This has occurred with the floral trend – from fashion to wall paper – for a few years; its elements have been included in housewares and flowers and plants have turned into excellent furnishing objects.

You needn’t have a green thumb. You can embellish your house also with artificial flowers, which are more and more appreciated thanks to their variety of colours, shapes and to their use versatility. Moreover, artificial flowers are nowadays manufactured with such high care and attention that it is often difficult to distinguish them from real ones. They are made of high quality materials and they have the same “soft touch” effect as some real flowers do. 

Same as it happens with tables or lamps, artificial decorative flowers become a decorative punctuation among the pieces of furniture, giving a harmonious, sunny allure to the atmosphere.

Here are 4 ideas to decorate the house with artificial flowers.

1) How to use flowers in the house to embellish a hall

Artificial flowers arrangements are very suitable to decorate entryways. 

If you want to provide your featureless console with several shelves with personality, you can choose two different bunches of artificial flowers and put them in two vases with different size. You can then put the small vase on the bottom shelf and use the large one on the top shelf together with other decorative elements.

Do you have little available space and do you want to create an original touch of colour? In this case you could choose a single, big, luxury artificial flower and simply lay it down on the shelf. Less is more, charming effect  is insured. 

2) How to put artificial flowers in a vase to decorate a short coffee table

Another idea to use artificial flowers and plants for interiors is to employ them for decorating short coffee tables or pieces of furniture which are close to the sofa.

In this case you can choose plenty of colours and combine flowers and plants with other decorative objects according to what you like. A lot depends, however, on the style of the living room:

• If you have a wooden coffee table, for instance, you could choose a set of ceramic vases with different shapes and size, and decorate them with curvy flowers whose nuances recall the colours of the room.
• If the table is behind the sofa and under the wall, you can play with a vertical design to create a harmonious whole made of an artificial flowers arrangement in a high vase, of matching photo frames and of larger flowers laid down on the table top. 

• Do you have a Modern Country living room? The combination of artificial flowers arrangements and of a set of ceramic vases with materic effect is perfect! In this case, the green element becomes the refined detail which creates a corner of intimate elegance. 

3) Decorating a mirror with artificial flowers

Furnishing an interior with mirrors is an easy way to embellish the room by creating the right alternation of solids and voids along its walls and surfaces. In this case the vases of artificial flowers can be very good for accentuating the elegance of the spaces.

Our recommendation is to choose transparent glass vases with artificial flowers and “vertically pendant” artificial plants, such as eucalyptus or salix. This way you will create a spatial balance which provides an angle that multiplies space and light through reflecting geometries.

4) Vases with modern artificial flowers to embellish a window corner 

Windows are never enough in a house. But can we enhance them in the right way?

Artificial plants and flowers can help us do it. Inspired by the aim of being “back to nature”, an interesting idea is to mix the green elements with baskets of natural fibres, playing with their different sizes and place. 

How to create an arrangement of artificial flowers?

The choice of decorating the house with artificial flowers is mainly practical, yet also creative. When making a bouquet of artificial flowers, you can create endless combinations. 

Here is a photo gallery which can inspire you.

How to clean artificial flowers?

There are different ways to clean artificial flowers without spoiling their colours and beauty.

1. The easiest way is to use a feather duster or a brush with soft bristles to remove dust from the flowers.
2. Another way (but this is recommended only for sturdier flowers) is to put the plant in a bag with two spoons of coarse salt and shake the bag. The coarse salt will capture the dust.
3. You can spray a mixture of water and vinegar (which is used to help fix the colours) directly on the plant and let it dry.

Where to buy artificial flowers

Do you want to buy artificial flowers to decorate your house? Discover L’Oca Nera’s collection: state-of-the-art plants and flowers which will allow you to give a unique, special, green touch to your interiors.