How to make a moodboard: greys, yellows and greens

A few months ago, I met up with Jeska from Lobster & Swan who very kindly came all the way to London to meet me at the Guardian offices to "teach" me how to make a moodboard for a fun style feature I was working on.

Of course, you and I both know you can't be "taught" how to make a moodboard, really, but it was a lot of fun and as Jeska points out in the piece, it's all about putting colours and textures together that you'd never really imagined going together to see how they lay out. So we began with the backgrounds, which let me place my favourite Miss Print wallpapers in context, and then built around them with some really lovely velvets and inspiring interiors shots to help create a calming but still contemporary and characterful colour palette.

You can read about the moodboard we made here, and here's another picture of the colours together:

I've blogged about yellows and greys before, but lately I'm loving the greens that this moodboard helped me pick out - seen in the velvets and some of the magazine pictures. At the end of last year, Design Sponge did a sneak peek on interior designer Betsy Maddox's Chicago home. She used green to gorgeous effect, as seen below on her dining room walls (click through here to see more pictures)

I have a lime green and purple embroidered rug under my dining table and lately I've "redressed" my sofa to pick out the greens in another rug with an olivey-green throw and more autumnal shaded cushions. Inspired, here's more green for the home:

Moonlight print in light sage, Bold & Noble, £38
Paris map, by Famille Summerbelle, Bodie & Fou, £45
Penguin wallpaper in Wasabi green, Isak, £30/roll
Carved tumbler by RICE, The Contemporary Home, £4.49
Orla Kiely, apples and pears mug, Heals, £7.50
Flora bowls, Roost Living, £32