Lindsay Ballard, Author at Makely

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As I’ve shown over the last few weeks, an area rug can be a great starting point when choosing a theme or colors for a room. I was so pleased with the way our room for the Shaw Floors/HGTV Home Bloggers Challenge turned out, and every bit of inspiration in that room was pulled from our Delilah rug.

Area rugs are so fun! Not only are they a source of inspiration, but they make the flooring you already have much more flexible. Layering in an area rug over a hard surface floor, or even over a neutral carpet, allows you to personalize a room with a pattern that can be easily changed as your design style evolves.

Y’all, I’m here to tell you that the HGTV Home line of Shaw area rugs are delicious. I can say that with all certainty, as I have worked with them, walked on them with bare feet, and even slept on them. Okay, not that last one, but they are so soft that I could have! Each style comes in several different colorways, too, so I know there is something for everyone.

There are two collections within the HGTV Home line: Haven and Inspire

Haven
The global influenced Haven rug collection is made from Shaw’s recyclable EverTouch nylon, which can actually be recycled into a new rug once you are finished with it. This collection has both muted earth tones and bold jewel tones.

Some of my favorites from the Haven collection are:

Vintage Bloom

Ikat Panel

Patina

Juneau

Mod Links

Inspire
The Inspire rug collection includes styles feature Shaw’s ClearTouch PET carpet fiber, some of which is made of recycled soda bottles. These area rugs are muted neturals with pops of teal, green or purple. They are young, modern and on-trend. Some of my favorites in this collection are:

Delilah

India

Do you see something that inspires you? Good! It could be yours. Shaw Floors and HGTV Home are going to give one of their gorgeous rugs away to one of my readers! The winner will be able to select the rug style and size of their choice.

There are several different ways to enter this giveaway. Please leave a separate comment for each way that you enter, and make sure you include your email address so I can contact you if you are the big winner.

Visit the Shaw Floors website and select your favorite HGTV Home rug style and color. Come back here and let me know in the comments what you fell in love with;
“Like” Shaw Floors on Facebook. I’m pretty sure you are going to need to do that in order to obsessively vote for our room to win the Bloggers Challenge in September, so you may as well go ahead and get ready;
“Like” Living With Lindsay on Facebook. Since you are already over there, you may as well! If you are already a “liker,” just let me know that (and thank you!).

This giveaway will run through Tuesday, August 16th. Good luck!

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Congrats to Tara! She was Commenter #28 in the Scentsy giveaway, and will be receiving a full-size warmer and 3 bars from Katie Maksimov.

When we were given the challenge to design a room from the floor up (literally!) at the Shaw Floors/HGTV Home Blogger’s Challenge, I really didn’t know if we could do it. I was concerned that choosing a rug in under 30 minutes would be a recipe for disaster, since I knew that rug would be the basis for all of our design decisions. But, once Rhoda and I saw the Shaw area rugs in person, we knew that it would instead be quite easy.

If you recall from my first and second posts on the Challenge, we selected the Delilah rug in Teal. It has a beautiful combination of teal, apple green, chocolate and a very neutral beige. That one rug inspired all of this:

Given the size of our bay, Rhoda and I decided to have our room serve a dual purpose – a living room and dining room combo. We painted our walls Independent Gold from the Sherwin-Williams line of HGTV Home colors. We were unsure of the color when we selected it, but once we saw it on the walls and realized it wasn’t too gold, we were ‘golden.’

Let’s take a look at the living room area, shall we? Warning: there are a lot of photos below. They were like Lays potato chips – I couldn’t pick just one.

Aren’t the turquoise chairs adorable? Well, they were originally a boring, brown stain. We were bummed that we couldn’t find a great piece of painted furniture for a shock of color in the room (you know how I LOVE my painted furniture!), and our in-house designer, Laura, convinced the powers that be to paint them for us. I think they just make the room!

As the mother of an 11.75 month old (I refuse to say she’s a year until she really is!), I totally freaked out about this glass coffee table. However, as a rug lover, I was thrilled that it looked great in the room, served its purpose, and didn’t hide the rug.

We had the hardest time figuring out a throw pillow arrangement that coordinated well together. What a sigh of relief it was when that part finally came together.

This deer head is my 2nd favorite piece in the room. When we found him in the accessory room, he was silver. I loved him, and I think Rhoda was scared of me and my creepy deer/antelopey-guy. We had him painted white and then she fell in love with him, too.

What’s my first favorite piece? Take a guess! You can see it in this shot:

Heading over to the dining room area, you can see that we kept the same color scheme going.

We were given an entire truck of fresh flowers to choose from to add some life to our rooms, and Rhoda made several beautiful arrangements. This was a low one for the dining table.

Rhoda also spied this artwork, and I’m so glad that she did because it looks great in the room. I’m really not an artwork gal. The only thing other than photographs that I hang on my walls are architectural pieces. I don’t know why I discriminate against artwork, but I really do. Am I alone in that?

Beginning September 1st, Rhoda and I will be asking (aka begging) you for your daily vote for our room in the Shaw Floors/HGTV Home Bloggers Challenge contest on Facebook. Other than having the pleasure to vote for your two favorite bloggers (that would be Rhoda and me, in case you were wondering), you will have the chance to win brand new flooring for your home. Shaw will select one voter EACH DAY for an entire month to win, and I would be doing the world’s biggest happy dance if it were YOU! I might even video said dance, so I promise you are going to want to try to win. I’m not as graceful as I once was.

Don’t want to wait until September to win flooring? Okay, fine. Then, just come back here tomorrow. 🙂

P.S. Tomorrow is the last day to enter the fun Scentsy giveaway from Katie Maksimov. Click here to enter if you haven’t already done so.

Giveaway: Shaw Floors/HGTV Home

Designing a Room from the Floor Up {The Reveal}