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The Winner is: #32 Jane! Congrats, Jane, you have been emailed.
My last challenge of the year with Lowes as a Lowes Creative blogger, was making my house shine and sparkle for the New Year. There are many ways to interpret that and I browsed in my local Lowes and immediately spotted some pretty plants, some of them even marked on clearance. I’ve long been a lover of real live plants and have always had something live and green in my spaces ever since I can remember.
Real plants add so much life to a room and I love having them around. From what I hear, they all add oxygen to the air too. This pretty plant came from Lowes, as did the white ceramic planter.
With my brightly painted front door, I added this little plant on the ledge. It’s in some sort of lightweight rocks and all I do is add water to this clear container and the plant grows and thrives. My kind of plant!
Over by the fireplace, I added a cornplant. I had one of these in my old house and it got huge, so now it’s living on my parent’s back porch. This one should get big eventually too and I can move it around the room. I’ll put it in a ceramic planter too. My paperwhites are leaning in this pic, those things always get too tall and next time I’m planting them in a tall cylinder to keep them upright.
But even thought they get a little gangly, I still love the look of real paperwhites blooming this time of year. We eagerly wait for spring and this just gives a little boost of sunshine inside the house on a cold winter’s day.
On an end table in the living room, this potted white ceramic planter of ivy is a reminder of spring as well.
This live plant on the coffee table, in a planter I found at a yardsale in one of my fave shades of blue, is so vibrant and green and a much needed pick up this time of year.
When all the Christmas décor is put away for another season, my real plants will be the stars and remind me that Spring is not too far away. I love watching them grow and how much life and vitality they add to a room is priceless.
If you think your room is looking pretty blah after Christmas, head out to Lowes and check out their houseplant section for lots of inspiration for the New Year. You’ll love bringing home a plant or two yourself!
Thanks to Lowes for letting me write about what inspires me for the New Year. Plants do it for me, how about you? I got rid of almost all of my fake plants a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I don’t think I’ll ever do that again….bring home the fakes.
Live ones are so much better!
I have so enjoyed being a part of Lowes Creative Ideas Creators and Influencers this year! Here’s to a fun year in 2013. Â
For some end of the year excitement and to make some reader really happy, Lowes is giving away a $75 giftcard to ONE of you this week!Â
What a way to start the New Year, right?!Â
All you have to do is leave a comment below, telling me what you would do to add some sparkle and cheer to your home in January from Lowes?Â
Note:Â Lowes provided a giftcard for this project.Â
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I love Lowes! We need to paint desperately. Would love to buy their Lowes, Valspar paint/primer. Tanks for the chance.
I just moved in to a new house and I am pretty sure we have contributed to the bottom line at Lowes. I am in the midst of preparing for a furniture painting project, complete with stripping off the old paint. I wold love to have my newly stripped and painted tuscan red rocking chairs on my front porch by spring.
I love what you have done to your home. So inspiring!
I would love to use the gift card to paint our deck fresh. Spring just sparkles when you spent time as a family on the deck overlooking our simple above ground garden squares.
Loved seeing your choices Rhoda!
hugs,
Sweetie!
I love Lowes and thier Ceiling fans are one of my favorite items. Of course, I think the plants might come before ceiling fans….Thanks for the giveaway.
Hi Rhoda. There’s 3 major projects I’d like to work on first. I’m getting ready to paint the bdrm & want to replace the flooring. I’d like to buy wood to build shelves & countertop in my laundry room. I also want to paint my front porch and eves.
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I’m wishing you all the best for a bright and cheery new year!
Hugs…
Rhoda, where do I begin? I have so many things I want to do.
I want to repaint the master bedroom and the bath and would love to redo the back patio. I want to add pavers, build planters and a couple of benches. Thanks for the giveaway.
Your house looks wonderful. You are so talented!
Annette
I could always use some paint from Lowes, but after looking at your post, plants just might do it. I would love to someday make a terrarium. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to restain our front doors and get new hardware for them!
Lovely plants, Rhoda. I would love to win and get either some plants for our sunroom or paint for the back of the bookcase. Either would liven up the house during the winter months. Thanks for the opportunity.
Lowes gift card would be so nice! Wallpaper in the hall needs to come down so the hall will need to be painted. Thank you for the giveaway!
Rhoda,
I think I finally have the courage to paint the wood paneling in my den! So I would buy paint from Lowe’s. Happy New Year!
Linda
I’d add sparkle by installing new hardware for the front door!
Merry Christmas Rhoda…I also love green plants and used a couple of gorgeous “real” white orchids on my mantel this year. They have bloomed so much that they are almost toppling over from the weight so I will have to move them shortly. I did dither around trying to decide at the time between “fake” and “real” because the fake ones although expensive were a bit cheaper than the two real ones I bought. In the end I thought, “nope, I am getting the “real” thing” and so pleased I did.
Apparently plants also filter out toxins in the air, well I read this recently so healthy to have them in your home.
Lee
I have 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms that I want to paint and make pretty before summer gets here… By the way, I also love real plants; can’t wait till Spring gets here to put most of them outside and watch them grow and come to life…
I, too, love plants….especially the topiaries and ferns and ivies and ficus trees and….
I really would like to put up new drapery hardware in my living room.
I love your new plants. I feel the same way about them. If only I had a green thumb. I’ve found that Lowe’s plants always look healthy and that’s a good place to go to buy them.
Love Lowes!
I would LOVE to update 2 light fixtures in a bathroom I just finishe painting! A Lowes gift card would really help!
I love Lowes and would use the money to buy paint to freshen up the spare bathroom and bedroom – both which are on my to-do list this year. Thanks Rhoda!
I would love to replace the hardware on my kitchen cabinets!