Have you heard about Style Sourcebook yet?
I first stumbled upon Style Sourcebook last year… on a slow day at work. It's entirely FREE.
Style Sourcebook is a product sourcing and mood board community to help you renovate and decorate.
https://stylesourcebook.com.au/
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So, what is Style Sourcebook?
Well it is an Australian website (head to www.stylesourcebook.com.au) that allows you to develop style and mood boards from scratch. According to its own website, Style Sourcebook can be described as “a product sourcing and mood board community to help you renovate and decorate”.
Style Sourcebook provides functionality on many levels. For someone such as myself who is predominantly focused on developing style boards for personal usage, it is a great blank canvas to see how room layouts and colors will or won’t work in the real world (saves on money and all that effort moving furniture around).
How does it work?
Starting with a blank page, you can either upload your own images or alternatively you can upload from the library bank of furniture, homewares and home décor options already loaded onto the site. Although the library appears to include furniture from predominantly Australian-based and recognized companies, it is very extensive and includes categories such as Bedroom, Bathroom, Décor, Living, Outdoors, Walls and Floors. Within each of these are even more sub-categories.
Even if you prefer to use your own photos, Style Sourcebook is still a great resource. Instead of searching across the existing categories, all you need to do is upload your images via the Upload Images tab. Keep in mind that these images are then saved, and can be used later via Saved Images (you can also save images from the database and access them here later as well).
If it all seems to much and you just want someone else to show you the way, then Style Sourcebook still has you covered via its Mood Boards tab. This part of the website allows you to view style boards created by others, categorized by Popularity or Recently Uploaded. You can also use the search function if you have a particular theme you want to look for, say Teal and Purple Bedroom.
Finally, Style Sourcebook allows you to create an account as either a private person or as a Designer. Even if you create a personal account, the site still allows you to use a business name, register a business email and website etc., but does not seem to allow you to fully market yourself as an interior designer. To do that, it seems that you need to register as a Designer. To my mind, this aspect of the site reminds me a little bit of www.houzz.com . Either way, if you like the look of a particular style board creator, you can search for them on the site and peruse their work at your leisure…
How does Style Sourcebook compare to Canva?
Now that I am more familiar with both, I can see that they serve different functions. Whereas I find Canva great for graphic design work more generally (logos, insta posts etc) I find it less helpful when working on design projects. Because of the template structure of Canva, I tend to use Canva mood boards more for picture collages or color inspo boards.
However, if I am trying to style a room, defining not just colors, but furniture types and placement, then I would suggest trying Style Sourcebook in the first instance. The blank template structure means that you can place pictures wherever you want on the page, rather than within a set template format. However, I do think that they provide differentiated products and you should first consider what it is that you want to produce before deciding on which to use.
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Disclaimer
I have absolutely no affiliation with any of the companies or websites mentioned in this blog. This blog is based on my personal observations alone. I don’t pretend to be an expert - just a lover of all things interior design related including great websites.
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