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10 Pretty Ways to Display Flowers at Home
Choose the right blooms to decorate your rooms. Short-cut your way to a stylish home with these flower arranging tips
Flowers just make everything better, don’t they? From a simple bunch of garden blooms to a large vase of sculptural branches, they instantly bring a room to life. Knowing how to choose and display them is sometimes a little trickier, but these styling ideas will help to guide you in the right direction and have you flower arranging like a pro in no time. Take a look to see how to choose the right vase (tip: don’t just use whatever you found in the cupboard) and how to pick the right blooms to suit your style.
Elevate your blooms
Don’t let gravity hold you back! A hanging vase or tea-light holder allows you to be more creative with your flower display and makes a pretty statement when filled with small blooms. These also work well in the summer months, as they can be hung in trees and shrubs to decorate a garden party.
Don’t let gravity hold you back! A hanging vase or tea-light holder allows you to be more creative with your flower display and makes a pretty statement when filled with small blooms. These also work well in the summer months, as they can be hung in trees and shrubs to decorate a garden party.
Reflect your home style
Flowers can really help to define your home style, so before you choose your blooms, think about how they will work with your existing scheme. Bold, sculptural flowers in strong shades, for example, go well in a retro room scheme. Picking a vase that matches your home style will help to ensure the finished result looks well considered, too, and this faceted glass vase is perfect against the graphic wallpaper.
Flowers can really help to define your home style, so before you choose your blooms, think about how they will work with your existing scheme. Bold, sculptural flowers in strong shades, for example, go well in a retro room scheme. Picking a vase that matches your home style will help to ensure the finished result looks well considered, too, and this faceted glass vase is perfect against the graphic wallpaper.
Match your accessories
The impact of a flower display is instantly magnified when you pick a hue that is reflected in your accessories. These bright yellow blooms, for example, have added punch when teamed with a zingy yellow cushion.
The impact of a flower display is instantly magnified when you pick a hue that is reflected in your accessories. These bright yellow blooms, for example, have added punch when teamed with a zingy yellow cushion.
Match flowers to accessories
Choose the colour of your flowers to complement your accessories for a pulled-together look. This clear-glass vase of bright red and orange tulips brings out the coral tones of the throw and books in this living room, and can easily be updated as the accessories change throughout the seasons.
Choose the colour of your flowers to complement your accessories for a pulled-together look. This clear-glass vase of bright red and orange tulips brings out the coral tones of the throw and books in this living room, and can easily be updated as the accessories change throughout the seasons.
Add romance to a bedroom
A vase of large, romantic summer flowers, such as peonies or roses, instantly adds colour and personality to a serene bedroom scheme. A tall glass bottle vase is a classic and elegant way of showing them off to full effect.
Learn how to bring a sense of romance to your bedroom
A vase of large, romantic summer flowers, such as peonies or roses, instantly adds colour and personality to a serene bedroom scheme. A tall glass bottle vase is a classic and elegant way of showing them off to full effect.
Learn how to bring a sense of romance to your bedroom
Make the most of every bloom
You don’t need a huge bunch of flowers to make a strong display. Make the most of two or three fresh rose blooms by cutting the stems short and placing them in a shallow bowl for maximum impact. These make a lovely summer table centrepiece.
You don’t need a huge bunch of flowers to make a strong display. Make the most of two or three fresh rose blooms by cutting the stems short and placing them in a shallow bowl for maximum impact. These make a lovely summer table centrepiece.
Go large
Four or five sculptural hydrangeas create a traditional display that works well in a period home. Use a heavy glass vase to anchor them and keep the rest of the room decoration simple.
Four or five sculptural hydrangeas create a traditional display that works well in a period home. Use a heavy glass vase to anchor them and keep the rest of the room decoration simple.
Create a contemporary display
Make a clean, modern statement with a display of pure white tulips in a spherical clear-glass vase. Twist the stems as you place them in the vase to add a layer of visual interest, and place on a glass coffee table for a contemporary look.
Make a clean, modern statement with a display of pure white tulips in a spherical clear-glass vase. Twist the stems as you place them in the vase to add a layer of visual interest, and place on a glass coffee table for a contemporary look.
Position flowers against a mirror
Double the impact of a vase of flowers by placing them in front of a mirror. A tall glass vase filled with foliage and blooms is a fresh way of dressing a mantelpiece and a simple colour palette of green, white and blue works well with a pared-back scheme.
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Double the impact of a vase of flowers by placing them in front of a mirror. A tall glass vase filled with foliage and blooms is a fresh way of dressing a mantelpiece and a simple colour palette of green, white and blue works well with a pared-back scheme.
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