As you all know I rarely post competitions or giveaways. When I do it has to be something special that really catches my eye and that I feel the lucky winner will cherish. I’ve done giveaways for all sorts of businesses and individuals over the years however my favourite ones have been from businesses that are fairly new off the ground and still growing.

VisualPhilosphy is owned by the talented designers and business folk Grant & Liz Lyons. I’m excited to be able to tell you that these fabulous people have agreed to offer one of their prints to one of my readers. While I am miffed because I am not allowed to enter my own competition I am thrilled that one of you lovely lot will get the chance to own one of their fabulous pieces.

My personal favourite out of all of the many fantastic prints is this one:

Housework — Click to see this image larger on the site.

There are plenty of prints to choose from, from home pieces to ones perfect for a child’s room or bedroom so if you want to be in with a chance to win all you need to do is follow three simple steps…

Visit VisualPhilosophy and pick your favourite print.
Leave me a comment telling me which print is your favourite and where it would hang or who you would give it to.
Ensure that I have a way to contact you if you are the Chosen One.

Terms and Conditions.

This giveaway runs until Friday 30^th August at midday. Any comments left after this time will not be included.
Multiple entries will be deleted.
All valid entries will be allocated a number and a randomiser will choose a winner.
The winner will win an unframed print of his or her choice.
The winner will be notified soon after the end of the competition, should the winner not respond to my contact within 5 working days a new winner will be chosen.

GOOD LUCK!

COMP CLOSED!

In Interior Design, Reviews / Sponsored

A More Modern Cladding Effect

Nicki CawoodAugust 20, 2013August 20, 20131 Comment

As most of my readers know I am something of an interior design tart. I am a keen watcher of everything from Kirstie’s Handmade to DIY SOS and love to dabble in new design styles. Pinterest is a great source of inspiration as are the design blogs I love to read and one curious “comeback” style I have stumbled across recently is the new popularity surrounding wall cladding.

It turns out cladding is quite popular these days, this is just one of the many cladding-inspired pins on Pinterest at the moment.

For many, wall cladding invokes images of dark dingy wooden cladding in stuffy drawing rooms however times have changed. I saw several cracking pictures recently of how cladding changed a room when I was researching the new colours for my living room (grey/yellow/mustard but don’t tell Roy, I haven’t told him yet I’m changing the colour scheme again).

When the Decor Cladding Centre was introduced to me I was tickled to find that what I thought of as cladding, while not as old fashioned as some views, is actually quite modern and that you are now even able to get bathroom cladding and bathroom wall panels which completely change the way that your bathroom looks and yet is not susceptible to mould and the other nasties that comes with being in a warm and damp environment such as a bathroom.

There certainly seems scope for cladding to change a lot of rooms in a dramatic way (great if updating a property for example) and this is something I may well look closer at in the future, especially instead of replacing tiles!

*This post was written in collaboration with the mentioned business yet is true to my own thoughts, feelings and experiences. It turns out that I do actually get most excited by the idea of cladding and other such interior design related things things.

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