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Paint a smile on your faces people, because that’s what we’re giving away this week! Paint, that is, not smiles (though hopefully smiles sort of come along with getting a prize, right?). This week we’re giving away a room full of paint from Olympic (that means 2 gallons of Olympic Premium Interior Paint and 1 gallon of primer) to THREE people. Woo hoo! We love this stuff because now no matter what color you get mixed, it’s still 100% VOC-free. Can’t beat that, right? And that’s exactly why we used it in our bathroom remodel earlier this year. Plus, Olympic just launched a new, free desktop application called ColorClix to help inspire your perfect palette.
Once downloaded, the little ColorClix box invites you to click anywhere on your desktop – a photo, a video, an icon, whatever – and syncs that color with one in the Olympic catalog. Like if I wanted to build a room around the adorable picture of a snoozing chihuahua I’d just have to click anywhere on his fur to get an Olympic paint color (apparently Burger’s eyebrow is “Stony Creek”). It also displays the rest of the colors on the virtual swatch as well as recommended complimentary colors.
The program also lets you save all of your inspiration colors in projects sorted by room and then you can use those saved projects to virtually paint rooms on Olympic.com. You know, if you really wanted to go as far as to let your dog’s coloring determine the coloring of your walls.
So go have some fun playing with ColorClix and check out the rest of this week’s details:
- PRIZE: One room of paint from Olympic, including 2 gallons of Olympic Premium Interior Paint and 1 gallon of primer
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “PAINT ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: … tell us about a photo, object, or other inspiration item that you’d love to draw some paint palette inspiration from. Did you photograph a stunning landscape recently that could lend itself to an accent wall color? Have you spotted a vase or pillow at the store that could inspire a whole room?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, September 8th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Three
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck…
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Erin says
Paint Me! I recently bought an old farm house window with chipped red paint, it has inspired my entire home office/guest room. Vintage/Americana, love it!
mere... says
Paint Me! I found an adorable yellow reading chair on Craigslist awhile ago, but haven’t had much luck working it into the rest of my decor. I would love to upload it’s color to find some tones that help make it really pop.
Alexandra says
Paint me!
I just bought a water-color of two flamenco dancers that has an amazing shade of blue, I’d really like to find a complementary color and use it as the focal point in our guest bedroom.
Laurie says
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Usually inspired by magazine layouts and then work the look/feel into my rooms.
Ashley says
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Our bedroom has this awful wallpaper from the previous owner and we have been dieing to get that ugly stuff down and paint our bedroom but we can never decide on a shade of blue. I found a vase that has this amazing shade of blue, that would probably be what we use!
Mary says
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I get inspired by color schemes on Mad Men.
Mandy says
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I would love to use the landscape pictures we took on our honeymoon to help incorporate accessories and accents into our family room. Great giveaway!!
Catherine says
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I’ve been itching to repaint our master bedroom and we took the perfect inspiration picture on a rainy day at the beach last month. Now I know what colors to use!
Tina says
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My husband is from Puerto Rico, so I have tons of pictures of the very vibrant Old San Juan that I would just LOVE to emulate!
Andrea says
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Inspiration through photos of my 3 little ones!
amanda h says
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I usually get inspired by watching the diy tv shows.
Jennifer p says
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I am designing a whole room around this aqua tafetra fleur de lis fabric from fabric.com that a woman on Betsy made into curtains for me
Kate says
PAINT ME! I’m inspired by our travels and by the sea.
Lisa D. says
PAINT ME! We’ve been inspired to redo our entry way from floor to ceiling. We have no idea what color to put on the walls (yet) – but our inspiration is a chinese silk wall hanging given to us for our wedding that welcomes everyone to our home. It’s got a little red and yellow in it. Pale yellow is winning the vote for the walls (so far).
Amelia says
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I saw a gorgeous aqua-colored lamp at HomeGoods the other day and thought that our soon-to-be-revamped bedroom could definitely get some inspiration from that.
Jen says
Paint me! I have a group of inspiration photos for my master bedroom that I can now upload and see what colors I should use.
Laura V says
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I’m super excited to paint the nursery for our first baby!
Bethany says
Paint me! I’ve been wanting to repaint our masterbedroom and was inspired by Centsational Girl’s master stencil job.
Catherine says
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I would love to repaint on living room and have a great photo from the Grand Canyon to use as inspiration.
Bridgett says
I don’t ordinarily comment on a “enter to win” thing but I had to on this one. I am a huge Olympic paint lover and am in need of a fresh color for my bedroom, which is crying out “Paint Me”! I am loving the brown paint behind the cream furniture in that last pic too BTW…
Steelee says
PAINT ME! I want to paint my office a cheerful green. Inspiration from my front yard.
Jacquelyn says
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I recently made a painting of a shell. I would like to incorporate some of the colors from that painting in our living room!
Debbie says
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My house is pretty blah (tans & off/whites) and I have been wanting to paint one room a wild bright color on the walls, (maybe get over my fear and that would let me paint the rest of the house something fun!)
Brent says
Paint Me! I love to design something around my 8 month old twins.
Krista D. says
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I’m inspired by our new comforter in our bedroom. It’s light blue, white, lime green and chocolate brown. Now, I need to get the yellow and gold off our walls PRONTO!
Marnie says
Paint Me! I’ve always loved the painting “Blue Nude” by Picasso and recently bought a print to have framed to use in our master bath. Would love to incorporate those colors…so serene!
Courtney says
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We have a huge framed mirror. It weighs a ton, and the frame is painted gold and really wide/ornate/intricately carved. It’s really old (in a cool way), but it looks a little old (not in a cool way) for us style-wise. I’ve been wanting to paint the frame differently (muted silver, or maybe a bluish-silver…?) and find a way to make it a focal point in a large room.
Tracy K says
PAINT ME! I found the cuteste striped bath towels at target. We will be revamping our bathroom soon and I will be painting the walls one of one of the colors from the towels. I can’t wait!
Martha says
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We would love to paint our living room and I have a picture that I found in a magazine a few months back that would be great inspiration
Tracy says
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We take a lot of black and white pictures, so I would have to say I’m more inspired by linens. I have this really cute fabric from IKEA with green birds…I would love to use that in a room somewhere!
MIranda f. says
PAINT ME! I am inspired by the beach I live by for my whole house. All the walls are muted shades of grey/blue/green, but I want to add a few rooms of sand. I am itching to paint the bedrooms all sand and accent in sea colors. Ahhhh, I can hear the ocean now……
Emily says
Paint me! I have the same oh so cute shams that you do in our guest room and I would love to see what colors would look great and inviting in that room.
Tabitha says
Paint me! I’m expecting my second baby at the end of the year. I never got around to painting or really decorating the room for my first little girl and it’s pretty boring – a mishmash of colors and styles of given items. I’ld like to be able to paint the girls’ room a combo that works together but creates different zones within the room since the girls will need to share and I can already tell my two year old is getting a bit territorial about her space getting invaded. Thanks!
Tyson says
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We are going to repaint our basement….our inspiration is our current basement color – except the complete opposite :)
Letty says
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Everything can be inspirational! I’ve taken color inspiration from a catalogue, a picture, or even a book cover.
Felicita says
Paint me… I’ve recently gotten inspiration from a bedding set I bought.
Tabitha says
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I would use photos from the decorating sites on the internet.
Courtney M says
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There was a color inspiration theme board on the blog Tart House (I think?) that inspired me to redo our bedroom with those colors – blues, greens & pops of cantaloupe.
Stephanie says
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Recently found a beautiful throw pillow and I’d love to the color scheme in a nursery.
Lani says
PAINT ME!! I actually draw inspiration from this site! You guys are amazing….in fact…this weekend I “borrowed” your hall bath paint job for my powder room! It turned out A-mazing….next up…maybe some stenciling ALA YHL! Thanks for all the great ideas
Christi says
Paint Me! I’m inspired by the aquas, blues, & tans at the beach.
Allison says
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I have new bedding in my master bedroom, that’s inspiring me to repaint the walls to match!
AlaskanAlison says
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This is perfect. My spare bedroom DESPERATELY needs to be painted (it’s still the super shiny Bright Navy & Teal colors [think Seahawk’s] that the last owners painted it for their son).
The color I want to paint it is actually from the background of one of the design blogs that I read…a really pretty soft pear color.
Kate says
Paint me, my dining room desperately needs a new paint job!
Nicole says
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My husband is a “builders white” sort of guy. The fact alone that I was able to get him to paint our bedroom a gray/taupe is inspiration enough for me. I’ve convinced him to paint our living room, dining room, kitchen and hall (that is one open area) so getting free paint can only help my cause :-)
Michelle says
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I have this beautiful picture of a hydrangea I discovered this week…the colors are perfect inspiration for painting a room!
Jessica says
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I find a lot of inspiration from the fabrics I use in the room…
Sarah says
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I have a handful of pictures from a beach vacation that I’d like to decorate one of our guest bathrooms with, but I need to pick a color that complements them.
Ashley Seay says
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I have been trying to decide on our master bedroom colors for months. I’ve been having a really hard time with it for some reason. I think I was actually able to narrow it down yesterday so this would help a lot in actually completing the project.
Vanessa says
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My inspiration is actually from my husband’s favorite football team. He has pretty much let me decorate the rest of the house how I like (although I do try and take his tastes into consideration) but he has been wanting his game room to look a little more “manly” so I really want to incorporate his sports colors to make that room especially his :)