Ideas & Inspiration for Decorating with Flowers & Plants
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Floral decor is one of the easiest, and most impactful, ways to decorate your home. This guide is here to help you pick out the right flower containers, vases, and flower pots to arrange flowers and elevate plants for day-to-day enjoyment or entertaining.
Overview of Floral Decor
Consider plants like another piece of decor in your arsenal to create a layered and interesting home. However, I understand not everyone is comfortable with flowers or plants, and so the aim of this guide is to make it easy to pick out flower containers as well as plants or flowers to go in them.
A personal perspective on floral decor
I was raised in a home where there were flower pots and vases full of blooms everywhere. My mom is a gardener and can never resist buying herself plants and flowers to grow or in dormant seasons to keep in the house. Still to this day, every time I go home there is something new on display, each time in a different flower container, I swear -- the depth of her collection is truly impressive.
Growing up in this environment has taught me that flowers and plants are a relatively low cost way to make a home feel so alive and inviting.
As an adult, I’ve adopted the same practice. Even though I live in the city and don’t have access to a garden all the time, I’m always buying flowers and just recently started getting more into plants – now they’re on almost every surface! (And my mom always sends me home with lots of clippings from her garden when I go home.)
The way my mother treated flowers and plants as an extension of home decor showed me the importance of collecting flower containers. Putting plastic pots in decorative containers significantly upgrades them, and while you can literally put flowers in anything that will hold water, they’re far more beautiful in proper vases. My mom’s motto is, you can never have enough flower containers! On that advice I am always on the hunt for unique vases and pots, and I believe it will be a lifelong pursuit. The upside is that I can rotate through them to keep things fresh, and I have more flexibility to find the right floral container to suit whatever I bring home.