Saving/printing out ideas when decorating?

[Toomuchtimeonmyhands]

Hi everyone,

Just getting myself together to do some decorating & I was wondering how you keep all your ideas/photos/measurements together? I have printed out lots of lovely pics off Pinterest etc., have measurements on scraps of paper & the odd leaflet or 2 but I'm not sure how to keep everything in one place?

I like the idea of a mood board but not sure how to do one in practice?! Or should I just make a scrapbook or something?

Any ideas about how you manage your decorating plans would be much appreciated - as you can tell, I'm not really the creative type!

Thank you!

I just keep it on Pinterest. You could make a private board and upload scans of the hard copy things you want to keep. So much easier electronically.

I like to keep a hard copy and use one A4 jotter (old school one) to jot things in or staple pictures and business cards into. Not very attractive but it keeps everything in one place - and useful when your new place doesn't have broadband yet so you can't access your pinterest page!

Take multiple copies of your floor plans. I have one just to draw radiators on for instance.

Pinterest to be able to see stuff side by side and room measurements are kept in one of those concertina files, along with bits of paper cut out to scale to represent furniture and leaflets/business cards etc

A mood board is literally just putting stuff together to see colour and texture.

For my kitchen I laid a cupboard door up against the wall, a large sample of the axiom worktop up against that and then laid both flooring samples and painted pieces of plasterboard that I had painted to see the overall effect.

The plasterboard were off cuts from when we had the kitchen extension built.

I have just decorated my son's bedroom so used white A4 printer paper, painted them with sample pots and blu-tacked them to his wall to see the colours in different light. I had picked the colours from his duvet cover so knew they went with that, just wanted to check them against the base colour in his room.

Thanks very much for replies. I'm going to go for a combination of interest & paper. And painting samples on bits of paper. Genius! I normally paint directly onto the wall & have mismatched stripes for weeks!