Mood Board Ideas From Marrakech

Pinning down the vibe and mood that you want to create in a space is a great place to start when planning a room.

With so many colours, fabrics and images for inspiration available to us it can become quite overwhelming when deciding how to approach designing and decorating your room, so making a mood board is a great visual tool to help provide direction and clarity on the approach you want to take for the overall look and feel of the room.

I’m an advocate of implementing tones, colours, textures, smells etc. that you have a positive connection with due to your own personal experiences. This approach always helps an interior space to go beyond trends as you’re designing a space that’s deeply personal and conjures a deeper connection with your home. This approach will also aid your wellbeing, as you’ll be surrounding yourself in an environment that evokes senses linked to positive memories and emotions.

By incorporating more personal memories through design the likelihood of wanting to change our choices in the short term reduces as we form a deeper connection with the design of our home.

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What Do You Put on a mood board?

With all the above said your mood board can be made using a collage of anything from art, architecture, objects, nature, prints, textures, materials, to pictures of furniture that your soul connects with for your own personal reasons. The mood board can help to translate the emotional, nonverbal ideas for the room into a visual concept that can be acted upon.

Of course we all need to include items on our mood board simply because we like them – for example, I can’t say I’ve got a deep personal connection with a style of skirting board. Maybe you have fond memories in a beautiful stately home in which case you may want to replicate the style by including a skirting board design that helps achieve the look and feel, but otherwise it’s just a matter of preference.

Bedroom Mood Board Ideas

On a recent trip to Marrakech I had a great time with my partner and really savoured the moments of calm we experienced in places like Le Jardin Secret and Les Bains de Marrakech. I was really drawn to the more neutral tones that contained subtle textures because of the raw character of the materials used.

Taking a quick picture following the moment was a great way of remembering the event / feeling and these pictures provide an opportunity to create a more personal mood board than using generic pictures, for example, from Pinterest.

Here is how I’d assort some of the individual images I took and recreate the mood felt into the design of a bedroom.

My favourite tones and textures from Marrakech.

Developing the mood board with examples of furniture that complement the vibe that’s trying to be achieved.

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Conclusion

Regardless of whether you make a physical or digital mood board it really helps towards creating a cohesive design in your room and helps provide direction on what to look for and purchase.

As there’s no real rules when it comes to mood boards it’s good to experiment. By taking into account happy memories with travel, events, where you feel most at ease, this can provide a good starting point for you to build upon and create an interior design scheme for your home that you’ll love for years to come.