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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

  1. Lauren says

    Great job! 50+ hours though?! I have absolutely no web experience, so I had no idea how long something like this could take! Have you ever considered doing a “day in the life” post?

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  2. AnnabelVita says

    (just to let you know the title on your shop tab still says affordable art etc, something to fix when you get the time)
    Thanks for the tip abotu polyvore, looks like exactly what Iw as after. (I hate to admit it but I’m kind of scared of Photoshop)

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  3. Stacey says

    What a fabulous feature! Thanks for taking the time to make our mood board perusing more efficient. You guys rock!

    p.s. I work w/ html code in my job, albeit on a limited basis, so I feel yer pain ;o)

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  6. Jenny says

    This is so great!!! Thanks for doing this, now I don’t have to cruise through the archives to look at all of your great rooms for inspiration!

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  13. suzanne says

    WOW….this is fantastic! I just love perusing all of your mood boards. I’ve often thought “wouldn’t it be nice if I could just look at all of the bedrooms/living rooms etc” And now you’ve done it! I sure appreciate all of the time you two have put into it. Just love your site and looking forward to any new mood boards that you post as they’re definitely a favourite! Looks like Lindsey (above) and I have the same idea as I’m sitting here with my cup of coffee on a rainy morning checking them out :)

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  14. Shannon says

    Oh I love this. The clickable colours give such a great way to search and find ideas! Thanks! Must have been a lot of work to put it all together, I can’t even imagine! You guys are always doing something to keep me coming back for more. :)Ps. I hope you are finding parenthood a blast!

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  16. Mamatini says

    *Just* this weekend, I did a search on your site for “mood board blue,” and thought, “what they need is a page of just mood boards! You are such mindreaders! Thanks for meeting our design needs so perfectly.

    Off to go look!

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  17. Asta says

    Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! We just moved into a rental with some “lovely” red carpeting, and I’ve been looking for some inspiration! Woot!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Aw, thanks so much for all the excitement guys! We were hoping you guys would enjoy the gallery so we’re over the moon that so many of you have checked it out (and liked it) already!

      xo,
      s

  22. JoDi says

    Wow! That is fabulous! I love the thumbnails so you can immediately see which ones appeal to you. Thanks so much for the great new tool!

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  23. Sevi says

    You know Clara, your parents are really cool! And they have SUPER COOL ideas. They told me once that they couldnt do mood boards overseas but I could check out the previous ones. Since then I’ve been visiting flickr every once in a while to steal an item :P Now it’s much easier woohoo!!

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  26. City Chic - Jamie says

    Wow, this is a fantastic resource! I can’t wait to browse through these and start taking notes…I’m planning to update my office/sewing room soon (hopefully)! This should be just the inspiration I need! Thank you!!

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  29. Sarah S says

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! Just last week I was looking for some green bedroom inspiration and tried to track down some of your mood boards that fit one or both of those categories. As you can imagine, a search for “green” on your site pulled up lots more results than just paint swatches. I know I will use this new feature lots. Again, thanks for all your hard work on this!

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  31. sheila says

    Love Love Love It!

    Now… just find that “like” button coding! I know you can do it, Super-CodeMan! ;-D (just teasing!)

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  33. Patricia says

    Some of your room links don’t match up! For example The kids room link has 2 rooms that are not for kids (there is a den and family room featured instead)!

    Great job tho :)

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Hey Patricia,

      We definitely appreciate any heads up you guys can give us for little glitches. We actually meant to put those two rooms into the kids room category since both that den and family room were required to have a kid area with functionality and child-friendly furnishings (so we added them to that category so those ideas would be found by anyone who might want to implement them into a kids room instead of the corner of a main living area). Hope it helps!

      xo,
      s

  45. Denise says

    Wonderful resource – thank you so much for the gallery! Sherry, will you continue to post after pictures for mood boards that you custom designed for readers prior to the discontinuation of the service? I’m still yearning to see “before & after” pictures of all your great design ideas!

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  50. Bree says

    I LOVE THIS!!! I’m additcted already! Endless supply of inspiration plus the benefit of knowing how we can put it all in our own homes. Thank you!! :)

    P.S. I can’t seem to get the “mood board breakdown” for Corrine’s second design dilemma. Any chance you can create a new link for it here in a comment? I want the pendant light for my office.

    Love, love, love your blog!

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