The Perfect Floral Decor for Your Home
We've said it before and we're going to say it again: flowers are the best home decor ever! It brings that bit more life into your house and brightens up any room. You can style it with a cute poster from Project Nord, or just make it a centrepiece. Go for cut flowers in any colour you currently feel like, or get dried flowers perfect for any Scandi interior. The choice is yours.
But the best of all? If you're one of those people who is not really that good at sustaining plants at your home, that's totally okay! This article is for you! Because we understand that not everyone has the time or energy to remember that this plant needs watering every 4 days and this one every 6 days and then that one only every 2 weeks. Yes, that’s definitely overwhelming.
So, we looked into the best floral decorations for your home, whether you're natural botanist or busy bee. Let's have a look!
What will flowers and nature do to your mood
Our surroundings are critical when it comes to influencing our mood and mindset. According to a cognitive psychologist David Strayers, our brains are prone to mistakes, even more when we are multitasking.
As Strayers explains, when we slow down and go into natural surroundings, our brains are restored and we become more focused and productive. He proved that we can become 50% more effective in creative problem-solving, all just by surrounding ourselves with a bit of nature. And skipping the busy lifestyle, at least once in a while for what Strayers calls 3-days-effect!
So undoubtedly, nature has a lot to offer, if we only treat it with patience and kindness, same as it treats us. In recent years, scientists and researchers have been undergoing various studies and the same results keep coming up. People living close to nature suffer less mental distress and heart diseases, are more productive and happier, and things like lower mortality and less stress hormones are now also connected to living close to nature.
Nonetheless, if your home is in the middle of a concrete jungle and don't have many opportunities to be connected with nature on a daily basis, there's still a solution. Bring the nature back to your home!
How to style floral decor in your home
There's far too many options, so it can be a bit chaotic at first. But don't get discouraged, all the best things in the world require a bit of time. Try out different flowers, different pots or vases, search for inspiration online if you don't want to jump into any conclusions. Instagram and Pinterest are amazing places to start, if you feel like your interior needs some change. And this article for sure is the first step you can take.
Comparing cut flowers to dried ones
Some people prefer to go for cut flowers, just because of the variety of colours they can choose from, same as the feeling of freshly cut flowers in your vase. However, it's still demanding changing the water every now and then and keeping them alive for as long as possible. And eventually, here comes a day when you have to throw them out and that’s a bit of a heartbreak.
Buying flowers you can plant in a pot and take care of for a long time is a better option, both for nature and your conscious. But, it is a commitment. You have to take care of them and that can be really time consuming sometimes. But, it’s definitely the best idea for a gift for a friend you know that loves flowers!
But when it comes to us, busy people always on the move, dried flowers might the best solution for our flower decor situation. And it's definitely not sad or boring, if you know what you're doing and follow Scandinavian way of decorating your interior. Scandinavians are in love with their nature, so if they approve of dried flowers, then it has to be okay!
What does floral decor go hand-in-hand with
Your floral decor is good on its own. But if you're not that far with your minimalist lifestyle and love to change things up a bit, there are few interior pieces we love when combined with flowers!
candles
Another super Scandinavian interior decor piece! As we mentioned before, for Scandinavians lighting is everything. So you can expect them to have, on average, 6-8 candles lit up every day of the week, as said by Meik Wiking, the founder of The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen.
Of course, with these numbers you also have to have sustainability always on your mind! But that’s a piece of cake! Just once again get inspired by the nordic way of living and choose a sustainable option, like soy waxed candles.
posters
Yes, flowers and posters are best friends, what can we do about it? This is a perfect opportunity to experiment with your interior design a bit more and leave the traditional ways behind. You can still hang your poster on the wall, but even that doesn't have to be boring and you can try some other spot than your living room.
Try to lean you poster towards a white wall and place the floral decor in front of it. If you find a place in your apartment where morning or evening sun will hit the spot, you're up for an interior designer of the year! You don't have to be scared of dark furniture combined with darker posters. You can balance things with colourful flowers or something very natural like eucalyptus.
vases
This is one of the easiest transitional pieces in your interior. You can never have enough vases as home, same as you can never have too many floral decorations.
It's super easy to find a great vase, especially if you're looking into Scandinavian design. Because let's be honest, you can't really mess anything up with a ceramic piece with that nordic touch.
If you're looking for something seasonal, Iittala offers a lot of autumn pieces and has ever changing collections. And that's not your only option! There're many online stores that offer perfect Scandinavian design for your home. So start browsing, because you need that ideal vase to go together with your future floral decor.
paper
Here we come to one of our favourites. Here up north, people love to decorate their homes with as many natural materials as possible. So there's no surprise in paper making our list. And we have two tips for you right away!
First of all, if you haven't been a bookworm until now, it's time to change that. And that’s only because reading is probably the best and the most self-activating hobby you can take up. Books not only help to restore our mental health, they look good too!
Especially if you're one of those design freaks like us, and you love to collect beautiful designer pieces. But this time we're not talking about fashion, we're talking about design magazines and books. They look perfect already by themselves. But combine them with an original floral decor and your home will be remarkable!
And the second tip? This is quite an unusual one. Have you ever heard of Le Sac en Papir or The Paper Bag? Yes, very sustainable and very inventive indeed! As you've probably already got from the name, this masterpiece is designed in Paris, so it's totally understandable why it’s so intriguing.
You can style this bag in so many ways and find so many uses for it. But our favourite one is to put your favourite seasonal dried flowers in and make it a centrepiece of a room.
and wood
And here we are, the best of the best to finish up our article. Wood is probably the favourite material of all the real Scandinavians and there's for sure a million uses for it in any interior design. Any floral decor will look bomb on top of your wooden furniture. If you have an apartment in a city, this combination will be like a nature overload.
Wooden stools, wooden frames, wooden coffee tables, ven branches, the list can go on and on. There's literally an infinity of possibilities and you just can't be scared to experiment a little. And the more natural and raw you go about the wooden pieces, the better to match your floral decor.
We fell in love with dried flower decorations the minute we tried it out and you will too! Let us know what's your favourite way to style a floral decor in your home and pick up a cute poster to style it with today!
Written by Lujza Grossmanová
Photos by Lujza Grossmanová
Images sourced from Pinterest