After your interior designer has a good idea of what you have in mind for your project, they will put together a design concept for your home. One of the tools they might use is called a 'mood board'. A mood board is a communication tool that uses visual language to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding the colors and 'mood' wanted in the newly decorated room.
Mood boards are not meant to be interpreted literally. There is no need to nitpick the board and say that you don't like the arms on the chair or that you don't actually own (in the case of this board) a chocolate lab with it's own set of pearls. You want to step back from the board and decide if the feeling, the essence it suggests, is the feeling and essence you want to live with in your new room.
This mood board was created to communicate the feeling of a 'vintage chic' style.
The next picture shows one of the areas in the home that grew out of the mood board's concept. Can you see the relation in the color scheme and feeling between the board and real life vignette?
There is no reason why you can't create a mood board for yourself, too! If you are planning on working with a designer, most will welcome the advance time and thought you put into the dream and vision you have for your room. And if you are paying your designer by the hour, you save money, too! Don't worry about making it perfect, or even about things matching. It can be a pile of clipped images that may not seem to relate; your designer can often distill your design style from vary disparate images.
On the other hand, if you are do-it-yourselfer, a complete mood board is a great tool for making sure that as you are out shopping you don't stray too far from the feeling you want, and you are more likely to end up with a cohesive, finished room than if you shop without this kind of a map and just buy on impulse. Impulse shopping usually just leaves you with more stuff and a still unfinished room, crying out for cohesion. So try your hand at a mood board. Let your imagination run wild with the room you'd Love to have. Clip images from home magazines, off the internet, from your own photos, and even from travel, fashion and cooking magazines. This is about setting a mood with texture and color - the details of the arms on the chair will be worked out later.
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