The Fall Cure Assignment #1: Create Your Vision
The first week of the Fall Home Cure is about putting aside the "I wishes, I wants and the Maybe Somedays." Finding a concrete vision for the direction you'd like to take your spaces and making them reflect you and your family isn't easy.
Along with the Green Cure I'm participating in Apartment Therapy's Fall Cure. Assignment #1 is pretty much how this entire blog got started.
So I'm going to gather some of my favorite inspiration images and reflect on exactly what it is that I want to see and feel in our home.
Kitchen Inspiration
clean, airy, pops of color
Our Kitchen
I think we've done a pretty good job of creating the kitchen we want. General things I see are purses, sunglasses, keys, etc., piling up on the counters. The kitchen counter has become a surface I unload on as I come home from work.
Possible Solution: Create a mudroom out of the pantry
(more on that later)
Master Bedroom Inspiration
cozy, layers, multiple (yet cohesive) prints, restricted (grey and white) color palette with pops of color (mustard/gold)
Our Master Bedroom
I feel pretty good about our master bedroom. Some specific things I would like to do are:
• clean the rugs and secure them to each other (right now it's two side-by-side and they shift around)
• come up with a more streamlined and organized jewelry solution.
• Clothes and various objects pile up on my dresser. I need a basket to hold things until I can put them away
• Possibly add a couple decorative throws to the bed, get some nice sheets, add more layers and texture
Hallway Inspiration
Our Hallway
(this light has been changed out for this one:)
(note our cat ON TOP of the closet door)
So, the hallway is accomplished. We could possibly hang more art, but for the most part it's done.
Living Room Inspiration
cozy, lived in, layered rugs, variety of mismatched throw pillows
Our Living Room
• The angle you never see is where our TV sets. I would like to hang some oversized artwork. About a year ago I mocked up a print on wood:
I'm imagining something like this that is 48" x 48" hanging behind our TV and behind our couch (between the two sets of windows).
• Like our master bedroom, I would like a large basket for various throw blankets, shoes, etc.
• I would love an arc lamp to be suspended over the sofa
Dining Room Inspiration
frames, bold and unique centerpiece on table
centerpiece, credenza, pop of color
Our Dining Room
• Still on the hunt for a credenza
• I would like to get a really great "standard" centerpiece down.
Our Bathroom
I don't have any inspiration shots but it's pretty much where we want it. Things I'd like to do:
• Get a new shower curtain
• When we grouted the tile (with black grout) it stained the white parts of the tile. There are no chemicals that will bring the grout out (or at least no chemicals I'm willing to handle). I would like to hire someone to sand/buff the tile to make it look shiny and new and unstained. I'm just not sure who to ask.
Office Inspiration
inspiration board
photo collage, bold color
Our Office
Our office chalkboard wall also doubled as our wedding guest book. It's not my intention to leave it up forever, but I'm not really sure when to erase. Maybe on our one year anniversary...
Office to do:
• It's become a dumping ground for random things. We need to clean it out.
• There is a bookshelf that can be emptied off. Contents can go in closets.
• Clean out closets
• Paint or wallpaper
• Create mood board area
And finally...
Guest Bedroom Inspiration
clean, airy, light colors
Our Guest Bedroom
For the Guest Bedroom breakdown go here.
This room is going to slant a little more feminine and a little more shabby-chic then the rest of our home due to the quilts and the wrought iron bed. The to-do is at the entire post about the Guest Bedroom. I'm working on it!
So that's the breakdown! Doing this post makes me realize that I've executed my vision so far. I've just lost a little bit of momentum and need to get back on the ball.
