apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Welcome back Maxwell! I hope everyone's safe and sound at home now. Of course, we'd love an update ;-)

Still sending our best to all three of you. What a glorious time for you. Do we have a name yet?

I, too, am eager to hear the little one's name... in the absence of her official name, I've been thinking of her as Erin Grace. Say it out loud a couple of times, you'll see why I think it would fit! Anyway, hope all three are well!

(and, hey, cool! I got welcomed!)

Not to toot my own horn (okay, well perhaps a little self-tooting), but I got a letter to the editor of Met Home published in the November issue.

Anyone have a good online site for rug pads?

I tried looking earlier and only seemed to find sites that weren't very good or descriptive.

Is there going to be a Cure starting this week? If I was Maxwell, I'd be too tied up with the new baby to do a Cure right now, but I'm still hoping there'll be one. Is anyone else waiting for it as eagerly as I am? I've been "curing" on my own since May, but I'd really like to be involved in an online Cure.

Glimpse of baby on the Kitchen site Flickr photos

on this day of forgiveness, i forgive all you people for being the witless morons that you are.

P2: Congrats! Tooting your own horn is a good thing....

I look forward to Met Home November.

Smallcitybeth, I'm raring to Cure. Having just moved and gotten 90% unpacked, I want an incentive for dealing with all the "little" stuff that is likely to get neglected once I find a job to start.

That, and the husband agreed we could do a One-Room Remedy on the new, much larger patio, which currently contains one chair, one thriving succulent, one non-thriving succulent that the larger cat slept in on the trip here, a giant paving stone, and the DirectTV dish. Somehow, this just doesn't say, "Let's have a patio party once nights aren't in the 90s!"

it's a day of attonement, not forgiveness.

A while back someone suggested taking the back off a clock and putting some cool wallpaper on the face, then reassembling. Sounds like a good idea but have just discovered I can't do that with the one I have at home because it appears to be in a time capsule with a none removable front! Anyone know offhand of a clock -- has to be 9 in. or less in diameter -- that has a removable back on which this cool idea might work?

Thank you Jonathan.

P2-remind us when the November issue comes out - looking forward to it.

Yes, I'm waiting for the next Cure too! Amazingly enough, I was just yesterday pondering some of the things I didn't get done on the last Cure and whether I could get a jump start by attacking those before the official Cure starts.

p(too). Thanks for the heads up! Since I've let my subscription lapse, I'll be sure to look for the issue when it hits the stands...

Late to the party on this topic: Brocade Home. I finally got the catalog in the mail over the weekend. And I really liked it. I know that a lot of previous comments on AT have been mixed; but I found the styling and overall aesthetic to be very "rock 'n roll royalty"--kind of how I'd imagine someone like Bryan Ferry might live if he weren't a multi-millionaire. It struck me as a fresh take on Anthropologie meets Paul Smith.

The November issue of Met Home is on the stands now.

My taste in tables is a bit square. A friend provides organic relief; thankfully her color scheme is soothing and neutral.

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Funny enough, I just read the letters this morning over coffee. I had to go back to see which one was yours.

Patrick, you make a good point. I don't quite get their distinction between crediting furnishings but not art because interior design is about the furnishings of a room. Hmmm, I always thought interior design was about the accents too.

Margaret - I've seen Ikea wall clocks with changed faces and they look fantastic. I don't know the size, though.

Enrique: You are still my personal style God, but I have to disagree with you on Brocade.

To me it reads 1950s Nouveau Riche, though admittedly in a different color palette...

I'm sorry, could someone please tell me again which magazine Ptoo had a letter published in? I seem to have missed that.

LOL. It's all good, Mama C. We can agree to disagree here. (But, yikes, I ain't no one's style guru...)

I recently watched the '60s French cult fashion movie "Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?" So many of the sets (the office of the ersatz Diana Vreeland-type fashion editor, the prince's decadantly-appointed apartment) echo the same design aesthetic that Brocade Homes aspires to achieve, but with a '60s op-art spin. The modernity of the stylistic juxtapositions were really striking. I guess that's part of the reason I feel a little more open to Brocade Home's vibe. The styling of the catalog feels so right-on for me.

P2-Didn't realize I already had the Nov. issue - I received it in Sept, so assumed it was the Oct. issue! Congrats on getting your letter in there.

whoa--two Canadians welcomed--fantastic! What a shock to see myself welcomed. Thanks.
And I too am anticpating an on-line cure to begin--though I haven't a clue whether to do the deep treatment or the one room option! The family is in a three bedroom 1200 square foot house--not a McMansion by any means. It's about 300 sq feet per person, lol!

I did figure out that if I did do a one room treatment for eight weeks--we could re-do the whole house in about a year. I think I'd fall down exhausted, though!

SCBin Canada and Wende and everyone else who plan to join the Oct. Cure, I finally got my book and am looking forward to starting the Cure with you.

Yay, gekko!

Alana, I'd go with my gut on what's bugging you more. You are so right about the exhaustion of doing a one-room remedy on an entire multi-room house... that's why Brian and Marva still are not done.
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I am really hoping a cure will begin soon, I'm reading through the book to see what I'd be getting into, and I definitely need to do it.

Congrats to Maxwell & Sara Kate on the new arrival--and I bow in honor at your valiancy, SK!! May she sleep long, often, and soundly!