Simply Gracious Homes

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Simply Gracious Homes

Creating beautiful homes with confidence, purpose, and heart.

Beautiful Homes. Gracious Living.

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Meet Sherri Viola

Sherri Viola is the founder of Simply Gracious Homes and the author of Simply Gracious Living. She believes decorating should feel approachable—not overwhelming—and that the most beautiful homes are the ones that reflect the people who live there. She created these resources to offer practical, easy-to-use guidance for making thoughtful decorating decisions with greater confidence.

Simply Gracious Resource Library

Free Guides & Resources

Every resource in this library was created to help you turn inspiration into a home that feels beautiful, comfortable, and uniquely yours. Explore the companion downloads for Simply Gracious Living and the Whole-Home Decorating Planner, along with practical guides, worksheets, and planning tools designed to help you decorate with greater confidence.

Beautiful homes aren't created all at once. They come together one thoughtful decision at a time.

Decorating Guides & Worksheets

Decorating Style Quiz

Discover the decorating styles that feel most like you. This easy quiz and scorecard helps you identify your strongest style influences and gives you a clearer direction for your home.

Decorating Styles & Plant Pairings

Find plants that complement your decorating style instead of feeling like an afterthought. Use this guide for ideas that bring softness, life, and a natural finishing layer to your rooms.

The Simply Gracious Color Guide

A practical guide to understanding color, neutrals, accents, and undertones. Use it to create color combinations that feel connected, comfortable, and easy to live with.

Color & Mood Quick Reference

See how color can influence the feeling of a room. This quick-reference guide helps you choose colors based not only on how they look, but on how you want your space to feel.

Whole-Home Palette Worksheet

Plan a color palette that flows naturally from room to room. Record your primary neutrals, supporting colors, and accents so your home feels connected without every room looking the same.

Step-by-Step Choosing Paint Guide

Take some of the guesswork out of choosing paint. Follow a thoughtful process for narrowing your choices, considering undertones and light, testing samples, and making a final decision with greater confidence.

Lighting Guide

Plan lighting that is both beautiful and functional. Use this guide to think through ambient, task, and accent lighting and create a warm, layered lighting plan for your home.

Room Makeover Foundation

Start your next room project with a clear direction. This worksheet helps you identify what is working, what needs to change, what should stay, and what you want the finished room to feel like.

Checklists

Budget Checklist

Create a realistic decorating budget before the shopping begins. Prioritize where to spend, where you may be able to save, and the expenses that are easy to overlook.

Balanced Styling Checklist

Use this finishing checklist when a shelf, tabletop, mantel, or room feels just a little "off." It helps you look at scale, height, balance, repetition, and breathing room before deciding what needs to change.

Texture Checklist

Add warmth and dimension without simply adding more things. This checklist helps you layer fabrics, woods, metals, greenery, baskets, ceramics, and other textures for a room that feels collected and complete.

Estate Sale & Thrift Shopping Checklist

Shop estate sales and secondhand sources with a plan. Keep measurements, priorities, condition checks, and buying considerations close at hand so a great price does not become the wrong purchase.

Room Planning Tools

Room Layout Planning Kit

Test furniture arrangements before doing the heavy lifting. Use the scaled planning grid and furniture pieces to explore layouts, spacing, traffic flow, and furniture placement on paper first.

Printable Room-Planning Packet

A reusable set of planning pages for working through additional rooms. Print a fresh packet whenever you are ready to begin another space.

Home Planning Binder Setup Guide

Prefer to keep your decorating plans on paper? This guide shows you how to organize measurements, inspiration, samples, receipts, product information, and room plans into one practical home-decorating binder.

Printable Room Tabs & Labels

Keep your decorating binder easy to navigate with ready-to-use room tabs and organizational labels. Print only the ones that make sense for your home and your projects.

Digital Project Tools

Digital Vision Board Template

Gather your inspiration in one place before you begin buying. Use the template to bring together colors, furniture, fabrics, lighting, art, and other ideas so you can see how your choices work together.

Digital Room-Folder Setup Guide

Create a simple digital filing system for your decorating projects. Organize inspiration photos, measurements, receipts, product links, warranties, and project documents so you can find them when you need them.

Project Photo Archive Guide

Create an organized visual record of your home as it evolves. This guide helps you save before, during, and after photos so you can track your progress and remember what worked.

Auto-Calculating Whole-Home Budget

Keep an eye on the big picture while planning individual rooms. Enter your projected and actual costs and let the spreadsheet do the calculations, making it easier to see where your decorating budget stands.

Product, Delivery & Return Tracker

Keep purchases from becoming paperwork chaos. Track what you ordered, where you bought it, what you paid, expected delivery dates, returns, and other important details in one place.

Coming Soon

More Books on the Way

New books, planners, and practical resources are being created to help you bring more beauty, confidence, and gracious living into your home. Check back for new releases and additions to the Resource Library.