There are many benefits to decorating your home with plants. Indoor plants can improve the quality of the air you breathe, lower your stress and your blood pressure, and make you feel energized and inspired, all while looking great and enhancing your home decor.
Would you like to add some lively green plants to your living space? Start looking for houseplants you like, and get some inspiration on how to decorate with plants in your home:
1. Choose the right plants for your home
Just because you like the look of a houseplant doesn’t mean it’s the right one for your home. Keep in mind that different plants have different needs: some will be just fine in a low light environment, while others might not live long if they don’t get enough sunlight each day.
Some plants require a lot of maintenance, while others will thrive if you just remember to give them a bit of water once in awhile.
This is why it’s important, before you buy a plant, to learn more about what it needs and to make sure you will be able to take good care of it.
2. Hang a plant near a window
If your plant needs a lot of sunlight, you could place it near a window so it will be happy and look its best. But to really make this plant a part of your home decor, why not hang it near a window?
It will get all the light it needs, and it will instantly become a focal point in the room. Spider plants, pothos plants, and Boston ferns are good examples of houseplants that look gorgeous in a hanging basket.
3. Use fun decor planters
Whether you decorate your home with real plants or with fake ones, you shouldn’t settle for boring planters. Beautiful planters in a variety of styles, materials, textures, colours, and designs can be used to create the perfect finishing touch to your decor.
If you group a few different plants together in a corner, placing them in wholesale planters that complement each other will add some unity to your decor.
4. Animate an empty space with a tall floor plant
Is there a corner that looks empty and sad in your home? If you don’t want to add furniture to it, you could make it come to life with a beautiful floor plant.
A tall floor plant will bring colour and texture to any area of your home. But be sure you choose one that isn’t touching your ceiling if you don’t want it to make the room appear small and crowded.
5. Add some colours with blooming plants
Houseplants don’t have to only be green. A blooming plant, such as an African violet, an orchid, an oxalis, a Christmas cactus, or a geranium, will add a splash of colour and beauty to any room. Plus, they smell wonderful when they are blooming!
It’s also possible to add colour and fragrance to a room with cut flowers, but of course, they won’t last long and you will have to renew them often.
6. Have fun grouping different plants together
You can create an interesting decor by grouping different types of plants together. For example, a tall palm plant, a small cactus, and a colourful blooming plant grouped together in planters of different sizes will add textures and colours to any room of your home.
Have fun experimenting with different plants, whether it’s a grouping of floor plants, or a grouping of a few small plants on a shelf.
7. Set up a beautiful herb garden in your kitchen
Decorating with plants can also be functional. By setting up a beautiful herb garden in your kitchen, you will decorate the room, but also ensure you never run out of fresh herbs to complement the dishes you cook.
Your herb garden could be on a shelf, on a small rolling cart, on a windowsill, or in a hanging basket.
8. Decorate with succulent plants
If you have a modern or minimalist decor, succulents or cacti could look great in the corner of a room or grouped on a shelf.
One of the advantages of decorating your home with these plants is that they don’t require a lot of maintenance to be happy. If you constantly forget to water your houseplants, succulents and cacti will not mind at all.
9. Decorate with fake plants
If you really don’t have a green thumb, and even a cactus doesn’t thrive in your home, don’t despair. You could decorate your home with fake plants.
Some fake plants look very realistic, and they can be a good alternative for you if you are unable to keep your plants alive for very long.