The Top 5 Plead Their Case: Vote for the WINNER!!!

So here we go! Introducing the top 5 contestants. In this post you are going to get to know them a little better, they each have a chance to plead their case to you the voter.

Please read all entries before you vote! Voting will be open until Thursday at midnight MST. The winner will be announced next Friday!!

The judges took their job very seriously and I am so grateful for all their votes!

You can click on the entry title to go to the original post!

Entry #1 Rachel @ Holy Craft 

I am super excited to be considered for this room makeover. My master bedroom needs Mandi’s creative juices to come in and take it from drab to fab.

We moved into our home the week before Christmas, and have so far totally neglected decorating our room. I want to spend some time focusing on the one place in the house that should be a special retreat for my husband and I (who will be celebrating 13 years of marriage in June…pretty sure that would be an awesome anniversary gift for two crazy kids in love!).

It’s a great room with some amazing features (I mean, really, we have our OWN separate walk in closets…that’s what keeps a marriage alive baby!), but I like to compare our bedroom to a teenager whose gotten in with the wrong crowd. A juvenile delinquent you might say, that has lots of potential but just isn’t living up to it.

So please vote for my room. It’s in serious need of a makeover to take it out of it’s beige funk. Mandi, I am pleading with you to come to Seattle and give my room some love! We have coffee shops on every corner and enough rain to make you want to build an ark. Come see for yourself!

Entry #2 Sheila @ The Adventures Of Ordy and Joon

Let’s face it, I’m nowhere near as awesome as Mandi, nor will I ever be… but I like to think my living room has a chance to be! I see SO much potential when I see my living room but I can’t get past certain things {um, like the gold fireplace}:
1) Time restraints. {studying.all.the.time}
2) Budget restraints {student loans}
3) Design brick wall {so many designs floating around in my head I end up with this: a whole lotta NOTHING!}

But the good news?
1) It’s SUMMERTIME for me-I’ve got all the time in the world to get busy and fix this place with Mandi’s help!
2) Um, hello. All the amazing sponsors would cover the costs! And I’d take Mandi to every thrift shop in Atlanta!
3) Picking a design comes naturally for Mandi, I trust her 100%. In fact, too much. I would be ok with purple walls with pink polka dots if Mandi says so…

She has COMPLETE DESIGN FREEDOM here! isn’t that fun to know?? No husband to nag about the design {seizure wall} OR kids to not appreciate/mess it up!

Mandi, this is a blank canvas for you. No extreme home make over edition- I’ve got great “bones” for you to work with! There’s so much potential!!!
I really hope that I win for the above reasons, but mostly because I admire Mandi and her mad design skills and would love a weekend/week to hash this project out with her! I’d love the opportunity to paint/thrift shop/hang out with her! Please help make that happen! I’d love to make this living room more “me” and share with y’all!

Plus we all need to have a girls night out Atlanta style! And guess what? You’re invited!

Entry #3 Laura @ Corner House

Oh the many many reasons you should vote for Corner House…

Possibly the biggest reason you should vote for me is because I live in Farmington UT. So if you live in UT too we can all totally get together for a girls night or something. Mandi will be there so you know it will be epic. Ooooh, maybe we could even have a house party once we finish the room, that way we can all enjoy it. Also I REALLY (and I can’t stress REALLY enough) want to win this. I am a little concerned that if I don’t win this giveaway I may never get this room done. Ummm did I mention I REALLY want to win? I guess I could always keep it as a Dinosaur storage room. Please don’t make me keep it as a Dinosaur storage room

Plus I am fairly sure that deep down Mandi really wants to come makeover my front room and if I don’t win she may be SO heart broken that she will never be able to blog again…. meaning the end of Vintage Revivals. Now, I may have made that up, but is that really a risk you are willing to take??? I didn’t think so!

Please vote for Corner House!!!!

Entry #4 Jessica @ My World Made By Hand

Why should I win you ask? Well, let me tell you…I’m a 32 year old working mother living in Herriman, Utah (and you can bet your bottom dolla we WILL be having a Girls Night Out where local Utahns can meet Miss Mandi herself). I have four rug-rats and I’m married to a fabulous 33 year old ‘boy’ who is an Over The Road Truck Driver (which means he is gone 4-6 days every week). As you can imagine, this leaves me little, actually NO time to take care of myself even in the smallest of ways. My families needs (ie, my kids, awe shucks…who am I kidding, my husbands needs too) have always come before mine and will for the foreseeable future (I’m sure all of you can relate). There is, of course, budget constraints as well…with the economy in the state it is in (remember the hubby drives semi trucks) and with a somewhat large family (did I mention the dogs? oh ya…two 50+ pound pitties) the only dough that will be put into the bedroom any time soon is the kind that keeps my MUFFIN TOP from going flat! Get to the point you say?!?

Oh alright {and here I thought you were enjoying my rambling}…I need help…motivation…some OOMPH…I need MANDI to turn this catch-all, oversized storage closet into the inviting, luxurious, serene Master Bedroom me and my Boo~Bear have always dreamed of…a room for me to escape the insanity surrounding me while the hubby is gone bye-bye but a lair of cuddle fun when he isn’t {teehee…excuse me while Iblush}.

I promise to at least take down that lovely laminated calendar before Mandi arrives if I win. So…what ya waitin’ for?!? VOTE, vote, VOTE for me and my Master Bedroom {pwetty, pwetty pwease…I need all the HELP I can get}!!!

Entry # 5 Ashley @ Sure As Forever

SAAANCTUUUARYYYY…..SAAAANCTUUUARYYYY! OH wait … whats that???

I don’t have one of those, but surely would love to have one. My life with kid boogers, curdled milk sippies, poopy diapers, sandcastles in my living room, tears and more tears, laundry piles, dog hair, time outs, middle of the night screaming, toilet scrubbing, working stay at home mom….really could use  a special place. A place to cuddle with my kids, a place to lay in relaxation, a place to unwind from the horrors of the day, a place to share with my husband a place to…to just breath and think of the many thinks I have in my life that make me happy{especially those darn adorable boogery kids}.

I have lived in this house for 4 years and my room still looks like a big brown blob of gross. I often lie awake in the early hours staring at the ugly walls (and the boob light) and think of many things that could do if I had the money, the time, and the help…then my cute girls wake up and we start a new day. Back burner again… Sigh. Please oh please with your help I can have a sanctuary.

My name is Ashley Schoenfeld & I live in ROY,UTAH and I have an ugly bedroom.

SOOOO hard to choose right? I am DYING to see who wins. So make sure that you vote for your fave! And as most of the girls announced we will be having a really fun Girls Night Out where ever I end up! HOOORAY! So vote vote vote!! You will be able to vote once a day! Spread the word!!

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