Plants are important members of the interior. Entering into a composition with all other elements of the space — pieces of furniture, decor, and art — they help to tell the story of our life and make the atmosphere unique.
Spring is the right time to purchase new plants, renew and refresh your home. Add colors and textures using different flowers. If you are in search of flowering plants, check Dahlia bulbs that have several interesting types; they will make your space more attractive.
There are several rules for choosing plants for different interior styles. Let’s check them and find out how to make your home more attractive.
Interior Styles and Corresponding Plants
First, analyze the style of your space. What is it like? Is it strict or informal, classic or modern, in the style of a dynamic urban or measured suburban? What mood would you like to create or what feature of this space would you like to emphasize?
For example, open spaces with high ceilings in a classic style or in a loft-style need large plants with juicy green leaves: large and standard ficuses, pakhira, hovea, or banana. This will emphasize the architectural features of the room and create the right balance.
In a romantic country interior in the Provence style, abundantly and long-flowering plants will be appropriate — begonias and camellias, resembling bush roses, as well as campanula and azaleas, similar to miniature lilies. The country house kitchen is the perfect place for aromatic herbs such as rosemary, basil, and mint in vintage terracotta planters.
To emphasize the purity of the space of a modern interior, pay attention to plants of simple shapes with clearly readable leaves and texture: spathiphyllum, euphorbia, Ficus Elastica, zamioculcas. Conversely, if you want to make the atmosphere more relaxed, then calathea, echeveria, crassula, and alocasia will help you cope with this task.
Today, the combination of styles, the fusion of different cultures, West and East, history and modernity, high technology and archaic objects, is relevant. If you like to combine incongruous — frivolous and strict, curves and straight lines, old and modern, then choose calathea, echinocactus, aloe, Ingens spurge. They will complete the image of your space and make it deeper and more dramatic.
Minimalism has a lot of straight lines, simple shapes, as a rule, a minimum of furniture, decor, and details. This means that plants should support this theme: bonsai trees, compositions with cacti, or small plants in glass that are now fashionable will become the central part of a minimalist interior. If you still want to put a flowering plant, then buy the Phalaenopsis orchid — this elegant flower will make the interior softer.
The main thing in choosing plants is to remember that there are no strict rules and ready-made recipes, there is only what is right for you.