Have you always dreamed of cultivating a particular vibe in your home? It’s not easy to translate your vision into reality if you don’t have anything to guide you; having only foggy ideas for your remodel can quickly lead to veering off from your original design course.
If you’re looking to create a cohesive style in your next renovation project, an interior design mood board is an essential tool for keeping your project aesthetically on track. Whether you’re determining the style for your entire Seattle home, or a single room such as your kitchen and bathroom, a mood board will help you get better results with less time and toil.
A mood board is a collection of images, textures, colors, and other physical elements that encapsulate your desired style, or “mood” for the finished room of your project. Mood boards can be physical, by gathering elements in the real world and assembling them, or digital, by finding and collecting material on the internet that inspires you.
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A mood board is flexible; you can add anything that helps demonstrate your space’s future personality. Here’s what we recommend you look to include:
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If you are assembling a digital mood board, you’re in luck: there is a nearly endless supply of material for inspiration online.
If you want a mood board you can touch and feel, there are still plenty of methods for gathering physical material:
Struggling on where to begin? Take our design style quiz to help get you started on your search.
To assemble your digital mood board, you can create a Board on Pinterest and “pin” all of your elements, or if you have all of your pictures downloaded to your device, use a photo collage maker such as Canva.
If you are putting together a physical mood board, use a bulletin board and thumbtacks or a posterboard and hot glue, depending on the material you’ll be placing onto the board.
As you lay out your elements, place the most important pieces that are central to your style in the middle of the moodboard. Then, all of the supplementary stylistic pieces should be placed around it.
Once you feel satisfied with the board’s layout, take a step back and evaluate how the pieces look together. Do they accurately display your vision? Do certain elements look wrong? Now is the time to make adjustments and switch out anything you feel isn’t fitting.
Keep tinkering with the mood board until you’re confident in it; don’t get frustrated if it takes a few iterations. Design takes practice, and this is the time in your project where changes to the plan are easiest to make.
Remember to reference your mood board throughout your remodeling project to make sure the space is shaping up to meet your stylistic goals.
You may want to consider getting professional help in redesigning and renovating your space. At Innovative Home Renovations, our experienced team can help you in every step of the way. Collaborating with teams such as ours with a wide range of services can help you save time, money, and stress.
If you’re looking to update your kitchen, redo your bathroom, or transform multiple living spaces in your home, professional teams can make the process easier and faster, while producing superior results. Partnering with Innovative Home Renovations allows you to collaborate with experienced designers and builders, so you can be confident with your remodeling decisions. Let us help you start planning your Seattle home upgrade by connecting with a project manager today.