Design inspiration — creating mood in living spaces

Hello, every­one! It’s Mari here from Design Shuf­fle, a fab­u­lous online com­mu­nity for inte­rior design­ers and design lovers from around the world. Being a writer for Design Shuf­fle allows me to visit great inte­rior design blogs like Lily & Rose as a guest blog­ger. Today’s design inspi­ra­tion topic is cre­at­ing mood in liv­ing spaces. Often, when the phrase “mood in inte­rior design” is used, it refers to set­ting a roman­tic mood, but mood is so much more than that. The mood or feel of a home’s envi­ron­ment can have a pos­i­tive effect on those who live there. Color palette, light­ing, space, flow and even pat­tern and tex­ture can affect the mood in inte­rior designs. Here are eight inter­est­ing ways to cre­ate mood in design. Please enjoy!

Though this beau­ti­ful nat­ural envi­ron­ment is mood-setting in itself, the wide open glass “walls” and the blue and white of the draperies rein­forces that uniquely spe­cial mood that only the sea can cre­ate.

Another blue space takes on an entirely dif­fer­ent mood than the one pic­tured above. A rus­tic and invit­ing space wel­comes fam­ily and vis­i­tors imme­di­ately as they enter this lovely foyer.

A chic, some­what mas­cu­line, din­ing space is infused with a whim­si­cal, light-hearted mood by the addi­tion of a totally unex­pected hang­ing light fix­ture. I love the mix of con­tem­po­rary fur­nish­ings and beau­ti­ful tra­di­tional archi­tec­tural ele­ments.

We don’t often think of mood when dis­cussing kitchen design ideas, but some­thing as sim­ple as this irre­sistible tin con­tainer and pot­ted plant can imbue a space with a bright cheer­ful feel.

This home office includes a spe­cial children’s area that sets the mood for quiet play and read­ing. Col­or­ful happy liv­ing envi­ron­ments help chil­dren and adults thrive.

Cre­at­ing a mood for relax­ation is one of the most sought after ele­ments in the mas­ter bath. Soft col­ors, crys­tal chan­de­lier, a deep soak­ing tub and even the small vase of pink flow­ers cre­ate that cov­eted retreat-like atmos­phere in this spa­cious bath­room.

Though excep­tion­ally for­mal, this pale sit­ting room takes on the per­fect mood for ele­gantly relaxed enter­tain­ing. How lovely is the chan­de­lier dropped from a sil­very domed ceiling?

This gor­geous black, white and gold bed­room design cre­ates a slightly glam ver­sion of bed­room as retreat. The mood is all about lux­u­ri­ous relax­ation. What a suc­cess­ful inte­rior design has been cre­ated here—spellbinding!