Next week is St. Patty’s day and everyone will be wearing green and drinking green . . . and that gets me to thinking about how green can also be a powerful force in decorating our homes.
I’m not talking green as in money {although it can’t hurt}, I’m talking plants! They are one of the most important elements in decorating but are often forgotten. Plants are the finishing touches in decorating.
Here are a few tips regarding “faux” or silk plants that will have your house looking fabulous and your friends green with envy!
#1 Palms are IN Ficus Trees are OUT!
I know, I know. You can get a ficus on sale at the craft stores for $10.00. Well I’m here to tell you that the ficus tree is passé, out of date, gone with the wind. Palms {like the one shown here} are in and designers have been using them on the coasts for years. That means they probably won’t get popular here in Ohio for another couple years!
Palms are gracious and have beautiful depth and dimension. It’s gotten to be a joke about me not liking ficus trees. It’s nothing personal, mind you, but most of them look cheap and that’s how they make your house look. Pop a palm in the dark corner of a room and illuminate it with a canned light and voila! Instant elegance.
#2 Variegated it OUT
What’s variegated you ask?? The spider plants and other silks you have in your house that have two colors sometimes three. They are out because, again, they look cheap. Solid color leaves on your plants please! (And the ficus trees that have the burgundy under their leaves – they are the worst offenders!)
#3 Nature Rulz
Only buy silk plants in the colors that nature makes them. Oh, those hideous blue flowers -Mother Nature is having a fit! When you go to the craft stores to buy your silk flowers, only select the ones that look like they do in nature. In real life, the good Lord does not make bright blue daisies, so please don’t pick those daisies when you’re at the craft store. They look cheap and really do nothing for your house – I promise!
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