Decorate Your Home With More Green (Plants) This Summer

Updated on 2018-10-14

In Design Ideas Home Decor Interior Design Landscaping

Gardening, grass, plants, flowers etc. are most commonly used and found at the exteriors of building or spaces. We all have a dream of getting a small porch or a garden type area just outside our home sweet home. But, due to the scarcity of spaces, it is not possible for every kind of home or accommodation. It doesn’t mean one can’t have dreamed of small sweet plants at their dwellings. Indoor plants are one the most simple, decorative and easiest way to achieve your dream of greenery and freshness inside your house.

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Indoor plants are decorative, useful, refreshing and match up well with all the seasons. They are always welcoming and sweet for spaces. From the vast variety of indoor plants, one needs to select few for their interiors. Indoor plants comprise of Aloe, Snake plant, Cast-iron plant, Christmas cactus, Peace Lilly, Purple orchid, Wheel bamboo, etc. Choice of interior plants should be based on the type of space, area, budget, maintenance and most importantly overall design and looks. Before choosing your plant and putting it in to enhance the beauty of your interiors do take care of few decoration tips.

THE SIZE OF THE PLANT

Indoor plants do come in a variety of sizes and shape. Every size and shape are not suitable for every kind of space, interiors and overall décor. Indoor plants with the height of (3’0” – 4’0”) should be placed at the vacant corners of the room whereas, small indoor plants with the height less than 2”0” can be placed on a table, furniture rack, kitchen slab, office corner table, side table etc.

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DESIGN AND DECOR OF THE SPACES

Indoor plants are not just placed to achieve the purpose of greenery around. They are placed to even enhance the beauty of the interior spaces. Season flowers, white flowers etc. are suitable for more or less every kind of design and décor ideas. They do absorb themselves to the surroundings as well as enhance the beauty 24/7. They do play well with the interiors and their beauty.

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POTS AND VASES

Not only the placement of interior plants does matters but also the vessel they are kept in. Contemporary glass vessels, glass vases, metal pots, hanging pots, clay pots etc. do help in enhancing the chic of the interior plants and spaces as well. So let the plant show off its beauty and freshness well with the most suitable pot or vessel styling. Do not just keep them, give them a personal space to live and charm in.

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Providing spaces a majestic and magical look is what we all dream off. It is not at all important to spend extensively on accessories and other products. Remember, beauty does come in the packet of simplicity and freshness. Interior plants are one of those simple, refreshing and forever adorable packets of beauty for your glowing interiors. So, do not just live with the faded colors of expensive arts. Let the real beauty of nature take its place forever in your interiors and heart for the most refreshing and impressive interior designing & decorations.