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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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If I won a Lowes giftcard I would buy paint with it and add sparkle to my kids rooms with color! We have lived in this house for 4 years and we still have not gotten our kids rooms painted yet. The kids have been waiting not so patiently to get this project started, if I won the Lowes giftcard I would have no excuse to do it LOL Thank You : )
Thanks so much for the “green” giveaway 😉 I think I would get something similar to your entry plant in the rocks – Remembering to water plants is a challenge – hah! Love the paperwhites too. Have always wanted to do that.
What a fun giveaway-love all the plants in your house-make its look so fresh and alive. I am in desperate need of a new rug for my living room-this would definitely help!
Your home looks beautiful, I wish I could keep any plant alive for more than a week. Anyways I would love to rewall paper my sons bathroom in a Tartan Plaid. Thanks for the chance to enter.
Well our stove just went kapoot so I would love to use this to help buy another one!
Hi Rhoda! I just saw your last post and see you had a wonderful Christmas with your family! Thank you so much for sharing your life with us! I am on Christmas break now and I got all caught up looking over your last few posts! Now when I saw this Lowes Gift Card give-away…I thought I would jump right in. Our garbage disposal broke on Christmas Eve and now we need to get a replacement. This would go for it. Thank You Once Again for your wonderful blog! Happy New Year!
~~Nancy from OHIO
Oh, I’m a big fan of live plants, not only do they give us beauty, but they clean our indoor air! 😉
I love the plant idea. I don’t have a lot of light in my home so that may be a problem. I would love to buy plants that don’t need tons of light. I would also like to paint a room or two and perk them up that way too.
Rhoda, no fake plants here, either! Love all your plants you selected. I’m off to Lowe’s today to get some succulents for an upcoming project! If I would be so lucky to win the $75, I would go ahead and buy a new gas stove from Lowe’s!
I have a few plants but a lot of the ones I like, like ferns, don’t live long in our house 🙂
What would I do with an extra $75? Probably buy a nice lamp at Lowes — we have the worst lighting in our house! That would brighten up our place 🙂 Thanks, Rhoda!
I would start by cleaning up my garage and organizing everything! I just got through browsing one of Lowes Sales flyers and got soooo inspired by their clear boxes and shelving units! My goal this year is to be clutter free in the garage! My Mother in law who is an incredible artist, just painted us a HUGE picture of an Italian patio and alleyway from some photos my parents took in Italy on one of their trips before my Mother passed away, I love looking at it and imagining my Mother standing there taking these pics. I would like to paint my dining room walls and update my furniture with a little dark stain and paint. A Lowes gift card could help me do ALL of this! 🙂 I’m excited just thinking about the possibilities!!!
Paint! Maybe some new drawer pulls & cabinet handles.
I need new knobs/pulls for the bathroom cupboards and drawers. Thanks for offering the chance to win.
I would buy glittery Christmas clearance because it looks like winter and you can keep it up after christmas!
Live plants would brighten up my place! I also need to settle on some curtains for my living area.
I would love to buy some paint to freshen up my two bathrooms, thanks for a chance to win.
I think I’ll try to have some live plants in the house again. I do love the cornplant, ivy, and anything that is easy to grow.
I love your blog and I look forward to your emails! thank you for sharing your life!
I am hoping to put hardwood floors throughout the rest of my house. I LOVE Lowes!
A fresh coat of paint can liven up any space — our family room is on my wish list for 2013 — paint and flooring!