Day 1 of Apartment Therapy Cure

Today marks day 1 of the Apartment Therapy January cure.

I read today's task and immediately thought "what have I gotten myself into?"

The task, which you can read more in depth here, is to make a list of 3-5 projects per room/area that you feel take priority.

Here is my list:

Foyer
- Paint
- Create a place for "stuff" (keys, purse, mail, etc)

Kitchen
- Paint
- Create a clear plan for storage solutions (create a pantry by expanding into the storage room or front hall closet? Organize cupboards to make more functional, put up shelving)
- Change the light bulbs
- Contact maintenance company regarding the old leaking fridge

Living/Dining Room
- Put away Christmas decor
- Put up curtain panel
- Pick up new dining set from family

Bathroom
- Organize under the sink cabinet
- Put up towel bars/toilet paper hanger & put leftover fixtures under the sink in the storage locker
- Art for walls
- Rope hanger DIY project for mirror?

Bedroom
- Finish Painting
- Pick out curtains/curtain rods
- Art for walls
- Lighting solution

Spare Room aka. Nightmare room
*this room needs work and unfortunately, to be completely realistic, MONEY. It's become the catch all for everything we have not had time to find a space for and houses many half unpacked cardboard boxes, furniture that didn't fit in our bedroom, and art I don't really like anymore. I have a clear vision for this room but neither the time or money to tackle that vision at this present time. It's definitely in teh cards for this year, but probably not for this month.

a preview of what's to come this month..

My husband and I are just settling into our new apartment. We moved in early November, but with moving to a new city, trying to get our careers kick-started in said new city, Christmas and all that moving closer to family comes along with ("sure I'll eat copious amounts of cheese and watch Ink Master for 6 hours straight on your couch with you since we haven't seen each other regularly for 2 years!"), getting our house looking like and functioning like a real home has been a slower process than one might hope.

I'm a compulsive list-maker and I find writing things down to not only be useful but also incredibly cathartic in a stress-reduction kind of way. My hopes for this blog is that by documenting and talking to the internet (..... I do have friends. I promise.) about all my wicked ideas for my house, I'll actually need to be accountable and will DO them instead of just talking about doing them.

I have many projects in the works and I'm hoping to keep this up to date with all of those.

Apartment Therapy has been my go-to for design blogging for years yet I have yet to participate in any of their infamous 'Cure's'. I think now may be the time.

also.. this book is rad: