Cheap Decorating Ideas
Plants Healthy Benefits

Plants add warmth to your home and can be cheap decorating ideas for expressing your personal style.

They come in a myriad of shapes, sizes and colors so there is going to be an option that will be suited to your style of decor. Use your creative sense to "see" whether the greenery you've chosen adds or detracts from your sense of style.

• A healthy spill of Baby's Breath next to a display of delicate china tea cups will enhance your collection.
• A grouping of Ivy will bring out the charm of your country antiques.
• Huge Monstera’s leaves echoes the boldness of any modern style.

Houseplants bring a living, and vital presence to any setting they inhabit and are cheap decorating ideas that can be used to your advantage.

• Greenery in the foyer or entry creates a smooth transition from the outdoors inside.
• Using foliage in living spaces like the dining room or living room lends a relaxed feeling.
• Bring greenery into the bathroom and create a more spa-like ambience.

For areas that receive little sun, such as interior rooms or rooms facing north, select species known to flourish in shade, like mottled Dieffenbachia and the many variegated philodendrons.

In places with medium light Chinese evergreen and similarly textured zebra foliage will thrive as well as most ferns.

For sunny south facing rooms arrange begonias’ coleus or Cordyline on an accent table under a window. Larger specimens that prefer light include Norfolk island pine, and banana tree and dwarf citrus trees like lemon.

If you're after a flowering variety, try the white peace lily, beautiful African Violets or bold, bright Geraniums.

Balance and scale are important when placing plants in a room.

Groupings have an extra impact, and give these cheap decorating ideas a great look for filling up a corner.

• Add a sense of height to a long wall with
  
  small trees like a dracaena, or the weeping fig.
• Make sure the trees in a group vary in height for the most pleasing result.
• Choose the heights and fullness based on the space and the height of other elements in the room, such as windows, armoires, and doors.
• If you're using live greenery, choose ones that have similar lighting and watering requirements to make life easier. Then you can keep them on the same watering schedule.
• If one of them isn't tall enough, place it on a decorative stool or bench.

Cheap decorating ideas for beautiful centerpiece, group a number with colorful or blooming foliage in a single container, basket or trunk, but again choose foliage with similar watering needs.

• If your color palette in the room is cool, choose leafs that are a dark and not a yellow green.
• Line the container with heavy plastic, and raise the bottoms of any container that may be too deep with rocks so the foliage will be more visible.
• Cover the pots with Spanish moss or small pebbles for a finished look.

Cheap decorating ideas using plants lift the mood and healthy greenery will attract vital energy into your home.

• Hanging and trailing foliage are useful for hiding, or softening sharp corners of household furniture or jutting walls, which are said to create “cutting lines” across the "chi" (energy flow) of your home.

  Spider, Ferns, Swedish or English Ivy, Pothos and Philodendron will grow and grow and quickly fill this need.

• Chi tends to stagnate in a room's inside corners. Placing a tall, attractive 'architectural plant' (such as a Palm, Split-leafed Philodendron or Dracaena) in your empty corners will keep chi cycling smoothly around your space.

  Adding "up" lighting brings out the beauty and adds drama.

• Paired items are said to encourage romance and can either help attract a mate, or encourage closeness with your partner within.

  Try placing two potted African Violets or Heart leafed Philodendrons by your bedside table!

• Jade Plants are well-known Chinese "cures" for attracting wealth into the career areas of your life. Set one on your desk or the place where you pay your bills.
• A good use of intentional “cutting lines” is the placement of "spiky" greens under ground-floor windows, which discourages intruders.

Plastic containers are durable, lightweight and inexpensive and mimic everything from woven wicker to baked clay.

• They retain moisture allowing a consistent watering routine.
• You can also camouflage one inside a container made out of a more appealing material. Be sure the container you choose is big enough to allow for the roots to grow.
• Make sure the vessel you choose has holes in the bottom for proper drainage.
• For tall or top heavy trees select a pot with a wide base to minimize the chances of it toppling over.

Houseplants take in CO2 and releases clean, pure oxygen, adding welcome humidity to the air we breathe, and filter dust particles.

Some even absorb certain air toxins.

Plants are cheap decorating ideas that lessen the effects of electromagnetic stress emitted from televisions and other electrical equipment.

A happy, healthy-looking plant will always lift your spirits. Take care of your plants and they will take care of you!

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