Using Pinterest to Create Your Own Furniture Vision Board

All great projects start with a vision. This especially applies to interior design. You think the greatest designers and decorators can simply pull ideas out of nowhere and create a great look? Designers, in particular, need just as much time, thought, visualizing, and planning in order to jumpstart their creative process. That's why they start each project with color palettes, mood boards, and drafts of drawings. Believe it or not, if you follow a similar process — minus the drawings — you can have a much easier time planning out your décor for your dream home! The secret ingredient? Pinterest.

You might wonder where you should start looking for your favorite colors, pieces, and overall looks. The answer is Pinterest, an application designed to enable sharing of information using internet images, videos, and GIFs. Photoshop. You can create different boards on the app for different ideas, moods, categories, etc.

It's basically a free database where you can search for any look, aesthetic, color, style, and material you want for your furniture and rooms. Luckily, planning your interior designs and decorations has never been easier with the digital age of online applications like Canva, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop, where you can paste photos together to create your first official furniture vision board!

Vision Boards are the secret sauce in the recipe for success in interior design! You know the famous saying, "Failing to plan is planning to fail"? Vision boards not only make planning easy but also fun. In Pinterest, you can create boards based on aesthetics and color palettes that bring out your personal vision and style, but you also need to put that collection of images together on one board to see how everything will gel together.

You can make a board for each room, or you can make one for the overall aesthetic you'd like to achieve with a few select pieces for each room you want. This helps you visualize what type of dining table you might want, how many accent chairs you'd like in a living room, or even what drapes look best against your freshly painted baby blue wall.

The only hard part of creating a vision board is starting. The good news is Pinterest makes it very easy to break down your searches into categories. Our suggestion is to start simple. Begin your search with different colors you want for your interior, then progress to aesthetics, and then look for actual pieces you might want. Pinterest even links to websites you can access to shop for specific items they post!

A color palette is the most basic and foundational of steps in the design process. Consider it the first outline of what look you want. On Pinterest, you can get thousands of ideas just by searching "blue color palettes" to inform your look. We highly suggest you start off doing this so that you understand the different hues and complementary colors you might want for your home.

You can also narrow the search by typing in "blue interior color palettes." Pinterest will offer a variety of images, but the most effective for your board might be ones in which you see a room and then its actual color palette below. This gives you an understanding of what complementary colors work for certain looks.

Once you've started to map out the color scheme you want, search for different aesthetics and styles on Pinterest to see what suits your taste! Perhaps you want a vintage theme throughout your home, or maybe you want modern in the living room and Cottagecore in your bedroom. For example, if you wanted a more modern look, you could select this Bernhardt Axiom Contemporary 3-Drawer Nightstand for your board.

Or, if you want to go the vintage route, try out this A.R.T. Palisade Two-Tone Drawer Chest. Styles can vary by room as well, but be careful that you don't select things that clash — it's good to have some level of cohesion throughout the space. You can create a separate board on Pinterest for aesthetics, or you can develop different boards for various looks.

So, you've established the ideal colors and aesthetic(s) you want in your space. What's next? Start creating boards for different looks and/or rooms in your Pinterest app. This will help organize your visions and thoughts so that you can pick and choose what looks and furniture pieces will work in which respective rooms. In this part of the process, it's important to brainstorm and add any and all pictures of furniture you love.

You can also create Pinterest boards categorized by furniture type. We highly recommend looking at something like the Tommy Bahama Home Quickship Shoreline Sofa if you want more of a beach vibe or tropical vibe. Don't worry about narrowing down your options until it's time to paste the pictures together for your actual board.

Once you have collected all the final images you want, compile them in Canva! Canva is a free site that allows you to make simple or complex graphic designs of your choice. We recommend Canva due to its affordability and simplicity when it comes to creating projects. It offers vision board collage templates that make it easier to map out where you want to place your images for that perfect look.

A couple of steps for putting the board together:

Pinterest is incredibly easy to use when compiling your interior décor furniture board. All you have to do is take that first step and start looking. Before you know it, you'll have more options and ideas than you ever dreamed of! For more ideas in furniture looks and shopping, visit Baer's site if you want some additional inspiration. Shop Baer's today, and happy decorating!