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HOW TO ENTER: The IKEA $30,000 Kitchen Makeover Contest commences on August 26, 2015 and ends on November 5, 2015 with entries submitted by 11:59 p.m. EST on November 5, 2015. Contest is open to residents of the Greater Toronto Area. Only one kitchen per household may be entered. We will not consider empty rooms or other rooms that are not already kitchens. Photograph every angle of your kitchen (minimum 4 photos and maximum 8). These "before" photos may be published in House & Home magazine and Maison & Demeure magazine., and on houseandhome.com and maisonetdemeure.com. In no more than 250 words, tell us what’s not working for you about this room and what you would include on your wish list for improving it.
Visit houseandhome.com/kitchencontest to enter and upload your photographs, or submit photos along with your entry to: The IKEA Kitchen Makeover Contest, House & Home Media, 511 King St. West, Suite 120, Toronto, Ont., M5V 2Z4. Please do not send slides, videos, DVDs or CD-ROMs. Include your name, address, occupation, e-mail and phone number(s). Entries must be received or postmarked no later than November 5, 2015.
The winner must agree to permit IKEA and House & Home Media to decorate and photograph their home for publication in a future issue. All entries become the property of House & Home Media.
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WHO IS ELIGIBLE: Any resident of Canada whose home is located in the Greater Toronto Area, with the exception of employees of IKEA and House & Home Media, and their families, may enter. (For these purposes, the Greater Toronto Area is defined as Toronto, Etobicoke, York, North York, East York, Scarborough, Burlington, Milton, Halton Hills, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, Vaughan, King, Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket, Markham, Whitchurch-Stouffvile, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, Pickering, Ajax, Uxbridge, Whitby, Oshawa, Scugog, Brock and Clarington.)
The contest is not open to professional interior designers and decorators, architects or design companies. Entry cannot be a business (e.g., a bed and breakfast). Entry cannot have been photographed for another publication or featured on television. Entrant must own the home in which the kitchen makeover will take place. Kitchens with knob and tube wiring will be deemed ineligible.
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PRIZE: There are no substitutions for prizes and prizes are not transferable. Prizes are not redeemable for cash. House & Home Media and IKEA reserve the right to allocate funds at our discretion.
There is one (1) prize available to be won. The prize consists of one (1) IKEA kitchen renovation valued at up to $30,000 (CDN). The renovation will include all construction, labour, and materials and supplies available at IKEA, but will not include any structural changes, replacement of existing wiring or plumbing, or materials not available at IKEA. All costs above $30,000 must be paid by the homeowner.
All details including, without limitation, the design choices, selection of materials and choice of labourers will be at the sole discretion of IKEA and House & Home Media (the "Contest Sponsors"). In order to be declared a winner, the potential winner shall be required to sign a release, releasing the Contest Sponsors from all matters related to the renovation. In order to be declared a winner, the potential winner must agree to have the renovation done at the times and dates set by the Contest Sponsors or forfeit the prize in its entirety. In addition, the potential prize winner must agree that the renovation may be filmed and photographed (including before and after shots and shots of the potential prize winner), and the film and photographs may be used in all media, throughout the world, in perpetuity.
Odds of winning depend on the number and quality of eligible entries received during the Contest Period. By submitting any material ("Material") to any of our publications or operations, including and without limitation, House & Home magazine, you grant House & Home Media a worldwide, non-exclusive, unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, assignable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, translate, license, publicly perform and display the Material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, without your prior approval, and you further waive any “moral rights” that you may have in the Material. In addition, by submitting the Material to House & Home Media, you represent and warrant that you own and control all rights in and to the Material and that you have the right to grant the foregoing rights to House & Home Media. All material is the property of the Contest Sponsors.
HOW IS PRIZE WINNER DETERMINED: The decision is solely at the discretion of the Contest Sponsors and is final. Contest Sponsors reserve the right to modify, cancel, suspend and/or terminate Contest at any time and for any reason, without notice. When choosing the winning kitchen, we take into account the following: the site should be easy to access for construction purposes; the existing kitchen must appear to be in significant need of updating but the house must be in relatively good repair; the size of the existing kitchen must work with the budget parameters of the contest; the project must highlight well the many space-utilization and -maximization features offered by IKEA’S SEKTION cabinetry; the selected kitchen project must be reasonably feasible in order to minimize logistical issues and risk of delay; the selected kitchen design must accommodate being professionally photographed from at least four different angles.