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Never fear! This handy little guide on Blue Mood Boards will help you out!

So, you’ve decided on the colour scheme which you want for your home. To coincide with the beautiful teals, duck egg blues, turquoises, powder blues and so many more colours which are associated with winter time, you have decided on blue.

However, how do you know WHICH blue you wish for your home to be? Or, rather, which of the MANY types of blue should you choose for your home? Or even which types of cushions, sofas, or room accessories you will need for your new space?

With questions like the ones above- as well as so many more- circulating around your head, it may be sometimes difficult to decide which wallpaper will go with which piece of furniture, or even which vase, ornament, or pillow will go with the room too!

However, there are ways in which you can test out the colour scheme of your room, or anything else which you require, without buying the products and potentially wasting your money.

Below is an extensive guide on blue mood boards and how to create them, either by using wallpaper samples, or even by making mood boards online as featured above.

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How do I start making a blue mood board?

The very best way to find out whether a certain style, colour, or even type of wallpaper is suitable for you is by creating a mood board before buying the wallpaper. After all, you don’t want to be forking out on numerous types of wallpaper, only to find out that they are not the correct fit for either your room, or not the style which you intended to buy in the first place.

There are many ways in which you can create your blue mood board, either via a scrapbook, or even online as featured above!

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How do I create a scrap book-looking mood board using paper and other bits and bobs?

They are very simple and quick to make, which means that you can make more than one in order to test out which colour schemes, room accessories, wallpapers and other types of interior decorations you are thinking of using.

If you are wanting to create a blue mood board that is not online, you can simply start gathering together a variety of different items together and see how they fit together on the page. This can be done very simply by collecting together a variety of samples- of wallpaper, paint, pictures and many other things.

Some of the pictures which you wish to include could be of sofas, cushions, beds, pillows, and anything else which pertains to interior decorating, or the decorating aesthetic which you wish to achieve.

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Your mood board can be as complicated, or as simple, as you wish, however it must have a few different colours mixed together in order for you to get a proper feel of what the room will not only look like, but also if the colour scheme will match too.

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How do I create a blue mood board using online tools and software?

There are many ways in which you can create mood boards using online tools and software, as our OTHER BLOG POST shows in step-by-step guides.

However, as computerised mood boards give you much more scope when it comes to choosing images, wallpapers, colours and other things to include in your mood boards. This means that when creating your computerised mood boards, it is essential that you choose images that relate to the outcome of the mood board.

For example, in the mood board above, there are quite a few pictures of different styles of wallpaper, as well as some colour swatches too. However, there are also pictures of living rooms with room accessories and furniture inside which would work well with a blue wallpaper.

This means that the mood board is carefully considering all aspects of the room’s development, rather than just a colour scheme.

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How many mood boards should I create in order to understand how my space will be set up?

The answer to this question really does depend on whether the mood board that you have created has fulfilled the needs that you require. In order to gauge this, you must ask yourself a few questions before you start purchasing bits and bobs for your interior decorating journey.

If you want, you want make different mood boards for different aspects of your room, and then perhaps one larger one which combines the different aspects which you desire into one mood board in order to gauge how they will all work as a collective room.

For instance, you can perhaps make one mood board for colours, another for cushions/ pillows, another for room accessories such as vases, ornaments and other little pieces like that, one for furniture and one for wallpaper.

These mood boards can be quite large idea-based mood boards, however as you become more and more understanding of what you specifically want and what the room requires, you can filter down these mood boards into more specifically-designed mood boards for themes, colours, rooms etc.

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There are so many ways in which you can style your blue mood boards as detailed above, however it really is a matter of preference, as well as what you would prefer to do, rather than a necessary set of requirements that you need to stick to.

Go with your gut- it's your mood board and it will be your perfect room too!

For more tips and tricks like the one above, please do check out our OTHER BLOG POSTS for influences, ideas, trends and new arrivals!

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