Sprucing your kitchen seems like a constant work in progress. Regardless of how much you take away or add, it always seems like it’s missing something. On your next kitchen revamp, consider getting creative with plants.
Living greenery can easily offer color, life, and vibrancy to any kitchen. From blooming flowers to herb gardens, homeowners may finally make their kitchen feel warm and complete.
But, how do you exactly design with plants? Here are tips to spruce up your kitchen with greenery.
1. Arrange Potted Plants In Your Windowsill
Potted plants are a great start to decorating your kitchen, and homeowners often place them on their windowsills. After all, this area is the perfect place for your plan to bask in the sun’s rays at the right time of the day.
Since plants thrive on water and sunlight, your windowsill is the perfect starting place to add a planter. You can place small cacti or succulents in leafy plants like a lemon-lime philodendron that loves indirect sunlight. If you already have this type of kitchen plan, read the care guide here.
Regardless of the plant you choose, make sure to find a planter that sits attractively on your windowsill. If you want, you can even have a built-in planter on your window to soak up the maximum sun. Not only will your kitchen plants get a healthy dose of sun rays, but you’ll also get added aesthetics in your kitchen thanks to the greenery glow as the warm sunrays hit your plants.
2. Try A Green Sink Ensemble
Most people don’t imagine adding plants behind their sink faucets—but it is one of the most useful and clever ways to sneak a planter into your kitchen aesthetic, as long as you choose the right plant.
Since this space often catches extra sprays of water when you’re washing the dishes, make sure to choose water-loving plants like a spider plant, Boston fern, Cyperus, or Syngonium to place in this area.
Now, you’ll enjoy seeing a lovely view of greenery whenever you’re washing and meal-prepping.
3. Try An Island Planter
Another creative and trendy placement for plants is your kitchen island. You can simply place a planter on top of your kitchen island or go further by adding a living grove down the center of your kitchen island, adding unique grace and beauty to the area.
You can grow flowery plants or a line of herbs so you can simply pluck spices when cooking dinner. Although unusual, this planter location makes it easy to water your plants with the sink nearby. Make sure to choose plants that don’t need direct sunlight and thrive on the warm glow of the overhead lights, like monstera, Chinese evergreen, peace lily, lucky bamboo, as well as cilantro, parsley, mint, and other herbs.
An embedded island planter is a bold and unique choice that brings living plants into your cooking experience every day.
4. Let Them Hang
If space is at a premium, hanging plants are the perfect alternative to bulky, space-consuming potted plants. Also, hanging potted plants helps fill the eye-level void which exists in most kitchens.
Consider using hanging planters of different styles to make your kitchen look vibrant with dripping greenery. You can grow a trumpet flower fine and be greeted every morning with brilliant blossoms. Or you can also grow rosemary and break off some stalks for cooking.
Decide how you’ll hang your planters. You can suspend rectangular pots in rows or hang them at aesthetically off-angles. Or you can also try creating a rounded symmetry with circular planters stacked in smaller baskets hanging from the ceiling.
5. Try Climbing Plants
If you think you can only have climbing plants outside, think again. Climbing plants have also become a favorite in the kitchen and are constantly growing in progress. You can watch your plant grow, guiding it wherever you want. If it looks messy, you can simply trim it back. If you don’t like where it’s going, you can simply redirect it.
Climbing plants are highly decorative and versatile. You can fit them where you want them and transform the look of the area where it creeps about. Swedish ivy, creeping fig, hoya, and a string of pearls are good places to start.
Takeaway
Something about sharing your kitchen space with a live plant can make the whole area feel more alive and abundant. Watching your kitchen plants grow and seeing new reaching leaves or budding flowers is just a little heart-warming. That and the numerous benefits it offers, from cleaning the air to providing you with fresh ingredients for your recipe, plants are indeed a must-have in every kitchen area.
And you don’t have to settle for a simple potted plant in one corner. Follow the above tips and you’ll soon have a relaxing and beautiful greenery oasis in the heart of your home.
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