Welcome to our fourth Eight Step Cure! For those of you who missed the last three, starting this week we'll be getting started on
Curing our homes, following the eight chapters of our book, Apartment Therapy: The Eight Step Home Cure. Our goal? To form an online group together and share in making our own homes beautiful, healthy and organized in time for Thanksgiving. For all info go to the The Book Blog.
This Week's Assignment: Get your hands on a copy of the book and read through page 69. This gives you all the ground work and gets you started with the interview and short quiz on the health of your home. If you're joining the Green Cure and you haven't dropped us an email, send us a short introduction to yourself (one or two lines is great), so we can say hello to you and thank you for joining.
Thank goodness I have another week before we start!
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OK, it's too weird that my bedroom has been published on both the NY site and the green site! I don't mind, of course ;-)
I have a technical Flickr question that someone might be able to answer for me: If I tag a picture as "atgreencure" will it automatically be posted to the group? Or are those two separate things?
Thanks, Maxwell. I'm looking forward to getting my room in shape finally!
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There are two different flickr groups, I believe, Apartment Therapy Cure and Apartment Therapy Green Cure. And tagging and posting your photos to a group are two totally different things. If you want all your photos to post to both groups, you upload them, then click the little "upload to group" icon on the photo's page, just above the photo (on the same line as the "all sizes", "order prints", "add to favorites", "blog this", etc). When you click "upload to group", there's a scrolldown giving you a choice of all the groups you're a member of.
Tagging is just so that people can search for keywords and find your photos. In the past, Maxwell has asked curers to tag their photos "apartmenttherapycure" so that he and other editors can find them easily. The groups make this somewhat moot, though.
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Betsabillabong,
There are a few different Cures going on -- one for each of the cities listed in the post above, and one for Green.
You're welcome to join whichever cure you'd like, and I'm excited to have you as part of the Green Cure. If that's where you'd like to be, then keep uploading photos in Flickr to the Green Cure Flickr pool and/or tag them with "atgreencure."
To avoid any confusion in the future, please drop an email to green at apartmenttherapy dot com to let us know which cure you'll be joining.
Thanks!
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Two questions as I start the tasks from Week One:
- What environmentally wood floor waxes do you like? Our old varnished wood floors require wax and the only product I've found so far is noxious stuff (wax dissolved in petroleum naptha). I understand that Murphy's works great as a floor cleaner, but the varnish on our floors is thin enough that it needs the additional protection of wax.
- I like having fresh flowers, but we frequently have guests with allergies, so I avoid keeping them around the house. Does anyone know which cut flowers are the least allergenic? What substitutes for cut flowers do you recommend to work on Heart?
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Chenoameg: Here is a list of low-allergy fresh flowers via a wedding planning site. Enjoy!
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