Do you desire to bring vitality and life inside your home? Try interiorscaping with plants for a decorative punch. For a beautiful, cozy, spa inspired home, add decorative plants to your living room, bathrooms, and entryway, well actually, everywhere!

Many of us desire to connect with nature, decorating our homes with gorgeous plant species satisfies that desire, reduces stress, promotes relaxation and actually cleans the air. Decorating with plants can bring a calming, soul-nourishing atmosphere into our homes.

With various indoor plant species to choose from, endless possibilities exist, when decorating your home with these lovely pieces of nature. Whether adding a sense of calm to your bedroom or brightening up your kitchen with a flowering plant, there’s a species for every space.

Before decorating with plants,  read our easy home decor and design ideas for adding life to your home with plants.

What Are The Benefits Of Decorating With Plants?

Plants provide various textures, colors, shapes, and patterns adding to your home’s decor. With intricate details and sculptural quality, houseplants complement just about any type of decor style. Decorating with plants works well in every room of your home. For example, adding potted plants to a guest bathroom helps enhance an often-overlooked room.

Along with adding a decorative touch, interior landscaping provides health benefits to improve our overall well-being. Not only can plants cleanse the air, they increase a positive environment throughout your home injecting peace and serenity.

Before you jump in and begin adding various plants all over your home, it’s best to know the needs of each species you choose. Different plant types require different care, so you’ll want to place them in a room with proper lighting and in a position where you know they’ll thrive.

Home Decor And Design Ideas For Decorating With Plants

Place Your Plants On Shelves

Many stylists and interior designers place plants on shelving units or mantles. Plant scaping brings a fresh feeling and softens your homes walls and mantles, specifically trailing plants such as String of Pearls, Monstera and Philodendron. Shelves with a more modern and minimalist architectural style lend themselves to succulents and cactus species.

A combination of Spider plants, potted Pelargoniums, and cascading ferns placed on shelves creates a feeling, of the natural outdoors, right inside of your living room.

Don’t Be Afraid To Use More

When decorating with plants, throw “less is more” out the window. In this case, don’t hesitate to use more plants throughout your living room, bedroom, entryway, kitchen and even bathroom areas. To achieve a successful botanical theme, remember, abundance makes a statement. Place gorgeous species on countertops, hanging from the ceiling, on shelves, and in windowsills, you name it!

Choosing a home decor plant with strokes of variegated pink or purple provides dramatic pops of color. When decorating your home with plants, endless creative opportunities exist to create a harmonious and immersive feel.

Layer Plants Using Differing Heights

Plants add depth and interest to simple spaces.  Choose from various shapes and patterns, then display using different heights, either on a gallery wall or on raised plant stands. Arranging plants at multiple heights makes the indoors feel similar to an outdoor jungle.

Arranging plants at differing heights makes your home look like you hired a professional interior designer. I recommend placing plants in white, brass, variegated terracotta or solid color pots, so they don’t compete with the beautiful plants themselves.

Use Indoor Trees

If an indoor jungle doesn’t fit your projects style, use a few eye-catching indoor home decor trees to elevate your space. When using plants for decoration, try a large plant or house tree as a statement piece to create a focal point. A large Olive tree in your living room or Fiddle Leaf Fig in your dining room is sure to wow.

If you’ve been searching for the perfect indoor tree, try using a Fiddle Leaf Fig tree, Olive tree, Madagascar Dragon tree, Kentia palm, or an Elephant’s Ear plant. If you have high ceilings in your living room area select the tallest tree you can find to complement your style and architecture.

Use Plants On Windowsills

If you would love to display house-loving plants, place African violets, Orchids, succulents or herbs on windowsills. Use caution caring for them during the winter on windowsills due to temperature drops. While they thrive in bright light, some home decor plants can suffer damage from direct sunlight or sudden changes in temperature. Indoor plants thrive in consistent temperatures.

Place Plants Around Your Bed

As places of relaxation and healing, bedrooms provide a haven for decorating with indoor plants.  Position air-cleaning indoor plants, such as medicinal Aloe vera, Peace Lilies, Monstera, ferns, Ruby rubber tree plants and Spider plants near your bed, to create a healthy sleeping environment.

Air-purifying indoor home decor plants, such as Philodendron help encourage a good night’s sleep and relaxation. Not only can placing indoor plants next to your bed help create a decorative space, it can eliminate toxins from your bedroom.

Create A Bathroom Oasis

One of my favorite places to decorate with plants is the bathroom. A beautiful display of Orchids around a bathtub and a few hanging plants from the corners create a spa like ambience. Because bathrooms hold humidity they provide the perfect spot to decorate with tropical indoor palms, ferns or giant Birds of paradise plants to create a serene environment.

When choosing which plant species to add to your bathroom, consider the lighting to ensure your plants flourish. For bathrooms with little light,  choose a species such as Monstera, Money plants and Rubber tree plants.

Ideas For Home Decorating With Plants: FAQ

How Can I Decorate My House With Plants?

To decorate your home with indoor plants, play around with shapes, sizes, and heights. Decorate shelves and countertops with various plant species. Use home decor plants as a form of art, grouping patterned, colored, variegated and solid leaved plants together. Mix tropical and succulents together for a cohesive effect.

Indoor plants not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of a space, but studies have shown that they also boost mood, increase creativity, reduce stress, and eliminate air pollutants contributing to a healthier and happier lifestyle.

What Decor Style Uses A Lot Of Plants?

Boho Decor utilizes an abundant array and lots of plants. When aiming to create an organic and natural atmosphere, plants play a vital role in bohemian designs. Minimalist style incorporates strategically positioned cactus and bamboo. Spanish style decor incorporates tropical, succulents, orchids and traditional houseplants. Modern rustic adheres to Olive trees, Eucalyptus and succulents.

How Can I Arrange My Living Room With Plants?

When decorating your living room with plants, place your plants in groups. Arrange plants based on their sizes and heights to add depth. Place matching plant species, in matching pots on each side of the fireplace or in the entryway, as one option.  I also like the look of a different size plant on each end of the mantle. Trailing plants look especially good gracing the mantle.

What Is Interior Design With Plants Called?

The practice of maintaining greenery, installing, and designing with plants is called interior landscaping. Professionals also refer to, decorating with plants as interiorscaping or plantscaping.

Are Artificial Plants For Home Decor A Good Idea?

Artificial plants have become increasingly popular in home design, offering a beautiful and low-maintenance alternative to live plants. These faux greenery options come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes,  and styles, making them adaptable additions to any space in the house. From realistic-looking succulents and cactus to vibrant flowers and stately trees, artificial plants can complement various interior design themes, from rustic charm to modern minimalism.

One of the greatest advantages of incorporating artificial plants into home design is their durability and longevity; they don’t need watering, sunlight, or regular upkeep, which makes them perfect for busy homeowners or those without a green thumb. Additionally, artificial plants are hypoallergenic, making them ideal for households with allergy sufferers. Faux plants can be placed in any environment, whether it’s a dimly lit office, a bathroom with high humidity, or a spot that’s difficult to reach.

Artificial plants can be moved and rearranged effortlessly to refresh the look of a space without worrying about the plant’s health and sunlight needs. They pair well with various containers, from sleek, modern pots to vintage-inspired planters, further enhancing their decorative appeal. With no risk of pests or plant diseases, artificial plants provide a hassle-free way to enjoy the beauty of nature indoors. Overall, incorporating artificial plants into home decor is an excellent way to bring greenery and life into a home, combining aesthetic appeal with practical benefits.

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