Do you have an iPod yet? I’m what they call a “late adopter” when it comes to technology, so I just got my first one–a new iTouch that you can put photos, music, and videos on, browse the Internet from, and download all kinds of helpful applications for. I was contacted by DuPont last week and asked to try their new mySurface app on the iPod that they sent me to see what I thought.
The mySurface app is simple to download, and it’s free. It’s also easy to use (if I can do it, anyone can!). It has a gallery of Corian and Zodiaq surface colors and textures you can look through to see what you like. Or compare them to counters you come across at a friend’s house or during a home tour to find the closest match! You can save your favorites, share them with others via e-mail, and request samples.
I need to replace my kitchen countertops, so this app has been really helpful for me to see what various options would look like in the room.
DuPont has given me an iTouch to give away to one of my lucky readers! I think you’ll love it. You’ll be able to download fun, free apps like mySurface and try them for yourself.
- Enter by leaving a comment on this post before Saturday, October 17, 2009.
- For an extra entry, leave a second comment telling me what your favorite DIY app is, if you have one, or tell us the type of app you think would be helpful to decorators and DIYers. (For example, I would love to have an app with paint colors so I wouldn’t have to carry around a purse full of paint chips all the time!)
Several of my blog friends are hosting iPod giveaways this week, including Amy of Living Locurto and The Remodeling Guy. Go and enter theirs, too, if you want to increase your chances of winning one! Please note that DuPont provided these iPods so that we could try the mySurface app, and they support full disclosure (WOMMA).
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And I love the level app. It doesn’t get much more convenient than that!
I would love an Ipod touch! My husband has one and I can not lay a finger on it! It would be great to have one full of DIY project ideas and apps. I am dying to put a backsplash in my kitchen but just haven’t found the time/money/gumption. Maybe now I will get my act in gear!!
would be thrilled to search/compare materials on an itouch.
thanks for doing this.
oh my gosh I am freaking out right now! I need an Itouch soooooooooooo bad and this is the perfect opportunity! I loooove your blog too! But if I win this I am going to freak! Thanks you sooooo much for this opportunity!
Love, Madison
.-= Madison´s last blog ..{Phineas’s House} =-.
Oh my gosh! I am soooooooo desperate for an itouch! I need one so so so bad! I want to win this so much! I love the apple brand too! And I have never one a giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love, Becky
.-= Becky´s last blog ..Some Cottage/Bungalow Love!!! =-.
OMG…I can’t even imagine all that I could do with an Iphone….I would love to have one to have pictures of all my fabrics…in my home. I am constantly buying fabrics to try and it would be fantastic to have pictures of samples of what I already have….to help feed my fabric addiction, of course! I would love the level application too (right now I use the “eye ball” application!!!!!!
.-= Andrea @ Big Creek Cottage´s last blog ..The world’s best pumpkins =-.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Since I love to paint, I would definitely use the Benjamin Moore app.!
I am constantly amazed at the complexity and usefulness of the newest applications for the Itouch and Iphones. This one is really nifty, we’re soon to move (Spring of this coming year) and I fully intend on making use of every single DIY and home decorating software I can find because facing five years in grad school I’m going to need a REALLY good looking room with four walls to stare at for hours at a time!
.-= Amy´s last blog ..Snow White Costume =-.
I think it would be really nifty if they could come out with something like that music app (where you hold your phone up to the music and it tells you what song it is) where you could snap a picture of a color or pattern and it would locate the closest match in local or online stores. It’s wishful thinking but I think it’d be really neat!
.-= Amy´s last blog ..Snow White Costume =-.
I don’t have an ipod yet…but they seem so useful. Love the Corian App.
I would love an App to organize my home wish list. You could take a picture(or) download one of something you covet. Of course you would need to have a spot to put all the details, price, ect.
Such a great giveaway. Not only would I love to win the IPod touch, I would love to be able to have some of those great APPs at my fingertips. I’ve heard so much about them. Thanks for hosting!
Please do enter my name in your iPod giveaway. You have made great use of yours already. You had great ideas. Good luck to us all….and especially me.
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I was sorry to hear your grandmother wasn’t well and I am so happy to hear she is doing better. I will keep her in my prayers and thoughts.
have a lovely evening..
Judi
.-= Judi´s last blog ..Signs for a Blogging Break…Happy Thanksgiving =-.
Would love an IPOD touch. Super fun! My favorite app that I’ve seen… the Sherwin Williams Color app. Super helpful!
.-= Debbie J.´s last blog ..My try at burlap =-.
Hi Julia
I have been following your blog now for months and I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy it. I have to admit this post caught my eye. I have a Mac lover since the first Macintosh came out in 1984 and I have been using them ever since. I have never owned an iPod though, so I would be thrilled if my name was pulled out of your virtual hat.
Thanks again for the great blog.
Hugh
Serendipity Crafts
Serendipity-Crafts Weblog
I’ve been saving up for months for an iTouch. I’d so love to win!!
.-= CC´s last blog ..Marriage Encounters (aka Bootcamp) =-.
The Level app would be really useful for projects!
What a generous giveaway! It’s quite amazing! Technologically behind as always, and just love all the things it sounds like you can do with it!Love reading your blogs… since I too am “Hooked on Houses”! Lol.
Hi! would love to enter your iphone giveaway.
I just found your website and I am OBSESSED WITH IT!!!! Amazing job. I didn’t realize I was so “hooked on houses” but they are my passion and I love every aspect of building, decorating, flipping, investing, buying, selling, living….i guess you could say i’m Hooked!! Thanks for all your great photos.
Oh and my favorite DIY app – without a doubt – is the iphone “level”. it’s a level that helps you hang pics, shelves, etc evenly. I cant tell you how many times i’ve used it. it’s simple but essential.
-Alyssa
San Antonio, TX
Ok, well I don’t know if I should even admit this . . but I don’t even have a cell phone:) But I do love learning new things and I’ve taught myself (with help from my nephew early on) so much computer ‘stuff’. So why not an i-touch? Like you said Julia – if you can do it, then so can I! (thanks for the opportunitiy:)
So the app I would love to see if one that gives advice for ‘problem’ houses – i.e. weird layouts of exteriors (like mine – everybody goes to my side door, thinking it is the front door). There would be sketches, or actual pictures, of the less than perfect house and then maybe a series of three or four solutions, pictures and how-to’s included. Maybe there is already one out there!
Holy guacamole! This may be the mother of all giveaways! Thanks for the chance!
.-= Holly´s last blog ..Total Overhaul =-.
Thanks for the chance to win this. I could really use something like this, not only for the fabulous features but for the music capability so I can finally get rid of my walkman.
.-= Melissa Burford´s last blog ..Charming Stamps =-.
I really like the leveler app.
.-= Melissa Burford´s last blog ..Charming Stamps =-.
I don’t know whether to even try to win. If I won my daughter would steal my prize. 13 year olds!
.-= Holly´s last blog ..Crock Pot Mexican Chicken Soup or Burrito Mix =-.
What an awesome give-away! Hope I win
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I love your blog. My daughter wrote a report about me for school and said that one thing I love is houses, so of course your blog is one of my favs!
I think an app that would let you enter your room dimensions and furniture measurements and then “rearrange” the layout would be amazing. I’m sure there’s an app for that!
Wow, that is amazing! I would totally love the paint app…I am addicted to paint swatches and staring at all the pretty colors….my husband is always “decluttering/recycling” my stash.
Thanks.
Crystal.
.-= Crystal´s last blog ..My Little C is 3 =-.
Hello – I am an interior design student in Boston and would love an app that could estimate measurements of a room!
That is a tall order from me – considering I don’t own an Ipod or any such fancy stuff (cell phone of course but that is it)
I don’t have a fancy phone be it pod or touch but I would love one. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would like the level app, an app to do calculations (for paint, carpet, wallpaper, etc.) and one that would handle all of my fabric and paint samples.
I would love to find an app that helps with landscape design!
Great giveaway! I just found your blog thrifty decor chick. Can’t wait to link up to some of linky parties!
Wow! Sounds great…I’d love to win!
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Nothing Says Halloween Like… =-.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love the ipod touch. My favorite app for it would have to be Zillow, so I could just point it at a house and see the value of the house and other real estate info about it.
.-= Bonnie´s last blog ..More Flowers =-.
I think the iTouch is a wonderful piece of technology! Your blog is pretty amazing too!
Love your blog and love this giveaway! My favorite app that I have seen on friends’ iTouch is the Pantone app.
Love, love, love your blog and would love an iTouch!
thanks!
Your blog is great, I am a late adopter too as I am just now getting really hooked on reading all these great blogs and who knows, maybe someday will create my own. My favorite app on my hubby’s iphone is Pandora. i have never been good at remembering musical artists and this helps me expand my horizon. It’d be cool to have a similiar one for Decor, if you like that then you might like this idea. I see some blogs have that feature too. Would be great for paint and fabric.
I was not a blog reader before this year but I have really become attached to yours. I’m excited for the new changes to come. I have put a hold on my home redecorating because after painting our living/dining room with a beautiful green color that turns a horrible green color when the lights are turned on, I’m just outright terrified of doing that again. I’ve been in the house for a little over a year so decorating is new to me, but I have always adored homes and that I why I enjoy the sneak peak into others. An Ipod touch would be great for decorating resources and experimenting with different designs before commiting. No more can commitment worries!! I would want an app that would let me do furniture layouts for my floorplan!!
This must be a great way to get the word out about your blog.
OMG, I’m entry #644!!! Slim chance of winning, but you have no chance of winning if you don’t enter!!
Kelly
.-= DesignTies´s last blog ..Beds & bricks =-.
Now here I am with my 2nd entry…
I’m the least technologically connected person of anyone I know. All I have is a basic cell phone from 7/11. Seriously. But if I had an iPod, I’d probably like paint colour apps best
Kelly
.-= DesignTies´s last blog ..Beds & bricks =-.
Long time lurker here – love your blog!!
I didn’t know there were such apps out there.I would love to have one that matched paint colors.
.-= Brenda´s last blog ..Kittens =-.
I’m amazed at how handy the ipod touches and iphones are. There are so many apps its incredible! I bet it would be really useful for all sorts of projects, but expecially remodeling and diy.
I would love to be entered into the giveaway. You have a beautiful blog!
I have an older one, but I sure would love to give my husband one!
.-= Autumn´s last blog ..Music makes my heart sing pillow =-.
I love the idea of this app. Also… great blog. I love the article about Tony Curtis and Janet Lee.
I don’t have an IPod Touch or an IPhone, but I would love to have an app that would tell me what tools and supplies I need for a home improvement job while I am still in the hardware store.
I WOULD LOVE AN iPOD TOUCH! WHAT A GREAT GIVEAWAY! I THINK A COOL APP FOR DECORATORS AND DIY’ERS WOULD BE TO HAVE A GRANITE AND COUNTER SAMPLE APP, THAT WAY YOU COULD HOLD IT UP TO COUNTER TOPS AND FLOORING TO MATCH THINGS UP BEFORE ORDERING IT AND BEING STUCK WITH WHAT YOU CHOOSE. THANKS! FINGERS CROSSED!
I’d love an itouch!! Great blog, by the way!!
What app would I want?? I’d really just like a magic wand that I could use to wave over thrift items to show what potential it has.
I love your idea about paint too. That would be very useful!!
My daughter has and Ipod touch, that I borrow from her. Would love to have one of my own! (I bet she would love that too!)
Love your site! I just found it about a week and now all I want to do is gather ideas! Thank You!
iPod – Cool!
Have just gotten a new computer and your site was the first one I visited. Love It.
Oh My Goodness – I would LOVE one of these!
I had my old iPod Nano stolen a few weeks ago and would love a new one!
What an awesome app! I can’t believe all of the very cool things they have for the iPhone and iTouch!
.-= Robyns Online World´s last blog ..Twitter Community Party Tonight! =-.
Caught this link on twitter and would love to enter. I’m amazed by the creativity of apps and thankful that you’re offering up your iTouch to a lucky winner.
.-= Kara Ayers´s last blog ..Introducing Mind Ramps =-.
I enjoy your site and especially like your tweets that have links that show homes from movies. Oh…and an iPod would be fab!
Benjamin Moore Color Capture is very cool – you can take a pic of things and then it matches up colors they have. The Stanley level is also handy for when you are doing DIY stuff. Don’t forget about all the great podcasts available on decorating, homes, DIY, etc. also!
.-= Robyns Online World´s last blog ..Have you entered all 9 giveaways? =-.
I would love to win an Apple Touch, if only I’d known, I never would have bought the classic.
I’m a full-time wheelchair user so designing an accessible place is a top priority for me. I’d like an app to remind me of the ADA standards and perhaps help with computations like a ramp’s proper height/pitch.
.-= Kara Ayers´s last blog ..Introducing Mind Ramps =-.
I have an iPhone and can’t wait to try out this app. I use the Sherwin Williams paint app and I love it. Who would have thought that our phone could become a design tool.
.-= Mike Bigley´s last blog ..RGI. Communicating with Consumers, Shoppers and the Trade. Seamlessly. =-.
Me! Me! Pick me!
.-= Liz´s last blog ..Stress. It’s Fun. It Ages. =-.
I love the “level” application…it comes in very handy anytime I’ve talked someone into letting me actually touch their Touch. And why oh why does everyone but me have this great gadget, hmmm.
I WANT AN ITOUCH AND I WANT ONE NAAAOOOWWWWW
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I own an itouch but the battery on it is gone. I can only use it without it being docked for maybe 10 min max. I don’t know what’s up with it, it’s barely a year old. I totally love it and recommend it to anybody. I also had an iPhone for a month before returning it (poor reception in my area and the battery didn’t last a day,
I miss the apps on it though). Some of fav apps on the itouch are Pandora internet radio (because it is docked all the time it’s an app I use a lot. I make stations of my fav artists and listen away). Since I homeschool and move around a ton (every 6 months with 4 kids) I don’t know much about decorating (that’s why I love blogs and sites to help me in this respect when I do need a decorator’s touch) and don’t have a fav DIY app. I think the lever tool is awesome for decorators and so is the Mysurface. I think everyone else mentioned the same thing I’d love to see as a great useful app-to take a picture of a room and get instant decorating ideas. i do the choosing and tweaking. Time saver. Fair enough?
.-= Natalie´s last blog ..iTouch give away at Living Locurto and Remodeling guy! =-.
Here is my second entry! Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway.
.-= Natalie´s last blog ..iTouch give away at Living Locurto and Remodeling guy! =-.
Can’t wait to try this app out! Also check out Sherwin Williams paint app. Design tools in the palm of your hand!
.-= Mike Bigley´s last blog ..RGI. Communicating with Consumers, Shoppers and the Trade. Seamlessly. =-.
There are so many interesting apps out there that I have never even heard of! We are a Mac family, but I can’t bring myself to by an iphone or itouch, so I would love to win!
.-= Amber´s last blog ..Food For Friday: Starbucks Caramel Apple Spice Copycat & Cinnamon Roasted Almonds =-.
I would love an I-touch Ipod. My son LOST his IPOD last weekend! Wouldn’t that be fun to win… but I don’t know if I’d give it to him!! I am in the process of changing out my kitchen countertops .. my.. that ap would come in handy for sure! I hope I win!!
What a wonderful giveaway .. thanks!!!
Thanks for the chance to win the iPod. And not only that, the bathroom picture shown above is perfect, we’ve been trying to figure out what we want to do with our master bath and that look is perfect. Thanks for that too. LOL
great im in!!!
hehe…i have made a youtube video about this giveaway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3_qHWiBIY
I would love to have a measurement app. Converts everything, inches into feet, feet into square feet etc. But also would hold any standard measurements of your house that you care to input.
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oh btw, just to share some of my little opinion here…
my favourite app would be MySpace out of all. Why? because i have always imagine how my dream home would be in the future. So one of my hobby include browsing through magazine looking at how their idea of design.
Browsing is one thing, to formulate an idea is another challenge. With this apps, this is made possible!! great!! Simply by just choosing the fav colour, fav texture etc. formulate the idea, and save…walaa~my idea of dream home is 50% done!!
the other 50%?? Have an iTouch in hand and try out the app!!! =p
Great giveaway, great site, great content and great idea from the developer…superb!!
Oh yes, i am very much the late bloomer when it comes to the latest gadgets. i only have a shuffle because a kind soul got one for me. Are you another kind soul, Mr Random generator?
.-= Angelica Bays´s last blog ..Tygrlilies Fundraising! =-.
My Ipod went missing for so long that by the time I found it, it was dead…it couldn’t be revived and I miss it soooooooooooooooooooooo much!
This is one of my favorite blogs, a place to go to, to rebuild my sense of hope, my sense of a wonderful place to live…and it gives me energy to keep painting and focus to help me to do it well.
I love the idea that I could, possibly, hopefully win an Ipod to honour the hope of home!
.-= Jacquelyn McBain´s last blog .. =-.
I don’t know much about the iPod tech but have several friends who wouldn’t live without them and would love to give one a try. I think a paint app would be great too- I am wondering how close the colors would be over the iPod?
blessings
mary
.-= Mary´s last blog ..My humble fall door welcome =-.
This would make a gift for my husband’s birthday!!
.-= Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship´s last blog ..Finer Things of Halloween: Holy Budget Decorating =-.
I am a fairly new reader … I really love your blog. I never win anything, so I’d love a chance!
.-= laura´s last blog ..The Sweet Spot =-.
My favorite design app is the Benjamin Moore color picker. I would love some way to catalogue swatches – I suppose I could take pictures of them, and just make a special folder for that?
.-= laura´s last blog ..The Sweet Spot =-.
I absolutely love that Dupont has come up with such a unique and innovative application.
With MySurface, the colors and textures look very accurate, so what better way to preselect the surfaces you like!
I am always ripping ideas from the pages of magazines. So if there is an app for that….where I can archive them by taking pictures and storing them for future use, I’d use it!
I’m also one of those late adopters (I keep meaning to learn how to text
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.-= StuccoHouse´s last blog ..The Change Out =-.
I’d love an app that would help me locate Benjamin Moore paint colors – I love thier paint. My purse currently is filled with possible periwinkle colors for my bedroom.
.-= StuccoHouse´s last blog ..The Change Out =-.
great idea for an app… things like this make me wish i owned something like the touch. i just carry around a barebones minimum cell phone & have never even owned an ipod before!
i’m not sure which apps even exist, but anything dealing with color swatches is always helpful. another thing that would be helpful is something that can find similar or complementary colors between different brands.
WOW!WHAT A NICE GIVEAWAY
crystal
Thanks
A apt for paint colors would be the best
crystal
.-= Crystal´s last blog ..did you know that there are =-.
I would l.o.v.e. to win!
.-= Marcy´s last blog ..Dr. Miller =-.
My son has so many fun apps. I would use a level, something for choosing colors and an app for room layouts would be so much fun!
.-= Marcy´s last blog ..Dr. Miller =-.
i would love to win an ipod touch!
enter me please!
i’m thinking of an app where you can take pictures of various things (your favorite dress, a fruit, whatever!), and it would suggest furniture and the like that is inspired from those objects (in texture, design, color, etc)
What a great giveaway. This app sounds like it would make life a whole lot easier
It’s amazing what kind of apps are available for the IPOD. There are apps for cooking, cleaning, and sleeping.
Ben
Wow, giveaways are so fun to come by. Very nice prize indeed!
This contest has officially ended. The winner was #145: Susan. Thanks to everyone who entered! -Julia
yah, me pleeeeeeeeaase!
I am having a terrible time with this house in rodanthe, I go to sleep thinking of it, I dream about, I think of it when I am doing things that are even unmentionable. I have a sick feeling in my stomach, and ache for this place. I don’t understand it. I live in calif. my family is from texas and new orleans and I have never been in N.C. anyway, I signed up for the camera ,phone……..????? I am old sick alone and miserable, even more so now that this house is plastered in my head. anyway thanx for listening. I am in love with that house…………….glo
Gloria–
Oh, I know, it’s so sad that that house is falling into the ocean. I need to do an updated post about it. I read that it was recently named a “public nuisance,” which means it must be either moved or taken down. Such a shame! -Julia
me……….I don’t know how to work it, am sick and want to make an eletronic scrapbook, before I pass. don’t know how long I have. I was supposed to only make it 2 or 3 years, about 16 years ago. I just know how it hurts to love someone and cannot do that to my loved ones. so here I stay, every nite thinking this is it, but ain’t I lucky. I have the sweetest schnauzer, and I want to take a few decent pics of us to save for all times. I just need something that makes me look good at arms length. god, I loved that house in rodanthe, when we went inside I got shivers and chills that I had something very intimate to do with that house. I have never been there. oh, well, here I am, old sick obsessed. but happy…
Funny I must be destined to read your blog…two separate things that I pulled up today. Both entry’s lead me to I guess both of your blogs? I love houses too. I would love to win the IPod touch. But even still I enjoyed reading your blog and keep up the great work!
Heather
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