Think of plants as living decoration and the possibilities are endless. One of the best things about them is they’re completely portable, so you can move your plants to suit your mood or as your style changes.
Place them around the room, at different heights and on different surfaces, to create the feeling of being surrounded by greenery. Use plants with unusual leaf shapes, like Chaz the monstera, or plants in striking colours, like Tristan the calathea, to maximise interest.
Plants can provide a focal point
Your eye is immediately drawn to plants, so they’re an easy way to pull the look of a room together. Be bold. Put Fidel the fiddle leaf fig tree in your bedroom and instantly your bedroom is transformed into something dramatic.
You can turn a bookcase into a feature wall by placing tumbling plants on its shelves. Use Silvy the satin pothos, Jethro the lipstick plant and Theodore the string of nickels to create a cascade of colours and textures.
Plants create cosiness
You know that feeling you get in a forest, of being gently enclosed by nature? You can create that at home too.
Surround a bedroom chair or sofa with tall plants to create a really cosy reading corner. Or hang plants over the bedhead to make yourself feel almost hugged by greenery as you nod off each night. With lots of soothing plants around you, you may even sleep better.
If this blog has inspired you to bring the outside in then head over to Patch – they've got hundreds of plants looking for a new home.
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