G’day, have Australia in my head so excuse the odd bit of slang here and there. Talking of Australia think I might up sticks and relocate if these Siberian conditions do not hurry up and move on, it’s freezing. Made even more poignant as I’m working on a project that references the desert and the beach simultaneously – its beyond tough!
However you are not here to listen to me moaning and droning on about the weather we are here to talk interiors. Now you may or may not know this but I rarely make mistakes – maybe once a decade, even less I reckon (can push the truth a little no)? Something I have done a 360 on is plants, plants in the home. I’ve spoken about this briefly before I used to have a problem with them indoors and now I don’t. Not sure what happened I didn’t suddenly wake up and get the call, I’ve slowly come around to seeing how transformative they can be. A bit like flowers they can freshen a room, and give it life, personality a breath of air so to speak.
Plant choices are so personal there is no wrong or right (I’m not good with anything tropical flowers or otherwise) so I tend to prefer frothy and feathery but it’s really up to you as far as choices go. The trick I would say is not to over do it, you don’t want your space looking like a green house. Now I know this image overdoes it slightly there are oodles but it illustrates exactly what I am talking about, adding a bit of green brings a space alive.
For the first time I ordered some faux fig plants (seen below) and they look so beautiful in the store, enlivening our consoles and tableware section. Looked I should say because on the weekend one of them sold. Now I shouldn’t tell you this because you will be telling me I need to check into the nearest clinic and stay there a while but my store feels like my home (its my second home) so when something sells that’s an integral part of the scheme I get a little twitchy, my heart rate increases and I have to start deep breathing. The guys called me up on the weekend and told me someone wanted to buy the fig (knowing how much I adore this plant and the fact it had just arrived this wasn’t an easy phone call). “Noooooo yells I, we’ve only just got him, don’t let him go, he looks so cool where he is, can they maybe wait 6 months’. I won’t tell you the exact reply, go figure! So sold he is and its painful and I know I know I have to sell things I just don’t want to, because it all looks so darn cool!
Therapy do you reckon? Don’t answer I think I know the reply already, I have to become less attached!
Funnily enough I used the photo of a fern house plant against a dark blue background that you posted last year as the inspiration for the upcycled LED chandelier photoshoot I completed this week. The colour’s been requested by many clients since. Thanks for the inspiration. Looking forward to Thursday’s sale now the fig tree’s gone. I love accessorising with dark black things and that would have been perfect.
You dont want to relocate to Melbourne right now, it is unbearably hot and awful, wish i could snuggle under a doona right now but instead have a fan blaring my sweaty head and many a cold shower. Love the fig plant by the way. Lovely.
Agreed we need in between weather neither to hot or to freezing, not so much to ask hey
Thank you for this post. It’s funny that plants are rarely featured in “design” interiors”, but are so common in regular homes. I love them myself – as long as they’re not overdone, as you say. Oh, and I love the faux fig, too.
Loved the fig tree – & think plants are fab in a home – but only if you are able to keep them healthy. Being in what feels like tropical Melbourne, I find cymbidium orchids lovely – heaps of strappy leaves & dont look as carnivorous as many orchids do.