Decorate More Confidently, step by step

Glad hump-day afternoon, you all! I made you folks a little something. I realized that while many of our posts are walkthroughs or projects or planning or shopping related (how we built this, what fill-in-the-blank we found on craigslist, how we painted that, etc) only around 2% of them have touched on the heart of the whole Hands-on thing: simply doing you and having the faith/courage/conviction/confidence to go for it when it comes to creating a home that you enjoy.

So if you are feeling stuck or second guessing yourself (goodness knows we do that!) these plain words from people far wiser than ourselves might be all that you need to pull the cord and go for it. Because if you are not all in when it comes to making your house your own, well, there likely will not be anyone else who can swoop in and save you.

I thought making these quotes into free printables for you folks would be lively (using instagram photos we have snapped as the background). So feel free to print ’em out and tack them up on your bulletin board or frame one on your wall for a pleasant daily reminder to go nuts making your house feel like you and no one else. That is my wish for everyone on this little Hands-on journey. Not to have a house that everyone loves (how is that even possible?) but to create a home that you are fully crazy about – whatever that might look like. Note: This one was not said by this B.B. it was this one.

As for how to get to the higher res. printables, simply click any of the images in this post and a 5 x 5″ printable should pop up in a new window that you can right-click to download or drag onto your desktop. I went with 5 x 5″ since that is the size of the prints we had over our sofa in the last house – and they look excellent with a fabric background and the white mat that comes with each of these $19 Ribba frames from Ikea.

I thought I’d toss this one in for any bloggers, writers, or authors-of-Facebook-poetry who might need a reminder to hang over their computer: