Evening Standard Home Design Awards 2019: share a picture of your garden makeover for the chance to win £1,000 worth of prizes

It couldn't be easier to enter. Just upload one picture of your finished garden makeover to be in with a chance to be featured in the Evening Standard and win prizes worth over £1,000. 

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Entries for the Evening Standard Home Design Awards 2019 have now closed.

We are asking homeowners and renters across the UK to share with us their inspiring makeover projects, whatever the size or budget.

From kitchens and gardens to bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms, we're looking for the imaginative and thoughtful ways you have transformed a space. To enter, and to find out how your home makeover projects could win you £1,000 worth of prizes, click here.

Have you recently finished a makeover of your garden or outdoor space?

Recent research has found that a garden is the number one most searched-for feature on property website Rightmove, with balconies also high on the list for London home hunters, showing just how important having a patch of private outdoor space is to us.

But for many novice gardeners, planting and tending a garden can be an intimidating project to start on.

Getting to know the soil composition, the light and shade available, how often to water and how to keep the space looking verdant and attractive throughout the year are all challenges to master regardless of how big or small your plot of land is.

Have you got creative with containers on a balcony; filled an overlooked courtyard with shade-loving plants; or have you maxed out a truly spectacular acre or two with a full outdoor kitchen and dedicated family play areas?

No matter the scale or style of the project, we want to see the passion you've put into transforming your outdoor space. And sharing the ingenious ideas you have used to tackle these challenges is invaluable for us all.

How it works

It couldn't be easier to enter. Upload one photo and a description of your finished makeover in any — or all — of the categories to be in with a chance to win £1,000 worth of fabulous prizes.

Entries close at noon on May 10 2019.

Each category will have two winners: home decorators and DIYers are invited to enter, as well as professional garden designers and Instagram influencers, giving us 10 winners in total.

Our expert judges will debate and decide the winning projects in the exclusive Library & Lecture Room at Sketch, London’s most Instagrammable design hotspot.

The winning designers and their makeover projects will be photographed and featured in the Evening Standard in July and across our digital and social platforms.

Win £1,000 worth of prizes

Each of our 10 winners will receive £550 worth of luxury hotel-style bed linen from Tielle Love Luxury. It will include the bestselling superking cotton duvet cover, sheets and pillow cases; a jumbo towel bundle (with eight towels in four sizes) and two feather and down pillows as used by the five-star hotel Claridge’s in Mayfair.

They will also receive a sleek Bose Home Speaker 500, optimised for voice control via Amazon Alexa with integrated wi-fi, worth £400, and a £50 voucher to spend in the Lecture Room & Library, Sketch London’s luxurious two Michelin-star dining room, where all the tasting and à la carte menus have been devised by French chef Pierre Gagnaire.

Judging

Our panel of expert judges includes Janice Morley, editor of Homes & Property; Dan Hopwood, former president of the British Institute of Interior Design; and award-winning design writer Barbara Chandler.

Joining them are design journalist and author of Mad About The House Kate Watson-Smyth; Marianne Shillingford, the creative director of Dulux; Thomas Sanderson product manager Laura O’Connell; and interior designer and TV presenter Sophie Robinson.

Judging will take place at Sketch London on June 3 in the recently redesigned Library, with its glittering chandeliers and vibrant hand-painted ceiling swirls. It is set against the eye-popping backdrop of the exquisite Lecture Room, with its opulent burnt-orange shades and zig zag-patterned walls threaded with real silver under a stunning domed ceiling.

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