Room-by-Room Guide: Decorating with Flowers in Your Home

This article was first published on April 4 2024 and fully updated October 10 2024.

Adding flowers can breathe life into any room's décor. Their colors, fragrances, and beauty inject personality while creating an uplifting ambiance. Strategically placing floral arrangements throughout your home allows you to highlight your style in each distinct space. Lily's Florist takes a look at flowers in the home, room by room and gives you some of our thoughts on what flowers to choose and where they should go.

Living Room

Adding flowers can breathe life into any room's décor. Their colors, fragrances, and beauty inject personality while creating an uplifting ambiance. Strategically placing floral arrangements throughout your home allows you to highlight your style in each distinct space.

Dining Room

The dining room presents opportunities for lavish centerpieces. Long-stemmed roses, tulips, dahlias, and other elegant varieties shining in cut glass vases can infuse special occasion meals with romance.

For holidays, craft seasonally symbolic arrangements using bloom shapes and colors that evoke festive themes. Mix fall gourds and dried leaves for Christmas, deep reds and greens with pine cones for Christmas, or pastels for Easter. Bonus—edible flowers like nasturtium and pansies add brightness when scattered as garnishes.

In terms of vase selection, narrow shapes prevent arrangements from obstructing conversation, while wide vessels suit rectangular tables. Scale height according to your table’s size.

Bedroom

In the sanctuary of your bedroom, floral scents promote tranquility. Sweet lavender, gentle jasmine, and leafy greens release relaxing properties. Place a petite vase on your nightstand so the aroma wafts over you, encouraging restful sleep.

To enjoy an evolving array of colors, swap in different seasonal flowers every month. Bright spring tulips and daffodils will organically give way to abundant summer roses, transitional asters, and autumn mums. Take care to avoid pollen-heavy choices if you have allergies.

Bathroom

High humidity makes the bathroom an unexpected perfect spot for orchids, bromeliads, and other tropical plants, even Australian Native Flowers. Their resilience prevents wilting in damp conditions. Simple glass or ceramic holders affixed to walls or placed on vanities allow stems to trail elegantly.

Scatter rose petals around sinks or bathtubs for an infusion of romance and natural perfume. Floral prints are another way to indirectly enjoy blossoms through framed artwork.

If humidity disagrees with real flowers, hang stunning magnolia leaf wreaths instead. Their evergreen sheen offers similar beauty without maintenance.

Home Office

Surrounding yourself with cherry blossoms stimulates creativity and productivity. Start by centering a vase on your workspace. Why not for long-lasting sunflowers, chrysanthemums, or gerbera daisies. Their uplifting hues and longevity handle office conditions.

Post a floral calendar for scheduling reminders. Each month features a different bright bouquet to liven mundane organisational tools. Just confirm chosen varieties don’t aggravate allergies.

Entryway

Formal floral wreaths confer warm welcomes. Guests feel special when crossing the threshold into a home prettily adorned for their arrival. Alternatively, an entryway vase filled with eye-catching exotic protea ensures memorable hellos and goodbyes.

Position statement stems near seating areas to delight visitors as they remove shoes. Bonus—flowers refresh stale air with natural perfumes. For low maintenance, well-crafted artificial wreaths and stems simulate real blooms minus upkeep

What do Flowers in the Home Say About You

Home décor reflects residents' personalities. Therefore, floral accents reveal deeper insights through preferred colors, varieties, and placements. Those favoring passionate red roses and tulips likely have bold sensibilities, while calming blue hydrangeas or irises indicate more serene tastes. If your blossoms sport adventurous air plants alongside elegant orchids, you balance an underlying wild spirit with refined qualities.

People exhibiting inventiveness rotate flowers seasonally, rather than leaving the same permanent arrangements. They understand nature’s ephemeral beauty, finding joy mixing up vases to match each season’s shifting palette. Clever homeowners also know precisely which flowers thrive in bathrooms or offices, then surprise visitors by tucking bouquets in unconventional spots.

Floral diversity mirrors an imaginative, engaged outlook. You see endless possibilities in even overlooked rooms thirsty for revitalising life. These “out-of-the-vase” thinkers possess vision to indulge artistic impulses beyond living spaces already welcoming flowers. They infuse personality everywhere through fearless creative expression.

So before complimenting your neighbor’s roses, peek behind curtained glass. See if surprise dahlia bunches blush demurely from unusual bathing rooms or study corners. Such elusive displays offer the rarest glimpses into the inner workings of original minds and charismatic personas. Be the subject of such floral speak by letting stems unfurl everywhere imagination allows.

Buds of Wisdom 

Flowers let your spirit bloom by infusing décor with personal touches. Their beauty needn’t confine itself to expected spaces—with strategic arranging, blossoms feel at home anywhere. Statement orchids on your coffee table might establish living room elegance, while pretty posies adorning the bathroom counter whisper playful whimsy. Explore floral versatility by displaying different varieties in overlooked yet thirsty nooks.

As you build bouquets, consciously curate to align with your moods or intentions. Construct cheerful mugs overflowing with sunflowers to manifest optimism on a home office desk. Gather meditative lotus buds in the bedroom to encourage peaceful slumber. Your blossom “palette choices” paint an emotional portrait for visitors to glimpse.

But most importantly, fearlessly infuse flowers wherever creativity compels. Let them spill from unconventional corners as symbols of your imaginative spirit. Surprise guests with clever unexpected placements that challenge assumptions while revealing intimate aspects of your inner self. Through floral accents’ colors, fragrances, and showcased rooms, you wordlessly share your essence. So display blossoms proudly and watch your unique persona bloom throughout every space.

If you would like any advice on flower for your home, or their home for that matter, you are welcome to contact Lily's Florist on 1800 466 534.