Interior designers and stylists use mood boards to check their colour schemes are working, and if you like to collect samples before you decorate, this is a great colour co-ordinating tool for you.
Start with a plain board to which you can pin and stick samples, and then gather wallpaper, fabric, pictures of the furniture and accessories you want, and use sample pots of paint to create paint swatches.
Then you can lay out all your proposed colours together on the board to check they are co-ordinating perfectly.
For the best guide to what works, try to keep your samples proportionate to each other. For example, if you’re painting all four walls in one colour then this would be the largest sample on your board; a flooring sample would also be one the biggest. A piece of the proposed curtain fabric would be smaller, and a colour just used for vases or cushions wouldn’t be very big at all. This will give you the most accurate idea of the balance of colour in your completed room.
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