***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.
Sara says
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My soon to be husband has several handmade pieces from his time spent working overseas in Asia…my favorite is his bed. Slightly Asia feel to it, dark cheery wood, constructed with no nails or screws. Its a great piece!
elaine says
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we love our yellow marble topped antique credenza.
Jackie says
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My favorite piece is one we picked up from an estate sale and refinished for our little girls nursery. I googled how to refinish an old dresser and that’s how I found your blog, and I have been reading ever since!
sheila says
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I so need this because my house is full of first apartment “furniture” still!
Lynne says
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My favorite piece is a small table that was my grandmother’s.
Sara says
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I have an old vintage dresser that stands in as a sideboard for our dining room. Love the storage and the look!
Renee says
furnish me! please!
Wendy Burkhardt says
FURNISH ME! My latest favorite is a old dresser i stripped, stained and waxed for my foyer. I love it
Christina says
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The serpentine dresser in my daughter’s room was a craigslist find…I painted part of it white, spruced up the rest, and changed the hardware, and love it.
Autumn says
FURNISH ME! I have an old buffet that I found at a consignment shop. It was exactly what I was looking for that day!
Aubry says
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I have a wonderful antique game table my husband and I inherited.
Jill says
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My piece is a vintage dresser I bought on Craigslist two years ago for $50. My mom and I painted it a minty color with gold hardware and I LOVE IT! (even if the drawers aren’t that functional…)
joni tyrrell says
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splurged on a couch. definitely a good investment.
Jennifer Harrup says
FURNISH ME! My favorite pieces are some console tables that I sketched up and my husband built for me!
Jeni says
FURNISH ME! I love thrifting — my pride and joy find is my avery boardman daybed. My husband looked at me sideways as he thought it came hot off the set of golden girls, but now it’s his favorite place to kick back and relax toooo!
Kelly E says
FURNISH ME! My husband’s uncle was getting rid of on old stained, chipping, wine cabinet with drawers. I got the courage to strip, refinish it and change out the hardward. It now sits proudly in our dining room. It was a lot of work, but so worth it!
Philip says
“FURNISH ME!” My favorite piece of furniture is the first piece we bought “new” together. We have lots of hand-me-downs, love furniture with character and had a hard time (over 6 month search) finding a sofa we both passed on the looks and sit test. When we finally found this dark charcoal sofa, it was worth the wait. It fit every item on our sofa checklists (including budget!).
Joy says
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The “greatest” piece I own isn’t fancy at all – it’s an old chest I found at the local junk/antique store. But I love it – it’s exactly my style and I smile every time I see it.
Kaylene says
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I love the hutch in our dining room. We have had it since I was a little girl and it just adds so much character to the room!
Samantha says
FURNISH ME! A beautiful dresser that I found that had glass knobs and a great shape!
Kristin says
Furnish me! I actually don’t feel like I own a real “piece” of furniture. I would love something fun that makes a room.
emily says
FURNISH ME! i bought a beautiful ‘gentleman’s dresser’ after college before i moved out to california…love it!
Jayna says
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The best piece of furniture I own right now is actually a part of my kitchen. We just bought a home that had half of the base cabinet missing, so I went out and bought a 40$ dresser from the salvation army and a little improvising, paint and molding later…I had the rest of my cabinetry and drawers for my cooking “prep center”.
Jen says
furnish me! I currently am in love with a coffe table I made using old wood floor pieces and hairpin legs. Nothing is better than DIY!!!
sclark says
Furnish me!!! I love the “crate” furniture we bought in the 70’s. The different pieces have lived with different family members at different times . . . it lasts forever!!
Sara says
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I love love LOVE this inexpensive little dresser we found and repainted/repurposed as our son’s changing table!
Erin says
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I saved up and purchased an Ethan Allen wingback chair. it was expensive, but it is a really nice quality piece of furniture that make me smile whenever I look at it.
cara s says
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I have a vintage vanity that i found at a thrift store. I painted it teal and it just oozes personality!
Lindsay says
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My favorite piece is actually the china collection we got from my mother-in-law. She bought it in Germany and passed it down to us. Not technically furniture, but it’s in our house.
Lauren H says
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My husband built a wine rack that I couldn’t part with!
Nicole S. says
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Annie says
FURNISH ME! I love the fish tank I got as a graduation gift!
Ruth P. says
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I just bought a brand-new queen-sized bed–my first big (read: non-thrift store) furniture purchase.
Andrea Poarch says
FURNISH ME… My favorite piece of furniture in my home is an ottoman I made out of a huge coffee table I bought at Goodwill.
Melissa says
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I snagged a beautiful nail head, pinkish settee at a furniture consignment store. Her name is Charlotte.
Megan says
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My favorite piece is still in my bedroom at my parent’s house, I can’t blame them for keeping it! My dad and I stripped and refinished my great-grandmother’s dresser that had been stored in my grandma’s basement. It is beautiful. If I had a blog, there would be pictures.
Sara says
Furnish me! We especially love our pieces that have been passed down to us…dressers, cedar chests, and old rockers.
Lia K says
FURNISH ME! The only quality piece of furniture I own is a solid wood, pedestal-type kitchen table that originally belonged to my great-grandmother, a feisty Italian immigrant named Pia. It was refinished by my grandfather and given to me as a wedding present.
Angela N says
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We splurged (about the same cost as my first car!) 12 years ago on a down filled sofa from Crate and Barrel. We are still using it to this day! I would say that we got our money’s worth!
Happy Katie in VA says
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My favorite piece of furniture is our very awesome/modern/long dining room table (seats 12)! My husband and I found it at a salvation army store a few weeks after we were married…and had to buy it.
Michelle says
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Hands down the greatest piece I currently own is an antique bench I went past my husbands typicaly $100 furniture spending habit. Well worth the splurge and EVERYONE comments on it when they come to visit.
Katie says
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My favorite piece is my studio table!
Libby says
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My favorite piece right now is a chair covered in Dwell fabric that I got for my birthday- love it!
Amy says
FURNISH ME!! My mom and grandpa found an old piano in a thrift store that was covered in layers of black paint. They bought it and secretly repaired and refinished it for me as a gift when I was in middle school. Turns out it’s quite the antique and I adore it, both for its beauty and its sentiment.
Leelah says
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I love my antique trunk handed down from my grandmother. It’s just the perfect amount of rustic for my modern style!
Meg says
Furnish me! I am really in love with a chandelier that I purchased for ten dollars when I was sixteen. Now in my early thirties, it hangs above my bed! My husband and I are both so glad I was a design dork back in the day.
Megan says
Furnish Me! My favorite piece of furniture is a mid-century orange chair inherited from my husband’s grandmother
carol stratford says
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I picked up an old low table with wheels on the curb a few years ago thinking I’d tile the top & put potted plants on it. It ended up untouched in my basement for three years until I stripped it down to bare wood, painted it white & added glass drawer pulls. It was reborn as a makeup table for my teenage daughter. To date its my favorite!
maggie says
Furnish me! I scored a (faux-but-still-beautiful) campaign desk on craigslist and I can’t wait to paint it something fabulous!
Jodee says
Furnish me!! The greatest piece that I own is an antique secetary dating from about the early 1900s, that I inherited from a great uncle. The second runner up, which, was kind of a splurge would have to be our netural sectional which fits our family of four perfectly.