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Decorating your home with plants: ideas and tips - Engel & Völkers

Decorating your home with plants: ideas and tips



Nature enters the home bringing colour and well-being. Here are some tips on how to decorate your home with plants and flowers



Bringing greenery into your home has several positive aspects. Furnishing with plants contributes to the style of a home. But above all, it has an impact on our air quality and quality of life. In fact, it has been proven that furnishing plants is a 'natural stress reliever', as well as an increasingly popular trend. It is not necessary to have large outdoor spaces such as gardens and terraces, and it is possible to decorate your home with plants and flowers in practically every room. Here are some tips, ideas and advice on how to furnish your home with plants.


Know your environment

Before deciding which plants to use and which style to adopt, it is important to know what can be accommodated within our walls. Brightness, humidity, air temperature, room size, are key elements for the life of our plants and therefore it is essential to know how they affect the spaces in the house.

 

Indoor plants that require no effort

Those with a green thumb will not wonder how much care they have to devote to plants in order for them to live a long time. However, it is good to know that you do not have to be a botanical expert to furnish your home with plants. There are many species of furnishing plants that require little or no maintenance. A few examples? Sansevieria, ficus, chlorophytum, bromelia, among others, need little water to survive. The soil only needs to be watered when it has been dry for some time, especially in summer. Not to mention succulent plants, which play a starring role in various indoor arrangements.

 

Bathroom, which plants to use?

The bathroom has a special microclimate, so it is essential to carefully choose plants to decorate it. It is the room with the most humidity and the highest temperatures. Plants such as orchids and aloe vera, or peace lily, philodendron and fern are well suited to this habitat.























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Plants for decorating the kitchen

In the kitchen, as in the bathroom, there are special conditions. But in this space you can combine the useful with style. The plants that can be used in the kitchen are in fact the same ones that can be used to prepare our dishes. Aromatic plants such as rosemary, sage, marjoram, parsley, mint, give taste, aroma and colour to the kitchen. If possible, it is best to place them near the window or in the cooler areas of the kitchen.

Decorate the bedroom with plants

The bedroom is the space for relaxation and rest. Plants only increase the sense of well-being in this room. Species that require little light, such as pothos, succulents or aloe vera, do wonderfully well in bedrooms. One idea to consider is to adorn shelves with climbing plants. As the only caution, it is better not to place plants in the immediate vicinity of the bed headboard and bedside tables, but rather near the window or door.


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Ornamental living room plants


The choice of ornamental plant should always be commensurate with the size of the room. The living room is generally one of the largest rooms in the house, where you entertain guests. In this type of space, a large plant provides an ornamental effect and a cosy tone. These include ficus, kenzia, even a banana tree or Peruvian palm.





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Home decoration with flowers


Of course, in addition to using decorative plants, you can also use flowers of different shapes and colours to brighten up your home. Again, the position and type of plant should be carefully studied, knowing full well that flowers tend to have a shorter life span than plants. But this is not always the case. If you decide to use dried flower arrangements, you will not have to worry about time passing. And the result is guaranteed.





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