Hello, friends!! I’m so excited to announce our first EVER giveaway on Six Different Ways. Uprinting.com has been kind enough to offer one lucky winner with a 11″ x 14″ stretched canvas print of their own. Choose from 1.5” Gallery Wrap or 1.5” Museum Wrap (White or Black).

I love the idea of displaying favorite moments on one of their awesome canvas prints, don’t you? All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post describing the photo you’ll choose if you win and/or where you’ll hang it. This giveaway is open to US residents only, 18 years or older.

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Contest ends next Tuesday, May 22nd at 12 AM PDT. A winner will be selected randomly on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Best of luck!

As I’m in the market for some outdoor lounge chairs for my own home, I’m not sure if any of these are as practical as I need them to be. But what’s wrong with a little day-dreaming?

Perhaps the second lounge chair shown above isn’t so impractical – in fact with that in my backyard, I wouldn’t even have to go inside to sleep at night! That lounge chair is definitely calling my name the loudest – it’s important to be extra cozy while lounging by the pool, right? Right!

Which of these modern lounge chairs do you see yourself on?

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Does anyone remember the Shoes video from like five years ago? It’s a bizarre video, but the ways they say “shoes” is how I said the title of this post in my head. It seems like the way that video stuck with me is comparable to the way shoe obsessions stick with women – and some men, too – forever.

Personally, I love shoes because I know no matter how much weight I ever gain and lose, I’ll always have my shoes! (Nice rhyme, huh?) However, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever be able to fill a closet like those shown above, but a girl can dream, right? Right.

These days it’s important for me to find cute comfortable shoes, but at a reasonable price. (That way I can buy more!) I was recently turned onto Zalando, a UK-based site that offers a ton of shoes and other apparel and accessories. No matter what you’re looking for, you’ll find loads of great shoes, clothes and even beauty products on zalando.co.uk.

I’m always sending you to the best sites for modern furniture and recipes – so I thought why not go for some shoes?! Where are your go-to shopping sites for shoes?

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TGIF!!! Any plans for the weekend? Hopefully the weather forecast is looking lovely in your neck of the woods.

Here’s six things I’ve enjoyed this week:

1) This all mint living room. Would you do it?

2) A little neon makes everything better.

3) Suddenly obsessed with quinoa and scouting out different recipes. What’s your fave?

4) Traditional and modern unite in this acrylic dining table.

5) If you have a pooch, would it hang out in this modern dog house?

6) Show the love in your home with the Love Collection by Joel Escalona.

Happy weekend! What have you found this week? Share in the comments!

Sofa searching is like soul searching. [Or soul mate searching.] It’s really tough to find the perfect one!

Anywa, I may or may not have mentioned the mess of a basement I have due to Hurricane Irene’s visit in August of last year. We had just moved in in July and the finished basement was a major plus – until the hurricane hit and we had to rip up the floors, cut up some sheet rock and treat it for black mold. Gross!

I’m mentioning the basement now because we’re finally having someone come in to work on it – which means time to plan for new furniture! Specifically a sofa, because that’s what will be the most important down there. There are tons of furniture stores NYC and NJ, but since I probably won’t venture out, I luckily found a really great site, Comfyco.com, that will deliver to my home for free. Free delivery on a sofa? Yes, please!

Plus, they carry Coaster Furniture, which is perfect for what we’re planning for – stylish but extremely affordable. Since it’s just the two of us, the basement isn’t a place that we’ll use all that often, but I am thinking that I want a nice spacious sofa, maybe even a sofa bed, for when we have extra guests. (So they don’t have to sleep on my good sofa!)

I’ve still got a while to browse, as they are just about to start fixing up the sheet rock, but the last time I purchased a sofa, it was a long process. Although, I am really liking those modern sofa beds that look like a normal sofa by day and then flatten out by pushing the back down by night. Do you have any sofa recommendations? Sleeper sofas?

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Do you ever come across an image of a space that is so good it stops you in your tracks? So good it makes you consider selling and getting rid of everything in a similar space in your home just so you can completely recreate the look for yourself?

Because that just happened to me. I mean, I love my living room, but I think I love this one more. That gold coffee table and the gold wall decor and the white sofa and the patterned rug – I just can’t. The lamps and the side tables and the pillows – please!!! I don’t know what it is about this room that is making me need it, but I’m going to go with the gold coffee table. It’s just fabulous.

Well anyway, enough of my rambling, has this ever happened to you? Have you ever acted on it and actually recreated the look for yourself?

And if anyone knows more about the room, let me know! I found it on Pinterest which led to a tumblr without any information.