***This giveaways has reached it’s cap of 10,000 and is now closed – see who won below!***
Wow, you guys really have an appetite for great pieces! After less than 24 hours of giveaway madness, we have crowned our random winner as… joyfulcanary (whose favorite piece is a tie between her $30 thrift store China cabinet and her great grandmother’s Hoosier Cabinet). Congrats on your big win!
You don’t typically think of chemistry students writing home design books, but then we learned one of Sherry’s brother’s old classmates at Columbia wrote “Good Bones, Great Pieces” with her mother. It’s a beautiful book about how to combine seven essential elements, er, pieces of furniture in any room for a stunning result – and they’ve got a blog with even more eye candy too.
So not only are Suzanne and Lauren McGrath giving away a copy of their book this week, they’re also hooking up one of you with over $3,000 worth of furniture and bedding (!!!) so that you’ll be right on your way to achieving some of the looks shown above. Here are some of the “great pieces” you’ll be scoring:
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The Hazel Settee from Jayson Home & Garden ($1,995)
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The Navy Shop Chest from CB2 ($399)
- A rectangular Atoll Mirror from Ballard Designs ($199)
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The Cadman Chair from Pier 1 Imports ($199)
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A Queen-sized Light Indigo coverlet from John Robshaw ($420)
- The Hydrangea Dec Pillow also from John Robshaw ($155)
- PRIZE: A copy of Good Bones, Great Pieces plus over $3,300 worth of furniture as described above.
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FURNISH ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … what you consider to be the “greatest piece” you currently own. Did you splurge on a killer dresser once upon a time? Or maybe you inherited a vintage demilune table? Perhaps you happened upon the perfect bench at a yard sale one weekend?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, July 18th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of Good Bones, Great Pieces.
Jeanne says
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My favorite piece is a Re-store chair that I re-upholstered only to realize I liked the original fabric better!
Chantelle P says
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I love the bedroom set that is currently in my girls’ room – its was my mother’s when she was a little girl. It includes a dresser, desk and 2 nightstands.
Melissa says
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My husband’s grandmother’s china cabinet. He hated it until he saw it out of her home and in ours. We also have some amazing glass/crystal floor lamps from her.
Megan E says
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I inherited a dining room table and chairs from my grandparents, and I love all the associated memories!
Kate says
FURNISH ME!! We have a nice Amish-built king size bed frame (footboard, headboard, etc). I would definitely consider it our most well constructed piece of furniture. One of my “favorite” newer pieces is a poof we got from cb2.
I hope I win this one — these pieces are great!!!
Callie says
Furnish Me! My favorite piece of furniture is the bed my dad built for my first apartment.
Robin says
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We love our two bright orange Kartell Masters chairs.
Karena says
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My favorite piece of furniture is the amazing kitchen island that my husband built. It is so functional, yet gorgeous. Plus it was built to my specifications with lots of love.
erin c. says
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The greatest piece of furniture we own is the farmhouse style dining room table and chairs from World Market. We love it!
Maureen says
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My favorite furniture piece/set is a white desk from an antique store that ended up perfectly matching a clearance chair from Pier 1 to be my “study corner”.
erin says
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A Bass mirrored chest I wanted for $1200 and I found at Costco for $300!
Lauren Mowen says
FURNISH ME! My favorite piece that we own to date is an old farm table that we use as our dining room table.
Elizabeth says
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The best piece of furniture I have is a couch we purchased from Bloomingdales that we absolutely love.
Colleen says
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My partner and I have an amazing wood-patchwork bed that was made by a very dear friend of ours. It’s one of a kind, absolutely gorgeous, and reminds us of our friend who we don’t get to see often enough.
Cheryl M. says
FURNISH ME! – I have two favorite pieces currently.
The first is my acrylic ghost chair that I use at my vanity mirror. I love mixing modern with traditional.
The second is a wooden cabinet that we inherited from my parent’s summer cabin – we painted it black to bring it up to date, but it still has that vintage vibe.
Heather says
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Omg I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to win a giveaway this badly! That settee? The mirror? I need it! My favorite piece is actually a huge glass and brass coffee table with greek key detailed that I scored off craigslist for $40 two weeks ago!
collin says
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My favorite piece if our large mission style bed. Plus you can sleep on it, bonus!
Kathy says
FURNISH ME! No big story about my favorite piece of furniture – just a sectional that my husband and I really love!
Erin S. says
FURNISH ME! I love the beautiful solid wood dressers we just bought for our bedroom. They are so well-built and classic, I love the idea of turning them in to heirlooms.
Terra says
Furnish me! A dresser my mom and I bought at an auction together. We got excited and paid too much, but it is a fun memory.
Stephanie says
FURNISH ME! I love my $400 oak bedroom set that we bought from my husband’s aunt. I painted it all black and it looks awesome!
Careen says
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I love my 1940’s china cabinet. I looked for a long time before I finally found it. (and it was inexpensive and in good condition!)
Ashley R says
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My fiance and I are very much in our “starter” aparment – which means cheap (or hand-me-down) furniture. We were lucky enough to get an amazing mid-century modern solid wood chest of drawers and dresser – they needed a bit of wood glue, but they are the best things we own by far. I really want to paint them a fun color, but we’re still figuring out our decorating scheme.
Martha says
FURNISH ME! The most priceless and important pieces we own are truly one of a kind. The printer cabinet is authentic, it came from my grandfather’s print shop and I used it as a dresser as a kid. I’m sure it is worth a ton of money but I’d never sell it. Also, some old hardware bins made out of solid oak that we bought at a barn antique sale. We’d never part with them, the patina on the top is amazing.
Alia says
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My favorite piece is an antique mahogany dresser. It once lived in my grandmas house. She used it as a side board in her dining room but I use it as a dresser. It has an adaptable, clean, solid look to it,
Marina says
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I love the furniture we have bought at auctions and made over for our own style!
Amanda says
Furnish Me! I just got a rehabbed dresser for $250 from an independent DIY-er, done in black with gold campaign style hardware. I love it.
Emily says
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Our sofa is my favorite…stylish and holds up so well to pets and kids :)
Lauren K says
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I’ve actually got a gorgeous wooden toy box that I’ve had since I was a baby. Right now it’s fairly underutilized but I’m hoping that I can refinish and reuse it when I’ve got a little one to buy toys for :)
Elaine K says
FURNISH ME! My favorite piece is our seafoam green microfiber sectional from Sofa Design.
Jen N. says
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My favorite piece would probably be our comfy couch. Oh the hours spent on that thing!
Jessica A. says
Furnish Me! I love our dining room set. We are newly weds so not many amazing furnishings yet, but my parents gave us their old but beautiful dining room set that had been sitting in the attic for 20 years!
Carly says
furnish me! my favorite piece is a secretary style wood dresser/desk that I painted bright teal, and added red and white Anthropologie knobs to…but I think my favorite piece would change if I won this!!
Amanda says
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My grandfather is an artist so when I graduated from high school I was the proud receipient of an antique 1050s hope chest with my name painted on top in gold leaf. Gorgeous!
Michelle says
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The antique hutch (and table) I absconded from my parents house. The hutch has been my favorite piece of furniture since I was a kid, so happy its at my house now!
Elizabeth says
FURNISH ME! My bedroom set from craigslist, the nightstands are huge
Abby says
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My best piece is a dining table that we got as a wedding gift from my godparents. It is beautiful and classic!
Jackie says
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I am in love with our dining room set. It was a gift for our wedding, and I just love everything about it.
S. Shaw says
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As a matter of fact, we did splurge on a dresser a couple of years ago. I had admired it for 6 or 7 years before I finally convinced my husband- and myself really- to take the plunge. It gives us tons of storage and I’m sure I’ll still love it years from now.
Aimee says
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Our favorite piece of furniture is by far our king size bed. In fact, it’s the only piece of furniture we purchased for our new home – the rest are hand-me-downs. It was WELL worth the price.
Rachel says
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I love the simple wood bed that my husband’s grandfather built and we now own.
alison says
FURNISH ME!! The first piece of furniture I ever bought, a huge solid wood antique finite room table that I can’t wait to move into our new home!
Rachel says
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I have a great dresser that my FIL turned into a TV console. I scored it on craigslist and would love some of those pieces to come live with it in my den!
Whitney says
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My favorite pieces are the ones my grandmother gave me from her travels.
Jenny says
FURNISH ME! My favorite furniture find (alliteration is my friend) so far has been a Philippe Starck Louis Ghost Chair that I got at a flea market in Nashville. It still had the Kartell tags on it and was less than $100. Ah, that was a good day.
Kate L says
FURNISH ME! My favorite is the reading bench I made for my daughter out of a vintage headboard and footboard
Courtney says
FURNISH ME!! My favorite piece of furniture in my house right now is the love seat my parents gave us a few weeks ago. It’s really comfy, will be easy to slip-cover, we were in dire need of more furniture when we got it, and it was FREE!
Mollie says
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my fav piece is a little bedside table that my mom spotted in the back of an old man’s pickup. she said that her daughter would love it and 15 seconds later it was hers for $5. and now it’s mine with a fresh coat of paint. :)
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Hollis says
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I bought a Neiman Marcus mirrored vanity on Craigslist that is the #1 (and only) statement piece in my apartment. As soon as I saw it I fell in love, and I sit at it every day to get ready for work so it’s really practical as well.