Dry Flowers For A Floral Home Decor

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oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Monday, July 25, 2011, 14:09

Dry flowers can add that floral touch to your home decor. Dried flower arrangements for your home are easy and quick. Your options of decoration with dry flowers are innumerable. Needless to say that dried flowers unlike fresh one have a long shelf life. It thus justifies the efforts you put in to making dried flower arrangements for your home because once you make them, they is going to stay for a very long time. All you need to do is dust it once in a while and your floral home decor is as good as new. So let us see how you can use dried flowers to give a new look to your home.

Bouquets and Bowls: The simplest and the most common way of using dry flowers for decorating your home is using ready-made bouquets. This should ideally be avoided because you will miss out on the personal touch completely. After all, it is your home and your home decorating ideas are pivotal in shaping your home. The good news is that you can use made-to-order bouquets these days where you will have a great degree of creative license.

While creating a bouquet of dry flowers, chose a large flower like a sunflower or hydrangea as the central piece and build around it with smaller flowers like orchids. Use the longitudinal flower stick on the outer side in your dried flower arrangements.

Dried flowers like their fresh counterparts look great just strewn around in a flat bowl. However you cannot float them in water like fresh flowers as it would soak them immediately.

Floral Messages: Dried flower arrangements are great when it comes to forming words with a flourish. You could write your baby's name on the door to your nursery by just sticking dry flowers with glue. It looks totally avant-garde and is quick! You can also write any kind of messages on the floor or walls,be it birthdays or anniversaries to surprise your loves ones.

Bathroom Accessory: if you have a thing for sensual baths then dry flowers are are bathroom accessories. You could make dried flower arrangements around your wash basin and especially, the sides of your bathtub. The effect is marvellous and you could spice it up by sprinkling a little perfume on the dried flowers.

Wreath and Frames: Wreaths are a mundane dried flower arrangement these days as all things classical in nature are in vogue. Wreaths are originally supposed to be worn around your head like a tiara but you can use wreaths made of dry flowers to highlight beautiful show pieces in your home. For example, you can use it to draw attention to a tiny but particularly striking cut glass artefact in your collection. All you have to is place the wreath of dried flowers around it like a halo!

If you are tired of metal or wooden frames for photos and mirrors, make them look distinct by sticking dry flowers on them. That will give your home decor a floral quality and to give character to your pictures!