Transform your Interiors with Plants

Entry #3197, January 15, 2014

It is a brand New Year and let’s enhance your interiors with Mother Nature. Green living with plants not only boosts your health but beautifies your space.  That’s right for this New Year create visually pleasing aesthetics for your interiors with plants that will liven up your space.  Sometimes we can get discouraged because we have be so painfully reminded that not all of us have a green thumb but you don’t necessarily have to be a gardening expert in order to tastefully design and maintain your fauna throughout the year.  So take a look below at how to place and care for your indoor plants for the New Year.

Transform your Interiors with Plants

Select a Good Plant

The first step to setting up a semi-garden within your home is to first pick out plants that you actually want and ones that will be easiest for you to care for.  Rosemary plants, Peace Lily, Snake Plant, Weeping Fig, Spider Plant etc. are great for first timers.  Not only are they some of the easier plants to maintain but they also will add their own natural air filtering to the room and beauty to the décor.  You can research online or visit your local Home Depot store to help figure out which one is good for you.

Image via: Matthew Millman

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Pick a Pot

The pot will be an essential part to the look and care of the plant.  You want the plant to be show cased in a container that enhances its beauty as well as having enough room to breathe and grow.  Now the pot selection will depend on you and your taste.  If you prefer a more refined look then terra cota and glazed pots would be your speed, plus they are great for keeping plants moisturized.  However, if you want to be more cost effective yet efficient then the plastic containers would be more ideal for you.  It all depends on your needs and what

The pot will be an essential part to the look and care of the plant.  You want the plant to be show cased in a container that enhances its beauty as well as having enough room to breathe and grow.  Now the pot selection will depend on you and your taste.  If you prefer a more refined look then terra cota and glazed pots would be your speed, plus they are great for keeping plants moisturized.  However, if you want to be more cost effective yet efficient then the plastic containers would be more ideal for you.  It all depends on your needs and what

Choose the Location

You want to put your plants in a place that will give them the most sunlight, moderate temperatures and be best shown off.  Now depending on the types of plants that you get will determine the type of care they will need.  However you will probably like to use places like the dining room, living room, or even the kitchen to display your indoor faunas just solely based on the amount of light they would receive in these areas.  Another tip is to keep the soil moisturized but not drowning them,  having them sprayed on a consistent basis that way the soil stays moist yet not overwhelmed.

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Change the Scenes

Your plants don’t always have to stay in the brightest places even though it is more ideal.  But there are those times where you might like having them in the den or the foyer.  You can most definitely accomplish that.  Give your plant a set time if you plan on putting them in an area where they will not be receiving the amount of light that they would need.  Like, you may put your Peace Lily in the den for a few days or a week just to refresh the scenes.  That decision is completely fine just be sure to keep the plants healthy and maintained if you plan on doing so.

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Plants are great outdoors but can be a fascinating sight indoors.  And you do not have to have a green thumb in order to keep them.  So go for it and create your own plant paradise to brighten your interiors.  Not only does it give an organic appeal but it will also add a revitalizing tranquility to the space.  What creative ways do you Transform your Interiors with Plants?

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