Tips for budding interior designers:
How to create your own moodboard.
Be your own interior designer, make a moodboard. It’s fun, interesting and will help you formulate your ideas. Interior designers create moodboards to display ideas visually so that it’s easy to see what needs to be tweaked.
What should you put on your mood board?
Everything! Your dream sofa, your favourite colours, fabrics, wallpaper, floor finish, worktop and furniture. Grab a magazine, a pair of scissors and away you go.
This display will help you refine your ideas and see what will work together in the room. It's also a reminder of what you need and don't need and what colours you want to work with. It's easy to get carried away 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.
You can start with just one idea, a piece of wallpaper you love, for example. Then build the rest of the room around it. You can experiment with styles and colours and textures before you start spending money.
Next step? Sample board.
When you are happy with your moodboard ideas your next step is to make a sample board. It is a board that has small samples of each of your selected finishes displayed on it for your reference of what is going where.Need inspiration? Pinterest.
Pinterest is a great resource for ideas and it’s full of moodboards from budding interior designers.And take a look at our gallery photos from our new homes at Chesterhill Wood, the show home is now open and the rooms are looking great!
