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Welcome to Day 12 of our How to Decorate Series! Today we will hear from Megan from Honey We’re Home. If you are unfamiliar with Megan’s blog, I highly recommend you check out her house tour! Here is a sneak peek at three of my favorite Honey We’re Home spaces and projects :).
Fabric Canvas Wall Art in her gorgeous dining room. If you love a piece of fabric, you can make a big impact for little money by simply covering a canvas in your choice fabric.
No Sew Bench Seat (and mudroom). Megan has recently recovered this bench in a new fabric and you can see it here.
Her CLOSET! Oh my goodness, it’s my dream come true!
Megan’s house is beautiful and her DIY projects inspiring. Today Megan is going to share with us how to decorate and spruce up our spaces using one. simple. accessory. These are often overlooked but add a huge impact to any space. You will see these on almost every page of any home decor mag or catalog. Yes, peeps, we’re talking about flowers!
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Hi all! I’m Megan from Honey We’re Home sharing one of my favorite ways to add life and personality to any room in your home.
I love to decorate with flowers, and while the real ones are certainly preferable, I admit that I’m pretty smitten with some of the faux ones I’ve seen these days too! I usually buy a small bunch of fresh flowers from my grocery store every two weeks and keep them on the kitchen island and/or breakfast table since that’s where I am likely to see them the most. If you have a similar high-traffic area in your home, it’s so nice to have a pretty arrangement of flowers that make you smile when you see them. Most grocery stores sell smaller bunches of flowers for less than $5. Carnations (which come in a wide variety of colors) are $4 at my store and they last well over a week. Even a stem or two placed in a bud vase by your kitchen or bathroom sink is a nice addition.
Here’s a peek at how flowers (real or fake) can liven up your home. (Just for fun, let’s see if you can guess whether the flowers in each pic are real or faux :).
- White roses.
- Four hydrangea stems in the vase.
- Four hydrangea stems on kitchen counter.
- Lilies on the kitchen table.
- More lilies.
- Blue flowered branches.
- Purple flowers in bud vase.
- Lilies by the sink.
- Red roses in bud vases.
- Purple snapdragons.
- Orchids.
- White flowers.
- Daisies.
- White hydrangeas.
- Small daisies.
- White hydrangeas.
- Pink roses.
So, how about you? Have you successfully rocked the faux in your home? Scared of using faux? Do you regularly splurge on real flowers? Talk to us!
We have an extensive perennial garden with something new blooming every few weeks from late March (daffodils) through September (I don’t know what they are, but they look chrysanthemum-y only they come back every year). The previous owner put it all in and since I know ZIP about gardening, I’ve just crossed my fingers every year hoping stuff comes back again. I never really thought about bringing those flowers inside! What a cheap easy way to decorate! We’ll have coneflowers in the bathroom tomorrow, monarda on the kitchen table and lilies on the mantle. Thank you so much for the great idea!
I love, love, love fresh flowers. My husband is pretty good at getting them for me on special occasions, and I occasionally pick them up for myself at the grocery.
As soon as we win the lottery, I’ll have a fresh delivery every week!
Hi Beth,
I’m new to this series but loving this! Megan’s home is beautiful! I have serious closet envy. 🙂
Susan
Great tips, Megan! I love flowers…but use mostly plants in my house. I love the bright green!
I LOVE fresh flowers and just cut some hydrangea from my yard. I also love to use faux grass and orchids too!
totally didn’t guess right! LOL But realizing my super bad need for some flowers in my house right now, especially because I’m having a girls night next week and all my lovely ladies can totally appreciate some floral inspiration!
I LOVE fresh flowers! I buy them on clearance almost everytime I go to the grocery store.
my mom just brought me peonies from the garden 🙂 I try and use faux sparingly….when they get old and dingy they remind me of an old hospital or something 🙁
This is some great advice, Megan! I really couldn’t see much difference between the real and the faux. I use the faux big time in the winter when fresh flowers are so expensive, mostly in the background as opposed to a traffic area. It’s nice to hear that others use them in their decor! Thanks Megan and Beth!
XO,
Jane
I love having some real mixed in with the faux. Faux greenery, especially, is so nice to tuck in all kinds of places. Great job! I do so enjoy your blog.
CAS
I think I just fell in love with that closet!
I love beautiful fresh flowers. They really do make a room look great. 🙂
Lovely post! Megan does such a wonderful job!
Megan, I’m sooo on your page! I love flowers and try to strike the balance between some economic fresh blooms and my tried and true faux. I have some fave faux workhorse hydrangeas that make the rounds in my home. Never know where they’ll turn up next! Thanks for the Friday morning eye candy, girls! Beth, your series continues to rock!
xo
I always have faux flowers up in our home. The two tricks I use are A) know which flowers work in silks (calla lilies, hydrangeas, etc.) and which don’t (tulips!), and B) keep the arrangements simple (one type of flower per arrangement).
Megan inspired me to get some real flowers into the house too! Might have to pick some up from the Farmer’s Market or cut some from the yard.
Love this series!
Beth, thank you so much for letting me in on this awesome series! I hope your readers enjoyed my post:) Have a great weekend.