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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Hooker Furniture Home Office Fleur de Glee Writing Desk
A lot of homeowners and interior designers use floral patterns in homes for the simple reason that they are lovely. While they could immediately beautify any space in your home, they could be a bit difficult to implement.
Using floral patterns in an appropriate way is the first step towards creating a unique home. Sure, everyone may be showcasing flower patterns everywhere these days (it’s spring so what could be more apt, right?), but you could emphasize the cutting-edge look that they will envy.
So what’s the secret to a lovely floral abode?
Flowers and Feelings
If you’re ready to make a bold statement this spring, then using florals is one good way to do it. Whether you’re flower shy or boldly ready to use florals, you should understand that displaying this unique pattern will improve your design scheme. Also, floral patterns evoke certain feelings.
Flowers can make anyone happy. They are outside of the usual neutral zone so you are practically picking something that makes you stand out. Being unique from the rest can be a rewarding feeling.
Now imagine pink rose patterns in your living room. These could easily create a romantic, fanciful vibe. If you add a tropical pattern, on the other hand, then you just energized the room or boosted the drama in that area.
If you want a more contemporary feel but would still want to enjoy some florals, then you could have a bold print that’s playful while still being romantic. A huge floral mural would help you achieve this.
This is all about picking the correct floral patterns for you and your home. Be sure to choose the right color, size, and type of flower that will certainly capture your personality as well as the design scheme that you have chosen.
If you want to have a more relaxing vibe that’s perfect for the bedroom, then use medium-sized florals in light and fresh tones. The bigger the floral patterns become, the more energizing they get.
Flowers and Colors
The use of floral patterns also means that you’re ready to increase the hues in your home. These patterns are especially useful when you have a neutral background to begin with.
Color is a wonderful mood booster for your mind and body. This is why the incorporation of floral patterns will add some lovely vibes into your space.
The colors will even introduce other hues that you could work with in your design. You could use any of these colors as accents or as the main hue in your design.
Flowers are Fun
Homeowners do not just want an aesthetically pleasing home. More than any reason, they want to be able to go home to a place that they could enjoy.
Flowers are no less than the perfect addition to a home that captures happiness and peace. Add the correct amount of colors and you even achieve a little playful vibe.
A Little Seasonal Lovin’
You don’ t have to let the floral design become a permanent thing in your home. This could also be a spring design that you could just enjoy for the season or even until summer.
Those temporary color bursts will surely indicate that you’re heading for warmer months, thus, you need to up the happiness in your home. The floral patterns could be introduced through colorful throw pillows or it could be the floral decorative art in the living room.
There are just so many choices to pick from.
Florals Symbolize Nature
With an endless array of inspirations for interior design, flowers are great tools when it comes to recreating the feel of Mother Earth. Surround yourself with these minimal or bold patterns and you will surely feel a happy vibe that’s difficult to ignore.
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Friday, August 4th, 2017
While the bed is equally stunning, where do you eyes go when you look inside this room? You gotta love the Cynthia Rowley for Hooker Furniture Bedroom Fleur de Glee Bench.
There are many proven scientific benefits of flowers. Just look at the face of the recipient of a bouquet of flowers and you’d know the many positive effects of these floral beauties. A floral gift could go a long way in bringing about a semblance of sanity inside a home. Flowers are known to impact people’s level of happiness, satisfaction, and intimacy. Would these same feelings be true to using florals in interior design?
Spring and summer are the perfect homes for florals. There is more to this design element than meets the eye. You can have it in pretty pastels or the surprisingly bold patterns and textures.
Here are some ideas that you can mull over –
Fresh Flowers
Nothing could go wrong with fresh flower arrangements. There is no surprise that interior designers and home depots now offer fresh flower prints. Choose from statement features to subtle accents. Use layering or clash with other prints.
You can go bold with fresh flowers. Nothing can be more botanically daring.
Flower Layers
If you cannot understand the concept of minimalism, then that’s fine. The floral trend is right for you, in fact, it can even become your go-to concept.
Floral prints need to be layered, take note. The key to this is to mix with other contrasting elements like giddy florals go with the more flamboyant flower patterns.
Retro Shower Curtains
There were only a few homeowners who did not rip down their floral shower curtains when there was an era that begged for the sleeker and shinier types of shower screens. Now’s the time to revive the beauty of these amazing flower shower curtains.
Nope, you don’t have to worry about your bathroom looking like your grandma’s as there are now a lot of options for the floral shower curtain. Use this against a claw-and-foot free-standing bath in porcelain white or beige.
One can say that the floral shower curtain is back in interior design with a vengeance.
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Petals Everywhere
Creating a unique look for your home is as easy as adding vintage charm. Nothing achieves this more effectively than floral upholstery. As you make your decision to use floral upholstery, know which design elements would also go with it.
Basic graphic prints on area rugs can still work with a bold floral sofa. Have everything else in white and you’re day is done.
If you’re willing to go further, then pull the room together by pulling a color scheme from the floral pattern itself. Use the background hue as the basis for your wall color.
Animal prints also work surprisingly well with florals. An example is an animal print ottoman paired with a floral area rug.
Leather: The Floral-Grounding Element
Leather is wonderful in adding a little weight to the airiness offered by floral prints. This is like pairing a beautiful floral sundress with a leather cowboy hat. Now that is one down-to-earth visual delight.
Floral Repetition
Go for bigger contrasts in scale. An example is when you pair small scale florals with an area rug with huge blooms. This repetition is hard to ignore but it won’t overwhelm the beholder.
Don’t think that floral motif can only be completed by textile. You can also hang floral paintings or photography.
Go Wild
Nothing’s stopping you from going all out when it comes to floral interior design. Layer floral prints on upholstery, on your floral artwork, and on floral rugs. This isn’t for the faint-hearted, though, as it takes a lot of spunk to be able to pull this off.
As you do this, be sure to keep the rest of the elements simple.
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
There are other ways to use florals in your home – display it with furniture as is shown here in this Cynthia Rowley Twin Peak Display Cabinet.
Flowers. They give life and instant color to any home. Apart from providing visual interest, flowers are also known to have health benefits. A Rutgers University study linked flowers and one’s perception of a satisfactory life. Flowers are also believed to increase cheerfulness as they decrease anxiety and depression. So, yes, having flowers or potted plants in your home can improve the positive emotions inside the household.
Buy Locally
If you don’t have a garden to support your weekly need for flowers, it is best that you buy locally. There are many growers across the country so buy your flowers fresh from these local businessmen. You get to support local businesses while you also get to beautify your home.
Let Go of the Leaves
As you intend to put flowers in the vase, you have the option to strip them of their green leaves. This will help keep the water cleaner. If you’re using roses, be sure to cut the stems at an angle so that you get more surface area contact with the water.
Create Spiral Arrangements
On your palm, place a single stem on top of another at an angle. Carefully rotate as you create the arrangement. This spiral is a balanced bouquet that also creates a spiral of greens inside the vase.
Fashion Some Texture
Use berries and foliage in adding texture to plain flowers. Look for flowers that just pop with color as hypericum berries are placed together with them.
Choose the Correct Vase
Of course, in order to achieve an elegant look, you need to find the right vase for your flower arrangement. The bouquet that you place in a vase should always be a third taller than the vase. This will create a visual balance that will help make any room look lovelier.
Pick a Style
Find a signature approach to flower arrangement. Some like it compact and lush, others love mixing roses with peonies. Still others are okay with having a wild sort of look as flowers are mixed with stems and a few leaves.
Colorize
Do not be afraid to use colors. If you’re hesitant, then start with white flowers and some greens. It is almost impossible to go wrong with this combination. Find green chi roses and pair them with hydrangea foliage.
With spring and summer coming very, very soon, it would be wrong to not have bright colors in your home so go ahead and pair those dahlias with your bright hydrangea.
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The Perfect Flowers
There are certain flowers that are an all-time favorite when it comes to home décor. The Wandering Jew is one of such. It comes with striped purple leaves which makes a wonderful pop of bright color in any room.
This plant prefers a lot of sun, in fact, the more sunlight it soaks in, the more it will turn purpler.
Phalaenopsis orchids are also renowned in making homes beautiful because of their long, large white flowers. These are often used on coffee tables or side tables. These favor indirect yet bright sunlight. If you live in a humid area, then this is the perfect flower to bring in.
Geraniums are also pretty with their splashy colors. They are particularly easy to grow so you can have your own garden of this beautiful species. Be sure to let the soil dry out before you do another watering for your geraniums.
Jasmine is just as lovely. It also offers a lovely fragrance that will surely be noticed. Choose from pink or white flowers which can vine into indoor topiaries. Jasmine prefers filtered yet bright sunlight and just a tad of humidity. The perfect solution? Place a vase of jasmine inside your bathroom!
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
This Cynthia Rowley piece features the beautiful fusion of florals and the dramatic depth of black.
A lot of designers and homeowners love using floral patterns though they can be a little tricky to handle. Not using florals appropriately will create a wrong tone inside a room. The room can then appear to be too feminine or overdone. If you are looking into expanding your design scheme, then you might want to look into floral patterns.
Ways of Using Florals in Your Home
Prior to making any major decision, consider what kinds of materials and accessories you will infuse with your floral patterns. The most common are –
Liking Florals
Begin your floral pattern project by deciding that you really like florals. Add florals to your interiors only if you are comfortable with them. Keep in mind that not all floral patterns come in bright, huge representations of lovely flowers. They can also be understated more so if the details are smaller.
Remember that floral patterns can be bold, large, or colorful.
Layer the Florals
You have to achieve the correct balance in your home so make sure to layer the florals and blankets with solid patterns and colors in the same family of hues. This adds texture and variety in a room and can keep the florals from appearing too girly.
Florals Can be Masculine, Too
You have a handful of choices if you want to have florals that are not ultra-feminine. Begin by choosing patterns that are more abstract rather than too flowery. Pick those that have bigger leaves than those with bigger blooms.
Next, you can also pick patterns in gender-neutral colors like green, browns and yellows.
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Floral Patterns that You Love
More than liking the floral pattern that you’d settle for, it is even better to find the ones that you would fall in love with. See if the pattern you choose would go well with your pillow, blanket, even the artwork that you would hang on your wall.
If you are designing a room around the floral pattern, then be sure to keep the focus on the central theme. Take note of the colors in your floral patterns and build upon them. Know which one would serve as the central color and which ones are to be considered as complementary colors. All the other elements in the room should come in solid and neutral hues so that the central pattern would stand out. See if you can find accessories that will match the ambience and style conveyed by your floral pattern.
Visit the local fabric or craft store if you don’t know how to begin your floral pattern project. You can also browse for different fabric patterns on the Internet so you would get a sense of the style and color that you are searching for.
Falling in love with a certain pattern will help you decide on other elements as well such as accessories and curtains.
Traditional or Contemporary?
It would be difficult to talk about floral patterns without including flowers themselves. This pattern has a personality of its own whether that’s intimidating or feminine. It can also be classic, vintage, muted or delicate.
An intricate rose bouquet print can bring about fairytale-like feelings. Tiny rosebuds right by the bedside lamp or on a quilt spells an enchanting message – girls only.
On the other hand, oversized, energetic and bold floral patterns are graphic treatments that offer adventure. Go ahead and experiment on a pattern that you love. Know that this will dominate the room as would any other modern floral pattern used. Such a pattern is ideally used with neutral furnishings and clean lines. They can also add a splash of cheer and warmth while keeping the modern vibe.
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