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Are you a die-hard Home Depot freak? The largest home improvement chain in the U.S. wants to hear from you in a big way. Well, that is see you in a big way. The Home Depot is giving away $25,000 in gift certificates based on the best home video taken of you, you know, actually performing a remodeling project.

Once you create the video, you can upload it to YouTube and then notify Home Depot via the company's website. Videos should be between 30 and 60 seconds long (maximum of two minutes) and should allow for you to flex your creative muscle as well in the presentation beyond just the home improvement content itself.

Now, if you're as handy with home remodeling projects as you are with video editing on that PC, this may be something right up your alley. The contest will accept customer submission from November 10th to December 15th and there are many prizes to be won beyond the grand prize of a $25,000 Home Depot gift card.

Instead of rehashing the topic with another full-length how-to, I'd like to point out that our own Will O'Brien wrote an incredibly thorough and fantastically photographed how-to on the very subject. His seven-part tutorial lives over at our world-famous sister-site Engadget.

Will is one of DIY Life's resident technology gurus and has written a ton of awesome stuff also for Hack-a-day, (another sister site of ours) for the geeks of the world. Please note that some of Will's work is not safe for dummies (NSFD) or the technologically challenged. Hack-a-day is however, quite DIY and geek-it-yourself friendly. If you get squeamish trying to program a VCR (you seriously still have one of those?) then please look away now, and by all means, hide the children.

[via Engadget]