S2:E19 Our Take on Home/Builder Tours

 Have you ever walked through a tour of homes or Builder showcase and found yourself thinking, what were they thinking? Guilty over here. I definitely have, well, in today's podcast we're talking about how these home tours can be just as educational for what not to do as they are for inspiration.

And guys, we have seen some things, I mean, awkward things, design fails. I. Even some personal items left out that really made us question if the homeowners knew that this was even open to the public. Oh my God, I was so embarrassed for them. And yes, I will be telling a story from years ago that still lives in my head, rent free.

And to be honest, it still lives in our friends group chat. Let's just say it left us wondering what exactly went on in that house.

So get your admission ticket out and get ready for some home tour tee, some gentle design roast, and some lessons you won't find in a builder's brochure. Right? Let's get to it.

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Have you ever walked through a tour of homes or builder showcase and found yourself thinking, what were they thinking? Guilty over here. I definitely have, well, in today's podcast we're talking about how these home tours can be just as educational for what not to do as they are for inspiration. And guys, we have seen some things, I mean, awkward things, design fails. Even some personal items left out that really made us question if the homeowners knew that this was even open to the public. Oh my God, I was so embarrassed for them. And yes, I will be telling a story from years ago that still lives in my head, rent free. And to be honest, it still lives in our friends group chat. Let's just say it left us wondering what exactly went on in that house. So get your admission ticket out and get ready for some home tor tee, some gentle design roast and some lessons. You want finding a builder's brochure, right? Let's get to it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:05

Okay, boys, today we are discussing, to,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:09

No, we're gonna discuss why there's a jar of sauerkraut on your desk.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:14

well, uh, that is from our lovely, uh, audience of one Kim who helped us out. And, you know, in that, uh, one of our previous podcasts I mentioned my love of sauerkraut. And so when we got back from market, her hope was to have my desk covered in jars of sour ground. But that's, that's as far as it got, I guess. I don't know.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:36

Wow.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:38

know, it's the thought that comes. I need to ask her if she wants me to take it home. I figure like it's her, our crowd. I don't, I mean, I'll eat it, but, you know. Uh, okay, so

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 2:47

What I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:47

dinner

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 2:47

night, kids

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:48

What?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 2:50

skr in.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:51

kibo?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 2:51

How's that for randomness,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:53

KBOs. Ska.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:55

big sausage.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:56

Well, I,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 2:56

sausages?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:57

Is it baska or k Basa?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 2:59

Let's kill

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:00

Well, I don't,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:01

Well, I didn't know.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:02

don't,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:02

just making sure. I thought maybe I misread it my whole life. I didn't know.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:06

no, it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:07

As

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:07

as you get close. It's okay. Where do you, where do you travel to

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:13

Stewart

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:13

Sometimes?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:15

What's the island

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:16

country. I can't remember. I always wanna say like a female woman part. I think I get it wrong.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:21

Yes. You said urethra yesterday. It's e.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:27

Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:30

that. And you, you did have a good time. I think this is our, is this our first podcast? No, we had the, the market one.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:37

since then. Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:38

Okay. Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:39

a good time. It was

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:40

All right. We all right. Good. Love

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:42

Who's listening? It's just a blur sometimes, isn't it? It's just a blur.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:46

is a blur.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 3:47

Yeah, I will.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 3:48

can get, we can get to today's episode. Um, we're discussing, tour of homes, kind of, uh, do you all like to go to those. Because we, I, we love to go to'em, but I usually go in a caddy way. I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 4:01

I probably would like to do, I don't know, it's slipping around from one hot house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:04

house

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 4:05

another. I like the concept of it, and maybe if you drive me around, drop me off, I'd probably do it. But honestly, right. It's like, is it like, uh, I've never done it. I've never gone to one of them, nothing negative. Uh, I come back to I'm, I'm either here or I'm mowing the yard or I'm doing somebody's house, so that's, it feels like playtime. Uh, and so I just don't ever stop to do it. But, uh, did you en, do you enjoy those, Stewart, do you, have you ever done any.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:33

any?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:34

Uh, we participated in, we participated.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:36

we've

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:37

We participated.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:37

has been many years since I've actually the tour. Two years in a row. I was a judge for the tour homes. Um. Which was a train wreck. So, I mean, it just, it just was. But um, like I said, that was years ago and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:55

It's uh,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:59

you

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 4:59

you have to want drive around.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:01

be nosy. I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:02

I think, you know, because, and I get it,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:05

tour homes.'cause you tour different parts of whatever city you're in, you can't just go to every house on the same street,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:11

you know,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:11

'cause

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:12

more likely

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:12

probably be by the same builder. And you're

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:15

supposed to look at all different things,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:16

or all different designs or all

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 5:18

So it's like almost finding where's Waldo. You have to drive the difference subdivisions and No,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:22

It's not that difficult,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 5:23

not that difficult, Jeremy.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 5:24

Yeah, well it, it, it's different. So, uh, here in our area, most of them are homes in different neighborhoods all over town. Right. And, and so I know that it's the same for probably communities around in Louisville. And, and I have to be honest, I, we haven't been to one of their home orama in, in. I don't know how many years, but usually they have it, they're all in like a or they're all in the same area, or, uh, they're all on the same street. So sometimes you do have to drive, um, you know, a little bit more than others, but you don't have to go to every house. Like you can pick and choose. that's, I, I like that about the one that we have here. And of course, you know, there's builder tours and there's renovation tours, and there's I mean, there's, you know, there's all kinds of different tours. I guess I'm gonna say it that way. Um, so we're not discussing one specific, um. One or one type. But I, I had, um, been on one and I that last year and I had been thinking about it because there were like just horror stories of just like what I saw and people always, um, someone say, oh, I love doing these.'cause they always gimme so much inspiration. And then I walk in and I'm like, well honey, this tells me what in the hell not to do. Because this is, this is a mess. Uh, so, but yeah, but no, I, I,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 6:41

What have you seen in the past? So it sounds like you've seen things in the past that's kind of caught your attention. Are, are we doing one here in Lexington soon or,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 6:51

they had, uh, I think they had a builder tour there. Maybe it might be going on now. I think, I think it was last weekend and maybe next weekend too. I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:00

well, I've missed it and then our audience will be Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:03

Yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:03

So, um, but what you've seen in the past. In other cities and in Lexington.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:09

Uhhuh.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:09

Is that fair? Okay. In the past.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:11

like to try'em out.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:13

Okay. Okay. So you, you, you're reliving nightmares,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:17

So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:17

you're hoping that people go see it this year, that they are inspired. So what have you seen in the past that has, uh, not, uh, touched your inner soul?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:26

Well, you know, uh, this is as recent as of last year. We, we went into a brand new house and it was, you know, probably well over a million dollars and they had glazed cabinetry, glazed.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:38

Okay,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:39

rope

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 7:39

there. Explain what that means. Not everybody even starts to understand what that note that means.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 7:44

in kitchens, you know, if you, you have your cabinet front and you can have them painted. So they're all like one solid color. And then they have, um, some, uh, cabinet. Companies have options to add a glaze. And so they'll rub some kind of colored glaze, brown, black, gray, white cream, uh, into the crevices. And so then you get a little bit of color differentiation in those, uh, lines. Right? Like, is there, you have a better way to describe that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 8:11

Yeah, no.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 8:12

So I'm gonna show it this way, that what this

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 8:15

is,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 8:15

is, I also said this is what not to do. So imagine a house built in 1983 that is raised paneled, formal cream colored, and then they took watered down paint, basically in charcoal colored, and they just

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 8:32

smeared

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 8:33

on the front of the cabinets and then they wiped it back off. And whatever was in the residue, in the corners and the crevices. They left it in, it dried and it became chalky and charcoal and it kind of highlighted that and it almost looks like dust has settled in there,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 8:49

Yes.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 8:50

through glaze and they thought that was attractive.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 8:53

Mm-hmm. Well, this was a new house

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 8:54

And so I have been undoing that for the last, and Stewart, I'm sure, and you, I had been undoing that for the last 15 years and having to take these beautiful cabinetry and paint them. White or cream or beige or tan or green to get rid of the horrific glaze. So you're telling me that somebody is trying to bring that back from the debt?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:16

Well, I'm not gonna say they're trying to bring it back from the dead. What I'm saying is they still doing it and it needs to be ripped the hell out.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 9:23

Yeah. Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:24

was a

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 9:24

Well, you don't do it for, okay, look, you can make bad decisions.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:28

You

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 9:28

can make bad decisions, and that's a bad decision. I don't care who you are. Right.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:32

if I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 9:33

If you love it, don't, don't listen to the podcast today'cause I'm just not gonna let you have it. Uh, versus not. And if you've got the cabinetry and you love it, okay, fine. Sorry. Um, I'm not gonna tell you, paint your cabinets. Um, so somebody out there in the home builder world, some designer or builder or builder's wife who does, they know what to do in, sorry, builder's wife, uh, you might edit that out. Um, said,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:57

or,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 9:57

yeah, I probably would edit that. Um.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 9:59

Girlfriend.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:00

Right? Said, oh, let's just smear that on there because it's trendy and it's back again. What are you saying to the people? Stewart, what would you tell them?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:08

Oh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:08

you go.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:09

you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:10

no.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:11

and if I remember correctly, like this, this was a while, a while past, but it was like a, they tried to do like a more modern home, so there were lots of modern details, and then you had the GL cabinetry on top of it, and it was like a traditional raise panel door. I mean, it just felt like, oh Lord, like I, I don't know what they were thinking, but it was not good. And if I remember correctly, the house was not sold. It was up for sale, and I thought, good

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:36

Wonder wasn't sold. Huh?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:39

It was, it was not

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:40

Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:41

Okay.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:41

Learned that lesson. Don't do, it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:43

once another.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 10:44

that unappealing.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:46

with the that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:47

been to, and I, and I always look at this first is like, oh my God, why did they put that lighting in here? Because

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:53

Mm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:54

is

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:55

Horrible.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:56

Or it doesn't even match the

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:57

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:57

isn't

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:58

Even

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:58

for the house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 10:59

the, it's like.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:00

they got that lighting vendor to give it to them for free to hang it

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:03

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:03

be on a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:04

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:04

So that's what they did through the whole house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:06

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:06

They didn't pay any attention to what it should have

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:08

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:09

You know,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:10

Absolutely.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:11

me.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:11

Mm-hmm. no, it, that is, uh, I definitely think in like some of the more recent ones I've been to, it felt very, oh, this is what they had in stock. This is what they could let me borrow. This is what they put up. Um, and so it's just really out of place. They're never the right color, they're not the right scale, they're not the right proportion, and most importantly, the it doesn't give off enough light. This is what I don't understand. So this is why I'm gonna beg. This is gonna be the my beg and bleed for our listeners. The next time you go on one of these tours, I want you to go to the bathroom. Not physically use it, but go inside of the rest of the, the restroom, go to the primary and see if they have the lights turned on. Chances are they probably don't.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:54

don't

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 11:55

And they don't want you to have it on, turn them lights on. Now, I want you to imagine getting ready in that room on a dreary day. You can't see. I mean, and this is actually, this was, uh, this was relatively recent. Literally went into a bathroom. My husband was with me. We went in and this was like a, I, it was a kids' bathroom, but still there was. vanity

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 12:18

have to see the brush their teeth, and put deodorant on.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 12:20

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 12:21

right? Right.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 12:23

uh, had one vanity light with three lights above the, the sink and then one recessed in the, in the shower and it was in a bathroom where they're gonna up putting a shower curtain. So you gotta think when you pull that shower curtain, all the light's gonna kinda get stuck in there. It's gonna get filtered.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 12:41

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 12:42

no other light. Like there is no way anybody can get ready. bathroom. So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 12:47

You know what this reminds me of? I'm gonna tell you a story from 1983,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 12:53

I was two

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 12:53

and it's a story. So it was just 12. Uh, it's, it's, it's Manie Clark and she's long deceased from this world, and she was an interior designer and lovely and quirky and antique dealer, and she had a six foot tall bronze.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 13:11

uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 13:11

Pan in her dining room on Mintel Park and Manie was all about 80 when, uh, she shopped with me and she had gray hair and it was kind of always up in a kind of a weird clip thing. And she was about a size zero and she wore leggings at 83, uh, years old in 1983. Right? So she was pre yoga bitch, pre Kardashian.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 13:39

those

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 13:40

were really.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 13:40

pantyhose. They weren't

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 13:41

So they could have been. So, you know, I always quite, you know these, I always think it's Kardashians. I dunno if it's true or not, but these women that put, uh, eye makeup on and it's really dark and kinda like raccoon eyes. Right. You know what I'm talking about. Right. And really a lot of makeup,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 13:55

up,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 13:55

Manie was doing that in 1983 at 83 years old with leggings. And the other thing that she did is she wore men's polo cologne. She was quirky, but very talented. But every time I look at her, I would say to myself, she looks like she puts her makeup on in the dark. Well, I visited her house one day and lo and behold, you see this is a segue. I go into her black flocked dames wallpapered bathroom

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:26

oh

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 14:26

you couldn't see your hand four feet in front of it. And I went, oh yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:30

Yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 14:30

does put makeup on in the dark.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:32

the dark

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 14:33

you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:33

in a flocked room.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:35

So

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 14:35

In a flocked bathroom. So now kids, we don't need dark bathrooms because even though Manie was cute and quirky and she could pull it off,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:46

Most stuff,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 14:46

most of you can't. So we don't need more re eyes, right?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:51

God.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 14:51

light. This is like, they're a great place to look and see like, oh yeah, no, I need more light. Like, let's, let's always make sure we got like a recess over the sink as well, is the vanity. And the

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:01

Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:01

thing, this is the thing I remember most recently is that a lot of these, um, the builders have started putting in those. God awful. And listen, if you have this, I'm sorry if it puts out enough light for you, good for you. But they're, I just, I can't stand'em. Are those, um, the mirrors that have the lights built into'em?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:18

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:18

Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:18

There's never enough light that comes out of'em. Like you can't just depend on

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:22

No, it's a supplement.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:24

a su

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:24

Right.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:25

a supplement and it's also, I don't see that as like an architectural element. Right. I did that for my bar only musically and heavily judge, but we use that as the nightlight or the, the modern aesthetic. As much as I'm really thinking I'm getting light from it, it really is just the look that you wanted.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:42

It's just a big

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:43

mirror is all

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:45

Yeah. That's all it is. Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:47

doesn't cast any light on your face. None. Mm-hmm. No. Mm-hmm. M unlike those

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:51

Glow worm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 15:52

had in the 1980s mm-hmm. they, like, I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 15:55

What, what's this new trend of you're seeing these very modern lights and they're all, let's say circles or something, and they're all LED lights in them that first, I hate the color of them, but they're super, super modern. I'm seeing these in houses and I'm like, I just, I just think that's not an attractive thing. Did you see,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:14

have

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:14

seen that in the houses anywhere?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:16

You mean

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:17

Uh, it, it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:17

a horizontal ring? Is that what you're talking

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:19

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's out there and I just,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:22

Yeah. I just recently

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:24

just look at that and I'm thinking that looks like this just right off the boat from China and, and not in a good way.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:29

does, it looks like, uh, there's a company or it's a website called Light in the Box, and I'm sure it's a Chinese company. Um, and you order from there and they have like, uh, this stuff you can't see, you can't touch and feel it. And it gets here and it feels so cheap. Um, and it just looks bad. Like it came straight outta the box from like some really bad factory in

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:49

It. It's the funny thing. It is. I, I don't know that I, I don't know. I was getting to say you can't.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 16:55

can't.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 16:56

You can't mess up traditional as badly as you can modern, but that's not a hundred percent true. But it feels like you can do traditional, it's, it's a little harder to mess it up in a way. But I swear this take on modern, this take on modern is there is tasteful, classic modern, and then there is

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:13

is, yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 17:15

funky, tacky,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:16

Modern can

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 17:17

And that,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:17

real

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:18

bad, real bad.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:18

fast.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 17:19

and I'm starting to see it in Lexington in a bad way.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:22

Yeah, I, I, I agree. I think, I'm not gonna say that you can screw it up easier than traditional.'cause we all know that there's some,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 17:30

I know I'm,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:31

out

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 17:31

I hesitated to say that I hesitated.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 17:34

the, but what I do think makes that statement a little bit more accurate is that there's so much more, modern pe what people classify as,'cause I think modern's really hard to classify'cause it can go a lot of different directions. Um, but I think there's a lot more. Options out there right now that people can use to do a style quote unquote modern home. And a lot of them are like, oh, do y'all remember Z Gallery? Like, I don't know if we, we never had one, but, but like, you know, it's just like everything polished now. I'm not hating on Z Gallery'cause I only have a lot of different looks, but like, it's just like the most. Silvers or, uh, silvers, Lord, uh, the most chrome of whatever you can find and everything is that. And it's all shiny. And it's all white and it's all, ugh, pleather furniture. I just,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 18:20

Jeremy, let's do a flashback with you. Just a weeks

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 18:24

in Atlanta, and I ask you to hold up this four foot, um mm-hmm.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 18:31

had, um, little bedazzled all over it and diamonds, whatever it was,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 18:34

Cover the

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 18:35

and yeah. Cover America. Well, I got the picture. We'll post it and him loving on it and I, I posted, it's like Jeremy, uh, and his inner tacky, uh, Uhhuh. There you go.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 18:45

the record, I did not like this thing. You just handed it to me and said, here, hold this and love on it. And I think the face

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 18:52

Well, I was using you, I was using you as, um. If you will. So long story is literally when I saw that picture, went back and looked at it, you know what I thought of? And I said, it looks like something be Z Gallery. Yeah, it does make sense now.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:08

does. It does.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:10

like the neighbor's house on, uh, Christmas vacation.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:14

Oh, Margo

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:15

Yes.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:15

Margo and

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:16

Yes,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:16

and Todd,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:17

yes,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:17

horrible,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:18

that is so bad.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:19

yes.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:20

horrible.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:21

Yeah. Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:22

it can go real wrong.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:24

Now I was not old enough. So, question. So at when that movie came out, which I don't remember what year it was, but I was young, so since you all are a little bit older than me, was that like the modern, was that really the modern craze at the time? Like, was that, like, did people see that and go, oh, that's, that's stylish.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:41

because you can also see it in the movie mannequin.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:43

Oh God. Another classic that I love.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:48

Eighties

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 19:48

Reflect, just go back and reflect upon, um, Miami Vice. You know, if you just look at some of the imagery.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:58

yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:59

Miami Vice,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 19:59

on

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:00

Yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:00

bad. Modern,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:01

know,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:01

Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:02

I have a client who, um,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:04

I still say, uh, seventies. Were worse, by the way. I still believe that.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:08

No,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:09

hate I Well, I don't like anything. See, I I know you love it. You love it.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:15

Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:15

No, I guess it wasn't modern. I just said it's tacky. Uh, I know Stewart.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:21

Stuart

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:22

loves it. Some mid-century modern stuff, and I just, honestly, I'm sorry folks. I just find that to be the one.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:29

Uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:29

Thing that's just relatively unappealing to me. I can, I can get some architectural elements to it. I just find it unappealing.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:35

when I'm in my elder years and we sell Tara, I'm building a mid-century modern one story flat

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:41

I know. And you'll, you'll be living with, uh, Jennifer Aniston. I think she leans toward that vibe a little bit. So, uh, there you go.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:48

It's all wheelchair accessible.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 20:52

Lord, I'm wanting that now. Uh,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 20:57

so give us another one that you've seen. Yeah, sorry.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:00

I gotta go back to the art deco in Miami. I, so I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 21:03

Yeah. Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:03

client who I love and

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 21:05

Don't like that either.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:06

I, I, um. When I went to her house the first time and I was trying to like, look, look at her things and try to like get an an idea of like where her taste was. And we have been, she's been a, a client of mine for probably 12, 13, 14 years at this point. And, um. She would have, like I looked at her, I said, your taste is the equivalent of a gay man in Miami Art Deco in 1980. Like that is what your taste is. And luckily she looked at me and she goes, oh, is it that bad? I went, yeah,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 21:43

Yeah,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:43

No, no one needs a, a mauve leather sofa with matching, pink

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:49

Oh God,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:51

Hmm.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 21:52

no, no.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 21:53

can, we can bring you

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 21:53

But I assure you, some designer will bring it back and in one day you'll see it in a showcase house somewhere, I assure you,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:02

Um,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 22:02

with glazed cabinetry again.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:03

yeah, maybe, uh, a good thing to say. And, you know, we talk about color of light all the time on here. Um, and so you'll see a lot of, uh, especially if they have these modern fixtures that are in there though, you'll see like the different colors. But a lot of times, and I'm, and I'm don't wanna sound like I'm, I'm beating up on builders, but listen, builders have a skill set that designers. have for the most part. Right. And I'm just, and I'm talking in generalized terms. I'm not talking to everyone. And then vice versa. Designers have a skillset set that builders don't always have. Right? So the builders, most of the time when they get one of these tour homes, they get excited. Their head gets so big, their ego gets so big that they just wanna pick everything and do it all the way they want to do it. Right. Well, this is when the screw ups happen because they will put lights a different color in the house. I have literally been in houses where I walked. They had the same recess lights. One color in the hallway, one color in rooms, and one color in in a bathroom. And I was like, this, these are the same lights.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:57

pay attention.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:58

attention.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:59

Yeah,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 22:59

Mm-hmm. So I say, turn every damn light on in the house.'cause I want you, that's when you'll

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 23:05

Stewart Stewart, remind us what's the, what's the range of number? Uh, like 2007, whatever that I.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:12

2,700 is optimal. I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:16

I

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 23:16

There you go. Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:18

acceptable. Anything else? Thrown the trash?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:20

Yeah. I mean,

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 23:21

There you go.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:22

Incandescent, like the old traditional, I think it was more like around 2,400. You can't get that far with LED. You can get to about 2,700, which is, that's, that's preferable for me. Yeah.

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 23:33

And that's warm light, basically kids, it doesn't look like a, a neon, um, strip. Um, that's warm light.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:40

if you get to 500, or I'm sorry, 5,000, it's like you're, it's like operating room, you know?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:48

And they

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:48

So bad.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:50

I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:50

Oh God. Who wants us,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:52

Yeah. Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:53

Lord?

dwayne_1_07-24-2025_110816 23:53

That would burn my, my bald head.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:56

Mm. Everybody just looked like a smurf.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 23:59

Oh my God.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 24:00

Yeah, it's horrible.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 24:02

Well, um, one of the, and this, oh God, this was, this is one of those moments of where like sometimes you go on these tours and nobody lives in the home. Um, and sometimes it's clear that people are actually living in the home and I can't imagine living in the home and then putting the home on the tour. Um,'cause you, you kind of have to move out. When that happens, right? So we were at one, and I won't say what city this was in because I don't wanna embarrass anybody to death. but we were in this house and we were turning the corner and I saw this woman come out of, uh, one of the restrooms and it was just a powder room. And so I knew it wasn't very big, and when her face came outta the bathroom, it was like horrified. And I was like, oh, is it that ugly? walk in.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 24:45

did she sha

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 24:47

She had not sat in the toilet. No, she had, she had not done that. But on the back of the toilet were feminine products. Some had been opened lip gloss. And a pair of panties

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 25:03

Oh my God.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 25:04

and like it was in the early morning and I'm like, oh my God. The home, like this is clearly the home. Like nobody has been in this room to do it. Like it wasn't this woman that walked out.'cause she, she, she was an older lady, right? She wouldn't have been wearing these panties. You know, another thing that we see a lot of times when you go on these tours, like, and I see it more of this, like if you go into like a bigger city, or like when I've been to sometimes in Louisville, sometimes they will use. The craziest colors, like whatever designers there, they've decided to do, like, they're gonna boss the wall, y'all, they're doing everything. They're doing neon orange, they're doing purple. They're doing like really dramatic. And I'm like, this is not this. I mean, if this is the homeowner, I love it, but if it's

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 25:46

Have you ever heard of a color called Aine?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 25:50

yes, I am.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 25:52

Okay. Have I told you the story of Aine?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 25:54

Yes.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 25:55

Okay. Well, those, the listening audience will make it very quickly. Uh, showcase House. Many years ago, decorate and I was the, uh,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:03

minion

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:04

and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:04

the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:04

the designer wanted to do

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:06

regime,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:06

ine.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:07

So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:07

the front door was ine, the bookcase was ine. The d Drapers

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:10

ine.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:10

ine the

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:10

curtains

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:11

are ine and let's just say by the end of it, and ine is a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:15

kind

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:15

of

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:16

perfectly

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:16

burgundy color is the only way the color of a grape. Right. I hate ine and it all goes back to one of these showcase houses

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:28

Machine

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:28

ine. so when these decorators paint things

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:31

neon

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:31

orange, you know, that takes me back to ine.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:39

Yeah. Um,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 26:41

Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 26:41

I the only reason why I mention that is because like, I want people to be inspired and I want people to be able to take things from, you know, whatever they see. Like, and I don't wanna like har harbor that in any capacity, but I also don't want think people to think, oh, this is what people are doing now because no people are not doing that. Somebody's wanting to catch your attention. Like, that's, that's what that is. Right? That's.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 27:02

a lot of people go to these things because they're like, oh, this is, this is what's happening. This is what we're looking for. This is what we're doing. It's like mm-hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 27:08

You know, I've said this, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Right?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 27:12

is Right?

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 27:13

Um,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 27:14

when we go to Atlanta, one of the things is sometimes we'll end up having to sit in the floor, in the hallway eating the Devil's Chicken,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 27:22

look it

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 27:22

it up. If you don't know what I mean. I'm not saying the name today. They get nothing from us. And, um. What you do is then, now you're at eye level with people's shoes and cool locks and all this stuff, and there are designers in Atlanta, right, and shop owners. Well, Jeremy. dresses conservatively. Stewart dresses conservatively. I got my gray t-shirt on. I'm not there to impress anybody. I just need to get my work done. These people show up in Shaws and bedazzled boots with their teal colored and every piece of junk. And so I called them now my little pony, right? look at me, look at me, look at me. Look at me. And when I see my little pony walking past, I look at it and go,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:09

would

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 28:10

you really wanna hire that to decorate your house? Because if they don't know how to dress themselves appropriately, and they look like a clown. I don't want you to, and I'm sure these clowns are the ones that are Do uhhuh, they doing that neon orange and because it's special. Right? It's special.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:28

special.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 28:30

it

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:31

No

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:31

No one else will have it.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 28:34

For a reason.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:36

Hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 28:37

There

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 28:38

I, for me, I think that's, that rep said like the horse. Oh no. You know what other thing, okay, so this is, I was just recently on a tour, um, and I noticed everybody was doing wide plank floors, which I'm not, I'm not against wide plank floors. I prefer the smaller ones, but whatever. But what everybody had in every home was grayed roused. Uh, trendy looking floors, and I just, every time I look at it, and we've said this on here before,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:09

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:10

oh, this is gonna look so dated in five years. So dated, dated. So I guess when I, like I said, I don't wanna harbor anybody's inspiration, but I want you, when you go into that, I just don't want people Yeah, yeah. I just want people

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 29:26

Well, you know what just reminded me is I'm doing a, um, a remodel and, uh, it's a house in subdivision here in town and over hills. So the house is what,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:37

20

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 29:38

years old? 25 years old.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:39

actually

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:39

just start, I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:40

just started

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:41

in

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 29:41

Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:41

as

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:42

well.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:43

it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:43

26 years old. Yeah,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 29:45

Okay. Going towards going toward 30. Okay. Okay.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 29:48

Yeah.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 29:48

so this house, um, it's, it's, you know, we're, we've actually spent more effort on getting the outside done and new windows and those kind of things. But now it's turned attention to the, the bathrooms. But the first floor has. Uh, hardwood floors on the majority of it, and it's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:04

stained

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:04

like that pretty horrific yellow oaky color that she hates, but, we'll, you know, we're not doing the bottom floor right now. We'll get there. But what she said to me is, I wanna put hardwood floors

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:15

on the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:15

the second floor

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:17

in

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:17

the, in the hallway,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:18

and

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:19

then the kids' bedrooms will be carpeted and the master i'll, I'll do hardwood floors. And she said, what kind of hardwood floors should I do? Kind of.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:26

what you

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:27

you just said, water planks and stuff like that.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:29

And

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:29

And then we'll rip out the bottom floor downstairs To it. And I said, well, why would you wanna rip them out? And she said,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:36

said,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:36

well, because, um, I don't like that color. And I said, well, no, no, you can sand the floors and

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:41

and

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:42

them. They're oak and, and they're not red oak, they're just oak, right? So,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:45

So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:46

uh, I even have that as an advantage. I, we can stain them like a

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:48

them. I,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:49

nice walnut color or brown color. She said, well.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 30:52

well.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 30:52

But they're just, again, you'll tell me that two inch boards, three inch boards, whatever that typical size was during that timeframe, so, so they're smaller size. She says, is, isn't that kind of old fashioned and dated looking? I said, no, no, I think that's classic and timeless. And I said,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:09

if

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:09

you stand at the right color. I would never rip those out, and I just repeat the, the, that same size upstairs. I think that's kind of classic.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:17

Now

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:17

if you want, you know, wider plank, actually go for it.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:21

But

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:21

honestly, I think it would feel peculiar to do the wider plank in that age of house.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:27

because

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:27

then it feels like, it feels like it has been remodeled

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:30

As

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:30

opposed to that size. Feels

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:32

age

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:32

appropriate, size appropriate. Plus we just saved a lot of money by not ripping them out. So

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:38

Just

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:39

because

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:39

people

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:40

are doing it doesn't mean you have to. And sometimes

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:42

what

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:42

you already have is good. You just gotta reimagine it a little bit.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:47

right,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:47

Right? Mm-hmm. It's the same thing. I mean, know, handover,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:52

for people who aren't here,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:53

it's very traditional. Mm-hmm.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 31:56

Oh yeah.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:57

Two

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:57

story,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:58

you know.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 31:59

know, lady window above front door.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:02

There's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:02

There's,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:02

ranches, there's some not ranches, you

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:04

you know.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:05

in this house that I'm getting ready to start, you know, that's what it is. It's the two story brick a cul-de-sac garage on the side. But she is very modern, which kind of goes back to our other. So

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 32:18

Hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:18

she's like,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:18

So this is gonna be.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:19

traditional in the front and party in the back, because.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 32:25

call that a mullet, and Billy Billy Ray is gone.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:29

Right, and she's literally gutting the entire first floor of the house and taking all of those traditional elements out. I said, oh, so what kind of trim and new doors are we gonna put down here? She goes, oh, I wasn't gonna do that. I said, yeah, you are. I

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:44

I said, if you're

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:45

streamlining

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:46

this kitchen and streamlining bathroom

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:48

and waterfall. islands and stuff,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:51

Mm-hmm.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:52

we can't have fluted, trim and six panel doors.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 32:56

Right, right.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 32:56

just is not gonna happen. So, so yeah, it's gonna be a big Mary of, of

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 33:02

Is she gonna do it? Is she listening?

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:04

Yeah. Yeah.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 33:05

Okay, good.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:06

because it's a new contractor and he actually called me yesterday and he's like, listen, she wants what she wants, we're gonna give her what she wants. I said, that's fine. I said, but she's

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:13

Gonna,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:14

new doors and trim, even though she doesn't know she needs it. So,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:19

well, I think I'd like to wrap up today's podcast by telling you a story about a tour that we did probably. Eight years ago, and this was in Louisville and you know it, these, I think, were these all on the same street? I wanna think this was is not ville. Well, they, no. Well, I I think that was where this one was. Um, yeah, no, I know this is where it was.'cause we, it's just stuck in my brain ever since. So we were going through the house and they had a sound system in the house and they were playing music all through and it was all very religious. Okay, fine.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 33:56

Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 33:57

play, You know, it's your home, you play what you want. Right? but we will just say there were some interesting design choices and it just felt like it was trying a little too hard. Right? Okay. So then you get, you get to the basement, and the weird thing about this house was like the bedrooms that were upstairs had been done, um, but they weren't like overly done. Well, then you get to the basement and there's three. Kids bedrooms downstairs, which I found really odd. Um, because, you know, it just doesn't seem right to have three kids in the basement and it had full walk out in the

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 34:34

Okay. Stop. Stop you there. It's kind of a, a religious forefront, right? Because children are, to be, um,

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:42

Uh,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 34:43

not, heard from,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:44

Okay. well. well.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:45

that's what

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 34:46

not seen, not heard.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:47

what I thought. Yeah.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:47

We'll

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:48

can see you, but we

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 34:48

stick them in the basement. So they were, it was in the basement. The first, uh, the first room we went into was like a baby themed room. I say that because

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 35:01

Nursery.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 35:05

it had a regular bed in it, but

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 35:08

Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 35:08

of the decor and everything in there was very child oriented, like, like infant oriented. Okay. Didn't think much about it at the time. Okay. So we're like, oh, okay. So this is like baby, you know, Hey, they have a baby

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 35:24

Bed in a full,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 35:26

and a full, well, I mean, I think it was a queen. I mean, it was a good sized bed. And I'm like, what? What the hell? Okay. So then we go to the second bedroom and it's wicked themed. Wicked, the musical themed. And we're like, okay. we're like, you know, half the room's green, half the room's pink. You know, whatever movie or a

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 35:43

so you think that was.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 35:45

Room. Well, yeah. So we just kinda walked in. We're like, okay, this is a little more interesting. Well, then we go into the third bedroom and it is, it's, and it's baseball themed. I'm like, okay, well, they

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 35:59

Okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 35:59

baseball. All right,

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 36:00

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 36:01

So then there's the bathroom that's on the floor. And again, this is all in the basement. You walk into the bathroom, it has six urinals to the wall. Everything is tiled, floor, walls, ceiling, no barriers between the urinals. And then on the other side, and this is the odd, the God's honest truth, the other side of the room six shower heads people to take showers. No dividers all open. And I looked at my, looked at my friends looked at me'cause their eyes got really big. we all said at the same time, they're like, do you think they shoot porn in this house? We just decided this is where themed rooms, where they were taming porn.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 36:50

Lord, mercy.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 36:53

Now, I cannot confirm or deny that that's what that house was for, but that to this day, all still discuss the six urinals, the six showers, and the oddly designed rooms.

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 37:09

Well, here's what I understand. Why would, why were they playing religious music? I don't understand how those two,

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 37:13

you

dwayne_2_07-24-2025_113720 37:14

okay.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 37:14

you see It was just like. you know, sometimes like, was it a front, like I don't, it was the craziest, I mean, I'm telling you, it still sticks with me today because I'm like, I can see the white tile. It even had like little baseball mats at the base of the, the, I was like at the urinals. I just remember the shower heads and it was clear like, you know, the towel hooks were on the wall. Right, like this is not like where people go in to individually shower this. like, over God. They put this on the tour. They invited people in.

stuart_1_07-24-2025_110811 37:45

wow. Well, they were looking for new cast members.

jeremy-host665_1_07-24-2025_110811 37:47

I guess, I don't know. So if, if any of our listeners out there have any more information about this house, I do wanna know, so well, listeners, thank you as always for listening to this week's episode. Hopefully, uh, we inspired you in some kind of way and at least made you laugh along the way. Uh, if you have not downloaded our mobile shopping app, house Floral, please be sure to do that and follow us on all of our social media. It's linked down in the show notes below. And until next time, we'll see you then. Bye bye.