Pinterest makes it easy to gather images in one place and create virtual boards, but a physical board with dimension, fabrics, images and color convey your interior design message, or other story with even stronger feeling. These may not be the exact colors or items we choose in the end, but they help the client and I remain on the same page for the vision of the space. Here are a few examples of digital boards I’ve created at the beginning of a project to help inform the color palette or overall feeling we are trying to achieve.
Here’s an old post on how to create your own color palette in Photoshop. I personally like to use Photoshop, but Power Point, Pic Monkey and Moldivare also great applications for making quick collages.
Pinterest is a nice place to gather inspiration images, but I suggest making the digital board elsewhere. Think high-level here, broad concepts to convey how you think the space should feel. It’s a great way to solidify the color palette and direction you’re going with the project. I like to start with a digital mood board. While a physical (real-life) mood board is always more interesting to me, it’s more practical to use a combination of digital and physical mood boards with interior design clients. Let’s look at some mood boards both analog and digital. There are really so many ways to create a feeling and impart your vision to others, clients, etc. This lovely layered board was from San Francisco florist Natalie Bowen Designs. Learning how to create a mood board for interior design is not overly complicated. I find mood boards endlessly interesting, and have been able to see many different iterations in the studios of Women Who Make interviewees.
These pieces get layered together and over time create a full board that tells a personal story or possibly a business story, much like the mood board pictured above. You save bits and pieces of your life a card from a friend, an inspirational magazine image, an old photograph. MaDIY Projects, Interior Design, Yoga + Lifestyle 1 Commentįor some, creating a mood board comes naturally.