USING MOOD BOARDS TO DESIGN YOUR DREAM HOME
Mood boards can be a powerful planning tool for getting clarity on your interior design dreams. Having a solid design plan will save you time and money in the long run. If you feel overwhelmed and confused about your concept of a room in your home, inundated with visual inspiration, and not sure how to get from there to anywhere, we have some tried and true tips for making mood boards that will get you excited to create your dream space:
1. Think of your Instagram saved folder, your screenshots on your phone, and Pinterest as your first mood board. It might help to consolidate them all in one place, maybe you make a Pinterest board for each room of your house. It’s ok if your ideas are a little bit scattered. This is a place to save everything: rooms you love, products you think could work for that room, colors, patterns, textiles, furniture, aything goes!
2. Now we’re ready to graduate to a mood board that can start to truly capture the mood. Start to hone in on what you’re drawn to for this room. Using a program like adobe illustrator, Canva, or google slides, pull images together in a collage-like fashion that tells a story of how to want your space to feel, what textures it should have, what’s the base color, and what are the complimentary colors. Explore and play! You’re strengthening your visual muscles and it will have a big payoff.
3. If you still need clarity on the room. we recommend taking your mood board one step further and playing with ideas 3-dimensionally. There are so many ways to do this and there are no rules. We like to start with a paint color for a background, choose furniture and accessories, and start dragging them around to create a view of the room. We have so many tips including how to remove backgrounds, how to incorporate vintage, etc, in our moodboard workshop, available through our design club membership. Play with this mood board until it feels exciting!
Now that you have visual plan, you can make a written plan. Write down what you can start to do, what you can keep your eyes peeled for and what you can start to save for. Things may evolve over time, but now you have a direction you feel confident about. We recommend doing mood boards for each space in your house and creating a whole-house mood board that will help you visualize the cohesiveness of your home. We go into this and so much more in our moodboard workshop, which you can access when you sign up to our design club.
