A mood board...

I love love love putting together a quick and easy mood board. It takes a relatively low amount of time to gather images online, take a screenshot and place them together in a word document. The impact… you get to see the overall concept design form in front of your eyes!

I use a mood board with our clients in two ways.

First, if we are working with a client who is unsure of the design direction or if we are drastically changing the design from what they have to an entirely new style, I like to create a mood board. This is an efficient way to showcase the design, it is one page that provides our client with a basic visual overview of the design direction. If the client doesn’t like the design, it is quick and easy to change out pieces or create a whole new style for their space using the mood board format. Putting together a design package which contains floor plans, multiple renderings and detailed material selection charts takes hours and hours of time, so this is a great starting point to ensure the design direction is solidified before moving forward with further plans.

Second, we always include a mood board in our design packages. Each part of the package mentioned above has its purpose, floor plans to show layout of the space, renderings to show a visual concept of the design, material selection charts include the name, a link, details, quantity and it does have the image but it is in a list format with written information. So, the mood board has accurate images of the materials side by side on one page (per room), that again can really provide the client a great visual of how the selections will come together.

Mood boards might not seem as technical as other aspects in interior design, but I would argue they are the most important piece to show our client the best representation of the overall design.