Setting up a few plants in the house is the easiest, fastest and the least expensive way to decorate your home. With just a few well-placed plants, you can add color, contrast and beauty in your rooms, and it would neither take a lot of time or effort!
Decorating your home with plants is as simple as picking up a few of them and placing them strategically around the house. If you are short on budget or space, plants can help you deal with both these problems! You neither need a lot of space for a few plants to brighten up your home, nor do you need a large budget.
However, there are some specific rules to decorate your home with greenery. If you don’t place the right kind of plants at the right place, it will challenge the whole idea!
- Centralize your Plant Collection
Instead of placing small plants all around the house, you can choose a specific wall or a corner of the house to fill up. This can be a whole wall, the top of a cupboard or a bookshelf that you fill up with small and big plants. Even if you don’t want to invest in a piece of furniture for all your plants, you can keep them on the floor or even hang them from the wall.
If this is a wall or a furniture that is immediately opposite to your entrance, the effect will be even better. The moment you or anyone else walks into your house, you’ll be greeted with a beautiful foliage as a welcome. If you can centralize your entire plant collection in a single location, you won’t have to look for other spaces in the house.
- Use the Corners
It’s not easy to find enough space in our modern apartments to place a few large potted plants. In such cases, all you need is a single tall houseplant in a dark corner, and you won’t need to spend a lot of money to fill up your corners.
Corners in your living room or bedroom are tricky to decorate. There aren’t a lot of furniture that fits in perfectly in corners, especially if you are short of budget. However, a potted plant can fit such corners almost perfectly, since you can choose from a lot of options. There are widespread plants or tall houseplants that grow up vertically, or even climbing plants that grow up along the walls with some simple support.
Whether you have a spacious corner that you need to fill up or a narrow one you can’t keep anything else in, there will be a potted houseplant just perfect for the job.
- Choose Low-maintenance Plants
Unless you want to spend a few minutes every day taking your houseplants out to the terrace or windows for sunlight, it is a good idea to get low-maintenance plants that doesn’t require a lot of care. Calatheas, Dracaena, Snake Plants, Bromeliads, Peace Lily, Parlor palms and Maidenhair Fern are some of the indoor plants that can live and grow in the shade, and doesn’t need to be taken out to the sun regularly.
In the same way, cacti, Bougainvillea, Portulaca, Wallflower, Agave and Verbena are some plants doesn’t require to be watered every day. As long as these plants receive enough sunlight, they can grow and thrive with water every now and then.
- Make and Use Shelves
In any corner or wall of your house, you can easily put up a few shelves for your plants. Instead of a large houseplant, half a dozen smaller houseplants on your shelves can be the perfect decoration for any room. Absolutely anything can be placed around your houseplants on the shelves to keep a little balance between your possessions: photo frames, souvenirs, decorative and ornamental pieces, books, etc. With a few plants on the shelves, you can easily and without any large expenditure, fill up the empty spaces on your shelves.
- Fill the Top of Furniture
Instead of filling up the top of your cupboards, coffee tables and dressers with junk, decorate them with small and colorful potted plants. A single well-maintained plant can do wonder for your expensive or inexpensive furniture, and not clutter up your surfaces in the process.
A blooming cactus, a growing Chinese Money plant, a couple of Lucky Bamboo shoots immersed in water, a healing Aloe plant and other similar plants can do the job perfectly and decorate your coffee tables and low cupboards.
- Get Aesthetic Plants
Some plants – merely by their color, the shape of their leaves, their texture and their blooms – can make your entire room look beautiful and colorful.
Cacti, for example, are simple and unassuming plants, but their flowers are extremely flamboyant and bright. The leaves of the Monstera Deliciosa trees are magnificent in design, and they are big enough to fill up an entire corner or an entire wall of your living room. Similarly, the leaves of Calatheas plants are also textured and shaded, and they can brighten up your whole room.
- Create Some Contrast in your Rooms
Plants work the best with contrasting colors. If you’ve chosen some floral plants or textured plants, the best way to display them would be in front of a wall with a basic, single and contrasting color. It is one of the simplest ways to decorate your living room, dining room or home office: to color an entire wall in a single distinctive tone, and decorate it with plants.
When you have white or single-tones walls, you can place any kind of textured or colorful plants in front of it, combined with colorful and vibrant flower pots. On the other hand, if your walls are decorated with wallpapers or complicated designs, it is better to place plants that are basic and comes in a single color.
- Hang Your Plants
If you absolutely have no space on your furniture or floor, you can still keep dozens of them hanging around the house. Window sills are perfect places for hanging your plants, but you can use any wall around the house to do so, as well. All you need are a few nails hammered into your walls, and hang the flower pots to them.
Flower plants can be hung from your walls or from the ceiling, via hooks or nails. If you don’t want the ropes showing, there are also some flower pots with holes in them that you can directly hang on the walls, just like a picture frame.
- Fill Up your Window Sills
Window sills are the perfect locations for any kind of plants, not just for the hanging ones. If you have some resting space on your window sills, you can simply fill them up with large and small potted plants, especially the ones that require a lot of sunlight to thrive.
Succulent plants, cacti, pelargoniums, Monster Obliqua, Streptocarpus, etc. are the most popular plants for window sills and window boxes. However, if you plan to keep your windows open most of the time, you can opt for plants with fragrant flowers and leaves so that your home will always smell good. Jasmin plants, Gardenia, Scented Geraniums, Lavender, Tea Rose Begonia and Orchids are sweet smelling plants that grow perfectly on your window sills with adequate sunlight and water.
- Grow a Kitchen Herb Garden
If you have any space on the window sill, walls or even on your kitchen counters, you can create your very own herb garden in your kitchen. There are some medicinal plants that are supposed to bring prosperity and good health to the people living inside the house. Thyme, Neem, Cilantro, Mint, Rosemary, Lemon Balm Holy Basil, Aloe Vera, Lemon grass, Fenugreek and Parsley are such small plants that you can both use as herbs in your cooking, but also grow easily on small pots and jars.
There’s nothing easier than decorating your home or workplace with some beautiful and fascinating plants. There is always a lot of option to choose from, and a lot of plants to match your style and personality. However, it is also important that you understand plant aesthetics, and know what exactly to put where in your home.
