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8 top tips for displaying flowers in your home

June 27, 2013

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Stylist Samantha White shares her top tips for using flowers in your home or at your next event and these photos of her work. From combining focal flowers and filler flowers, to changing the water every 2 days, to using foliage, there’s bound to be a nugget of useful information for everyone.ย 

1. Instead of using traditional vases for arranging flowers, try bringing a little personality to your arrangements in a design theme.

2. Using your favourite homewares or quirky vintage pieces with your blooms is a fun and interesting way to add style to your home. Our rusty vintage typewriter and Art Deco birdcage are perfect accessories for floral styling.

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3. Experiment and use other items from around the home like teapots, interesting bottles, shells, cups or baskets to hold your flowers. Hanging posies bunched with matching ribbon at different lengths from a tree is a delightful way to decorate for a garden party or event. Use oasis floral foam bricks soaked in water for more formal arrangements that donโ€™t move, like topiaries, wreaths or table centrepieces.

4. Use complimentary colours in your arrangements for a bright, contrasting theme. Complimentary colours are opposite on the colour wheel. Try purple and yellow, red and green or blue and orange. For a more subdued look, use pastel colours, perfect for a little girl’s birthday party. Use repetition and make sure the flowers are dispersed evenly. Monochromatic arrangements, where all flowers are the same colour, look stunning. Mix it up by adding flowers of different textures and sizes.

5. When choosing which flowers to use, ensure that each arrangement has a focal flower such as roses, tulips or lilies. These flowers are going to be the star of your arrangement and create the shape of your design. You will also need a filler flower such as alstroemeria, daisies or sweet william. Filler flowers are smaller and used to fill out the arrangement and to create space between your focal flowers.

6. Donโ€™t forget foliage! Use interesting greenery such as camellia leaves, magnolia leaves, berries, nuts and pods. Anything green and glossy from your garden will separate your flowers in the design, adding texture and emphasising the colour of your blooms.

7. Always ensure that your focal flowers are sitting slightly higher in the design, this will ensure they are still the star in your arrangement, meaning filler flowers and foliage need to sit lower. Also keep in mind that flowers from bulbs such as hyacinths and tulips will also continue to grow as a cut flower. If you donโ€™t want a wild growing arrangement from your vase, cut these a little shorter.

8. Always remember to strip the stems of your flowers of any foliage below the water line. Leaves and foliage in the water create bacteria, clogging the stems and making them wilt and die. Always change the water every 2 days and re-cut the stems on an angle. This will ensure the maximum life of your fresh flowers and arrangement.

Samantha White is a Sydney stylist who recently took up floristry.

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Images by Looking Glass Photography.

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Apparently there's similar happening in VIC too.

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Promise this is the last wretched hospital photo I Promise this is the last wretched hospital photo I'll post and I hope to be home and with my lippie back on by Monday. You know it's serious when I'm lipstick free, right?!

This was about a week ago in intensive care. And although my arm is still bloody sore I'm now on a normal ward and no longer attached to any drips, drains or a catheter. I've come a long way.

This has been the most physical and mental challenge of my life but I'm through the worst. I kept my arm. The doctors saved my life.

I cannot say it enough times. If you're worried about your health, don't hang around. Things can change so quickly. 

A huge thanks to my amazing husband @damianfrancis We've had the hardest year yet and our marriage has never been stronger, even if my rings did get cut off my finger in hospital ๐Ÿ˜œ

As great of a job as he is doing at home with the kids, I cannot wait to get home now. Countdown is on to a new year and a fresh start.

And I can't say enough just how overwhelmingly grateful I am to all the medical professionals involved in my care, from the @healthdirectaus nurse who sent me to Emergency to the exceptional surgeons, doctors, nurses and support staff.

Happy New Year, everyone. Remember you never know what's around the corner and this is not a dress rehearsal!

And huge thank you for all your kindness here. Has been amazing while stuck in bed.

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For those who missed it, I was unlucky enough to get necrotising fasciitis. You'll have to Google it.
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Day 6 in intensive care after suddenly coming down with a very serious necrotising fasciitis in my elbow on Sunday. Four operations later (with more to come) I'm out of the woods, alive and have my arm. But I won't be going home until after Christmas. Also picked up a bonus bit of pneumonia to keep things interesting.

I won't lie. This has been super super hard but I feel extremely lucky nonetheless. Have come across some exceptional surgeons, anaesthetists, doctors and nurses who have been incredibly kind at my most vulnerable as well as great at their jobs. I'm really grateful. Huge thank you to my amazing husband who is holding down the fort with the help and cooking of our wonderful friends. And to friends who check in, send love, flowers, snacks and sushi, I will never forget it.

Of course I will be sad tomorrow but my boys can visit and we will have another Christmas next month.

I'll leave you with this. Never ever ignore those health niggles. @healthdirectaus is always a great starting point.

Wishing you all a merry Christmas and will enjoy everyone else's celebrations on here with only a hint of bitterness ๐Ÿ˜‰

PS. Does this win the most unflattering photo of me ever published? I think so! No lippy for a WEEK.
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Jen Bishop is our owner and publisher and an experienced journalist and editor. Interiors Addict has been her full-time job for more than 8 years. She is married to Damian and mum to Sebastian and Charlie.

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  1. AvatarBrianna says

    July 12, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Thanks Samantha. I am a property stylist and find it difficult to incorporate flowers and plants that will survive the 6 week selling campaign. Is there anything that you can recommend whether it be fake, dry or resilient plants and flowers?

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