Interior designers love playing around with mood boards, it looks creative and imaginative, but what purpose do they actually serve?
Lots of designers use mood boards in some form or other to keep a collection of their favorite pieces and to create a certain style.
Interior Stylist Jeska Hearne has scrap books that she made into mood books, made up of images, colour swabs and fabric samples. This gives her ideas and she can look here for inspiration.
“If you’re planning to redecorate, you might have seen lots of pictures that you like in magazines, but you can’t really get an idea of how that style or scheme might work in your own house without trying it out on some scale,” she says.
“A moodboard helps you focus and helps you keep your ideas together, so that you don’t start going over the top - it’s a reminder of what you need and don’t need and what colours you want to work with. It’s easy to get distracted and start buying all sorts when you’re redecorating, only to find it doesn’t work when it’s all put together. A moodboard helps you sort this process out.”
