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Jun 9

Steal this Idea! A Summer Design Contest

Are you one of those people who spends more time at your favorite restaurant surreptitiously snapping photos of your favorite design details than instagramming your dinner?

With so many wonderful, stealable design ideas at Portland’s favorite restaurants, we don’t blame you.

We thought it was time to help you figure out how to translate some of your favorite restaurant looks into your own home design projects.

But which design details to steal? This is where we need your help!

With that in mind, we’d like to cordially invite you to join us this summer for our Steal this Idea! Summer Design Contest.

Here’s how it will work: Each week we will spotlight a few pairs of restaurants from a different Portland neighborhood. We’ll highlight some stealable design details from each spot.

Your job will be to vote in the comments for which restaurant’s vibe you would most like to steal for your own home.

We’ll tally up the results, March Madness style, and everyone who participates will be entered to win dinner for two at the restaurant that gets the most votes in the final match up.

Want to play along? Click here to download your bracket.

Email your completed bracket with your best guesses to rebecca@arciform.com to be entered to win dinner for two at the restaurant that wins the contest.

Bonus Round: If you correctly guess the winning restaurant on your bracket we’ll have a little bonus prize waiting for you at our Designed for Entertaining Workshop on August 19th.

Ready to play? The first match -up will be posted Wednesday June 10th at noon. Here we go!

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Apr 5

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Help Us Choose Our Small Kitchen Makeover Winner

This month we are partnering with Portland Monthly Magazine to give one Portland resident an Arciform Kitchen makeover.

Thanks to our makeover partners Versatile Wood Cabinets, Schoolhouse Electric, Oregon Tile and Marble, Standard TV and Appliance, George Morlan Plumbing, CZ Becker Floors, Classic Marmo and Emerson Hardwood, the winner is going to receive a kitchen makeover valued at over $25,000.

We’ve narrowed the entries down from over 130 to just under 20 finalists.

We need YOUR help to pick the winner.

Below you’ll find images from all of the finalists.

Decide which kitchen most needs the makeover and then click over to the Portland Monthly Facebook Page to cast your vote!

Thanks for your help! We can’t wait to give one lucky Portland area family a refreshed and restored kitchen.

What a Nightmare!
13’x11.5′

1950’s One-Butt Kitchen – Help in Lents District
Approximately 10×8 Dimensions 😦 – Quite small and non-functional for our house of 3 (2 Adults, 1 Toddler). Outdated and in need of help for health and wellness of our home and family. Can’t afford remodel on our own.

Michaud Rummer Kitchen

10′ w x 15’5″ l

50’s Ranch, Galley, Lot of Windows
About 8 feet by 16 to 18 feet

1947 Pink and Blue Kitchen in Need of Remodeling Love!
10’x 12′ approx.
Vote for 1947 Pink and Blue Kitchen Here

Kitchen Makeover
8.5′ x 13′

Courage Kitchen
Owner Tayah Butler says, “8 wide by 13 long- this kitchen has raised three generations of families in north Eugene. Currently a mother and daughter eat, pack lunches, do homework and live every day in the care of this tiny kitchen- she may be old but courage to be her best keeps her giving!

It’s a Kitchen! It’s a Laundry Room! It’s Both. 😦
8.5′ x 12.5′

A Little Off
14′ x 10.5′

Original 1942 Cabinets Have Lost Their Charm
9′ x 7.5′

Cook Needs Counter and Storage
It is approximately 127 square feet. It’s not a true rectangle.
The largest length is 16.5 feet and widest section is 9.75.

Cute Lil’ Kitchen
8’2″ x 11’6″

Old Charm in Goose Hollow
Built in 1912, the same year as the titanic, this house presents itself with plenty of original charm. Dark hardwoods can be found throughout the house residing against the original 12 inch white wood trim which is a great contrast to grey walls and the box ceiling in the living room. When we purchased this house, the same family had resided in it for more than 85 years. We took care and effort to paint and upgrade many of the different rooms however the kitchen still remains untouched. We have looked at many of the pictures from Arciform and would consider it a pleasure if you could transform our kitchen.
Dimensions- 8×11

36-Year Old Kitchen Desperately Seeking a Makeover
Avid cook and family of four would love to get our kitchen remodeled. We’ve been in our home for five years with a cooking space that needs a new look. Please help!
Plus we’re tired of cleaning the boys’ spills off the carpet and glueing down the formica.