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NOW CLOSED Do you have an unloved room in your home? Sign up here to revamp it with B&Q and receive a £300 gift card

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TheOtherHelenMumsnet · 03/05/2013 11:25

As part of our partnership with B&Q, we're looking for 20 MNers who have an unloved room in their home that they'd like to revamp. Do you have a sad and tired spare room you'd like to make over? A living room in need of a spruce? Or a bedroom crying out for redecoration?

Here is what B&Q say about their unloved rooms initiative: "This summer, we're launching a new initiative to help Britain say goodbye to its unloved rooms. Most homes have one - a spare room that's more of a cupboard, a tired and broken bathroom from a different era, even an overgrown garden that's become a jungle. With our vast range of home decoration products and simple expert advice, we want more people to see that making a big difference doesn't need to be difficult or expensive. Whether it's picking the right look, choosing the right products, at the right price or simply finding out how to make it happen, we're making sure you'll find it all under one roof at B&Q."

If you're selected to take part you'll:

  • Be sent a £300 B&Q gift card to spend as you wish on materials to re-decorate/revamp your unloved room
  • Need to be available to complete your room revamp between 14 May and 3 June
  • Write feedback on how your revamp is going during that time on a thread on MN
  • Need to send in photos to MNHQ of before, during and after the revamp

10 of the 20 participants will also need to film their revamp process on their smartphone (via an app we'll need you to download). Those MNers will receive an additional £25 B&Q gift card as a thank you for doing filming.

B&Q would also like participants to attend a You Can Do It class in store if possible - this would be free of charge but they're only available in certain stores. This isn't essential to taking part but please indicate on the sign up form (link below) which store you could get to if you would like to attend.

If you'd like to take part, please sign up here.

Any queries, please post them here.

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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OP posts:
Londonseye · 13/05/2013 17:44

They don't have homes do they? They are like teachers, and sleep in the closet.

JakeBullet · 13/05/2013 17:48

Lol at the idea of them going home. Nah...I reckon our ideas are just SO brilliant they are struggling to choose :)

cherrycherry41 · 13/05/2013 17:50

Has no one heard back then?

smileyface1978 · 13/05/2013 17:51

maybe we will check our emails tomorrow and some of us may have a nice surprise :)

FancyPuffin · 13/05/2013 17:54

I don't think they're coming back.

Ever.

Sad puffin

Gigaflops · 13/05/2013 18:04

I just got so excited because I saw an MN email in my inbox - it's for the bladdy Book Club!!! Talk about anticlimax... Grin

AnneEyhtMeyer · 13/05/2013 18:11

Oh me too! Grin

Sokmonsta · 13/05/2013 18:11

Glad it's no news so fingers crossed still. Would really help us with the great room swap project. I could probably do both for £300.

Doogle2 · 13/05/2013 18:13

Maybe they are keeping the vouchers to do up mumsnet towers?! Grin

JakeBullet · 13/05/2013 18:16

Yeah, maybe the decorating budget went on Gin and cooking sherry Wink, they might need the B&Q vouchers.

ouryve · 13/05/2013 18:25

Or on classy gin storage.

LackaDAISYcal · 13/05/2013 18:28

There's another fred....says something like "hot on the heels of 20 MNers being picked by B&Q...." in the OP. So, have the 20 been notified? and if we haven't heard does that mean we're not in? Usually there would be lots of whoop whoop posts from the lucky ones? Or is it a bit cloak and dagger?

JakeBullet · 13/05/2013 18:33

Maybe the lucky ones haven't posted here and are keeping quiet. I have posted on both threads....love what I have seen on the other thread of people's revamps.

JakeBullet · 13/05/2013 18:34

Btw ouryve, loving the classy gin storage Grin

ilikeyoursleeves · 13/05/2013 18:40

Still not heard here and I too got excited at an email but it was the book club!

Where's the other thread about the 20 chosen ones? Does that mean that I need to spend another few years without much needed curtains? (That I have already picked out from b&q boooo)

LeBoob · 13/05/2013 18:55

bloody book club

LegoAcupuncture · 13/05/2013 19:03

Ha LeBoob, as just thinking the same thing Grin

Chocchip88 · 13/05/2013 19:10

Just checking in to see if anyone's heard yet.

MN towers put us out of our misery!

Gigaflops · 13/05/2013 19:11

Nope - nothing! Boo hoo!

Wine while we wait, anyone?

ilikeyoursleeves · 13/05/2013 19:24

Sounds like they've been notified then if there's a thread? But that pink room on the thread has already been transformed?! I don't understand unless it was 60 minute makeover!

Londonseye · 13/05/2013 19:45

Ilike that thread is for something else...it's for people to post things they have already done and be entered to win a voucher..not the same thing tho all b&q

ilikeyoursleeves · 13/05/2013 19:51

Aha ok I understand now, I didn't read the thread through properly!

florencebabyjo · 13/05/2013 20:30

Absolutely nothing! I keep refreshing my email just in case it's come through and I've missed it. Sad, I know...

UniqueAndAmazing · 13/05/2013 20:38

we can't do the project we wanted anyway, this soon. turns out it's a sypporting wall so would have to get a proper builder in. not a b&q job :(

however, if we did, we could do the hall and landing instead....