How To Make The Perfect Mood Board2

How To Make The Perfect Mood Board

Whether you’re building a new home or renovating your existing one, creating a mood board is one of the best ways to communicate your vision for your interiors. 

Decorating a new space and generalised interior design can be difficult, even if you have a love for it. You might have a thousand ideas of what you want a room to look like, but either get overwhelmed with the many concepts and options and don’t know how to organise them, or simply lack the inspiration required to craft a space from scratch. ‘

Making The Perfect Mood Board

Thankfully, creating a mood board offers a solution. While many people are familiar with the concept of a vision board, which is more or less a collage style form of inspiration used to stick to your goals, a mood board is more of a planning tool deployed in the early stages of conceptual interior design. Ideally, the perfect mood board should serve as your vision for a new interior design style, and as a tangible example, idea or representation of what you want the finished product to look like – but how do you actually make one yourself?

Your Guide To Creating A Mood Board

For DIY enthusiasts and home renovators, Pinterest is their go-to for sourcing ideas on a new interior home design. Textures, colours, materials and more are all just a click away, and users can in essence create digital mood boards and categorise their discoveries accordingly. 

However, this can only get you so far. A physical mood board made by your own two hands is considered to be much more effective, as it allows you to touch, feel and rearrange your choices in order to help execute decisions on what types of inclusions you would like to see in your home’s new interior design. After all, a ‘pin’ can’t communicate the feel of a velvet piece of fabric that you’re considering using for your new couch, nor does it have the ability to compare a textured white tile that you plan on using for your splashback against a timber benchtop. 

creating a mood board example 1

By working out what materials you can mix together and even applying that final layer of style, a mood board lets users see how different ideas work together, before making any financial commitments. While they go a long way when it comes to avoiding any materials that don’t look so great in the flesh, home owners can also use a mood board to avoid getting stuck with products that just don’t suit a space – so how do you actually make one yourself?

Gather Your Inspiration – When it comes to the fundamentals of making the perfect mood board, it’s time to go analog. While the digital world offers much printable inspiration to use for your mood board, start collecting snippets from magazines, obtaining brochures, sourcing fabric swatches, paint samples from hardware stores, and just about anything physical that you can get your hands on that tickles your fancy. 

Select Your Medium – The primary idea of a mood board is to make minor amendments to the final concept while you experiment and discover new colours, materials, textures and more. As a result, try to avoid a mood board format that is too rigid, and aim for a frame that enables you to shuffle as you change your mind. For a starting point, a medium to large cork board allows you to quite literally ‘pin’ new ideas and remove others as you start exploring. 

Edit And Tweak – If your mood board is too busy and isn’t cohesive, you may need to look at refining your choices. Using your new mood board to deliver the ideal finished product may take a few go’s to get to where you want to be. You may find that your concept is missing something, one colour is overused, or there are items that look great separately, but aren’t working together. If you are happy with your mood board, revisit it in a few days to be sure of the final result. 

Mood Boards

Ultimately, mood boards are often used to help you to focus, identify sources of inspiration, and to communicate and translate the vision that lives in your mind into a tangible, real world path to follow. Try not to get frustrated if you don’t get instant results, and remember that a mood board is a fluid tool that’s supposed to change as your scope expands. However, in the event that you still find yourself lacking a vision and prefer to get an outsider’s opinion, then it’s always worth speaking to the professionals. 

Sourcing Building Materials From The Professionals 

While your options for carpet, timber and tiles are almost limitless, selecting the right type for your home certainly isn’t an easy feat. With each space, comes a different preference or priority: are you chasing style, functionality, or simply want to stay within the budget?

Why Mood Boards Are Important

In operation for over 25 years, at Tile Wizards we pride ourselves on getting you more – for less. We pioneered the warehouse format, and our stores are purposefully designed to make your selection easier, and ultimately offer our customers quality, price and the right advice. 

Even if you are just after some honest and friendly advice – please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at Tile Wizards today for a free quote. We’re able to work with you in order to bring your dream flooring solution to life.