Commercial Interior Space Designing II

Commercial Interior Space Designing-II 4(1+3)

Lesson 10:Interior landscaping and Environmental Control

Interior Decorating with Houseplants

• Plants bring movement and life to every room. Several flowering plants in a basket or arranged in small pots on the same table can serve as a beautifully colorful accent to a room. Treelike plants have great importance in the sense of decorating. Large-leafed species like dracaena, philodendron or the banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) can really fill up a sparsely furnished room or entrance hall and leave their mark.
• In a small room, large plants are oppressive and take up way too much space. To get the best effect, choose mid-size or small plants with large delicate leaves. Put the plants where they are going to be visible. Don’t put too many plants in a small space or it will get too crowded and individual plants won’t make their full impact on the room.
• Plants always look best against simple backgrounds. If they have large foliage they should be placed in front of wallpaper with a small pattern. Large patterned wallpaper calls out for filigreed leaves or ferns. Even the umbrella sedge (Cyperus) would work for that. Wood-paneled walls like climbing plants arranged on a wood or bamboo support. These also look great by brightly painted walls.
• Make sure the decorative scheme takes into account the way light enters to room. The plants in front of a bright, sunny wall, their shadows can create interesting and unusual patterns on the wall or ceiling or even plain carpeting.
• Make sure the colors of leaves and flowers choosen don’t clash with decor. Expensive furnishings and wall coverings spoiled with wrong colored flowers in pots. Place plants by each other where they can compliment each other. Put larger plants in the background of smaller plant groupings.
• Different furnishing styles take on different plants. Plants with simple gently curving lines work in art nouveau and art deco settings. The flamingo flower (Anthurium) and peace lily (Spathphyllum) are perfect. Furniture made of bamboo and rattan and oriental style shapes are perfect for exotic hanging plants like string of pearls (Senecio royleyanus) or wax plant (Hoya). Traditional English or French styles go well with bushy, vigorously flowering plants like the cyclamen, carnellias, gloxinias (Sinningia hybrids) or begonias.