The Golfer's Living Room — Transcript

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1. 0:00the human brain can process 11 million
2. 0:02bits of information every second but the
3. 0:05vast majority of this is completed by
4. 0:08the subconscious mind the conscious mind
5. 0:10although impressive only processes a
6. 0:13tiny fraction of this 40 to 50 bits per
7. 0:17second what this often results in is US
8. 0:20feeling emotions and recollecting
9. 0:23Sensations before we even really know
10. 0:25why it's what causes us to smile when we
11. 0:28see a stranger across the room laughing
12. 0:31at something we don't know what they're
13. 0:33laughing at and they're not engaging
14. 0:34with us but we feel happiness it's what
15. 0:37causes the hair on our necks to stand on
16. 0:40end and our heart to race if we walk
17. 0:42into an environment which we're unsure
18. 0:44of we have a feeling that it's not safe
19. 0:47but we can't pinpoint where exactly the
20. 0:50danger is both these scenarios are our
21. 0:53brains collecting thousands of pieces of
22. 0:56information from our surroundings
23. 0:58attempting to perceive what we're seeing
24. 1:01based on past experiences and
25. 1:03recollected memories stored deep down a
26. 1:06great room design can use this
27. 1:08involuntary reflex of the mind to its
28. 1:10Advantage imagine someone walking into a
29. 1:12home which has been recreated to mimic
30. 1:14the look of a Hobbit house but they have
31. 1:17not been told they're walking into that
32. 1:19kind of home as soon as they step inside
33. 1:22they look up and they pause a smile
34. 1:24comes to their face they say this feels
35. 1:27like it's from a movie I know this movie
36. 1:30this is a hobbit house in the Shire from
37. 1:33that movie The Lord of the Rings this
38. 1:35looks like billbo baggins's house all of
39. 1:38that speaking following the person's
40. 1:40entry into the room is their conscious
41. 1:42mind trying to reach the understanding
42. 1:45as to why their subconscious mind
43. 1:47signaled them to smile in the first
44. 1:49place my name is chrey and today I'm
45. 1:52going to show you how we turned a dismal
46. 1:55left for dead room into a space that any
47. 1:58golfer could walk in and appreciate if
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54. 2:13in the description below let's turn
55. 2:16towards the computer and you'll be able
56. 2:17to see what I see Rachel who follows the
57. 2:21channel had contacted me in regards to
58. 2:23designing the entirety of the main level
59. 2:25of her and her husband's new home this
60. 2:28home was a great find and that it sits
61. 2:29right on the golf course her husband
62. 2:31loves Golf and she's also exploring the
63. 2:34sport acquiring the property at a fair
64. 2:36price has allowed them to budget a
65. 2:38redesign of the home and make it
66. 2:40something special for their family for
67. 2:43the purpose of this video we're going to
68. 2:45focus on the living room which we often
69. 2:47refer to as the fireplace room this room
70. 2:50is to be the designated hosting room of
71. 2:53the house Rachel and her husband often
72. 2:54host guests and friends at least once a
73. 2:57week it was important that we made a
74. 2:59room that felt refined and distinguished
75. 3:02yet welcoming and inviting sometimes
76. 3:04designed rooms can feel so polished that
77. 3:07walking through them with your shoes or
78. 3:09touching anything will give you anxiety
79. 3:12we didn't want that the goal in this
80. 3:14design was to create a sense of charm
81. 3:16and admiration for a highclass space
82. 3:19that would be comparable to the social
83. 3:21rooms you would find within noteworthy
84. 3:23golf clubhouses we did have some
85. 3:26parameters a small list to work within
86. 3:28that Rachel had mentioned to me she had
87. 3:30an affection for the original Spanish
88. 3:32tiling on the floor so our aim was to
89. 3:34leave that alone and find a look which
90. 3:37would complimented her and her husband
91. 3:39had two sofas from their old house that
92. 3:41they wanted to use one of them was a
93. 3:43velvet green the other was a sort of tan
94. 3:46camel type color one of their regular
95. 3:49hosting events is poker night so we
96. 3:51needed a space where that could be
97. 3:52accomplished they loved the idea of
98. 3:54bookshelves but they weren't sure if
99. 3:57those current bookshelves in the room or
100. 3:59the place of them was ideal Rachel used
101. 4:02to be in the service and hospitality
102. 4:04industry and knows her way around making
103. 4:06a great cocktail in order to best serve
104. 4:09their guests their friends their family
105. 4:11they wanted direct accessibility to
106. 4:13beverages glasses and the mixers used to
107. 4:16create those drinks and finally their
108. 4:18boys play piano and have been taking
109. 4:21lessons so they were eager to have a
110. 4:23place in the home where that piano could
111. 4:26go here is what we came up with
112. 4:30this room really came together given the
113. 4:33color parameters we had between the two
114. 4:34sofas and keeping the original flooring
115. 4:37it actually worked out quite well
116. 4:39because we were able to mimic the color
117. 4:41combinations of what you would find on
118. 4:43the green for those of you unfamiliar
119. 4:45with the term that's part of the golf
120. 4:46course you're out on The Fairway you're
121. 4:49playing golf what are the colors that
122. 4:51you're seeing when you look up varying
123. 4:53colors of green Browns and reds from the
124. 4:56wooded areas in the rough beiges and
125. 4:58tans from the sand with in the bunkers
126. 5:00and whites the golf ball itself Flags
127. 5:03carts clouds in the sky we were able to
128. 5:06bring all of those together making for
129. 5:09an easygoing transition from course to
130. 5:12home and from home to course considering
131. 5:15that you can see the course from this
132. 5:17room's window it really creates a sense
133. 5:20of joy for someone who loves golf the
134. 5:24paint color we used in the room is
135. 5:25called fox hall green by Sherwin
136. 5:28Williams this color is complex with its
137. 5:31mixtures of slate and yellow undertones
138. 5:33but it is so beautifully sophisticated
139. 5:37the shade of the color works very well
140. 5:39in rooms that have a bit of natural
141. 5:40light from Windows or doors it does an
142. 5:43excellent job of creating that Moody
143. 5:46vibe that I know so many of you enjoy
144. 5:49when standing in the living room and
145. 5:50looking towards the window and door
146. 5:52there's quite a bit to break down here
147. 5:55so let's try to quickly disassemble the
148. 5:57design in its totality and see see why
149. 6:00it works the two sofas I mentioned these
150. 6:03were going to go into the room
151. 6:05regardless and we needed to design
152. 6:07around
153. 6:08them the Velvet green sofa makes it
154. 6:11quite obvious as to what how and why we
155. 6:13arrived at our paint color as for the
156. 6:16other sofa the tan one this particular
157. 6:19shade was not something I was looking to
158. 6:22use more than once in the room but I had
159. 6:24no problem in using other colors which
160. 6:27could be extracted from that tan shade
161. 6:31remember that nearly every color is
162. 6:32simply the sum of a bunch of other
163. 6:35colors mixed together if you're able to
164. 6:37pull the colors out as if they were
165. 6:40ingredients in a recipe you're likely to
166. 6:43find something that you can pair nicely
167. 6:46in the room this leads us to the beige
168. 6:49colored drapes it's part of that tan
169. 6:51family and it serves the purpose of
170. 6:53achieving the sand tones we wanted from
171. 6:56the golf course now here's something you
172. 6:58might have to pay a little bit more
173. 7:00close attention to in order to pick up
174. 7:03on if you were to take the sofa and you
175. 7:06put it in a blender with the drapes the
176. 7:09Hue that you would come out with would
177. 7:11be something very similar to that of the
178. 7:14wood beams that we put on the
179. 7:16ceiling that stain on that wood is
180. 7:19called warm caramel and that is how we
181. 7:23tied the tan from the low point to the
182. 7:26high point you might be asking why would
183. 7:30you even bother putting the wood beams
184. 7:32on the ceiling at all golf is quite an
185. 7:35old sport it stems from the 15th century
186. 7:37if you were to picture Interiors from
187. 7:39that time frame you could expect to see
188. 7:42a lot of peaked ceilings and a lot of
189. 7:45exposed truss trusses even the ceilings
190. 7:49that were not peaked in those times it
191. 7:51would be likely that you would see some
192. 7:54type of raw framework and decorative
193. 7:56ceiling pattern our inclusion of the be
194. 7:59the wood beams it pays homage to the age
195. 8:03of the sport and the times in which it
196. 8:06originated the piano found its home in
197. 8:09front of the large window it does have
198. 8:11that traditional gloss black coat to it
199. 8:14black was not something we were
200. 8:15initially trying to put in this design
201. 8:18but we couldn't have the piano sitting
202. 8:19out like a sore thumb and nothing to
203. 8:21help blend it so we found it some
204. 8:23friends nothing overbearing um small
205. 8:26items that would assist the black in
206. 8:28merging with the rest of the design a
207. 8:30skinny floor lamp the light coffee table
208. 8:33and a compact side table that was it
209. 8:36looking at the fireplace side of the
210. 8:37room is relatively straightforward on
211. 8:40the wall you have a medley of three
212. 8:42highdefinition photographs of Fairways
213. 8:46we organized the photo frame sizing in
214. 8:48such a way that seemed the most visually
215. 8:51appealing oftentimes Gallery walls are
216. 8:55something that you have to play around
217. 8:58with sometimes you want a collection of
218. 9:00photos to have a clear a clear edging a
219. 9:03clear perimeter which they're all
220. 9:05working within sometimes you allow for a
221. 9:08little bit of play outside of those
222. 9:10lines my best advice is to go with your
223. 9:13gut then take 10 steps back look at it
224. 9:17again and find out whether your gut was
225. 9:19lying to you I wanted the fireplace here
226. 9:22to be a point of interest but I didn't
227. 9:25want the entire section of that wall to
228. 9:27be the focal point as soon as you walk
229. 9:29into the room dealing with this was a
230. 9:32simple approach of making the brick Fade
231. 9:34Into the background and pulling the
232. 9:37fireplace into the foreground I did like
233. 9:40the brick but I liked it for its texture
234. 9:43not for its color so we continued the
235. 9:45fox hall green right over it the
236. 9:48fireplace itself had been treated like a
237. 9:50second class citizen we gave it a fresh
238. 9:52Ivory mantle surround to embrace it and
239. 9:55provide that distinction it deserves the
240. 9:58largest wall in the room did become the
241. 10:01elongated bookshelf display the center
242. 10:04of it has that glass paneling that you
243. 10:06can see and that became the beverage and
244. 10:09bar area if you're someone who has been
245. 10:11wanting to include a bar or display in
246. 10:14your room but you've struggled to find
247. 10:17the space to do so try to reframe your
248. 10:20mind from thinking of how to add more
249. 10:23pieces into the room and instead focus
250. 10:26on how you can repurpose something that
251. 10:29you already have or finding a way that
252. 10:31an existing piece can become
253. 10:34multi-purpose we had no way to integrate
254. 10:37a full-sized bar without crowding the
255. 10:39room or the whole design becoming kind
256. 10:42of tacky using a portion of the
257. 10:44bookshelves to accommodate this feature
258. 10:46seemed like a more graceful option with
259. 10:49a smart look you have now seen the
260. 10:51transformation of a living room with no
261. 10:53personality reborn with a connection to
262. 10:57its environment and the people that live
263. 10:59within it if you like the video hit the
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