Tips For Decorating With Botanical Style
Botanical design has become a trendy style for your home. Its popularity makes sense – botanical motifs remind you of nature. Implementing these natural elements into your home décor style help create a sense of transition between the outdoors and indoors. The challenge is to keep your patterns botanical more than floral. Create a charming ambience in your home with botanical style.
Start with a White Base
The inspiration for the botanical style is textbook drawings of plants. Therefore, you want your base color to be white so it's reminiscent of book paper. Start by painting your walls this base white. The white walls will also allow your botanical colors to pop. Another option is choosing white furniture. This white base helps keep your décor more botanical than straight floral.
Choose a Botanical Print
Your botanical print will serve as the foundation of your color scheme. You have many options for choosing a print. For example, Better Homes and Gardens describes a bedroom with framed botanical prints as the main artwork. You could also choose a single, oversized art piece featuring a botanical print. Alternatively, look to botanical prints in textiles. These patterned pieces often offer an easy color scheme to follow. You could use printed window treatments, throw pillows, or bedding. You can even select furniture with a botanical print.
Use the Print for Your Color Scheme
The way to make your botanical décor feel cohesive is by utilizing a color palette. Let the print drive your color scheme. Green is likely to feature heavily in your palette. Use this as your primary accent color, perhaps for painted furniture pieces, accent pillows, or rugs. Many botanical prints also feature blue, so you may end up with a secondary accent color. You won't use this as much as the primary accent color. So, if your rug and pillows are green, you may use blue for items like frames or vases. You can also fill out the palette with a secondary neutral color, probably some version of tan or light brown.
Add Details
The way to make your botanical décor truly charming is with the details you add. Keep to your outdoor theme. Naturally, you'll want to add actual plants to your décor. Just ensure the planters are in your target color scheme. You can also create tabletop tableaux with an outdoor theme. For example, consider starting with a novelty bird house. Pair the birdhouse with one of your plants and maybe even an antique-look watering can. You could even hang a botanical or bird print behind the tableau to draw the look together.
Create botanical décor that's modern yet charming by using textbook drawings and the outdoors as your inspiration.