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Mood Board: the Greens Living Room
For one of the Residential Interiors Certificate courses I have completed, we were provided with a floor plan of a living room, limited information about the clients and their needs, and instructions to create client personae, a new floor plan, colour scheme and mood board that could be used as a guideline for further renovations. These 11″ x 17″ mood boards were the result.
My fictional clients, the Greens (but of course), are a family of four. This space is meant to be an informal, sophisticated adult retreat for crafts, reading, and working on a laptop, with enough seating for 6 for entertaining.
This design was inspired by the Lake Waikaremoana Track on New Zealand’s North Island. The analogous colour scheme was directly inspired by the landscape, and most of furniture was kept simple, airy, and delicately proportioned, to reflect ultralight design of backpacking gear. Upholstery textures were chosen to evoke the textures of the trail: goblin moss, leaves, quick-drying clothing, and fleece. Martha Sturdy`s resin bowls represent the all-important water bottles.
The renovated living room has Plyboo bamboo floors, reclaimed cedar built-in bookshelves and coffee table (by Brent Comber), and custom seating from ultra-green Montauk Sofa; the remaining furniture and the Rundle rock fireplace already existed in the room. (Existing furniture not used here was earmarked for reupholstery and used in another room.). The built-in shelving balances the visual weight of the fireplace in the room, and provides crucial storage for a large collection of books and academic papers.