Consider an indoor house plant if you are looking for different ways to enhance the ambience of a room. Plants being a sense of life to a room, enhancing the color and texture. They can be very versatile, are inexpensive and can be placed anywhere in your home for best effect.
When selecting an indoor house plant, choose growths that are relatively easy to maintain and are appropriate to the ambient lighting in your chosen room. Good ideas include the spider plant, the shamrock, philodendrons or English ivy.
Before you make your final decision regarding the location for your indoor house plant, consider some basic interior design rules. Size, color, shape, texture need to fit in with the room’s style, as is the case with any accessory. Make sure that the plant’s container complements the room’s design as well as the plant.
Many people put an indoor house plant in an empty space. This is the wrong approach — you should be sure that the plant is appropriate for the space and follows all the rules regarding function, theme, scale, focal point and form.
Some types of plants can be used for their function as well as their beauty. Herbal plants, like oregano, mint, parsley, rosemary, chives and thyme, are popular design accents in a kitchen because they are so functional. Besides adding color and life to the room, you can cook with them as well. In the bathroom, consider aloe plants as room accents, since they help soothe cuts, burns and other skin irritations. In the home office, utilize cacti, peace lilies and peperomia because they are known to absorb electromagnetic radiation and electromagnetic fields emitted from computers and other electronics.
To add dimension to a room, consider tropical plants or flowering plants, either would bring added color and variety. Choose from Hibiscus, ficus trees, palms or orchids when it comes to tropical elements, or African violets, begonias, orchids, amaryllis, or bromeliads when it comes to flowering varieties.
When decorating with an indoor house plant, there are some designer tricks that can really enhance its beauty. For example, you can take several plants and group them together to create an interesting display. You can also create contrast by pairing tall or trailing plants with those of shorter heights. You can also play with flowering and ornamental plants to create a colorful centerpiece.
Feng Shui principles tell us that plants play a key role, representing positive energy and ideal for softening out the corners of a room. Certain plants create harmony, amongst them the Impala Lily, chili plants, the money plant and the Plum Blossom. As they also convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, they are good for you as well!