We’re fond of major before and afters around here. Brandon and I have taken on some big projects, like redoing our kitchen, making over our backyard, and fully refinishing our basement.
We’ve improved our home a lot over the years, but we’ve also improved our life at home. Do you know how nice it is to do laundry in a basement that isn’t scary? Or to cook with the kids in a kitchen that is not only cute, but that actually functions (and isn’t falling apart)? Making my home, well, lovely, makes me and my family happy. These things take some planning though, and a bit of work, and of course you need a budget to work with.
Do you have a space that needs some attention? Maybe you want to create a laundry room too, or give your kitchen a facelift. Maybe you have a bathroom that has seen better days, or you dream of a wall of windows to let the light in. What would you want to do to your home if someone were to come in and give you the budget to do it?
I’ve partnered with HouseLogic to offer homeowners a chance to win a $20,000 home renovation to “Boost Your Roost!” To enter, send me an email (boostyourroost@gmail.com) with the following information:
- Describe the room you’d like to renovate with a $20,000 budget in 300 words or less. We want to hear about why your home improvement project is important to you! How will it help you enjoy your home? How will it impact your time with family and friends?
- I need at least one photo (5 photos max) of the space. Your images are part of what people will be voting on if you’re a finalist, so make ‘em good! You can host your photos on free sites like flickr or post them to your blog if you have one. You can also include drawings or a link to a video if you like.
- Include your full name, email address, phone number, and home location. (Your information will be kept private, but we’ll need it to contact you if you’re a finalist.)
I’ll be narrowing down the entries and choosing the best submission, which will go on to be one of six finalists (five from other participating bloggers). The finalists will then be voted on by the public to see who will win the $20,000 home renovation. So get creative, start dreaming, and let me know how you plan to “boost your roost!”
This post is sponsored by HouseLogic, a website for homeowners from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Entries will be accepted now through July 16 at 11:59pm (CDT), and you must be a homeowner living within the continental U.S. More details can be found at houselogic.com/boostyourroost.
66 comments
KS
Just submitted – Thanks for hosting this contest!
Libby
Just submitted my entry (at the 11th hour!) My fingers are crossed!
Erin
My submission is in for our kitchen! Thank you for the opportunity!
susan wilson
Hi Nicole,
I just sent you my submission for the boost your roost contest! Just checking to make sure you received it! Thank you for the opportunity!
Susan
Sherry M.
So exciting…just sent in my submission! Thanks for the opportunity :)
Sherry Koone
I would like to renovate the front and or rear entries of my home. My mother moved in with me when my father passed away three years ago and when she moved in I had an old double wide mobile home with additions. While in this home she had a spill on the steps and broke her arm requiring surgery. Since that time we purchased a new double wide with no additions but there is still the front and rear steps which make it difficult for her to enjoy the outdoors. My mother has post polio and walks on the side of her foot almost on the ankle and is a diabetic with neuropathy. She just recently went out for a short time and due to the heat and neuropathy she was unable to feel her feet as she stood on the uncovered hot patio area and received 2nd degree burns to her feet. I would like to make a covered deck or porch area so that she can enjoy the outdoors without fear of her falling or burning her feet again. Sincerely,
Sherry
Christine Drumgoole
Good morning, Nicole! Well, since learning of this contest, my husband and I (mostly me) have cleaned out our basement of extraneous items, held a yard sale, met with a contractor to clarify our vision and confirm our worst suspicions, and worked on my blog to help with the entry submission process. It has been a long two weeks with almost no sleep. I hope that you received my submission early this morning. Good luck to everyone who entered!
Jennifer Rodgers
What a great opportunity! I just sent in my submission. Fingers crossed!!
christine
Hi! I am In DESPARATE need of this exciting opportunity! However, I am almost computer illiterate! Can I e-mail you my pictures. That would be easiest for me. I don’t know how to post them on a photo site. Thanks!
Making it Lovely
Emailing them is fine! The email address and all of the details are above, in the post.
Ronda Barron
I need a bathroom update in the worst possible way. The tub is rusting out and has no finish so it looks nasty all the time and ceramic tile is coming off the wall. The mirror over the vanity is rubbing off around the edges and is etched w/something as it will not clean up 100%. Plus the bottom of the vanity had a leack at some time before me so the owner just chopped out the section instead of repairing it, the facuset needs replacing and the top does not even fit the vanity correctly. I’m a single woman trying to make ny 1956 house look good but this is beyond my expertise. Please, please help
Linnea
Oh, I would love to enter the contest! Unfortunately, we’re just now beginning to think about buying our first home. That $20,000 would go a very long way to a down payment! Bummer that I can’t be a part of things this time.
Donna
I would LOVE a home renovation!!
Linda
Hi! What a lovely chance to win a new room. I want to Boost My Kitchen Roost so I have something to crow about and invite all my little peeps over for dinner. My kitchen is in great need of an update. Will you be showing entries on your site as well?
Making it Lovely
I’ll be sharing the finalist I’ve chosen, who will then go on to compete with five others for the grand prize.
Joanna
This wold be so fun! I sent my pics last night – please let me know you received them, so I don’t have nightmares about the spam filter.
Making it Lovely
Joanna, yes, I have your submission.
Kara
sent my entry — woohoo!!!
Cara
Do we need to submit contractor bids as part of our submission?
Making it Lovely
Not for the initial portion. I believe that semi-finalists do.
Cindy Rangel
Nicole,
Thanks for providing this great blog, will be tweeting about soon. So lovely! This contest sounds amazing. I know the perfect candidate, a first time home buyer.
Thanks so much and I feel so lucky!!!
LeAnn
Would you consider re-doing a classroom?
Making it Lovely
That would be fun, but this particular contest is for homeowners.
Su@TheIntentionalHome
coming over here because I just read about you in Ladies Home Journal! My first time here. . can’t wait to look all around. Question about this contest: it looks like that we can enter at each of the bloggers. So we can submit one entry at each blogger. I am assuming it has to be a diiferent project submitted. Is this correct?? Just wondering because this would up our chances of making it to the final rounds :)
Kara
This is a fun contest—
I just had to find your basement posts again and go gaga over your laundry sink!! I just found a vintage farmhouse sink {in my dad’s barn haha} and am having it re glazed for our laundry room sink!
Kara
Jillean
We bought an older home and have spent 5 years, and millions of tears fixing it up. However, it has one full bath!! Its the size of a shoe box and their is five of us!!! THAT 20,000 would seriously help our mood in the morning!!! lol
Heather B.
Don’t be frightened by what I just sent you… I am slightly embarrassed.. Okay, a lot embarrassed… Thanks for the opportunity.
beth r
Yeah! I’m just moving into a house and the kitchen is an eyesore in an otherwise gorgeous home! I’ll be sending pics to you shortly :D
Sarah S
Yay! I entered. I honestly feel better even just talking about how much I don’t like my kitchen. ;)
erin rosenow
nevermind, just read through all of the comments. ;)
erin rosenow
hi nicole,
i know that house logic is accepting entries until july 16th but what is your cut off date for entries? thanks so much for this awesome contest!!!
amy good house
I am so excited about this contest, I sent you photos last night of my sorry kitchen.
Thank you for providing this opportunity and good luck to all the contestants :)
Lindsey
Hi Nicole!
I’m a big fan of your blog and just read about this contest! What a great opportunity! What is the email address to send all the information to?
We are so excited about this contest!
Cheers,
Lindseey
Making it Lovely
I linked to it above: boostyourroost@gmail.com.
Evelyn
And what is the deadline? July 16?
Making it Lovely
Yes, July 16. I’ll post a follow-up reminder before then.
Evelyn
Nicole, does the video have to be just of the space itself? Can it be a little presentation?
So great you’re sharing this with us! Already excited for the future winner. Such an awesome freebie.
Making it Lovely
You can be creative, as long as I can still see the space!
Amber
Nicole- Whatever happened to Heather’s Social Space makeover project? I know you came up with some great ideas for them- did they ever send any photos or updates?
Making it Lovely
They did a lot of work to the exterior of their house and wrote a blog post about it called “the big reveal”, but they also said they were going to furnish it and really finish the space, but I don’t think they did.
Megan
Hi Nicole,
Would you consider a rented space? Although not my own, it is so important to me to personalize and respect my space. My strategy in painting, furnishing and decorating this space is to select items that can be moved once I purchase a home, but this is requiring a lot of creativity that I don’t have!
What do you think?
Making it Lovely
It’s open to homeowners only, since the prize money is to be used on a renovation to improve the home itself. You can talk to your landlord though — maybe he or she will want to enter!
Kristin
We have been renovating our shotgun house for SEVEN YEARS. We are out of money and out of energy with one room left: the bathroom. But this would be totally amazing! I am taking pictures tonight!
Cheltz
Dang! Hard not to get my hopes up, but it will be tough to win out of a million-trillion entries … I might as well give it a shot though. Thanks, Nicole!
Julia at Home on 129 Acres
What a great contest! Too bad I’m in Canada, or you’d be getting a picture of my indoor pool (here it is anyways: http://homeon129acres.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/house-wish-list/). It was decommissioned by previous owners, but it’s just been sitting there, a huge hole taking up major square footage in the house. I have visions for a gorgeous mudroom and a craft/laundry room… oh, and adding on an attached garage. $20,000 would help a lot!
MomHomeGuide.com
Wonderful contest! Am looking forward to seeing the submissions.
mandy @ this girl's life
Wow…what an amazing opportunity! Very exciting :)
Vanessa
Can we submit more than once? For example I have 2 major issues, living room and no back door to my house. Should I email the once with 2 ideas? Or email twice with one suggestion per email?
Making it Lovely
Someone just asked this question right before you too. Submit just once, but you can include photos from multiple spaces and make a note of that in your description.
kelly
Yes! Interested to know if an outdoor space will count.
And can we enter more than once if we have multiple sad spaces?
Making it Lovely
Outdoor spaces are fine, and I’ll double check about entering more than once. I’ll post here once I hear back.
Making it Lovely
Only one entry per person will be accepted, but you can include multiple photos of spaces and make a note of that in your description.
Nichole C.
Oh, I know just the room! This is such a great contest, thanks for sharing!
Michelle Taylor
I’d love a screened in porch for the family. Right now, it’s a concrete slab that sits in full sun. Hot of little baby feet and Mommy feet too! Thanks for the opportunity! My submission has been sent!
Making it Lovely
I’ve got it!
Jillian@TheHumbleGourmet
Fantastic! We are just about to close on a house this week (hopefully!) so this could not be better timing :-)
Tatyana
We are just about to close escrow on a house (Friday) and the entire place needs to be redone. So if someone could pitch in $20,000, it would be great.
Mary-My Life in Scotland
WOW! What an amazing contest!! I live in Scotland, but my sisters live in the USA! I’m totally telling them about this contest!
Jacqui
Can it be an outdoor space? My yard could use some serious love.
Making it Lovely
An outdoor space (like adding a deck, for example) is fine!
Mara
Yay Nicole!!! What an amazing contest!! I’ll be posting my pics of my atrium shortly! Thanks HouseLogic!
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