Hey all,
Could you take a break from the HGTV Dream Home location hunt and do me a big favor? Pop on over to the HGTV Urban Oasis blog, and post a question for Vern Yip, who is presently in the process of designing this year’s luxury apartment, located in Chicago. What would you like to know about the apartment or Vern’s design plans? It’s your chance to play reporter!
HGTV will join this year’s list of participants in the 122nd Tournament of Roses Parade with its own float, a replica of HGTV Dream Home 2011. The completed float will make its debut during HGTV’s live, commercial-free coverage of the parade on Saturday, January 1, 2011, at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT. In addition, HGTV will air a half-hour special, The Building of the HGTV Dream Home Float, immediately preceding the parade.
The float reflects the rustic appeal of HGTV Dream Home 2011 and features Stowe-area attractions including rolling hills, winding roads and ski slopes punctuated by snow-tipped evergreens. Vibrant autumn leaves and a real water stream for fishing and canoeing also are included on the spectacular float.
Stay tuned: We will be posting a rendering of the float in the next few days!
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I don’t want you to jump ship – more like a hop, skip and a jump over to the Green: Home blog for a few moments. We’ve got a bit of information to share …
Today we launched the online tour of HGTV Urban Oasis 2010, a luxury apartment located in New York City. Take a few moments to click around and explore each room. There are tons of great tips and behind-the-scenes details from Vern, so please read each caption (sorry, it’s the editor in me). Then, click on the Sweepstakes button to learn more about how you can enter to win the apartment and a vehicle – a grand prize package worth approximately $1.5 million!
Hi all.
While we wait for the next HGTV Dream Home 2011 update (I promise it’s coming soon), I wanted to alert you to a new giveaway we’ve launched: HGTV Urban Oasis 2010. HGTV has teamed with house planner Jack Thomasson and world-renowned designer Vern Yip to create a posh pad located in the heart of New York City. The location? The Residences at W New York-Downtown. The space? A 900-square-foot fully furnished residence that boasts sweeping views of the city, including the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
To learn more and watch the announcement video, please visit the Urban Oasis blog. Also make sure you post your comments on the blog’s first post about living in NYC. We’d love to know your thoughts!
Hello Dream Home Bloggers! We’re all very excited about the upcoming 15th anniversary of the HGTV Dream Home in scenic Stowe, VT. I want to thank everyone for keeping up their interest and enthusiasm, even in the “off season”. We really appreciate that the discussions on here continue to go on, even when there isn’t a whole lot of news to talk about. In the 3+ years since we started this blog, a real community has formed here.
Now onto the business at hand. In recent weeks, there has been some discourse within our communities and we’ve notice the amount of inappropriate and inflammatory comments continue to rise. In order to curb some of that, starting today we are removing the ability to comment anonymously.
What does that mean for you?
It means that you will need to login in order to comment on this blog as well as the Green Home blog.
Login with what?
If you haven’t already done so, you will need to create an account with either Intense Debate, the comment system we use here on the blog, or with WordPress, the software we use to power the blogs.
Where can I register?
If you’d like an account just to post comments, you can sign-up with Intense Debate at http://intensedebate.com/signup. Many popular sites and blogs are now using Intense Debate across the web, and you will be able to use this same account across all of them. If you’d like to try your hand at writing your own blog, register with WordPress at http://en.wordpress.com/signup/ and use your credentials from there as your login.
What are the benefits of registering with Intense Debate? Creating an account lets you:
What happened to Twitter and Facebook? We’re working with Intense Debate to see if that is an option. Currently, logging with your Twitter or Facebook accounts is only available when anonymous commenting is allowed. If we can find a way to turn either of these back on without turning anonymous commenting back on, we will definitely do so.
Hello Dream Home fans! It looks like some of you keen eyed readers have already discovered this, but I wanted to formally announce some of the upgrades we made around here recently. This morning we added the Intense Debate application to all of our HGTV blogs. There are a bunch of new features to the comments area that Intense Debate brings to the table. You’ll notice that comments are now paginated as well as being threaded. Hopefully this will alleviate some of the confusion we have where the page scrolls on for days and days. You can also subscribe to posts by email, as well as comment by email. It also adds the ability to report individual posts to us.
You’ll notice a few login options at the bottom of the page. You can login with an Intense Debate account, created at http://intensedebate.com/signup, your Facebook account, a Twitter account, or OpenID. We’ve also gone ahead and left the old method of posting, you just have to supply the same fields as always – Name, Email and an optional website.
Our hope is that all of these features will let all of your take your already passionate comments to the next level.
Please leave any questions, concerns or feedback below.
~ Chad P
HGTV Community Guy
We are aware that someone claiming to represent HGTV has been posting on this blog. Please disregard his posts: This person is not affiliated with Scripps Networks and his posts have been removed.
Surprise!
The HGTV Green Home Sweepstakes may be over, but you can still get more green! Enter the Get More Green Sweepstakes for a chance to win the grand prize of a $15,000 shopping spree from Sears. Plus, the second prize winner gets a $10,000 gift card from Kohler. And you can enter once a day until May 22. We’ll announce the winners during the HGTV Green Home Giveaway television special Sunday, June 8, at 8/7c on HGTV.
While we’re waiting on more details on the HGTV Dream Home 2008, I thought you’d like to know that our sister site, DIY Network, just kicked off their Best Built Home Giveaway. You can enter now for a chance to win a $350,000 Best Built Home! You decide where it goes and what it looks like, DIY builds it with all the best materials. Also, a First Place Prize Winner will receive $21,000 cash from Century 21. You can enter once a day until June 11.
And remember, you can enter for a chance to win the HGTV Dream Home 2008 in Islamorada, Fla., starting on Jan. 1, 2008.
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