Win $20,000 of Home Improvements and More from Paint Quality's Contest

Enter Paint Quality's Spruce Up Your Home Contest and you could win $20,000 worth of improvements for your home and other prizes. To enter, take a picture of your home and write an essay of 200 words or less describing why it deserves to be spruced up. The grand prize winner will receive $12,000 in cash and/or services for an exterior house paint job, an $8,000 gift card to be used for additional home improvement, a 5' - 6' Colorado blue spruce tree planted on the winner's property by the Arbor Day Foundation, and a six-month membership to the Arbor Day Foundation for a total prize value exceeding $20,100.

Eight first-prize winners will each receive $5,000 in cash and/or services for an exterior house paint job and a six-month membership to the Arbor Day Foundation, and eleven second-prize winners will receive a consolation gift from the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute and an 18" - 24" Colorado blue spruce from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Entry is open to residents of the US who own their own home aged 18 and above. Enter once per household before February 10, 2009.

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