***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.
Christen says
Furnish me! My favorite piece of furniture is a refurbished antique Chinese red lacquer buffet that currently lives in our dining room.
K (Barking Babymama) says
Furnish Me!! I love our ultra-modern dining room table which beckoned me from the store window, was on sale, cheaper than any other option we had, and was exactly what I’d been hoping for. 5+ years later, it’s still awesome.
Madalyn says
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I refinished my husbands dresser he had growing up. I love it!
Sara M. says
Furnish Me! I picked up an original Plycraft lounge chair (speaking of good bones) at an estate sale – love it!
Molly says
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My greatest piece is a dining room table and chairs that belonged to the previous owner of our house. The set is traditional dark wood with matching cloth colored chairs. It fit so nicely in the space that we asked the seller if we could keep them and thankfully they said yes!
Meagan says
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We were given lots of hand me downs when we got married, so we have slowly replaced them. Currently my favorite piece is our entertainment center from Ikea. It has tons of storage and it’s fun to decorate!
Lib says
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I love a secretary desk my father refinished for my high school graduation!
Katherine says
FURNISH ME! I took some art classes in college, including a glass blowing class that I wasn’t particularly good at. I set out my uneven, blob-like glass with my mom’s old crystal. The contrast in both style and quality is playful and makes me smile.
Cortney says
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Shaina says
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I’m most proud of the dresser I refinished for my baby girl. It was a Craigslist find that I made over, and it’s lovely. I’m excited for her to have it for her whole life.
Stacey says
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I love my sleigh bed – it was the first splurge I made when I moved into my house 4 years ago.
Heidi says
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I love my baby boys new crib. I cant wait to dress it up!
Beverly says
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I love my bedroom furniture because it’s old.
Christa says
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My favorite piece is my grandmother’s antique “High boy” dresser. It has beautiful curves and has worn perfectly over the years. I absolutely love it!
Abby J. says
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My mother bought an antique baby changing table when I was small, and saved it up through now. I used it for years as a vanity/sewing+craft storage unit, and now we’re refinishing it to use for our own child. :)
Chelsea says
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I love my table I bought off of craigslist for $50 and I painted it black.
Kim T. says
FURNISH ME! I think the best piece I have is the trunk that my dad hand-made for me. It’s beautiful, sentimental, and functional. What more could you ask for?
Randi says
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I think my perfect piece of furniture is my dresser. Honestly – it is my only nice piece of furniture! I bought it when we got married 5 years ago and paid a lot and don’t regret it! Wish I could spend more on other pieces!
Shannon says
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We have an awesome cherry bedroom set that my grandmother bought and used. It was passed to my parents, and now my husband and I have it. We painted it black and it’s in such great shape that my own kids could definitely inherit it someday!
Stephanie says
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I am still in love with an amazing yard sale find from three years ago–a great old armchair with fantastically detailed dark-wood legs. I bought it for $15, and when I went to recover it, learned it was real mahogany! It is CRAZY what people end up underselling at yard sales.
Tiffany says
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My favorite piece in my house right now is a midcentury buffet I picked up on Craigslist for $100. It fits perfectly in my dining room and holds a ton of stuff (read: junk!).
Life [Comma] Etc says
FURNISH ME! I am currently in love with the repurposed coffee table I turned into a bench seat with two oversized floor pillows from Crate + Barrel. Love tt!
Mandy Seaman says
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i LOVE my vintage pie safe. my husband just got it for me this past weekend for an early birthday present!!!
Bibiana says
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My vanity table from West Elm is my favorite furniture piece in the house :-)
Stacey says
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My greatest piece is a chair that my grandmother (who is now gone) purchased for my mom at a garage sale (OH how she loved garage sales)! I had it reupholstered and it is absolutely beautiful!
Jen says
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My favorite piece is a lawyer’s bookcase that has leaded glass panes. It was passed down in the family. After years of painting, decal-ing, and other atrocities, it is down back to its original mahogany and it is amazing.
Blythe says
FURNISH ME! I have a 5ft. long oak church pew that I love! I can pull it up to the dining table when we have a lot of people over, but usually it sits against the wall in our dining area. Right now, it’s the “sofa” in our front living room until we can get a new one :)
Gillianne says
FURNISH ME! Years ago I found a mahogany server with contemporary lines and diagonal lattice mirrored doors massively reduced on final clearance–probably too glam for the customer base’s tastes. It’s been many places with me, and I love it still.
kate says
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I have an awesome mahogany chest/cabinet that was my great-grandmother’s. It’s a little brittle now but it looks so good in my brick house.
Ahran says
FURNISH ME! I love a chest designed by Darryl Carter that we got at Thomasville.
Shannon says
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My favorite piece is a vintage, art deco record player that my dad gave us a few years ago. It looks like a cool cabinet, and then folds out to be a record player. It’s awesome, special, and I love it.
Deb says
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I love our upstairs recliner. Because that’s where I get to cuddle with my 7 & 8 year olds while they read to me or we read together:)
Shannon Y. says
FURNISH ME! Just scored a great ’60s dresser for $50 off Craigslist.
Sallie says
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I don’t actually have anything too awesome in my house, but I recently got my grandmother’s old rocking chair and am in the process of stripping it and got some awesome fabric from U-Fab to cover it with. If only I had a covered outside space to work it, maybe it would not be quite so slow going…
Brad says
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Closing on our first house in a week. Hoping to fill it up with new free stuff!
Britny says
Furnish Me! It is a tie between my credenza from the 60s and my large leaning mirror I got as a birthday gift from my boyfriend.
Karen says
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I would love to pick out my own stuff to go with the great stuff we have inherited or been given.
Kate says
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Although I never would have bought an oval dining room table, I love the one we inherited from my grandparents.
Brittany W. says
Furnish me! My most interesting piece is a framed set of collector’s cards showcasing the “Useful Birds of North America”. My grandmother acquired them when she was a little girl from Arm & Hammer and Cow Brand Baking Soda. There are facts about each bird on the backs of the cards and I mounted them in a double pane glass frame so their backsides wouldn’t be hidden. (And our best piece of furniture is a Green & Green style coffee table that my fiancé built!)
Eileen says
FURNISH ME! The greatest piece I currently own is a cedar chest that was my grandmother’s. My grandfather gave it to her as an engagement gift in the early 1930’s. It sits up on legs, so it can be used as a sofa table, buffet, etc.
Rachel says
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My favorite piece is an old 1920s Edison (fully functional!) that my parents found at a yard sale (along with a ton of Edison records) right after they got married. It’s a gorgeous piece of furniture, and I have so many memories as a kid of dancing in the living room to the swingin’ jazz records :)
But gosh I would love to get my hands on that beautiful mirror!!
Amanda L says
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Holy giveaway batman! We own a great crib. How sad the baby has the best furniture. We need help!
Hannah says
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LOVE MY TALL DRESSER IN MY MASTER BEDROOM
Vanessa says
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My favorite piece right now I the reclaimed dining table I just made!! It was once a glass sliding door in an office building (I think) and now is an amazingly modern 8 person dinner table– LOVE!
Michelle says
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I splurged at an upscale consignment shop in San Francisco last year on a gorgeous Louis Vuitton handbag. It is my go-to purse for a night out and worth every penny!
Nikki says
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I have a few really cool pieces from my great-grandmother that I have mixed in with more modern pieces. I’ve been really lucky with hand-me-down furniture!
Lauren L says
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Teresa W says
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We are brand new home owners, so all our furniture is hand-me-down, but both of our parents have fantastic taste, so we have a gorgeous dark cherry wood dining room set and a huge comfortable couch that’s in great shape and we love! :)
Michelle says
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I still love this little $5 wooden table I grabbed from a flea market & painted bright red. It’s tiny but it just seems so happy to me! :)
Kim says
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We bought a kitchen table and chairs from a garage sale and have been using them for years. We refinished them last year for a whole new look, and we love it even more.