Fresh flowers decorate and perfume your home
Flowers have been used for centuries to decorate and perfume
houses. Bringing fresh cut flowers into your home adds colour
and scent it is true, but the flowers add an extra dimension
that cannot be created with soft furnishings and accessories -
they bring with them a sense of life and growth, making a room
come alive. Think how welcoming Flowers are when you find an
elegant arrangement in a hotel lobby or a simple posy on a
restaurant table. Having fresh flowers in your home, even if
only at weekends or during holidays, will instantly cheer you,
your family and friends and make your home much more welcoming.
Each season brings a fresh range of flowers and foliage to used
around the house, and weather you wish to create a formal
arrangement for a celebration or simply add some fresh flowers
to a room, there is always something new to try. You can make
the most of special features in any room with a carefully chosen
and arranged selection of flowers, empty fireplaces, table tops
bedside cabinets, vanity shelves in bathroom and kitchen tables
are all ideal places to feature an arrangement of coloreful
flowers.
There is a lot of mystique surrounding the skill of flower
arranging, but with practice, you will find that your eye soon
develops so that you create increasingly effective arrangements.
Once you have chosen a group of flowers and foliage that you
think will go well together, consider where the arrangement will
be place and which container you plan to use.
It is then a matter of creating a shape that suits all three and
that shows off the flowers and foliage to their best advantage.
Some people find this a very simple process; others have to take
their time and make what they believe to be mistakes along the
way.
Keep a record of arrangements that catch your eye and try to
think why they attract you, is it the choice of colours? The
container? Or the particular flowers that have been used?
Dramatic arrangements in hotel lobbies, for example are great
inspiration for smaller scale arrangements in your own home.
Used books, magazines, fabrics, and gardens to give you ideas of
colours and shapes, too, but don't be afraid to experiment, you
will soon get to know what works and what does not.