The science behind creating the perfect moodboard
Where do you start when redesigning your home? How best to collate all of your ideas? At Designers Guild, we start with mood boards. This medium allows for an exploration of colour, texture and pattern like no other, to see how your ideas will work in reality before you place even a brushstroke.
Why are mood boards important in the design process?
Mood Boards are a great way to start a new scheme. It is an excellent way of judging the relationships between the different elements that you want to bring together in a setting.
“This medium allows for an expression of colour, texture and pattern like no other, mood boards allow you to see how your space is going to look without even placing a single brush stroke.”
Creating your own special palette, your own array of colours that express who you are is one of the most fulfilling aspects of designing a scheme. What we are trying to achieve, on a very small scale, is the end result, and that is what is so useful about the process of setting up a mood board.
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How to craft a mood board
Start with your favourite image, perhaps a favourite postcard or photograph. Decide on your colours, are they cool or warm? Any colour that doesn’t make you feel happy shouldn't be used. Build with soft colours, hard colours and even a touch of velvet or soft linen, don’t be afraid to consider abstract prints or geometrical patterns for that authentic twist.
“I always start with a mood board so that I can properly visualise my idea.”
The beauty of putting these elements together is that you can completely change a scheme by adding additional colour, and you can move different elements off of your mood board as you go along. It is important to consider your textures as well because this is what will bring your scheme to life. A great tip is to add your sample pieces to your board, along with fabrics, wallpaper, paint and why not include imagery that inspires the design.
Flowers are a great inspiration, there isn’t anything quite as beautiful as the colours of petals on a flower, why not bring in the feeling of a landscape?
Bring your vision to life
Creating a new space, and a new environment can be very daunting, but with a mood board, you can be selective with your ideas. The experience is one of encasing a series of ingredients that you can select from and choose from.
The beauty of a mood board is that you can look at it, live with it, select and in the end, you have this beautiful picture of the room, finished.
Explore an almost endless selection of design options with the magical collection of mood boards created by Designers Guild.
More about Designers Guild
Established in 1970 by Tricia Guild, Designers Guild designs and wholesales furnishing fabrics, wallcoverings, upholstery and bed and bath collections worldwide.
The company is headed and owned by brother and sister, Tricia Guild, Founder and Creative Director, and Simon Jeffreys, Group Chief Executive. The Designers Guild business philosophy is to combine creativity and innovation with the highest levels of quality: quality of design, product, service and people.
“We believe in quality of design, product and service combined with a committed and motivated team.”
Artistry, creativity and innovation is at the heart of the creative process at Designers Guild and shaped by the guiding principle of lifestyle that continues to drive the business today. Each design starts its life with a seed of an idea or point of inspiration and often planted by Guild herself and always with an artist’s brush or pencil. Derived from such diverse sources as Eastern decorative art, Italian architecture, flowers and nature to classical documents. Read the Designers Guild story here.
