Let's say good morning now to the host of home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp, our house whisper. Dean, you got an all calls weekend, so we don't have a preview of what you're going to talk about, because you're going to talk about everything. But last week we talked about the home Builders show that was just held in Las Vegas, and there were so many cool things that you shared with us. I wanted to see if you could share a few more.
Yeah, yeah, there are so many things. I put together a little list of fun things that I'm going to slip out over the weekend as well. But this is a category that I call flush and hidden items, and they're fun and they're fascinating, and they're the kinds of finishes sometimes that homeowners have been yearning for and they don't even know are available out there. For instance, a barn door. You know barn doors, Yeah, very popular right now. Yeah, they were very popular and then they kind of sort
of started losing their popularity. And this is a sliding door across an opening inside a house that isn't a pocket door. Pocket door is basically a sliding door that slides into the wall itself. Barn doors were such the thing wow, but then people started backing away from them because they're like, well, Okay, what if I don't live in a barn, What if I don't have that kind of country chic look in my home. What do I do?
Because you've got the track and the wheels and all of that kind of it has a very very specific look. What if you had a barn door where essentially any kind of a door, even a very modern contemporary door, was mysteriously sliding across an opening without any hardware visible at all, no track, no anything. And so people ask me, what is a barn door without a visible track? I just say, it is very sexy, That's what it is.
We actually shared this video last year when we saw it the Builder Show was just as popular this year. This is an amazing piece of hardware, really ingenious piece of hardware that holds a door onto a wall, allows the door to slide back and forth, but you cannot see any hardware. There's no track in the floor, there's no rollers. Well you know, it's a very specific piece of hardware that's mounted just to the left or the
right of the door itself. But the door always covers this piece of hardware, whether it's open or closed, and you just don't see it. And you know, I always say this when there's when it comes to innovations in hardware like this at the Builder Show, we just say there's one word to describe it. Germans. There's a German section actually of the Builder Show, and they always have unbelievable engineering innovations there. And now the point is you can have a barn quote unquote door in your house
without it having to look country. It can be it can match any motif and it looks great, very cool.
Okay, So here's something else that you sent me a picture of it. It's a countertop, but it's also your cook top.
Yeah, this is something that is coming on straw. Now you've heard of induction cook tops, I'm sure because they become all the rage. They're electric, they use magnetic fields to heat up a pan. They are amazingly safe, they're amazingly simple, and they're as good as, if not more effective, at cooking than gas, which is the first time in history that electric cooktops have ever surpassed gas in its ability to cook better lower lows, higher highs, than all
in between. Instead of just the standard induction cooktop, which of course you would cut in and set into a countertop. There are now these induction hobs, independent induction hobs that can be mounted to the bottom side of your stone countertop underneath. Wow. And therefore you just have a tiny reference dot up on the top, which means your countertop, when there's no cooking going on, is just a stone countertop.
And when it's time to cook, you just simply know the location where you set the pan down and you're cooking.
That's amazing, It looks very cool. Okay, So gosh, I want to talk about so much more, but we got to get in your business, so I gotta let you go. All right, Well, but you can listen to Dean this weekend. It's an all calls weekend. You can ask them anything you want from six to eight tomorrow morning and then nine to noon on Sunday. It's Home with Dean Sharp. You can follow them at Home with Dean. Thank you so much, Dean.
Thanks Amy