Style Cure 2014

Blues Club IV
Alfred Gockel

Join the Style Cure 2014 with me, hosted by Apartment Therapy! I only recently discovered this, so I'm playing catch-up; however, I like the idea of bite-size chunks and focusing on small parts of the condo-design process. I find decorating and overall design to be a daunting endeavor, very left-brained that I am. I practice critical thinking, data analysis, and analyzing complex biochemical processes daily, but that leaves little time for study of the color wheel, furniture placement, and organization when they both directly affect my daily life. To alleviate this imbalance, I choose to spare a couple hours each weekend to make one room in our new condo more complete.

The first task involves data generation followed by data analysis, both of which I am practiced and good at. Yay, we are starting off on the right foot! I must first fill out the Style Cure Interview and use my answers to better understand my design esthetic. In a breach from my "normal" day-to-day, for the data entered on this questionnaire there are no wrong answers, total bonus! Here we go:

The Style Cure 

Interview/Data generation

1. List your favorites in each category:

Actor: Johnny Depp

Actress: Meryl Streep

Artist: Alfred Gockel, Vincent Van Gogh

Writer: George R. R. Martin

Music: John Williams, Guns 'N Roses (not Chinese Democracy), Nicki Minaj

Restaurant: Chart House, Boston waterfront

Automobile: none? spaceship

Movie or Television Show: Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, True Detective

Clothing (pieces, designers or stores): Kate Spade

Furniture (pieces, designers or stores): industrial, rustic, vintage, modern

2 Choose three words to describe your personal style:

easy-breezy, industrial-modern, classic

3. Think back over all the homes you’ve lived in, both as a child and an adult. Which rooms would you choose as your favorites and how would you describe them? Favorite room from a childhood home and description: 

Favorite room from an adult home and description:

my favorite is my own living room right now in Chelsea, MA...loft style with high ceilings, wooden beams on the ceiling and huge windows. Lots of amazing architectural details and simple, functional/comfortable, yet classic furniture

4. Whom do you consider a role model? What three adjectives describe the qualities that you admire in this person?

My mom, a strong, loving, independent, passionate, just, caring woman

5. Every home has areas that are “just right”. Which three spots or things in your 

home do you feel are beautiful and feel proud of, right now, as is:

-The layout of the living room with our new black, leather couch

-the board game wall

-the master bedroom closet

6. A month from now, at the end of the Style Cure, how would you like your friends to describe your home?

I want to "cure" our bedroom and make it look as interesting and inviting as our loft-style, industrial living area.

Data analysis:

1. Do my answers to Questions 1 & 2 have any connections? 

In addition to my Q2 answers, upon analyzing my Q1 answers I would add one additional idea/item. The Doctor Who and spaceship answers, in addition to the Alfred Gockel paintings, made me realize I like unique or interesting accents or artwork. 

"Questions 3 and 5 are different ways of connecting with what you find pleasing, comfortable and beautiful."

"Questions 4 and 6 are both about your aspirations and therefore can help to form a direction and goals for your Cure in terms of what you want your room makeover to provide to your homelife."