Personalise Your Home Office With an Inspirational Pinboard
Pinboards of all persuasions can style up a study and motivate you on your path to success
Populating your workspace with things that move you is a known way to keep your eye on the prize. When you’ve identified what you really want – whether they be career goals, financial milestones or even a dream holiday – photos, clippings and symbols serve as motivating prompts to keep you fired up and motoring toward success. Displaying them can be done in many ways, as this creative collection reveals. Prepare to be inspired!
“Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?”
– Michelle Obama
Get out the painter’s tape
A series of inexpensive corkboards has been transformed the wall of this home office. Simply tape the parts you want to leave plain, and paint the rest. Peel off the tape when the paint is almost dry.
– Michelle Obama
Get out the painter’s tape
A series of inexpensive corkboards has been transformed the wall of this home office. Simply tape the parts you want to leave plain, and paint the rest. Peel off the tape when the paint is almost dry.
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
– Malala Yousafzai
Create a blank canvas
Sturdy thumb tacks can usually be pushed into plasterboard walls, negating the need for a corkboard. Paint the wall with chalkboard paint and you can scribble as well as tape or pin up what inspires you.
– Malala Yousafzai
Create a blank canvas
Sturdy thumb tacks can usually be pushed into plasterboard walls, negating the need for a corkboard. Paint the wall with chalkboard paint and you can scribble as well as tape or pin up what inspires you.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Clip it to wire
A simple wire mesh panel from the hardware store is all it takes to make your home office more motivating. Mini wooden pegs or bulldog clips will keep your treasures in place.
– George Eliot
Clip it to wire
A simple wire mesh panel from the hardware store is all it takes to make your home office more motivating. Mini wooden pegs or bulldog clips will keep your treasures in place.
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Repurpose an old shutter
Plantation shutters aren’t just for windows. Lean one or two up against the wall behind your desk, and you can have an instant pinboard – without the pins.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Repurpose an old shutter
Plantation shutters aren’t just for windows. Lean one or two up against the wall behind your desk, and you can have an instant pinboard – without the pins.
“You don’t have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You’ve just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.”
– Jessica Watson
Cover a corkboard with fabric
You can create just the backdrop you want with this approach. Use a staple gun or thumb tacks on the back to keep the fabric taut and in place.
– Jessica Watson
Cover a corkboard with fabric
You can create just the backdrop you want with this approach. Use a staple gun or thumb tacks on the back to keep the fabric taut and in place.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston S. Churchill
Corkboards – covered or not – don’t always have to be placed above your desk, and can be ordered in any size you like. Take a look around your home office with fresh eyes – you might have the perfect spot for a set-up like this.
– Winston S. Churchill
Corkboards – covered or not – don’t always have to be placed above your desk, and can be ordered in any size you like. Take a look around your home office with fresh eyes – you might have the perfect spot for a set-up like this.
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
Blend it into the wall
A lick of paint the same colour as the wall behind will make whatever is pinned up pop. In other words, a ready-framed pinboard need not look as ugly as the day you bought it. Paint over the frame and all for an instant transformation.
– Amelia Earhart
Blend it into the wall
A lick of paint the same colour as the wall behind will make whatever is pinned up pop. In other words, a ready-framed pinboard need not look as ugly as the day you bought it. Paint over the frame and all for an instant transformation.
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story … I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”
– Cheryl Strayed
Break out the pegboard
The industrial trend has brought with it some pretty practical home office additions. Peg up your inspirational bits and bobs with the help of oversized paperclips.
Pegboards that work their socks off
– Cheryl Strayed
Break out the pegboard
The industrial trend has brought with it some pretty practical home office additions. Peg up your inspirational bits and bobs with the help of oversized paperclips.
Pegboards that work their socks off
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
– Golda Meir
– Golda Meir
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
– Stephen King
Turn the whole wall into a mood board
The faint joins in this wall are the only telltale signs it’s a giant pinboard – and there’s no telling the inspiration that could come from it. A wide charcoal strip through the middle keeps the creativity contained … for now.
– Stephen King
Turn the whole wall into a mood board
The faint joins in this wall are the only telltale signs it’s a giant pinboard – and there’s no telling the inspiration that could come from it. A wide charcoal strip through the middle keeps the creativity contained … for now.
“You’ve always got to be aware of why you don’t win; otherwise you’ll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won’t make the same mistake again.”
– Layne Beachley
Go wild with washi tape
Just about anything can serve as a pinboard with a roll of washi by your side. It comes in all kinds of colours and patterns – beating out masking tape in the style stakes – and stays put better than regular sticky tape. The raw chipboard leaning against the wall on this desk adds to the industrial vibe and creates an instant canvas.
– Layne Beachley
Go wild with washi tape
Just about anything can serve as a pinboard with a roll of washi by your side. It comes in all kinds of colours and patterns – beating out masking tape in the style stakes – and stays put better than regular sticky tape. The raw chipboard leaning against the wall on this desk adds to the industrial vibe and creates an instant canvas.
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
Covered corkboards need not be covered in pins to be useful. Washi tape is just as effective as thumb tacks for keeping lightweight clippings in place – and doesn’t make holes.
12 creative ways with washi tape
– Marie Curie
Covered corkboards need not be covered in pins to be useful. Washi tape is just as effective as thumb tacks for keeping lightweight clippings in place – and doesn’t make holes.
12 creative ways with washi tape
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett
Can’t be bothered with corkboards? With washi tape, you can just use the wall.
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– Warren Buffett
Can’t be bothered with corkboards? With washi tape, you can just use the wall.
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– Maya Angelou
Frame it
Replace a framed print or painting you no longer love with a corkboard from the hardware store or stationery supply shop – it can easily be trimmed to size to fit the frame with a Stanley knife.