Your Picks. Your Place. -$10,000 Apartment Guide Sweepstakes

“Where thou art – that – is Home”.  ~Emily Dickinson

Two weeks ago, my little family left the only place we’ve ever known as ‘home’. We packed our bags and made the 2,000 mile trip across country. It was a bittersweet goodbye.  Today we have a new place to call home. A new adventure, a new place to make memories.  This is our new (super old) rental home for the next year…

Our big move really made me ponder the question, “What makes a house a home”? Of course the people and memories you make in it. But there is more to it than that. The space, the lighting, the design, the decor, even the smell. No matter what space you are currently living it, whether it be the mansion on the hill, or a 500 square foot studio apartment, it’s yours. A blank canvas, waiting for you to make it unique to you.

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Are you ready for this?!?!?!?

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Wait for it,… WAIT FOR IT….

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One of YOU is going to win $10,000, (yes you read that right), to redesign your place to fit your personal style.

Apartment Guide is hosting the first ever “Your Picks. Your Place.” Design challenge. All you have to do is vote.

I could sure use that $10,000. What are you going to use it for? What is your style? My style evolves with time. If you were to peek in my sun-room window today, you’d see this (and a few unpacked boxes)…

I wish I could peek through all of your windows (in a totally NON-creepy way) and see the design/decor in your home.

Everyone has his or her own unique sense of style.  To help demonstrate different design possibilities, Apartment Guide has partnered with four bloggers to select items to fit different design themes. You can browse their selections and vote for your favorite for a chance to win.  The Apartment Guide “Your Picks. Your Place”. featured bloggers are:

Melissa from The Inspired Room

Liz from Hoosier Homemade

Gina Luker

Shelley from How Does She (that’s me!) Whoo hoo!

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The First Round of “Your Picks. Your Place.” is officially open for voting.

Assigned Room: Living Room.  Assigned Style: French Cottage.

What do you think of our French Cottage living room selections?!  I love the distressed ottoman, lanterns, the ruffles, and the splash of green added. I honestly wish I could take everything off this board and put it in my front sun-room. Is French Cottage not your style? Make sure to check out all of the featured blogger’s picks for other living room styles!  Don’t forget to vote for your very favorite! {Even if it’s not ours} We are talking about $10,000 whopping BIG ONES here.

What is your living room like? No matter where you live, you have to make your living room livable! Remember these Apartment Guide basics as you think about living room décor.

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Recap of the important stuff:

Enter Apartment Guide’s Your Picks. Your Place. sweepstakes for a chance to win $10,000 to redo your place to fit your personal design style.  From now until August 10, visit YourPicksYourPlace.com to vote for your preferred room design showcasing furniture and home décor items selected by featured bloggers.  The site will feature four different room designs every two weeks.  By voting, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a $10,000 grand prize or one of eight $250 weekly prizes to go towards your own selections for your home.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  Sweepstakes ends at 9:00 PM on 8/10/11, subject to the Entry Periods outline in the Official Rules.  Must be a legal resident of the U.S. in the 50 states or Washington, D.C. and 18 years of age or older. Sweepstakes subject to full Official Rules available at www.yourpicksyourplace.com. Void where prohibited.

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I can NOT believe one of you out there, in blog-land, is going to win $10,000 for a room redo.  I’m seriously so ecstatic for you already!  Three cheers for Apartment Guide.

Hip, Hip Hooray! Hip, Hip Hooray! Hip, Hip Hooray!

Make sure to follow Apartment Guide on Facebook and on Twitter to stay in the loop!

Set your alarms, because you can vote once each day from now until August 10, 2011.  Each vote will be counted as individual entries.

Now go, VOTE! Good Luck!

*Disclosure

Apartment Guide is owned by Consumer Source, Inc. Apartment Guide partnered with bloggers such as me to participate in its “Your Picks. Your Place.” Sweepstakes. As part of that program, I received compensation. They did not tell me what to select or what to say about my featured design boards, or what to say in my blog posts about the “Your Picks. Your Place.” Sweepstakes. Apartment Guide and Consumer Source believe that consumers and bloggers are free to form their own opinions and share them in their own words. Consumer Source’s policies align with WOMMA Ethics Code, FTC guidelines and social media engagement recommendations.

Shelley

Shelley is one of the three founding editors of How Does She. She’s a spunky wife & mother of three, an interior design guru, and a party throwing queen. She loves cooking for crowds, eating good food, and dressing up like a girly girl. Shelley may need a 'pintervention' soon, as she is seriously addicted to pinterest.

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