Tips for Creating a Botanical Nook in Your Home

Discover how to create incredible DIY botanical spaces and make the most of them

Interior design is not only about color, shapes, accessories, and spaces, plants can play a leading role: having green spaces in our daily lives is of the utmost importance. Meena and Ceci from Compañía Botánica (@ciabotanica)–a brand dedicated to the design of gardens, balconies, and green walls–are experts in combining plants and design.

Together they create botanical pieces such as living paintings of cactus and succulents, which can be adapted to any environment. Here, they sharesome tips for incorporating plants into the design and decoration of spaces.

Why is it important to have natural spaces inside the house?

Creating living pictures and spaces is a way of having nature present in our homes or offices. They have a great impact, dazzle with their colors and shapes, and attract a lot of attention. That's why, if you don't have enough space in your house for big flowerpots, you can use bright pictures on the walls and small flowerpots that complement the small spaces: having plants on vertical surfaces can really catch the eye.

Tips for designing botanical nook in your home

1. Once you have the pictures you've made with plants or pots, choose a wall where they can stand out: choosing a light or dark, textured, or even an oxidized copper sheet can make them pop.

2. Bring harmony to your environment with botanical illustrations, photographs, or framed prints.

3. Play with contrast: experiment with circular and rectangular elements, handle the geometry as you please. Also, color your pots and squares to unify the environment or create a more dramatic effect.

4. If your interiors are wet, in a bathroom for example, you could make living pictures out of houseplants, epiphytes (plants that grow on top of other plants, getting nutrients and water from organic matter that accumulates in the branches and from water) or moss

Compañía Botánica teach the Domestika course Design and Creation of Botanical Compositions, the best place to learn how to create living pictures from cactus and succulents, a design element with a life of its own that can adapt to any environment.

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