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Eastern Fall Cure: The Landing Strip
Week Three - Weekend

enter & obey(giant) by Zuzu*Petals.
Zuzu Petal's entryway with much artwork and her hardest working piece of furniture: the red stool

10-6-curepic.jpg• Cure Clock: 36 days Remaining
• Assignment: Read Ch. 3, revamp or uncover your entryway
• Flickr Pool: East Fall Cure Pool

Sorry for the delay, but we're back today on this beautiful, sunny, post Halloween Saturday. Thanks for all the feedback on American shelter magazines. I was surprised that Domino was such a front runner as well, but I've made a new survey to see if we can find out about all the non US mags that you mentioned. And, of course, tell us what is going on in your home and don't forget to list those things that you've accomplished.

 
 

This Week's Assignment: Now we tread deeper into the thick of it. I love the Landing Strip!

In the Deep Treatment you are going think about COLOR and focus on the hallway, an area that is too easily overlooked and extremely important for the health of your home. Building a Landing Strip will help you filter the outside word, keeping your home calm and cutting down on your junk mail will give you back years of life. Enjoy putting together an invitation for week 8's gathering!...

The One Room Workout you are going to deepen your research online, get COLOR and begin to call in help. When looking for resources online, don't forget that AT.com was originally designed to provide listings to stores, services and products in it's GUIDE. If you are having trouble finding something, send in the question to your nearest AT site.

LATEST NEWS ---------------------------------------------


sunday dinner by salazar.
Sunday dinner with Salazar! Hey, let's get that Tecate into a nice glass with that lime to fancy it up a bit. ;-)

Bedroom - After (formerly Office 1) by ce_pelle.
Ce Pelle's bedroom AFTER with her grandmother's room divider as headboard.
BEFORE & AFTER -- hall closet by tiboutoo.
Tiboutoo's before and after hall closet - look close, it's a big difference!
Living room by mistabelle.
Welcome to Mistabelle! What a lovely living room.

I love this. It looks like Elaine cleaned out her entire tea collection in the process of revamping her kitchen. Click through and you'll see that she has listed every box of tea!

PICTURE UPLOAD AREAS ---------------------------------------------

>> New Eastern Flickr pool

You can also visit our old unofficial (but awesome) Flickr pool here or simply tag your pics with "apartmenttherapycure." See even older pics here too.

EAST CURE POST INDEX ---------------------------------------------

The Landing Strip - Week 3
Week 2 - Weekend
Week 2 - Clearing the Path
Week 1 - Weekend
Week 1 - Creating Your Vision
Getting Oriented - Weekend
Getting Oriented - Week 0
Fall Cure - Join us next week!

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GENERAL INFO ---------------------------------------------

The Fall Cure is live again in all four of our Home city sites. The Cure posts will go up twice a week on Mondays and Fridays, allowing for plenty of comment space. We will be pulling comments and pics to the front page post on each of these days and everyone is urged to take pics and post them here.

REMEMBER: The goal is to use the group to support, inspire and answer questions as you go. The more you participate, the more you will get out of it. But you may also lurk if you are shy ;-).

Chicago (hosted by Sarahrae and covering the midwest)
San Francisco (hosted by Danielle and covering the northwest)
Los Angeles (Hosted by Abby and Laure and covering the southwest)
New York (Hosted by Maxwell and covering the east)

Please choose the site nearest your home to join in, but feel free to browse and comment on all!

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>> About The Book

>> Excerpt from Chapter I

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Comments (15)

Please, you need to stop calling it a landing strip! Try Launch Pad or something.

posted by LaurieLu on November 1st 2008 at 7:06am
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Shepard Fairy

posted by LizzyBFCL on November 1st 2008 at 7:19am
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lol I agree with LaurieLu.

posted by aladywhoknows on November 1st 2008 at 8:01am
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I still mourn the loss of the most brilliant Elle Decoration UK edition, when it was "the most beautiful most useful modern homes magazine". There was an advisory board for the magazine, a prominent member of which was Romeo Gigli.

My favourite years were under Toni Rogers, who left in 2004.

Under her, there was a brilliant "Deco Details" section at the back of the magazine on non-glossy paper, sort of the practical nuts-and-bolt or how-to part of the magazine. My favourite part of Deco Details was, hands down, "Deco Rescue". Every month, they had owners with a real deco problem, and they got proposals from 3 prominent designers, with a budget option, mid-range and "hang the expense". The things these British designers came up with were amazing, and they provided a list and photos of the resources. Amazingly creative! I cherish all my old issues...

Now, Elle/UK is just so-so, and is a very ordinary part of the Elle Deco stable (Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, etc.). Frankly, the French edition is now more creative.

posted by mschatelaine on November 1st 2008 at 8:54am
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Oh, and Elaine, you may have cleaned out YOUR tea collection, but now you have me itching to order Kusmi tea!!

posted by mschatelaine on November 1st 2008 at 8:56am
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hey, that's my chili! i'll make a bigger pot next time if yall want to stop by for dinner. and i'll put the beer in a pint glass and make biscuits instead of toast too.

posted by salley on November 1st 2008 at 10:45am
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Boligmagasinet, a Danish publication, is adorable! Their web site is ok, but in print it is absolutely great. The homes they show are light and airy, and still often full of colors. :) You have to love Scandinavian design, though. Sometimes there are a few too many Arne Jacobsen chairs...

Check out boligmagasinet.dk - but make sure to get a real copy too...

My other guilty pleasure is Marie Claire Maison, I buy it for the pictures, but claim it's to read French. :)

posted by Marianne (Norway) on November 1st 2008 at 10:45am
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Eliane, the name is Eliane (French) not Elaine (American)! Merci. :)
Oh and I donated 3 boxes of tea to a friend. I had them in double. I would call that an "A" for a real sizing down effort! It was hard. ;)

@ mschatelaine: for a good sample of the Kusmi-tea collection, head to Zabar's in the Upper West Side. Buy a little tea spoon upstairs (the kind you fill in with loose tea, perfect for 1 cup) and have choose your tea downstairs.
And I agree totally with you on the original Elle Décoration (i.e. French): much better. Plus, easier to read for me. :)
I also like Marie-Claire Maison but it tends to be a little be more on the "country" side. Which is fine. But not in my place.

posted by Eliane_Brussels Sprout in Manhattan on November 1st 2008 at 11:06am
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I gave my vote to Elle Decor UK but also enjoy World of Living immensely

posted by Sassy in SF on November 1st 2008 at 11:49am
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totally agree laurielu.....

posted by littlejex on November 1st 2008 at 12:12pm
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Ooh, this is the part that I've been waiting for! I totally failed on the kitchen week, I didn't even clean it! But this one I'm determined to do, as I spend too much time every single morning, looking for my keys and my phone, and I have a real problem dealing with mail. This is going to improve my life, no less!!!
http://www.notyourgoddess.blogspot.com/

posted by Harpa on November 1st 2008 at 2:25pm
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I need to say that AT has inspired me to do something for my home, for that I thank you! I tried to suscribe for the cure but was not succesful...couldn´t get the book....bla, bla,bla anyway I was commited to cure my home so here is my progress so far, hope you like it as much as I do, specially my "landing strip", or "launch pad" and hope to hear your wise advice...thanks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukita1/sets/72157608394305844/

posted by sukita on November 1st 2008 at 5:34pm
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Is the survey closed? I couldn't vote.

posted by hrhprincessfiona on November 2nd 2008 at 1:00am
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Sorry I messed up and the pictures of the after were not on the album, but now I fixed it! I just voted I don´t think it´s closed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=sets

posted by sukita on November 2nd 2008 at 3:21am
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Sunday brunch, strata with farm fresh eggs (from 4 breeds of hens); grass-fed cow's milk, baguette from that morning, basil from garden, sungold tomatoes-last of the season! and vermont cheddar. Will have to remember to take photo before serving with mandarina oranges and strata disappearing.

posted by mauka-makai on November 2nd 2008 at 10:50am
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