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Win $10,000 for your reno with Latitude Financial Services

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Sponsored by Latitude Financial Services

We’ve been teasing you on social media for days but today it’s finally time to reveal our biggest competition EVER, offering you an amazing $10,000 towards that home reno project  you’ve been dying to get done but couldn’t afford to. We’ve teamed up with Latitude Financial Services to bring you this, our biggest giveaway ever!

Whether you put the money towards a major project (or something that has been waiting to be finished!) or use it to completely cover the cost of a smaller project, there are so many things you could achieve with 10 grand, from a bathroom or kitchen refresh to new window coverings or flooring throughout your home, that dream custom built-in entertainment and shelving unit in the living room, a new deck…

This is your chance to Better Your Home in our competition of the same name!

Here are some of our top ideas for what you could spend the money on, depending on the size and age of your home/room and complexity of your project:

  • Create a walk-in wardrobe
  • Built-in custom shelving for your living room
  • A bathroom refresh with new vanity, shower screen, bath and toilet
  • Install skylights to let more natural light in
  • Completely make over a room with paint, flooring, window coverings, furniture and homewares
  • Replace all/some of your flooring
  • Replace all your lights with new ones/have downlights installed
  • A new front door and porch
  • Plantation shutters installed in key rooms
  • New/custom built-ins in bedrooms
  • Replace all your internal and external doors
  • Have older doors replaced with bi-folds/French doors
  • Replace your laminate kitchen benchtop with stone and a new splashback
  • Have the exterior of your house painted
  • Have the interior of your house painted
  • Knock down a wall to create an open plan space
  • Replace your ageing windows
  • Create custom, built-in storage for a multitude of uses
  • Makeover your laundry with new floor, paint, cabinetry, benchtop and sink
  • Create a basic outdoor kitchen
  • Update/create a deck outside
  • Turn your garage into a workshop/studio

As someone who is currently planning renos, I know firsthand that everything costs more than you think it will, especially when you get trades involved and have to factor in labour. With house prices as they are, by the time you’ve struggled to buy your home, there’s often not much left over to get it looking how you want it. This is such an amazing opportunity for someone and I can’t wait to see what the winner does with the money. We’ll be sharing the before and after with you here too!

Is your bedroom more drab than fab?
Would you love to TRANSFORM it like this?

For your chance to win, we’re simply asking you to share what you’d do with the money and why you deserve to win, and send us a photo of the space you’re looking to make better.

The winner will also get a Skype call with me and our resident renovation expert, the extremely talented and experienced Naomi Findlay, with more than 100 renos to her name. We can’t wait to bounce ideas around with you!

Please ensure you read the terms and conditions carefully. Entries close Sunday 30 July 2017 at 11.59pm AEST.

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Can’t wait to see if you win? Check out Latitude Financial Services’ personal loan options.

Before and after photos courtesy of our resident reno expert Naomi Findlay.

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July 10, 2017

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To thank you all for your beautiful messages of support after sharing my very vulnerable big news the other day, I've teamed up with the talented @katenixon_official to give one follower the chance to win this stunning prize worth almost $600.

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  1. Catherine says

    July 12, 2017 at 7:50 am

    I was just mentally planning the downstairs bathroom reno (like I have been for the past 9 years) The magazine cuttings on the wall there are now so faded I can barely see the look I am after. And then this popped up in my feed. Could be a sign?! Am so going to enter!

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 14, 2017 at 1:42 pm

      Good luck!

  2. Barbara Fehmel says

    July 12, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    I have for years dream t of building a lovely sunny patio at my back door. I would be able to sit and enjoy my pet Rabbit sunning herself in the morning su.

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 14, 2017 at 1:42 pm

      Please ensure you enter via the entry form!

  3. Sally Tydeman says

    July 13, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    I would love get out kitchen done to match our lovely deck out the back. Kitchen was built in the late 70’s and is just no t functional anymore.

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 14, 2017 at 1:42 pm

      Please ensure you enter via the entry form!

      • Rosalie says

        July 20, 2017 at 10:51 am

        I wonder if this competition of home reno money is only in Australia? I would like to put my entry but the home i was dreaming to have a reno is overseas (PHL)

  4. Julie comopoulos says

    July 14, 2017 at 10:56 am

    It would be great to win $10,000 from latitude financial so we can start our kitchen Reno or facelift
    not sure what to do now as my husband will be retrenched in October and has put a holt on things right now
    What a wonderful gift this would be for us right now

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 14, 2017 at 1:41 pm

      Please make sure you enter via the entry form 🙂

  5. Ocea says

    July 20, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    Wow!! What an incredible chance.. So Generous, all the Possibilities makes me excited… Sent my entry xx

  6. chris crassweller says

    July 28, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    I want to do the bathroom and put a toilet in it will make it into an ensuite this will put more value to the house Need to replace the shower as the place are old Naomi giving me some ideas I would love to win thank you.Chris

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 28, 2017 at 3:38 pm

      Make sure you apply via the form, Chris! Good luck!

  7. Angela says

    July 29, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    The more i think of it…the more i jump from one idea to the other. From the master bedroom, to carpeting, to the bathroom to a nursery ? and to all the little things weve left undone (door knobs, light fittings, shelving and furniture)…one thing that jumps out is our current plan to do an outdoor deck and pergola…we love entertaining outside and would the extra room to our cosy little townhouse…that being paid for would be our dream. What a great competition

  8. Jennifer says

    July 31, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    When will the winner be announced?

    • Jen BishopJen Bishop says

      July 31, 2017 at 6:28 pm

      They’ll be informed this week as per the terms and conditions.

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