apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Hi all,

End of week 2.0! Homework complete. It is a bedroom, so no need to list activities, right?

Floor plan did not change, due to outlets and behemoth furniture. Our vision? To walk into our bedroom and smile.

Shopping list: Curtain rods (1/2 the order has arrived), curtains (also, 1 of two pairs complete), new end table (check)., new lamps (check.), area rug (still up for suggestions), duvet (ugh...wish I could get Dwell, may have to settle for the Organic white West Elm cover), bedskirt, art for walls, lcd tv (still debating). closet doors.

I have posted the curtain progress and the removal of the carpet on my flickr site. I hope to have the whole carpet removed this weekend and maybe the curtains on one window.

http://flickr.com/photos/jjburke/sets/72157604069588155/

Thanks everyone for the input!

Ugh, I am so behind. But I have some excuses, because I was still recovering from the flu last week.

For some reason I was super motivated after work yesterday to clean out the garage. It took a couple hours and we filled up the back of our Xterra twice with recycling and donating not to mention the stuff we are selling online. I think it's insane how much stuff was crammed in their. I still want to give away some more but since we are going to be moving from our apartment into a house in the next year I want to hold on to some it until after the move. I'm going to post pictures this afternoon on my blog and flickr. Unfortunately I don't have a before but I do have the after and the two cars full of stuff!

N.

ug, the garage. We have to do ours, too, but we're waiting for the snow to meltand the ground to dry up first.

jen64--I'm so impressed by your curtains! I love pleated drapes and giving that formality to that fabric is pure genius. Beautiful sewing job, too. I'm jealous. It'll be a room worth waiting for!

trilobyte, I'm behind too. Defrosting an upright chest freezer is daunting.

I've been super-busy since yesterday morning. I've re-organized my basement storage, took a carload to the recycling center this morning, then i went to Ikea where i found a shelving for only 13 Swiss francs (= ca. 13$ at the actual exchange rate ) for the basement, Finished the basement and installed the new BESTA sideboard which i also purchased today at Ikea. Vacuumed. Now i'll just finish this comment, list two pieces of furniture for sale and then i'm going to prepare myself dinner ( asparagus, bresaola, sauce hollandaise...yummy !). Tomorrow and Monday i'll play it a bit more cool, after all, it's Easter weekend with four days off ;-))

Oups, here's the link to my Cure-set on Flickr ( has been updated today with new photos !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36m2/sets/72157604068598538/

I have battled the kitchen and won! It really wasn't all that hard since our fridge and pantry are fairly empty. But it stills feels really great to check it off the list.

I decided to start blogging too!
http://woolsocks.wordpress.com/

And here's the my flickr set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urban_hipster/sets/72157601653188515/

Oops, I got so over-eager that I commented on the LA Cure site! :)
We New York Cure folks are chattier, it seems...

I haven't had a lot of time to devote to the kitchen, but had done work a few months back weeding stuff out, so it isn't SO bad...
The fridge is cleaned out and happy, and at least half of my kitchen looks quite beautiful!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainygirl/2352982564/

I'm going great guns!

We completely remodeled our kitchen this past fall/winter, so there isn't a whole lot that needs to be done there. (If you're interested, you can see my slideshow here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74041096@N00/sets/72157604173627122/show/) I cleaned the refrigerator out and I cleaned all the shelves in it and it looks great!

The one remaining thing we have left to do in our kitchen is to paint the old cabinet doors to go in the pantry. I stripped them all yesterday and put the first coat of paint on today. I'll finish painting them tomorrow and we'll install them tomorrow afternoon. I'm counting this as one of the things I'm fixing this week.

I've also been decluttering a ton and I've picked out paint colors for the bedroom, since I'm over the teal color that we painted it a few years ago. I also patched up some holes and imperfections in the drywall in preparation for painting sometime soon. I also bought a pretty quilt for the bedroom and I'm very happy with it.

I'll be blogging about more of this at: http://ihavetohaveit.blogspot.com

Oops--I don't think that was the right flickr link. Try this if you want to see my kitchen remodel: http://www.flickr.com/gp/74041096@N00/vb137Z

I'm just starting the Cure! Got derailed last fall after being dumped, and had a slow start this time, but yesterday I got rid of a lamp, shredded a huge pile of paper, created an outbox, washed all the windows in the apt., vacuumed, did laundry and dishes, and scrubbed the bathroom from top to bottom. (The xl chocolate frappucinos work wonders...). Goal for today/the rest of the weekend is finish shredding paper, sweep and wash all the floors, get flowers, and start feeding the outbox. And take the before pictures.

i had big plans to tackle my kitchen today. then, well, umm . . . i sort of overslept and then i found out that there was a huge pillow fight in union square, so i did that instead. but! i did buy some pretty flowers for my apartment at the farmers market. and i totally plan on working on the kitchen tomorrow. i promise!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodimckee

Maxwell, I'm sending you a big cyber kiss!

Thank you so much for calling my silly old living room "lovely"--and for suggesting chinese red. I wanted that colour YEARS ago....back when the dining room was first painted red....but I chickened out. And it's just as well, as I probably would have chosen something too blue. I feel vindicated by the suggestion.

If I hadn't walked 50 thousand miles in a city park today hunting for easter eggs with the kids, I'd be painting NOW. As it is, I'll have to wait for the store to open Monday, if it is open Monday.

Today I wasn't so focused. We deep cleaned the dining room, the kitchen, the bathroom, and the living room.

Deeeeeep cleaned. Like vacuum the cat fur off the velvet curtains clean.

We sorted all the old magazines, sorted Domino and ReadyMade (can't toss those), took all the kitchen stuff out of the open shelving and wiped it all down, found a place for all that lose end clutter or tossed it, dusted and vacuumed everything. I cleared out, organized, and wiped down the credenza. The woman who owned the house before us was a heavy smoker and I'm still finding surfaces that are nicotine coated. Yick!

I wanted to stay with the program, but once I got started and everyone took a space, it just sort of took on it's own agenda. I'm so proud of my fiance for getting into it.

Our "open house" will most likely be the night before our wedding (which is on 6-7-08). We'll have cocktails with all the folks who are coming into town.

Off to enjoy a lovely pomegranate martini in my fresh, clean, clutter-free living room. I hope all of you are enjoying this feeling! It's so liberating and good! Whew!

Cheers!! Thanks for the good excuse to get this stuff underway!

"wish I could get Dwell"

Jen, not sure which Dwell set you're looking for. There's stuff at Target right now, which is also available through their website. I'm sure you know that, but on the off chance...

I started my day by forgiving myself for being tired on weeknights, a late riser on weekends and generally lollygagging. I'm a night person and that's when I do my work. Somewhat limiting, but there it is.

I took a large box to UPS and shipped some items to mom that were visually weighing on me for a few months. (All those other boxes were broken down and tossed in Week 0.) And I scrubbed up the kitchen, including inside the stove and the burner pieces. I tried to retrieve the microplane grater that fell behind the stove two years ago. It's stuck behind the gas pipe, so maybe I'll just buy a new one. In the meantime I Swiffered out the other crap from previous tenants and dust farm that is under there.

Now off to the bathroom while the dishes drain.

What a lot of fabulous energy!

I emptied out and wiped down my fridge shelves while supper cooked. Now I just have to do the doors and all's well.

I'm excited about doing the kitchen, but Easter is going to put a slight delay on that. I'll be posting before pics of the kitchen tomorrow and some after pics of the living room from last week's mini-mission.
Good luck everyone!

I'm sort of curing at my own pace due to the fact that I started getting rid of stuff a few weeks ago when we had storage cabinets built in our home office. Today we spent all afternoon hanging new drapes in the bedroom which makes a HUGE difference. It feels like a whole new room! New mattress is coming later in the week, and we're ordering our new bed frame this week too. Have to put up some before and after pictures on the Flickr group, though.. hope I'll have a chance to do that tomorrow.. the in-laws are coming for brunch which will be excitement enough for the day, I think. Reading about everyone's progress is encouraging! Cheers.

I'm going to be playing catch-up next week due to my busy week and my trip out of town. I got a TON of work done in the kitchen, my pantry cabinets and freezer are totally organized and clean. I am purging cookbooks and bringing the castoffs in to work to see who wants to take them. I'm putting some unused kitchen gadgets outside - a bread machine, a food chopper.... I have really good space in my kitchen, it's just not utilized very well!

I already filter my water (Brita faucet filter) so that's one to tick off the list. I didn't have time to cook this week, but next week I plan to practice some of the dishes I want to serve at my party, which I'm hoping will be a tapas & wine bash where I can show off what I learned to cook when I was in Spain last summer!

I got a whole lot done in the kitchen, and packed up two boxes worth of stuff for craigslist or goodwill. HOWEVER, last night, around 5:00am, I woke up to the sound of rain... in my bathroom. A pipe had burst of the fifth floor, raining down to my place on the third floor. I lost electricity in half of my apartment due to blown fuses, a number of floor tiles cracked, and due to the holiday weekend, my super think the water won't be back on until Tuesday.

But everyone, please say a big thank you to my fabulous BF who, without hesitation took me in, and said I'm welcome to stay as long as I need to.

Now if I can just convince him to clean the bathroom so I can catch up...

So I guess I'll just move on to, well, ANY OTHER ROOM. ;)

Wow, hmr... good luck with all of the repairs, your situation is NOT fun, but it sounds like you have a good attitude (and a great BF).

I'm behind on posting and photographing, but I got a lot done since this week was my spring break... 5 days with nothing to do is a RARE treat. The bedroom is painted a lovely grey, I built a new seat for our kitchen bench (making it deep enough for comfortable sitting), and I broke out the previously-unused-wedding-gift pasta maker to make my own ravioli. I even tried the no-knead bread from The Kitchn- definitely try it if you haven't yet, it was so easy.

Thanks for the confirmation, AT! I'm a bit uncertain on how to handle hard construction under cedar planks like these. Does anyone have experience in this regard (final photo from above)?

We've had houseguests since Wednesday so Curing progress is a bit slow at the moment, but our lighting improvement and a kitchen surface cleaning have done wonders for our kitchen. Our houseguests and visitors are remarking positively.

It's great to hear of everyone's improvements!

Alana and Maxwell, I like the idea of a red chest.

Well, I'm not actually doing the cure - except reading this site through at least the last 3 cures whilst ploughing through endless DIY projects, maintenance and make-do's. But today, I am more half way through the four day public holiday; nothing is finished - about 5 tasks will have to remain unfinished; my sander has just died; the entire flat is in chaos and covered in red dust; I ache, my hands throb and I have guests arriving on Thursday.

Oh and the contractor who was to have repaired the water damage to the bedroom ceiling from the bathroom in the flat above never showed.

That worked. I feel SO much better now. And at least I didn't take a before picture - it might have tipped me over the edge... ;-)

can anyone post a link the worksheets? i've looked all over and only found broken ones - namely this one
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/at-book/the-cure-the-worksheet-collection-is-up-007835

thanks!

Who knew instant coffee could mold? I certainly didn't.

Hard as a brick and covered with fuzzies in the jar. I showed it to my girlfriend and she fled to safety.

I got the kitchen mostly done...cabinets cleaned out, fridge clean, coutertops, walls & cabinets washed...now I need to solve my recycling/trash area. Meant to take care of it during the week, but with children home from school on spring break that idea went right out the window.

A barely opened jar of pickles, here, trilobyte. Not as rare as moldy instant coffee, but still disturbing.

It's kind of an interesting colour.

my major progress this week was talking to family about taking some items for me. the kitchen remains in limbo due to still putting together furniture and me being stubborn about asking for help. (I'll get over that this week, I swear)

Since i'm curing and moving in, I'm looking at my progress partially in terms of the number of boxes I bring to recycling. I'm trying to do one a day during the week and more on the weekend. In the past, I've just put things in places willy-nilly and this time I'm trying to be deliberate about placement. It takes longer, but should result in a happier apartment.

Wig, I've been coveting wood flooring for my bathroom, too. The idea that I had was to just put down wood deck tiles. Because they're intended to withstand the elements outdoors, I figure they'll do okay in my bathroom, too. There's a whole compilation of sources in AT's "Top 10: Wood Deck Tiles".
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/top-ten/top-10-wood-deck-tiles-024438

As for my Curing: I had gotten started last Fall and then got derailed. I did a bunch of cleaning out of the kitchen cupboards then, so mainly, I just need to clean, which I'm doing today.

I picked up some of that cushion-y shelf liner to put in the cabinets with glasses, plates and in the silverware drawer. My kitchen has these old metal cabinets (probably from the 30s) and the banging and clanking was really getting to me. I put that in this morning.

I'm also accumulating a small list of things I'd like for the kitchen to polish it off: A new trash can, a cabinet organizer for large flat pans & trays, and some way to cover or contain the large pots, bowls and extra set of dishes that I keep on the top of the cabinets.

I thought about just plain old padded dish storage containers, but really, they are so 1963 -- and not in a good way. The vinyl is an upside since the top of my cabinets gets disgustingly greasy (old kitchen, no range hood), and it would be easy to clean.

White plastic storage tubs aren't much better.

I'm also going try to find a couple of small flowering plants to put in some small containers I already have to brighten up the window sill.

I just read an article over lunch with some bummer news about how less-than-green the Method cleaning products are. Method fans should give it a read!

Ecoholic

Interesting comment about the head aches, jenny! I've has quite a few since the fall: I never suspected it may be from the cleaners. (Method). Hmm. My stock is nearly depleted, perhaps I'll try something else this time around and see if my head aches improve.

I've mostly emptied my outbox. It's not very big because I am totally addicted to getting rid of random stuff from my apartment & do it all year long.
Last week's clothing swap allowed me to ditch a TON of stuff.

I also have researched & recruited a knowledgeable friend to install the yet-to-purchased ceiling fan in my bedroom.

Last week's flowers are still good - not wilted at all. On a random side note, my boyfriend & I noticed a yucky odor (like sulfur) was coming from some bamboo i have - last week I changed the water & rinsed/trimmed the roots, but that algae in there came back. And stinks. So the bamboo has been relocated to the window box area.

It feels like I haven't done that much this week. Nothing worth photographing, at least.

Looks like everyone has gotten a lot accomplished this weekend. I did the cure last Spring, but a year later find I need to do it again. I deep cleaned my Kitchen today, throwing out old food, organizing shelves and wiping everything down. My big purchase was to buy two wicker baskets to put on my kitchen island shelves. These are going to be my pantry, living in a small 1 bedroom, space is very limited.

Here is a link to my Spring Cure 2008 photos, plus some photos from last year.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lffrank/

Didn't get to the bath last night, but I did list some Outbox items on ebay. Deep cleaned the kitchen and I've still got a bit to go, but it's looking good.

Alana in Canada,

Yick on the pickles! How is that even possible?

I'm back, as promised after pics of last week's putting something on the curb, etc. I haven't had a chance to tackle the kitchen but am amped up to ease in gradually to the 'kitchen of my dreams'.
New photos can be seen on flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/39185427@N00/pool/
and through my flickr set at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsamio/sets/72157604123730508/
Minus one DVD player and one old television set (lucky sidewalk shoppers!!), I'm almost ready to paint. Eeeeee!

Wow! Thanks so much for all of your insight! I am definitely going to prime the bed first and I will document it all along the way! In the meantime, I have been thinking of ways to organize and rearrange the room. It's so exciting to finally get to this project! And having the fresh flowers each week has really made coming home a lot of fun! Thanks again !

My kitchen is done! Well, not quite done as I have to pick up a curtain from my sister tomorrow for the window, but basically done so I'm counting it...

Pics are here.

Funny how such small changes can make a big difference. I'd love to take down the cabinet doors to sand off the paint drips and random spackle that were left by the last renters, but that will be a summer project so I can do it outdoors.

All is going well my second week, although, I was not able to repair the handles of my bathroom faucets. The whole faucets need to be replaced.

I however met with a painter on Saturday. Pick out hardware for my cabinets, organize glassware and tossed out items that now longer fits my needs.

There is much more that needs to be done, but I am happy that I am making steps in the right direction.

Photos below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23241665@N08/sets/72157604223910105/

try a blue green fuzz covering the olive juice in a jar! Sick huh? Sicker is I haven't thrown it out yet.

I was planning on cleaning yesterday, but ended up crocheting and napping after a yoga-tastic week of over-exhaustion. Today I guiltily crocheted more and watched Gilmore Girls promising myself each episode would be the last before I deep cleaned the kitchen. (I thought I was too old for GG, even when it first came out... and now I find myself revisiting the early seasons for which I've forgotten the story lines. Ah, guilty pleasures!)

In any case, I did get a little bit done. Cleaned off the cluttered top of my fridge and edited all the things I stick on it with magnets (why do I need pictures of my cats, even the ones I don't have anymore, on my fridge? Somehow I can't put them elsewhere.... My progress has been to put them on the side of the fridge.)

I also cleaned my cabinet doors, and selected a bunch of miscelaneaous dishes and ramekins to bring to the salvation army. Perhaps before bed I'dll clean out the food in the fridge.. but I tend to prefer doing that on garbage day.

I'm not so good for following through on my didication to the cure. It's tough this thing, it's tough!

miscelaneous, Salvation Army, I'll, dedication.

Ah, to have an edit button would be so luxurious!

The kitchen overhall this week went well. i discovered that my cabinets are really a little less yellow than i thought! nasty! oh, and that refrigerators are easy to move so i cant use that excuse any more!

my outbox was getting so big (for my small studio) that i moved it to the basement. it wont be as easy to move things in and out but so far so good with the separation anxeity!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyjp23/sets/72157604155734923/

ooh boy, this week has been a doozy. Painting got started, then abruptly stopped -- no painters allowed in the building on Good Friday. This meant that my apartment was in chaos all weekend and that it likely won't be all done until Wednesday. That said, a few of the new light fixtures are up/in the process, which is exciting. Here are this week's pictures, with this one being a particularly good view of what I'm living in at the moment!

Apologies for positing so late. I've been working on my kitchen for weeks now, cleaning out each corner and installing a clock/radio/stereo, paper towel holder, and toaster oven underneath my cabinets. Literally, the only thing left to do was to clean off the kitchen table and the mid-sized counter, as you can see in the before picture:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2358144874_847f61ed28_s.jpg
A few hours later, it looked much better:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2357310951_e7de257555_s.jpg

oh, look! our picture's up there! that's exciting! it's good to know that maxwell votes for the red (i also like the red oxide paint color, so i'll add it to the style tray). the wall color (keep it? paint over the red on some walls? paint over it all?) is still up for debate so all thoughts are welcome :)

the big accomplishments for the weekend: added random stuff to the official outbox, washed the couch slip cover (and uhm, ripped it on a seam trying to put it back on...all the more reason to get a new couch!), got rid of the two long back pillows on the couch and rearranged the other pillows, mopped the hardwood floors w/ murphy's oil soap, had the family over for easter dinner, put down our new rug and trimmed the cats' claws to minimize damage as they will inevitably scratch at it.

we may have made a decision on curtains. since we really dislike the current white shutters, we would rather not put them back up when the windows are done. we had thought about somehow constructing a curved rod to go around the bay area, but that has always seemed intimidating - how to do the curved rod? how to get extremely long curtains custom made? i think i'm finally convinced that putting a tension rod across each window will look ok. and then we can buy standard-sized curtains. easy!

Well, I'm still behind, but I did clean out the fridge on Saturday and scrub a lot of the rust stains off of the bottom of the door. We are thinking of installing a pot rack in front of the locked door to my landlords space (it hasn't been opened since I moved in 7 years ago) and a magnetic knife holder next to the stove. That way we can get rid of the cheapo knife set that takes up counter space. I'm just wondering how high I would have to mount it so that it doesn't get too hot when I'm cooking.

Luckily I already filter my water and cook several meals every week, so at least I have that part done.

peaceyall - i've also tried to download the worksheets and with no luck. i'm not in the official cure, but these would still be a great help. does anyone have them?

About the worksheets: until the link is fixed why not create your own in Word? All you need is a table, four columns (for repair) and as many rows as you want to fit on the page. (I believe the web-site worksheets were in landscape view).

I had company in town from Thursday to this afternoon so not much Curing was done. I cast out my outbox, but didn't finish re-organizing my office closet yet. My kitchen was already in good shape so that didn't need too much attention anyway. I did manage to do some baking last night - maple oatmeal craisin cookies, so good and made the place smell great. Since I was having company, I did do normal tidying and really scrubbed down my bathroom and cleaned all the bed linens, including the bedskirt so that was good progress anyway.

I also got a new showerhead on a hose thingy so it will be easier to bathe my dog in my tiny shower. I need to get some drill bits to install it. Thanks for the bathroom inspiration shoutout. I still can't decide if I want to do the lighter blue or the deeper blue paint on the walls. Luckily bathroom week is still a bit a way.

Seeking a little clarification ... is the weekly progress post supposed to go here or on the Flickr discussion group? Sorry for the ignorance, it's my first Cure.

Out of the Office: I am traveling so not working on my home right now (only in my dreams) but Maxwell asked to post so I'll start. I moved into my place a year ago and have been using principles from the cure continuously, but this is my first "official" cure. I am not so worried about missing the first couple of weeks because I am definitely a warm person and the most lived in room in my house is the kitchen, which happens to be quite clean at the moment. I have earth-friendly cleaning products and a landing strip under my belt also. My challenges and major points I want to tackle are:

-getting rid of lots of paper. Academic articles that I wish I had read, mostly. sigh.
-weeding through my files
-continuing to edit my bookshelves (most of this work is yet to be done, see point 1)
-organize my film-era photos?
-change the colors in the bathroom, just a shower curtain and mat change
-add storage space in the bathroom and kitchen
-spend a bit of time in my kitchen in the morning instead of run out in exasperation
-get into a regular cleaning schedule

my Ta Da! List (this is a FlyLady phrase, I can't take credit)

-got a new battery for my camera so I could post pics
-bought a new broom instead of the small annoying one I had
-exchanged a pottery barn frame that was waiting for months and framed the photo I wanted
-cleaned the whole house and mopped floors
-threw out a pile of catalogs
-made a to-do list and a very short repairs list--everything is pretty much in order
-made a shopping list
-started cataloging my books

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82584715@N00/2317993304/in/photostream/

I've been behind...life has been getting in the way!
I've posted my "done" stuff on my blog, and on flickr...

http://passageunsettled.blogspot.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidneys_cure/

I'm narrowing down a shopping list and setting my budget--I know I should have done that by now, but I've been avoiding it. :)
I mapped out a new floor plan, but I'm insecure about it...if you read my post on my blog you'll see--I understand the concept of flow, but I have trouble applying it.
I also edited and hopefully crystallized my style tray.
This is the point when I always get nervous, second guess my ideas and water everything down and do nothing....so any feedback is appreciated!

I am doing the one room cure for the kitchen area of my studio, but being that I live in one room, I am doing some deep treatment also. I've been working on my apartment steadily since I moved in 8 months ago and the kitchen is the one area where my progress is continuously derailed. Here is what I have done for my combo cure so far:

week 1: vacuumed and mopped; got rid of my sandwich maker; bought lillies; chose my kitchen to cure; set my budget to complete the already hellish renovation; did my taxes and cut back on my budget accordingly; checked out the flickr group and was really surprised to see a comment on one of my pictures

week 2: fixed the wobbly leg on my landing strip table; threw away expired items in the kitchen; put unmatched flatware in the outbox; bought daffodils; cooked a meal for myself and made the Guinness Chocolate Ice Cream from thekitchn site as a surprise for my boyfriend http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/recipe-review/david-lebovitzs-guinnessmilk-chocolate-ice-cream-045655 ; played with Ikea floorplans for my future kitchen

Beginning of Week 3:
bought daisies; put every magazine I own out with the recycling; emailed the previous owner of my apartment to let them know I still have their mail; applied the 80/20 rule by painting the inside of my front door, the hallway wall facing my door, and the inside of the window frames bright turquoise; made a shopping list for the kitchen reno; still LOTS to do ...

evillstudio:
I brought my sandwich maker into work. The guys in lab are loving it and I think we're actually all eating a little healthier.

Which reminds me, on our weekly trip to Fairway, we need to pick up some more bread. A couple of us from work go in on Mondays.

Well I'm way behind but I made a few strides this weekend. I finally posted my before pictures to the flickr group http://www.flickr.com/photos/35292112@N00/sets/72157604233157016/ . The kitchen countertop has been measured and we are just waiting to hear what day this week they will able to install. I did some backsplash research and I think we're going to go with glass subway tiles. If anyone has and good sources for glass tiles I'd love to hear them.
I order battery operated sconces for the bedroom. Hopefully they'll be bright enough to read by and don't look to cheesy. I'm pretty excited about the fact that there will be no visible wires and no hardwiring required.
I've been trying to keep up with the floors although a puppy in the mist of housebreaking is making that a little tough. The new cleaning task to tackle is getting the bf to fold and put away his cloths.
My mom helped out with the fresh flowers by bringing me a potted lily for easter. Now (if I remember to water it) I'll have fresh flowers for a several weeks.