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The winner of 7 Vignettes July 2014

I am never (I repeat never) judging 7 Vignettes again. It is too hard and I get too emotionally involved! I want everyone to win. Well, not everyone, but several very worthy participants! Trying to pick a winner this week has been making me so anxious and it’s time to rip off the bandaid. The winner is…

Angela Steyn (@angelasteynandco). Some might find it easy to look past the subtlety of Angela’s pics, but it’s their softness and simplicity which appeals to me, month after month, but especially this month.

Angela's entry for Canada

Canada was not an easy theme but I loved Angela’s entry (above).

This is a woman who knows how to make things — any things — look good. Great, in fact. There’s often some lovely personal stories behind her images too. Like her Grandma’s lipstick (top) and this entry for the ‘home’ theme.

For me, these pictures are the perfect compromise between styled and real. Effortlessly. Or so it appears!

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Angela’s entry for coffee

There’s no runner-up prize this month, but I have to give notable mentions to…

@madebyciel

@kerrieanne4artonparkdesigns

@_fridays_child_

@adiandbert

… because you ladies made it so hard to pick! There were more I loved, but I have to stop somewhere right?!

Go follow these creative types if you know what’s good for you!

I really loved judging, hard as it was when it came to the choosing part. It was even more special because it was my birthday week and I self indulgently made the themes all about the things I love, like lipstick, coffee and bathtime. Why not, eh?! It was so fun looking through the feed and I felt like you were all celebrating with me. Talk about feel good factor!

On the subject of the warm and fuzzies, I must say again just how heartwarming it is, when looking through the pictures, to see all your supportive, encouraging, kind (and sometimes downright funny) comments on each other’s efforts. This lovely, positive community, doesn’t get old and it doesn’t lose its sparkle; if anything, it gets better with age! I am so grateful that this little monthly Instagram challenge still brings so much joy. Thank you to Shani (aka @rarepearstudio) for blogging about it this month. If you blog about your 7 Vignettes experience, please send me the link so I don’t miss it!

I would say that it is really helpful when everyone puts their week’s efforts together in collage format when it comes to judging. I looked at everyone’s entries, whether they did or not, but I’d suggest you all do to give yourself the best chance of standing out to the guest judges.

Until next month (when we are likely to hit 40k images on the hashtag!),

Jen

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Competitions The Block

Win a consultation with The Block twins Alisa and Lysandra

Would you like some personal interiors advice for your home from the Block’s popular Alisa and Lysandra? You could win this great prize in our exclusive competition! Having won The Block Sky High and taken home a tidy profit on Fans vs. Faves, these girls have proven they know their stuff.

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The lucky winner gets a moodboard for a room in their home created by Alisa and a 30-minute video Skype consultation with her. She’ll talk them through the moodboard and how to implement her design suggestions in their home. They’re also throwing in a 20% discount off anything from their store.

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To enter, use the form below and describe how you would dress a room using five products from their online store, Alisa & Lysandra Collections. To complete your entry, make sure you’re signed up to their newsletter. Lysandra will select the best entry.

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 Read all our Block coverage. You can apply to be a contestant on the next series of The Block until 6 July 2014.

You have until midnight this Sunday 15 June 2014 to enter this competition. Good luck!

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Win tickets to the Build & Renovating Expo 2014

Australia’s premier event for builders, renovators and owner-builders, the Build & Renovating Expo by Master Builders, is the first choice for those interested in improving the appearance, performance and energy efficiency of their home or property. We have five doubles passes to give away!

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The expo is renowned for connecting trade professionals and keen renovators with hundreds of quality suppliers. The Modern Home will focus on adaptability, sustainability, efficiency and affordability. The ‘Speed Date an Expert’ area will allow visitors to have one-on-one discussions with industry experts about their project, vision or challenges.

With a large focus on outdoor living, this year’s expo encompasses landscaping, garden, alfresco living and pools. Visitors will be spoilt for choice with the expo covering bathrooms, kitchens, flooring, lighting, heating/cooling, doors and windows, energy efficiency and solar products, roofing, fencing and gates, building materials, finance and sustainability solutions.

Where: Melbourne Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place South Wharf

When: Friday 4 (10am to 9pm), Saturday 5 (10am to 6pm) and Sunday 6 July (10am to 5pm) 2014.

Tickets: Tickets are available at the door or can be pre-purchased online. Adult – $20; student/pensioner – $15; children (under 14 years) free.

Try your luck and enter our competition below by midnight on 27 May 2014 for your chance of winning one of five double passes worth $40 each.

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How would you spend $50,000 if you could renew a special memory?

Sponsored by Nuffnang

It’s a big question and a lot of cash! You have every chance to win it though, thanks to NRMA Insurance. More on that later. It got me thinking how I’d spend all that money to relive a memory or start a new one. When I think of cherished memories I think first of the most recent, our wedding, six months ago, which certainly rates as the most magical day of my life. Then my thoughts quickly turn to family, home and Christmas and all the nostalgia, history and happy memories around that.

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Having grown up in the UK and spent the first 26 of my life there before moving to Australia six years ago, Christmas for me is cold, sometimes white, involves sitting in front of an open fire (there’s even chestnuts sometimes) being with my family, eating ourselves into food comas. There’s also church, midnight mass, reunions with my oldest and dearest friends from school and so on.

The only time I get homesick in Australia is at Christmas time. We don’t talk about the time when I started weeping during carols by candlelight at Sydney’s Balmoral beach (my now husband and I were quite a new couple and I think he was a little concerned about my mental state). These days I spend Christmas with my in-laws who are delightful, but it isn’t the same. They go big on Christmas Eve, whereas my family is all about Christmas Day. They eat salmon, whereas nothing less than roast turkey with all the trimmings (and then some) is really Christmas lunch for me. Last year I served warm mulled wine to their very bemused guests (all the more for me when some found it a little too much for a summer’s day).

Anyway, I’d use the $50,000 to fly home to the UK with my husband, business class to make it all a bit easier, and then get professional chefs to cater a massive Christmas lunch for us all at my dad’s place. There’d be champagne, of course, and mulled wine. And plenty of spare change left over for generous gifts!

I’d love to know what your most special memories are, or what memory you’d love to ‘renew’ if you could. Please share in the comments below.

If you’d like to enter NRMA Insurance’s super simple competition for a real chance to win $50,000 (to renew a memory or start a new one), visit their site and enter your insurance renewal details in their Renewal Reminder system, whether you’re a customer or not. When your policy is up for renewal, you’ll be contacted.

Good luck!

 

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Win an Artecnica Garland light with dedece+

Design store dedece+ are celebrating the gorgeous Garland by Artecnica turning 10 by cutting its retail price from $125 to $75! They’re also giving one away to a lucky Interiors Addict reader!

The Garland is a 1.6-metre long metal garland of flowers that can be wrapped around a light bulb (up to 60 watts). The polished metal pendant light shade comes in four finishes: Gold Brass, Silver Stainless, Black Chromed and White.

It was the winner of the Best Product Design Award at the 2004 New York Gift Fair. Manufactured using a process formerly reserved for the U.S. Air Force and machine tool builders, the Garland (designed in 2003 by Dutch designer Tord Boontje) represents some of the most recent advances in furniture design. It also makes a serious statement in any room.

To take advantage of the new price with the whopping $50 discount, visit dedece+ online. You’ll also find some our favourite brands there, like Tom Dixon.

For your chance of winning one, in your choice of colours, complete the form below by midnight on Thursday 8 May 2014.

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And the winner of our 3rd birthday $2,000 homewares giveaway is…

We knew there’d be hundreds of entries for our biggest competition yet and the chance to win a combined $2000 to spend with some of our favourite homewares brands. Heck, Olivia and I wish we could win!

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But the very lucky winner is Maria Angus, whose entry really made us giggle! We thought we’d let you read her winning answer for yourself. To enter, you had to say why you were the ultimate interiors addict…

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Congratulations, Maria. I’ll be emailing you your prize details this week. I’m so envious of your imminent online shopping spree and hope you’ll share your purchases with us!

Thanks to everyone else who entered and wished us a happy blog birthday! The biggest thank you must go to our generous prize sponsors Dinosaur Designs, Temple & Webster, Kate & Kate, Lumiere Art + Co, Billy Heckenberg, Urban Road, I Love Linen, Alisa & Lysandra Collections, The Block Shop and Bonnie and Neil.

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Competitions Styling

Win an online interior styling service for a room in your home with May 7 Vignettes

Wow, it’s amazing how quick the beginning of the month comes around at the best of times, but even more so when you’re traveling and multi-tasking, it seems! May 7 Vignettes starts this Thursday 1 May. The winner this month will get the chance to have a room in their home styled by the experts at Silk Home Staging & Styling, worth up to $450.

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A Silk Express moodboard

If you win the Silk Express Online Styling Service, you’ll receive a moodboard containing furniture and homewares suggestions, info on where to buy, a floor plan and more.

Here’s the themes list…

1. White

2. Hidden

3. Escape

4. Treasure

5. Home

6. Sunshine

7. Autumn

This month, I’ve asked editorial assistant Olivia Shead to judge as she did such a great job of her first attempt at 7 Vignettes last month. So, make sure to tag @interiorsaddict and @oliviashead in your entries, and of course use the hashtag #7vignettes. You know the drill! But if you’re new, everything you need to know can be found here.

Editorial assistant Olivia Shead is this month's 7 Vignettes judge
Editorial assistant Olivia Shead is this month’s 7 Vignettes judge
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Just hours left to enter our biggest giveaway EVER

You have until midnight tonight (Tuesday 29 April 2014) to enter our third birthday giveaway for your chance to win $2,000 of online homewares shopping credit from some of our favourite brands!

For all the info on how to enter, read last week’s post. Don’t hang around. Entries close in seven hours!

This competition is now closed

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Win a $2,000 homewares shopping spree!

As I wrote yesterday, last week Interiors Addict turned three, and if that isn’t an excuse for a celebration, I don’t know what is! I wouldn’t be here without my readers, so I want to give one of you the chance to go on a MAJOR spending spree with some of my favourite homewares brands. Interested?

HOW TO ENTER

1. Head on over to Instagram and regram (or screen grab and re-post, depending on your apps and technical know-how!) this image from our feed:

2. Use the hashtag #interiorsaddict3rdbirthday and in your caption/comment, tell us why YOU are the ultimate interiors addict!

3. To complete your entry, if you’re not already, make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter (the winning entry will be checked against our database so if your full name isn’t in your insta profile, make sure it’s in your caption/comment).

4. You have a week to enter, until midnight on Tuesday 29 April 2014. The winner (the answer Jen finds most creative, convincing and/or amusing) will be announced the following week).

WHAT YOU COULD WIN

One lucky winner will receive $200 credit for each and every one of the 10 brands pictured to spend online, a massive total of $2,000 worth of gorgeous new things for your home! Thanks to our prize sponsors Bonnie and Neil, I Love Linen, Temple & Webster, Dinosaur Designs, Urban Road, Billy Heckenberg, Alisa & Lysandra Collections, The Block Shop, Kate & Kate and Lumiere Art + Co.

What are you waiting for? If you’re not on Instagram yet, it’s time you joined up!

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Bathrooms Competitions

Reece invites designers and students to reinvent the vanity

The Omvivo Neo wall basin, available from Reece

The Reece Bathroom Innovation Award (BIA) is back and this year they’re turning the spotlight on bathroom furniture and offering new and improved prizes.

The Omvivo Neo wall basin, available from Reece
The Omvivo Neo wall basin, available from Reece

Open to budding and established Australian designers alike, applicants will have to wow the judges by showing them how they would reinvent the vanity unit to enhance the bathroom space.

“The BIA has always been about pushing the boundaries of bathroom product design,” explains marketing manager Belinda Geels. “So this year we’re looking to student and professional designers to really explore the possibilities of bathroom furniture. We want to see how Australia’s emerging design talent can reinvent and truly redefine the vanity unit.”

Along with an updated brief, the BIA has also revamped its prizes, with the 2014 BIA professional category winner taking home $10,000 in cash and having their entry prototyped by Australia’s leading vanity unit manufacturer, Omvivo.

The student winner also gets a money-can’t-buy experience, collecting $5,000 in cash and heading to Barcelona for a two-week internship with the world’s largest bathroom manufacturer, Roca.

Now in its ninth year, the BIA encourages and celebrates innovative bathroom design and provides a platform for entrants to share their talent with the international design industry. The competition opened to both professional and student designers on 1 March. For more information and to see last year’s winners visit the BIA website here.

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2014 Dulux Colour Awards finalists announced

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After reviewing close to 200 entries from some of the top names in the Australasian design community, the judges of the 2014 Dulux Colour Awards have narrowed the list down to 76 finalists.

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Murphy’s House by Alex Fulton Design

Now in its 28th year, the Dulux Colour Awards recognise the imaginative use of colour by architects and interior designers, to redefine the spaces they have created.

Standouts this year include Murphy’s House by Alex Fulton Design, a renovated 1903 villa, whose colour palette of a vibrant, bold and at times kooky theme, reflects the creativity of the owners.

Little Red Riding Hood by Nexus Designs is also a frontrunner, with the bold use of colour on the built-in joinery allowing for a simplistic look that feels complete without layers of accessories.

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Little Red Riding Hood by Nexus Designs

Both finalists are in the Single Residential Interior category, one of the nine categories. A winner will be announced for each, with the best of the category winners going on to be awarded the Grand Prix prize.

Dulux’s Andrea Lucena-Orr, said 2014 was another inspirational year, with submissions reflecting key commercial and residential trends: “The use of block colour was prominent in the [residential] categories. For the Single Residential Interior category, red, green and grey were popular colours.”

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Another finalist in the Single Residential Interior category: 19 Vincent Street, Glen Iris by Austin Design Associates

Winners of the 2014 Dulux Colour Awards will be announced at a gala event in Melbourne on 27 March. More information and all the finalists can be found here.

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IDEA 2014 entries are open

Entries for Australia’s largest independent design awards program, The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), opened this week.

idea2014Launched by Inside magazine in 2003, the program celebrates the best of Australian interior and product design across 11 categories and five special awards.

Open to both emerging local designers as well as the country’s leading architecture and design firms, the entries are judged by a panel of design industry professionals, including Paul Chung, associate director at DesignInc and Clare Cousins, founder of Clare Cousins Architecture.

Projects completed in the last 12 months are eligible to enter. Early bird entries are open until the end of March, with all entries closing on 25 May.

More information.

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Win dinner for 2 to celebrate the new look Victoria Room

The Victoria Room has a new look and it’s not surprising it’s a stunning one, thanks to the work of interior designer Blainey North.

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After 10 successful years of trading, the new owners decided it was time for a change. Blainey has given the venue a beautiful new look featuring lots of dark navy (my favourite!) and deep, masculine shades, whilst moving away from the previous British Raj style.

Chef Samuel Cheetham, previously of Chez Bruce in London and Becasse & Quarter Twenty One in Sydney, is now heading up the kitchen. His new menu includes delicious sounding dishes like freshly shucked oysters with Campari granita, salt baked potatoes with smoked sour cream, shallots & preserved lemon, marinated Mahi Mahi and scallop, lime, black pepper and avocado (pictured).

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WIN

To celebrate the new look, one lucky reader will win a three-course dinner for two with a glass of wine each at the Victoria Room. To enter, complete this form by 11pm on Wednesday 5 March 2014.

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Win a his ‘n hers doona for Valentine’s Day

Whether you’re set for a hot and steamy or cool and cuddly Valentine’s Day, Tontine’s Venus&Mars doona has got your sleeping arrangements covered! It offers different fill levels in each half of the doona, to create an innovative dual warmth system.

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There’s no denying the needs of women and men can seem worlds apart, especially when it comes to the bedroom. It’s common for couples (whether they’re male and female, male and male or indeed female and female!) to prefer different warmth levels from their quilt. One partner will be a warmer sleeper and the other a cooler sleeper. One might kick off the quilt in the night, while the other hugs it tight!

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Making my bedroom a sanctuary and why you should too

I’m a really busy girl, as you can probably guess if you follow my antics on this blog. But I also preach the importance of taking time out (and sometimes you have to really work at making this happen) to relax, switch off from technology and just breathe.

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My bed

My absolute favourite place to do this is the bath, but I don’t trust myself with my prized interiors coffee table books in there. Steam, clumsiness, you know… So when I need a little time out I like to retreat to my bedroom with a nice cup of tea, a stack of books and homes mags and lose myself in them for an hour or so. It makes such a difference!

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Australia Day weekend art giveaway

Happy long weekend, readers! I have an appropriately Aussie giveaway for you today from United Artworks!

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This piece, Great Southern Land, is by Sydney artist Holly Eva Gay, who offers her work to United Artworks exclusively under licence. The 90 x 120cm hand painted acrylic on canvas is ready to hang and worth $449.

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How to hang a picture wall with Country Road + win a $500 voucher for frames

Country Road are giving Interiors Addict readers the first look at their latest how-to video which takes you through hanging a picture wall, step by step. Even better, you can win everything you need to create your own!

If you can’t knock nails in your walls because you rent, you could always apply all the same principals but use the 3M Command Picture Hanging Strips I blogged about yesterday instead. Easy!

One lucky reader will score a great prize pack which includes:

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Less than a month to enter the 2014 Dulux Colour Awards

Last year's Dulux Colour Awards Grand Prix winner – Atherton Gardens HUB Development

Entries for the 2014 Dulux Colour Awards close on 6 February, meaning there is less than a month remaining for designers, architects and students to showcase their imaginative use of colour.

Last year's Dulux Colour Awards Grand Prix winner – Atherton Gardens HUB Development
Last year’s Dulux Colour Awards Grand Prix winner – Atherton Gardens HUB Development
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