About MOOD | Design + Build

Here you’ll be working with Chicago’s top design and build talent. Our team is dedicated to exploring what successful design means to you so that we can achieve a space that speaks to your own tastes and individuality. We thrive on making our projects come alive, uncovering architecture, design and a style that brings your dreams to life. Our favorite moment isn’t showing a final product to a client, but the moment that a client shows it to the people they love.

Candy Scott Founder of MOOD Design + Build

Founder & Creative Director

Candy Scott

Candy graduated from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC with a bachelor of science in interior design along with an educational background in business administration from North Carolina State University. Her superpower is her intuitive ability to blend highly functional spaces with gorgeous and uniquely personal aesthetics for her clients. She is naturally drawn to classic, subtle, light and bright spaces that feature interesting and carefully curated elements adding interest and personality to spaces.

Candy leads herself and her team of designers and contractors to be their best in design and project execution. She believes the basis of a successful project is not just excellence in design but also practical and essential business practices and disciplines. For this reason she works seamlessly with top level executives, high performing professionals, business owners and developers who expect the best in concierge product and service.

MOOD Tip:

”Lighting is the most important mood enhancer in your interior spaces. Invest in it!”

Get Inspired:

“Candy worked very efficiently and decisively while being sensitive to the homeowners’ wishes. She gained respect and cooperation from the homeowners as she transformed cluttered and disarrayed spaces into rooms that now are simple and elegant.”

—Laura Jones, Broker