Home Improvement, A Giveaway

Don’t be looking for Tim Allen (or JTT as the case may be!),

this post is about my personal home improvements.  And I use the term “home improvement” both figuratively and literally here.  You will have an opportunity for some (literal) home improvement too; scroll on down to the bottom if you are looking for the giveaway.

I didn’t do any school work this weekend, but I certainly spent some time crying about it – I’d say there’s a lot of room for improvement there, don’t you think?!  Today is all about getting myself on the right track.  I started my morning at 7; I took a refreshing shower, I brewed a pot of coffee, and then I got down to business.  I have a ton to do still, but now I’ve made a dent and the list seems more manageable.

Sidenote – Target’s Archer Farms Cinnamon Vanilla Nut coffee is fabulous.

I’ve had two big cups throughout the morning, with skim milk and a cinnamon sugar sprinkle.

As proud as I am of my scholarly achievements, I’d say the biggest improvement of the day relates more to the shower.  We share a small deck with all of our neighbors.  Said deck is directly in front of our bathroom.  I’d say after almost 3 months of standing naked in front of the window to the shared deck it’s high time for a curtain!

My mother actually made the curtain for us (thanks lady!) and we love it.  The pattern totally reminds me of our wedding!

The nudity thing wasn’t really a problem for me – I spend a good 50% of my time at home naked and none of our other windows have curtains! – but I love how much nicer the bathroom feels.  A tiny little home update can make a whole room feel special and new, which is why I’ve paired up with CSN Stores again to offer you guys a $55 gift certificate!

You can upgrade to some modern bedding

You can pick some cuter (dachshund!) lighting –

You can spiff up a room with a piece of art you enjoy.  CSN stores recently offered me an opportunity to do a product review.  Adam and I decided to go the art route and choose some mobiles we adore.

The hedgehog family is in our living room and the elephants (we call them “L-a-FONTS”) are in the kitchen.  The sky is the limit!

Giveaway info and rules –

  • The $55 can be used on ANY product at ANY of the CSN sites
  • The gift certificate does not cover shipping (but many items include free shipping)
  • Only US residents are eligible (sorry!)
  • The giveaway runs until Thursday, 9/16

In order to enter –

  1. Leave a comment on this post telling me which room in your house you’d most like to jazz up
  2. For a 2nd entry – link back to this post from your blog and leave a comment telling me you’ve done so
  3. For a 3rd entry – link back to this post from Facebook and/or Twitter and leave a comment telling me you’ve done so

34 thoughts on “Home Improvement, A Giveaway

  1. Hi Emily!

    I’m a long-time reader but I’m commenting for the first time. I planned on commenting BEFORE I saw that you were giving something away, mostly to tell you that I spent 2 years in a house with no bathroom curtain and would routinely walk around in the buff. That was until a neighbor told my grandparents (also my neighbors) that there was someone “inappropriate” living in the house next door. Oops! Thank God I’m not living there anymore. 😉

    A room in my house to spiff up? Our basement! We’re making it into a game room and it would be cool to have some fun accessories in there. Cool giveaway!

  2. Omg… I loved Home Improvement when I was little- and because I was that obsessed with JTT, I could have probably told you the exact episode that picture is from. Sad but true… 🙂

    I think I need to figure out what more to do with my bedroom. I’m sure that something more on the walls would be nice, I just don’t know what!

  3. I would love to change the entire Master bedroom. Almost twelve yrs of marriage and we still are using the furniture that my husband had for his bachelor years .

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  5. Our bedroom most needs sprucing up.

    Since we are the only ones who see it, we have sort of neglected it. We don’t even have a single thing hanging from the walls!

  6. Our daughter and her two boys had to move in with us and we have a small ranch style home that doesn’t have enough bedrooms. We do have a basement that could be finished to help with bedroom space. We really need to do something.

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