A Step Forward in Interior Design
Download the A Step Forward in Interior Design Workbook: Essentials Edition and start planning your home with more clarity, confidence, and direction.
This printable workbook gives you guided pages to help you define your style, organize your ideas, plan your budget, and make smarter design decisions before you start shopping or decorating.
$15.00
Instant digital download. Print it, fill it out, and use it as your step-by-step planning guide.
Printable Digital Workbook
Before You Start Decorating
Decorating your home can feel exciting at first, then quickly become overwhelming. You may know what you like, but still struggle to pull everything together, stay on budget, and make choices that actually work in your space.
Narrow your inspiration into a clear design direction.
Decide what matters most before spending money.
Use guided pages to make decisions with more confidence.
Your Guide to Easy and Affordable Home Design
The Essentials Workbook helps you move from scattered ideas to a clear, practical plan for your space.
Get clear on your style, priorities, and goals so you are not starting from a blank page or a cluttered inspiration board.
Think through what you need, what you already have, what matters most, and where your money should go first.
Use guided pages to choose colors, furniture, decor, and room details with less second-guessing.
What’s Inside the Workbook?
The Essentials Edition includes the full A Step Forward in Interior Design eBook along with newly redesigned workbook pages from selected chapters. These pages are made to help you actively plan, not just read.
Now includes newly redesigned workbook pages to help you plan as you go.
Printable pages designed to help you organize your ideas and next steps.
Easy-to-follow pages that help you move from scattered ideas to an actual plan.
Printable pages to help you organize expenses, priorities, shopping needs, and project decisions.
Guided questions and creative prompts to help you understand what you like and how you want your home to feel.
Worksheets to help you think through layout, function, furniture, decor, and how each space will be used.
Practical pages that help you keep track of details, avoid impulse buys, and stay focused as you plan.
Download instantly, print the pages you need, and fill them out as you work through your home.
Made for Real Homes
You do not need a big budget, a design background, or a perfect starting point. You just need a clear way to think through your space before you start making decisions.
You feel overwhelmed by too many decorating ideas
You want your home to feel more pulled together
You are trying to decorate on a realistic budget
You want to avoid buying pieces that do not work
You like guidance, worksheets, and step-by-step planning
Designed for homeowners, renters, DIY decorators, and anyone who wants a clear way to plan a home that feels beautiful, useful, and personal.
Simple to Download. Easy to Use.
Once you purchase, you’ll get instant access to the digital files so you can download, print, and start planning at your own pace.
Instant digital download.
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Use the checkout button to securely purchase the Essentials Edition.
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Access the eBook and redesigned workbook pages after checkout.
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Print the planning pages you want to use, or save the files digitally for reference.
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Work through the pages one step at a time as you make design decisions.
Carol A. Poile-Ballweg
Author of A Step Forward in Interior Design
Designed with Real Homes in Mind
Carol A. Poile-Ballweg created A Step Forward in Interior Design to make home decorating feel less frustrating and more approachable. Her message is simple: you already use planning, organizing, budgeting, and decision-making skills every day, and those same skills can help you create a home you love.
This workbook was designed to help you build around what you already own, shop with intention, experiment with confidence, and move through your decorating journey one clear step at a time.
Wishing you the best in your decorating endeavor,
Carol A. Poile-Ballweg
More Design Help Is Coming
The Essentials Edition is the first step in a growing collection of design tools, printables, tips, and planning resources created to help you make your home feel more beautiful, useful, and personal.
Plus new blog posts and simple decorating ideas.