***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
And the lucky / randomly selected / soon to be quite worldly person is… Briana (who says “London, Ontario is special to me. That’s where I first lived on my own, went to University, met my husband, and I just loved that city. Plus, it has the best spaghetti restaurant ever, Spageddy Eddy’s!”). Congrats! And for everyone else, scroll down to the contest entry details for a sweet little discount the Wallpapered folks added for everyone.
One look at Pinterest and I don’t feel quite so alone in my fascination with maps. So to everyone else out there who digs a little cartography in their design, hold on to your seats. This week the people behind Wallpapered are giving one of you a nice big 8ft x 5ft world map wallpaper kit so that you can add a map-tastic mural to your home. As much as I love the various world map styles they offer, the coolest feature (at least to me) is that you can also get custom area map wallpaper that basically zooms into a postal code of your choosing. So you could order custom wallpaper showcasing your favorite big city – or even the small town that you grew up in.
- PRIZE: Any world map or custom area map wallpaper up to 8ft x 5ft from Wallpapered (a $400+ value!)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “WORLD ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: …what town / city / state / country / other geographic area is most special to you? Will you always have a fondness for the town you grew up in? Are you most enamored with the place where you honeymooned? Or are you just bursting with pride over the area where you currently live?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, January 23rd at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: Wahoo, this giveaway is available worldwide!
- DISCOUNT: Get 10% off your custom map order with code YHL2013
- 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…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
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 Wallpapered.
allison h. says
WORLD ME! my most memorable place is probably Cannes, France where my husband and I took our honeymoon which was the first big trip either of us had been on! we loved it and the French Riviera will always have a special place in my heart!
erika says
World Me! Absolutely all of Latin America!
Laura M says
WORLD ME! I’d probably want to get a map of London, which is where we’re going to be honeymooning soon :)
Carrie says
World Me! Antarctica is the closest thing to home for me, which is a funny thing to say for a map giveaway seeing as Antarctica usually fails to make the cut, or is falling off the bottom! This is my seventh season living/working here.
Jessica Y says
World Me!!!!
I love where I live in CA but loved traveling to Ecuador!
Nicole says
WORLD ME!!
My husband and I are from a small city near Churchill MB, Canada and I think that city would be so darling to have in our study. That or we’ve fallen madly in love with Montreal when we visited a couple years ago (for our “honeymoon” just 4 years late) and we fantasize and speak of it weekly, it would be a little way to bring Montreal to us when we can’t just hop on a plane and go!
Hillary says
WORLD ME! I’m right here in Richmond, VA! It’s been home for over 3 years now, and where our baby will be born in a couple of months!
AshinMT says
WORLD ME- I do my home great state of Montana.
Ginger says
World Me! TX where my extended family lives.
Marte says
World me! I would love a world map, so cool…
Jamie says
WORLD ME! The hubs and I both grew up near Chicago even though we didn’t meet there. We both love Chicago!
Alison U. says
WORLD ME! I spent some time in Hawaii, so that might be the winner if I’m the winner! :)
Malissa says
WORLD ME!
Florence, Italy will always be special to me because it is where I studied broad in college!
Kate says
World Me!
Got a soft spot for Albany, NY!
Leslie says
World Me!
Oooo, maps! We’d use the map to decorate our baby’s nursery! We’re 14 weeks along today and completely over the moon! Perhaps we’d chose Eastern Europe where we backpacked this summer after saving for four years. It was our big trip before our big baby adventure began. :)
Actually, we’re headed to Ikea for wardrobes in order to move my husband’s clothes out of the baby’s room and back into our own. We got the inspiration from your first house, Sherry. :) We’re thinking a color scheme of gray, golden yellow, beige, and white. I never would have picked gray, but I’ve loved how you’ve used it. It’s made me realize that gray can absolutely be warm. Excited!!! I’m really crossing my finger for this one!
Leslie says
By the way, we live in the “Northwoods” of Wisconsin and Young House Love is absolutely on the spectrum of book love. Your book was on our library’s shelves right away. I was giddy, breathlessly asked my husband “Do you know what this is?!” and promptly sat down to peruse the glossy photos and quippy explanations. Fun! Congratulations on your much-deserved success!
Kristina A says
World Me! I grew up in King City, ON (north of Toronto). It’s a beautiful rural area. I miss it!
Liz m says
World me! San Francisco where my heart will always belong!
Beth says
WORLD ME! Portland, OR, my hometown (now I live in Baltimore)
Julia says
WORLD ME! Our neighborhood in Washington, D.C. – my boyfriend and I just moved in together and are in serious need of some huge, beautiful something to cover up white rental walls.
Sheila S. says
WORLD ME!
I completely wallpapered a bathroom at work with National Geographic maps – in wasn’t uncommon to find a whole group of people closeted in there, discussing something interesting from the maps!
I have a street map of Dublin, circa 1765, in my own bathroom. I love that I can retrace the walks I took on that old map.
Zinna says
WORLD ME!
Boston, MA. Lots of family there. We go once or twice a year to see everyone. Wish we could go more often but alas, time and money.
Katie says
WORLD ME! Charleston, SC – where my husband and I got married and then moved to exactly 1 year and 13 days later! <3
Julia @ This Idiot's Guide says
WORLD ME!
Boulder, Colorado is where I grew up and where I currently live and it is my favorite place on earth!
Therese says
WORLD ME! I grew up just north of Pittsburgh, we live about 8 hours away now, but ‘home’ is always special
Lauren S says
World me…I love my current location at the Jersey Shore!
Jose Raul says
WORLD ME!
I love living in the US but home with always be El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Jose Raul says
Whoops *will be, not with!
Laura says
WORLD ME!
Florence is the most special place to me as spent my summers there during university learning Italian.
Jo says
WORLD ME! I would love a huge map of Washington DC!
Tabatha Woodson says
WORLD ME – I love where I live now and I lived a handful of places – you just don’t get much better than Texas :)
Alison says
WORLD ME! I think I’d go for the map of the world, to track all future travels! Big plans for the future, still haven’t found any one place that speaks to me more than others
Laura says
WORLD ME!
I would have to say that Edinburgh, Scotland is one of the most special places in the world to me! It is where my grandmother is from, and she was just such an amazing woman! The city is full of the most amazing, rich color green you will ever see and the history is so cool!
jessica w says
“WORLD ME!” Hannover, Germany where I was born and raise for half of my life
Anne says
WORLD ME!
Being my home state, Virginia is pretty special to me. I’ve also claimed Alice Springs, Australia as a second hometown! We lived there for a few years when I was little and I’ve got wonderful memories of those times! Shout out to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Piggly Wiggly!
Kristen says
World me!
Western Massachusetts is close to my heart because that is where I grew up, went to college, met my husband, and where my entire family still lives.
Amanda says
WORLD ME!
I was born in Wisconsin and have spent most of my life living in Maryland, but I have a soft spot for Michigan. Nearly everyone else on both sides of my family was born there and most of them still live there now. Detroit is super ghetto, but I still love it.
Cady says
WORLD ME! Hawaii will always hold a special place in my heart. I went to school there, worked as a single lady there, was married there and we lived our first six months as newlyweds there working for a nonprofit. No where compares! Such a beautiful and special place.
Lori says
World me!!
Ashley says
WORLD ME! Pittsburgh holds a special place in my heart.
MaryVZ says
WORLD ME!
The Gunnison Valley in Colorado is my favorite place ever!
Cinemarie says
World Me please!
For me it’s NYC all the way! I’m from Montreal Canada, currently live in Toronto, but when time came to pick a place to get married 3 years ago, we picked NYC – we got married on the Brooklyn Bridge! There’s no where else in the world (in my opinion) where you can find such cool culture, architecture, arts, and a diversity of the people who live there. If it weren’t so darn expensive I’d be in Manhattan right now:)
David W. says
WORLD ME!
The North shore of Lake Superior and the Provincial parks that dot that area will always have a special place in my heart.
Cathy D says
World Me! A map of my Sacramento, CA would be great. It’s where I met and married my sweetie and had our children.
Tia says
World Me!! Anchorage, Alaska please! Love the beauty of AK!
Tina says
WORLD ME! Hmm I would have a hard time choosing between my birthplace, Heidelberg Germany or my home DC!!
nicole says
world me!
My husband is from Labrador, Canada and I think it would be awesome to represent that.
Megan McC says
WORLD ME! My hometown will always be near and dear to me…little though it may be.
Sarah C says
WORLD ME! My husband and I spent a day in Vail, CO a few summers ago. It was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.
stefanie williams says
I love maps of San Francisco – The way the streets are laid out, the cool neighborhoods, it’s an awesome city!
Shana says
WORLD ME!!! The place that means the most to me is Dummer Township, part of Peterborough County in Ontario Canada. It’s where I grew up and went to school – and yes it’s called Dummer – pronounced Dumb-er. The neighbouring Township (think Shelbyville to our Springfield) was Douro Township and they used to make fun of us all and say things like “I live over on the Dummer side of Douro” etc. Jeez and the town fathers could never figure out why it was so hard to recruit girls to compete for the Dummer Fall Fair Queen….no one wanted to wear that sash. Anyway we got the last laugh a few years ago when our province made townships all over merge in order to shrink the size and expense of government. So those suckers in Douro are now part of the newly merged Dummer-Douro Township. Who’s laughing now?!
Sheri Green says
WORLD ME! My husband and I love traveling! We want a huge map to put pins in showing all the places we have traveled :)