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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Houseplant decorating does not require a green thumb. This is great news since every home requires a touch of greenery. These potted beauties have a way of livening and brightening up any room but more than these reasons, they also can filter the very air that you breathe.
Unfortunately, not a lot of people realize the importance of breathing in fresh air. Air purifiers might be easy to install and all but nothing beats the inexpensive and natural look that potted plants can offer.
There are many types of plants that are known for their air purifying capacity. These include the English Ivy (this tops the list because of its air-purifying properties as well as its elegant beauty), the rubber plant (yup, this is no joke as they emit a high oxygen level), Lady Palm (this is as tropical as tropical could Spider Plant (it may not sound too plant-y but it helps in improving the air you breathe), the Barberton Daisy (which even combats xylene, formaldehyde, benzene, and toluene), Moth Orchid, and the Dwarf Date Palm.
There are many ways to display these natural air filters.
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Bench, Credenza or Cart Display
The bench or cart is the simplest way that you can display your potted beauties. These come in handy when you don’t have a lot of space to work on.
Create a lively plant shrine by adding pots of greens onto a narrow credenza or a low bench. Just imagine this Hooker Furniture Bedroom Ozark bed bench filled with lovely greens.
White Pot ‘Em
Instead of the usual clay or ceramic pots, try a different look by planting your greens in white pots. Your evergreen foliage would even look and feel more elegant as you add these small 10”x8”x6” Uttermost Accessories Oval Domes Preserved Boxwood. Uttermost’s greens fuse quality with style. It also comes with advanced product engineering which promises the lowest damage rate. Every product is shipped out to you with quality in mind.
If the white pots don’t tickle your fancy, then you can always go for geometric pots or geometric greeneries. Here’s where the Uttermost Accessories Two Sphere Topiary Preserved Boxwood comes in. it is a plant arranged with two spheres and a mossy stone finish.
It is perfect for the living areas.
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Plant Hangers
Another way that you can decorate with potted greens is to hang them. You can either suction them to the walls or build a special indoor trellis for them. These can then be classified as wall art and easily become the piece de resistance in a living room.
They can also be hung from the ceiling and you would need plant hangers for this. Make sure that the potted plant will be able to fit into the hangers. A macramé plant hanger can be made with some cotton cords. Learn the technique here.
You can also place long, hanging plants on wall shelving. Add some of your bottle or ceramic collections to complete the look.
Vase the Branches
Sometimes, all that you need is a part of the plant. You can get a lovely vase (it’s up to you whether you’d want glass, ceramic or any other material) and place the branch of a green plant there. This should last a few days up to a week. This kind of design is perfect for the Bohemian-inspired home.
Gotta Love Those Succulents
Creating your plant corner means you have to learn about layering. Your plant sanctuary does not have to be filled with leafy plants all the time. For added texture, you can use succulents. These tiny pots can be arranged right on the floor or you can have them grouped on an open shelf.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
FFDM American Cherry’s Marlborough Dining Table leaped to life with the porcelain vase filled with flowers was placed atop it.
One of the trendiest things in the world of interior design is getting closer to Mother Nature. This is all about being able to bring the outdoors in. it is also about how to blur the lines of the living spaces and perfecting the room layouts based on the temperature in your zone and your fondness for living outdoors.
There may be decorative pieces that celebrate the beauty of botanicals and there, too, are the real ones given to us by nature. Choose which of these two (you can also fuse them) you would bring in to your home.
Adding colors, focus, and organic structure to your home with the use of potted plants and flowers in vases could do wonders to your physical and mental health.
Achieving the Natural Look
To successfully create the look, it won’t require you to turn your house to a greenhouse. Instead, you can have some well-placed, green plants contribute to the natural look and feel in all the rooms whether you embraced a traditional or contemporary style.
The trick is to make the place look healthy and lush, complete with lovely shades of green and a plethora of textures. Begin by understanding the role of plants in successfully adapting to outdoor living. If you’re not that great in tending plants, then consult any green-thumbed expert.
From macramé hanging pots, to terrariums, vertical indoor garden and artificial plants – it is a lot easier to look for a green solution nowadays. A terrarium is an easy and fun way to welcome nature in. Just convert a funky-looking glass and create a garden inside using your favorite greens.
Large indoor plants have the power to create a dramatic statement while cool macramé hangers are a unique addition to any ordinary-looking space.
If you intend to use natural indoor plants, then be sure to plan how the sunlight and water could be administered to them. Artificial plants are also a wonderful alternative especially now that they are becoming more and more lifelike.
Basic Flower Arrangement
Fuse the tri-shades of African violets in a lovely urn then cover the arrangement using sheet moss. This will create a cozy feel to the ensemble while also holding the moisture in.
Be sure to have this arrangement drink in some light each morning. Don’t make it soak under the bright afternoon sun, though. When you water, lift the moss then soak the soil. Be sure to keep the moisture in the soil at all times but don’t get the leaves wet.
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Paint with Succulents
Unleash your artistic skill by staging a still life using some succulents. Just like those lovely sculptures by master artisans, mini succulents and cacti can also be an amazing assemblage. Mix the shy, round, pointy and matte plants. Unify them with neutral pots then add a shade or two of purple and green leaves. Consider creating this ensemble – rat tail cacti, Echeveria varieties, jade and mistletoe cactus.
Use direct light and be sure to let the soil thoroughly dry between waterings.
Place a Tall Tree on Wheels
A tall fiddle-leaf fig with its large and leathery leaves can totally transform any dull corner. Create an oversized plant mobile that will help you wheel out the tree when you vacuum the corner. This will also come in handy when it’s time for the tree to drink in some morning sunlight.
Get a piece of precut bluestone then set right on a wheeled caddie. Buy a dark pot for your tree so that the eyes of your guests will immediately go to the greens.
Provide just a moderate amount of light and be sure to keep the tree away from the afternoon sun. The top inch of soil must dry out completely after watering.
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Thursday, March 24th, 2016
The RayLen Vineyards Collection offers this dining set that will look great in a roofed backyard space.
Living in the city can be fun but if there’s one thing that you don’t get to enjoy there, it’s the spacious backyards. Compact homes offer awkward or narrow spaces as extensions of a home. If you have such an outdoor space, what would you do? Would it mean confining yourself to limited space all of the time? Or would you like to learn how to maximize your backyard?
Break It Into Zones
You can begin by creating various functions. Arrange furniture pieces strategically to visually create different rooms such as cooking, dining, lounging, and entertainment areas. All four zones can be placed inside one small home.
Light Up to Break Up
It’s time to implement a lighting design that can function in many ways. A multi-faceted lighting scheme will do you lots of good. The living room can have brighter lights while the bedroom can have the subdued types of lighting. Arm pendants or chandeliers hang best inside dining rooms. Know how to create lighting that will break up one whole space into various sections.
The Indoor Space Extension
Find the indoor space which you think is the smallest then have that extended to your available space in your backyard. If the kitchen is too small, for instance, then you can have a portion of the backyard installed with kitchen equipment and furniture. Outdoor technology should be able to help you with whatever you want to do outside.
You can also complement the interiors by using the same colors that you used there to a room that was set up in your backyard. You can stylize by picking textures and colors that harmonize. Do more than buy a couple of chairs and that cute dining table. Lounge seats and other accessories should make the room more exciting and seemingly more spacious.
Learn to Manipulate
If the problem in your home is square footage, then learn to utilize scale, angles, and surface materials. You wouldn’t want to force a 12-seater dining table into a particularly small backyard dining space. Consider, instead, extendable tables or a storage unit with lots of drawers of shelves.
If you have many functional areas, then learn to use a single material that will unify them. Small spaces need to be cohesive, for instance, the parents’ entertainment area could have the same carpet color as the kids’ play zone.
FFDM’s Summer Home Collection has this lovely pair to make your reading corner much more exciting.
Get Rid of Clutter
The more elements that you put into your backyard space, the tighter it would eventually feel. Instead, incorporate non-curvy lines, clean seating, and a limited number of potted plants or bushes. Say no to bulky furniture since the small space will surely be overwhelmed by them.
The cleaner look works better in a backyard that you want to maximize. Instead of using 15 pots as decor, just use five then have them strategically placed throughout the limited space. Pick about two or three planters, 2-3 colors, and just about anything that would complement each other so that the space won’t look overwhelming or chaotic.
Have the Space Enclosed
This might seem ineffective for someone whose aim is to make a small space appear larger. Enclosing a small space, though, you make it more intimate and cozy, aspects that are hard to achieve when you have a large space to work with. An enclosure will also make you feel that you have an outdoor room rather than just a place to store clutter.
Having plants can help you create an intimate yet seemingly roomy space. Redbud trees and trumpet vines usually work if you want to maximize your backyard. So go ahead and use greeneries to your advantage.
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
This China cabinet comes from FFDM’s Antebellum Collection. The classic color of wood will make any home be the envy of the neighborhood.
The year 2016 is marked as the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar. The specific styles and interior design trends for this year are distinctive because they show a lot of expression. They also come in richness that is sure to transcend to the next year.
Playful Colors Are Back
Among the various inspired changes inside homes this year, cheerful colors are definitely back. There is also this growing emphasis on nature and the environment even in unusual rooms such as kitchens and the bathroom.
Innovations are not limited to these concepts. Accessories also display the richest hues though they are also surprisingly used in a more functional and minimalist space. Hints of metals such as brass and copper are also used in different areas of the home.
This year’s color palette comes in shades of red, pink and peach and designers are more than willing to use these colors to tell the world that they are following the trend. Pink is not just seen in interior design but also in make-up, fashion and office decor.
Accessories also come in shades of deep blue, green oil and navy. These colors convey feelings of coolness and calm inside any premise. For instance, brass or copper surfaces can cleverly blend with moody colors such as purple and black.
Once again, marble, copper and brass are the stars of the 2016 trend. There are various uses for these glamorous materials, their flexible characteristic, and their artistic look.
Another noticeable change inside homes this year is the presence of decorative yet functional objects. There is simply no room for useless stuff. It has become increasingly crucial to own objects that can be used throughout the homeowner’s lifetime, maybe even beyond.
The dynamic lifestyle of modern man also requires clever usage of space, its proper arrangement, and minimalism. The kitchen, for instance, may be completely concealed in order to open more room for entertainment.
The Hooker Furniture Dining Room Skyline Round Glass Top Dining Table comes with plated metal and glass. Choose from the gold or champagne-colored finish.
These days, the world of interior design is constantly moving towards minimalism because of its simple aesthetics. The reason behind this is simple – modern man is always busy and all he wants is a haven to go home to, a place where he could escape from city life. The use of green walls or optical illusions inside bathrooms and kitchens can add to the level of fascination.
Another huge change inside the home environment is the seemingly spa atmosphere. The bathroom is the leading room that has turned from a functional space to a relaxation area. Chairs and benches, even vanity tables are no longer uncommon inside modern bathrooms.
Have an abundant amount of vegetation inside the bathroom, too. Bring in those green plants that you love. Urban gardens inside living premises are also hip and trendy. Mother Nature is being let into homes because more and more designers and architects are considering the health of their clients. Bringing nature closer to homeowners does not just provide beauty but also a high level of calmness.
To keep the rest of your home fresh and up-to-date with the latest interior design trends, be sure to control the ventilation and humidity. Fresh air is what provides natural plant life. If this is not possible to achieve, then green walls are your next best option. The colors pink and gold are also artistic and easygoing hues that you can experiment with during the year. See how you can have them entwined or used separately in your home’s architecture and interior design.
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