How to Easily Add Flower Arrangements to Your Home

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Today I wanted to share some tips and tricks I’ve learned along to help you feel confident to use flowers in your home decor! When I first started doing this I was extremely intimidated. I felt like there were so many rules and regulations surrounding flowers and I just knew I wasn’t ever going to be any good at it. But I’ve learned there are definitely easy ways to add flower arrangements in your home, so I want to share these ideas with you.

Bringing blooms into any space adds life and charm immediately! No joke. When you look at a space with blooms (or plants of any kind) and the exact same space without – you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. They add visual interest AND its simple to swap them out for the seasons, your mood, or because your beautiful babies picked some of your garden flowers and brought them in to say “I love you Mom!”

Faux or Real Flower Arrangements

This is the first thing you’ll probably consider when you begin adding blooms to your home. I’ll be honest, I didn’t start off with real blooms. It was a progression for me. I started with faux stems, moved to live potted plants, and recently I’ve been adding real cut stems into the mix. (Sometimes I feel bad for my potted plants during the summer, but they will be the center of my attention again after summer is over haha.)

If you’ve never done this and are afraid of spending money on stems because of how long they may or may not last I’d recommend using faux stems. Their blooms are beautiful all year long! But if you’re like me, and enjoy the ever changing blooms, vessels, and overall feel each flower brings I encourage you to take the risk and start using some cut stems! Some I get from my own gardens, friends and family, and even the grocery store on occasion. It’s been so fun!

General Guidelines for Cut Stems

1. Cut stems (from the garden) in the morning or evening
2. Cold water will help preserve the blooms
3. Warm water will encourage buds to open sooner
4. Cut stems with a very sharp knife or scissors (This prevents the stem from becoming crushed which blocks water flow to the bloom)
5. Change the water frequently (The water will begin to get murky. Try to keep the water fresh and clean to help preserve the life of the stem.)

Simplest Ways to Style with Flowers

Single Stem

This is definitely the easiest and simplest way to decorate with blooms. I love the look of a single stem in a vase. It’s a quiet kind of beauty. Another benefit of using a single stem per vase is that it’s not sharing the water supply with any other stems. In my experience the stems that go into a vase alone tend to last longer than when I put multiple stems into one vase.

As much as I love a single stem in a single vase, sometimes I’ll do a grouping of single stems in vases. They can create their own vignette depending on how you use them. I’ve put them on a mantel for simple and elegant mantel decor, and I’ve also created a collected look with a grouping of vases on the top of my vintage pie safe.

Bouquet of the Same Blooms

If you’re looking for something a little more robust, but don’t trust yourself to put together a beautiful arrangement of multiple type of blooms, this is the arrangement for you. Again, this is very easy, but it definitely creates a more full look.

If you do this and feel like you still need something else in the vessel you can always add in a few stems of greenery. This still keeps the bouquet simple but adds visual interest and a variety of colors. Some greenery stems that are nice as filler are Eucalyptus, Ferns, or Queen Annes Lace (Often considered a weed, but it’s one of my favorites).

Vessels for Flower Arrangements

Wide Mouth Glass Vase

I found these two canisters at a candle shop. They were empty of any candle wax and hugely discounted. I bought them with the intention of putting potty training candy in them. But that was a few years ago now. These jars don’t see much other than blooms these days! I love them with a single bloom as much as I do a cluster of blooms. With the wide mouth opening they can present the casual “I didn’t even try” look, or you can create a beautiful bouquet. Either way, these vases are definitely go to vases in my home!

Bottles with a Narrow Opening

A few weeks ago I shared a blog post about a box of vintage glass bottles I found at the farm. Ever since then I’ve been a little obsessed with putting cut stems in them! I even put tree clippings in them earlier this year. I love the simplicity that a vintage bottle or a new bud vase can offer a space. It’s definitely not screaming for attention, but naturally it will be noticed.

Vintage Galvanized Bucket

I absolutely love vintage decor! So using vintage vessels that aren’t generally thought of for flower arrangement’s is something I love to do. It’s a perfect contrast between the natural beauty of the blooms and the old-worn bucket. For a bucket like this its definitely going to need more blooms to create a full look, but if you live near some lilac bushes or autumn olive bushes that’s easy! If you don’t have access to bushes like that, I’ve also put some big hydrangea blooms in a big bucket like this.

Now, because my galvanized bucket is vintage and was very used it won’t hold water. To make it a vessel for my cut stems I simple put one of my vases in the bucket. I think it would be nice to spray it with a sealer to fill the cracks, but until I get there putting another vase inside of it is working well. Just be careful when you’re moving it around – the small glass vase might tip over! (I’ve not had this experience personally, this is purely hypothetical haha!)

Basket

The last vessel I’m going to share with you is a basket. Again, for a basket you’ll want to put a bowl or a vase to contain the water for the stems. The fun thing about a basket for stems is you have more options for how you want to display them.

It all depends on your basket. I have two vintage baskets giving me a couple different options. In my basket with a handle I can lay my flowers down. This gives the feeling that I just cut them and brought them in from the garden. I will say when I display my stems this way they tend to have a shorter life. The vases I have just don’t allow the stems to be submerged under the water deep enough when they are lying down. But still, this is a way I like to display my weeds/wildflowers since I have so many. Even if the basket blooms only last a week I can go back out and cut a few more to bring in and put in a different vessel.

My other basket doesn’t have a handle, so I treat it the same as a regular vase. After I put a vase in the basket, I put the blooms stem down. Either way, I simply love the casual and cozy feeling a basket full of florals brings to a space. It fits into my new found love for European Farmhouse effortlessly!

I hope that these ideas help encourage you to start adding flower arrangements to your home decor. I was scared at first, but as I talked about on here before, (my milk paint experience) by doing things that scared me I’ve I discovered new found joys. Go do something scary today and see if the risk leads you down paths you never imagined you’d walk!

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Open Your Doors,
Aliya