(upbeat music) - Hey YouTube, I'm Demetrius,
I'm an interior designer and I'm also a content creator.
Join me in this exclusive lesson to learn
how to design your space from start to finish,
from mood-boarding down to the execution
and bringing in all of your furniture and accessories.
Now that I've selected all of my furniture,
we're going to get into creating a realistic mood board.
And I say a realistic mood board
because I want you to be very intentional
about only adding the pieces that you intend to add
into your space that are within your budget
because we can sometimes create mood boards
based upon fantasy and realize that the pieces
we've added are actually quite unattainable for us.
When it comes to developing a mood board,
I love to use Canva, and that's just my personal preference.
Don't feel as though you have to use that,
but it's the easiest platform
for me to use for this specific task.
In order for you to set your mood board up for success,
I will want you to gather all of the images.
The images that you select should be images
with minimal background, but don't worry
if there are a few unsightly things within the image.
We can definitely delete the background in the Canva app.
But the first thing that I love to do
when I'm building a mood board is drop my main pieces
of furniture into the mood board.
Of course, I'll start with the sofa, accent chairs,
and area rug, and build the space from there.
You'll just simply start by selecting each item
that you want to drop into Canva
and once that element is there, go ahead and hit Edit image
and actually hit Background Remover.
Now we have a background that is transparent
on our specific image, and so we can kind of create
a whole collage that is sort of 3D,
but built here in the app.
As you add the rest of the elements to the space,
be sure to remove the background as well
because we want to remove as much background as possible
so that we can actually put items on top of items
and give you a much clearer visual
of what to expect from these items.
Another thing that I love is the ability to flip
the orientation of an image.
And in my case, I have one image of the side chair
and so what I'm going to do is flip the orientation
of the side chair so that the
side chairs face one another. (upbeat music)
Initially, I had a full scale photo of the area rug
and so what I did was cut the area rug image in half
and simply placed that image underneath the sofa
and the side chairs.
And so right now, my area rug is on top of the sofa
and the chairs so we're going to actually send that image
to the back so that the sofa and the chairs
are resting on top of the area rug
and that would actually give you that clear visual
of what to expect when it's in your space.
Let's go ahead and add our coffee table and our artwork.
So now we're going to add in our lighting to this mood board
and what I love to do is sometimes place it
in the exact spot it will live in the room.
But in this instance, I won't place it centered here
because it's black just as well as the artwork
and you kind of lose the sight of it
and so I'll place it off to either side,
reduce the scale, because again,
we're just getting a sense of how everything feels here.
Now that our artwork is placed on the mood board,
let's go ahead and add side tables and pillows on the sofa.
All right and so let's see.
We have all of our furniture and everything here
and so I will also add
our couple pieces of artwork here as well.
As you can see now, the artwork is starting to feel good.
It doesn't necessarily match with everything
that's going on in the space, but again,
artwork has to speak directly to you,
doesn't really have to match.
As you can see here, I'm going to further reduce the size
of my artwork because I would love to squeeze the image
of my window treatment here as well.
Mine were custom so I don't necessarily have an image
of it already ready to go.
So I do have an image of the drapery
that inspired the overall look.
And as you see here, we don't have much room for that image
and so what we're going to do is delete this image
and make room on our mood board.
We're going to pretty much resize all of the objects.
Instead of resizing each element individually,
we're going to go ahead and group all of the objects.
In order to get all of these elements in a group,
we're going to simply click and hold on this
and hit Select Multiple and pretty much select every element
that you would love to be locked in here together
so that everything isn't shifting around
once you bring in your artwork as it is now.
Now you can simply reduce that entire group of images
at one time, but I did miss one,
and so we're going to simply go ahead
and adjust that moving on over.
No worries at all.
And so now, let's go ahead and drop our image
of that window treatment and just place it off to the side.
And that is essentially how you build a mood board
in the way that I love to make them.
But feel free to go as in depth as you wish with this,
add multiple pages, add your accessories,
add your plants and all of the other things
that is going to help you envision
what your space is going to look like
before you even start to buy things.
Because again, interior design is definitely a process
that takes time and so we want to make sure
that we're saving ourselves time
and not having to reorder elements
by adding everything into this mood board.
Now that your mood board is successfully completed
and you've downloaded the PDF from the Canva app,
feel free to drop that PDF in the project gallery
because I would love to see how you've implemented
all of my mood board tips and tricks.
It's time to go ahead and order
all of your furniture. (upbeat music)
I've already done so, I have everything already,
so let's go ahead and get all of our furniture
and accessories in its rightful place
so that you can see how I've brought my mood board to life.
Let's head back to my living room.
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