Week One

You can either do a deep treatment, or just a one room remedy. AT first I thought I'd do the one room remedy, but we seem to be doing a deep treatment, and you'll see why as we go. Above is a before picture of the living room. It's not a great shot, as my lens isn't wide enough and it's dark, but bare with me. We need some marking point of where we start!

I looked at my interview and tried to summarize what it said of my style, well it seems that I've got a sense of the classic, as well as some whimsy. I like functional things, that are beautiful. If you have any other suggestions, let me know, this part is hard for me! Read on if you're interested in more.


Week One includes the following tasks.

Deep Treatment:
Bones
Make a complete list of repairs and solutions -It's pretty short, just fix a few light fixtures, put in the thresh hold on the front door, and install some doorknobs and change out some electrical covers.

Vacuum and Mop floors - Done. I do this pretty often anyway, with children a cat and hardwood floors it's vacuum every other day and mop once a week or week and half.

Breath
Remove one item from your apartment and put it outside - Done. We are cleaning out the Attic and the storage area to make room for a hot water heater and a new bedroom for Addison. Soooooo Lots of items have gone to good will, including blankets and clothing. Bookshelves are going off to my stepdad and his wife, books and cd's are waiting to be gone through to be digitized or donated.

Heart
Buy Fresh Flowers - Done, although I want better flowers next week. They are so expensive and they die, I wonder perhaps if buying a house plant would make me feel better?

Head
Sit for ten minutes in a part of your home that you never sit in. - not done yet.
Look into earth friendly cleaning products - Easy, cause I just recently did this. I use vinegar and water to clean countertops and bathrooms, I use baking soda to clean the grout in the kitchen, castile soap to do surfaces and the travertine tiles. Bona on the hardwood floors, olive oil for the wood furniture, Bon Ami for cleaning the bathroom, and a Citrus product for the mirrors and to shine things up. The house smells neutral and I like that. STill looking for a good way to clean the slate in the shower. I'd NEVER do that in a house I designed, and to get soap scum off the shower door. BUT using liquid castile soap really cut down on the soap scum, so that was an awesome suggestion by the guy that wanted to charge me $600 to clean and seal the shower! HA right. But good suggestion.

So we're started! yea! Here are a few more photos' of the house "before" I'm looking forward to writing about the changes that occur in our lives, as I'm hoping to get some movement in my practice and in my project.

The image on the left is looking from the living room into the dining area and kitchen... the next two are the master bedroom, with Addison's stuff.









This last picture shows a little bit of the part of the room and maybe the house I love the most, the bathtub, with it's crosses and plants feels at least like it's going in the direction I want, irreverent, sexy, simple.... it's not quite there...but the whole house is not quite there... OK so Onward to week two!



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