design vacation & giveaway

I’m on vacation from my job this week and decided that I’m taking a design vacation. Not a vacation from design. A vacation to design.

Seems that my house has gotten a little out of control. Same goes for my project list.

Conveniently, I found out that I was grandfathered in to an old vacation policy at work based on my start date, and was amazed to learn that I have not 2, but 3 weeks of vacation this year!  Wahoo! So I decided to take one of my weeks to work on my house.

Sometimes the best redesign begins with decluttering and cleaning. And some of my rooms have definitely fallen into messy disarray.

So my design vacation is going to be one part spring cleaning, one part design spruce up.

First I’ll go through the room and tidy it up, followed by freshening up the design. Nothing major like painting, because truthfully there just won’t be enough time.

Of course I’ll share it all right here, keeping it real with the scary before pics!

And in the spirit of spring cleaning, here’s a great giveaway…

This fabulous sterling silver charm bracelet, How Does Your Garden Grow? from Charming Darling is what’s up for grabs for readers in the US.  Here’s how to enter for your chance to win:

1. For one entry, become of follower of this blog and comment below saying that you’re a follower.
2. For another entry, share in the comments what your biggest design plan is for this spring.
3. For an additional entry, like Homage Style on Facebook, and comment below saying that you did.

Be sure to leave your email address so you can be reached if you win.

Entries must be received by 11:59pm Eastern time on March 15, 2012.  The winner will be announced on March 16, 2012.