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Mmmm, Mood Boards

Ladies and gents, we’ve dreamed of this day. The day that our midnight coding tantrums and accidental hunger strikes would come to an end. That’s right, we fiiiiinally figured out how to create a simple mood board gallery that you guys can browse by color or by room. Just check out the new Mood Board tab up near our blog header:

Moodboards Tab

We rounded up every last mood board that we’ve made in the last three years – which adds up to nearly 150 of them! – and whipped up (well, if you can call 50+ hours spent wrestling with code) a fun little browsing system for your perusal. Now you can find inspiration for your own home when it comes to color schemes, furniture placement, or just have some accessorizing fun. Even if the furniture, accents, or art that we’ve chosen are no longer available, they’re still useful guides for hunting down (or DIYing) something similar- and hopefully they’re just the spark that you need to get excited about your next home makeover. And of course we’d love to see before & after pics along with a link to the mood board that inspired the transformation should that occur!

Moodboards Header

And this idea gallery will always be growing since we’ll be sure to add more mood boards to the mix as we continue to whip them up (the newest boards will always be displayed first). So go forth and search mood boards to your heart’s content, either by color or by room. Or you can choose to view every last one of them if you’ve got some time on your hands. We hope you have as much fun looking around as we had coding it celebrating its completion!

Moodboards Browser

Just follow this link (or visit the new Mood Boards tab under our header) and remember that you can click any mood board thumbnail for a bigger image and a link to the full source list. While it’s not the most technologically advanced gallery, we hope it does the trick of making it a bit easier to digest all of those furniture and accessory riddled mood boards.

And we’re planning something similar to wrangle all of the inspirational “afters” that we’ve featured thanks to readers and people that we’ve house crashed over the years too (just picture one big database of Reader Redesigns, Design Dilemmas that have been solved, and House Crashings arranged by room and color for you to sift through). But for now we’re just trying to muster the energy to look at all of that HTML again. So stay tuned!

Comments

  2. AnnabelVita says

    Woo hoo, looks great!
    What do you use to whip up moodboards? Is it all photoshop or one of the moodboard specific programmes? (It it’s photoshop, have you tried out any of the others?)
    Thanks!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      It doesn’t air in Richmond! Isn’t that insane? They’ll probably pick it up soon but it’s odd that they’re not faster about it. It’s not like Nate can do any wrong!

      xo,
      s

  4. Amanda says

    This is a great little feature that I’m sure a lot (if not all) of your readers will use and become obsessed with using. I just wanted to take the time to thank you for putting all that time (50+ hours, WOW!) into such a great “program”. You two are great!

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  7. Kelly says

    Looks great!! Don’t forget Nate Show aires today! I am sure you had your calendars marked like mine! It is on at 2pm here. Right in the middle of my daughters naptime!! :O)

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      It doesn’t air in Richmond! Isn’t that insane? So sad. We actually have friends taping it for us who live in an area that gets it. But feel free to tell us all about it since we won’t get to check it out for a while. Here’s hoping RIC picks it up any day now!

      xo,
      s

  11. Jill Stigs says

    WHOA…..that’s a lot easier to navigate than hitting the arrow forward in FLICKR! Thanks so much for putting all that work into it. It’s greatly appreciated. :)

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  13. heyruthie says

    this is really a great fueature. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve tried to do a search (on my own) in order to try to get these types of results. this makes it SOOOO much easier! thank you!

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  16. Heather says

    Thank you for all of the time you spent putting this together!

    I know that I will have fun exploring your mood boards in this user-friendly fashion!

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  18. Marilyn says

    THANK YOU! I love browsing through it and then sending the link to my daughter so she can get ideas ( although not into decorating as much as I am. Boo Hoo!)

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  19. bex says

    HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I spent some time late last week staring at all the mood boards through the old link you had. It was a smidge overwhelming. SO pumped that you have a new, much easier way to showcase all your fantastic work. And, the new site looks fantastic! I really like the MB page header.

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  20. Alex says

    I’m very excited about an easy way to browse mood boards!

    I did want to point out that there are some link issues. For example I wanted to see Hannahs mood board, and YHL was dead set on me looking at Crystals. Just wanted to keep you in the know!

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  25. Natalie says

    I can’t even tell you, how much I love this site! I’m pretty sure I hit it more than I even hit facebook, and that was formerly the first place I went… I recently got a new MacBook Pro (which I love Love LOVE) and I love how I all I have to do it press the “y” and enter, and poof, there you are!!!

    The mood board addition rocks!! Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s amazing!

    ~~nat in oklahoma

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  27. Aryn says

    This is seriously awesome. You’re after my organizational heart. Well done, you two, and pats on the back to the coding hero…it always amazes me that those numbers/marks/letters somehow turn into pretty things.

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  28. Katie says

    Oh wow, I may never accomplish anything again. I just moved into my own place last night. Perfect timing for a mood board database! Thankyouthankyou!

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  29. Jess says

    50+ hours!!!??? Oh. My. Gato. Your brains must be fried!

    Well, I think I speak for all of the YHL fans when I say that we appreciate your blood, sweat, & coding tears.

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! YOU GUYS ROCK THE BLOGOSPHERE!

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  31. julie says

    Love, love, love!!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to remember which mood board I saw a particular color, artowrk, etc. on and which type of room it was for to formulate a search. Thank you – new home office here I come!

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  34. Lindsey R says

    oh!la!la! forget the laundry and errands—- i’ve got a large cup of coffee and am cozy on this rainy day…………I could look thru these mood boards all day!!! (someone let me know when its 11:45am and the little one needs to be picked up from preschool!)

    thanks for the inspirations!

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  37. Leslie says

    I love your mod boards. They are so inspiring and I really like that you pick things that are affordable. I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about doing this, but I would love it if you guys did who house mod boards. Not necessarily room by room but just a general theme with paint colors that would go well together and transition from room to room. I’ve had a hard time getting my house to feel like the rooms belong together and you guys have done a wonderful job with yours.

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  43. Laura (Blogging Over Thyme) says

    Thanks for taking the time to do this! You guys are awesome. I can only imagine how painful all the coding is–I once just tried to change the width of my sidebars and somehow messed up my site so much, I had to start from scratch.

    A tantrum/tears followed, haha. Great job!

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  44. Lisa says

    I love it! Currently I have mostly neutrals (tan/brown) with pops of reds in my living room and dining room, but lately it’s been feeling flat, and I’ve been meaning to incorporate some blue for ages, but I had trouble picturing how it would look. I was able to peruse all your mood boards with red and blue in them in less then 5 minutes = instant inspiration!
    Thanks guys!

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  45. Melissa says

    Wow! Totally love the mood boards!! I’m not happy with my living room and turning to this for inspiration! One thing though…I can’t figure out how to easily get back to the YHL home page from the mood board site…

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Hey Melissa,

      See that button on the top right of the sidebar that says “Go back to the main YHL site”- just click that and you’ll find yourself right back here. Hope it helps!

      xo,
      s

  46. Tiffany S. says

    Seriously you have rocked ALL our houses with this one! Thanks a bajillion for all your hard work.

    You saved me from a big design booboo yesterday when I realized that painting our stairs white (risers) and dark brown (treads) was going to be a big mistake. A lower contrast white and tan (much like your blog colors – I knew I’d seen it somewhere!) are going to be the ticket!

    I read through a LOT of design sites yesterday and yours is still the best match for our style. :)

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  48. Kylie says

    I LOVE this new feature. Now I don’t have to bookmark all of my favorites in reader and I can just come back and do a quick and easy search. Oh how I wish I had the time to learn all these cool coding tricks. :) Way to go guys.

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