Who’s with me? Since some of us are just settling back into our homes after the unofficial end to summer and others need a little extra time to pick up the AT Book, we're going to kick off the Fall Cure next Monday.
Remember, the Cure has two levels — one of which requires next to no financial investment (but lots of elbow grease), and you can choose to focus on one room or the whole home at once. Each of the city sites will be posting individually about the Cure. So we’re hoping for some lively discussions here on AT:SF as we work towards making our homes even more beautiful and better organized.
Also, if you want to start a photo set on Flickr and don't have an account yet, get over there and sign up. And please remember to post photos to our Flickr pool or tag them with "apartmenttherapycureSF".
Check out the Book Blog if you want to read up on our past Cures. Going forward, you can find AT:SF Fall Cure posts twice a week: Mondays and usually Thursdays Fridays. Comments and pics will be pulled to the front page post each week. (So it's important that you take and upload those photos!)
In addition to posting about the eight chapters in the book, I’m going to be treating my own house as we go along. Yes, we’re in this together, people!
Image: Psymonetta
Veronica & Keith's Handmade Chic 
The World's Ugliest Condo: The Big Bathroom Reveal 
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
A Beginner's Guide to Superb Stir-Fry: Quick, Healthy Meals from a Wok
Homesteaders' Cocktail Recipe: Lovage Simple Syrup
Comments (20)
are there any bookstores selling this book in San Francisco??
Borders carried it when it came out. Using their store search on the stores within the city limits... they claim to have copies at San Francisco Centre, Mission Bay, and Stonestown.
The search results aren't 100% reliable, so I'd call the store and get them to hold the book for you (or use the online purchase for store pick-up option) before heading over to one.
in addition to borders (nice work, wende!), stacey's on market is showing that they had one copy as of last night.
www.staceys.com
I just ordered a copy from my local indie bookseller (Bird & Beckett in Glen Park) and it'll be here Friday morning. Didn't even think to check Stacey's, let alone Borders!
Have been waffling about whether I'd do the cure because I've got a lot going on right now, but figured I'd get the book and go from there. Hopefully I'll be joining you all....
my house is needing some major curing right now (it looks great until you open a closet . . . or a cabinet, or a sideboard, or a dresser) so I'm definitely gonna be there!
Hi.
ack. I feel so awkward. Always hated being the "new girl."
I'm on the prairies, in Canada. We will have winter in about 7 weeks. I feel like I should join the curees in Chicago (after all, they get snow too, right?) but SF is actually 300 miles closer to me than Chicago. And I don't have high ceilings. We don't get fog. And we have only one worthwhile vintage store.
Should I join you for the cure?
I did the cure last fall--and embarrassingly enough, there are projects still outstanding from that one!
alana in canada - yes! we'd love to have you join our cure. looking forward to (hopefully) having you on board.
Thanks anh-minh.
I'll be doing the deep treatment as well as finishing up some decorating projects I'm in the middle of.
My husband and two kids and I live in a 1200 square foot box of a house. It's a story and a half--do you have those? It was built in 1949 with a few arches, hardwood floors, an awkward layout and a hopelessly inefficient and sparsely cupboarded kitchen.
We own it. But we've not much of a budget to take care of the poor dear. She needs new flooring in the kitchen and bath (and a half) and we really should move out and have the hardwood restored.
I love the cure, not only because it motivates me to decorate and look after slow moving drains and rusty faucets but because I really enjoy helping others make their environments healthier and happier.
Has everyone got a flickr account set up and a link posted in your profile here? You can start saving pics of rooms or things you like to the flickr account. It makes it a whole lot easier to give advice when you've some idea of someone's style.
alana in canada - i think we do have the half stories here, but they're called "split levels." (someone correct me, please, if i'm wrong.)
i've never done the cure before, so i'm excited to see the challenges that other people are facing (i'm sure we probably have some in common) -- and getting advice on my own home.
and, yes, uploading photos to flickr will help a great deal as we move forward.
Ooh it looks like I'm curing over here too. My husband and I live in a sort of ranch-style 3 bedroom-2 bath built in 1968. This means... shag rugs, popcorn ceilings and avocado kitchen appliances! However, it also has an awesome sunken living room and the giant TV just died so it doesn't dominate the whole house anymore (I used to refer to that room as the Media Frenzy).
We own but I'm trying not to tackle any more major projects for a while (last Cure was a bathroom reno and the one before ended up with me painting about 1/2 of the interior of the house).
I fantasize about gutting the kitchen and getting a proper deck in the backyard. But this Cure is going to be getting back to the dusting and decluttering. And I adore all the feedback and great ideas from everyone, I spend way too much time on flickr looking at everyone's homes. I guess I should repost my pics to the SF group but they are linked in my name right now.
I'm in and way past due. My book shoudl arrive in the mail from Powell's tomorrow or Monday (hope it's tomorrow so I can start reading!). Looking forward to it.
Photos coming. Meanwhile, you can check out my scintillating new blog, created just for the cure!
http://prairiehometherapy.blogspot.com/
Hi Anne!!
We keep each other company over at flickr.
Drats...my bookseller is in the middle of moving the store and somehow spaced on ordering the book for me last week, so I won't get it until Tuesday. That, plus the fact that many of you have been doing pre-cure work, makes me feel so far behind before even starting! *shakes it off* OK, I feel better now. Must fine-tune a 'accept and work within my limits' mantra...lol.
Um... that should have read AN accept and work within my limits mantra. That's what I get for editing and then posting without proofreading first. How embarassing.
Don't worry jessicat. Honestly. I can't promise evry post of mine will be prefectly, grammatically correct. Now will I spell everything the right way!
When one is a bit high on paint fumes and cleaning chemicals and lost in the challenge of creating beauty on a budget--we can all extend a little grace to each other.
And don't feel behind. Some of us a just gluttons for punishment!
see--there you go!
I did it already.
Visit your local library and borrow it if you can't buy your own or until you buy your own.
Apartment therapy: the eight step home cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
jessicat: since the first assigment won't be posted until tomorrow, i think you'll be in perfectly fine shape even if you don't get the book until later in the week.
P.S. everybody, put descriptions and notes on your flickr photos so people can give you tips! Nobody needs to tell you how to redecorate if you just want to declutter!
Thanks, anh-minh, for the reassurance---& har, Alana!
Now (or maybe tomorrow), to find that darn flickr account I created many moons ago but haven't yet used....