IKEA Furniture Samples 2

Here is my IKEA furniture samples to go with my second mood board I just posted, it was a lot easier to find furniture to match this mood board compared to my first one, I think IKEA likes green and orange more than they like purple. I think it found it easier to find furniture because I was really looking for products that fit in with my theme but ones that fit my colour scheme.

I am still kind of unsure about this furniture arrangement but I suppose it gives me a starting point and I can always go onto to develop a little further until I am happy with it.

Creating these mood boards is getting me really excited to see what my actual design is going to look like, I’ve got tonnes of ideas in my head, but its just trying to get them down on paper and making them all work together so they fit my brief and what my clients want.

Mood Board Idea 2

So here is my second mood board for my IKEA project. It’s really hard doing a second mood board once you’ve already done one that you have feel in love with, but to be honest I really like this one, now that its done. When I started researching images for this mood board I never had any of these pictures they were all just spontaneous and quick last minute selections, but one I put them all together I started to realise a theme which remind my of industrial brick work type interiors.

Once I had gathered a few of the interior pictures I have in the mood board I realised it needed a dash of colour so I decided to keep it quite simple but still relating to my brief, I decided Autumn associated colours would be ideal because its that time of year where it starts getting a little cooler but yet its still sunny, which is the kind of feeling I get from an industrial theme with the greys from the pipes and electrics being the colder colours, and the red/browns from the bricks being the warmer colours reminding me of a big warm open fire.

I’m totally undecided on what mood board to use because I really do like both, but we’ll just have to wait and see how my design develops further.

Customized or upcycled?

So we’ve been given a task in college to create a blog for next Tuesday and we’ve to have at least 6 posts on sustainable or customised or upcycled furniture or interiors!

But I was talking to one of my classmates today and we struggled on how to define the difference between upcycling and customising, I had typed it into Google but I just kept getting businesses from all over the world, so I decided to look at the images it gave me, when I came across this one:

Its from a site called archinspired.org I think this looks mega! Definitely making the most of the space you’ve got to the max. I think this image interested me more inparticular because my mum has been talking about getting something like this installed under our stairs. I really like the idea of having the front faces as mirrors, just because I think it would save having a mirror hanging on the wall meaning there’s more room for paintings and photos, which if your house is anything like ours that’s a huge bonus!

So I think I have figured out the difference between upcycling and customising. Customising for example is like having a circular room and getting bespoke furniture to fit it exactly, where as upcycling is like painting chair legs or printing on a cushion.

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