Better Homes and Gardens’ book New Cottage Style ($19.95) seems like just the thing to read for Spring, so I’m giving a copy away this week as a part of the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival (read about the giveaway here).
Today also happens to be my 3-month “Blogiversary,” so this is a great way to celebrate all of the fun we’ve had since January. I’ve been amazed by the warm response my site has received from the blogosphere! Clearly, I’m not the only one who’s hooked on houses. Thanks to all of my readers, both new and old. I appreciate every single one of you!
New Cottage Living is perfect if you’re looking for:
- Decorating ideas to achieve a look that’s clean, simple, and light.
- Photos of new and remodeled homes that add style with architectural features.
- Secrets to creating harmony with paint, furniture, fabrics, and accessories.
- Examples for decorating in the country, suburbia, and oceanfront locations.
- Practical ideas to create the comfortable getaway look of your dreams.
- Effective color schemes that achieve a clear, serene palette.
If you’d like to win a copy of New Cottage Style, simply leave a comment on this post between now and Friday, April 25 at midnight (EST), and I’ll draw a name at random on Saturday. Check back then to see if you’re the winner! (Giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.) If you have a blog, be sure to leave your URL so I can visit you in return!
BONUS: click the button at the bottom right-hand corner of this page that says ”ADD TO MY TECHNORATI FAVORITES,” and I’ll add your name to the drawing twice. If you don’t already have a Technorati account, you’ll have to fill out some basic information about yourself to get one. So for non-Technorati’s who don’t want to join, you can mention in the comments why this site is one of your faves and get entered twice that way.
Welcome to everyone who stopped by Hooked on Houses as a part of the Bloggy Giveaway! My name is Julia, and I’m a real-estate junkie (to read more about me, click here). I created Hooked on Houses for people like me who love to:
- Decorate, redecorate, and renovate their homes.
- Look inside the homes of the rich and famous.
- Get inspired by fabulous before and afters.
- Learn what’s new for the home and keep up with decorating trends.
If you love any of those things, too, then you’ll fit right in here. I hope you’ll bookmark Hooked on Houses and stop back again soon. To see what we’re talking about today, click here.
If you’re new to Hooked on Houses, check out some of our most popular posts and take a look around while you’re here (click on whichever topics interest you):
Jennifer Lopez’s Nursery ~ How to Pick Paint Colors ~ Before & After: Lily’s Little Bathroom ~ Reese Witherspoon’s Country House ~ Stephanie Dee Wins the HGTV Dream Home Instead of Me and Doesn’t Seem All That Excited ~ Building Character in Your Home ~ Michael J. Fox’s Home in the Hamptons ~ In Praise of Porches ~ A House as Big as Utah ~ Decorating with Black & White ~ Retro Kitchens ~ Dolly Parton’s Childhood Home ~ Rooms That Need Rehab
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I would love a chance to win this book! Thank you for having such a neat giveaway.
I would LOVE a copy of this book…currently working on my own cottage here.
Please enter me–thanks.
What a cute blog… I’ll be checking back often.
Nikki
OMG!!! Free stuff!!!! I am there! I love your blog anyway.The book looks to cute.
I would like a free book please!
You have been faved on Technorati.
I get to read your blog AND potentially win a PRIZE??? Sign me up! :o)
Ooooh..count me in! I always love a good design book!
Me me! I waaaaaaaaant it!
This blog is one of my faves b/c you’re soooooooo sweeeeeeeet!
I’d love to win!
Of course, I’d like to win!
Happy day!
Melissa
Awesome! Please enter me!!
I would love to be entered into your contest!
I love this site because I love houses/design/creative ideas and it caters to me perfectly!!
Julia, you’ll be happy to know that my husband and I went to an open house yesterday for a home that we had no intention of purchasing
I love your blog because it’s let me know that I’m not the only one that spends countless hours daydreaming through other peoples houses, watches too much HGTV, and is a wanna be designer. Congrats on three months in blog-land!!!
love this!
Lovin’ your site….I have bookmarked it and would LOVE to win your giveaway!!!!! Thanks!
I’d love this book, it would be great to lighten and brighten my house. Thank you so much.
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I am totally hooked on houses, so glad I came across your blog!
Oh, very glad to have discovered your blog! I am going to add you to my reader. Cottage style decorating is one of my faves. Thanks!
I would love to win this for my mom!
Thanks
palmersf(at)bellsouth(dot)net
I NEEEED this book. I live in and love teeeny spaces (too many hours logged with a dollhouse in childhood) so “cottage” anything will enhance the quality of my life.
The blog is fabulous because it is entertaining and though the morsels are small, they are suprisingly filling!
I love decorating! I have a new house and have TONS of decorating to do! I could use all the help I could get!
I would love this book.
Hi Julia!
I would love to make our townhouse more cottage like, pick me, please!
I love your blog so much I tagged you for a meme. So come on over to Make Room For…and check it out!
Tracey
Looks like a fantastic book. Thanks for sponsoring a giveaway.
My mom’s b’day is coming up next week, and I’d love to win this for her!
Your blog is great loved reading some of the articles!
Enter me, please!
We just bought our first home and I’m always looking for decorating ideas. This looks like it is just our style.
Love this blog! I’m hooked on “Hooked”!
I need decorating help in a big way!
~Summer
http://summersnook.com
What a wonderful book ! It says everything about me as it is exactly my style and taste. Thank you for the great giveaway! If you get a chance please stop over and check out mine Yummy Things & Cupcake Dreams
Take care,
Marilyn
I love cottage style. This is perfect!
If I don’t win it, Ill definitely be purchasing this one.
Thanks for the review Julia!
Julia, I am CLEARLY desperately behind on my HH reading. I can’t believe 36 people got here before me! Ah well, better late than never. I think I NEED this book.
Count me in please!
Oh, oh! Pick me! Pick me!
You’ve been technorati-favorited and all!
I have a decorating book addiction. I love them!!
princesslimey(at)gmail(dot)com
I love cottage style and am in the process of redecorating. I would love this book!
Love books !
I love Better Homes decorating books! Please enter me.
Please enter me in the contest! Thanks!
Thanks for the chance to win this great prize!
That looks lovely!
Hello, Happy Blog Anniversary. Three years is quite an achievment! May you have many more bloggy anniversaries. Please enter me in your book drawing. I like to decorate and I do some cottage style with prim and shabby chic. Thanks,Cindi
I need some serious decorating help. What a great giveaway!
This would be a great book for me because I’m domestically challenged.
I love to decorate! This looks great!
Looks like a pretty book, count me in.
I love looking at decorating books and dreaming about what I would do if I had the money!
Who wouldn’t want to win this, I would love it! So glad I came to your blog today, what a great idea!
Great Blog!!!! Great Giveaway!!!!
gerjones64(at)hotmail(dot)com
Thanks!
would love this - always looking for my “style” which changes frequently
We are currently in the process of remodeling our home, this book would be wonderful!
Love your blog!!! Thanks for giving me something to look forward to every day.
Since Cottage Style is my style, the book is very enticing. If I don’t win it, I’m going to buy it.
Looks like a nice book! Please enter me in–thanks!
This would be a GREAT birthday gift for my sister!
What a great giveaway! Please sign me up! Thanks!
I love BH&G, they always have very simple and stylish ideas. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love your blog; you do all the dirty work for me and I can just sit back, read and enjoy… Thanks.
I’ve added you to my favorite list! I’m a house decorating junkie myself!!!! And I would LOVE this book.
julie_ruhlman(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would love to win this book. We will soon be moving to a nice ‘cottage’ and we need all the help we can get to make it look like the home of our dreams.
Thanks for the giveaway! Sign me up! ( :
In Christ,
Mandi
I found your blog not too long after you started it and have loved it ever since–the variety of your topics never ceases to amaze me! It has definitely become one of my favorites, and it inspires me to look at my surroundings a little differently. Thanks so much!
I could use this!
I love BH&G books!
I love cottage style! Please sign me up!
Great giveaway. I could really use this.
The only thing better than discovering this awesome blog would be winning this awesome giveaway.
Thank you for doing this giveaway.
Tiffany Rosson
tiffanyannrosson AT yahoo DOT com
Oh, awesome book! I’d love to own it, my house is in serious need of some style.
I NEED the book….can you come and give me a house make-over too?
Thanks for joining the bloggie carnival!
I would love to win this book. I’d love to have my house look like this!
Here’s my blog:
http://www.rioosodesigns.blogspot.com
I would love to win this! Please enter me.
taradawnrobertson[at]hotmail[dot]com
Wow! I found a great blog and a great giveaway all at once. I have bookmarked your blog so I can return and enjoy at my leisure. Anything that says decorating or beautifying my home appeals to me. Great blog! Thanks for the giveaway.
II’d love to win. The cover of the book is so beautiful.
Thank you for much for the giveaway. I would love to win this! nw_wife(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would love to check this out!
Thanks for the contest 
I will admit to being a HGTV addict! I love this kind of stuff
I love to redecorate my house, paint my walls and rearrange my furniture. This would be so great for me!
We’re in the middle of redoing our kitchen, my office and our bedroom and this book looks like it has some neat ideas.
I would love to win this book, my husband and I are moving and I need alot of help decorating our new home.
Great site! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Sounds like a great book.
I added you to my favorites. Thanks!
This looks like a great book! My house totally needs to be redone!
GREAT giveaway!
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Thanks and have a lovely day!
Looks like a beautiful book. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Neat blog and giveaway! I really like how you’ve made a passion of yours into such a focusd blog, great work! My url is linked to my name, and I’m having a giveaway too :).
I’d really enjoy this book, as we do live in a small, ‘cottage’ type house :).
That looks like a neat book. Thanks for this great giveaway!
Well you know I have been here since the beginning, loving all your posts. Keep up the good work and I will be happy to give the book a wonderful ( if somewhat dusty ) home.
Janet
Looks like a great book! Thanks!
That book looks so cute! Please count me in!
~Meghan
I Adore this book, Please enter me! Thanks
Great book! Thanks for offering it!
I wanna win it!
Perfect. I really need some decorating help.
This would be perfect! We are building a home and I need some decorating ideas!
Theresa Marie
http://theresamariegoon.blospot.com
Great Giveaway!! thanks for offering the chance to win! I have a past issue of cottage style . . .good reading and beautiful pictures!
Hugs
Renee
I would love to win this.
I love cottage style!!! I love your blog and will definitely bookmark you. I love to go to open houses just for decorating ideas!
I love anything cottage style. Your blog is really great. It’s good reading.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
happy blogiversary! I’d love to be entered in the drawing. cottage style is right up my alley. thanks for the opportunity.
Oh my! That looks like an amazing book! Please sign me up for your giveaway, and thank you!
What a great book! Thanks for the fantastic giveaway.
I added you to my Technorati favorites. Hope you’ll add me too! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love to decorate!!! Just re-painted my bedroom now I can’t keep my husband out of it!!!! Sorry I do need “My Time” once a day at least for a hour or two.
I just redid my backyard and am now starting in the house. this would be a great help.
Please enter me. I’m always changing my style around my place and like to get ideas. Thanks.
Heidi
sweet_soul_sistermi@yahoo.com
This yummy book looks right up my alley!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Looks like my odds are slim, but this book looks fun–count me in.
love cottage style decorating…love to win
I would love to win this book!
please enter me in your contest
My house could use some decorating makeovers and this book would be perfect.
Great giveaway!
i am in desperate need of decorating ideas
Cool! We’re buying a new house and I could use some ideas! Thanks
I’d pore over this book and then share it with my mother-in-law, an interior decorator! Thanks! ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )
Wow! Way cool. Just like my favorite shows on HGTV. You have decorating on a dime, divine design, color whatever it’s called…oh, you’ve got it all, girl!
Hey, please enter me in your drawing for the fabulous book. I’m a junkie too!
llwoolard@hotmail.com
Cute stuff in the book, I can only imagine!
Would love to have it. thanks!
We are putting our townhouse on the market tomorrow and about to buy our first single family home! I think it’s meant to be that I came across your site tonight……
Great giveaway!
What a fun looking book. Thanks for the giveaway!
Hi!
Sounds great! I’d love to win.
I’ve written for a decorating magazine called Country Sampler.
I am new to your site but i just luv it. very easy to navigate and very creative!!!
thnx for the great giveaway
I’d love to win this for decorating tips.
I visit your site often for inspiration for scrapbooking and decorating. I’d love to win this book. It looks wonderful.
Thanks for a great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner
Just found your blog from Google. Love it.
Just found your blog through a link & it looks like so much fun! I’ll definitely be back, as I’m hooked on houses too. Esp. the decorating part! I’d love to win this book!
Rhoda
This looks like a great book! Thanks for the giveaway!
OH, I love reading decorating books! Would love to check this one out! Enter me, too!
I’d love to look at this book.
this would be PERFECT for my new house we’re hoping to buy next month! thx for the opportunity to receive it for free
I got hooked on your website through a family member who has a blogsite. I love the pictures you have of Nora’s house on “Brothers & Sisters”. I would enjoy the new book! Thank you and congratulations on your three month blogiversary.
I love ‘Hooked on Houses’! Please enter me. Thx.