THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED BUT PLEASE KEEP VOTING FOR CASSITY & ROESHEL AT http://www.facebook.com/shawfloors?sk=app_178630008866363. If you’re a follower of The DIY Show Off or Remodelaholic or even #Shaw Floors on Facebook, you now likely know that Cassity and I are proud of our Casual Coastal Cottage design:
To start off “How to Get This Coastal Cottage Look”, Shaw Floors is giving away a beautiful area rug from the HGTV Home collection right here at the DIY Show Off! WINNER’S CHOICE! You choose the style and size! How’s that for a start on how to get this look or just to choose your own favorite style to inspire your own makeover? Here are a few of the beautiful patterns you can choose from but there are 42 total so you’ll have no trouble in finding an area rug that fits your home’s style:
See here for all of the details of this beach/eclectic themed room and on how to get this look. 🙂
~*~*~*~ Prize: One rug from the Shaw HGTV Home collection. Your choice of style and size (even 9×12!).
Giveaway Rules:
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY to avoid a disqualified entry!
Please comment on each of the following ways to enter as you do them and remember to leave an email address to contact you in at least one entry if you can’t be reached via a clicky blog profile. The giveaway is open to U.S. residents only (for shipping purposes). Good luck!
READ CAREFULLY! LOTS OF CHANCES TO WIN HERE & AT SHAW FLOORS 30 DAYS OF HGTV HOME!
“like” Shaw Floors on Facebook and VOTE for your favorite Design Challenge at http://www.facebook.com/shawfloors?sk=app_178630008866363. It doesn’t have to be our Casual Coastal Cottage (Cassity & Roeshel) but we’d love your vote! Comment on this post that you’ve voted, every day that you vote 9/1 -14. That’s 15 chances to win any style/any size area rug from Shaw Floors HGTV Home line right here!
Every day in September that you vote, you’re entered to win there too! Yep – chances to win all over the place! All you have to do is vote for your favorite room design challenge and you’re automatically entered to win every day! Come back here everyday you vote and comment to win here too! The DIY Show Off is giving away any style of the Shaw Floor HGTV Home line of rugs, any size. Giveaway here runs from today 9/1 through 9/14/11. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced shortly after.
More chances to win:
2. Visit the Shaw Floors HGTV Home Collection. Comment which rug you’d choose and where it’ll go. OR comment on the Shaw Facebook page that you love the room designed by Cassity & Roeshel. Comment here that you do. {1} additional entry (See below for help on voting!)
3. Become a subscriber (right side bar) and comment that you are or comme
nt if you already are. {1} additional entry
4. Share this giveaway and comment here with a link showing you’ve shouted it out to the www! Thanks for spreading the word via Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, blog post or by pinning our room shown above on Pinterest. We need all the help we can get! {1} additional entry
5. Visit Remodelaholic, become a follower and comment here that you love Cassity as much as I do. {1} additional entry
We’ve given additional entries as shown 2-5 for those with and without a Facebook account. Email me at thediyshowoff@gmail.com if you have any questions!
Voting: On Shaw’s facebook page, click 30 Days of HGTV Homeon the left tab. Enter email. Enter information (only the first time you vote). Click submit. Next, click “GET STARTED”. The rooms are all in a row in cloudy little thumbnails. Cassity & Roeshel is the third over (but double check them all). Click the thumbnails until you find us then click “VOTE FOR THIS ROOM”! It’s tricky the first time, but heading back every day will have you doing it in a snap asap. Do make sure to vote to enter every day and then come back here to comment that you voted for a chance to win here too!!!
This is so important to us! We are so thankful for you vote and support! We hope that a DIY Show Off and Remodelaholic fans win one of the beautiful floors or area rugs! Good luck there and good luck here too!
Disclaimer: Shaw paid for my transportation, lodging and meals to attend the Shaw Floor HGTV Home preview and design challenge and is sponsoring this giveaway by providing the prize area rug but opinion, commentary and posts are in my own words without compensation, requirements or direction from Shaw Floors.
As you know (warning: I’ll be mentioning this here and there all month long – I’m that excited to share this with you!), Cassity from Remodelaholic and I teamed up to create a coastal cottage room designed around the beautiful Shaw Floors’ handscraped maple (Style: Rockbridge/Color: Dusk) and Ikat Panel (multi) area rug. It was a dream come true experience to design a room around this flooring.
I still smile every time I see this room.
I’d love for our family room to look like this and I had so much fun designing it.
Every detail, flooring, rug, paint color and accessories are comfortable and I feel right at home.
When decorating a room, do what you love…
The Shaw Floors HGTV Home Design Challenge Contest and Sweepstakes is up and running NOW through September 30th! You can vote for your favorite room everyday!
Simply “like” Shaw on Facebook and vote for your favorite room (any of the 5 rooms designed by 5 teams – some amazingly talented and super friendly DIY and design bloggers) and while we’d love your vote for Cassity & Roeshel, all of the rooms are gorgeous.
To enter the sweepstakes:
·Like Shaw Floors on Facebook (www.facebook.com/shawfloors) ·Enter your email address in the 30 Days of HGTV HOME tab ·Vote for your favorite room – every day in September. EVERY DAY you’ll be entered! 30 prizes total!
By entering the sweepstakes, you can also print off a voucher to receive a free HGTV HOME tote bag and a free HGTV HOME area rug with purchase. Isn’t that sweet?! Winners will not be announced on a daily basis due to the verification process to ensure winner is a real person, etc. Winners will not be announced on the Facebook Page during September but soon afterwards!
As camera shy as I am (deer in the headlights syndrome!), I wanted to share our experience with the Shaw Floors HGTV Home Design Challenge. Please don’t laugh at me too hard! Cassity is a natural. Me, not so much.&nbs
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Here are the videos that show our interview with Lisa LaPorta (HGTV’s Designed to Sell), describing our room:
Cassity and I getting to know each other (she’s “awesome”!):
and a video that gives information on the event. Lisa Laporta is that cute in real life!
We would love for one of our readers to win new flooring or an area rug of their choice! And we’d love your vote! Winning room/blog team gets all-expense paid trip to the HGTV Urban Oasis Home! Hurray! I’d love to win and share the experience with you, dear friends! Your support means so much to me. You all are the best! Please pop over to enter to win and vote at
Look for another giveaway coming up Thursday right here at the DIY Show Off! You don’t want to miss it ~ a chance to win any Shaw HGTV Home rug ANY SIZE!
Looooooong post today but I’m just bursting with excitement to share the amazing experience with you, my dear blog friends! If you’re like me, hearing about an awesome opportunity related to blogging when it’s my blog buddy just fills me with joy to no end! When I was invited to the all expense paid trip to participate in the Shaw Floors HGTV Home Design Challenge, I could barely contain my exclamation and hands in the air “YES!”. That noise that you thought was thunder last month? That was me jumping up and down! I’ve never had the opportunity to decorate a room from the floor up. My main experiences are extremely tight/non existent budgets in my own home.
Meet the Design Challenge bloggers:
Roeshel from The DIY Showoff
Cassity from Remodelaholic
Pam from Retro Renovation
Jill from Material Girls
Katy from Charles & Hudson
Julia from Casa Sugar
Rhoda from Southern Hospitality
Lindsay from Living with Lindsay
Carmen from The Decorating Diva
Ethan from One Project Closer
I loved meeting these talented bloggers! Some long time virtual friends, some new!
All super friendly and so talented!
Lisa LaPorta, Cassity from Remodelaholic, Roeshel from the DIY Show Off, Rhoda from Southern Hospitality, Lindsay from Living with Lindsay.
Cassity and I have already shared a sneak peek of the reveal with you…
Now here’s the story of my intoxicating participation:
Last Tuesday I arrived at the Biltmore Inn. I could hardly keep my jaw from hitting the floor of the bus as we drove up through the front gate and along the beautifully landscaped drive. I imagined it must have been just the way Mrs. Vanderbilt felt the first time she arrived as she hadn’t seen it before her marriage to George Vanderbilt. Breathtaking and overwhelming beauty of the lush landscaping and stunning Smokey Mountains in the background.
My room at the inn was gorgeous…and there was a press package full of goodies awaiting my arrival.
After a long day of travel, nervousness and excitement, this bed was so inviting!
Check out my view of the estate and Smokey Mountains…
Later that evening, we attended a welcoming reception to meet the Shaw Floor team, the HGTV Home group and the bloggers as well as meet our design challenge partner face to face. I was thrilled to learn that my teammate was long time e-friend, Cassity from Remodelaholic! I’ve been a fan of her blog for quite some time and love her style. She is just as sweet in real life as her blog persona reflects. Love her!
(Not very many pictures this night…maybe when Shaw releases theirs. I had my camera but we were all just getting to know each other and I wasn’t comfortable snapping pictures. Did I mention that I’m shy?)
The Design Challenge: Design a room around a beautiful floor in the Shaw Floor’s new HGTV Home line.
The time came to be assigned a room (“bay”) and to pick our flooring ‘out of a hat’. Our room had a big picture window and board and batten. Great start! Just our style. Design fate was on our side when Cassity reached into the bag and chose “hardwood and area rug” for our flooring! Again – exactly what we would have chosen! We immediately decided to design a living room in our space. One that we ourselves would love to have in our home.
Hardwood (Rockbridge/Dusk) and Ikat Panel Area Rug
Our plan: A casual coastal cottage…sort of like this:
Just kidding!
The Biltmore is a late 1890s mansion in Asheville, NC. We enjoyed a very interesting and informative guided candle lit tour. No expense was spared in this place. As you can tell from the picture, it is enormous! Every detail inside is over-the-top. I can’t even fathom having that much money ever, let alone over 100 years ago. Seriously? Who had an indoor lighted swimming pool, bowling alley, something like 43 bathrooms with indoor plumbing WITH hot and cold water, elevators, pool tables, granite, marble, picture frame molding and tapestries at every turn, fountains, 4 huge expansive floors of richly decorated rooms including an enormous library with spiral staircase? It’s all self-sustaining with a village full of shops, a dairy and a winery. I felt like royalty. We were treated like royalty too!
We then dined in a beautiful garden courtyard on the Biltmore Estate. I swear it was decorated by faeries with twinkle lights and gorgeous centerpieces. (As you can tell, my mind wasn’t exactly on camera settings! Oops!)
Look at the adorable place settings…I just love attention to detail, don’t you?We had fun talking, laughing and getting to know each other and eating delicious foods and desserts.
We headed back to our rooms to get a good night’s sleep for more surprises the next morning. While we were sleeping, our flooring was being installed by elves. Not really elves obviously…but it all felt so magical!
Wed. morning, we boarded a bus for a three hour drive to our next destination. While on the bus, each team was given a box full of magazines, fabric samples, little fun odds and ends, pictures of furniture and paint swatches along with our hardwood floor sample (handscraped maple) and a picture of the area rug we chose. Cassity and I learned that we share a love for the same style and that girl is so creative, she made our design board 3D! Putting together our design board was fun.
A chance for the inner kid to get creative with our passion for decorating and design. Cassity and I are both inspired by vintage, texture, neutral backgrounds with fun accents bringing in color, rustic woods and traditional pieces. We decided on a beautiful light blue as the wall color. We wanted accessories to pop in a cozy cottage atmosphere.
We arrived at Tribuzio Hilliard. TH is a commercial photo studio with movie set type bays (or rooms) with a warehouse full of furniture and every accessory imaginable from floor to ceiling. My first impression was complete ‘awe’. I felt like a little girl in a gigantic doll house. Talk about a dream come true!
And just like any good dream, things only got better when we were greeted by talented Lisa LaPorta of HGTV’s Designed to Sell! Oh my! Star struck for sure!
There were our own embroidered director’s chairs too! Isn’t that so thoughtful and awesome? Every detail of this event was just so personal and special. A girl could get used to this type of pampering!
Lisa was available for design tips, giving her opinions and advice and moral support and she was just darling overall. She is full of creative energy and a joy to be around. She played a huge part in making us feel comfortable, less nervous and as if we were stars too! We had so much fun getting acquainted with her. Of course we couldn’t help but ask for an autograph along the way.
Lisa LaPorta, Cassity (& Lydia) and Roeshel
Here is our room the first time we saw it. The flooring had been installed the night before.
Before
“Shopping” was done in the warehouse full of photography props. So it wasn’t real shopping, at least not in a store. I can’t tell you where things were purchased. But hopefully the room inspires those seeking the same look on how to re-create a casual coastal atmosphere.
We began our shopping in the furniture and architectural accent (fireplaces, lighting and more) section. I even put on a safety belt and rode a hydraladder (or cherry picker) to view items stored near the ceiling!
Going up!
Every time we walked into this department, we spotted something new as if someone kept adding furniture when we weren’t looking or our furniture fairy godmother waved her magic wand and there was the piece we’d been looking for! It might have been that as things were removed by teams, more things were visible but I never had so much fun “shopping”!
Other rooms had floor to ceiling sh
elving thrift-store-style packed full of goodies: lamps, vases, baskets, throw pillows, books, candles and holders, silk greenery, planters, fillers, clocks, statues, throws, bedding, mirrors, art work, dinnerware, glasses, curtains, fabrics, even food and drinks!
We eagerly filled a couple of carts with ideas and great accents. We then chose our accessories and even though the room wasn’t ready for staging, we couldn’t resist playing around and putting things together.
Cassity and me – taking a break from playing with positioning furniture and decorating before room is painted.
We even got to jump up into the back of a florist truck stuffed full of every type of beautiful fresh flower imaginable to choose whatever our heart desired for the room!
My hotel room was stunning. High ceilings, beautifully decorated and another amazing view.
Our room at the studio, chandelier and some accessories were being painted while we slept. Wish we had those DIY elves in real life!
Bright and early on the last day, we headed back to Tribuzio Hilliard to complete our rooms. The paint was even more beautiful on the walls than on the swatch! Love it! We quickly got to accessorizing while our talented helpers hung the gallery wall art, installed the chandelier and helped with any little request along the way.
Thank you to our helpers!
This entire time, we had an amazing design assistant, Linda, who helped us along the way, searching for our decorative accents, working hard to make our vision become reality and pointing out professional photo things on our set that we wouldn’t have known about otherwise.
Cassity from Remodelaholic Linda S. Roeshel, The DIY Show Off
Cassity has the sweetest baby girls who gave our room a big thumbs up too!
AREN’T THEY PRECIOUS?!
Once our room was completed, Cassity and I were interviewed on video by none other than Lisa LaPorta to discuss our design and our room! We were blushing with pride and from praise. I was a bit tongue tied. Cassity’s a natural in front of the camera. There was little time for prep and I always think of what I should have said or could’ve added after the fact AND if I had known about the video, I might have changed out of my casual attire for something prettier but I’m so excited to see that video!
Here are some TONS of our after shots we took. We can’t wait to see the professional catalog-worthy looking photography of our design, hard work and pride and joy.
Mantel:
Here’s the wall you don’t see. Just like a movie set!
We went through all 5 rooms designed by 10 bloggers, 5 teams, each of us interviewed by Lisa LaPorta and I have to tell you…we’re up against some stiff competition! I don’t have a picture of it – I was being interviewed but the other bloggers listed above will be sharing their experiences and photos! Be sure to visit them for more details! Which brings me to the reason for the Design Challenge. All five rooms will be displayed on Shaw Floors’ Facebook page from September 1-30th where you will have a chance to vote every day for the entire month for your favorite room. We really need your support! There’s something in it for you too! More on that to come soon but don’t worry – I’ll remind you to get over there to vote and enter when the time comes.
So, that’s my fairy tale/dream come true story of the couple of days a DIY blogger got to play being a real designer. It’s something I never in a million years would have thought I’d get to do. Sure, I dream big just like everyone else and getting to do this, meeting my e-friends face to face and others who share my DIY passion as well as some pretty interesting and amazing people was just the highlight of the year.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Shaw Floors, HGTV Home and Empower (Hi Rachael, Hi Ashley, Hi Taylor!). And most of all, thank YOU my dear blog friends, because I know I would not have been invited it if weren’t for you and your amazing friendships! And I pray that each of you are presented with wonderful, dream come true opportunities one of these days too! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing my excitement! Want to see more details? I promise you, you’ll see more of our room by my awesome partner, Cassity at REMODELAHOLIC and I’ll have something more to share with you coming soon!
