Posts tagged mood board
How To Add Pantone's 2023 Color of the Year - Viva Magenta (18-1750) - To Your Home & Lifestyle
How To Add Pantone's 2023 Color of the Year - Viva Magenta (18-1750) - To Your Home & Lifestyle

Meet Viva Magenta.

Viva Magenta is described as a "hybrid" color - "a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength."

New signal of strength.

From this description, I can completely see how this would be apropos going into 2023. It continues...

an animated red that revels in pure joy, encouraging experimentation and self-expression without restraint

When I think about this past year - past couple of years actually - I think we could all use bit more of all of the above. I know I could. Viva Magenta is a visually energetic color. It's bold color from a family of hues to play with, making it an exciting color to experiment with in home decor & fashion.

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Shopping, DesignAlbie Knowscoty, viva magenta, shopping, mood board
Mood Board Inspiration: December 2022
Mood Board Inspiration: December 2022

I've never been too much a fan of "traditional" holiday colors, especially when I think about this time of year & Christmas. The widely celebrated holiday has become synonymous with reds & greens, which is likely why I was [consciously or subconsciously] drawn to this palette to close out the year.

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ShoppingAlbie Knowsmood board, fall, shopping, holiday season, winter
Mood Board Inspiration: November 2022
Mood Board Inspiration: November 2022

To know me is to know I try to live a hygge inspired lifestyle - chasing creating moments of bliss as often & consistently as possible. With that, I've designed my home to be a very hygge inspired safe place for my family & I. One of the major tenets of hygge inspire design is color - and not a lack of... instead, it's about layering hues & textures to create movement in a space, even when the tones are all neutral. My home isn't all neutral. It's layered. This is why my November 2022 monthly moldboard inspiration may likely be my top favorite from the monthly moldboard series... not to mention being very on brand for the season.

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ShoppingAlbie Knowsmood board, fall, hygge, shopping
Mood Board Inspiration: October 2022
Mood Board Inspiration: October 2022

When I see this inspiration board, I am reminded of what I want the coming weeks to feel like - I want them to be soft & kind, while also allowing for endurance & assertiveness. I want this new season to be like a warm embrace... and I dunno about you, but for me, the best hugs are both strong & delicate... like this palette.

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DesignAlbie Knowsmood board, color, hygge, cost plus world market, target, shopping, lulu & georgia, amazon, fall
Mood Board Inspiration: May 2020
Mood Board Inspiration: May 2020

How is it already May?!

And yet here we are…

About halfway through the second quarter of the year and nearly 3 months into a global pandemic that has all but crippled our “normal” way of life. Now for me, I am thankful that COVID-19 and the stay-at-home order hasn’t too much impacted my day to day — changes have happened but nothing drastic — but I also couldn’t think about all the changes happening in nature that we can’t see… and possibly all the changes happening because we aren’t out in the world messing with things.

I remember reading about reports that indicated a decrease in air pollution across the world because factories were closed, cars weren’t on the road, and just overall how our being home was giving Mother Nature a much-needed reset of her home. Imagine that!

I thought about how clear skies and vibrant colors, and my may mood board inspiration came into bloom…

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DesignAlbie Knowsmood board, color, hygge, cost plus world market, target, horchow, serena & lily, the container store, shopping
Mood Board Inspiration: April 2020
Mood Board Inspiration: April 2020

Living in the Pacific Northwest gave me a newfound appreciation for nature’s beauty, but specifically the colors in nature — I didn’t exactly always get the benefit of seeing a crayola assortment of trees and clear blue skies while living in Hell’s. Kitchen. While I’m sure this is problem the first spring for all of us, where we’re spending most of it in our homes, there is still so much beauty out there in the world to appreciate — and with any luck, that we’ll be able to enjoy before the season changes.

That was my inspiration for this month’s mood board — bringing home the simple beauty around us.

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DesignAlbie Knowsmood board, color, hygge, cost plus world market, target, horchow, serena & lily, the container store, shopping
How To Create Easy Mood Boards
How To Create Easy Mood Boards

Ever since diving into interior design as a career, I have become pretty known for how I’ve employed technology to launch my path, specifically as an e-designer. Specifically, people started really noticing my renderings and my mood boards, with the latter being some of my most popular content amongst designers and design enthusiasts alike.

Spoiler: I use Keynote to create easy and dynamic mood boards. This isn’t to say I haven’t used different platforms over the years. Trust me...I have! I got here after a lot of trial & error with my deliverables, with my content, and with my business across the board. For me, this made (and still makes) the most sense. Truth be told, my gigabytes are precious so it was worth it to me to give a native application a fair shot if it meant I could delete additional software and/or have one less website login to remember.

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BusinessAlbie Knowsmood board, technology, designpreneur, how to, covid19
Mood Board Inspiration: January 2020
Mood Board Inspiration: January 2020

Inspiration can be found in all places, in all things, including driving through a “snow storm” after picking up the kiddo from school. Cognizant of how design inspiration can be found in the most unlikely places, I decided to start pulling the palettes from the scene — literally just with a color dropper — just to see what colors were really resonating and it was really illuminating.

From one spontaneous moment in time, I was able to capture what really was (is) an amazing color palette. And now here we are… the first of 12 mood board inspirations for 2020.

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Design, ShoppingAlbie Knowscost plus world market, lulu & georgia, mood board, h&m home, shopping