If you are familiar with home design, you may be familiar with the term “Mood Board”. This is a sample board that is created, typically by a designer, with color, texture, and product selections according to the feel that is desired for a home or a specific space.

The question is where do you even begin? How do you start gathering ideas for your home to even decide the mood or what you want? When designing a home or a room, according to this Houzz article, you want to ask yourself these questions and more:

  • How do you want your home/room to feel?
  • How do you want to feel when you walk through the front door?
  • What do you wish guests would think about your home when they come over?
  • What are the top three words you would use to describe how you want your home to feel?

This is your mood. 

At our HHDU masonry divisions and design centers we have all of the stone, brick, and paint samples you need to design the mood of your home.

If you want your home to feel relaxed:

  • Use easy-care materials
  • Use soft neutral colors 
  • Use Blues. Blue creates a sense of trust, security, calmness, peace, love, honesty, kindness, truth, and it can increase hunger
  • Use Purple, Indigo, & Violet. These are soothing and calming, and can increase feelings of imaginative and artistic natures
  • Use Green. Green supports balance and harmony, and can increase communication
  • Use rough cut, unpolished wood for floors
  • Use natural stone

If you want your home to feel creative:

  • Use Orange to increase creativity and activity in general 
  • Using Yellow creates optimistic, creative, light, and youthful feelings, usually used in accents and focal points, and it can increase hunger
  • Use Purple, Indigo, & Violet. These are soothing and calming, and can increase feelings of imaginative and artistic natures
  • Brick walls can give an “artist’s loft” feel and increase the feeling of creativity

If you want your home to feel peaceful: 

  • Keep clutter to a minimum.
  • Revive your senses with interesting textures, from rough to smooth, and delicious scents.
  • Keep bothersome noises and light at bay with thick drapes or blackout shades.
  • Use cool colors and soft neutrals
  • Use Blues. Blue creates a sense of trust, security, calmness, peace, love, honesty, kindness, truth, and it can increase hunger
  • Use Green. Green supports balance and harmony, and can increase communication (preferably ones with blue undertones in this setting, like turquoise and similar tones)

If you want your home to feel welcoming:

  • Lay a bright and warm stone or brick accents wall or fireplace
  • The use of Reds can increase the heart rate and it can increase hunger or make food more appealing
  • Using Yellow creates optimistic, creative, light, and youthful feelings, usually used in accents and focal points, and it can increase hunger

If you want your home to feel fun:

  • Install a bright and warm stone surround fireplace 
  • Use pops of vibrant colors and fun textures
  • Using Yellow creates optimistic, creative, light, and youthful feelings, usually used in accents and focal points, and it can increase hunger
  • Create interactive spaces with enough room to play and entertain


If you want your home to feel authentic:

  • Don’t worry about trends
  • Make your home your own
  • Use ‘real’ materials like real clay brick or real natural stone
  • Use Blues. Blue creates a sense of trust, security, calmness, peace, love, honesty, kindness, truth, and it can increase hunger
  • Use Green. Green supports balance and harmony, and can increase communication
If you want your home to feel happy:

  • Using Yellow creates optimistic, creative, light, and youthful feelings, usually used in accents and focal points, and it can increase hunger
  • Use stone that ties in all your bight and fun colors but still has some neutrals to tie in background calming colors
Maybe you want your home or a particular room to be one of these moods, or a little bit of two of them, whatever it may be, our design specialists at HHDU can help you get your room exactly how you want it.

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