All the personality could be added to your bedroom and you are pretty confident that a few well placed plants could have done the trick. You are correct of course – but this is the problem, the vast majority of people are putting a plant on their nightstand and calling it styled. That is equivalent to throwing a pair of throw pillows on a couch and hoping it will change your living room.
I have years of experience behind my back regarding bedroom plant styling and the techniques presented below will make your bedroom look as it is on the cover of a design magazine. These are no idle best place to put plants tips, but tested and past-proven tricks that achieve visual appeal indeed.
1. Create a Stunning Plant Corner Vignette
It is in corner styling that you can actually make a statement without overworking the bedroom. I am referring to turning that uncomfortable bare nook into a lush center of attraction that will catch the attention and become a focal point of the whole room.
Begin with some huge ground cover to tie it all together: consider monstera, fiddle leaf fig or rubber tree. This forms your vertical item and sets the amount of everything equally. And then put a medium-sized plant on a plant stand or stool to make up your middle layer.
Lastly, add a small trailing plant to either the floor or hang above the above so as to complete the triangular composition. It was a designer friend who taught me the trick and it is, by far, the most effective single thing you can do to any bedroom.
Choosing the Right Corner
All corners do not work so well. Select a corner that has good light and does not happen to be in your main traffic pattern. The angle between your window and your dresser happens to be your best candidate when it comes to this styling strategy.
2. Master the Art of Nightstand Plant Pairing
Here’s where most people make a mistake, they treat the nightstands as identical twin sister that are supposed to have the same plants. Asymmetrical nightstand styling makes a lot more interesting and way more organic then perfect symmetry.
Select plants that are dissimilar on each side of the two nightstands but of similar visual weight. Perhaps one side snake plant and the other side a ZZ? They are both architectural and low-maintenance, but they assume unique shapes and textures and bring visual beauty.
I have been doing this for years now and guests always say how “effortlessly styled” my bedroom looks. The secret? It’s not easy, it’s designed asymmetry.
3. Embrace the Power of Hanging Plant Layers
The most under used (not to say criminally) overlooked hanging plants in bedrooms are because people believe they are too complicated. The thing is, they are one of the most effective methods of giving some verticality to your look and make your ceiling look higher.
Attach hooks up high and another one below to allow trailing plants (such as pothos or string of hearts) to hang down in a cascade. It is important because they should be different length-wise: do not hang everything on the same level, as it will resemble a plant curtain (and not in a good sense).
There are three plants hanging in my bedroom at various levels and the impact is illusionary. It gives this feeling of movement and life that you cannot get with the big plants just on tables.
| Hanging Style | Best Plants |
|---|---|
| Single dramatic piece | Boston fern, spider plant |
| Multiple cascading | Pothos, string of hearts |
4. Build a Windowsill Plant Gallery
Your windowsill is the best plant styling real estate but most people put absolutely nothing on it or overcrowd it with whatever is available. Creative windowsill design can turn into a beautiful ornament that will connect your outdoor and indoor environment.
Select plants that have different height yet the same caring conditions because all of them will receive equal light. Small succulents, herbs and small trailing plants are just perfect.
Get visual rhythm by repetition of some item possibly all terracotta pots or plants with similar leaves. This brings uniformity and still permits diversity.
5. Use Plant Stands to Create Dynamic Heights
Your little secret is plant stands that will allow you to achieve very professional display of plants. They elevate plants above the floor, provide layers and make plants of a smaller size heavier in your apartment.
I am in love with mid-century modern plant stands they create this grandiose element which matches any kind of bedroom aesthetic. Yet baskets of weaving, stools of wood or even books piled on top of one another may serve as plant elevators.
The trick here is to give an out of level height effect in your bedroom. There should be no two plans at the same level, this gives you that tiered deliberately built in appearance in a space that gives spaces meaning.
6. Design a Plant Shelf Display
A floating shelf that is devoted to plants can turn a barren wall into a kind of living art installation. Such method is particularly effective in bedrooms, where there is little floor space, but a lot of wall space.
Select shelves at varied styles and decorate the shelves with plants with varied lengths. Add some trailing plants that can fall down, mix them up with some decorative items, so that the display will not be too monotonous.
The floor space of a tiny apartment I lived in had no space so I learned this one by looking at how to get the most fantastic plant wall put together with the use of floating shelves by a fellow apartment dweller who had no floor space. The outcome was much more powerful than any art piece would have been.
7. Create Intimate Plant Groupings
Having plants in threes or fives is more appealing to the view as opposed to scattering them all over your bedroom. This simulates the way plants will grow naturally in nature and forms such little ecosystems.
Select plants that have varied textures and heights between any given grouping. Perhaps a tall snake plant, a medium ZZ plant and a small trailing pothos. The diversity makes things interesting although the nearness makes them touch one another.
My room has a number of plant groupings and each of them is a small story. It is far much more exciting than having individual plants widely spaced with no connection or relation to one another.
8. Style Your Dresser Top Like a Pro
Dresser tops are the best place to style those plants since they are eye level and have adequate space. The trick is not to have a clutter between plants and what you need in your dresser.
Power of triangles Apply the power of triangles — make an imaginary triangle with your plants and other decoration objects. This has a sense of visual balance and does not make everything look like army lined up.
On the one side of my dresser, I have a medium plant balanced on the other side by a smaller plant and a decorative item. It seems that it is easy but is in fact guided by simple design rules.
9. Maximize Small Spaces with Vertical Plant Walls
Have a small bedroom? Tall traveling walls with plants are your life saver. They deliver heavy-duty green effects within a few square feet of floor space and they make a beautiful living backdrop.
Ready-time vertical planters are also available on purchase, and homemade ones could be made with pocket organizers or mounted planters. Use plants that have similar light and water requirements to make the maintenance process easy.
This is particularly effective to use behind headboards, or on accent walls. I would say it is one of the most Instagrammable plant styling methods to have a go at.
10. Transform Your Reading Nook with Strategic Plant Placement
When there is a reading corner or chair in your bedroom, plants may make it feel like an independent small retreat. Place plants in a way that they do not block light in the room but make the room enclosed not cramped.
A low threshold endows a feeling of background and a lush floor authorization behind your reading cherry, with a smaller plant on a small table providing tone without flaunting the scenery. I also adore using plants to delimit various spaces in a bedroom–it is like generating rooms within rooms.
11. Use Plants to Frame Your Bed
Symmetry can be made by adding plants to your bed which will make your bed seem purposefully central to the room. It goes very well with platform beds or in minimal bedroom where you want to create softness.
True symmetry means that the plants of the same size and shape should be chosen, but they can also be replaced with complementary ones to make them more relaxed. Just ensure that they are not too big so that they obstruct the process of making your bed or other movements in the room.
I have witnessed how this technique can be used so well in master bedrooms where bed turns into this little garden of peace where all around one can see is a little soft greenery.
12. Create a Plant-Styled Vanity Area
Your dressing table or the area of vanity is the ideal spot to do some styling on your plants since adequate lighting reflects to your advantage and to that of the plant too. Also, it is nice to have plants in the room as you get ready and this makes a day start with a spa effect.
Select small sized plants that do not impede your lives but make the place lively. Trailing plants, air plants or small succulents look fantastic here without having to take up counter space.
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Bringing It All Together: Your Plant Styling Game Plan
Here is the thing with aesthetic plant styling: it is not about applying all of the techniques which I just mentioned. Choose 2-3 patterns that are successful in the layout of your bedroom and in your style and implement it as well as possible.
Begin with your area of greatest impact (most often, a corner or your nightstand area), and make it perfect before you move on to a different place. I do not want to see how so many people fail to turn out their whole bedroom in one night and instead of a styled heaven, they just have a mess.
After you select the plants and styling methods, think about the style of the bedroom you have. A sparse bedroom also requires a streamlined look with limited foliage, whereas a bohemian bedroom can go ahead with fuller style.
Above all get plants that you will find fun to take care of. The most beautiful plant setup in the world will not be of any use when initially everything dies off after a month due to the fact that you abhor the maintenance schedule.
The key thing to note is that the best plant styling appears random and unprepared, but by contrast is actually thoughtful and deliberate. This is why so there should be no disappointment when you don not get it picture-perfect the first few times you do it, I have been gardening now several years, and still fuss plants around until the composition suits me. everything dies within a month because you loathe the maintenance routine.
It is not to make a version of perfection of plants that does not belong to you but what will make you smile every time you enter the bedroom. These are 12 techniques to use as a starting point but you have to trust that feeling you have and make the environment your own.
FYI, styling of plants is most successful over time. Pick a technique that you find interesting, master it and gradually increase the number of plants and techniques you know. It will genuinely appreciate the patience in your bedroom, and you will probably end up with something you feel is a part of you instead of a clone of another Pinterest user.