Whether you are starting a new business, sending your kids off to college or hosting an aging parent, there's no better time than now to reinvent a room to suit your new FOF life. FOF Founder Geri Brin recently converted her bedroom into a walk-in closet/office. Now it's your turn....
We've partnered with IKEA: The Life Improvement Store and Use What You Have Interiors® to bring you the ultimate FOF room-reinvention giveaway. FOF Lauri Ward, founder of "Use What You Have Interiors" or one of the members of her network of decorators (the Interior Redecorators Network®) will provide a room re-design consultation to the winner.
IKEA Design Spokesperson Janice Simonsen is giving a $250 gift certificate to IKEA to help you fill in any “holes,” further reinvent your space and better your FOF life.
To enter to win the Reinvent Your Room makeover with a Use What You Have® decorator plus a $250 gift card to IKEA: The Life Improvement Store, comment below and answer: What room would you reinvent and how would it improve your life?
(See all our past winners, here.)
Contest closes Thursday, January 27, 2011.
Thank you for entering. This contest is now closed.
[click here to find out more about Lauri Ward of Use What You Have Interiors® and Janice Simonsen of IKEA: The Life Improvement Store]
More about the designer:
In 1981, FOF Lauri Ward decided she wasn't happy working in "conventional interior designer mode."
"I didn't feel comfortable telling my clients they had to buy expensive things to make their homes look beautiful," says Lauri. She started her company, Use What You Have Interiors® and developed her own system of decorating, to help clients use what they already have in their home to create a fresher, updated and more elegant look for a starting flat fee of just $350 per room.
Over the past three decades, she's trained hundreds of decorators and has formed a worldwide network called the Interior Redecorators Network®.
"Anybody should be able to have a beautiful home, not just wealthy people," says Lauri.
The concept is simple but the instant gratification that a one-day room makeover delivers is what Lauri says has garnered major media attention (including Oprah, The Today Show, The New York Times and House Beautiful Magazine) and kept her company thriving for three decades.
"The comment we hear from everyone is 'Gee, I never would have thought of that. I've tried this 10 different ways and none of it worked," says Lauri. "We show them the 11th way."
More about IKEA’s FOF design spokesperson, Janice Simonsen:
FOF Janice Simonsen, design spokesperson for IKEA “reinvented” herself many times throughout her career. She started out as a graphic designer, owned a successful interior design business and then transitioned into a position as design spokesperson for IKEA U.S. where she lends her interior design expertise to any topic ranging from small space living to designing a dream kitchen.
IKEA - The Life Improvement Store - understands your life at home and designs products to meet your needs, and make your life better. It’s important to have your home work for your lifestyle – and sometimes that calls for “reinvention” as we go through different stages our lives. Whether you are transforming a bedroom into an office, or making room for a new addition at home, IKEA offers well-designed products that suit every style (and budget!) to help you improve your space, and your everyday life at home.
Whether you are starting a new business, sending your kids off to college or hosting an aging parent, there's no better time than now to reinvent a room to suit your new FOF life. FOF Founder Geri Brin recently converted her bedroom into a walk-in closet/office. Now it's your turn....
We've partnered with IKEA: The Life Improvement Store and Use What You Have Interiors® to bring you the ultimate FOF room-reinvention giveaway. FOF Lauri Ward, founder of "Use What You Have Interiors" or one of the members of her network of decorators (the Interior Redecorators Network®) will provide a room re-design consultation to the winner.
IKEA Design Spokesperson Janice Simonsen is giving a $250 gift certificate to IKEA to help you fill in any “holes,” further reinvent your space and better your FOF life.
To enter to win the Reinvent Your Room makeover with a Use What You Have® decorator plus a $250 gift card to IKEA: The Life Improvement Store, comment below and answer: What room would you reinvent and how would it improve your life?
(See all our past winners, here.)
Contest closes Thursday, January 27, 2011.
Thank you for entering. This contest is now closed.
[click here to find out more about Lauri Ward of Use What You Have Interiors® and Janice Simonsen of IKEA: The Life Improvement Store]
More about the designer:
In 1981, FOF Lauri Ward decided she wasn't happy working in "conventional interior designer mode."
"I didn't feel comfortable telling my clients they had to buy expensive things to make their homes look beautiful," says Lauri. She started her company, Use What You Have Interiors® and developed her own system of decorating, to help clients use what they already have in their home to create a fresher, updated and more elegant look for a starting flat fee of just $350 per room.
Over the past three decades, she's trained hundreds of decorators and has formed a worldwide network called the Interior Redecorators Network®.
"Anybody should be able to have a beautiful home, not just wealthy people," says Lauri.
The concept is simple but the instant gratification that a one-day room makeover delivers is what Lauri says has garnered major media attention (including Oprah, The Today Show, The New York Times and House Beautiful Magazine) and kept her company thriving for three decades.
"The comment we hear from everyone is 'Gee, I never would have thought of that. I've tried this 10 different ways and none of it worked," says Lauri. "We show them the 11th way."
More about IKEA’s FOF design spokesperson, Janice Simonsen:
FOF Janice Simonsen, design spokesperson for IKEA “reinvented” herself many times throughout her career. She started out as a graphic designer, owned a successful interior design business and then transitioned into a position as design spokesperson for IKEA U.S. where she lends her interior design expertise to any topic ranging from small space living to designing a dream kitchen.
IKEA - The Life Improvement Store - understands your life at home and designs products to meet your needs, and make your life better. It’s important to have your home work for your lifestyle – and sometimes that calls for “reinvention” as we go through different stages our lives. Whether you are transforming a bedroom into an office, or making room for a new addition at home, IKEA offers well-designed products that suit every style (and budget!) to help you improve your space, and your everyday life at home.
Last June, FOF gave away a California Spa trip and Soft Surroundings wardrobe. We asked our members why they deserved the package and were blown away by this message from FOF Leah Houseman:
Images via Life Insurance Retirement, Ellis Advisory Group, Retire Early Lifestyle, L.R.C. Insurance, and John Hanlin
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We were curious as to what precipitated this major move. Turns out, four years ago, Sharon and her husband separated. "It wasn't in my plans, it was a total life change," says Sharon.
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