everybody joe utopians host of we did me divorce decor and more i'm here today to give you some fantastic tips about creating a nourishing comfortable space especially after you've gone through  transition such as divorce loss of a spouse empty nest syndrome perhaps your newly married and you can't be feeling comfortable in your space because it's not cohesive maybe it feels like the space is more your spouse's taste and not yours all of these things are really important psychologically so i am going to give you some fantastic tips but i'm going to focus pressure on carpets today why are carpets so important i'm going to give you the whole host spiel but to help me do that i have my very special guest and larson from j and s designer flooring in morristown this is a renowned carpet place they have just about everything we're going to show you samples and having said that i'm going to now introduce my friend ed larson thank you a loss and larson why did he everybody like everybody doesn't matter he's such a good friend that i don't know how to say is name but you know what the funny thing is add one way or say your last name i got into your store right i bring my clients we find fabulous things in your store and i say ed you know who says last nobody circles it's like tomato tomato right all right right all right so you're not insulted no even though you have a very good here because i'm always i've always been really impressed with your store and i've had some as you know some we have to especially favorite clients that have come in let's mention their names but you have to do that and that's where he'll yeah i love them and they had ancient carpets amy carpet has funky carpets we can design carpets and i'm going to show all this stuff but ned let's start off with ray i guess maybe the first time we really officially met was with with the is the cats is right and and they introduce me to you because you're working with them on other projects in the home kitchen baths and things like that when it came time for the carpet you know here they they came in alone first time and got it an idea of what we had and they feel we're bringing in jodi we're bringing in the jodi and said ok and then you came in and kind of cemented everything and put everything together that was good for both of them well what and but what was so create you and i recall the pond we had such fine yeah and what's nice about your store is first of all the so you're so knowledgeable like i could just say to you and i'm going to give examples of the wallpaper people ok but i could just say to you hey ed this is what i'm looking for in the bizarre thing is that you guys have it and i'm talking bizarre my requests can be out there right and  you know tell everybody like give us a story and i and we can share our stories but give us a story how you feel you know it sounds so crazy but it really is and how carpeting it sounds silly you know how carbon can change somebody's life s i want to succeed in finding zachary what they want we have a sign in the store says nothing is impossible i mean if you can dream it or think it will they can make it if it's not already made it is true so and  you know working on color feel texture getting an idea what their surroundings are colors that they have you know we're able to narrow narrow it down ninety percent of the stores eliminated when they walk in but there's still a lot to navigate through to find the perfect thing it's a thing once in your story it's just you know and getting feedback from the client and you of course is the designer i'm able to say ok this is  the perfect thing for you so and and i will lead you to that and that i don't like if it's life altering it's you know it's changing somebody's the way somebody feels in their space that we all have to live somewhere right we ought to get up we the most of these are made to look like cinnamon buns it's brown with like icing on the you know but we can make the circles if you will any size you want they make the rug any size you want it's fantastic color its design it's all those things and i think as humans living in a space we need to address all of our senses right sight sound nels taste touch right this covers a lot this covers your to represent a foundation for the room right right so you can build an entire room i can take this carpet with all these cool colors i can build a whole room around it you know like if you think about it you know your couch goes here t chairs here perhaps there's a fireplace you know there's a a cool glass funky coffee table in the middle what if we now just done we've created a conversational space so people can feel good in their home be house proud and want to have company and why is that do we love them yes stephen jenny you saw their incredible house i was had the privilege of doing most of that house on what they love is the one water you know they have that great pool yeah we went to look at the carpeting for their bedroom you ended up directing us to a carpet i don't know if you remember this that had like a shimmer to it and what we all said i don't know if you even heard it it reminded us of water it had this iridescent shimmer and it was a and it had to be very plush because they wanted to just sort of and and having tell you all this information mike on there and we tell you this you direct us to this guy to the carpet immediately what the heck it really honestly when you go into their bedroom with the light shining in from their deck it looks like  comfort and you bring me a carpet that kind of looks like shimmering water yeah i mean it's really hard to explain but you did it and that's the experience you know we average over twenty years experience everybody that's there so that's what's so and i like coming back there and for so many reasons one big mainly because of you we had an instant connection secondly and maybe it's also mainly i guess they can you can share the space the store miss so chock full of spectacular and usual things i the store becomes your store when you're there it really has you and they will bring you coffee on a tray i was we'll send out for pizza ok because people are there you know while there's so story of transition is there soon to be empty nesters ok so what's going on there is they had core just handmade wallpaper i think it was from england they had up in the house seventeen years they love it they're never replacing it it's absolutely what they had that place so what did they want they wanted to the carpet at that point with three dogs and two teenage off to college and almost that it was a mess they wanted a beautiful runner the whole entrance was encompassed by this very unusual wallpaper that had a gold metallic a very specific color right and i as a designer wanted to pull the gold metallic into the rug somehow without it looking garish with it being neutral as not to take away from the pattern because they had a lot of cool stuff and i'm telling you this in the meantime and she's lovely i mean what if i'm right she's only to work very as i'm telling you this and i'm being sarcastic on a tray by the way by a again while i have the opportunity to more soon will be going to my w t f to design for the show which is called magic carpet ride is all about carpet co incident coincidental that you're still here before i go any further please located in morristown a hop skip and a jump from here we're at twelve mt campbell avenue in morristown we're two blocks south of the center green of morristown if you're familiar with the town so very easily accessible were were there every day but sunday nine to six and ten to five on saturdays so and anybody can help you but if you want call ahead make sure i'm there you know i'll make sure there when you get there ok that's perfect that's there but i thank you and i know it's really important i want people to be able to find you and even though where we're shooting in princeton this show goes way beyond  thousand viewers here and so it's really nice a lot now you just made me nervous oh i'm sorry don't be nervous look here with me right where you're fine you're fine so good but i just i want to import and part how how comfortable it is to go there so having said addressing your senses you brought up sound i didn't mean to sound yep sound as if for muffling i didn't even think about it right i'm thinking for art it's art on the floor that is it's also we talked about before we shot the show it's you so know what you're talking about work your way up there you go how important is that it grounds the space what does it do it grounds the space it determines what that spaces function is is going to be a living room for conversation right is it going to be a really cool funky run or for maybe for your kitchen is it going to be a bathroom a small bathroom rug maybe one small bathroom or maybe you want something you jump out of bed like the katz's and you want to step into a shimmering ocean and that's what it really looks like when the light hits upon it there are so many things to consider when you're buying carpet also quality also the way that you treat your customers and your the way in which you go you went over to them immediately measured everything was done you know when you went in i am sure it wasn't like you passed i want to see each individual house and i want to get a few of their houses well that's different that's not like when you go to home depot sorry yeah and you get some person lovely nice lovely person pick out a carpet someone else goes to your house to measure that's not they're not really with their like alcide contract or whatever it's not the same now personalized service person because your house is personal you know you're not doing an office space although you can the point is it's personal and people want to feel that i want to before we go any further i'm going to cut and i got to give you guys m hi everybody welcome back i hope you enjoyed that design tip about carcassonne how fundamental they are to your space without a carpet whether you have hard floors final floors whatever it is you need either an area rug a wall to wall or whatever and what's cool about j m s designer flooring is they have pretty much everything you know what you know what we should show them what i know you know what when the well being that we're talking about a dining room special dining room and they had like an octagonal beam that came down from the ceiling well they wanted the carpet to be exactly the same size and that it's not as easy as it looks but we did that we fabricated a carpet in the exact same shape zealand so when people come in it's almost like a mirror image with the table and it was done i th and just have a carpet or you don't walk into a room and just have painted walls or just have a chandelier it all has to become cohesive and that's what you're for that but i need to like you to help me do yes because i can't do it without you right and i love that i can walk in and i can get whatever the hell i want like that that carpet that matched what the bring on paper oh my gosh it's so lovely snow beautiful and you know how happy you made know you know i have to tell you just to give you some kudos after you left i spoke to her and you know she's like he's so nice he came meet people appreciate the personal touch it's super super important and again especially after and this show is about transition especially if you're they happen to be not going through a sad time i mean they're going to be empty nesters are other lovely couple just wanted to feel complete comfort in their house and have this the space represent cultures right they have similar tastes that were this jointed in the beginning and i you and i we thought we'd help murden so we were carpeting and and my colors and whatnot but then there are times when people are going through a divorce or they're downsizing how important is it to go into your new space with beautiful flooring how important is that right be able to lay on the rug and read a book maybe have your to have a home that allows you to have those things happen and then the other thing that i always consider that's very important not only i know they're going to be happy when you first put it in an effort i want to be happy ten years from now with the on your floor is going to hate me in three years that's right when i look sworn that's right so you know practicality wise and construction wise i like to guide people into something they'll be happy with for a long time this way they'll recommend this to their friends and card and puts his cell phone number on the card and says listen any you call me call me if you need anything that's ok that's the kind of that's the kind of that's his comfort it's like going into you know what i do is i create a space for people that nursing comforting you have a commercial space that's nourishing and comforting there is no way you can use some place you look at and i won't mention them there's a place there's a few places i can even see the towns because then you'll know who they are and i don't want to disparage anybody but i've walked in to surrounding towns and i just felt with the word uncomfortable pressure to buy something mendez if i wasn't looking for something expensive i felt tossed aside i have felt that in the past you know you walk in our store you with a client and they say hey let's run in here this is right in my town and i was just there looking at carpet and you walk in and you feel like i get a lot of that yeah you do get a lot of stories it's not comfortable and i don't care for it and then i don't go back it certainly don't go back it's not it's not a fun thing to do to feel like you're pressured to buy something or of it feels real sales lee yeah and that's not how you guys are you could wander around and say i'm just looking and walk out and know that you could come back and not feel that pressure so i think taking pressure out of shopping is one of the other things that maybe you guys i don't know if you're aware that you do that you make people feel comfortable then you say i'm a week later yes yeah no no it's really it's great and i just want everyone to know that the importance of of the completion of this of a row if we just take a room you must must have an area rug whether you have these are my rules whether you have wall carpeting or not you must have an area rug to service art to ground the space and to create a foundation to form this to whatever that room is going to be ok then from there you pick your color palette that's when you do you well course people always say oh i would pick the wall color cycle no you get the carpet first and then if you want to choose this i'll find a color that matches you don't do it in reverse so it's really funny that carpet is the first thing that i really impress upon my clients as having to either have to choose or work with before i do anything else that is it because that fixates the color of the walls it helps dictate what chupin it may help to take what furniture you take out right from the ground up from the ground up it's very very true and then before you know it you're up at the ceiling as well you're either mimicking your act the ceiling or you're putting in a fabulous some light fixture that maybe that maybe has texture like the carpet you know there are so many ways in which you can take a space and make it fantastic so those are those are those are my deep rooted feelings towards corbett i know it sounds passionate and i know you are but i really am and i really believe all people know that they you know they feed off of that lead and that's what they want so first thing where they wouldn't call you they wouldn't hold you and it wouldn't come into your shop right and it honestly is if ever you guys are listening not only this is the man to go see but if you are struggling with your room and you don't know how to make a comfortable nourishing pleasant start with a carpet  have a great carpet you can wear shoes on them and you can take your shoes off and have comfortable comfortable time with your feet and it's important because all of your nerve endings are on your feet so it's nice to be able to walk through something you know when people say i love walking to the beach and i feel the texture of the thing is the same thing you're getting texture but in honor of janus designer flooring and something that i always do because everyone that watches my show knows i love shoes i have dedicated a shoe to you and you have yes i have gorgeous metallic gold yeah i have a shoe in your honor came i want to get i think we should come into your store and take photos and do fabulous things and show people more stuff because we can't cram enough in right having said that i have to sign out ok janus carpeting designer flooring guys host of leading the signing out see you next week by thank you