Let's say good morning to our house whisper and host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Hey Amy, Hey Dean. So the year's almost over. It's time to start looking forward to twenty twenty four. What's your predictions and prognostications. Oh, we got a lot of them. I've written out a list of about thirty and that's what we're going to be talking about this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday jets. We're not going to get through thirty of them right now. No, No, you don't think, So we
can try, we can try. Uh. Yeah, so you know, there are some changes coming, I think, and I'm kind of encouraged by most of them. Do you want to talk about light fluffy decor and style stuff or some you know, some more substantive things. Your choice. Let's talk light fluffy decor. Okay. The color of the year for twenty twenty four from Benjamin Moore and many other designers are pushing this way. It's going to be a year of blue. It's going to be a year of some
really beautiful blues like blue or a deep dark blues. Well, you know, the deep dark blue has been in use for a while now and it is a classic great color. But yeah, it's a little bit more of a light blue with some gray blended into it. So yeah, we're gonna be seeing more. Here's the trend, though, let me try and I just identify what's happening with that. Okay, classically, right, For way too long, people have been painting their houses in kind of neutral, warm
colors like beige. Right, you know, the beige of the eighties and the nineties then transitioned over and everybody freaked out and said not that anymore, and everything went gray. Everything went gray on gray on gray. Modern farm farmhouse kind of brought in gray as the new neutral color, and now designers are reacting against that, saying, okay, we've had enough of gray. So basically, imagine beige and imagine gray. Okay, gray is a cooler
color, Beige is a warmer color. What's happening now is we're pushing both of those boundaries further in each direction. And so what we're going to start seeing this year more and more on the cool side. On the gray, we're turning into blues, and instead of just beige, we're actually heading towards brown's And you know what, it is a color combo that I have loved for a long long time. They are very brown, eye blue and brown
together. Think of a gorgeous blue wall with a leather sofa sitting in front of it. I mean, it's just fantastic. And so I kind of like the idea that you know, we're not messing around with it anymore. We're not going to stay in the middle ground. Let's go all the way in both directions, and what we get is just eye popping and fantastic.
Well, and you know what else, the blues tend to be. They're cool, Like you said, they are cooler colors that I think they're calming, and I think everybody's so stressed out, freaked out, and there's so much nastiness. I think that that it helps create your home as a sanctuary.
Absolutely, it absolutely does. And people are finding themselves because of housing issues in you know, smaller spaces sometimes renting apartments and so on, and a cool color like blue, unbeknownst to most people, actually kind of it's what we call a receding color. It moves away from you, kind of like big sky. And so if you live in a smaller space, painting a room in a blue tone actually makes the space feel larger. Now, if you have a large space, you go the opposite way. You paint
it in warm tones and it makes it a larger space feel cozier. But a smaller space and apartment space, especially blues tend to get it a little bit more expansive, a little bit more opened up. And you're absolutely right, it's calming, it's soothing. You know, it's nature. You know, the the planet is covered in blue. We are you know, we're pre programmed to enjoy that color in a big way. Okay, And you talked about nature, and that kind of leads on to another trend for twenty
twenty four, and that is wallpaper and murals are coming back. Oh my gosh, wallpaper is having a massive renaissance, right, going to be very happy about that. She loves the wallpaper. Yeah. And a lot of people, you know, cringe when they hear that still because I think they grew up in an abusive wallpaper environment as a child. I know, we had this neighbor who had wallpaper. She had wallpaper, kind of this granny wallpaper on the wall, this weird yellow print. But then she had the
drapes and pillows all matching the exact same pattern. It was the freakiest thing in the world, and it just made me dizzy. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking classic eras of wallpaper feature walls. We're not wrapping an entire room and making it a cave feature walls of wallpaper. There are some things that simply cannot be done except in a repeating wallpaper pattern, and
they're brilliant. And these days you mentioned murals. Oh, we live in this era where now you can take an entire wall, take a photograph of whatever you might love, an ocean scene, a beach, whatever, a forested scene, and cover an entire wall in that high res photo as a full wall mural and man talk about transforming the space. Okay, cool? And then speaking of space, I know that we have been on a trend to put TVs in every room, and a trend that you're saying is going
to come in the next year is non media rooms and spaces. Yeah. Yeah, And you're talking about just the stress of daily life and kind of the craziness that everybody's feeling right now. Part of that is the fact that we are just inundated with our tech and people really are looking for a break from the screens. And so yeah, we have turned a corner now. And for those who can, they we see a commitment now, a greater commitment to conversational rooms, rooms to sit and read, rooms, to simply
listen to music, and to get away from the screen. And you know, you may not have multiple rooms in your house where you can do a media room and a non media room, but what you can do is you can find a way to hide the screen away when you are not using it. And that's what Tina and I have done. We have one family room. That's it. You know, we live in a small house, but our TV is tucked away in what looks like a French china cabinet that is
mounted on the wall. And so when it's conversation night or time to just hang out, the black mirror is not looming in the room. I love that. Okay, so so many things to talk about. I wish we had like a couple of hours. Oh you know, when you're gonna have a couple of hours on Saturday and Sunday, you can listen Oh you can listen to Home with Dean. Yeah, from six to eight on Saturday, and then nine to noon on Sunday, it's Home with Dean Sharp right here
on KFI. And if you want to follow him on Instagram, what is the Instagram tag again? Home with Dean easy right? Yeah, all right, and you're are you going to post some of those pictures? There's some cool stuff in here. Yeah. We'll be posting all weekend. Uh, and hopefully we'll get through the entire list by the end of Sunday. All right, Thank you so much, Dean Sharp. Thanks Amy,