Tips for decorating the house with plants

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For every person house plants have a specific meaning. For somebody house plants are an opportunity to be closer to nature, for others – they help to obtain harmony, physiological relaxation, etc. In any case you can make the plant composition so that they won’t just improve house environment but also satisfy the eye. Below there are few recommendations that will help you to choose and organize house plants.

1. Proportion between your house and your plants.

Nowadays thanks to the development of transport industry we have a great variety of indoor plants to choose – from ordinary plants which our grandmothers used to have to a big number of exotic plants available almost at every plants shop.

Plants composition can be very different. You can make a composition on small table somewhere in the living room or you can even make a kind of a ‘winter garden’. If you don’t possess a spacious house, give preference to vertical compositions. You can use columns or walls for that – fasten a decorative lattice with the help of brackets, or make a solid screen (e.g. of glass) and thus you can divide your place into zones. These kinds of organization are good for climbing plants due to the fact that a lattice and a screen will serve as a support which is necessary for these plants.

One more very effective composition is a ‘plant chandelier’ – a flat vase with plants hanged on the ceiling. Besides its highly decorative quality it has one more advantage – this composition doesn’t steal your space at home at the most common places – tables, window-ceilings, floor and so on. If your house is big enough you can afford big plants in big quantities. For spacious rooms you can use tree-like plants – dragon-tree, ficus and other plants with big leaves. This composition is good for big rooms with little furniture – halls, living-rooms.

2. Harmony

Plants should be in harmony with things around them. For instance, plants look nice on the plain background. If you have wallpapers with tiny figures on it, put there plants with big leaves and the other way around – wallpapers with sporty figures match plants with tiny leaves best of all. Do not place plants with variegated leaves close to walls decorated with photos and pictures.
Red and orange flowers of the plant such as Kalanchoe and Hibiscus should find their place in a dark corner/room. If the room has too much of ‘warm’ colors, decorate it with violets with white-blue flowers.

It is important to pay attention to the light angle. If you put plants near the wall where sun lights shine to, you will see an amusing pattern on the wall. If your plants have some specific intriguing shape put it against the light, e.g. on the window sill. You will also see a nice effect if the color of curtains, walls, furniture, etc, will match the color of your plants. If you have a design with a contrast of black and white it is strongly recommended to have plants to refresh the room.

For furniture of elegant and straight forms made of steel, glass, marble and lacquered wood - plants of distinct and well-defined forms will make it look gorgeous.

For furniture made of bamboo and rattan, for small cupboards and wicked shelves, low tables and chairs use plants like orchid, ivy, jasmine, etc. To make your room look Japanese decorate it with bamboo, Azalea and bonsai plants. If your room is done in a French or English style put there bushy and generously flourishing plants with a note of softness: Cyclamen, Camellia, palms and other tree-like plants.

The one thing you have to remember is that you don’t need to use a huge amount of plants to decorate your place. It is important to choose among the great variety of plants the most fitting ones to your interior which are in harmony with everything around.

Don’t forget about your own temper. If you are an active passionate person choose bright colors – yellow, orange. If you are a reserved person you would probably prefer violets, roses and lavenders.

3. Plant knowledge

The choice of plants for your house should not be restricted by pompous blooming or beautiful leaves. Correct way to find best plant combination is to study their requirements: lightening, temperature, air humidity,etc. And even that is not all!

Containers where you keep your plants also play a very important role. Thanks to a good choice of pot materials and shapes you can find the most agreeable for the room of any styel. Pots of bright colors will best fit in the children’s room. Expensive picturesque containers of elegant style can be put in the halls and living-rooms.

To sum up everything we have discussed: when decorating the house you should remember the following three rules: right choice of the plant, good position and proper care. Of course to make a big composition without skills and knowledge is difficult. That’s why start with small things, read more articles about plant decoration and one day people coming to your house will start paying compliments to you.