How Does Your Garden Grow – Inside?

To bring a more feminine touch to my blog, I asked the lovely Jo Ridout from A Passion for Homes to share some of her floral design favourites. Take it away Jo! With summer slipping away into autumn soon, it feels like the best garden blooms of the year are having their last burst of colour. So, how about bringing your garden flowers and flora into your home year round? Blooming marvellous! Sowing and growing a floral inspired interior design can be a bit daunting. Is it too feminine? Can it be contemporary? What can be mixed effectively with floral patterns? To begin with, consider what atmosphere and mood you want to create in the room. Are you aiming for bold and bright, calm and contemporary or vintage and country? Look at the light, space and function of the room, and how the design will flow with the remaining rooms of your home. These initial considerations will help you to decide what type of internal garden you want to grow! Impact floral Quick, easy, and the basis of the room’s interior colours, accents and textures, can be a feature wall. Next fleur mauve wallpaper Next artisan floral green wallpaper

Floral with floral

Mix big blooms with sweet little buds? You bet…  Graham and Brown cottage garden wallpaper

Bluebellgrey Miki cushions

Floral with patterns

Stripes, motifs, patterns, images – as long as there is a colour palette to tie the floral and patterns together, be brave, it can look amazing…  Debenhams floral cushions

Key floral statement pieces

Bring floral interior design into your room with one statement piece that can stand alone and dazzle!

Kare Design Patchwork Wing Bench Bluebellgrey Fi petite sofa at John Lewis Sainbury's home floral chair and footrest Or subtly indulge your passion for petals with low commitment pieces, such as ornaments, kitchenware or bedding –easy to change if you grow tired of your indoor garden and want to do some weeding!  Marks & Spencer Floral jug John Lewis Bloom Tableware Debenhams floral china Or, you could just have an amazing bunch of flowers in a large vase as a centre-piece: picked from your garden, of course!  

Thanks Jo! www.apassionforhomes.com is an interior design, dream homes and products website – an inspirational and interactive ‘housey hub’, please pop round soon! A Passion for Homes is a marketing agency, offering businesses marketing and social media services and training, copywriting & proofing, articles, and video content.