Decorating your home with plants has more benefits than you might think.
In today's blog we want to talk about how to decorate your home with plants. As well as bringing a dose of green into your home, plants have many benefits for our health. Here we tell you more about them and how you can use them to decorate your home in an original and elegant way with the advice of our interior decorators.
Many people think that having plants at home is only for decoration. But the benefits they have for our health and mood help us to have a better quality of life.
Plants have physical and chemical properties that help our health. Now we tell you all about them.
Benefits of interior decoration with plants
- They oxygenate the environment:Throughout the day, plants and flowers photosynthesise, so there is always oxygen. Just remember that there are some that do it at night. We advise you to ask before you buy.
- They have a relaxing effect:The colour of plants creates a sense of calm and well-being. And if they are scented, they help to reduce stress.
- The air we breathe is better:Plants in houses purify the air in them, so the more the better. In this sense, they absorb pollutant gases and increase the humidity in the air.
- They reduce work-related stress:Working at home is more relaxing than going to the office but there is still stress. Having plants at home increases performance and efficiency.
- They decorate the house:Seeing your home with a splash of colour will always make you feel better. The advantage is that when it comes to plants and flowers, there is a great variety for you to choose your favourites.
- They improve self-esteem:Caring for a plant and watching it grow can help its owner's self-esteem. Remember that it is a responsibility and needs a lot of perseverance.
Tips for interior decoration with houseplants
Houseplants can be grouped together to form small gardens or spread throughout the house or workplace. The important thing is to provide them with adequate light, watering and fertiliser. Nature will do the rest and provide the best and most spectacular of decorations.
The best thing to do is to find plants that match the style of the chosen decoration. This will create a sense of continuity with the other decorative elements.
For example, plants can be used to make a small flat feel more spacious. Or, on the other hand, to create a warmer atmosphere in a large home.
Here are some tips from the interior designers at TARRAULA to help you get the most out of decorating your home with plants:
We should choose plants whose light and temperature requirements are known in advance.
We must recognise the space we have available and how the plant will grow (remember that radiators and draughts have a negative influence).
An outdoor plant can never survive indoors.
Plants are an excellent way of delimiting areas. For example, to mark the dining or living room area, an office in the dining room, or the beginning of a staircase.
Always choose a good pot, with excellent designs and colours (it is not worth having a beautiful plant but with a pot that does not follow the same decorative line of the room, for example).
For any style of decoration it is suitable to use planters in groups of two or three, whether they are the same or of different sizes.
They create focal points. A beautiful plant of the right size will always be an eye-catcher.
In the kitchen it is advisable to use aromatic plants that can also be used for cooking.
Plants with personality are a real eye-catcher in centrepieces on a table, in a bathroom without overdoing it or in the kitchen.
They are excellent for high ceilings.
We often neglect to keep plants in the house because we do not have the time to look after them, which means that many of them dry out due to lack of watering or, on the contrary, they drown due to over-watering. But there are beautiful plants that grow without problems and survive our lack of care.
We share with you this article in which you can see the most popular houseplants and their main care.
At our interior design studio TARRAULA we are committed to decorating our homes with plants, as in addition to the benefits we have mentioned above, they bring warmth, elegance and a touch of naturalness to our homes.
