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Mood
What does it feel like to be in?
Where this axis ends
Mood is affective and reader-relative; style is formal and rule-bound. A style can be executed deliberately from a set of moves; a mood can only be achieved. Two rooms in the same style routinely carry different moods.
17 terms
| Term | Identifier | Definition | Broader | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grounded | mood.grounded | Weighted and settled; the room reads as resting on the earth rather than floating. | None | - |
| Calm | mood.calm | Low stimulus; nothing in the room asks for attention. | None | - |
| Soft | mood.soft | Edges, light and contrast all diffused rather than sharp. | None | - |
| Crisp | mood.crisp | Sharp edges and clean contrast; the opposite reading to soft. | None | - |
| Moody | mood.moody | Dark, low-lit and enclosing, without necessarily being theatrical. | None | - |
| Dramatic | mood.dramatic | Staged and theatrical: strong contrast, deliberate focal points, a room that performs. | None | - |
| Airy | mood.airy | Light, open and uncrowded; volume reads as generous relative to what fills it. | None | - |
| Sensual | mood.sensual | Tactile and bodily; the room invites touch. | None | - |
| Serious | mood.serious | Sober and unplayful; the room signals that consequential things happen in it. | None | - |
| Austere | mood.austere | Deliberately without comfort or ornament, where the absence is the point rather than a shortage of budget. | None | - |
| Playful | mood.playful | Light-hearted and unserious; wit is visible in the choices. | None | - |
| Sheltering | mood.sheltering | Enclosing and protective; the room holds you rather than exposing you. | None | - |
| Quiet Luxury | mood.quiet_luxury | Expense legible only in material and execution, never in ornament or branding. | None | - |
| Luxurious | mood.luxurious | Expense legible and intended to be read as expense; the declared opposite of quiet luxury. | None | - |
| Editorial | mood.editorial | Composed to be photographed; the room reads as an image before a place. | None | - |
| Domestic | mood.domestic | Lived-in and unstaged; evidence of ordinary use is present and welcome. | None | - |
| Monumental | mood.monumental | Scaled past the body; the room addresses an institution rather than a person. | None | - |
Machine-readable
Every term on this axis is in the full dump: JSON-LD · Turtle