Doesn’t this winter weather just make you want to stay home all cosy with cashmere throws, gorgeous rugs and moody lighting? Perfect weather for nesting! And thanks to Freedom I have two awesome prizes for your home to give away this week. Yay!
First prize is this amazing giant ikat canvas print which is one of my favourites from their current collection. Not all of us have a spare few grand hanging around to buy art (one day, when I grow up!) but we still want something great on our walls to add interest and colour and make a statement. This one’s BIG and at $599 it’s affordable. But you’d rather have it for free, right?
Second prize is this modern Halo light. You could put this wherever you wanted, on a side table, in a corner on the floor even. The possibilities are endless! And at $99 it’s a lot less expensive than its designer looks would suggest.
So how can you be in with chance of winning? Easy! You have until Wednesday at noon to comment below, in 50 words or less, the answer to the following question: What makes YOU an interiors addict? The best two will win. First prize is the ikat print and second prize is the light. Good luck!
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When you get excited over 10 different shades of white, you KNOW you’ve got a problem!!! THEN when you try to describe the difference in the 10 shades of white to your friends, YOU KNOW YOUR ADDICTED!!!
When you find one weekend monthly is spent re arranging each of your rooms to find the perfect combination for your recent purchases, creating mini magazine spreads in the process, I think you can call yourself an interiors addict.. lets just say I spend two a month at least 😉
Sounds familiar 😉
Hi Jen! Wow where do I begin, I am addicted to colour for a start, not only that I’m addicted to beautifully designed piece’s which was my base inspiration for Idh evolving. As of a under a year ago I have become even more obsessed with your blog – its part of my daily ritual! Love your blog Jen! And the print! Kindest Regards Jamee Huntington
My mission to get more poor souls addicted is working 😉 Wahahahaaaaa….
I’m a big interiors addicted! Every spare minutes is taken with styling my home and others
Like most people I think, the feeling of wanting to be in an environment that suited me and represented me is what has led me towards interior design as a passion. I am an interiors addict, because I am constantly looking (read: real estate stalking) for new ideas and ways to improve my space! I couldn’t live any other way.
My affliction runs deep! My guru Nate Berkus once commented that he was truly a lost design soul because he decants even his aspirin into a cuter jar for aesthetic purposes. I decant everything! Milk, butter, pencils…..EVERYTHING!! And yes, even my medical supplies are in a cute vintage tin!
You won first prize 🙂
I have a growing collection of 100 interiors magazines and books which I will never throw out plus I
Stockpile homewares catalogs for weeks. My husband often finds me surrounded by last weeks pile and this weeks pile tryin to decided which ones I need to throw out.
I’m addicted to colour! Everywhere I go I find myself examining the colours in gardens, on clothes, in the sky as the sun sets and I imagine how I could use them in an interior. The night sky as a dramatic bedroom wall colour, pale pink flowers as a soft throw on a couch & yellow road signs as a hit of colour in an industrial styled kitchen. I’m an addict alright, it’s all consuming!
You can’t go wrong with nature!
Spending every waking moment looking through magazines, blogs, websites and watching every design show out there! I go to bed and wake up thinking about interiors; it is my life, my love, my passion, my addiction!!
Chevron striped cushions on designer chairs
Bright coloured accessories & vintage home wares
Mail-order packages tied up with strings
I’m an interiors addict these are my favourite things
Componibilis all colours of the rainbow
Chaise lounge or daybed with a Mexican throw
African juju hats for extra bling
I’m an interiors addict these are my favourite things
[beyond 50 words but just for fun ->)
When the kettle boils
Before the mailman arrives
While the kids go mad
I simply revisit my favourite design blogs
And then I don’t feel so bad!
Top marks for effort 🙂
i know im an interiors addict because i have almost finished my house and im already planning on what colours im going to repaint and what styles im going to try out i have decorations ,throws ,cushions for just about every season but i still go and look for more, i dont have one particular taste that i like so i guess you could say my house is very ecclectic and i love surprising pops of colour and i beleive a space needs to be livable (with three boys very livable.) if im not looking at blogs then i have my head stuck in a magazine or im watching decorating renovating shows on tv, it never gets boring there is always something new to learn to try or to buy ( turns out i may be addicted to shopping also lol)
I wish I had a particular style. It would be a lot cheaper wouldn’t it?!
Little did I know as a young girl that watching HGTV and reading Better Homes and Gardens with my mom would lead me to my passion … Years later, nothing excites me more than choosing the perfect pairing of furnitures, materials, colors and accessories. I loved it so much, in fact, that I decided to pursue my passion with a degree in interior design! After working hard, and graduating with honors, I decided that wasn’t enough … without missing a beat, I went back in pursuit of my bachelor’s degree! Having a hand at designing and planning a space is really what makes me happiest. I can’t wait until graduation so that I can get paid to do the one thing I love – design interiors and spaces that make others just as happy as they make me to create them!
Being a mother of 3 I can honestly say I have never been passionate about anything except for my children. That was until I found interior Design. Im 33 and I have finally found something That i am incredibly passionate about, something that excites me to no end!! Im currently studying my diploma in Interior Design and I can honestly say I am addicted to everything to do with it!! I go to bed thinking about it and I wake up with new ideas and concepts everyday!! I live, eat, breathe Interior Design and I can honestly say nothing(besides my kids)makes me happier. I want to be a designer that can create a space, that upon, entering, totally changes the way you feel and think, a space that has a physical effect on you. A space that makes you want to be a better person, to eat better to exercise more and to live life to the full!1 I really do beilieve that with creativity and an open mind you can create such a room. So Im addicted to learning, watching, Listening and creating anything and everyhting to do with Interior Design to help me become the INTERIOR DESIGNER that I want to be!! x
You sound well and truly hooked!
I buy all the interior design magazines, I like all the design pages on Facebook( including yours) and follow your blog! Oh and spend hours on pin-interest looking for design inspirations :P. So yes…..my name is Lua Davidson and I’m an interiors addict.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step, Lua 😉
I dream about rugs, vases, pendant lights, cushions, paint chips and artwork. LOVE IT!
I would have called my new blog Interiors Addict, but the name was already taken.
😉
I’m more of an interiors addict than usual this week because the day of this gorgeous giveaway is my birthday!
Isn’t that reason enough!? If not, I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life studying design, working at interiors mags, and designing my own fabrics! Thanks Jen!
Happy birthday Tara! x
Being an interiors addict is strange phenomenon, it creeps up on you. I know I’m an addict because when I’m shopping for shoes, it turns into sheets. When I’m shopping for clothes, it turns into candles. Beware, this affliction can affect anyone at any time!
We were just discussing this in the office the other day. There comes a time in veery girl’s life when shoe shopping turns to cushion shopping. For some it’s a phase, for some it stays forever!
When your toddler asks “Mum, can we look at wallpaper today?”
Umm..
Hehehe, bless little Robbie! He will grow up with impeccable taste I’m sure!
Ughh! Where do I begin?! I changed rooms every three months growing up in my parent’s house… I even made my dad’s office into my bedroom for the fun of it {granted I was 8 and he was NOT happy!}! FIVE years at design school and SIX internships later, I finally set out on making my dreams my reality! And in the meantime, my husband and I are going broke from all the damn design blogs I read! The addiction never goes away… it’s fed daily through all the gorgeous blogs as well as monthly through glossy little mags. And it’s an evolving beast of a thing! But you do meet the *LOVELIEST* people imaginable, and that’s why I keep coming back 🙂
—>on another topic<—
Love your blog Jen, and the neat freak in you is part of our addiction {RE: Monica!} My closet is colour co-ordinated and organised by tanks, tees, shirts, dresses, etc within each coloured section. OCD Interior addicts unite! 🙂
xx
Oh, you make me feel so much better about my own issues 😉
When every date night consists of drive-by, verge collection scouting through the suburbs to find, rescue and spiff up the next perfect addition to our place! My favourite? A timber ironing board from the 1930’s that now acts as a console! I guess that makes me a budget interiors addict! 🙂
You won second prize 🙂
Yay! Thanks Jen!
You’re welcome! Please email your address!
I know my husband would say ‘Interiors addict may be a slight understatement’… Perhaps an obsession or even a way of life. I love that inner little girlyish excitement you experience when you achieve that ultimate beautifully crafted room, the joy of picking fabrics, colours and furniture and the overwhelming desire for that ‘next project’. The feeling that invigorates, inspires and makes life all that more beautiful. I love being an interiors addict!
I recently started a new job. During my induction the new employee group, of which I was part, toured a large industrial plant. To prove to you I am THE interiors addict I found myself not focussing on the plant processes (which I should have been doing) but rather how I could use the rusty colouring on the processing plant in an interior palette, how I could sand, repaint and repurpose the large wooden cabling spools rotting in a dumping yard and who I needed to talk to in order to claim the discarded industrial light fittings scattered near a disused building! It’s been a few days since my daydreaming and I’ve already secured one contact who can help me… those light fittings and wooden spools will be mine yet!…LOVE Interiors Addict, keep it up Jen!
I am so addicted to interiors that, on a whim, I quit my job to design and manufacture my own homewares, and build my own website. It was a crazy idea, but now I am importing and growing month by month, My addiction has changed my life… for the better!
We’ve just bought an ultra modern house twice the size of previous little Queenslander. So it’s out with the old and in with the new. We’re keeping just the key statement pieces and I am scouring magazines and stores for inspiration….so much fun. I’ve discovered I’m an addict.
What makes ME an addict? – Growing through life and seeing all what people have to offer to the design world. Everyday a new design is created. Like a child being born. Wattching it grow. Take form & balance. Its beautiful. I am addicted to beautiful things. I may not own them, but I see them, watch them and learn everyday. Thats how I know I am an addict.
You realize when you cross the country to visit the design fares or to shop for furniture at a certain store in Melbourne and cart it all the way back to Perth, you have to be addicted to interiors!!!!
I know I am an interiors addict because my fingers have RSI from too much pinning, my love of cushions is so deep, I have to buy chairs for them and I now frame my tea towels into artworks! I know I am an interiors addict, when I log onto to read my favourite interiors porn before my morning coffee and before Facebook (sorry Zukerberg!). I know I am an interiors addict when I created my own range of window furnishings! 🙂
I’m a rubberneck in uninviting rooms, my head twisting back and forth as I start redesigning and decorating them in my mind. My happy place is anywhere with my head in a glossy homes mag. I blab on about beautiful interior designs whenever I see them. Addicted much? Yes!
I once tracked down a single yard of delicious fabric, to a sleepy, rural town in the UK.., had it express-shipped to Australia, then stayed up till dawn hand-sewing into throw cushions to match table decorations for my birthday bash.
Diary of an ‘Interiors Addict’? … Abso- ‘decor’ – lutely!
When you spend 4 years of your life studying Interiors at Uni full time whilst working almost full time and living more than an hour away from uni/work! Travelling everyday, for 4 years. Then you know you’re addicted!
I thought it was simply taking pride in my home, just as fashion changes, so does decor! Thanks to my husband who kindly points out with “urrghhh” each time I bring home a new cushion/throw or 3rd dining-setting in 5yrs! Actually, Freedom is to blame for most ‘great idea’ moments.
When you buy EVERY home magazine available every month, know the release dates for each of them and then can’t let go of a single one! Seriously starting to run out of creative ways to display/hide them:)
I know I’m an addict, and so does my boyfriend by the fact that when my magazine subscriptions arrive, he knows there’s getting no sense out of me for god knows how many hours. Also by the fact he will no longer accompany me to garage sales, shopping centers or furniture stores in case he gets lost by my overwhelming creative passion!
I’m an interior addict as I not only shop for my house but everyone else’s too!
I’m forever sending pictures to girlfriends with – “this would look awesome in your house or “how cool would this be with your bedroom colour’s” . My credit card statement’s loaded with magazines and homey buys.
I’m totally hooked! In the last two years since buying our home, I’ve become slightly obsessed with finding my style. I now read the Ikea catalogue and every blog/catalogue I can get my hands on for inspiration! It’s exciting for me to discover a passion for homemaking and domestic-goddessness I didn’t know I had!
I know I am an interiors addict because I now walk into people’s homes and I think “oh, this place needs a little zing – I would place a vase here, a gorgeous little table lamp over there, etc. etc.” or “omg! there’s too much of everything in this room – it needs a bit of positive and negative space, less stuff on the walls!” I could daydream for hours on how I was going to redecorate their homes. There, I’ve confessed!
Im an interiors addict simply because even though I might be running five minutes late for work and fully knowing no one will step inside my house today I make my bed to photo worthy perfection, I’ve even styled my throw on my couch on the way out the door! Seriously an addict! 🙂
I started styling my girlfriends’ dollhouses; only a perfectly decorated bedroom will do for Barbie. Afternoons were spent flicking through Vogue Living fantasizing about having my own interiors featured. While learning to drive, I paid less attention to the road and more to the Victorian terrace renovation, subsequently ramming the car in front of me. Forsaking medical school, to my parent’s dismay, I pursued a career in interior design. I have been an addict since birth and wouldn’t have it any other way!!!
I think it’s when you go to bed thinking about a room and wake up with a whole new scheme in mind . . .only to change it all the very next night you go to bed!
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When all you do is surf the web and trawl through magazines to find that ONE cushion you need to tie a room together!!!
when you *ahem* restyle your house at least once a week 🙂
(oh,..and make it your career!)
Hello, my name is Ange and I’m an interiors addict. I have two bookcases in my sewing room just dedicated to interiors magazines which I can’t bear to throw out incase i feel the urge in the middle of the night for some inspiration. Sad but true:)
When you have a property that settles in a week and no furniture because you can’t decide on what pieces you want exactly, even after spending countless hours on Interiors Addict and Houzz.
When you keep searching for THE perfect rug or cushion long after you thought you purchased them…
Great giveaway – thanks for the chance!
Oh Jen I have to admit it
I AM an interiors addict, it’s true
I collect all kinds of magazines
To check out what’s brand new.
Sometimes hubby get’s a little huffy
When I changed the lounge AGAIN!
‘Do you really need another lamp’ he says
(at last count it was more than ten).
But what really IS an ADDICT?
Doing what we love shouldn’t be bad.
So, we covet shiny new stylish things?
If it makes us happy then we should be glad.
I know I’d be glad to win either of these.
I love both the print and the light.
If random selector picks up my entry.
This little addict would be filled with delight!!
The question is, do I want to declare this is writing?
My monthly therapy sessions keep me sane! These
include my subscriptions aka my bibles, cup of tea and peace and
quiet to ponder and plan. Sounds like most, but it has taken
me 6 years to find the right coffee table, 4 years for the bar stools and I only last year
I started my search, my quest for the perfect light!! I FOUND IT HEREON YOUR WEBSITE!!
I am the ultimate interior design addict. I eat, sleep, breathe DREAM of the perfect items for my house
to make it our perfect home. I am Claire Jones and I am an addict, a design addict!!
at one point last year I lived on baked beans and gave up my morning coffee (!!!) for a whole week so that I could afford a new rug… Then I lied about the giving up of food (yes mum, I am looking after myself)… definitely the traits of an addict…
I know I am an interiors addict, because I believe your home should be a sanctuary. It should be a space that allows you to simply breathe and momentarily close the door on any chaos attached to your life outside. Within its walls lies a sacred space filled with the things you love, your history, and those breathtaking elements that you may not need, but absolutely want. A comfortable, functional, and beautiful space that is imbued with your personality is the ideal. I have yet to achieve this and am on a constant quest to find the missing pieces. But, delving into the world of interior design and decorating, trying new projects, and soaking up all of the inspiration is half of the fun. That may be longer than 50 words. Sorry!
I think I am addicted because I haven’t got it right yet. Every time I make a change, and appreciate my nice new look, I see something else and think……….mmmmm I wonder what that would look like. Its never-ending, isn’t it?
Thanks for your entry Susan but the comp is now closed. Jen