Winter days can be short and dark, and it is really beneficial to find some interesting new strategies to add more joy and color to your home. Nothing even comes close to the beauty of flowers and living plants in terms of chasing away winter stagnation. When you really need your home to refresh and shine, here are some ways you can do it with flowers.
Attractive bouquets of cut flowers
Even when your backyard flower garden is deep in its winter sleep, you can still decorate your home with beautiful vases of flowers. Florists, gift shops, and even your local grocery store sell beautiful cut flower bouquets year-round, making it easy to add a pop of color to your home. You can add an opulent look to your bathroom by using a container with beautiful flowers. Inside the living room, a flower arrangement will add a classic decorating touch to the mantelpiece. Or you can add some style and beauty to your kitchen counter or dining room table with a vase of fresh cut flowers.
The beauty of floral wall art
If you don’t have flowers to display, add beauty and color by choosing floral wall art. Displayed in picture frames, art prints and paintings depicting floral scenes can be a wonderful way to brighten up your home decor. You can even decorate one wall with a large floral print or canvas, creating a striking focal point in the room. Reprints and enlargements created from your own floral-themed photos can also add a charming, decorative touch to walls. In fact, when spring finally arrives, you can take some pictures of your own flower garden and use them as wall art. You can create your own beautiful wall decorations using your personal garden photos for just the price of a few frames.
Live flowers and plants
Nothing can beat live flowers and plants for their ability to include a touch of spring into your winter decorating theme. Many houseplants need little light, making them perfect for growing indoors for those short winter days. If the plants you’d like to grow require more light, be sure to place them near indoor lights. With a little planning, you can even trick spring-blooming flower bulbs like daffodils and tulips into blooming in the cold winter months. These types of bulbs need to cool down during their regular winter dormancy period, so you can mimic this process with your refrigerator. When you plant a pot of spring bulbs and put them inside your fridge for three to four months, you can enjoy beautiful spring flowers inside while there’s still snow outside. Some great options are paperwhites or amaryllis, which are designed to flourish indoors. In the late winter months, you can add some fragrance and beautiful color to your home with branches that you force to flower indoors, which are cut from flowering trees and shrubs like forsythia bushes and apple trees.
So help make your house more beautiful and bright with some kinds of flowers. You will be very happy you did!