3 Things to Consider Before Decorating the Room with Indoor Plants

Many ways you can do to beautify the look of the rooms in your house. One of them is by placing various ornamental plants in various corners of the house.

Not only add to the pretty room, some ornamental plants can also remove mosquitoes from the neighborhood, and help clean the air inside the house, so healthy and fresh.

What to consider beautifying the room in the house with ornamental plants? Below are 3 things to think about before you decide to put the ornamental plants in the room of the house

1. Choose the right plants
The reason, not all plants resistant in the room that is not exposed to sunlight. Therefore, for indoor plants, choose plants that cannot be exposed to direct sunlight. For example, monstera, peace lily, cacti, succulent, philo, betel ivory, fiddle leaf fig.

However, it does not mean indoor plants do not need sunlight. Because according to Nelza Isaiah, landscape architect and owner of Emillie Garden, which often provides landscape and indoor plants design and styling services, all plants still need sunlight, but different levels. For that, remove the indoor plants at least 1 to 2 times a week for sunlight, but do not direct sunlight, yes, so the leaves do not burn.

In addition, with a large selection of indoor plants, there are various ways to treatment. For example, tilandsia should be soaked in water once a week or the cactus is watered only once a week, while torenia, whose flowers can be eaten, should be watered twice a day for fast thirst.

2. Adjust the character of the room
Do not let your plant choices collide with the character and design style of the room. Adjust the character so not seem even disturbing.

For the living room and dining room, for example, you can choose high and simple plants to be center piece, then positioned in an empty corner, such as yellow palm, phoenix palm, fiddle leaf fig, rubber plant.

For the bedroom, you can choose any indoor plants, but you should choose plants that can help clean the air, not too small / smooth leaf and not easily fall out. For example, betel ivory, monstera, banana fan, sanseviera, succulent, or marginata. For child’s room,you do not need to be given live plants, but just use fake plants to beautify it.

While for the terrace which is also used for children's play area, decorate with a large tree just in the corner. But if it to relax adults can be made a shelf containing plants peace lily, ferns, sanseviera, cactus, or vertical garden on the wall.

Use natural pots
Plant container can indeed be anything, but the more natural (not plastic) will be better. Because, natural potted pots can keep the humidity of planting media (soil) optimally, says Nelza.

You can also use Kokedama, which is a traditional art from the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. By using Kokedama, you no longer need to use the pot