Benefits of Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants

Bringing the outdoors in is one of the growing trends in interior designing. You will see the rise of the potted indoor plants from ferns to succulents to tropical plants making a statement in the homes. If you blame genetics for the lack of a green thumb, it is now the best time to teach yourself the powers for keeping a plant alive. It turns out that living things can do even more for your physical and mental health than they can for your living room decor.

Helps In Relaxation

Besides having green leaves popping in your indoor decor that gives off a calm feel, some plants has a different effect on people. Like the vibrant violet petals of the African Violet that stimulates the release of adrenaline. As a result, your energy will rise and the oxygen flow to your brain will increase to help you relax.

Inspires Creativity

Plants are always handy to have around when you experience a low season, or even a writer’s bock. Colourful leaves like the San Francisco’s as indoor plants inspires and energizes their surroundings – including you in it.

Helps with Your Concentration

A study showed that students demonstrated 70% greater attentiveness when studying where there are plants in the room. There are few that can survive in offices with little light and less maintenance but Bamboo plants will give your home work space a much needed Feng Shui boost.

Decreases Stress Levels

According to the Journal of Environmental Psychology, flowering plants like helps decreases stress levels. Not only does it gives beauty and pop of colour in the room it also releases your anxiety and lessens your stress.

Soothing to the Eyes

Looking at something green will relieve irritated and tired eyes. Having some few plants in different areas in your home will allow you to shift your sight at something green to rest it in between spending to long in front of the computer, and reading.