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10 Beautiful Rooms: Enter To See If Yours Is The Best*

*This competition is only open in London this year but Houzz told me on Friday that they plan to roll it out nationwide next year and in the meantime you can enjoy your usual stroll through 10 Beautiful Rooms without needing to read the words if they don’t apply to you. Also bank holiday…

And also I’m aware that the format has gone slightly skew whiff which has something to do with the way you have to embed images from Houzz – I’m not clever enough to do anything about it. You can still see the pictures and read the words and normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

So yes, Londoners, are you ready? The Evening Standard has teamed up with Houzz to launch the capital’s first Home Design Awards and it’s open to both renters and owners across five different categories: kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom and the garden.

Photo by Chris Snookimage via houzz 

You have two weeks – until 8 June 1018 – to style, shoot and submit one image of your chosen room although you can enter as many of the categories as you wish. Entries close at midday. You can enter here.

Photo by Chris SnookLook for living room pictures 

If you make the shortlist you will be contacted to give more details about the completed project and then your entry will be put in front of a panel of expert judges – including, ahem, yours truly who will be judging the living room category so flumpf (technical term) those cushions people because I want to see.

Photo by Chris SnookMore living room ideas 

The main panel of judges includes Janice Morley. editor of Homes & Property and Victoria Harrison, editor of Houzz UK who will be joined by design writer and the doyenne of interiors journalism, Barbara Chandler, Daniel Hopwood, interior designer and presenter of The Great Interior Design Challenge as well as Richard MacRae of the architecture design studio EDRM.

Photo by Chris SnookLook for kitchen pictures 

In addition to me on the judging panel, Rachel Khoo will be helping decide the winner of the best kitchen, Tamara Lohan, founder of Mr & Mrs Smith, the bedroom, while 2LG, Russel Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe will be casting their designer eyes over the bathroom and Isabelle Palmer, founder of The Balcony Gardener, will judge the gardens.

Photo by Chris SnookLook for bedroom pictures 

Now obviously there’s no competition without prizes and these include a £500 Houzz shop voucher to spend on Bang & Olufson products as well as a £250 Tom Dixon voucher to spend in the Houzz shop. Winners will also get to attend a lamp making workshop at Tom’s new studios near King’s Cross (this is worth £250).

 

You can enter online via this link here where you will also find the rules and details of the competition. The winning projects will be featured on Houzz and in the Standard’s Homes & Property section on Wednesday 4 July.

Photo by Chris SnookBrowse bathroom ideas 

You can also share your entry on instagram using the hashtag #homedesignwards and they may also feature you on their feeds as well.

Photo by Chris SnookSearch living room pictures 

And that is basically all you need to know. And I appreciate that now 99 per cent of the country is feeling cross and left out so Londoners here’s the thing. You need to enter this enthusiastically and in volume and make it such a success that Houzz decides to make it a nationwide competition next year. The nation expects.

Photo by Chris Snookimage via houzz 

Well that might be slightly overstating it but you know what I mean. Now fingers crossed for a sunny day wherever you are since it’s a bank holiday and we need barbecue food. Have a lovely day everyone.

Photo by Chris Snookimage via houzz

And if you want to enter then here’s the link.

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

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