My living room (on a good day!)
I want my home to be a warm and inviting place for visitors and a safe and healthy environment for my family. I strive to create a space like this by choosing nice furniture, minimizing clutter, using simple decorations, and always having something baking in the oven when guests arrive.
I try to keep my home naturally healthy and “green” by reusing and repurposing items. Sometimes it's small things, like making these button hair pins, other times is bigger things, like unpluging energy-wasting appliances, repurposing furniture, or removing toxic items from my home.
I know many of you want the same things.
Today I'm partnering with the Apartment Guide blog to give away a $50 Home Depot gift card to one of you! I know you could use that to do something lovely in your home.
Whether you're living, looking or moving, Apartment Guide offers tips on how to make your apartment greener and make the most of your space on the Apartment Guide blog.
Apartment Guide offers tips on how to make eco-friendly cleaning products and save you money, which is a favorite topic around here!
Before we get to the giveaway, I wanted to let you know that there is a lot more to the Apartment Guide blog than just looking for an apartment. I think you'll enjoy some of these articles:
Cheap and Green Ways to Wrap Gifts
How to Create DIY Christmas Wreaths
Ideas for Repurposing Moving Boxes
Unplug Your Energy-Wasting Appliances and Save Money
How to Make Your Apartment Greener
Clean Green: Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
How to Keep Your Apartment Cleaning Earth-Friendly
If you’re ready for a whole new space or looking to move, Apartment Guide has the photos, floor plans, features and tips to help you search for green apartment communities.
The Giveaway – Enter to Win a $50 Gift Card from The Home Depot
To enter: leave a comment below
Optional entries:
(Leave a separate comment for each one you complete)
Use the widget below to “Like” Apartment Guide on Facebook, tweet at them @AptGuide on Twitter, “circle” them on Google+ and follow them on Pinterest for real-time tips and updates on how to make the most of your small space.
Giveaway will end at 9pm EST Friday, December 7, 2012
Disclosure Statement:
Apartment Guide and owner Consumer Source, Inc. partner with bloggers such as me to participate in blogger programs. As part of that program, I received compensation. They did not tell me what to purchase or what to say about any products and believe that consumers and bloggers are free to form their own opinions and share them in their own words. Consumer Source’s policies align with WOMMA Ethics Code, FTC guidelines and social media engagement recommendations.
Mami2jcn
Thanks for the chance! My husband would love this. We’ve been wanting to repaint bathrooms.
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Kelly D
Thank you for the giveaway. We are in the process of putting shelving in our basement for storage, so a GC would go towards that project.
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Catherine
I love Apartment Guide! I didn’t realize they had all those other articles on it though – cool!
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Your living room does look warm and inviting to kick back and read a good book
reba
Thank you for offering this!
Ruth
What a blessing to be able to enter this giveaway!
ElizabethL
Thanks for the giveaway. Home Depot + Apartment Guide = lots of projects to do.
Ashley H
This would be great so I can paint my bedroom.
Ashley H
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Mandy Blank
We have so many things that this could help out with! Thanks for the chance!!
CARRIE
I would love to win this gift card! There are so many home improvement projects on our “to be completed” list. 🙂 Thanks for hosting!
Maureen
I have a bathroom that is right off my bedroom that is half torn apart. My husband has started taking apart the floor and the side molding. It is real fun watching when I take a shower that I don’t get water on the floor. This would come in handy to help with the replacement of these items. We need to replace the toilet too.
juliea
How fun to redecorate for the new year. That’s the kind of resolution I can get behind!
angel
We’d be so blessed by a Home Depot gift card!
Kara G.
I would love to win!
Danya
Great giveaway!!
Holly Adams
Love the apartment guide. The gift card would be awesome!
Rosie
Great giveaway! I would get a new flashlight and storm-prep things…
april
Great giveaway! This would find its way into my husband’s Christmas stocking.
JEnn Scott
Thanks for the giveaway!!
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Wendy Clark
Please enter me! My hubby would love this!
Kendal Barriere
I would love to win this gift card
Elena
Thank you for the giveaway! I would give it to my husband for Christmas
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Marie Ulrey
I would love $50 to Home Depot!! 🙂
Erin
I hope I win this so we can buy some paint.
Erin
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Tracie
Thanks for the giveaway! My husband would love to find this under the tree on Christmas morning!
Throuthehaze
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Libby@ Everything's Coming Up Green
What a great giveaway!
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Erica dodge
Thank you for the giveaway, I’ve been needing some shelving put up!! Merry Christmas =)
Suzie
This would help with my son’s bedroom remodel! Thank you!
vickie
Oh your living room looks so comfortable and nice ~ this would help so much with our kitchen that needs an update.
vickie
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Emily A.
I would love to win this gift card!
Emily A.
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Emily A.
I followed apartment guide on pinterest!
Erica
Would love this! I can think of a ton of different things to do 🙂
Nicole
We just bought our first house this summer and are trying to get all sorts of small repair projects done… this would be lovely! 🙂
aLLISON
Thanks for the chance to win! I like the article about DIY Christmas wreaths.
Jessica
I would love to win this give-away!
Karolyn
This would be wonderful for us. We are trying to make our loft into a family fun/craft/hobby area.
SandyN
Great giveaway! My husband would love this!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Dannon Jones
Thanks for the chance to win…we have several DIY projects going on and this would help considerably!
Amber
I’d love to be able to give my husband this card. There’s rarely a trip to home depot where he isn’t longing for a new tool and I have to remind him of our budget. It would be so fun to say yes instead!
Lesley
Thanks for the chance!
kATIE dIETZ
LOVE IT!!
jezz
I would love to tackle a project with this giveaway!
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alaine
I would love to win!
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Janina
Thanks for the oppportunity- would love to put this in a stocking for my husband!!
Meg
We are in the process of renovating our kitchen and we love Home Depot!
Janet
Thanks for the giveaway1 We could really use this 🙂
Heather K
Thanks for having the giveaway! A gift card would be awesome!
KaySue
We could use this towards a closet storage system.
Colleen
This is the first time I have heard of Apartment Guide. Very helpful information. Thank you for this opportunity!
Michelle Washburn
Love Home Depot, Apartment Guide is a great tool!
Ellen B
yes i am looking to move and will check out apartment guide
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Jill
Thank you for the chance. Love Home Depot and Apt. Guide and of course your blog! 🙂
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Meg
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Carolyn
I need to replace some of the plants that didn’t make it last year. I’m thinking orange and red lantana in the backyard.
Sweta
I hope I win this, the lock on my bathroom broke.
Andrea D.
I love this idea. Thanks for the chance to enter.
Shannon S.
awesome giveaway
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kelly thompson
good giveaway-hope I get it!
SARA g
What a fantastic prize…hope I win it!
RG
Thanks for the nice giveaway.
Karen
Apartment or house, keep things simple, uncluttered. Make small conversation areas, not everything need to center around the TV.
Tracy P
Thanks for the oppurtunity.
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Marilyn
Thanks for offering this. My walls could use some new paint so this would be great.
Beeb Ashcroft
Awesome giveaway for those of us renovating! Thank you for the giveaway!
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Stephanie perez
Thanks for the chance to win! The possibilities are endless as to what to buy @ Home Depot!
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Charissa
What a great giveaway! There’s a lot we could do with a Home Depot gift card. 🙂
Jennifer
We would love to use the gift card to help set up our new nursery! 🙂
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Kimberly Smith
My son would love this. He getting into woodworking for 4-h and this woulbe great gift for him.
Kristena
This would be a huge blessing. My husband was without work for most of the past 3 yrs. We just lost our home and had to move to a rental. The previous tenants smoked and we are trying to get rid of the smell and would love to paint. Thank you for the opportunity.
lAURA
Thanks for a great giveaway! I think we are at Home Depot every week.
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Tracy
Thanks for the great giveaway! I just moved into a new house and this will definitely come in handy.
Tracy
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Sarah
I’m a friendly follower on Pinterest-soboyle
Pat L.
Great Giveaway. Oh, I have so many projects I could use it on!
Angie
This would be a great way to buy new energy efficient light bulbs. We are replacing them as they burn out.
rachel
We live in an old Victorian house that could use some sprucing up!
JORDYN
I liked Apartment Guide on FB.
Gretchen
Would love to win this!
Naomi
Would love this to help update my kitchen!
Amy Carter
Thanks! Always looking for new ideas. Very interested in the green cleaners!
Alix St.Amant
My husband would be SSOOOOOO happy if I won this!!
KaRi
So many things I could use that money for…
Theresa
Thank you for sponsoring such an amazing giveaway!
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Shelley quiroz
Would love some new light fixtures, this would really help. Thanks!
Abbi
A neat giveaway. We always have some project or another that we would like to get done around our home.
samW
would love to win this!