We launched Style Curator challenge in August 2016 and for years, we ran styling challenges to tackle almost every pocket of the home! Although we don’t run #stylecuratorchallenge any more, we still wanted to celebrate the challenge winners.
Here’s a look at the winners from the most recent challenges.
2022
Bedside styling
One of our favourite pockets of the home to style is the bedside! This small surface area packs a serious style punch and we always have so much fun setting this as our challenge topic. We partnered with the lovely team at RJ Living to see how you style your bedside table. From coastal to glam, so many fab bedside pics and videos came through this month! RJ Living selected this beautiful, minimal bedside image from May at @the_minimal_stylist as the lucky winner of 2 oak bedside tables!
Styling with warm metallics
To reflect the seasonal change from summer to autumn, we challenged you to cosy up your home with warm metallics. Rather than offering a prize, we committed to donating $10 for every image or video shared. Huge thanks to everyone who joined in and helped us support the fabulous work of the NSW and QLD State Emergency Services.
2021
Self care challenge
We love self care and wanted to encourage everyone else to take care of the most important person, YOU! We challenged you to share your self care rituals and we got it all! From skin care routines to gorgeous nature shots, there were so many to choose from. Karen (@kml.interiors_) tells us flowers make her smile, and as we follow her through her local flower market, we couldn’t stop smiling either. She wins a price pack full of self care goodies valued at $350, including an organic cotton ‘Taupe’ spa robe from Bhumi.
Shelf styling challenge
Shelf styling is our jam and when there’s a change of season, we love to dust off the shelves and change things up. So for spring, we challenged you to style your shelves and you didn’t disappoint! We had minimalist and muted shelves, kids shelves, plant shelves and OTT colour shelves shared. Karen (@karenbakercreative) called her shelf styling “personality on a shelf” and we agree it perfectly sums up her unique style. She wins a prize pack of shelf styling decor valued at $300.
Table styling challenge with Villeroy & Boch
With half of Australia in lockdown, we thought it would be fun to challenge you to make dining at home a bit more special. And boy did you guys deliver! So many beautiful table styling photos and videos were shared. Shirya created this uplifting table scene and was the lucky winner of the prize pack valued at over $500, including La Boule and wine glasses.
Special edition #stylecuratormademedoit challenge
July is our birthday month and to celebrate the blog’s 7th birthday, we came up with a special edition #stylecuratorchallenge called #stylecuratormademedoit. The challenge was all about showing us how you’ve taken inspiration from the blog and applied it to your home. We had 10 winners who shared everything from styling, DIYs, home organisation and plant care!
Cosy and natural living room styling
To share the word about newly launched Australian family-owned business, Natural Rugs, we challenged our community to show us their cosy and natural living room styling. Boy did you guys rise to the challenge, sharing a wide array of photos and videos on how you cosied up your living rooms for winter. The team at Natural Rugs loved Sophie’s entry for her use of lighting, pops of colour and different textures. She’s the lucky winner of a natural rug valued up to $1,400!
Mood board competition
In May, we paused our regular #stylecuratorchallenge and partnered with our friends at Style Sourcebook and Oz Design Furniture to challenge you to create a mood board. Style Sourcebook is our favourite digital mood board tool as it takes all the hard work out of the process and has a massive library of products that you simply need to drag and drop. Huge congratulations to Rhiannon who created this incredible bathroom mood board!
Vignette styling
Turning an otherwise blank surface of your home into a styled arrangement was our April challenge and you guys rose to the occasion! Sharing vignettes on coffee tables, side tables, bedsides, kitchen benches, office nooks and just about everywhere in the home, you made picking just one winner impossible — so we picked two! Congratulations Jess who won a floral arrangement of her choice from Estil Home and Elle who scored a $50 voucher.
Laundry styling
Often overlooked in the styling stakes, we wanted to inspire you to turn the laundry into a zone of the home you enjoy spending time… OK, perhaps that’s a stretch but at the very least, giving it some styling love so you dread it a little less 😉 Tayah rose to the challenge big time and even tackled a few mini reno projects, including changing over her laundry tap and recovering her ironing board! She’s the lucky winner of our $200 laundry decor pack.
