Brighten up your home with indoor plant stands
Everyone likes to rearrange their furnure or do a ltle decorating project every now and then, just for a ltle change to our home environment. Here's a very inexpensive way to make a big change that brightens up your home.
Lots of us have houseplants, sting along the sill, on an end table or hanging in the bathroom. Indoor plant stands add a nice twist to the house plant concept. These plant stands are decorative in their own right and can almost double as furnishings.
Indoor plant stands are available in a variety of materials. Wicker, rattan, copper and ceramic are popular types of home plant stands. Each material has s own charm and are sued to a wide range of decorating themes and furnure styles.
Most indoor plant stands come with a tin or copper lining tray to allow water to drain whout spoiling your carpet or tabletop. You can also buy the trays as an accessory. Although ceramic indoor plant stands need no drainage tray, 's a good idea to have one so you can easily remove and drain excess water.
The type you choose is purely a matter of taste. When shopping for an indoor plant stand, be sure 's of good qualy and sturdy enough to hold the weight of the plants you intend to house whin them.
The wicker and rattan indoor plant stands f in well with a casual decorating scheme. These types of stands are usually one piece, with legs supporting the plant basket portion. They may have a natural finish or are stained or painted. Some come unfinished so that you may finish them yourself according to your decorating scheme.
Copper-finished indoor plant stands typically come with tin-lined drainage trays, with both plain metal and tin-punch designs available. The copper plant stand coordinates well with formal or tradional furnishings. If the copper is not protected by a clear lacquer finish, the metal requires occasional polishing to retain s gleaming good looks. Its old fashioned elegance makes the polishing time worthwhile.
The ceramic plant stands come in plain colors as well as lovely patterned and floral designs. These are usually a rectangular box style or look much like a vase. The ceramic vase type may come with a stand of another material, such as wood, that perfectly fs the base of the vase.
You can see there's a lot of versatily in using indoor plant stands as a decorating technique. You needn't worry if the plant will match - any plant looks just a b more upscale seated in a plant stand. See what kind of magic you can bring to any room in your home!
