Is it just me or is the whole idea of "Doing-it-yourself" the way we should do things? I feel a little overloaded by all the shows, websites and blogs these days about DIY. I feel like there's this resurgence of DIY'ing and people feeling very empowered by it which I think is great but I also feel like this is the way it should have been all along. I'm glad people are picking up their tools and fixing, breaking, building themselves. When you need to call a handyman to hang a picture in your house it should be because you're physically incapacitated, ridiculously rich, too old or a combination of the three.
I think what bugs me about the DIY rage is the people who are beaming with pride over the fact that they painted a whole room and hung curtains by themselves... Wow, the whole room? And you hung the curtain rods AND the curtains? I don't think there's a medal for that but maybe there should be. And no just because you've done that doesn't mean you can apply to be the next Design Star. Sorry.
I do however absolutely LOVE the Pinterest craze and if you haven't discovered it for yourself yet get over to http://pinterest.com/ and check it out because it's a great way to keep track of all those cool things you've found online while you were supposed to be working. Now making things yourself that you would have otherwise bought I think you should be very proud of and so many people with so many great ideas that many times involve recycling, upcycling and recreating makes the world a happier place.
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