Our Past Winners
Congratulations Sarah Merrell, from Sarah Flips It! Learn more about what her experience was like working on her Paintover Challenge project.
Armed with $500 and FrogTape® painter's tapes, Sarah Merrell cozied up a bare room into a calm, relaxing workspace of her dreams inspired by the 2024 Design Trend, Wainscot Just a Minute.
Veteran interior designer and DIY television personality, Taniya Nayak, chose Kayla Nelson as the Runner Up of the 2024 FrogTape® Paintover Challenge® competition.
As founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope Living — the top destination for lovers of colorful home interiors and DIY enthusiasts — Tasha Agruso's mission is to help everyone create a home they cherish, no matter the budget. She share's doable DIY projects and interior design tips on KaleidoscopeLiving.com and her wildly popular design system, Designer in a Binder®, has helped over 11,000 people create spaces they love. And, her colorful wall calendars are popping up in homes everywhere!
Kelly Ballard is a self-taught DIYer who loves to decorate her home on a budget. She works alongside her hubby and 4 kids to make their house a home, working together to bring CITYGIRLMEETSFARMBOY content for others to learn from!
Kelly Hartley is a self taught designer, interior stylist, blogger, and DIY lover. She and her husband Dan started renovating their home a few years ago and they've been making updates ever since. She believes that home should be a place where you feel comfortable and in sync with your surroundings. "Your home is a place where you walk inside and it feels like "you". There is so much pride in looking around your home seeing completed projects you've done with your own two hands. I want to help others to have that feeling" And she loves to do it with lots of creativity, a sense of humor, and on a budget. Kelly likes to "keep it real while making it real pretty.
As a former Kindergarten teacher, Liz's passion for teaching others how to DIY is bound to be a great time. Liz is a self-proclaimed paint connoisseur, an expert in pivoting in the middle of a project when something doesn't feel or look right, and wholeheartedly believes projects can be done on a budget with stunning results.
As a former insurance executive turned full-time blogger, Sarah loves sharing her excitement for all things home design and DIY, fashion, food and photography – really, just anything that has nothing to do with her former day-to-day office life.
A mother of four with an art degree, Haneen pours creative energy into her home and believes it’s the most fulfilling canvas, because a home is a “work of art” in which you live. Drawn to bright colors, Haneen loves mixing pattern, textures, and old and new to create a truly eclectic, livable space.
Emily is the author of the interior design blog, Emily A. Clark, where she shares attainable, quick and affordable decorating ideas, as well as the process of decorating her own home. Her blog was named “Best Decorating/DIY Blog” of 2016 by Better Homes & Gardens readers and her work has been featured twice in the publication, as well as in Good Housekeeping and Family Circle. She resides in Charlotte, NC with her husband and five kids.
After leaving big city life behind for a place where she could see the stars, KariAnne found her passion for home and design with her blog Thistlewood Farms. Thistlewood Farms is more than the story of a farmhouse; it’s about family, fun, burlap and pancakes.
