The Buchanan Sitting Room

I have recently enrolled in an Interior design program.  For my intro class we were asked to create a mood board (in decorating terms a mood board is a type of poster containing images and samples to convey the designers ideas for the room).

And of course, being slightly obsessed, I decided to use the description of the Buchanan's sitting room where we first meet Daisy and Jordan as my inspiration.

Here is what I came up with.

Buchanan mood board

We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.  The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.  A breeze blew through the room, blew the curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does the sea.

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.  They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.  I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.  Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear window and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtain and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

Of course, if this was really the room, there would need to be a couple of sofas, for both of the ladies to be lounging around, but I had to work with what they gave me.

-Laurie