Dream Home
Dream Home
This challenge has endedPrizes
Grand prize: $1,000
Second place: $500
Third place: $250
Dates to know
August 21: Submissions Open
August 27, 11:59 PM EST: Submissions Closed
Sept 1: Winners Announced
About this Challenge
Like us, you're likely sitting at home a lot more often lately. You might be getting tired of looking at the same posters on the wall from your college dorm room and over your beat up couch. If you had an unlimited budget to design your dream home, what would it look like? If Bobby Berk was your fairy godmother, what would your new space be like?
Enter the challenge by telling us everything about your dream home and include any inspo you have dreamed up. Feel free to share any and all Instagram saved posts, Pinterest boards, or even embed some of the pieces you'd like to purchase if you had an unlimited budget to spend. Roll up your sleeves, get out the painter's tape, and start planning your remodel!
Requirements
For your story to be eligible, it must be between 600 and 5,000 words and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Stories published on Vocal and entered into the contest up until August 27 2020, at 11:59 PM EST will be entered for consideration. Official Rules for the Challenge can be found here.
The Dream Home Challenge is exclusive to Vocal+ members. To learn more and upgrade to Vocal+ visit https://vocal.media/vocal-plus.
To be eligible to win the grand prize, second place, or third place prizes, you must be over the age of 13 and residing in a country where Stripe is available at the time of entry. A complete list of countries where Stripe is available can be found here—winners will need to have a Stripe account created and connected in order to receive the prizes. For this reason, entrants located outside of any of these 35 countries will not be eligible to win.
How to enter
- Create your story on Vocal.
- When submitting your story for review, select Submit to a challenge and select Dream Home.
- When your story has been approved, it will appear under Submissions on this page.
Submit an existing story:
Challenge Resources
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