: draw the eye up, So it's going to make your
23:21
Speaker 1: ceilings feel taller. So if you're working with low ceilings
23:25
Speaker 1: in the space, might be a simple trick to add
23:27
Speaker 1: some visual height, you know, the illusion of height. I'm
23:30
Speaker 1: going to try this out with clothing. You know, I
23:33
Speaker 1: think every piece of clothing that I buy from here
23:35
Speaker 1: on out, you know, shirts, pants, whatever, I'm wearing vertical stripes.
23:40
Speaker 1: You know, I want that illusion of height. I'm gonna
23:43
Speaker 1: find out if it works all right. Flip side horizontal
23:46
Speaker 1: two tone walls. It's much more common, and for good reason.
23:50
Speaker 1: It's incredibly versatile. Typically you're going to see the darker
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Speaker 1: color on the lower portion of the wall with a
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Speaker 1: lighter tone on top. And normally this happens because the
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Speaker 1: darker color usually visually just feel heavier. They visually feel heavier.
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Speaker 1: I think you know what I'm saying. They just seem heavier,
24:09
Speaker 1: so grounding them at the bottom just feels right. But
24:12
Speaker 1: you know what rules, Throw them out the window if
24:15
Speaker 1: you want to. You can break all these rules. You
24:17
Speaker 1: can flip that. You can put the darker color on
24:19
Speaker 1: top if you want to cozier, more intimate vibe. This
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Speaker 1: can work really well in rooms with high ceilings. Now. Also,
24:26
Speaker 1: as we mentioned last week, horizontal walls are also great
24:30
Speaker 1: for optical illusions. We talked about how the vertical lines
24:32
Speaker 1: draw your eyes upward give the illusion of height. Horizontal
24:36
Speaker 1: lines are going to give the illusion of distance. You know,
24:39
Speaker 1: it's going to make a room feel a little bit longer,
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Speaker 1: maybe make a hallway feel longer. Who doesn't want that?
24:45
Speaker 1: Wants a long hallway in your home? You know, maybe
24:48
Speaker 1: maybe your hallways too stubby and it's always bothered you.
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Speaker 1: You wished you had a longer hallway, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you didn't want to add onto the house just to
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Speaker 1: have a longer hallway. Horizontal lines two tone walls in
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Speaker 1: that hallway might give the illusion of length. They also
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Speaker 1: mimic the look we talked about this last week as well.
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Speaker 1: They can mimic the look of Wayne's coding paneling, something
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Speaker 1: like that and a solid color on the bottom half
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Speaker 1: gives you that vibe, that classic Wayne's coding vibe with
25:16
Speaker 1: no woodwork required, so easy to redo down the road.
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Speaker 1: That's more of a reason why you'd want to do it.
25:23
Speaker 1: But that's what you're going to get with the horizontal lines.
25:25
Speaker 1: So basically, you can divide your room with the vertical,
25:28
Speaker 1: you can divide it with a horizontal line, and both
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Speaker 1: can work and help you achieve different results. All right,
25:34
Speaker 1: Another big question when it comes to horizontal lines is
25:37
Speaker 1: where do you draw the line? You know, I'm a
25:39
Speaker 1: person who needs details. I always have been. You know,
25:44
Speaker 1: I was that kid parents. Maybe maybe you have a
25:48
Speaker 1: kid like this in your home, but I was that
25:50
Speaker 1: kid who asked when's dinner? Right? Most kids ask that.
25:55
Speaker 1: But when mom would say around five point thirty, I'd
25:58
Speaker 1: say around or are you saying it's going to be
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Speaker 1: five thirty or are you saying five thirty two? Five
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Speaker 1: thirty five? Could it be you know, earlier than five thirty,
26:10
Speaker 1: and if so, how much earlier? I was exasperating. I
26:15
Speaker 1: know that if my parents said they thought it would snow,
26:17
Speaker 1: I wanted to know how much and when and if
26:20
Speaker 1: school would be canceled. And if they said maybe, I
26:23
Speaker 1: don't know, then I'd drill into what that meant. What
26:26
Speaker 1: does maybe mean is maybe forty percent? Chance is maybe
26:30
Speaker 1: just a twenty percent? I need details? You know. That
26:33
Speaker 1: was me, and I'm still that way as an adult.
26:37
Speaker 1: I'm an absolute pleasure. I'm an absolute pleasure to be
26:41
Speaker 1: around anyway, when I do something like this, think about
26:44
Speaker 1: bringing you know, two tone walls into a space. I
26:47
Speaker 1: need to know the exact measurements for that dividing line.
26:50
Speaker 1: I need to know is it forty eight inches, is
26:52
Speaker 1: it lower, is it higher? How much higher? Where's the
26:55
Speaker 1: proper place to draw that line. That's how my brain works. Well,
26:58
Speaker 1: if you're like me, turns out there's some bad news
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Speaker 1: for us. There's no hard and fast rule. Generally the
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Speaker 1: line is about forty seven inches from the floor, and
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Speaker 1: of course i'm talking about horizontal lines here. Generally it's
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Speaker 1: about forty seven inches from the floor. But you don't
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Speaker 1: have to stick to that, not in the least. You
27:17
Speaker 1: could line it up with a piece of furniture like
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Speaker 1: your headboard in the bedroom, or with architectural features like
27:22
Speaker 1: a chair rail or a mantle, anything like that. You know,
27:26
Speaker 1: and if you're totally stumped trying to figure out where
27:28
Speaker 1: to draw that line, where to bring that line. A window,
27:31
Speaker 1: a doorframe, even a shelf, all of those things can
27:34
Speaker 1: act as a natural place to start or stop your line.
27:37
Speaker 1: You can match the line exactly with whatever piece you're
27:40
Speaker 1: looking at, or you can offset it slightly, you know,
27:43
Speaker 1: up to twelve inches above or below, if you don't
27:45
Speaker 1: want to feel too exact. It's really that fluid and free.
27:49
Speaker 1: It really is entirely up to you, and for some
27:53
Speaker 1: people that's incredibly freeing. For people like me, man, we
27:57
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with that. We're gonna spend days, weeks,
28:00
Speaker 1: months just thinking it through. Anyway, that's the dividing line.
28:05
Speaker 1: Another area where we run into questions is the color.
28:09
Speaker 1: You know, the color is the most exciting, the most fun,
28:12
Speaker 1: maybe the most overwhelming part of a two tone wall.
28:15
Speaker 1: But again, in this situation, for normal people, there's good news.
28:21
Speaker 1: It's actually easier than picking a color for an accent wall.
28:25
Speaker 1: And that's because the two colors that you're using on
28:27
Speaker 1: these walls often balance each other out a little bit.
28:30
Speaker 1: We talked about that last week or two weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you're only using half the color for
28:35
Speaker 1: one thing. So you can go with a darker color,
28:37
Speaker 1: a boulder color, and you're only using half of it
28:40
Speaker 1: on the wall, and the second color that you use
28:42
Speaker 1: generally kind of balances it out a little bit. If
28:46
Speaker 1: you're completely unsure where to start, neutrals they're always a
28:49
Speaker 1: safe bat gray and beige. They'll work. But remember, you know,
28:53
Speaker 1: something really important to remember is that neutrals can mean
28:56
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Subtle tones like a blush
28:58
Speaker 1: pink or a soft sage green, and those can be
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Speaker 1: neutrals to some extent. So can darker tones, you know,
29:04
Speaker 1: like a navy blue or even a black. All of
29:06
Speaker 1: those can be neutral tones. So you could go with neutrals.
29:09
Speaker 1: That's an easy way to go. Another way to go is,
29:12
Speaker 1: you know, basically a tone on tone approach, maybe a
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Speaker 1: light and a dark version of the same, you know,
29:17
Speaker 1: basic color. If you do want to push things a bit,
29:20
Speaker 1: you can go bold with a bright accent paired with
29:22
Speaker 1: a neutral for balance. Remember, like I just said earlier,
29:26
Speaker 1: you're using less of that color and that means you
29:28
Speaker 1: can push a little more. When it comes to the
29:30
Speaker 1: color selection. You can go darker than you might have
29:32
Speaker 1: been willing to go with an accent wall or brighter
29:35
Speaker 1: or bolder because you're using less of it. So if
29:38
Speaker 1: you need inspiration when it comes to color, look online.
29:41
Speaker 1: Social media is full, absolutely full of two tone wall ideas.
29:46
Speaker 1: And remember Benjamin Moore, color samples are your best friend
29:49
Speaker 1: in this situation. Grab a couple of them and you
29:52
Speaker 1: can test out the color on your walls before you commit.
29:54
Speaker 1: Not right, we're reaching the end. But one last consideration
29:57
Speaker 1: that's worth mentioning is the ceilings. You know, what do
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Speaker 1: you do with them? Well, two tone walls give you
30:02
Speaker 1: a lot of leeway here. There's a lot of different
30:05
Speaker 1: ways you could go. For one thing, you could just
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Speaker 1: keep it classic and stick with just a plain white ceiling.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's absolutely fine. That'll work really well. If
30:14
Speaker 1: you want, you could take it up a notch by
30:16
Speaker 1: extending the top color of your two tone walls, your
30:19
Speaker 1: horizontal two tone walls, you can extend that top color
30:22
Speaker 1: onto the ceiling. This is going to erase that harsh
30:24
Speaker 1: line between the wall and ceiling. It makes the room
30:26
Speaker 1: feel a little more expansive, and that will work with
30:29
Speaker 1: light colors or darker colors. With darker tones, you're going
30:32
Speaker 1: to end up with a rich, dramatic look. With lighter colors,
30:35
Speaker 1: it's going to feel a little more airy and open.
30:37
Speaker 1: Either way, it's a win, really cool way to go again,
30:41
Speaker 1: look online for inspiration. There's a ton of ideas out there.
30:45
Speaker 1: Check those out, all right. That is enough. Whether you're
30:48
Speaker 1: trying to define a space, add height, or just have
30:50
Speaker 1: fun with color. This is a project that really delivers
30:53
Speaker 1: big results with just a little bit of paint. Okay,
30:56
Speaker 1: let's take a break, and when we come back, let's
30:58
Speaker 1: breeze through a quick how to on this project. You know,
31:01
Speaker 1: how do you get the sharp line? How do you
31:03
Speaker 1: make sure that it's straight across the room? I've got
31:05
Speaker 1: all of that in just a minute. Stick around, and
31:10
Speaker 1: we're back. You're listening to the Repco Light Home Improvement
31:12
Speaker 1: Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and let's talk right now
31:15
Speaker 1: briefly about how to paint two toned walls. And let's
31:19
Speaker 1: start with the basics. First thing, you need to paint
31:22
Speaker 1: the top section of your wall, so you've got to
31:24
Speaker 1: choose your colors, and then you need to decide where
31:27
Speaker 1: the colors are going to meet. As we talked about
31:29
Speaker 1: in the last segment, deciding where that meeting line is
31:32
Speaker 1: going to be. It's pretty much up to you. You know,
31:34
Speaker 1: there's no hard and fast rules here. You can split
31:37
Speaker 1: the wall evenly in half. You could add a higher
31:40
Speaker 1: or a lower dividing line entirely. It's up to you
31:43
Speaker 1: either way. Figure out where that line's going to be,
31:46
Speaker 1: and then you gravitate measure and you mark that point
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Speaker 1: at numerous spots across the wall and if necessary, around
31:53
Speaker 1: the whole room. If that's how you're going to do it.
31:55
Speaker 1: When you do this, be sure to keep those marketing
31:58
Speaker 1: lines light. You need to see them. But they don't
32:00
Speaker 1: need to shout at you, right, just need to see
32:03
Speaker 1: them a little bit, So keep them light. If you
32:05
Speaker 1: want to take this whole step up a notch, you know,
32:08
Speaker 1: really add some technological cool to the project and get
32:13
Speaker 1: better results along the way, more easily, you know, so
32:16
Speaker 1: better results. It's technologically cool and it's going to be
32:19
Speaker 1: more easy easier, is how we normally would say that.
32:24
Speaker 1: If you want to do that, consider using a laser level.
32:26
Speaker 1: It's a game changer. It'll project a perfectly straight line
32:30
Speaker 1: across your wall, saving you tons of time and ensuring
32:34
Speaker 1: that your line is straight level all of those things,
32:36
Speaker 1: even if your floors, their ceilings aren't perfectly level and
32:40
Speaker 1: it's a laser did I say that. I mean that
32:43
Speaker 1: alone tells you everything you need to know. There are
32:45
Speaker 1: a lot of them out there if you go looking.
32:48
Speaker 1: The prices can vary pretty dramatically. To Walt makes a
32:51
Speaker 1: good one that you could snag for right around one
32:53
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks. If you have other projects that
32:56
Speaker 1: you tackle where a laser level might be handy, it'd
32:59
Speaker 1: be a great tool to go. We're going to look
33:01
Speaker 1: at them more deeply in a future episode, but I
33:03
Speaker 1: did want to throw that idea out there today. Laser
33:05
Speaker 1: level might be the way to go. Anyway. Once you've
33:08
Speaker 1: got your line, start painting the top section of your wall.
33:11
Speaker 1: And when you're doing that, it's really important that you
33:14
Speaker 1: don't stop painting right at that dividing line, you know,
33:17
Speaker 1: paint slightly past it, and then feather out those edges. Thick,
33:21
Speaker 1: abrupt paint lines at that edge are going to create
33:24
Speaker 1: problems for you down the road. So roll past that
33:27
Speaker 1: marking line, that laser line that you set, and then
33:30
Speaker 1: feather the paint out. If you can do it with
33:32
Speaker 1: your standard roller, fine, do it that way if you
33:35
Speaker 1: need to. If that's a struggle for you, use the
33:38
Speaker 1: Wooster Jumbo coder system for this. These are four inch
33:41
Speaker 1: roller covers, four inch rollers and covers. We talk about
33:45
Speaker 1: them all the time on the show. They're incredibly, incredibly handy.
33:48
Speaker 1: And what makes these Wooster Jumbo coders so brilliant is
33:51
Speaker 1: that the tiny little mini roller covers that you're using,
33:54
Speaker 1: that you buy for them, they actually perfectly match their
33:57
Speaker 1: bigger counterparts. So if you stick with the Wooster products
34:00
Speaker 1: through the whole project, you could make sure that the
34:02
Speaker 1: roller cover nap, you know, the texture and all of
34:04
Speaker 1: that matches perfectly, even though you switch to the mini
34:07
Speaker 1: roller to really you know, feather out those lines. Now
34:10
Speaker 1: that may not sound like a big deal, but using
34:13
Speaker 1: different roller covers for a part of the wall can
34:15
Speaker 1: really show up in your final results. Roller textures can
34:18
Speaker 1: look different, it can affect the finish on the wall.
34:21
Speaker 1: It can even affect the way the color is perceived,
34:24
Speaker 1: you know, on the wall. So these Jumbo coders from Wooster,
34:27
Speaker 1: they're a great tool for any painting that you do.
34:30
Speaker 1: Grab the frame and then the covers that match the
34:32
Speaker 1: larger Wooster covers that you like to use, and you're
34:34
Speaker 1: gonna be set. You don't like that, all right, Lots
34:37
Speaker 1: of blah blah blah on that one. But to summarize,
34:40
Speaker 1: create your dividing line for the colors, and then apply
34:43
Speaker 1: your first color to the wall, bringing it slightly past
34:45
Speaker 1: that line and feathering it out really simple. If you
34:48
Speaker 1: need to do a second coat, do that before moving on.
34:51
Speaker 1: Just be sure to really feather the paint out once
34:53
Speaker 1: you get past that planned dividing line, all right. Second step,
34:57
Speaker 1: after that top color drives for at least twenty four hours,
35:00
Speaker 1: at least twenty four hours, And I'm gonna say that
35:03
Speaker 1: one more time, because this is where problems can happen.
35:06
Speaker 1: After that top color drives for at least twenty four
35:09
Speaker 1: hours longer. If you can give it longer. After it's
35:12
Speaker 1: dried for that amount of time, then it's time to
35:15
Speaker 1: tape off that dividing line, all right, So set up
35:17
Speaker 1: your laser level again or carefully mark the walls really
35:21
Speaker 1: lightly this time at the dividing line, and then apply
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Speaker 1: your masking tape. Now have two recommendations here, and only
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Speaker 1: two for this particular part of the project. Yellow frog
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Speaker 1: tape is one option also three M makes a delicate
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Speaker 1: surface tape. Both of these tapes are made to release
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Speaker 1: safely from a freshly painted surface. Other tapes most likely
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Speaker 1: are going to cause problems for you and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: end up peeling off fresh paint when you remove the tape. Now,
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Speaker 1: frog tape, it's got a special coating on the tape
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Speaker 1: that reacts when water based paint touches it. It instantly
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Speaker 1: seals the edge of the tape, preventing bleed through. I've
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Speaker 1: personally had great luck with the yellow frog tape, that
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Speaker 1: safe released frog tape, and that would probably be the
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Speaker 1: one that I'd use in this situation. But either that
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Speaker 1: one or the threem tape, the delicate surface three M
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Speaker 1: should give you great results. So apply that tape. And
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Speaker 1: normally i'd say that you would press the edge down,
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Speaker 1: you know, the edge that's going to be painted up against.
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Speaker 1: I'd recommend that you press that edge down tightly with
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Speaker 1: a putty knife to seal it. But I'm not recommending
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Speaker 1: that in this situation. You know, the paint on your
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Speaker 1: wall that you're taping over is way too fresh. Don't
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Speaker 1: use a putty knife here to seal that edge. Instead,
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Speaker 1: there's another trick, and I would do this even if
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Speaker 1: I was using the frog tape. Once the tape's down,
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Speaker 1: go back with your first wall color and paint it
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Speaker 1: lightly over the edge of the tape. If you're trying
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Speaker 1: to imagine the scenario, I know it's not easy on
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Speaker 1: the radio, but think of it this way. You've got
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Speaker 1: your tape down and you're getting ready to paint your
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Speaker 1: second color on the bottom part of the wall. Before
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Speaker 1: you do that, get out the original color and then
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Speaker 1: lightly paint about an inch or so of that lower portion,
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Speaker 1: you know, right up and onto the edge of the tape.
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Speaker 1: Make sure that you feather it out really well. You
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Speaker 1: still don't want thick lines here, but just a little
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Speaker 1: bit of that original upper wall color on the lower
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Speaker 1: half painted over the edge of the tape. That's what
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Speaker 1: you're looking for. Now. You do this because if there's
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Speaker 1: any paint that bleeds under the tape, the color that's
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Speaker 1: going to bleed through is going to be the color
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Speaker 1: that's on the upper portion of the wall. Essentially, that's
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Speaker 1: sealing off the tape edge and it's creating a flawless,
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Speaker 1: absolutely razor sharp line when you paint your second color.
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Speaker 1: So do that and then let it dry completely before
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Speaker 1: moving on. All right, last step, you got to paint
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Speaker 1: the second color on the lower section, the bottom section.
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Speaker 1: And when you're doing this with that second color, you're
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Speaker 1: going to want to be careful as you work up
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Speaker 1: to the tape. You don't want to accidentally, you know,
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Speaker 1: roll onto that upper portion of the wall that you finished.
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Speaker 1: So just be a little careful as you go. Put
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Speaker 1: a coat on and let it dry, and if you
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Speaker 1: need to, you're going to want to apply a second
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Speaker 1: coat with the same kind of care. All right, Now,
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Speaker 1: a couple things here, a number of things. First off,
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Speaker 1: don't wait too long between coats. You know, follow the
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Speaker 1: product recommendations for time between coats. But don't let that
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Speaker 1: tape remain on your walls for too long. Even though
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Speaker 1: it's safe for least tape. You want it off the
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Speaker 1: wall as soon as possible. Now, that's one thing. Second,
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Speaker 1: when you're getting ready to remove that tape, it's likely
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Speaker 1: that paint from your lower section has been rolled up
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Speaker 1: onto it, you know, onto the tape. And if that happens,
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Speaker 1: there's probably a paint film that stretches from the tape
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Speaker 1: to the wall. If you just tear the tape off
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Speaker 1: without dealing with that paint film. You can actually tear
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Speaker 1: into the paint that you just applied. It's real pain
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Speaker 1: in the neck. To prevent this, get an exact O
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Speaker 1: knife or another you know, really sharp razor, and then lightly,
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Speaker 1: extremely lightly, run that blade along the edge of the tape,
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Speaker 1: cutting that paint film. That's going to score that film
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Speaker 1: so that when you remove the tape, it's going to
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Speaker 1: remove cleanly, also saferly. Smasking tape like frog tape, like
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Speaker 1: the three M tape, it's way less likely to pull
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Speaker 1: up your original color than other tapes will, but you
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Speaker 1: still want to remove it slowly and carefully. All right,
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Speaker 1: there you go, three relatively easy steps to dramatic, dramatic
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Speaker 1: two toned walls. The trick is patients and the right tools.
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Speaker 1: Now I know I flew through that. If you'd like
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Speaker 1: to go back and read it slowly and get a
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Speaker 1: little more information, you can head to repcoll Light dot com.
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Speaker 1: I've got a blog post up that'll walk you through
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Speaker 1: all the steps. You can find it right on the homepage.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's all the time we've got. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: wrap this one up. If you want to catch it again,
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Speaker 1: you can find it online at repcolelight dot com. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you do today makes your paints a part of it.
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Speaker 1: Have a great Thanksgiving everybody, and I'll see you next week.
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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks for listening.