Congratulations to Pat of Back Porch Musings. She is the winner of the house portrait giveaway! Pat has a beautiful blog, so be sure to stop by her place and say hello.
Thanks to everyone who entered! If you didn’t win, you can still get a Fifi Flowers original painting. Visit Fifi’s blog or Etsy shop [...]
Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. This week I’m hooked on house portraits. You may have seen this photo of the old stucco-and-stone house I grew up in that I have on my “About” page. It was [...]
I loved HGTV’s Green Home 2008 so much that I showed photos from it again just a couple of weeks ago. I had a few quibbles with the decorating, but overall, I thought it was a great example of a small(ish) house done right. The HGTV Green Home 2009? I’m not so sure. I have [...]
“A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.” -Sarah Susanka
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Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things we love. Today I’m hooked on Not [...]
And the Winners Are…
Thanks to everyone–all 545 of you–who entered my giveaway last week. The Bloggy Giveaway Carnivals are always a lot of fun and I enjoyed meeting so many of you who were visiting Hooked on Houses for the first time! The Winners of the “Sabrina” DVD/Amazon Gift Card Giveaway are Robyn of Robyn’s [...]
By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET
Welcome to my new blog home! Moving from my site on Wordpress.com to my own domain has taken lots of late nights, frantic e-mails to tech support, and a good deal of Advil, but it’s finally up and running. Hooray!
You’ll have to be patient when viewing old posts (anything published before this [...]
This probably isn’t very smart of me because it’ll just hurt my chances of winning, but I had to tell you about a blog called The Delightful Home and the giveaway my blog-friend Ms. Tee is hosting on it this week.
See this pretty table from Hallmark Magazine? She reproduced it at home, and I have [...]
Here at Hooked on Houses, I have the best, most loyal readers in the world. To thank you, I like to give something away now and then and show my appreciation. I’d hate for you to think I was taking you for granted.
This week I’m sending a copy of Better Homes and Gardens’ New Decorating [...]
The winner of the New Cottage Style decorating book is…
Janet of Housepeepers!
Congratulations, Janet! She’s a long-time reader who has been visiting Hooked on Houses since the beginning. Thanks to everyone who entered–all 135 of you. I wish I could send a copy to everyone!
This week was a lot of fun. It was great to meet [...]
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 [...]
