Creating a Mood Board with Curated Home Decor

I love creating a mood board for a space that is being restyled or newly designed. I first really became enamored with mood boards while watching Capturing Home. 

Mood boards involve curating and gathering items that help set the tone and mood that you want to create in a space. It can use objects that will be styled in the room, but also items that may not be used, but that evoke the colors, textures, and styles that you are designing with. Overlaying and arranging the articles and taking pictures of them helps you to see what works and what doesn't and helps to better define the style.

This mood board is for my upcoming pop-up shop and while the whole shop won't share the same style, a part of it will. Please keep reading for details and close-up shots.

This particular theme started with the curtains in the background. I liked the aquas and reds and greens in them. I recently sourced five vintage Cezanne prints (one of my favorite impressionists). I have framed two of them so far, Basket of Apples and

and Madame Cezanne in the Conservatory. I love how the colors in the prints mesh with and bring out the colors in the curtains. I found three, vintage, floral, metal trays and am sharing two of them here.

vintage, heavy crystal candlesticks juxtaposed next to a rustic worn wood washboard. The green and yellow birdcage introduces more color tones and the little rattan basket adds texture.

Super tall wood candlesticks incorporate warm wood tones. 

A 1940's, Nelson McCoy, Hobnail planter and a strawberry needlepoint trivet bring out more of the colors from the curtains.

The red, paper parasol is on top of one of the Cezanne prints that I haven't found a frame for yet.

Remember, if you have to use faux flowers, always use really good fakes. I love these ones I thrifted, popped in a jade green, slender vase.

The curvy, aqua, table lamp came with a white shade that didn't look good with it. I replaced it with a lighter aqua shade I had. The skinny, horizontal vintage print repeats the blues and greens in the mood board.

The next time you are redoing a space, weather it is just a corner, or an entryway, or a whole room, create a mood board and TAKE pictures to help you define your style.