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This Apartment Therapy project has just turned into an excuse to go shopping…. Things to Buy: Ribba Frames from IKEA for vintage travel poster calendar art that I already have (3 for living room & 1 for kitchen). Couch pillows and a throw for living room: look at World Market, IKEA ? Candles: 1 for [...]

Is it cheating if items on my ’101 Things in 1001 Days’ list overlap? Anyhow, as part of #72- Apartment Therapy Home Cure, I finished #92- Load the rest of my CDs on to iTunes. I needed to clear out media items in my living room (books, CDs, DVDs etc) so it had to get [...]

First week 4 task: figure out what I need, to increase/decrease color in each room. Rooms Cool/Warm plus/minus Entry Cool Add panel over breaker box, add Blik graphic Kitchen Warm Add warm colors frame art to blank wall by sink Dining/Office Warm Move or cover file cabinet Living Warm? (browns) Add more blue/color: pillows, throw, [...]

Now the real work starts… week 4 is the declutter deep treatment, so it looks like I’ll be spending some time sorting through my books/media. I think the hardest part of this week will be deciding what colors and items to +/- in each room. It’s so ambiguous. Week 4 – Retail Therapy (& Declutter) [...]

I like how this book is divided into alphabetized 1 page blurbs (otherwise known as riffs, rants and ideas). While all 183 are not remarkable it, it’s a great read/listen. I first checked this book out from the library and after skipping around, reading a few pages, I checked out the audio book. I think [...]

As mentioned, this week’s Apartment Therapy tasks are pretty simple. When I first moved in to my apartment, I wanted the entryway to be really simple, so I didn’t do too much decorating. On the kitchen outer wall, I just have a big clock (the perspective looks really small in the picture though) and two [...]

Week 3 is all about de-cluttering the entryway in your home. The theory is that if you don’t let junk cross the barrier into your home it will stay cleaner! :) This week is super easy for me since my apartment is pretty small. Week 3 – The Landing Strip Vacuum, dust Clean entrance/doorway area [...]

This week, I read Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff. It was written a few years ago (pre-’04 election), so it has that kind of “frame” around it. :) As a voter, I’m neither a democrat or republican, (although I lean a [...]

At the farmer’s market, I learned that dahlias appreciate a good glass of lemonade. If you put sugar and lemon juice in their water, they last way longer. So after 3 -4 days, you just have to cut the stems again and replace the “lemonade.” It’s excellent! I love tips like that. Who first discovered [...]

I did pretty good at Week 2 the first time around, so since this week is more of an introduction to the “Outbox” and finding your style, I’ll be focusing on refining my style that I wrote down previously and cleaning/outboxing the kitchen. Week 2 – Clearing the path Clean kitchen from top to bottom [...]