Posts Tagged ‘flowers’

PostHeaderIcon Decorating with Flowers

For floral arrangements, or decorate with flowers, not everyone has that ability, we must have good eye to find the flowers, mix colors, aromas, etc. Do not forget that everything is natural spring, full color, any flavor. To fix everything is a nice, from a glass vase to a soda can, is as present and garnish. Depends on what style you prefer, if you’re a minimalist style with three long-stemmed flowers placed at different levels, green branches, set with taste is solved. On the other hand if you are the classic style roses with sprigs of asparagus and some yellow lilies, transforms any corner of the house, in a romantic corner.

Here and need a vase of porcelain or ceramic, inside you can put a mesh type of goose nests. You have to make a ball with the net, putting the flowers be the largest in the center and smaller at the edges, which are of various sizes, but there is not much difference. After placing the flowers you put foliage in the empty spaces in the same schema.

When you make a more informal basis, get a can of red or green, high and right, this may be of cookies. To place the flowers, now you begin to reverse, first the foliage that may be branches of eucalyptus trees to fall and block part of the can, then you insert some red carnations and nuanced with small white flowers, can be illusion, or roses Rococo or others. In simple and practical way you have another arrangement, which can distribute different parts of the house.

PostHeaderIcon Tips for Decorating Balcony

You can transform your balcony or terrace in a beautiful green space of rest, to receive your friends.

You have to protect it from wind, either cold, or if coming from the sea, has salts that burn the leaves of your plants. You can make a screen with clear polyethylene, or a green shade of pine or other trees.

To reduce weight, flower pots or hanging from walls and lightweight materials used for frames. The rate of vegetation is very important, coordinates large plants with small, and must take into account the different shades of green. As a small space, we can put an element that focuses the attention, which makes the contrast.

Something that gives a lot of life is to hang baskets outside and viewed from below. The plants should require little sun and some shade. Along the walls you can put the vines, the largest, with aromas such as jasmine. On the window sills placed herbs, to permeate the entire house, these planters can be filled to give more flowers, you have to water them and pay them more. With the blinds can make divisions. If you put a mirror, it will give you the feeling that the space is bigger.

If the deck is large, can put high-quality artificial turf, will give you more feeling of the park.
Study guidance, to know that plants are going to get, if they need lighter or less light. They are good evergreen plants so that there is always green. The pots need to have a hole to flush out excess water, plants can be changed to make it look beautiful all year, pruning is important.
You have to create a pleasant atmosphere among the plants, pots, and some furniture.

PostHeaderIcon Create Your Style Garden

Decorating a garden can be simple or complex depending on the features, space and utility that we’re going to give this venue. But most important knows how to choose good plants and furniture, adapting them to our tastes. The garden furniture, being outdoors, requires some specific materials and some conservation efforts go beyond the interior, but this need not be a problem.

The vegetation will go based on the shadows, taking into account what spaces will be better as moisture and light they need. When choosing which plants are best going with our garden we must realize that although we all have favorite flowers, may not be well adapted for the climate and orientation. It is advisable to combine with other flowering plants that do not have, depending on what one we like and combine with some seasonal perennial. It is also useful to include some aromatic plant which runs through our garden of a very characteristic odor. We will go to a nursery where they often advise what the best species for your area are.

A garden has to be a playground, where they meet friends and where children can play at home without complications. These features make the furniture is mainly based on a table and chairs for lunch or dinner in the warmer months. The table and chairs have to be of material consistent with our tastes and above all strong. There is plenty of garden furniture in wood, iron, and bamboo, plastic … ideal materials for this part of the house, though not all require the same care.

Tropical timber is very suitable for the garden because it has resins that make it more robust and has very beautiful designs; the drawback is its high price. More normal woods such as oak are more economical but require varnished annually and stored over the winter. Aluminum is the most appropriate material, can last many years without any maintenance, but lost in warmth. Finally, other materials are very characteristic for gardens wicker and bamboo are very nice and very summer create ideal. The drawback is resistance, the water damaged and rotting.

The decorative elements of the garden must follow our taste and the line of furniture we have chosen. It is important not recharge, torches, lanterns, dwarfs and other figures can warm at first but end up tired and creating an environment overloaded. A good option is to place incense in different corners of the garden to provide warmth at night and decorate the table with a floral element. If we have children, will need to find somewhere to put their play area, a good chest will be essential to keep the toys.

PostHeaderIcon The Vases For Your Room

The Vases For Your RoomThe flowers provide a great life to stay where you are also helping to give a personal touch to our home. Each flower conveys a different feeling and that is why we must not neglect the containers in which they are, and that they depend largely on the visual effect those results.

In the market we can find a wide variety of styles of vases decorative elements because they are very versatile thanks to the diversity of shapes, sizes and colors they have. In addition also have different styles: modern, classic, oriental … For this reason, it is important that the vase that we will use as a vase holding a style and tone appropriate to the room that will remain thus helps us to decorate properly our favorite corners of the house.

Nor should we forget that the choice of container in which to place the plants must conform to style them so that, in this way, either sees their role diminished. Those that have a long stem should be placed in vases tall and thin to avoid kinking.

If what we have is a pitcher rather broad and flat earth tone flowers we can mix with other elements such as straw, nuts or sand and get a rustic and sophisticated home. On the other hand, if the vase is glass we can fill it with water and place floating candles with flowers (or petals of these) and get, in this way, an elegant centerpiece for our dinner and original.

The larger jars are perfect on the corners of the room, avoiding the space given that there is emptiness. It is a perfect way to take this opportunity, often forgotten. There are also vases for its appearance would not need any other additives to stand out from the rest of the room. In this case, it is advisable not to add any other item to avoid any refilling.