BULX.com Home Improvement Blog
2Sep/100

How to Find Inspiration for Your Home

Posted by BULX.com

The primary goal of decorating a room or an entire house is to elicit an emotion. Most homeowners want to be relaxed and comfortable in their home, but other spaces are intentionally designed to be exciting, serene, sophisticated, inspiring, and more.

When it comes to decorating their own space, most homeowners don't know where to start.  This post is an introductory guide on where to start to create an original space you love.

As cliché as it sounds, finding inspiration for your home starts from within. Because we all have different associations with the sights, sounds, scents, and tastes we encounter every day, the interpretation of these experiences will never be the same.  The key, then, is to identify the things that you like (or don't like) and use them to

Some of our favorite sources of inspiration come from...

Nature, such as trees, wildlife, flowers, foliage and landscapes.

Other architecture, particularly urban planning sketches, modern buildings, or classical references.

Art, such as illustrations, digital art, sculpture or paintings...

and the water.

This is by no means an extensive list, but it should give you an idea of where to start.

Steps to Decorating Your Own "Emotional" Room:

  1. Decide what emotion(s) you want to feel when you enter a room (serenity, excitement, happiness, formal/informal, nostalgia, relaxed,
  2. Write down some places or memories or themes that you have the most positive associations with.
  3. Jot down some descriptive words or items that you most commonly associate with those emotions (" bright colors" or "fast music" for excitement, "English library" for formal, "grandpa's old-fashioned radio" for nostalgia, etc.)
  4. Visit Google Images or Bing Images and type in some of the phrases you have written down.
  5. When you find an image that you like, save it into a folder on your computer.  Use the images you save to extract ideas for:
    1. Color - for your walls, furniture, fixtures, and accent pieces
    2. Texture - smooth vs. textured, plain vs. patterned, one-time vs. repetitive, fine vs. rough
    3. Style - which architectural styles do you like the most?
    4. Decorative Elements - which images could be used as accent pieces to help fill your space?

In future posts, we will work to translate these inspirational images and concepts into actual spaces.

Until next time, what inspires you the most?  Where else do you go to find ideas for your home?

Here's to loving your home,
Matt - for BULX.com

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12Aug/102

$250 Giveaway Winner

Posted by BULX.com

We are so excited about our first official sale that launches today at 12:01PM EST, and from the looks of your entries – you are too!

We literally received thousands of entries over the past week, and we were even more impressed by the creative ways you plan on spending the $250 worth of BULX product on your homes.

Late last night, the entries were counted and sorted, and this morning a winner was generated from Random.org.

So without further ado, the winner of the $250 Gift Certificate is: Sunny Slone!

Sunny had 20 entries in the drawing, and we hope $250 of BULX product will help her reach her goal of fixing up her "builder-basic home" (via Facebook). Congratulations Sunny!

Other Winners

Because so many BULX members were so excited about our giveaway, we decided to reward those who went above and beyond the call of duty.  The following two members signed up for a BULX account, invited their friends, AND left us a comment on Facebook. And as our way of saying thanks, we are crediting their account with an extra $50 each!

  • Claudia M.
  • Heather C.

We also decided to thank our top three referring BULX members with $1 for every invitation they sent using our referral system:

  • Laura W.
  • Megan S.
  • Natalie B.

And last but certainly not least, we are giving BULX member Leah J. $50 for posting her very own photo on BULX’s Facebook page. Leah shot a picture of her dingy bathroom faucet and told us that she would spend the $250 gift certificate on a new Marc Newson Two Handle Widespread Lavatory Faucet.  Leah - enjoy your new faucet!

Congrats to all of our winners! We'll see you inside at 12:01PM.

Here's to loving your home,
Matt - for BULX.com

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10Aug/100

$250 Giveaway Extended!

Posted by BULX.com

Wow.

We have been blown away by the overwhelming response to our $250 home makeover giveaway.  Since so many of our readers just learned about the contest - we've decided to extend it two extra days to give everyone a chance to win.





In celebration of our very first sale, we are giving away a very special prize to one lucky BULX member.

On Thursday, August 12th, a randomly-selected BULX member will receive the Grand Prize -  a $250 gift certificate to use on his or her favorite BULX sales.  (Since our sales are typically 50-70% off of retail, our winner could walk away with over $800 worth of product for their home.)

But because we have decided to extend the giveaway, you will need to do everything you can to increase your chances of winning.   Above are three easy steps to up the number of entries that have your name on them (pay special attention to #2).

So What Are You Waiting For?

You asked for more time, and we delivered.  But this is your last chance to sign up and win.

(P.S. - Here is a sneak peak of some of our upcoming sales...)

We want you to love your home.  Why not do it with $250 worth of free product?

(NOTE: This contest has been extended to end Wednesday, August 11th at 11:59pm EST.  On Thursday, August 12th, the entries will be counted and a random winner will be selected and notified. This contest is limited to US residents only. Entrants must be 18 years or older and must have an active BULX.com account to win.)
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