Picture this: You’re sitting at home drinking your morning coffee just like always when something happens that completely alters your reality. Your heart starts racing. Your jaw’s hanging open in an unflattering manner. And your coffee is now splattered across the floor. I imagine that’s what it feels like to find out you’re the grand prize winner of the HGTV Dream Home 2011, a 2011 GMC Acadia Denali and 500,000 smackeroos. (And if it were me, there would be a lot of high-pitched screaming involved when host Monica Pedersen walked in, surrounded by television cameras.)
If you’re like me, you’re dying to watch the drama unfold when this year’s winner gets handed the keys…to the mountain lodge and car! Tune in TONIGHT at 8 p.m. EST for the HGTV Dream Home 2011 Giveaway special, including a dreamy home tour by designer John Gidding. Plus, find out which Vermont-inspired housewarming gifts made it into the home, thanks to your votes. Some lucky voter is going to win a duplicate set, too. Maybe you? Find out who!
And if you’ve fallen in love with this house and its designs, then you can add furnishings from the Stowe, Vt. Dream Home to your home by touring your favorite rooms and shopping to your heart’s content. (Don’t worry, we won’t tell on you.)
Oh my gosh I can't wait for tonight! I have been submitting almost everyday for my mom. She insists on cleaning the house just in case we do win! Well we will all be waiting for them to come, so crossing our fingers!
I wannna winnnnn please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:'(
Today is the Day! Good Luck Everyone!
well everyone it's over and it was fun dreaming:*good luck next*time
Deb here in Harbor Springs, MI just waiting for Monica to pull up with the keys!!!!! Can't wait!!!
Sorry Deb I'm wishing upon a wish she will be in Texas as I am typing this reply! Good luck though!
Good luck everyone
OMG I can't wait until they release the name of the person who will when the prize because I am sick of my boyfriend talking about "we have to go back to the hotel room and see who won" we are suppose to be enjoying ourselves at the Casino, however he keeps looking at his watch waiting for the show to come on. GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!!! I HOPE WE WIN!!!
My thoughts exactly! I have entered every year for the last 5-6 years and just realized last year, after re-reading the rules/prizes info, the winner has to sign affidavits 10 days before. I think the "ambush" is just for effect. I have not been contacted yet. It's the day of, just hours to go! Oh, well I can still dream huh?
who won it because my friend and her friend entered EVERYDAY 2 times a day!!!!!!!!
please tell me im dieing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I really think HGTV needs to rexamine how they advertise this sweepstakes? they make it sound like the winner will be chosen march 19th at 9 p.m we were all waiting and expecting this LIVE winner (maybe coming to my door?) it was really misrepresented? ! we were very dissapointed and kinda upset? from the comments sounds like we were'nt the only ones? I also want to know how they chose between the hand written entries and computor entries?
good luck!
The winner has been ambushed since March 9th! Where have you guys been??????
the most boring giveaway ever, did they even know what was going on!
I totally agree. If I had won I would be jumping up and down and probably crying. How fortunate they are!! Even if they knew they one they could have at least acted like they were excited!!
I know! It's not even fair! they looked like they just lost their cat or something! If a real, dedicated, viewer would have won, they would have reacted like the 2010 winner! She truley deserved that home, and I hope she's very happy there. I'm still devistated to this day about not winning, it was a long shot and I suppose I got mysef too attatched to it but I believe it's the best one yet.
tell me more, I missed it, although I said I wasn;t going to watch, I wanted to see their "fake excitement", and how nice is their current home, one blogger said it was in a afluent neighborhood, your comments.
i HAVE BEEN more excited about winning 100 dollars than they were….
So I just finished watching the the show and I have to say that it was very disappointing, this is my first year entering and I would have thought that the winner would have been much happier. And the fact that Monica did not even knock on the door but they knew to open it was a shocker to me. That kinds of make the whole thing look sooooo fake. I think that there should be a better way of surprising the winner. It would make their ratings sooo much better. The family just looked like ok we won, shoo I would have been jumping up and down and most likely crying because it would be such a dream come true, and that would be even if I knew before hand because to have them pull up with my new truck and huge check would get me going…. But I guess winning is just another moment in some peoples lives, and those of us that have never won anything the world would know it. lol But congrats to the winning family.
And I truly hope that HGTV finds a better way of reveling the winner next year!!!!
YEP!! thats what I'm saying it was like reality tv without the reality?! set up so bad! I'm sorry but I actually was entering every day put it on facebook (like an idiot) and was expecting a winner live on the 19th not well they;ve known since the 9th! bunch of BS! sorry
lol yeah I know what you mean, I think it was very disappointing and I think things should be improved for future winner reveals. I think live is the best way so that you can get the reaction of a person that was really excited. I hope to see better, because like I said this was my first year but not the last Yah willing.;)
And sorry to all those that were waiting for the ambush tonight, but it has been posted on the blog for the Dream House that the winner has been picked and their name and everything since the 9th of March.. So I had no hope of winning tonight, there are plenty of post over on that blog that crushed a lot of peoples dreams… So sad it was leaked out early.
does it show on here anywhere, who won the Vermont-inspired housewarming gifts?
A guy named Jon from California
Dona – Watch the giveaway videos here: http://www.hgtv.com/dream-home/dream-home-videos/… which also announces the winner of the housewarming gifts (http://blog.hgtv.com/dreamhome/2011/03/21/watch-the-winner-videos/).
Maybe for next year,they can record the actual footage when the winners were notified that they won. i agree not very enthusiastic winners. Do they even ski?
I love HGTV!!! I watch it every single night!!! and I thought the Home GiveAway in Stowe, Vermont was incredible!!! I entered twice a day every day–and will with the next giveaway also!! I was so "let down" at the absolute LACK OF ENTHUSIASM shown by the winning family!! They acted as if they had won "two free dinners from Long John Silvers"–Maybe the winners need to be prompted by your exhilarating staff–Something was WAY WRONG with this couple who won–I would have been estatic!!! (For months)—They were too "sedate" and not even commenting to each other, nor affectionate with each other–What a gift and they were as if they were ASLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I totally agree… It was the worst possible enthuisiasm Ever!!I I was so mad while watching that they looked so ungrateful!
If I were the CEO of HGTV, I would inform them that a mistake was made, and these emotionless , undeserving people have won an unfurnished single wide trailor, and what an appropriate prize that it would be for them—I was so PO'D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes someone that truly appriciated the prize should have won. WHAT A JOKE THESE People were.
I wonder if the lack of enthusiasm is why I can't find a video of the giveaway…. I missed the "live" event
Cat – Watch the giveaway here: http://www.hgtv.com/dream-home/dream-home-videos/…
Where do we go to see the giveaway Imissed it last night
Watch the winner video here: http://blog.hgtv.com/dreamhome/2011/03/21/watch-t… as well as show highlights here: http://www.hgtv.com/dream-home/dream-home-videos/…
I've been out of town for a little while. Is the HGTV crew that announces the weiner looking for me? Probably not. I've been so tied up this weekend watching March Madness, I forgot to check my mailbox to see if I won. Oh well. I'd rather see Obuma create good-paying jobs for a whole lot of folks than me win this house, which I would have sold from the git go and donated much of the proceeds to charity. Is the next one being built in China? Maybe I'll win there.
I would love to win a home, but a home that was being saved from being demolished like an historical home or an older farm house. This would be more of a wow factor and again saving an older home. Keeping it green is so important and you see so many homes being given away for 1.00 but have to move to a new location of your choice. I feel if its an older home it should stay where it sits and not being sold for 1.00 so someone can build another home or building that usually takes away from the character of the neighborhood. Again it boils down to $$$$$ and politics. Meaning the city wants the property for other use for the city…. We need to save what we have, not building new which means destroying the green space & etc. The homes are always breath taking, but I wouldn't want a home overlooking a road. Yuck. Looks like a limited space for such a wow factor home….
I agree with alot of comments..The winners MUST feel more than we see..If They had choose my name there would be no mistakeing my feelings!! And I did have a happy little dance planned with that paisley throw for the tour
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This is the most amazing HGTV Dream home I've seen so far, good luck to the winner.
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Let me just put it this way, I was so excited about the possibility of winning that I had my two teenagers watching the shows and the online videos. I even played a joke on my kids one day when all three of our dogs began barking for no apparent reason. I came running out of my bedroom as I was getting ready for work and ran into my daughter's bedroom exclaiming that an HGTV Van was outside. I told them that they had to go to the door because I had a towel on my head. The look on their faces was priceless! And how nice it would have been. Yes, We would have been excited. I could cry just thinking about it!