How To Decorate Your Home With Flowers On A Budget
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Jslacker1983
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$50
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Having a boring, sterile looking home is out. Having a beautiful, lush, green home is in. Homeowners everywhere - particularly millennials - are with apartment forests, filling their spaces with green to decorate, bring in life and enhance their rooms.
But maintaining a house full of plants can feel like a fulltime job - and expenses can add up, too. If you’re interested in filling your home with plant life but balk everytime you see the price for a bouquet at the store, don’t worry. There are steps you can take to make your money go further and bring nature inside without breaking the bank. Here are a few tips on decorating your home with flowers and plants on a limited budget.
Stretch your bouquets out
The first thing you should be aware of is that you don’t need to put the bouquet you bought from the store, as is, right into a vase. Rather than a single centerpiece decoration that catches your attention with volume and quantity, separate your bouquet into several groupings and arrange them throughout a space to provide flashes of color in multiple places. Flowers don’t have to come in sets of 10 to look pretty - one to three flower in a vase will catch the eye without looking bulky or costing a lot.
Use multiple containers - and get creative with your containers - to make the bouquets stretch out. If you get a dozen roses, try to find four to six vases to separate them out. The vases don’t have to match - you can use a tall glass, and then a colorful vase, mason jars and other creative containers. This will provide some variety so your bouquet doesn’t look like it’s been copy-pasted multiple times throughout your house. Or get creative with the presentation - to tint the water in the vases different colors for a rainbow effect. This eye-catching look can turn a plain bouquet of daisies into a beautiful, colorful display for the cost of food coloring.
Make use of greenery
Flowers are beautiful, but they rarely grow in nature unaccompanied by greenery, leaves and other non-flowering plants. According to , Your bouquet will look a lot more natural - and stretch a lot farther - if you use greenery to decorate as well.
For example, when you’re dividing flowers into different vases, practice a bit of arrangement by incorporating additional foliage, like myrtle and grevillea. This will break up the look of the flowers, usually by adding length or color, making the designs more interesting and full-looking. Foliage can turn a sparse vase into one full of plant life and color without shelling out those bucks on more-expensive decorative flowers.
Choose long-lasting plants
Although you can take lots of steps to vary up the designs of all your bouquets, the biggest expense you will face is having to replace cut flowers over and over again, or plants dying on you. If you want to minimize your expenses while decorating your house with plants and flowers, think about the expected lifespan of the plants you’re bringing into your house.
If you’re bringing live plants into your house that you plan on potting and growing, make sure you have the right climate to grow those plants, or make sure they’re a sturdy and long-lasting plant like a succulent or a fern.
If you’re using cut flowers to decorate your place, then into which flowers last the longest after they’re cut. Not all flowers wear alike. Ranunculus, which can resemble roses, last for a week or more in water, while roses usually look pretty worn out by the end of a week. Lilies and cala lilies will last close to a week, and freesia can last almost two weeks.
Before selecting a flower, do some research into what grows locally. Local flowers will always be cheaper and more accessible than flowers that have to be imported or grown in special conditions.
It may take a bit of experimenting and research to find out which plants last and provide the right color and decoration for your apartment. But filling your home with flowers is a beautiful and easy solution to bring color and life into your home, and it doesn’t have to be an expensive endeavor.
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