Thanks, Maxwell!

I think I've done the Cure every season for the last three yearsish or so, and owned the book longer of course... Will anyone be addressing the difference in styles between housemates?

The BF and I are doing the cure together this year, and sometimes we have tastes that either collide or explode against one another... We're gradually learning how to come to a decorating compromise. I just wanted to point out how important it is to get input from the other people who live in your home, and I wanted to find out if the AT writers had any advice on that.

This is my first Cure and I'm really excited. Over the past few months, I've slowly tried to transform our apartment from a dark, traditional home to one with brighter, happier, and more modern elements, and I'm stoked to have the Cure guide the way!

This will be fun, thx

Inspirational first post - thank you!

But: *huge groan* I've never twittered, have absolutely NO idea of what to do, LOL. I practically gasped loudly from pure horror, because it seems to me like yet another thing to potentially get addicted partly to on the net. Maybe I'm wrong?

Anyway, off to look for those already saved inspirational photos and to hunt for some more regarding colours in a home (which is my weakest point after having had a loooong white period).

Thanks for the reminder to share this with other people! It really makes it more concrete when you have others routing for you. :)

bfootnovellista...I have the same problem. I tend to be a "cool" person and my husband is "warm", according to the Cure book. I will be interested to see how the AT writers respond to this dilemma too.

This Cure season couldn't have come at a more perfect time for me.

I hope to create a space that is both relaxing and reviving. Like that feeling you get after a serious yoga session where 5 minutes ago you were drained and lying on the floor feeling your breath calm you down and 5 minutes from now you will feel full of life, recharged. (I hope I can make it happen)

I also hope to use this Cure to rid my place of all the old college furniture/kitchenware I "aquired" and move on to more personal, complimentary pieces. It's time to feel more adult. :)

Thank you!

I'm really looking forward to joining in with The Cure. I only discovered AT last November when The Cure was already in full swing (I know, I know, I live in UK and discovered AT by accident), so couldn't sign up. I did learn quite a bit from reading Cure related posts and have purchased the book. I'm hoping to have an organised home at the end.

Good luck everyone!

I'm going to take a stab at the Cure--my life is pretty complicated right now, but I'll do what I can. At the least, I want to do some organizing and try to work on decorating my bathrooms.

ninakk, I think he might have meant the flickr group?

This is my first Cure. I am divorcing my husband of 12 years, and he has finally moved almost all of his stuff out -
My house is in deep need of a cure at this point.

As am I :)

Hopefully, the two will coincide. Or at least initiate (supplement?) the healing process.

Aurelais: 23 years ago, when my 1st husband left, the first thing I did, was get rid of all his stuff in the bedroom closet, and I went out and bought plastic hangers in pretty colors. I then re-hung all of my clothes, all nice and neat. It was very cathartic and it really felt good to have my closet back!

I am excited!! My husband and I moved into a new condo last spring with the hopes of there being basement storage available by now. The condo board is yet undecided about how to approach it and we keep finding ourselves saying "we'll sort through that when we have storage". The promise of storage has become a crutch for us. Its time to move on and move stuff out!!

I am so excited that I have been telling everyone I know about it! I am a little confused about the twittering part though... We twitter to our friends that are not doing the cure? Or is there a place for us to tweet to each other?

The last Cure really really helped me think about how to work on a home. Before I would never have considered saving pictures for inspiration, etc., but I have been doing that since. So I am glad that I am now ready to go look over them and I feel like I have a much better feel of my style at this point. I've also gotten rid of some things I really hated and have replaced them with things I love. So I feel I'm in a great place to do another Cure and really refine my style and my belongings.

I over-hauled my domestic space when I downsized 3 years ago, and have remained relatively disciplined about staying organized...although could use some updates.

For this challenge, and it WILL be a challenge, I am going to focus on the shop where I work. I am 24/7, so my business is my home. After five years, I have accumulated so many magazine tears, projects, paperwork, etc... that I have a storage space and backroom that absolutely need some TLC.

An inspirational vision? Everything in its place. Accessible, labeled, filed, fixed, trashed, ticketed, orderly, oh my.

Twitter? I can barely keep up with everyone on Flickr, let alone the "discussion board" which is really just one long thread of comments and is even more difficult to keep up with!

Re Twitter:
I think ereuyi is right in their assumption that Twitter is Flickr

we are really excited about doing the cure. we recently moved into a raw 2,000 sq ft loft and have since put in a kitchen and built some walls. but the space has never felt right to us. i read the book and realized we are warm people and we live in a white cement box! no wonder we hate it.

we will have lots of projects and even a longer list of design decisions to make. long live the to-do list.

1. unpack boxes that have sat in the corner for 5 months...

I've done quite a lot of rethinking and revising in the last couple of years and thought as I began the Cure (my first time) that there wasn't much that really needed to be done. But then I really walked around as you suggested and looked at everything with a fresh eye and came up with a list of 15 projects from small to medium that need to be done. So off we go!

I am excited about doing the Cure, but I'm a little worried. It's difficult for me to envision ideal rooms for my apartment, so it's hard for me to pick out things to work towards. Mostly, I have to get rid of the clutter, but I want my place to have a cohesive style.

I feel a little lost!

This is my first Cure! I will be a little behind since I am still waiting for the book.
I did a major purge and pare down last spring it felt wonderful to clear out old stuff. I am looking to give my place a little sparkle and shine with a dash of color.

Good luck to everyone & have fun!

This is my first Cure as well and I can't tell you how excited I am. I feel that I deeply connected to my idea of home. After reading the beginning chapters of the book today, I realized that my stunted home could be the a contributor to lack my energy and how I no longer create art.

I am anxious to create clear pathways and bring soul back into home.

This is my first Cure, and it came at the perfect time. We moved about two months ago and still haven't finished unpacking and setting everything up. In our defense, we've got a five month old baby (and two other kids), but I don't feel like we are doing things as fast as we should be.

On the plus side, because we just moved, we already got rid of a lot of stuff. But we have a lot more space now, and much of what we had and kept isn't to scale. In our old living room we only had space for a loveseat, but our new living room is three times the size so the loveseat that was overwhelming at the old house is lost in this one! And we seem to have a lot of small pictures, but no small walls. Unfortunately, our budget does not allow for buying a lot of new things right now, but our biggest issue that we need to address is the "breath" (I think it was, whatever you call it, we need some style!).

This is my first Cure and I can't wait to get started. Barnes and Noble ordered the book for me last week and I should be getting a phone call from them any day now. Super excited!! It just now hit me that I'm actually excited about cleaning and organizing! That's really weird. If my friends found out about that, they would wonder what had gotten in to my water. Haha.

I've been collecting ideas for a while now and of the three areas to tackle in my house, I'm the most excited to get the balcony garden thriving and in darling shape. Oh, but if Spring could only get here sooner!

These next two months are going to be so much easier knowing that hundreds of us are all in this together. Support, inspiration, appreciation, ideas, and just plain old love!! EEEEEEEE!!!

Bought and read through page 75 yesterday. Ideas and inspiration very, very appreciated. Nice to meet everyone!

I hope to improve the storage in our apartment and to provide my husband and myself with an area where we each can be comfortable. We seem to have territorial issues a lot of the time.

I've been slowly re-reading the book for the past few weeks, and am almost indecently excited about starting a new Cure. What can I say? I'm addicted to purging. And fortunately, my husband – a reformed packrat ever since doing the Cure for the first time three years ago – is, too. We're especially looking forward to tackling our bedroom, which has been sadly in need of refreshment for a few years. Woo!

This is our first Cure. We moved into our first house a year and a half ago. Neither of us has ever lived in a house in our adult lives, and we're fairly clueless as to how to turn our visions into reality.

It is a little odd that the magenta living room picture, which is from a (October?) spread in Living Etc. is actually my exact vision for our living room. I've been obsessing about that very photo of that living room for months now; I guess this is a sign that it's time to take action on that vision!

I'm super excited to participate this year. I just moved and have a crazy work schedule, so my place is nowhere near any order. not to mention, I have creative/packrat/clutter tendencies. I was feeling a little sheepish about the hasty photos I took of my still-unpacked, unorganized apartment, but it was encouraging seeing the entire range of spaces in the Flickr pool!

I started the Cure last Fall, and fizzled out about mid-way through. I think my goal this time around is to find thrifty ways of emulating the looks I want for my apartment (i.e. painting old furniture as opposed to buying everything brand-new). I was so energized at the beginning and want to keep that momentum going the whole way through this time!

I just got the book and am most of the way through reading it. We're in the process of buying the house we have been renting for a year so it's a great time to start making it our own...plus we are planning MAJOR renovations later this year so a) I really need to get a grip with all the clutter we have, and b) I can try all sorts of things out, knowing we're going to be doing work anyway. Only downside is that it won't be worth spending much money this time around, and that I'm going to struggle to get my SO on board if we're planning lots of work later on. Ho hum, it's pretty exciting anyway!

Question Re: Twitter
What hashtag would be used for this season's cure so we all can find each other?

@MeWindow

Use #ATcure for your hashtag. It's the one that goes out with the automatic tweet when you sign up.

Hey AT, details such as this one are good to publish in permanent locations! Like perhaps below the link "Tweet this"?

Hi all! This is my third official Cure, but I took on too much the first two times around and didn't get terribly far. I read the Cure for the first time almost three years ago, and since have adopted many of the ideas from the Deep Treatment--Landing Strip, Outbox, fresh flowers, eco-friendly cleaning products--but actual redecorating has been scant. This is a dark and shameful secret since I am a decorator by trade (after a very happy career change last year). Somehow I find it easier to help other people with their homes than to work on my own!

A few months ago my husband and I finally took the plunge and started repainting our bathroom, and we've been fixing it up bit by bit ever since. For this cure I am going to finish it. I'm glad to be focusing on just one room--I think it's a manageable goal!

I'm blogging about my Cure here:

http://casitablog.blogspot.com/

My fiance and I are just moving into a new place so this comes at a really opportune time! I think we'll do The Cure for our living room.

I've started reading the book, it's really interesting. I do wish there was a little less of the feng shui type stuff though (i.e. the idea of "flow" could probably be expressed without resorting to the silliness of "harmful energy" and "stagnating energy").

@christine_z Thanks so much!

I'm still waiting for amazon to deliver my book. Took the "before" shots today and began collecting pics for my inspiration board. This is my first Cure and feels like its much needed.

I moved into my very own apartment last September, after painting the walls and moving my stuff in I've been slowly decluttering (selling stuff at fleamarkets, recycling, cutting down on the sheer volume of paper I've been storing) but the place still looks more like a temporary storage than a home. Been too tired this winter to do much to the bigger elements of the place. I still have plastic gardening furniture in my living room! So there is lots to work on. I'm looking forward.

wow ... familiar excitement already creeping up! this is my second cure and i can't wait to get on everyone's nerves by talking about my apartement projects and not much else! hope I can get some of my friends to join this year.

btw, what shall we tag our pics on flickr with?

This is the first time I've done the cure. Can't wait!
I'm taking before pictures right now and i just sat down and wrote about 800 words about what I hope to achieve....Ready to delclutter and make some changes.

@christine_z: thanks, I actually thought there would be just Flickr. Now I'm signed up and everything, but goodness how many places to keep updated on!

This is my first cure. I've never been ready before.

Part of my readiness comes from my boyfriend, who I share an apartment with. Part is from knowing myself, and from a desire to build a cohesive visual identity for my home, wardrobe, web presence, etc. Part is knowing that I will likely be moving cross-country in the next two years. Part is from looking at my STUFF and feeling physically exhausted & burdened by it: i.e. thousands of books that once were embedded in my identity feel like clutter.

I need to tilt the ratio of things that I own that I love, and purging/acquiring within the structure of the Cure feels like the right way to do it.

To do it with accountability, I started a tumblog this morning, which will serve as a very public inspiration tray for now, and as a report card later: http://createcultivatecurate.tumblr.com/

This is my second Cure, but the first one I have had money to participate in. We will be cleaning out the garage, prepping our backyard and front yard for gardening (I'm a brand new gardner, so I'm totally excited!) and preparing the rest of our house for the in-laws to visit. Looking forward to seeing where things go!

I finally got all of my pictures up on Flickr (although perhaps that time would have been better spent unpacking? Hmm). I'm trying to remember where I put my old notebooks of magazine/catalog pictures. I know I saw them recently. Was going through my Houzz ideabooks and also looking at things I have saved in Evernote though. I always thought I was all over the place, but I am actually seeing patterns. No idea how to implement anything yet, but I feel like I am getting closer.

I purchased the book a few years ago, but this will be my first Cure. I must start with decluttering my spare room, so I can find the book! I'm very excited to get started.

@lifeinthefortress: Very excited to hear about your gardening adventures! I've just started keeping houseplants for the first time ever, but we also have a small shared backyard, and I have been talking to a neighbor about starting to garden there. How are you starting? Do you have an expert gardener who's helping you, or are you just going on books and the web as your guide?

Okay. I'm taking the plunge. We've lived in our current space for one year next week. It took so much work to unpack and get our apartment basically functional (and full of enough furniture that it didn't echo!) that I eventually just gave up. But now, with a new breath of air and energy I aim to make some progress this year. I aim to add color and cohesion, to fill out the empty walls and corners, start to create a space for baby number 2 (coming in Sept!) and to FINALLY carve functional workspaces into our office/family room/guest room. Oh and to replace those god awful light fixtures in our living room with something more our taste. Wfew. A big order. But it's now or never. This is our home, after all!

I have a renovation planned for my main room (that I have been putting off for much to long) - cleaning up the bones of the space, adding some storage and replacing several light fixtures. Along with this, it's spring, so the balcony will need to be set up and planted, and some basic spring cleaning has got to happen. I am hoping, this will keep me on track.

oh wow that high-ceiling dining room looks lovely! I'm going to be following this cure, I'd love to see what you guys come up with, and hopefully find enough time to get inspired and start my own too!

This will be the first time I've joined from the beginning. I'm going to do a full cure on my MBR (make it clutter-free and luxurious) and mini cures on my kids' room (they share a small BR and it's just a mess). I won't be spending a lot of money, just doing more practical things to gain some peace of mind which is lacking in my BR right now.

I"m so excited to be doing this. I am going to try and post pictures over the weekend. My homework schedule is currently overriding my Cure schedule, but I plan to:
Paint the hallway and foyer
Paint the bathroom
Hang pictures and some art
Hang curtains in my room and my formal living room
Invest in some lighting solutions (lamps, mainly)

All kinds of stuff outside the house:
Fence a larger run for the dogs
Plant some veggies
Rip out some overgrowth

I'm excited and overwhelmed at the same time!

My first time for the Cure. I want to send in my BEFORE picture directly to AT so I may be a graduate at the end of the 8 weeks. Feel dumb, but how do I do that? How do I submit the single Before photo? Thanks!

@fiddi - I think there is a spot to upload your before pic when you sign up and fill out the online form.

Great way to sell a book! I approve! LOL I got it for my Kindle and will be reading and following discussion! Thanks!