Contest Calls for “Prettiest Painted Rooms”

The grand-prize winner can choose a deluxe weekend in either New York or Miami.

by Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 4/25/2006

A new contest is seeking rooms employing creative use of paint. Interior designers and decorators throughout the U.S. are invited to submit to the "Prettiest Painted Rooms in America" competition, launched by the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute. Entries are due May 1, and work must have been completed within the last three years.

Entries will be judged on “the creativity employed in the use of paint and color and the overall design of the room,” according to press material.  Hi-quality photos are recommended as they will influence the judges' decision.

An offshoot of the institute’s "Prettiest Painted Places in America" competition, "Prettiest Painted Rooms" will feature one grand-prize winner and four runner-up prizes. The grand-prize winner can choose a weekend with airfare for two in either New York or Miami. The New York weekend will include stay at the Waldorf-Astoria, dinner at Asiate in the Mandarin Oriental, New York, lunch at Tavern on the Green, Broadway tickets, and a meeting with a top New York City designer. The Miami weekend will include stay at The Bentley Beach Hotel, a deluxe spa treatment, dinner at Prime One Twelve, a $1,000 Bal Harbour Shops Gift Card, and a tour of the Miami Design District.

Runners-up will receive a Howard Miller clock, valued at $1,400. All winning entries will be posted on the Paint Quality Institute Web site and published in the Paint Quality Institute DIY Newsletter.

Among others, the judging panel includes Scott Agelloff, Dean of the New York School of Interior Design, designers Mario Buatta and Clodagh, and Michael Payne, interior designer and host of HGTV’s “Designing for the Sexes.”

Entry forms can be obtained online, via phone at 212-308-8880, ext. 116, or via email at prettiestpaintedrooms@lhammond.com.