Indoor Plant Decor: The Design Stylebook for Houseplants

by Kylee Baumle, Jenny Peterson

Overview

With more and more people (5.9 million-plus) working from home or retiring from the workforce (10,000 new baby boomers retiring every day) the quality of the home environment is becoming more important than ever. Jenny and Kylee know that adding living plants to the decor pays off in enjoyment, pride of place, and an increased sense of well being (not to mention lower blood pressure, higher creativity and cleaner air quality). House stagers and decorators know that well placed plants add value to a home. In Indoor Plant Decor, the authors show how to design with plants and containers to enhance one's personal style. The book is divided into 8 style categories, like “Peaceful Zen,” “Classic Elegance,” Modern Eclectic,” and “Vintage Vibe” - with photo collages of style elements, easy DIY projects, plant and container selection, and care tips for all environments and seasons. Full-color photos throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985562205
Publisher:	St. Lynn's Press
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	502,568
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jenny Peterson is a landscape designer and writer, specializing in xeriscaping and small urban spaces. Her design work has been featured in Horticulture and Cottages & Bungalows magazines. She is a member of the Garden Designers Roundtable and is a featured writer at Fifthroom Living, a lifestyle blog for home and garden. Her professional blog is J. Peterson Garden Design.

Kylee Baumle is a Master Gardener, author of the award-winning blog, Our Little Acre, and is a book reviewer for the blog, Gardening by the Book. She publishes regularly in Horticulture and Ohio Gardener magazines, and is the book review editor for Horticulture. Both authors are members of the Garden Writers of America.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

What's Your Style? xiii

Eight Décor Styles

Classic Elegance 1

Cheap Chic 15

Peaceful Zen 31

Vintage Vibe 47

World Beat 63

Traditional Mix 79

Modern Eclectic 93

Haberdashery 109

Practical Matters: Care and Feeding of Your Plants 124

Acknowledgments 137

Photo and Design Credits 139

Resources 140

About the Authors 142

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Houseplants shouldn't just take up space - houseplants should help make the space in your home. For some of us, keeping living plants in the home has never gone out of style, but for others, using and caring for them has been a daunting idea.

Kylee Baumle and Jenny Peterson's passion for designing with indoor plants makes them the perfect guides to help us make new, fresh and stylish additions to every room. Indoor Plant Decor makes houseplants easy and hip again! The brilliance of this book is the clarity with which it is able to communicate their growing tips with full-color images that illustrate their creative plant decor ideas.

—P. Allen Smith, award-winning gardening and lifestyle expert; television host of PBS's P. Allen Smith's Garden and P. Allen Smith's Garden Home. Author of the Clarkson Potter Garden Home book series, and Bringing the Garden Indoors.

Editorial Reviews

What’s green, growing and worth an estimated $1.7 billion in annual sales? Houseplants in every size, shape, texture and color. Millennials wanting to bring the outdoors inside are driving the growth of indoor gardening. Houseplants provide a connection to nature, they improve indoor air quality and they’re great for decorating every room in the house.

There are many houseplant how-to books on the shelves these days, but Jenny Peterson and Kylee Baumle were ahead of the trend when they wrote Indoor Plant Décor: The Design Stylebook for Houseplants (St. Lynn’s Press, 2013). The book beautifully illustrates how to use houseplants as part of a personal decorating style.

“I think houseplants are to gardening what chickens are to urban farming — they’re the gateway plant!” said Peterson, a landscape designer, author and speaker based in Austin, Texas (JennyNybroPeterson.com). “They’re easy to grow, in general, and give first-time plant parents a feeling of success and accomplishment. And I also think that houseplants add a coziness and realness to our homes that really help if your life is stressful or anxious.”

Houseplants bring the outdoors inside, add to a room's decor - Jodi Torpey

Houseplants shouldn't just take up space - houseplants should help make the space in your home. For some of us, keeping living plants in the home has never gone out of style, but for others, using and caring for them has been a daunting idea.

Kylee Baumle and Jenny Peterson's passion for designing with indoor plants makes them the perfect guides to help us make new, fresh and stylish additions to every room. Indoor Plant Decor makes houseplants easy and hip again! The brilliance of this book is the clarity with which it is able to communicate their growing tips with full-color images that illustrate their creative plant decor ideas.

—P. Allen Smith, award-winning gardening and lifestyle expert; television host of PBS's P. Allen Smith's Garden and P. Allen Smith's Garden Home. Author of the Clarkson Potter Garden Home book series, and Bringing the Garden Indoors

From the Publisher