***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.
Janie says
Furnish me! My favorite piece is the dresser in my room. I saved for it and it’s beautiful. The rest of my home needs some work!!!
Kim Adams says
FURNISH ME! My favorite piece is my great grandfather’s desk. It was in my house growing up, and was given to me by my grandmother.
Marlina says
Furnish Me!!! The pieces I love most in our home have to be the artwork we’ve purchased. All of them by local artists we’ve gotten to know and love.
Rebecca says
FURNISH ME! I love our wicker rolling cart I got from a neighbor during a garage sale.
Aubrey Archuleta says
FURNISH ME!!
Diane says
Furnish Me!
My dresser I received for my 21st birthday.
Heather C says
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Stacy S. says
Furnish me! I have a Craigslist dresser I am going to paint soon!
Bailey says
FURNISH ME!!! We scored two antique 1920’s dressers and matching night stands at a garage sale for $150. After some sprucing up they look amazing. I love them with all my heart.
Jodi says
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The greatest piece I own a a church looking bench that I spent every last dime I had in savings to buy from an estate auction when I first got married. Someone had carved the name “chet” on the seat and because of that carving, we call it chet.
Jo @ Let's Face the Music says
FURNISH ME! My best piece is something I inherited from my mother, an art nouveau hutch. It’s quite decorative and one of a kind AND the REAL thing! Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
Kate says
FURNISH ME!!!!!
The best piece we own is a chair I pined for at the end of last year and received for Christmas. It has a classic shape but is upholstered in an awesome orange print chock full of birds and tropical flowers. I love it. But it needs awesome furniture friends :)
Tom says
I love my great-grand parents bedroom furniture. Still has water damage on the back of the dresser mirror from the 1929 flood. I should replace warped wood … nah.
Julie says
FURNISH ME! My favorite piece is my sturdy kitchen table, chairs, and bench. It is a beautiful splurge that adds so much character to our home.
Lauren says
FURNISH ME!!!! I love our couch. There is enough room for my fiance and I to hang out with our two dogs. Lounging with the pups and watching a movie…the best!
Alice says
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I love the furniture I got from my grandmother. The best piece is an old rose colored wing back chair that sits in a little reading nook in my living room.
Lisa says
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We love our big room for two chair! It’s perfect for reading the kids stories or cuddling up for a movie.
katie says
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I have two old lamps that I got for free from a friend after she moved out of her house in college, they are this wierd yet awesome shade of green that has managed to look right in every living room I have had since!
Mary says
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My most beloved piece is an old antique trunk that has been handed down in my family. It’s probably only worth something to me but I wouldn’t take a million dollors for it!
Varsha V says
Furnish me! Almost all the furniture in our house was found through goodwill or thrift stores. But my favorite piece of furniture is a huge danish mid century table given to us by my boyfriend’s dad.
Becky says
Furnish me! My Colette bed–after sleeping just a Hollywood frame for years, I finally feel like a grown up :)
CJ says
FURNISH ME. I have a beautiful caramel-colored leather and bent walnut Plycraft lounge chair and ottoman, in the style of an Eames lounger–made in Canada in the 1960s. I got it in an excellent trade while working at a midcentury vintage place–I had started to get savvy about midcentury valuables, picked up an old tile-top table off Craigslist for $5 that I knew my boss had sold a similar one of for hundreds, and did a trade with him. SCORE.
Lauren T says
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We love our counter height dining table. It’s nothing special but we love the height and how it expands from a 4-seater rectangle for every day use to an 8-seater square for bigger dinners
Maureen says
Furnish me!
The greatest piece(s) I own are four vintage Chinese chippendale chairs with cane seats (identical to Ballard’s version at more than $200 a pop http://www.ballarddesigns.com/macau-side-chairs-set-of-2/chairs/dining-chairs/14867?defattrib=&defattribvalue=&listIndex=21). I got them at a rummage sale for $4 EACH! Still deciding how to re-paint or re-finish, but I know I’ll have and love them forever!
Amy Klingensmith says
FURNISH ME! We have a few finds from craigslist. my fave is a buffet my husband is refinishing now.
Erica says
Furnish me!
A gorgeous old desk is my fave.
Sarah L. says
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I have a well-worn leather chair and ottoman that I bought many years ago in my hometown (incidentally, from my high school math teacher). It doesn’t really match the rest of our house, but it’s so comfy and cozy that I don’t care.
Justine in CT says
FURNISH ME! I think our sleigh bed was our best purchase. Looks beautiful & is soooo comfortable.
carolyn says
FURNISH ME! My favorite piece is a “headboard” my dad rescued from my grandparents’ garage and refinished for me when I was little. It was the side rail off my grandmother’s crib! Now I have it for my daughter.
steve says
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I have a great old tin top desk that I happened upon it on the side of the road while walking in my neighborhood. We now use it for a computer table, but I remember walking it home on my back.
Shannon L. says
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We inherited some fantastic mid-century dressers from my husband’s grandmother. With plans to refinish them in a darker wood tone, they’ll be with us for a long time!
Mindy Gallagher says
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Love these colors and furniture combinations!
Katherine says
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My favorite piece of furniture is my old, repainted dresser. It’s wide, bow-fronted, and painted a beautiful off-white shade. I found it on CRAIGSLIST and it was my first piece of grown-up furniture!
Oh yeah, and it has its original tag tucked away in the top right hand drawer. :)
Melissa Vallino says
FURNISH ME!!! My favorite thing in my house is my butcher block top for my island that I found on craigslist
Rhonda says
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My favorite piece of furniture I currently own is my grandfather’s wooden workbench. My dad refinished it and it’s the perfect place to put our flatscreen tv!
Desiree says
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My favortie is my tv stand…it’s oh so sleek and sexy!
Allie says
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Sarah says
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We have had a huge, comfy leather coach and recliner in our house for years, and I don’t think we will ever be able to get rid of it!
Bianca says
Furnish me! favorite piece of furniture is a sewing desk I found at a thrift store for $25. It’s old sturdy wood with antique drawer knobs. Best find ever!
michelle k. says
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my favorite piece of furniture at the moment is my refinished bed frame. it’s a vintage metal hospital bed from the 1940s or so, which i found at the flea market in my childhood home town in north carolina. with some help of spray paint, i transformed it into a beautiful blue bed that now sits in my studio apartment in nyc!
Courtney says
FURNISH ME!!! =)
I love buying cheap and making it fab! I recently bought a HUGE (over 3 ft tall) 70s swanky bubble table lamp at a garage sale for $5. Complete with a vintage burlap shade. My new favorite thing in the house!
Cheri Bynum says
Furnish me! When it was time to purchase our King size bed including the mattresses we splurged. Since this was probably going to be our bed until our kids left the nest.
vika says
FURNISH ME! We have a club chair that my husband absolutely loves. It’s been pretty much destroyed by our cat’s claws but he still loves it. One day, we’ll have it re-upholstered.
Andrea says
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My favorite piece is a used coffee table I bought that has lots of storage inside. We love to play games, and it is a perfect place to store them!
Allie says
FURNISH ME! Gotta say the dresser I inherited from my great Uncle. We still have a lot of upgrading to do with most of our furniture.
Maritel says
FURNISH ME!!
I love our Martha stewart dark mahogany dining room table. It was a steal at $300 at our local Macy’s outlet and it retailed for $2500!!
Abby3 says
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My favorite piece is a cream colored small buffet I got as a *free* hand-me-down from a relative. Not only does it look beautiful and flawless underneath a vintage garage sale mirror find in our foyer, but it acts as pantry storage that is lacking in our 1950’s kitchen! :)
Eileen says
“FURNISH ME!” My favorite piece that I own is my dining room table and benches. My grandpa stained everything himself for his family of 8 kids. It was passed down to my parents who have 5 kids, and my mom passed it on to me now that I have a growing family (2 kids so far).
-Eileen
Andrea says
Furnish Me!
I just refinished a coffee table that is my favorite piece right now.
Margo says
Furnish Me! One of my favorite pieces is a china cabinet I bought at Goodwill several years ago!