Emily A. Clark

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Room Design Giveaway

Nov302012

This giveaway is now closed. 

Since I stopped taking online design clients last year, many of you have asked what other designers I would recommend.  One of them is Camila.

 

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Besides being Hudson’s mom, she is also author of the beautiful blog, Effortless Style.  And, she just happens to be taking new online design clients.

 

 

I’ve always been drawn to Camila’s style because it’s colorful, livable, and fun:

 

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If you’re wanting to make some updates to (or completely change up) one of your rooms, her “style boards” are the perfect starting point:

 

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Her style boards are valued at up to $1200 and she’s giving one away!

 

Here’s what’s included:

  1. Floor Plan/ Furniture Layout: Mock up of where everything should go.
  2. Furniture & Accessory Picks: Boards with product images, pricing.
  3. Material Picks: Boards with paint, fabric, wallpaper options, window treatment options, flooring, hardware
  4. Design Plan: Instructions on who to execute the look. (Includes notes for to achieve DIY projects, if applicable.)
  5. Shopping Guide: List of links for all of the items that are needed to achieve the design plan.

 

(Style plans do not include kitchen or bathroom remodels.  Winner must redeem style plan within one year.  Once the client receives the style plan, they have up to two additional hours to ask Camila any questions or to have her make any tweaks, etc.)

 

And, since the holidays are upon us, Camila has offered to let the giveaway winner redeem their prize in the form of a gift certificate if someone on your list needs a style plan more than you do :)  (I would totally keep this for myself, but that’s just me. . .)

 

 

 

To enter, just leave a comment on this post letting me know what room most needs Camila’s help.  For an extra entry, “like” Effortless Style on Facebook and leave another comment letting me know.

(Two entries maximum, and please make sure I have a way to contact you if you win.  I’ll choose the winner at random and announce on Thursday, Dec. 6th.)

 

Good luck!,

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  5. Our living room is a sad, sad place….it is just the hodge-podge of leftover furniture and random pieces I didn’t know what to do with. I could use some serious help. :)

    stephkeaney at gmail.com

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  6. I have seriously been wanting to enlist some professional help in my living room! I would LOOOOOOOVE to have her help! Seriously, this would be the coolest present ever but since my birthday is dec. 7th I would consider this win a gift to myself!

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  19. Family room help would be fantastic…small room….weird fireplace…..odd angles….a challenge for sure! Exciting giveaway Crossing my fingers!!!

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  23. Oh what room doesn’t need help?! We just moved and nothing works anywhere! It would definitely have to be the family room or the master bedroom- both are disasters.

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  32. My boyfriend and I just moved into our first home 6 weeks ago, and while EVERY room needs a bit of help, I would love her design advice for our master bedroom. We want it to be a beautiful, relaxing adult retreat that is also functional and maximizes the small space!

    [email protected]

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  45. I need help with my children’s room. We have a small home and my 4 year boy and 2 year old girl share a room. It is so unappealing to be in right now and yet I spend so much time in there. Great giveaway :)

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  49. Love the color and ease of Camilla’s design. I would love her thoughts on our playroom/man cave/basement. It’s a huge mishmash of rooms with a lot of potential.

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  53. I love her style! I have an “entry room” for lack of a better word that really needs some help. especially because it’s the first thing people see when they walk in!

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  59. This is great! My living room is sad, sad sad. And I’ve been trying for three years to make it awesome. I obviously can’t do this on my own!! Thanks for this giveaway. The winner will be delighted. :)

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  62. I’m getting married in May….and moving into my fiance’s house. We’re slowly starting to update the very outdated furniture, etc. The room I would choose is the den – it’s currently wood paneling! It needs a lot of help!

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  64. Just painted my sunroom SW Rice Paddy, and everything else is a blank slate. 11′ x 12′ room with 8 windows and l door. Would love some help! Thanks for the chance to WIN!!!

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  65. i would love this! we are moving in to a new (old) home this weekend and i would love something new for the master bedroom. i put all my time and energy in to my kids room design and have yet to figure out what we are going to do in our own bedroom. thanks for the giveaway!!!

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  76. We just moved–so can I choose ALL of my rooms? HA! Seriously though, I think I would choose either the dining room or the master bedroom. Fingers crossed!

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  77. I have lots of rooms that need help! I’d say the one that is needing the most help would probably be our master bedroom. Oh…and our dining room! Oh, I could go on and on!

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  88. I really need help! I am considering turning my living-room-turned-dining-room back into a living room, but I have not idea how to do it. Pick me! :)

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  89. The living room furniture that I spent a year picking out now doesn’t work in the new house we moved into. My poor living room could use some TLC

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  90. Wowza! This is awesome, Emily! I would love to offer this to a friend who is moving soon, but then again, I need help in my dining room. And master bedroom. And living room…

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  97. I’ve been struggling to help my parents re-do their wood-paneled family room and would love Camila’s expert advice! I’ve been a long-time reader of her blog!

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  100. I would LOVE to give this to my mom for Christmas. She’s been working on her bedroom and having so much difficulty! This would be such a fun gift!

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  105. Oh, man, my TV Room is in desperate need of a redo – the previous owners’ paint color, our old apartment’s furniture and all the toys a two-year-old can manage! This would be an amazing present for me!

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  107. I would love to win this giveaway! We live in a big old fixer-upper farmhouse, and I could use some design help in my dining room – lovely room with an awkward layout! I have no idea where to start!

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  113. I’d love some help in our bonus room! From your referral, James Hageman built in a beautiful desk and cabinets and now I feel like the rest of the room doesn’t match! Thank you for this giveaway!!

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  126. This is the best giveaway! I would love ideas for our living room. My taste has changed so much since we got married and bought our house. All of the furniture is hand-me-downs and I think I’d like to update it a bit.

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  131. We are building a house in Charlotte and decorating an entire house is overwhelming. I could really pick amy room but my fist thought is the living room because its open concept and needs to tie into kitchen and dining. Liked on Facebook as well!

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  139. My master bedroom — always the lowest priority, always a dumping ground for outgrown clothes waiting to be sorted and my husband’s boxes of bills and other random paper that he doesn’t know what to do with. It needs help.

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  141. I would give it to my mom and my dad to use for their bedroom – which hasn’t been touched for years and years! they totally deserve it :)

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  145. Since I didn’t win the PowerBall Lottery I hope I can effortlessly win this wonderful Effortless Style Interiors giveaway. I’d have Camila work her magic on my tragic open plan living area … I’m out of ideas for how to make it function and be attractive (or at the very least not look like a crazy space). Thanks for the giveaway.

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  151. MY KITCHEN! It needs so much help, and I have NO CLUE where to start with Colors for cabinets, floor, back splash, curtains..etc..I have a space for an island and a banquet, but I need help with the dimensions, etc…

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  158. I really, really NEED this! My living room. I really need professional help to get this room feeling pulled together and not looking like I shoppee at Ikea, Pottery Barn, Norwalk and antique stores. I want it to look warm and inviting and comfortable!

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  164. My master bedroom could sure use some help from Camila – it’s the last room in the house to get an update and I’m stuck. I’m a reader of Effortless Style and love how she uses color to make rooms seem fun!

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  168. I would love to enter this giveaway for our hard to furnish living room! It is so skinny with the fireplace and windows all on one side that I have no idea how to arrange it! Thanks!

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  175. I need some help in my living room! I have a red sofa, which I like, but I also love apple green and blue which leaves my decor looking Christmas-y all the time or 4th of July-ish! And my space planning skills are non existent. And I love Camila! I started reading her blog back when it was “in her shoes” and I love when she painted her kitchen floors!!!

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  176. Hello Emily! I am in much need of a Room Makeover for the Great Room in our house. It is the heart of our house – we have a very open floor plan and it’s just kinda blah now!! I need help!!

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  177. What a wonderful giveaway! We just moved into our first grown-up house and I have no clue how to do the family room. It’s a big open room and I feel like we’re college kids, with a family, and have a hodge podge of colors, styles etc… This would make a sweet house a home! Thanks Emily!

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  179. My fiance and I are moving into our first home together, tomorrow! Yay! But we are stumped at how to style the living room. Floor to ceiling windows, lots of space but we are overwhelmed! I hope I win, I need some help :)

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  183. My living room needs the most help. We moved here @ the end of May and I still can’t decide what color combinations I want to use.
    ek99fish @ yahoo . com

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  186. We are ready to retake the formal living room. It’s been a kids’ playroom for 4 years but now it’s time to remake it into an adult game room/library and I have no idea where to start. This would be perfect!
    Laura

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  190. This is an AWESOME giveaway! Our family room/dining area is a drab collection of brown furniture–not a lot of fun going on in there! And I have a white brick fireplace (with no mantel)that really needs some love. We also have no drapery, which I know would make a huge difference! cteeobrien{at}cox{dot}net

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  204. My husband and I just moved into a home with a somewhat small formal living room that we have no idea what to do with. It is completely empty at the moment! We would love some help with layout and what pieces would look best.

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  217. My office. I’m having an awful time figuring out the space. It’s 10×14 and has a closet door, back door to outside bathroom door and French door entry which must leave bc it’s at the end of the entry hall and the oh other thing is our stairs and the garage door and and two closet doors
    Crazy. I’ve been sitting on some new furniture and lamps waiting to decide even COlor on walls. I think , no joke, I’ve got 40 testers.
    I’m going crazy. Thank you.

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  218. I live in an apartment, my living room, dinning room and kitchen are all together and I would love to have an awesome designer like Camila to redo my place!!

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  223. Oh, I so could use this! My mom passed away leaving me the small beach house I grew up in. We are going to have to rent it seasonally to offset the taxes, but to do that, it desperately needs updating! Having a design for the main living room would make such a difference…. and Camila’s love of color are perfect for it!!! [email protected]

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  224. We are building a new house which will be ready to move in by the end of January. I would love ideas for my new open concept living / kitchen area as it is a blank slate! Thank you thank you thank you!!

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  229. Ah, I know exactly which room could benefit… my master bedroom! I recently purchased an upholstered wingback bed from Joss and Main and I’m stumped at where to go from there… we have limited storage and don’t even have a dresser at the moment :( And it REALLY needs to be nice and cozy by April since I’ll have another little one in addition to my (will be then) 15-month-old.

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  239. I have her chairs and they are already painted that color, so she’s already inspired me to redo the seat in a fun bold fabric! My living room could use some serious inspiration! It’s a small space, but great features with 13 ft ceilings and lots of tall windows out to a wooded view, and a focal point!

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  241. What a fantastic giveaway! We have a guest house / family overflow house that needs much help and I have even posted rooms on Houzz for suggestions. I love the black and white and gray looks and want that carried out through the house but need HELP doing so and this prize would be the perfect beginning to accomplish it.

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  242. I need help with my family room! It is the most used home in my house and with three kiddos, we could use some help making the room work for our family.

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  245. I would love it! We are moving into a new house in the spring and i am struggling with finding a way to decorate my living room that is both adult pretty and kid friendly for my 1.5 year old triplets.

    -Amy

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  249. I would love help with my living room. We are moving into a new house in the spring and I am struggling with finding a way to make it both adult pretty and kid friendly for my 1.5 year old triplets.

    -Amy

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  253. I’d love a plan for our living area of our condo. It’s an open plan in an odd triangle space, with a kitchen in the middle but it’s great – no changes there – it’s the space around it that I sure could use some help with!

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  261. I would love some help with my living space in my condo. It’s an open space in an odd triangle shape, with the kitchen in the middle – but no changes needed there, it’s great – it’s the rest of the space I need help with!

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  270. I have been trying to figure out how to re-work/update our living room, which I turned into a living room/dining room so I could make a family room out of the dining room. Confused? Anyhoo, would love her input on the living room. Pick me! Thanks!

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  273. Liked on Facebook
    Would like some help on the boys basement game room – as per my son, when I told him I was typing to enter a contest !!! So I will scratch my choice of room makeover and agree with his choice. So, Merry Christmas to us if I win ! Thanks, what a fun giveaway.
    [email protected]com

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  277. Master bedroom. Why is it that I have 3 kids and their bedrooms are decorated (one has even been painted twice) yet our master bedroom has never been painted in the 8 years we have lived in our house nor has any sort of “plan” or decor to it? We give so much of ourselves as parents down to even the decorating :) Thanks and love the effortless style. Liked it on facebook as well.

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  278. I would choose my bonus room! I really want to turn it into a fun & colorful office/playroom. It is a blank canvas now so the sky is the limit! I really love Camila’s style and I think she would work wonders! :-)

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  284. This is so exciting – thank you! We are starting to think of turning our living room into an actual grown-up space rather than the playroom it’s been for the past 3 years. I don’t even know where to begin and would love help!

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  292. We have decided to adopt a newborn and our poor guest room has 4 walls and a closet since we gave away our bed and dresser! Our kids are 11, 11 and 9. We do not know where to begin!! Ashley Owens

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  298. I would love to get help with my great room. I like my dining table and white sofas…it’s just soooo beige. I need help to add color and fun!

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  299. I just love her style and what an awesome giveaway, thank you! Which room doesn’t need help right now is a better question but if I had to choose one it would be my hubby’s office, he works from home and could use a manly space.

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  301. I would LOVE to makeover my master bedroom! We still have our $80 dresser that we bought off Craigslist 8 years ago and are long overdue for updating this space.

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  304. I’m torn between my family room that needs help and our basement. I feel like not as many people see the basement but it has so much potential! I’d love to see what she would come up with!

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  308. Awesome giveaway! I love Camilla’s style and was a reader back when the blog was “High Heeled Foot in the Door’. I would go with my master bedroom. Crossing my fingers! xo

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  317. Now this is a giveaway I hope I win!!! Right now my living room is sitting with a new sofa in it and that’s it!!! I have some idea of what to do but would love a little professional advice!!! Thanks!

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  329. great giveaway! We need a little help decorating our master bedroom… we found a great duvet cover but other than that, it has remained completely blah…

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  332. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway! If I won, I would totally need Camila’s help with my parents bonus room. They need an area for TV watching, office space and even a guest bed! This room does it all and it needs help!

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  334. I love her designs and style, they look so fresh. Our house was built in the late 1950s and has a “living room” that is in desperate need of a updated style. maybe we would use it more if it wasn’t so drab.

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  340. We just moved into a new house! Every room needs help but I would love a place to go that is all mine… No kids, no “to do ” list , just time to remember who I am… Our master bedroom has a sitting room that I would love to make into a little getaway

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  349. Living room — 6 years in this house, no pictures on wall, furniture 20+ years old, fabulous windows and light and a baby grand! Really need some help… Thanks!

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  358. I need major help in my family room! We have lived in our home for over 5 years and still have an entire blank wall in the family room because I am stumped on what to do. We have a fireplace on one wall, built ins on the other wall, and a tv with nothing on my desperate empty wall. Would love some help with the heart of my home! Thank you, Lindsey

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  373. My husband and I have been in our house for 3 years now and have an empty great room in the middle of our house. We simply don’t know where to start! We love to entertain and would love to make strategic use of this open space. We would be so grateful and thrilled to have Camila help give us direction.

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  378. My family room needs help ASAP…it’s the room all six of us spend most of our time in for homework, movie nights, but it’s also the room for entertaining! I’ve tried for 6 years to get it to look good and so far, all I like is the drapes (which are plain ivory! lol) ….WOULD LOVE her help!!! :) Thanks for this opportunity!!

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  388. Oh! This is such a wonderful gift. And I would confess immediately that I would want to give this gift to one of my dearest friends who is in the middle of a basement renovation. She would LOVE this and I would be over the moon to be able to give it to her. Thanks so much for the entry. Here is my email address njoythejourney77atgmaildotcom.

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  389. We used our formal living room as our boys playroom when we moved in, and now it is a blank slate. I have no idea where to start! Great giveaway!

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  400. My bedroom. It’s the catch-all for everything that doesn’t have a home so it looks like Sanford and Son’s front yard. Not very conducive for a respite! la_rubicita at yahoo dot com

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  403. My master bedroom needs help! With a circular tile stairway leading down and 18 foot ceilings, it’s been tough to make this room the cozy retreat it should be.

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  409. I am in the process of building a library. my dream room! but i need help or it’s going to become a repository of leftover furniture :(
    Sherry

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  415. Let’s say the dining room because it is in the worst shape of most the rooms. It’s the official office, eating, storing room in the house. It needs major loving!!!

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  426. I would love help with our master bedroom. We built our house over 11 years ago and it’s the one room that has been neglected. I would love a retreat to get away from the busy life of raising three kids. Thanks Emily for this great opportunity. I love reading your blog.

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  427. We would love our master bedroom done. We built our house over 11 years ago and it’s the one room we haven’t done much to. I would love a retreat away from the busy life with raising three kids. Thanks Emily for this wonderful opportunity. I love reading your emails/blog.

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  453. I finished my dining room recently and now my living room looks like it is mismatched! I’d love some help getting my living room to look like it complements my dining room and not competing with it. My dining room is a fun yellow/cream and is an elegant eclectic style. My living room has grey and purple currently and is more whimsical. Help me please!

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  476. I would definitely use this to decorate our master bedroom. It’s been more than 10 years since we’ve updated the space and it is in desperate need of a redo!

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  477. I love her style! If I won if have her do the design for our new living room. We are moving into a new house in 4 months and this would be a HUGE help! Thanks :)
    Michelle C.

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  482. What an amazing giveaway! I would love to be able to update our Master Bedroom. We moved in over 2 years ago and its still a boring blank slate. We have 2 young children and would love to create an “adult space”.

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  488. I’m not sure which room to start with… they ALL need some love since we just moved into a new house and have very little furniture, leaving the rooms empty and without direction. Guess I would start with our master bedroom, if we won!

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  489. I’m not sure which room to start with… they ALL need some love since we just moved into a new house and have very little furniture, leaving the rooms empty and without direction. Guess I would start with our master bedroom, if we won!

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  492. Wow – thanks! We just moved into our first home. I will have to pick between our basement with the lovely orange paneling or our master bedroom which may never get decorated.

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  496. I live on Long Island and lost my rental house to Hurricane Sandy. I had worked so hard to make it a home for my four year old daughter after I went through a difficult divorce. I am with my parents now and planning on buying my first home in the next few months and would be honored to have Camila help me with one of my rooms, I love her blog and used a lot of her colors and ideas as inspiration at my rental house!

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  499. Oh my goodness! This would be a dream come true! We bought our first house a year ago. We love most of the floor plan but the most awkward room in the entire house just so happens to be the room you walk into when you open the front door (ie – it’s the first thing any of our guest see when they walk in) and I have no idea what to do with it!!! Thanks so much for this opportunity!
    [email protected]

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  503. How awesome is this giveaway!
    I would definitely have to choose our living/dining room. It’s the first room you walk into from the front door and is just a bit if a hodge podgey mess!

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  507. We need CRAZY AMOUNTS of help in our formal living room! We have a long and narrow room that has been such a pain to put together…would love the help! It’s such a beautiful home but we can’t figure out scale and placement in this one room.

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  515. We moved into our new house a few months ago, and I’ve been struggling to achieve the right balance for the look I want in our great room. Professional help would be wonderful! Thank you!

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  518. After 10 years of marriage our living room still has hand me down furniture because I have no idea where to start! I have a 19 month old and number 2 on the way. I need help trying to figure out how to make it more family friendly and still have something that I’m not embarassed to have people over! Love this giveaway – great idea!

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  519. Oh my goodness! I love this giveaway! I would used it to figure out what the heck to do with my formal dining/living combo. room. It is so awkward and, unfortunately, it is the first room you see as you walk into the house from the front door. I would really love some help with it! Thanks for the opportunity!
    [email protected]

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  520. The room in my house that needs the most help would be the playroom, but why waste it on the kids? Ha. I pick the room everyone sees most! Living room.

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