How to Use Plants in Interior Design: Time-Saving Tips & Recent Design Trends

 
Ask your interior designer about your favorite indoor plants and they’ll tell you, “The question isn’t whether you can use plants to beautify your interior, the question is, how successfully and happily you do that! And if you are not careful about your home interior, this is the time to change it. Everybody wants to inhale fresh air indoors and stay productive and positive, but only a few accomplish it with some cool indoor plants. You can also enjoy the serenity of your interior with these amazing tips.

  

1. Read about your Chosen Plant

You can start by reading up a bit on your chosen plant. The first thing you need to make sure of is your selection of plant features among florae that are likely to flourish indoors. Choose a flower vessel with adequate drainage. Fill it with soil that is tailored-made for your plant. From this point onward, your primary mission will be to provide your green friend with adequate amounts of two resources, water, and light. But keep in mind to only rely on dependable information rather than your own suppositions.

So, let’s assume you don’t skip any of the major steps in your plant care routine, and your plants do really well – grow healthy and grateful to their owner. In terms of interior design, you’re only just getting started! How do you make the most of plants in the comfort of your room? How do you add them to your life so that you end up taking full reward for their consummate potential to beautify your interiors? Here are a few time-saving tips and tricks to give you a head-on start.

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2. Consider Yourself Particularly Green-Thumbed

Everybody in this universe is well-aware of the valuable capabilities of plants but still, chooses against owning them. The only reason behind it may be the thinking, “I just can’t be uptight with yet another humdrum chore in my busy life! If you don't consider yourself particularly green Thumbed, you must know that looking after plants isn’t really rocket science. All things come from learning and you can learn the basics of your interior plant care in next to no time.

3. Recognize your surroundings

Before you start plantation, take a good look around your room and create a list of its main weaknesses and strengths. Which part of your room is in need of a change and which, on the contrary, could do with some additional space?

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4. Your Room Needs A Clear Idea

More than anything else, your room needs a clear idea. A prevailing theme to give your interior that articulate and coherent look. This will be the best possible start to a finely balanced interior design.

 5. Put Your Favorite Plant in The Limelight 

No room feels complete these days without a germane centerpiece, so why not use a plant as a hero piece? This doesn’t necessarily mean that it should be in the very middle of the room, a leafy focal point in the corner can be an amazing idea. 

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6. Size Does Matter

Large plants work great as a statement, especially with clean, sparse interiors. Small plants, on the other hand, are best used in most other designs where congestion isn’t an issue. The best thing to go about it is, to mix them up and it will bring good results when it’s done on purpose.

 7. A Larger Plant to Fill the Visual Void 

If you have no idea what to do with that empty corner in your room, or there isn’t enough space for another colossal piece of furniture? Just place a plant in it and your room will come together nicely, just remember to take care of it later.

 8. Stay Away from Finicky Plants

Choose easy plants and stay away from fastidious plants if you want to avoid painful gardening mistakes. There are plenty of plants available in the market that are both exceedingly easy to look after and are pretty too.