Hidy Ho fair readers! First off, a gigantic HUGE apology for my absence yesterday. I was out of town over the weekend and suffered major flight delays on my return home Monday night. I was so out of sorts that I didn't even realize yesterday was Tuesday until Erin sent me a gentle nudge asking where the hell I was. Oops! I was sure that it was still Monday and I was well ahead for the post I was planning. So, you guys have to suffer at the hands of the airlines and my flakiness. But, enough about me, let's get to what you want to hear about: Our Great Rug Give Away winner!!!! We enlisted the help of Erin's techy hubby Ben who found us, no kidding, a random number generator. La generator tells us that comment number 74 was the winner so....

CONGRATULATIONS MARMOREE!!!!

Holla! Contact us here to get your rug on.

Marmoree commented that she will be choosing the soft and flowery rug:

As anyone who has been in my home can attest, I love me some grey and white. Good choice, Mam, good choice. Karly approved!

When we were first asked to do the give away, not only did I start fantasizing about which rug I would choose, but also, how I would decorate a room around it. Because I felt like spending my blog-prep time today looking at crap on ebay rather than doing real, ahem, research, I decided to play pretend decorator just a little longer. Here is the rug I chose:

With this rug as inspiration, I gave myself a time limit: THIRTY MINUTES ONLY, a budget: unlimited, and one site to shop from: ebay. Oh, I also decided that my rug was 8 x 10, while our give away version is just an area rug. Here's what I got:

Ok, so a few key pieces are missing: artwork behind the couch, a bit more lighting, a giant gold dipped poodle statue, but, well, with the clock ticking down from 30, I was RACING. Look, I love you all, but I can get sucked into some ebay, I had to set the timer for the good of my mental health. Here's the skinny on the goods I did find:

1. The very first thing I decided to hunt down was a floor lamp, industrial, please. I was delighted to find this French bendy twisty number and new we would be best friends forever.

2. La couch: while I wanted to go with vintage, I had a hard time finding the right look that didn't need to be recovered. White leather is always welcome in my home, so I settled for this Tufted Leather Sectional.

3. I spent far too much time digging up tables, my desktop folder lives to tell the tail, but finally decided that this Baughman end table was the winner.

4. The round glass coffee table made the cut because I passed one up on craigslist once and have regretted it ever since. Note, the ebay version is chrome, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I would have that puppy powder coated in gold faster than you can say "but chrome is so nice." Note part deux: The ebay table is $599, the craigslist version was $60. I fucked up.

5. While I didn't have time to find art, I did wrangle these German vases

6. And a few throw pillows here, here and here

Since my pretend walls are still bare, how about you dudes make some suggestions?