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Home In Progress

Home In Progress

著者： Dan Hansen/RepcoLite Paints
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Welcome to Home in Progress—the weekly show from RepcoLite Paints where we dig into the projects and little fixes that make home life better. Paint colors, design tricks, flooring, plumbing, yard work—you name it. If it happens at home, we’ll talk about it. Think of it as helpful advice with a sense of humor, always leaving you with something useful and a smile.℗ & © 2025 Dan Hansen アート
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  • How to Stop Swirl Marks From a Random Orbital Sander

    How to Stop Swirl Marks From a Random Orbital Sander
    2026/10/15
    Original Air Date: October 17, 2026 Episode Number: 481Episode SummaryTwo topics this week. First, a follow-up to last week’s interview with Jean Stoffer and Grace Start. Jean mentioned that she fell for British kitchens because they had furniture, coziness, and a sense of being a room people gathered in rather than a wall of boxes. That sent Dan down a rabbit hole and into the work of English designer Johnny Grey, who challenged the whole idea of the fitted kitchen back in 1980 and spent a career designing kitchens around the people in them. Dan covers where Grey’s thinking came from, what separates a fitted kitchen from an unfitted one, and the specific ideas that show up in his work: furniture instead of built-ins, designing for eye contact, soft geometry, counter heights matched to the actual cook, and a kitchen that looks like somebody lives there. Second half is random orbital sanders and the little pigtail swirls they leave in wood. Dan spent years assuming those were unavoidable. They aren’t. The sander wasn’t the problem.Timestamps[00:00] -- Show Preview [00:41] -- British Kitchen Inspiration [04:47] -- Johnny Gray Origins [07:02] -- Fitted vs Unfitted [10:49] -- Furniture First Design [13:17] -- Conversation and Comfort [16:28] -- Humane Ergonomics [17:59] -- Lived In Kitchen Style [19:29] -- Orbital Sander Setup [20:22] -- When Sanding Is Worth It [21:08] -- Lead Paint Safety First [22:18] -- Why Orbital Swirls Happen [25:10] -- Stop Skipping Grits [27:30] -- Move the Sander Right [29:52] -- Light Pressure Slow Passes [32:00] -- Start On Stop Off [34:12] -- Dust Collection Matters [35:31] -- Corners Curves Hand Sanding [37:04] -- Final Hand Sanding Check [37:34] -- Inspect With Raking Light [38:13] -- Pro Tools And Wrap UpWhere This Came From [00:41]Last week’s guests were Jean Stoffer and her daughter Grace Start from Jean Stoffer Design. The whole conversation is worth hearing, but one piece of it stuck. Jean described needing a kitchen in her own house more than thirty years ago, going looking for ideas, and finding what she wanted in British magazines. She said those kitchens were thought of differently. More of a gathering space, closer to a keeping room, with actual furniture in them and a coziness that American kitchens did not have. Her description of what we had instead: boxes screwed up on walls.She sat down at her drafting table with those magazines and a magnifying glass to work out what exactly was making the difference. Dan wanted to know too, and went digging.Johnny Grey [04:47]One British designer kept turning up. Jean never said whose kitchens she was looking at, only that they were British, so this is not a claim that she was studying Grey’s work specifically. But his ideas were getting a lot of attention right when she was looking, and they line up closely with what she described.What makes Grey interesting is the size of the question he was asking. Not where the fridge goes and where the stove goes, but what kind of life do the people living here want this room to make possible.Where that came from. Grey grew up in a big family in London. If you wanted to find his mother, you went to the kitchen, which was small and dark and in the basement. He remembers peeling potatoes down there at a counter built for somebody much taller, which turns up again later in his thinking. The family later got a cottage in the country and that kitchen was not much better: hard wooden chairs, almost no counter space, no heat. He and his brothers and his mother still sat in there for hours reading and talking and working.That’s the part worth sitting with. Nobody gathered in those rooms because somebody designed a beautiful gathering space. Both kitchens had plenty working against them. People gathered there anyway, because that’s where family life was happening. Which raised the question: if people are drawn to this room regardless, what happens when design actually tries to help? Could people be more comfortable? Pitch in more often? Could the room make time together easier?Fitted and Unfitted [07:02]In 1980 Grey wrote a piece for the Sunday Times in London titled “Why This Awful Fixation With Fitted Kitchens?” The response was large enough that it reshaped his career, and the Unfitted Kitchen followed.A fitted kitchen is what most of us picture. Built-in cabinets along the walls, counters running across the base cabinets, uppers above, appliances slotted in, the whole thing coordinated as one system.That’s not a bad idea, and Grey wasn’t throwing it out. The thinking behind it is efficiency: good prep space, convenient storage, surfaces that clean easily, and a short trip from refrigerator to sink to stove. Anybody who has cooked in a kitchen that fights them knows those things matter.What Grey wanted was the same level of design attention paid to everything else that happens in the room. He argued the kitchen may be the last place in the house where people genuinely ...
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    40 分
  • The Mystery of the Kitchen Cabinets Nobody Could Reach

    The Mystery of the Kitchen Cabinets Nobody Could Reach
    2026/10/01
    Original Air Date: October 1, 2026 Episode Number: 479Episode SummaryDan opens with two questions: what's the weirdest thing in your house that you've never been able to explain, and what's the strangest thing you've ever found in one that you weren't looking for? Then he spends the full episode on his own answer. His first house was a 1928 place in Zeeland, bought in 1999, and it came with kitchen cabinets mounted so high he needed a ladder to reach the second of four shelves. Nobody could explain them. Converting a dingy basement room into a workshop turned up canning lists penciled on the wall for 1940 through 1944, and newspapers from October 1943 lining the shelves. There's a screwdriver found inside a wall, a map scribbled behind fake cabinet doors, and a nighttime dig in the backyard that turned up nothing. Ten years in, a woman in her eighties knocked on the door, walked through the house her father built, answered the cabinet question in one sentence, and later mailed back something she'd taken with her when the family moved out. The show ends somewhere it usually doesn't: with the case for appreciating your house exactly as it is.Timestamps[00:00] -- Weird House Quirks[01:19] -- My 1928 Zeeland Home[03:00] -- The Sky High Cabinets[05:46] -- Basement Workshop Plans[09:24] -- Canning Lists Discovery[14:03] -- Sponsor Break[14:22] -- Newspapers From 1943[16:41] -- A Winter Day Reflection[18:55] -- Sponsor Tease[19:09] -- Paint Is The Project[19:32] -- Basement Finds Revisited[19:52] -- The Wall Screwdriver Story[20:17] -- Cabinet Door Treasure Map[22:23] -- Night Digging Misadventure[24:04] -- Visitor From The Past[25:32] -- Lightning In The Dining Room[26:29] -- Porch Sleeping Tradition[27:04] -- Why The Cabinets Were High[28:50] -- A Gift From Texas[30:13] -- Ceiling Globe Time Capsule[31:50] -- A House Full Of History[34:27] -- Superman Comic Wall Find[36:51] -- Homes Hold Our Stories[38:19] -- Appreciate Your Home[39:25] -- Share Your Weird Finds[39:41] -- Final Sign OffTwo Questions to Start [00:00]What's the weirdest thing in your house? Not something you did, something that was already there. A door that opens the wrong way. A patch in the floor where something used to be and nobody knows what. You wonder about it for a while, then you stop seeing it and just live with it.And the second one: what's the coolest or strangest thing you've ever found in a house that you weren't looking for? Behind a wall, under a floorboard, in the middle of a renovation. What did you think when you found it? Did it tell you anything about the house, or about the people who were there before you?Most of us live in a place that had a whole life before we showed up, and we almost never think about it.The House in Zeeland [01:19]Built 1928. Bought in 1999. The previous owners had finished the entire main level before the sale and it was a major selling point: wallpaper in the dining room, original trim cleaned up, some of it stained and varnished in the bedrooms, new crown molding, new carpet.The screened front porch was the part Dan misses. Three seasons a year he was out there, coffee in the morning and a book late into the evening, hearing dogs and conversations up and down the block while still having his own space.The cabinets [03:00]. Two walls of the kitchen had normal uppers and lowers. The third wall had uppers only, mounted so high that Dan could stand under them, jump, and not come close to hitting his head. Reaching the second of four shelves took a ladder, no exaggeration. The top shelf might as well have been Everest. Everybody who walked in noticed within seconds and everybody had a theory. Dan's working theory for years was that the original family was simply enormous.They weren't. The answer came about ten years in, and it came from the daughter of the man who built them.The Workshop and the Canning Lists [05:46]A year or so after moving in, Dan wanted a project. The upstairs needed more work than he was ready to take on, so the dingy basement room with a workbench and floor-to-ceiling shelves became the one. He was working the RepcoLite Lakewood store in Holland at the time, having the same conversations with customers that he has on the radio now, about making a space exactly what you want it to be, and this was his turn to do it in his own house.A workshop is never just a workshop. It's where maintenance happens, where Pinewood Derby cars get built and painted, where dollhouses get glued and wallpapered for Christmas, where bookcases come together.The writing on the wall [09:24]. While cleaning, Dan swung a work light into another corner and caught pencil writing he'd walked past repeatedly. Thick cursive, hard to read in bad light. He leaned in genuinely expecting something along the lines of five paces west from the giant maple. What it said was 1940, and under it: four quarts of pickles, five quarts of peaches, eight quarts of green beans, on down the wall. More lists followed for 1941, ...
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  • Jean Stoffer & Grace Start Interview: The Established Home, Kitchens, and Old Houses

    Jean Stoffer & Grace Start Interview: The Established Home, Kitchens, and Old Houses
    2026/10/08
    Original Air Date: October 10, 2026 Episode Number: 480Episode SummaryDan sits down with Jean Stoffer and her daughter Grace Start, the mother-daughter team behind Grand Rapids based Jean Stoffer Design, Stoffer Home, and the Magnolia Network show The Established Home. They cover how Jean got into design with no formal training, how a failing kitchen in her own house sent her to British magazines with a magnifying glass, and what happened when a new appliance technology, a growing national interest in kitchens, and a design contest win all landed at once. Grace explains how she went from teaching preschool to asking her mom for a part-time job, and both talk about what each of them turned out to be good at. There’s a long stretch on the career decisions Jean turned down when her kids were small and what she thinks of those choices now. Then the business side: the Wealthy Street store, going online, building a virtual cabinetry business during COVID, and Grace’s vanity line. They get into how the Magnolia show came about and why it ended after three seasons. Finally, old houses, what you find behind the walls, why constraints make for better design, and how they approach a kitchen. They close on their three books, including one out for pre-order now.Timestamps[00:00] -- Welcome and Guests[01:14] -- Jean Finds Design[03:58] -- Kitchen Design Breakthrough[07:05] -- Sub Zero Contest Win[08:31] -- Grace Joins the Firm[10:42] -- Mother Daughter Strengths[15:00] -- Faith Family Priorities[20:40] -- Store Online Expansion[23:49] -- Virtual Cabinetry and Vanities[28:04] -- Magnolia Show Origins[29:39] -- Landing the Pilot[31:24] -- Building a TV Season[32:10] -- Filming Reality Check[33:29] -- Why the Show Ended[34:46] -- Getting Used to Cameras[37:20] -- Old House Surprises[39:35] -- Constraints Spark Creativity[42:38] -- Kitchen Design Basics[44:53] -- Trends and New Tech[47:36] -- Guiding Client Choices[50:01] -- Books and New Releases[54:14] -- Where to Follow Them[54:54] -- Final TakeawaysHow Jean Got Into Design [01:14]Jean studied business and started on the administrative side of a design firm. Design had not been on her radar growing up. In her parents’ house a home was supposed to be warm and welcoming, a place where people felt connected and accepted, and what it looked like was not really the point. Working around designers opened up the idea that a house could be beautiful and warm at the same time.She and her husband Dale had just bought their first place, which gave her somewhere to try it. Her training was light: a drawing class at a community college, back before computer drafting. The rest was observation, study, and looking hard at photographs to understand the mechanics behind them. She started as a decorator picking furniture and wall colors.The kitchen that changed things [03:58]Then they moved into a house whose kitchen was falling apart. That sent her looking for what a kitchen could be, which in the early nineties in America was still mostly boxes screwed to a wall. She found the answer in British magazines. Those kitchens were gathering spaces with furniture in them, closer to a keeping room, with a coziness and beauty that American kitchens did not have.So she sat at her drafting table with the magazines and a magnifying glass and worked out exactly what made them different. It came down to flush inset cabinetry, which almost nobody was building at the time. The hard part was finding a cabinet maker who would do it. She got it built, installed it in her own kitchen, and that was the start.The timing mattered. This was right when Sub-Zero introduced a way to panel an appliance so that it disappeared completely, no visible grill, no visible hardware, nothing projecting past the cabinetry. Panels on fridges had existed. Full disguise had not. That technology, a national shift in how people thought about kitchens, and Jean’s own interest all arrived together.The contest [07:05]. A few years in, she entered a Sub-Zero kitchen design contest with 35mm photos of a 1938 reproduction kitchen, and won, she thinks largely because it was so different from everything else. The celebration was at a resort in Arizona, where she met designers whose work she had studied, including Mick De Giulio out of Chicago, and found them talking about her work.Grace Joins [08:31]Grace grew up around all of it and never once pictured doing it. She went to Calvin College, married, studied education, and taught preschool at Zeeland Christian. Then she and her husband bought their first house, had their first child with a second on the way, and seeing a home as her own space changed how she looked at the work. Jean had also just moved to Michigan from the Chicago area. Grace asked her mother for a part-time, flexible job doing whatever needed doing. Jean hired her with no experience.What each of them is good at [10:42]. Jean’s gift turned out to be the analytical side. Kitchens have right and wrong answers,...
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