How the heck do you get ready for the holidays when your home is under DIY construction and chaos? Well, I’m not sure but I can tell you how it’s going for me. When I have a lot going on, I’m a list maker. Seeing what needs done and checking things off helps keep me on track. Otherwise, you know something’s going to get forgotten. This year, with being a part of the Lowe’s Creative Ideas team, Lowe’s has played a large part in halting my holiday home procrastination.
Here is how my list goes:
- First priority is to finish up existing projects like bigger tasks so that I can breathe, relax and enjoy the rest of the year. So, I’m pushing to get some projects like our window installation, open pantry makeover and laundry room makeover complete. You may not see those makeovers until January, but my deadline for finishing them is a real life holiday home tour on 12/7.
- Cleaning and de-cluttering. In order to prep for digging out all of those bins filled with holiday decorating goodness, I need to start with a clean slate. That means piling up existing decorative accents (to be stored in the empty Christmas bins) and dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, scrubbing.
- Re-arranging the furniture. I decorate three trees for Christmas so moving furniture around to make room is one of my favorite parts of decorating. I love a fresh new perspective from the usual arranged room, don’t you?
- This one I usually start the weekend after Thanksgiving: Hauling out the Christmas decor bins and decorating! Pump up the volume on those Christmas tunes and deck the halls!
- Sending out Christmas cards to family and friends.
- Holiday shopping. I’ve started a little shopping the past month or two but this is the time I take to get it done. I love giving gifts! Do you wrap as you go or pile it all up or wrap all gifts at once? I love to be organized about it and wrap it all at once. Blasting the Christmas music in the background, singing along, ribbons and bows and paper and scissors and tape all within reach. It’s a huge wrap-fest! A party for one.
- Holiday baking. I don’t do much baking but hoping to change that a little this year. I’d love to have a variety of cookies to go with my hot cocoa.
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Call me crazy but I’m {unrealistically?} optimistic! Check back with me next weekend and I may be in a panic. Because #1 on my list is a doozy. But if I don’t have everything crossed off my list this week, I do have next week before Thanksgiving and the weekend after to fall back on. Having a deadline puts the pressure on to get things wrapped up…and I’m not even talking about the presents yet!
A few weeks’ back when I first started thinking about getting my home ready for the holidays by following the Lowe’s Holiday Showcase, I had the opportunity to play around with some decorating. Just enough to get me excited to get the projects done in order to get to the reward:
…really decorating for Christmas.
That was a couple of weeks ago. Remember when I said I’m working on completing some bigger projects and a house under DIY construction? This is my dining room table now…{keeping it real!}
Yikes! Not for long. According to my list, I’ll be clearing that table off today! Hurray!
I hosted a small get together with family and friends and we discussed holiday decorating and plans.
Putting together a list this time of year really helps keep me on track as well as ensures I don’t forget something with so much going on.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner is JD who commented: Paint! I’ve had paint chips up in the bedroom and bathroom for months now, and we have a nursery to do now too! Congratulations, JD! You’ll be notified by email!
$50 Lowe’s GIVEAWAY
How do you get your home holiday ready? How about a $50 Lowe’s giveaway to finish up some home improvement or to start shopping for the holidays?
To be entered to win, simply leave a comment below telling me how you’d spend $50 at Lowe’s right now. I appreciate your shares! Leave a comment telling me how you shared as well for another chance to win.
*Giveaway runs now through Wed., 11/27/13 at midnight EST. Winner will be chosen randomly from the comments and announced shortly after. Giveaway is open to US residents 18+ only.
See more fun DIY ideas at Lowe’s Creative Ideas, follow Lowe’s on Instagram, Pinterest and sign up for the Creative Ideas magazine and app! You’ll see my DIY foldable luggage rack for getting guest room ready in the November digital issue! So exciting!
*Disclaimer: I’m a member of the Lowe’s Creative Ideas Creators and Influencers network. I was compensated for hosting a Holiday Ready Home party and supplied with a gift card for some Lowe’s holiday decor (shown above). All opinions are my own.
I would actually use the card for Christmas decorations for our apartment! Thanks so much for the chance to win! I love your blog!
I shared by pinning this post to pinterest(btw, your home is gorgeous!)
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Oh Thank goodness I thought i was the only one going thru remodel chaos and trying to Holiday Decorate at the same time too! Everything is just breathtaking and Gorgeous! Loving the colors..well its just Stunning.
Getting ready for the holidays is simpler for me since I’m not hosting at Christmas this year. But I start off the same as you do, I clean the heck out of my place first, then lay out ever Christmas decoration in my living room. Next I sort through things that need to be tossed, recycled or donated, all the while sorting my ornaments into categories (glass, silver, gold, white or other colors). I find this helps me decorate the tree / house in a more balanced way, appropriately dispersing the colors, metals and whites all around my small condo. I also love using ‘FlyLadys’ tips for Cruising through the Holidays. She provides me with tips for decorating, organizing and sticking to my budget during the holidays. Thanks for asking – you’re helping me get in the holiday mood. As far as the $50 from Lowes goes, I’d use it to purchase loc VOC paint for my kitchen. That would be a really nice bonus for my budget. 🙂
Lists…… yes, have lists on top of lists….. and then I make a new list…… somewhere, somehow I keep remembering what I desperately need. Okay, that one is way too long.
I would definitely use the certificate to buy paint and primer to paint all three of my exterior doors….. that have NEVER been painted and I am now desperate and not sure I can even do it now that the weather has got too cool to leave the doors open………. YIKES!
Hi, if I won the money to use at Loews, I would get the things that would allow me to be ready for the holidays and make it comfortable for my family and friends plus they would love it and want to get ideas from your site as well as shopping at Loews .
Sounds like you will be busy! Your dining room photo made me giggle…been there, done that! My husband and I were constantly moving stuff from one room to the next and back again so we could work on our construction/remodel.
I think I have my own parking spot at Lowe’s, I’m there so often! Fifty smackers would help replace the sad little medicine cabinet in our master bath.
This might sounds odd, but I would use the fifty dollars towards buying lamps for my new place. My apartment has the worst overhead lighting and I have been on a fruitless search for affordable, but nice, simple lamps.
I would use the money to buy paint to replace the broken blinds in our master bedroom. It would be nice to let in a little more sunshine.
I pinned this on Pinterest to hare it.
I’d get a new pendant lamp for our entryway!
I shared on my FB page and emailed a couple friends and told my boyfriend about it…..
LOL, love the mess on your dining room table because that’s what my house looks like right now too!
I’m in desperate need of a Christmas tree and lights.
I would put the money toward a lighted palm tree. I know it sounds silly but we live in the desert and I would keep it up all year long.
I would spend the lowe’s card on spray paint
Oh my word, I’m glad I’m not the only one! My house is under DIY construction chaos too! I actually just finished (and posted) my pantry but we are still working on construction and next is ripping up the flooring to lay the new wood floors. Meanwhile I’m hosting Thanksgiving so it might have to make sure my guest keep their shoes on so they don’t get splinters from the subflooring! 🙂 Craziness!!
As far as the gift card from Lowes, I could use it 1000 ways! Paint for the walls we just built, paint for the ceiling (that for some reason the old owners painted green!), a big rug for the living room once the wood floors have been laid, the list goes on and on. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving!
Anna
I would use the $50 to go towards buying a fridge for our first home which we close on on the 18th of December 🙂
Ooooh!! I’d put it toward some wood to make a new bed frame 🙂 Oooor a drop cloth, paint and poly to make an area rug!
I don’t even know where to begin, but I’m sure once I got there, it would be no problem! (Christmas, projects, paint-where do I begin?!)
I shared this on my Facebook page and told friends around me about your page 🙂
No doubt about it, I’d could use $50 to replace our Christmas lights. I’ve lost track of how many years they’ve been around! Starting to look a little snaggle-toothed 😀
I just bought a new house and it needs some work. I would get tools and a rake and some mulch.
light fixture for my foyer-or maybe paint. I want to paint all my interior doors blue!
I would use it to buy planks for a wall in my dining room. I ripped the wallpaper down and I’m ready to get planking!
I have a fence to repair & lighting to get in the barn so I need some posts & lighting components.
Always could use more lights. Never can have enough Christmas lights!
i would love to get some real greens this season. thanks so much!
Ol my goodness!!!! A thousand different ways.My oldest son and his wife are having their first child, our first grandchild..we are trying to remodel my moms house that I was born in before her due date which is Dec.8th.We r almost there but money is getting low .After 4and a half months working a full time job and working on the house at night and weekends I’m getting low also.soooo ready to finish. So we can welcome our grandbaby.God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving.!!!!! Sarah
I would love to get some garlands for my entry and fireplace! Or, maybe a new entry light fixture!
I love the decorating in blues for Christmas. With my
$50 I would focus on holiday decorating items moving away from my green and incorporating more silver and blue.
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Shelving for the pantry.
The hubs and I are getting ready to completely renovate our kitchen. $50 would buy the paint we need!
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I’d use towards the purchase of our new kitchen floor!
We are redoing our house I would spend the gift given and then some!!!! Making my house feel like a home with little touches that make the home a home. Lighting, fireplace mantle overlay, and a ton more!!! Could really use this!!!! 🙂
I would spend the Lowe’s gift card on so many things…But at the moment probably furniture wax and nails. Love Christmas!
I don’t really need anything at Lowe’s right now, so I would give the giftcard as a gift! 🙂
I would get some paint!
I would use the $50 to buy new LED lights to decorate our picket fence in the front yard. Our old lights are shot. I love your holiday list, and I’m going to share this with my friends.
Just bought a new house and don’t have enough holiday decorations to complete the outside…..I would spend the money on outdoor Christmas decor!!!
I would use it to buy some Christmas lights.
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My husband and I are making some DIY upgrades to our kitchen so that we can put his old bachelor pad on the market next year and buy our first home together! I would use this towards a new sink!
I think I would use it for some lights. We have none for outside right now
If I had fifty dollars I would use it to get a piece of Replacement Glass, blank pant, wood, and other odds and ends. I have been designing a coffee table that I would love to fish.
I would buy some paint to do some diy construction right after the holidays. Thank you for the giveaway.
Having just moved into a new house, I’d spend that $50 at Lowes in the organization aisle 😉
I could spend it so easy at Lowes! 🙂 i’d probably buy wood
I just messed up on a buffet table I’m building…so I’d use the $50 to buy some new 1×12 boards!
If I had a $50 gift card from Lowes right now I would purchase a huge canvas painter’s drop cloth and some Purdy brushes. I have an on going project using the drop cloths and you can never have too many brushes!
I just bought some Valspar at Lowe’s for our Living Room but there are many, many more rooms to paint. I would spend the money on paint for our home.
I start getting ready for the holidays by bringing up all the decorations from the basement and going through them to see which ones made it through the year and didn’t get ruined by the mildew ( we have an old farm house and through the years I have lost a lot of decorations because of mildew I have packed them in containers and tried everything) It is ok because I get new stuff that I can buy every year…
This year I would like to take the $50 and purchase paint for my living room it could use a new paint job…
Lowe’s so many things to choose from however right now I need to replace both bathrooms with new toliets, so I would probably use the $50.00 toward that purchase or I need a cover up for my outside furniture. Thanks
I would spend a $50 gift card finishing the projects crowding my dining room table!!:)
I’d buy paint to paint my bedroom ceiling and closet organization!
I tweeted this giveaway, but I would use it to buy my husband a kreg jig for Christmas! 🙂
My husband and I are in and out of Lowe’s a few times a week. We bought our first house in February and are slowly making it our own. We hope to tackle our hall bath next!
I would buy a ceiling light for our guest room.
I think I would get a new lamp! There are so many projects and so little time. Keeping a list has been amazing this season..It is constant as I don’t want to forget anything! Thanks
I would buy paint
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I would love to get some materials to build a faux mantle so I have somewhere to put my nativity set and somewhere to hang stockings
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Window treatments, so that our house feels warmer and cozier for the holidays!
Thank you so much for this giveaway. I could use the $50 for Christmas decorations. This is my second Christmas married, so need to add to the few we have.
I would definitely use the $50 to redo the closets in my girls’ rooms! They desperately need some easy ways to organize that add more room for clothes and shoes. 🙂
I would buy a light kit to finish off the “steampunk” iron and glass insulator lamp I’m making for my son-in-law for Christmas!
I would buy paint!
I would put it toward a new light over my kitchen island.
There’s a vertical blinds conversion kit and dropcloth in my future!
If I won $50 at Lowes I would buy some paint for my new kitchen. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
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i would use the gift card to start the facelift of my mud room.
I would purchase the supplies to do a board and batten treatment on my son’s bathroom wall.
love all your ideas.Would love a Lowe’s gift card.This is the first year in a new house and I’ve always been a grinch(very little decorating),I’d like to change that:) and have my home looking awesome for family and friends!
My son-in-law is a DIY guy. I would spend the $50 gift card on Lowe’s great products to help him do some home projects.
I’ve always wanted to put the magical touches throughout the house for my children. I would love to be able to put those special touches in the areas of the house that I spend with my children the most.
I would buy paint for my bedroom!!
I would use the gift card to purchase items for the Angel tree at the Y.
I would use it to buy a Christmas tree.
I would buy some plywood to make Gingerbread Sets and Big presents for the yard. And add more lights, you can never have too many lights! Lol =)
I would purchase some paint for my diningroom been wanting to paint it for a few years now
I’m working on adding a screened porch & a small remodel to my kitchen. I’m spending much more than $50 at Lowes so I’d love to win this!
I would buy outdoor lights for our home! We didn’t have any last year and I felt like such a Scrooge!
I am full up on holiday decor so I would save it for a 2014 project. We have a list already going 🙂
Love the natural style mantel. It’s very charming!!
wreaths on the windows is the topper for me!
If I spent $50 at Lowe’s at this very moment it would be for a dear friend of mine who finally has a place of his own to get back into woodworking. He’s missed this dearly for many years and unfortunately at the current time is out of work. He can’t afford to buy wood for all those Christmas presents he has in his mind. I’d buy him quality lumber from Lowe’s.
Your efforts are certainly admirable. I started staging our home for sale last March while my husband accepted a transfer in another state 10 hours away. We purchased a new (old) home in May & started total rip-out/renovations in June, storing everything we owned in the garage and moving from floor to floor as renovations progressed. The week before Thanksgiving we were both hit by the worst case of flu either of us could ever remember experiencing. As an interior designer must sometimes choose between fashion or function, I chose sanity over everything. Twelve months later, every muscle in my body has been twisted & stretched more than an egg full of Silly Putty in 1965 but my hands have taken the brunt of it so of everything on my list to Santa, I’m really hoping for a new staple gun with some power behind it to finish upholstering our bed. We’re almost there 🙂
Thats a hard question! I know what I’d like but I probably should replace the lighting over the bathroom sink. Which would be nice!
I shared on Facebook, thanks for the chance, hope you get everything done!
I would spend it on outdoor decorations…a little something for the yard!
I would use it towards a cabinet(s) for more storage in our new home/ If not, maybe lighting. I love my Lowe’s!
Hmmmm….I live in an old house that ALWAYS needs something (practical)…but I would either buy paint for one of my many projects or maybe a real live tree!
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I would look for some replacement light fixtures, we need new ones!
If I won $50 at Lowe’s I would buy paint and other items for redoing my floors.
I’d treat myself to some fresh, thick garland! In specific the wispy long needle looking pine that they have hanging outside 🙂
I would get parts to fix to running toilets….grrrrrrr
I would spend it on christmas lights. Growing up my father would spend all of november preparing are house to the brim with christmas lights.. Designing something new each year.. He passed away 3years ago… I want to pass this tradition off to my children… But my collection of lights is nowhere near what my father had…
Wow, that sure a lot on your plate (kind of puts things in perspective for me).
I would be buying (and will be buying, actually) mostly paint, but lots of little stuff like dowels, spray paint (OMG, I hoard spray paint – my husband does not even question it anymore) aaaaannnd, I don’t know, maybe some more spray paint.
I am in need of LED net lights for my shrubs outside. With it getting dark so early now, I love to come home to lights on, and the kids enjoy it too.
I would get some outdoor decorations. Mine are pretty sad.
I always have a projects going and rooms in my house being re-arranged. I would likely use the gift card for wood & paint for some of the various things I’m working on.
I would spend the $50 on new knobs for my kitchen cupboards!
I’d buy bubble wrap & packing tape & other moving supplies. We will be moving soon
We’re a military family so moving is a big part of our life. I love getting to go to new places! What I don’t love is when my belongings become others belongings or just lost during the moves. I went out to the garage 2 days ago to start pulling in specific Christmas decor and realized 2 boxes were gone 🙁 So, I’d use the money to buy new ornaments/ribbon/outdoor decor to decorate with!!
I would spend it on some new outdoor lights for Christmas.
What I would buy at Lowes……probably some awesome christmas decorations..
I’d spend it on something splurgey for my house, or a Christmas gift for my boyfriend!
With the gift card I would actually use it for my moms house. She holds dinner every year and the house could use some finishing touches. Bathroom fan fixture harware, new light bulbs around the whole house (nice to see when you’re eating!
I would buy my mom her paint she wants for her kitchen for christmas A DIY project me and my husband would do and surprise her Also christmas lights for her house Thank you so much love the show and the blog:)
We just had our fireplace installed so I would use it to buy the stacked stone that will go on the wall surrounding it. thanks for the opportunity!
I’d love to put that $50 toward a ladder…I need a taller ladder to paint some parts of my house – like around the stairs!
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I would spend the $50 some plywood to make some shelving for our master closet.
more shelving for my unorganized closets !
christmas lights
I would put the $50 towards materials to build the small bookcase I have been needing by my bed!
Definitely need more Christmas lights.
I would get new outside lights mine are at least 10 years old. Or maybe some items for inside the house.
I would us the money to buy my dad some new tools!
I’d use it to buy us a Christmas tree and some lights for it. Fingers crossed!!!
Paint,Paint and more Paint 🙂
Thank you for sharing your tips!! I would probably the $50 gift card towards a Christmas present for my Husband. He is a beginner guitar builder and is trying to get all the tools and supplies needed to complete his workshop:-)
An awesome kitchen stool!
I’d use the $ to buy paint to paint our playroom!
Blow up Christmas decorations for outdoors or more lights! Thx
Christmas lights
I would use it to buy shelves for my bedroom and my closet. I’m living out of boxes and it’s driving me crazy.
I would buy some of the faux wood blinds!
I would buy plumbing supplies to to help finish up my on going kitchen renovation. It would be great to have my new side by side farm house sinks hooked up & in use by Christmas.
Sure could use some paint!!
I’d like to find unique ways to had lights to my Nativity scenes. These are always the first things to be set up to celebrate the Christmas Season. Because…Jesus is the reason for the season!
I would get garland, lights and bows for my stairway
I would spend it buying garland and ornaments for my tree. We moved from overseas back to the U.S. where we’re stationed and in the process we lost the box with all our Christmas decorations.
New paint for the basement family room!
I would love a Lowe’s gift card. I would use it toward a new Christmas tree as my current tree is so old it is dry-rotting! Love your blog and thanks for the opportunity.
My husband got sick before the house got finished. With the $50 Lowe’s gift card I would buy the last few pieces of sheetrock we need and the paint to finish the last project he began before he got sick.
I would are it for holiday greens for decorating my home.
My 9 yr old wants a snow cone maker
I’ll betcha lowes has something ! Lowes is the only place I shop!!
Hi, I am really enjoying your DIY ideas! I love your taste. I love the idea of the glass bottles and vases and filling them with the branches and adding the feathers and small bulbs etc so I would start there at Lowes with the gift card. I have shared your comment on fb. Thanks and have a great holiday season!
Anew kitchen faucet or a pin nailer
I would buy spray paint in lots of colors to update old ornaments! Thank you!
I would buy paint & things to redo my bathroom
I would spend it on some wood for crafting. We are really down to the nitty gritty after making gifts this year.
I would use it to help finish up our bathroom remodel!
I would give it to my husband. LOWES is his favorite store.
$50??!! I would get a new faucet, because ours leaks. Or I would get some paint, to make this place ours. Or I would get some tools for those always needing repairs around here. Our I would get some lawn items for outside care. Our I would get this, or I would get that…$50 would go fast, but it’s $50 more than I have right now to buy something that it’s needed for this home I love.<3
I’m juggling so many projects I don’t yet do a lot of holiday decorating but dream of the day I will! A Lowe’s card would be used for more paint and window/door/baseboard trim 🙂
We are remodeling the first floor of our home too! The granite was installed last Friday and it looks fantastic!!! Next the floors are being ripped out and replaced with tile that looks like wood flooring. I’d love to win the gift card. We seem to be a Lowe’s every other day for something. We should own stock, if we don’t already! I’m not sure if they are public or not. I want to do a glass tile backsplash and let me tell you $50 would really help!!! Thanks for the chance to win…. 🙂
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If I win I would love to buy some new wreaths for my front doors! I am going to like and share!
I moved into a new home in July and am doing lots of decorating and changeing. I’d use the Lowe’s Gift Card for various thing: paint, picture hangers, switch plates, lighting, and holiday decor!
I’d probably buy paint. Thanks 4 the giveaway!
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I would use the gift card to buy items to help decorate my yard for Christmas.
Sad to admit, but $50 would buy us a lot of the yard tools we need to care for our lawn & garden. Something we aren’t used to after 7 years of urban condo living!
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I would get a Kreg jig! Oh, jig of my dreams. 🙂
We just moved to a new home fro us that needs so much TLC….I would probably get some paint with the $50.00 Lowes gift card. I think it would make the biggest change(for the better) for the least amount of dollars. Thank you for the contest.
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I would buy the paint that I am needing to refinish a table and chairs.
I’d buy Christmas lights and some 3m hooks so our house can be festive this year. Then I’d buy some decorative hooks to make a key holder and a leash holder. I need to get these things off of counters
I would spend $50 at Lowe’s by buying dry wall and redoing my living room/dining room. I would also but tv wall mount to put tv on wall and if money left wood to build a bench in front of my front window. Thank you .
I have a DIY project idea for a mantle shelf over the TV since we have no fireplace:( Lowes would be a perfect place to get all my needs!! I’d love to have it done by Christmas to hang our stockings!
i would buy some spray paint and christmas lights at Lowe’s. thanks!
I would use the card to help with a new kitchen sink and faucet. The one the house come with is so very old, it’s falling apart.
Love your style! I’d use the giftcard for a new light fixture in my kitchen!! Thanks!
I would use it on paint! My dining room needs it bad!
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I am working on re-painting and re-flooring. I will tackle the Master Bathroom early next year!
I would buy supplies for Christmas DIY projects and gifts! This would be awesome! Thank you for the opportunity!!
I shared your facebook status! Again, Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!!
Right now I’d buy a new bathroom faucet.
Ours has been leaking for over a year….
I would use the card to finish redoing my bathroom! 🙂
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I’d LOVE to win a $50 Lowe’s card. I’m buying extra Christmas lights this year, not only can you not have enough lights at Christmas, but my daughter is getting married next March and we need extra white mini lights to decorate the reception.
I currently need to paint my living room and would use the $50 toward paint (: fingers crossed!!!
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I would get paint to repaint my walls and ceilings. Finish the enclosed porch area that was opened up to more living.g space.
I’d use this to get a new (nice) showerhead for our master bathroom!
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I’d use $50 to work on our Master Bedroom redo.
I would love to use the $50.00 to update my sink fixtures and finally get a light up in the bathroom.
I would use it on a faux christmas tree or a new shower head! 🙂 diannehall777@gmail.com
I would buy a canvas dropcloth and paint materials to make a DIY painted table runner.
We shopped Lowes yesterday and already spent over the $50 of the gift card but left lots still on the shelves I’d like to go back for! Ours just received a shipment of very fresh healthy looking Norfolk pines and I’d like to add one to our DR for the holidays and hopefully it would survive longer … and they had a nice assortment of holiday decor including – surprisingly to me, some nice table runners that I think could be also used to DIY pillows and other cute items. See, I’ve already spent over the $50 again!
The gift card prize would go toward a belt sander! I have a torn ligament in my thumb, and sanding by hand is not only painstaking, but painful! I’d love to finish all my fun little restoration projects in a fraction of the time 🙂
Paint for our bathroom thanks
I love the mantle! And if I won $50 bucks to Lowes I’d spend it on supplies to make some floating shelves to finally finish my living room! It is so close to being done…just some finishing touches!
I would probably buy some sweet decorations or maybe just some supplies to make decorations! Oh the possibilities!
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How would I use $50 from Lowe’s? Oh, let me count the ways! I need new Christmas wreaths, mudding compound, paint or a new rug for a Christmas “redo” project to redo our basement for teenage kids to hang out!
If I won I would buy some new Christmas lights and decorations.
My boyfriend and I have lived together for three years and due to traveling during the holidays have never decorated our apartment for Christmas. This year I’m changing that! Plans are in motion to go get a tree, decorate the apartment, bake cookies, drink hot chocolate, you name it, its on my list – $50 from Lowe’s will definitely be a plus!
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I would put that $50 towards our guest bathroom makeover!!
Paint! I’ve had paint chips up in the bedroom and bathroom for months now, and we have a nursery to do now too!
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I would use it towards paint for my bedroom thanks
I would use this for lights to go on my new home.
I would take the 50.00 and add 50.00 to purchase holiday decorations/tree that I could donate to a family that is less fortunate.
If I had $50 to spend at Lowe’s it would be on new Christmas decorations for my new fireplace that my contractor just made for me. I have a small bungalow with a small living room so we put the tv over the fireplace and I love it! Now I just need new lights and garland for it and Lowe’s has such great decorations!
If I won, I need to make a wooden photo backdrop. Not exactly the biggest project around here, but it does need to be done!
I would finish my kitchen back splash. I sooooo want to get it done 🙂
I would spend getting a blow up Christmas ornament to put in my yard for my grandkids to enjoy!!
We are remodeling the downstairs portion of our hous. The granite was just installed a week ago. We still need tile for the backsplash, flooring and paint. Lowe’s is our go to store for everything! $50 sure would come in handy… 🙂
We’re remodeling our house right now, so I’d use it on new fixtures for the bathroom!
Materials for my unfinished bathroom. Its been 3 years. 🙁
Paint Paint and Lots of Paint..:)
I would buy Christmas decorations as I an starting fresh due to mine being stolen from a storage facility!
Toward a new dishwasher . In dire need!
I would spend it on trim to finish out the wainscoating on a cabinet dividing or entry from the dining (now playroom). The cabinet now holds toys.
I want to build a floor to ceiling headboard.
I would use the lowes gift card to help re-do my kitchen, right now it is a wreck. Painting walls, pulling up old tile floor and replacing if i ever make up my mind what i want!!! Also replacing old butcher block counters. (i think i’m the last human to still have those)
I would buy a blow up character for my new grandbaby
Just finishing up redoing my kitchen. I’d finish up with molding before I start decorating.
I first off I love your blog, and following you and your projects on Facebook! If I won the $50 gc I would use it to buy some new faucets in our master bathroom. Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving!
I was laid off recently and money is tight so this would be helpful to buy a tree and some lights. Love your blog gives me lots of great ideas 🙂
I shared this giveaway on Facebook
I would LOVE a gift card to Lowe’s to help decorate my house. The love of my life moved in with me in February. Currently, I am trying to pay bills off so we can start planning for our wedding as well as our future together. (Despite being behind a mortgage payment and I havent even paid this months yet. 🙁 I am so sad to think that I will not be able to spoil my love the way he deserves.) We have also had two miscarriages since April and could both use a cheerful, happy holiday.
I would finish up my children’s bathroom. I’m missing tp holder, towel holder, New hinges, and bead board to finish up ceiling.
I would buy the Christmas decorations that Im missing. I just had a major surgery and a 2 week hospital stay. Having to stay home with little ones has really hit financially hard for us, it was close before financially. But now were scrambling to pay layaway, bills, food,.so the christmas decorayions that got destroyed in the barn that was messed up in the midwestern storms last week need replaced. I have 3 boys, 2 under 12 who LOVE to decorate for the holidays. I would use the gift card to make sure they had Christmas decorations and stockings to hang.
Good luck to all who enter, and enjoy the holidays with family and friends!!
Power tools, I’d buy more….a girl can never have enough!
I’d buy a new light fixture for our bathroom. It needs to be updated!
I shared even though I didn’t want to give my friends a chance to win, but figured I should share the love!
I’d buy a new rug.
I would put this money toward replacing some ceiling tile that was damaged from a leak.
I would buy a new faucet to replace my 1976 “Brady Bunch Era” one. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would buy some flowering plants to put in the Mexican pots we’re using to anchor our hot tub gazebo!
I would spend the money to complete my bedroom DIY projects! Finally!
Shared on Facebook.
I would fix up our master bathroom! My fiancé and I bought a home in February and have been doing our best to fix it up without breaking the bank (since we have been planning our wedding… We get married next weekend!) we have taken down the 80’s wallpaper and have started to mud up the walls, and put down peal and stick tile.. But that’s it! I’d love to paint and get nice mirrors and light fixtures! This gift card would be a great wedding gift to us!! 🙂
And I have shared this on my Facebook!
Thanks!!!!
I’d buy some paint to freshen up the girls’ bedroom.
$50 would be great – I am making most of my Christmas gifts this year and the gift card would help me with supplies needed to complete a wall of art – wood for plaques and paint to name a few
I would most likely put the $50 towards a tool to keep using for my projects.
Prepping for thanksgiving dinner with my 13 year old grandson is staying over and helping cook. The household carbon monoxide detector started beeping. It has never done that before and having a gas stove and two gas fireplaces in the house I immediately stopped to check it out. It continued beeping after I changed the batteries, reset it and placed it outside in fresh air. I read on Kidde’s website it was an end of life beep as the unit was 6 years old. I would use the $50. gift card from Lowes to replace this CO detector in my home, it is a necessary item to have. Thank you.
Hello Roeshel! I just shared your facebook DIY Show off post on my wall so others have a chance to enter also. Thanks again!
I am working on winterizing / insulating my 68 yr. old house. It’s freezing in here!
I’d buy paint! I need a new color!
I would use the gift card to complete an unfinished project that showed its ugly self when my hot water heater quit & emptied 2 weeks ago!!
I would buy a few supplies to start our shower redo project.
I’d buy outdoor extension cords for my holiday lighting.
Supplies to finish a china cabinet that I am refinishing
Shared on facebook
We would use the $50 to purchase paint to finish our livingroom renovation before we host Christmas! This would be a huge help!!!
I would invest in some new paint for our daughter’s playroom. Red isn’t working just too dark! : )
I would try to do all the amazing things that I see you do on your Facebook page!!! We put a offer in on a short sale… NOtHING SHORT ABOUT IT!! Happy Holidays!! And happy crafting!!!!
I would use the money for more lumber to make our grand daughters tree house. Its our Christmas present to her this year.
Oh my lands! Decorations for sure! Well decorations and a pretty palm plant for the living room. Or maybe an evergreen, a potted evergreen. Yes! A potted evergreen tree.
Merry Christmas DIY! I live Lowes an I would spend $50 at lowes right now buying outside decorations. I have very few lights and I would like my home to shine this Christmas.