Barbara's Yarn Garden

If you want to create a great ambience in your home, you will need some sort of décor. The problem with décor is that styles change all the time, trendy room pieces cost a small fortune, and you need plenty of room for most décor styles. Many trendy decorators are finding that living walls are a perfect solution to all these problems.

Vertical gardening with modular living walls means that you arrange flowers over the surface of a wall, creating a live hanging. These vertical gardens are affordable, take up virtually no room at all, and since plants never go out of style, you don’t need to worry about trends.

There are many ways to make living walls work as great décor. You may want to start by taking snapshots of each room in your home. Photos allow you to see your home far more objectively. What seems fine in real life jumps out at you in photos. It’s a trick that interior designers use all the time. After you take your photos, look carefully at each one.

In some photos, you will see big bare spots which leap out at you on the walls. Usually, this happens because you have something large (a bookcase) on one side of the room and nothing to balance the large object on the other side of the same space. These blank spots are the ideal spot for living walls, as vertical gardens in these spaces will bring balance and proportion to a room.

In addition to blank spots, look for ugly spots. The wall with water stains, the wall with the crooked slant or the terrible drywall can be hidden very quickly and effectively with vertical gardening. Where there was once an eyesore, you can enjoy a gorgeous modular living wall in just two hours of work.

Another great option is to look for rooms that are hard to decorate. For example, many people leave their dining room walls quite plain because they have no idea what to put up. You can create a magical indoor vertical garden in your dining room that will make visitors gasp with envy. Start by filling in large amounts of your dining room walls with modular living walls filled with beautiful plants.

String tiny lights around your plants and finish off with a gorgeous bistro set for the center of the room (instead of a complex and heavy dining room set). The effect is an outdoor urban garden – chic and completely fabulous. You’ll feel as though you’re sitting in an outdoor café each time you sit down to eat. This same idea works wonderfully with any sort of home office.

Of course, you don’t have to go big or go home. Small living handbags around your home look amazing and offer a quick way to redecorate. Place your living handbags anywhere you would place a flower arrangement and you’ll enjoy a showpiece décor item that you can take anywhere.