Interior design moodboards for rooms and materials

See how every room, material, and product fits together

Interior design depends on relationships. A stone sample changes beside a timber finish. A lamp affects how a wall color feels. A furniture reference needs to remain connected to its supplier, dimensions, and the room it was chosen for. When each detail lives in a different app or folder, the overall direction becomes difficult to see.

Reference Board gives interior designers and stylists one interior design moodboard for the visual and practical parts of a project. Place room photographs, floor plans, product images, material scans, supplier links, videos, color ideas, and client notes together on an infinite canvas instead of dividing them by file type.

Collect references in the showroom, on site, and online

Import site and showroom photographs from iPhone, use Continuity Camera to add a photo, scan, or sketch directly to a Mac board, and drag in local project files. Save product pages, supplier images, website links, and Maps locations so a visual reference keeps the context needed for sourcing later.

OCR makes model names, dimensions, and material labels inside images searchable. Source links and metadata provide a direct route back to the original product when the project moves from inspiration to specification.

Organize an interior moodboard by room or design decision

Create named Regions for the kitchen, living room, bedrooms, lighting, furniture, finishes, or architectural details. Smart Regions can suggest structure when related references already form a cluster, while region thumbnails and the minimap make a large renovation board easy to navigate during a client conversation.

Use sticky notes to keep questions, approvals, and alternatives beside the relevant reference. Switch to grid view when you want a clean overview of all saved products and images, then return to the canvas to compare combinations and spatial relationships.

Find materials by color, atmosphere, or visual similarity

Search across boards in natural language for “warm veined stone,” “soft plaster in indirect light,” or “compact oak dining chair.” Color filters can surface every muted green, dark timber, or warm neutral, even when references came from different projects and suppliers.

Similar-image suggestions reveal alternatives that share a material, composition, shape, or mood. Automatic descriptions, colors, visible-text recognition, and tags make that search useful without requiring you to rename and label every image by hand.

Review the direction with clients and collaborators

Share an iCloud board so the latest visual direction stays available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. On iPad, use Apple Pencil to mark a finish, proportion, or layout detail directly beside the reference being discussed.

For presentations, contractor conversations, and project records, Snap to Grid can tidy the layout and PDF or PNG export creates a stable snapshot. Reference Board keeps the inspiration, sourcing trail, and decisions connected from the first site visit to the final room.