halfway house
as mentioned in my previous post, i'm participating in Apartment Therapy's Spring Cure. week four of the apartment therapy home cure is nearing it's end. this is is the halfway point. four more weeks to go. i've found myself with very little tasks to do each week, so the cure has been relatively easy. i have a natural inclination for organized, clean spaces, and with my 325 sq ft studio, i don't really have a choice but to be, less i find myself overwhelmed.
every week there's a cleaning task i can skip. something to do with the "outbox" that i cross off because i never buy anything without getting rid of something else, either dropping it off at goodwill or selling it on craigslist.
last week's focus was the entrance or the "landing strip" and again i found myself twiddling my thumbs. there's a place to hang your hat and coat, a pail for mail and a letter opener so that i sort through my mail right away. i keep it clear because i have to roll my bike in and can't have clutter in the way.
mister jackelope watches over what i bring into my home.
this week involved tackling collections. nothing to do there. i don't keep books i don't love or am really amused by. so my book collection is extremely small. as you can see. as for my dvds and cds? it's not pretty but this box i hide in my majicker credenza does the trick.
i'm doing a mix of the deep treatment and the one room remedy. my one room being my kitchen. the hardest thing about the cure is realizing i should not have chosen to work on the kitchen. it's my living room/office/bedroom that's in desperate need of help! reading the cure book i've learned so much about what makes a room "work" so to speak and this multi-use space of mine is just not working.
there's bad flow. it's neither warm or cold. the furniture is too big. the color families are off. it epitomizes how not to buy furniture. the book talks about having patience to bring in quality pieces. and i'm just learning to exercise patience when it comes to decorating and furnishing my place. (the fact that i'm a chronic impulse buyer isn't helping...) i do want quality pieces, but my tastes take me to antique shops and pricey items. the idea of waiting five years to save up for a couch doesn't appeal to me. what's a girl to do?
of course you can balance quality pieces with less expensive ones, and i have ideas in mind on how to do that. but for now, my living room/office/bedroom is an ikea catalog explosion.
every week there's a cleaning task i can skip. something to do with the "outbox" that i cross off because i never buy anything without getting rid of something else, either dropping it off at goodwill or selling it on craigslist.
last week's focus was the entrance or the "landing strip" and again i found myself twiddling my thumbs. there's a place to hang your hat and coat, a pail for mail and a letter opener so that i sort through my mail right away. i keep it clear because i have to roll my bike in and can't have clutter in the way.
mister jackelope watches over what i bring into my home.
this week involved tackling collections. nothing to do there. i don't keep books i don't love or am really amused by. so my book collection is extremely small. as you can see. as for my dvds and cds? it's not pretty but this box i hide in my majicker credenza does the trick.
i'm doing a mix of the deep treatment and the one room remedy. my one room being my kitchen. the hardest thing about the cure is realizing i should not have chosen to work on the kitchen. it's my living room/office/bedroom that's in desperate need of help! reading the cure book i've learned so much about what makes a room "work" so to speak and this multi-use space of mine is just not working.
there's bad flow. it's neither warm or cold. the furniture is too big. the color families are off. it epitomizes how not to buy furniture. the book talks about having patience to bring in quality pieces. and i'm just learning to exercise patience when it comes to decorating and furnishing my place. (the fact that i'm a chronic impulse buyer isn't helping...) i do want quality pieces, but my tastes take me to antique shops and pricey items. the idea of waiting five years to save up for a couch doesn't appeal to me. what's a girl to do?
of course you can balance quality pieces with less expensive ones, and i have ideas in mind on how to do that. but for now, my living room/office/bedroom is an ikea catalog explosion.