How to Decorate your Home using Synthetic House Plants
Artificial Plants: Love them or hate them, they’re growing ever more popular. Take a look at our reasons for giving them a chance, and how to make them work in your home.
Almost everyone would agree that adding a bit of greenery to your décor freshens up your space, and it’s even been proven that plants makes us feel more relaxed and creative (which would explain why we can feel so mind-numbingly uninspired while staring at grey office walls but so ready to take on the world after a ten minute walk outside). Although synthetic plants can’t offer the same air-purifying properties as living plants, they still provide that much-needed pop of colour to get our creative juices flowing and, unlike real plants, they’ll still look great if you go on holiday and forget about them.
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Artificial plants have a bit of a bad reputation in the interior décor world. But like knitting, afternoon tea and sepia-toned photographs, when things that once fell out of fashion come back around, they come back with style. Advancements in the silk botanical industry mean that modern fake flowers are almost indistinguishable from the real thing, some plants have to be felt to be believed- and even then some people are still convinced that it’s a real plant!
If you’re ready to take the plunge and introduce some ersatz flora into your home, take a look at our top three tips below.
Tips for Using Artificial Plants in Your Home
1. Artificial plants are perfect for use in a room where the environment simply isn’t suitable for growing your favourite flower. Make the most of replicas’ indestructibility and try popping some exotic artificial plants in a space that doesn’t get much natural light, such as a small bathroom or study.
2. If you’re a living plant lover but looking to make the transition to hassle-free artificial houseplants, try mixing real and fake plants together. Line your windowsill will a combination of live and synthetic flowers and greenery for a full display that will never look dull, whatever the season, or try clustering real and fake trees and plants in a corner as a nature-inspired accent for your room.
3. One of the biggest selling points of living plants over synthetic ones is that real plants have natural bends and colour variations that give each plant character. Add some personality to an artificial plant by repotting it into a vase or pot of your choice. With hundreds of styles, shapes and colours to choose from, you can give your plant a whole new look in seconds.
Looking to give synthetic houseplants a go?
