Tips: Affordably Redecorate Your Home With Fresh Flowers

Still happy with the way your living room looks? Or you’d want to make it look more inviting and relaxing only that you do not yet have the budget or the time to do some renovations? Don’t worry, there’s a budget-friendly and time-friendly solution to freshen up not just your living room but your entire home.

Just decorate with fresh flowers and houseplants

And no, you don’t have to have a green thumb to be able to use flora and foliage in revamping the look of your living space. There are numerous easy-to-care for, perfect-for-black-thumbs houseplants that will thrive with neglect. Of course, you can always count on Lily’s Florist to deliver bunches, bouquets and arrangements of fresh flowers right to your doorstep. So the only thing you need to do is find the perfect spot where to display freshness.

To jump start your goal of redecorating your apartment with fresh flowers (on a budget), here are some tips that you may find useful.

Fill unused glass bottles and jars with stems of flowers

Order a bunch of this season’s blossoms and divide them into stems displayed in various glass jars and bottles. Old perfume bottles, empty liquor bottles, spice jars, apothecary jars, mason jars, oil and vinegar bottles – all of these can be recycled as flower vases. As long as you can fill it with water (deep bowls included), you also fill it with a flower.

Turn your bookshelf, or a portion of it, into a plant shelf

Easily add beauty and character to your home by adding plants displayed on a built-in shelf, a picture ledge, or a bookshelf. Put those high shelves in your living room or bedroom to good use and let it hold a pot of greens. For an unexpected touch of the outdoors in your indoor space, hang a draping plant from a high shelf.

Create your own little plant corner

Just find that empty corner in your home that needs attention and bring it to life with plants of different sizes and varieties. Mix and match and create a mini garden of large potted plants, mini succulents, long draping plants, and flowering plants in a corner in your home.

Less is more – decorate with flowers with this in mind

You don’t have to fill an oversized vase with a large bouquet of flowers. Feel free to separate your bouquet into little floral displays. This way, you get to add colour, fragrance and life to as many rooms as you want. One bouquet is definitely enough to liven up your space.

Choose cut flowers with long vase life. To maximise your budget, choose cut flowers that last for a long time. Calla lilies, gladiolus, mums, freesias, carnations, dahlias, yarrows, Celosia, globe amaranth and blue salvia are gorgeous blooms that can last for at least 7 days up to two weeks.

Add more foliage

If you wish to stick to a budget, add more foliage to your floral display. Greens last longer than blooms, too, so you’ll get more for your money for sure.

Go monochromatic

Create chic single-colour flower arrangements using bunches of filler flowers or foliage in one colour. This is an easy, modern and budget-friendly way to give any space a fresh new look. Group Baby’s Breath into a large floral ensemble in a contrasting vase and see it stand out in a dull corner in your home. Get two bunches of pink stock or lavender statice flower and arrange them in multiple flower vases that you can distribute around your home.

These are just a few of the many ways you can inject life to your home using fresh flowers and live plants. All it takes is a little bit of imagination and some low-cost bunch of blooms and greens to elevate tired home décor and create a more upbeat and welcoming atmosphere in your home.

Get your budget-friendly bouquets and fresh flower bunches, shop online at Lily’s Florist!