Home-and-bedroom.com is hosting a contest. The winner will receive a Baroque-style fashion bed in their choice of a queen or king size (a $769 value if king-size is chosen). This would be the perfect opportunity to spruce up the house when budgets are tight, or even donate it to a Habitat for Humanity House to make someone feel extra special. How do you win? Submit an essay telling them how you would describe Harry Potter’s bedroom if he moved into your neighborhood.
Truth be told, this is more an “idea pitch” than an essay, as the rules limit the composition to 100-200 words. Ideas will be judged on the criteria of sense of fun and originality. Grand prize is the bed (does not include the mattress), and an additional prize of a $100 gift certificate will be awarded to the individual who recruits the most friends. By “Friends,” I mean, of course, Facebook friends.
Harry Potters Next Bedroom Contest runs from now through November 25, 2010. ***Important*** The contest runs until 6:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, rather than the midnight conclusion of most contests. In other words, it concludes at the end of the business day on Thursday, November 25,2010.

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It was refreshing to see while the winner had some polish and appeared to me had some pretty sophisticated equipment, there were video winners that appeared to be average folks who were not in the production industry or obvious film students that were taking a go at it. One entrant showed how annoying fumbling around with contact lenses were, while another employed stop action and toy army men to get their point across.