I’ve been reading Apartment Therapy: the Eight-Step Home Cure, and I think it’s fabulous. I’m a longtime reader and lurker over at Apartment Therapy-Chicago, but I sometimes feel like it’s more of a shopping blog than a resource for curing your apartment ills. I love the house tours (especially when the spaces are actually small apartments like mine!) and, of course tips and advice and DIY inspiration.
But this BOOK! I’ve only read the first few chapters, and I’m pretty hooked. This is real interior design for dummies. I’m trying out the “Deep Treatment” because the weather sucks meaning that I’m spending even more time at home. I’ve gone a little stir crazy and have decided that the time has come for us to recover our living room from the From Junky to Funky makeover that we got about a year ago.
We’ve just about completed this Week One’s tasks, and both Andrew and I already feel a difference. We patched up holes in the walls, did a more thorough cleaning of our floors, bought flowers and placed them through out the apartment, and got rid of some extra “stuff.” We’ve got one task left, which is to sit for 10 minutes in a part of the apartment we never sit in. Photos are after the jump.
This is after the Junky to Funky Makeover. What you don’t see is the hideous “cd storage solution” behind the couch. I also have a list of other problems with this room, including the circus-y curtains the mismatch colors, etc. I kind of liked it at first, but I think it was just because it was a change from when the room looked like this:
See, I think I like not having giant pieces of furniture in my living room. Things, while cluttered and mis-matchy (we’d just moved in together about a month prior), seem more quaint and less cartoonish, don’t you think? I think that round three, will produce a space this is much more reflective of Andrew and I. I don’t have any photos of our progress yet, but let’s see that photo of Lizzy sitting on our clean floors again: