Last Spring sara.cali from our Flickr Pool showed off some lovely flowers, and a four legged friend!
• Cure Clock: 5 days till start!
• Assignment: Buy or borrow the book! and read to pg. 51
Yes! The time has finally come. The first official Green Cure is launching next Monday, and there's no time like the present to make your home beautiful and healthy. It's not just about organizing your home; it's about managing your consumption and reducing the amount of "stuff" you have. It's about discovering what you love and need in your home and forming new habits that will help you live lighter, cleaner, and better. And that's what the Green Cure is all about...
The Cure is essentially 8 weeks of assignments that help you focus on making your home a place you love to be in. We post assignments and updates a couple of times each week on the site and ask that you to submit photos of your progress so that we can all share in the process. Together we help motivate and inspire one another throughout the 8 weeks. And don't worry, none of us has ever done it perfectly, but we've all made progress and that's what's important.
If you've never done the Cure before, we'd love to have you join this time! This year we're doing a specific "Green Cure" for the very first time. How is it different than the original Cure? Well, we're going to try to fully embrace a holistic approach to the home as we go through and cure it, and we'll be making extra effort to always take the "green" way if there is one. Your home should be a restful and welcoming retreat: healthy, uncluttered, comfortable. With most of us paring down and spending more time at home it's more important than ever to have a space to unwind and spend time alone or with friends. No matter the size and current state of your home, you can make it into a place you love to be.
Here's how it all works:
• One Cure page to tie together all the posts, both Original and Green.
• Cure emails to stay in touch with you even if you don't make it to the blog.
• Local Cure discussion boards so that you can chat and organize locally.
Ready to sign up!
Head over to the Cure Main Page and join us as we all change our lives over the next eight weeks.
Before & After: Emily Henderson Transforms a Senior's Studio Space
Monica & Austin's Charming Bungalow
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Ercol Bar Stool
How To Cook Fluffy, Tasty Quinoa
True Greek Recipe: Paximadi Bread Salad with Tomatoes, Feta and Capers
I thought this was scheduled to start this past Monday, 10/5. Was there a delay?
At least it gives me time to finish the book!
Well, we always start with a Week Zero (which is this week) to give people the chance to get the book and start prepping. We had a bit of a delay with our Cure page, which is why this post didn't go up until today. But Week One definitely starts on Monday!
I'm actually glad for the delay--I'm headed out of town for a wedding which I'm really looking forward to but I'd hate to miss a cure weekend. Best of both worlds!
We are SOO ready for this renewal! let's go!
I've been looking forward to this since Fall officially started last month. Yay Fall Cure!
Looking forward to "greening" it this year too.
So... in an effort to reduce my "stuff" count, I'm going to start by NOT buying this book, and just participating as well as I can without it. Sound ok? Or am I not going to be able to participate if I haven't read the book?
kellenor, you can probably borrow the book from the library. if not, another green option is to buy it used (like i did!). i think you really need the book. it's excellent.
How necessary is the book? I just called my local libraries and neither have the book. Buying it used (with shipping) would cut my Fall decorating budget by 20% (thank goodness my main issue at home is clutter! cheap fix!). I'm on an extremely tight budget, and can't seem to justify that purchase.
I really really really need to do this. i bought this book a few years ago and pray that i can find it. i hope this will jump start my need to purge, cleanse and create a beautiful serene living space.
can't wait to start... there is a floor in my apartment somewhere...I know because I saw it when I moved in...
I need the tidying and finishing of projects. Got my before pictures (shudder) up, complete with stray socks and laundry on floor and a total bare spot where I moved a chair from. They're really bad. I'm very ready for the cure to begin.
Flickr set at - http://www.flickr.com/photos/autzve/sets/72157622566410272/
ashleym - nice place! i need to take 'before' pics and they're going to be seriously scary. thanks for linking to yours!