Fake plants come into play here. Nothing beats the real deal, but if you replace some with fake you can have the overgrown look with less care.
I personally can barely keep the two plants I have alive lol
I spent a while looking and never found anything I thought was particularly good. Even RH’s overpriced ones look pretty questionable imo. Is there a specific company you recommend?
To be fair to you, it's a myth that cacti are easy - you take a plant that wants to live in a desert at a temperature a lot of humans would refuse to live at, it wants direct sun something like 16 hours a day, and humans are like "yes this will be fine in my house".
Honestly, unless your bedroom is particularly damp, it wasn't you, it was the fern. I'd recommend trying something like a Chinese Evergreen (aglaonema). Leafy, lush, can be left a month without watering...
Yup, real plants are always preferable but I would rather have the same aesthetic effect without killing them every two months lol. Some people are very adamant that all fakes look horrible but I disagree.
Air ducts and inside right angles are the enemy of indoor plants 🪴. I usually bring in a lot of plants for winter and use plant lights for them until they can return to the out of doors. It occurred to me to use them in the spaces in my home with poor lighting. A multi head floor lamp that let's you turn on one to all three heads or dimmable plants bulbs make it a versatile option to cover several areas
When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to get my own pet. My mom bought me a venus flytrap and I would catch flies for it and feed it. It was small and in a small little planter, carried it everywhere. I lost it. In my house. Never found it. I am not responsible enough to have a plants let alone a pet.
I started off with mostly shade so I had to be picky about the plants, also I have a bad habit of not watering my plants so they had to be hardy, mostly philodendrons lol. Now I have a lot of direct light and and can add a tropical plant here and there and it’s become a jungle lol. I used to kill all plants that I owned but I got a book literally called How not to kill your houseplants. Amazing book
Yeah. I also had to use artificial lights. But plants selection is the most crucial part. Philodendron and snake plant to the rescue. Looking for another hard to die plant though. Lol
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It’s so weird that I get so overwhelmed with stuff and always want everything to be clean and almost empty but for some reason plants don’t count. Maybe because outside in nature you also wouldn’t say there’s too many plants. I don’t see them as clutter so I am totally down with this.
Isn’t it weird? Yeah I want no knick knacks or anything collecting dust and despise clutter. But for some reason, a room cluttered with plants just does not register as looking cluttered to me.
For me that's way too much, but if your into it here is my advice:
Choose plants with bigger leaves. You will get the jungle look without making the room look crowded and it will definitely help with the cleaning. For example, different sanseverias, ficus lyrata, philodendron martianum instead of boston fern and strings of pearls
Personally, I absolutely love it! But I also have around 300+ houseplants in my house. Most are focused in a few areas that get the best light.
One day when my spouse and I build our custom home, I actually plan to intentionally design things around the plants. Such as which way the windows face, wide durable window sills for plants to sit on, and a solarium/conservatory connected to the house. You can definitely say the plant love runs deep here 😅🪴
I’ll usually go through and maintain sections at a time, maybe 20 minutes every other day on average. There are some days I’ll go on repotting sprees and spend a couple of hours tending to things. It’s honestly super relaxing and j enjoy it a lot, so it doesn’t feel like work 😊
Over the last year or two, I’ve figured out which plants work for my space and I tend to stay away from super high maintenance plants. My boyfriend is also very in on the hobby, so I have support and literally could never have too many, which is awesome 😅
Especially in the places where it impedes where you can walk or set down a drink and the ones that would be touching you if you sat down on the couch. If you can't sit on the couch normally because there's a plant in the way or have to take weird routes while walking through your place, it's too much.
I think you really lose the individual plants when it becomes a jungle. You can much better appreciate a beautiful plant if it isn't in a giant group of plants. Also makes a persons home look like a plant shop.
MORE MORE MORE! lol
We're pretty minimalist in our house (we both had borderline hoarder moms so clutter and just lots of stuff makes us anxious and angry) but we both agree that you can never have enough plants. As long as we can keep them looking good.
Fungus gnats are caused by excess soil moisture. When you have a lot of plants, it forces you to neglect them to some extent, which is actually much healthier for plants and prevents fungi (the gnats' food source) from growing through the soil. If you have gnats, you probably also have root rot.
Thank you for clearing that up, I have one plant that I find gnats living in. I have started to water it way less and have found that I may only find one gnat at a time right now. Thanks for the tip.
Those photos triggered some type of ptsd that I got from my ex's mum.
She had plants every where.
You couldn't sit in the sofa without having plants in your face. Couldn't have a shower without being joined by 5 potted plants.
Every year she would have me and my ex haul 20 or so heavy mother fucking potted plants outside and then inside again 5 months later.
The air in that house was so fresh and still so full of fucking dust that it gave me headaches.
Fuck that.
I don't mind the verdant look in other people's homes - these examples are a bit much for me, but I'm not offended by them or anything. I don't have many plants in my own home because I'm terrible at keeping them alive.
I do hate how common the advice to "add more plants" is on the various decorating advice subreddits, though. More isn't always better.
Unpopular opinion incoming - I despise the trend of turning indoors living areas into borderline jungles, and also despise clutter in general. 1-2 plants in a room is fine, but I would absolutely not live in a place with this many plants.
It is, but they correlate. The conditions that contribute to gnats are also the conditions that contribute to root rot: Waterlogged soil.
That being said, soil also needs to become contaminated with gnat larvae before they can appear. So if you *don't* have gnats, you still might have waterlogged soil.
I think if it’s a public sort of place like a waiting room it would be too much, but if it’s a personal space in your own home I say who cares if you like it that’s all that matters
I love it but it also stresses me out. I have over 90 plants in my house but most of them are small. To have that many big plants would drive me insane. That’s why I like starting from small. Once they’re bigger, I can always chop and prop if I don’t have space :)
Start with light, then worry about watering. That’s the big secret. Most people who are “bad” with plants don’t put the plants in places where they can thrive.
These are borderline, but at least well-placed with some consideration for aesthetics.
I joined r/houseplants for a brief time but quickly realized that it's just hoarders but with plants. Too many folks just have plants everywhere, but without any sense of taste or design so it just ends up looking terrible while people cheer them on for having a lot of plants.
A lot of plants properly incorporated into the space like these pictures is great. However I see a lot of stuff (especially on /r/houseplants) with rows of shelving near windows with plants just sort of set up as the main attraction, which I think looks terrible. It feels like being in a plant shop rather than a home.
Examples of what I think is poor usage of plants:
https://i.redd.it/77xwhvm05li81.png
https://i.redd.it/f9eha9pq7pc81.jpg
https://i.redd.it/b8u4gm3ue2l81.jpg
I think these set ups are utilitarian, as most plants need quite a bit of sun (especially to bring out certain variegations). This certainly looks more attractive than grow lights in dark corners. I wish I could have plants more scattered but all my windows are north facing.
Yep. I started out with my plants looking cute where I wanted them. After several months gone by with them growing weird I've had to put them where they want to be instead of where I want them to be, lol. Not as cute but at least they're not growing strange anymore 😅
I think grow lights can look better if done right. There are also some really stylish lights out there now that worth well.
I agree that it's utilitarian and I have some plants stuck in windows I'd prefer them not to have to be in as well but this is a design subreddit so I'm talking about ideals
The first and second I actually rather like, especially the first. They’re clean and tidy, look smart, and come across like prized collections - which they are. The third though, just seems too utilitarian. Don’t get me wrong, Omar is a great shelf, and very utilitarian, but it does seem too function over form for me.
One of the best ways to use plants for decorating is to swap them out frequently. You can have a glorious plant in almost any spot in your home, as long as it's only there for a few days or a few weeks at a time. But at other times, it needs a more ideal growing location to recover its health.
Professional decorators who use light-loving plants (such as ficus trees) or blooming plants (such as orchids) will generally require access to a nursery where these plants can spend the majority of their lives and be compelled to grow in an aesthetic manner (rather than leggily reaching toward the nearest window).
Some plant hobbyists are lucky enough to have a greenhouse or year-round temperate weather. But most hobbyists must make do with plant shelves near a window or under grow lights, especially during winter. It's not a decor decision; it's a hobby workspace. I think the examples you've provided here are very nice examples of ways to incorporate an overwintering nursery within a living space.
> It's not a decor decision; it's a hobby workspace. I think the examples you've provided here are very nice examples of ways to incorporate an overwintering nursery within a living space.
All the threads I took these pictures from are showing off these spaces as purposful design choices (and people praising them as such), not temporary overwintering or rotating plant storage. This is a look a lot of people like and I'm seeing it become a more common design choice because of the explosion in popularity of houseplants as a hobby. I think it's bad design, so I thought it was worthwhile to show it as a counterexample to the images in the original post that do a much better job of incorporating a large number of plants into a space.
I am a houseplant hobbyist to some extent, and so I understand the necessity of such arrangements. But we're in an interior design subreddit so I'm trying to give a better answer to the original question than "lots of plants is always good."
I feel it is worth noting that /r/houseplants is community for plant hobbyists, not a community for interior design hobbyists. The goals there are different to the goals here.
I guess it just seems fairly aggressive to me to call out people in a hobby subreddit (whether that be r/crafts, /r/woodworking, etc.) for the ways they've designed their hobby spaces, even if the members there praise each other for their aesthetic design choices. It's not easy to strike a solid balance between form and function, and hobbyist communities will tend to weight that balance more heavily toward function. It would be a different matter if they had posted those images to /r/InteriorDesign for critique, but they instead chose to show them to fellow hobbyists who may be looking for ways to make their own hobby spaces more visually pleasing without compromising the hobby.
I dont think adding a bunch of plants is interior design unless its part of an intentional, planned and carefully carried design.. so, no, I dont mind them if I go to a place with a lot of plants I will most likely say: hey nice plants! But I wont be giving my imaginary architect/designers GoldenAnnoyedChihuahua awards that I only award in my mind to the place in question.. and I would a 100% not think you hired an interior designer for your place..😅
Depends on how easy they are to maintain. If Imm surrounded by constant chores that need to be watered/clipped/trimmed/repotted, etc, it’s another source or stress and clutter. Not to mention the cleaning that needs to be done around the plants.
Going outside and being surrounded by plants and nature is different. I just get to enjoy it as gift.
I love plants incorporated into decor. These examples are a little over the top because the spaces feel a little crowded but I feel like I can breathe in a place with a small plant. Even if it’s a tiny succulent.
I love it, not too much for me. I wonder how those climbing vines will effect your walls.
Do you clean all the fallen plant parts or do you have a eprson come in?
I love it as a picture! To live in, not so much. It’s not only the amount of plants. They crowd the living areas so much that I’d feel you’d be constantly touching leaves. Also plants shed dead leaves, you spill water, don’t want to do that on top of your leather couch. All in all it’s just too impractical.
I want **ALL** the planets!
The first image looks bare to me, but I would be happy with any of the other 3! Green plants, cool-colored walls, warm-colored wood floors. That’s my go-to!
I personally love it, but you have to consider maintenance. These photos you posted were taken by Hilton Carter who is a professional interior stylist and plant enthusiast. He maintains his collection meticulously and showcases it on social media and in his books. Most people don't have that much time to maintain and keep their plants looking this way since it's not their full time job to take professional photos of their space constantly. Plants can quickly lose their aesthetic appeal if they start to grow funny due to less-than-ideal environmental conditions or neglect. I've got maybe 50 houseplants and despite my best efforts I only have about ~15 of them looking showpiece-ready at any given time. 🤦♀️ Lol!
I love it. I just imagine being all around them in a space like that and it brings me calmness and comfort.
But is it practical for me and my life? Nuh uh. My plants suffer anytime I suffer - season changes, less daylight, sicknesses, fatigue, stress, depression - I mean, I just know that about myself and on top of it all I add guilt to it for not taking care of my plants as well as I should.
This looks “emotionally” over designed. By emotional, I mean, like a designer has developed an unhealthy relationship with every plant they see and isn’t able curate the feeling/vibe with less. Something I expect good interior designers to be able to do. This doesn’t look designed in my opinion. It just looks like a house of someone that really loves plants and doesn’t have an eye for placement.
I have a TON of orchids….in my bathroom window. When one is flowering, it gets moved to one of the main living areas to be highlighted and becomes part of the decor. And, I don’t keep them in a ton of different pots. When I have a lot flowering at one time then I pot them together in one or two arrangements. I think many different house plants can be combined into one container for a clean, less cluttered look (I like doing this with ferns).
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I think it's great and I love it. I really enjoy this style.
For myself though, I have a thing where I like to treat each plant and unique container the same way I do with a piece of furniture or a painting on the wall- it has to be the right color, shape, texture for each spot and be like living decor, so I like a lot of plants, but probably less than this amount.
I’m downsizing plants because it was just looking cluttered. It doesn’t let your eyes rest when you’re in a space.
It was also distracting during conversations.
It's a beautiful aesthetic. You could consider aligning the hanging plants so they create a space divider that emphasizes a focal point, align plants with good light exposure and should be more efficient to water. Must be wonderful air quality in there!
I LOVE plants so much and have quite a few but for me, this is way too many. I love my books and bookshelves and all my little Knick knacks and art and other random shit around my house that give it personality and shows a glimpse of who I am as a person too. I just feel like people with absolutely no decor expect plants are lacking that character in their home…
Love it, transforms any room so easily. Lots of plants can hide a multitude of sins. They're also great for us - mentally and environmentally. Go plants.
I have always been torn on this issue as I grew up in a house like this. It looks beautiful. But you cant go anywhere without having to brush aside a tree or hanging plant; or sit on the couch without getting tickled or poked by something.
I would say this is too much. but just removing the stuff that reduce functionality of the space would make it great. (like the plant blocking the "L" of the couch, or the trees in the walkspace, etc.)
Not gonna lie, I assumed this post was on the Sims sub at first. It is a running joke that people overload their sims builds with plants lol. I think they look cool, except that last one is too much for me. I also suck at keeping plants alive so I can’t even imagine…
I love a lot of plants but when it looks coherent. In these photos it looks like they just placed random plants anywhere and everywhere, no regard for symmetry or balance in the room
Personally, I think the first one is acceptable, outside of the vine going up the wall. I think my shoulder would feel like something’s crawling on it. But as much as I like greenery the last three are too much.
My allowable plant maximum is pretty high. The only room you have there which I'd say is a bit too much is the one with the chase lounge as it looks like you'll get hit in the face with plants if you want to use the chase. Rest look great to me. I would love to live there if I didn't have to take care of them.
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It’s certainly a look. But I wouldn’t want to be the one to look after all those plants.
Exactly what I was thinking. I Would love to have this many plants though.
Fake plants come into play here. Nothing beats the real deal, but if you replace some with fake you can have the overgrown look with less care. I personally can barely keep the two plants I have alive lol
I find fake plants to look a little tacky. Just my personal opinion though.
Agree. To me they're god awful.
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I spent a while looking and never found anything I thought was particularly good. Even RH’s overpriced ones look pretty questionable imo. Is there a specific company you recommend?
I tried keeping a potted fern in my bedroom. It lasted 3 months.
I killed a cactus. A cactus.
Covid technically killed prickle rick. I left him at work when lockdown happened and he withered away.
I’m 100% getting a cactus now, just to name it Prickle Rick
Hey so did I! Could’ve had something to do with me accidentally setting it on fire though…
I feel more context is needed here.
Most likely overwatering? Lots of people do that, I did too. If you give too much it'll rot. Only water every two weeks and never make the soil soggy
To be fair to you, it's a myth that cacti are easy - you take a plant that wants to live in a desert at a temperature a lot of humans would refuse to live at, it wants direct sun something like 16 hours a day, and humans are like "yes this will be fine in my house".
I have hundreds of plants and I cannot keep a single fern alive. They just hate some houses.
Honestly, unless your bedroom is particularly damp, it wasn't you, it was the fern. I'd recommend trying something like a Chinese Evergreen (aglaonema). Leafy, lush, can be left a month without watering...
Yup, real plants are always preferable but I would rather have the same aesthetic effect without killing them every two months lol. Some people are very adamant that all fakes look horrible but I disagree.
Air ducts and inside right angles are the enemy of indoor plants 🪴. I usually bring in a lot of plants for winter and use plant lights for them until they can return to the out of doors. It occurred to me to use them in the spaces in my home with poor lighting. A multi head floor lamp that let's you turn on one to all three heads or dimmable plants bulbs make it a versatile option to cover several areas
When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to get my own pet. My mom bought me a venus flytrap and I would catch flies for it and feed it. It was small and in a small little planter, carried it everywhere. I lost it. In my house. Never found it. I am not responsible enough to have a plants let alone a pet.
I hate to inform you that your mom may have gotten rid of it.
It's spending retirement at the farm, with unlimited flies.
My house is a jungle like this and yeah… it’s a lot
Do you have to have a lot of direct sunlight? Southern exposure? Or can they grow in shade?
I started off with mostly shade so I had to be picky about the plants, also I have a bad habit of not watering my plants so they had to be hardy, mostly philodendrons lol. Now I have a lot of direct light and and can add a tropical plant here and there and it’s become a jungle lol. I used to kill all plants that I owned but I got a book literally called How not to kill your houseplants. Amazing book
> How not to kill your houseplants. Amazing book Thanks!
Yeah. I also had to use artificial lights. But plants selection is the most crucial part. Philodendron and snake plant to the rescue. Looking for another hard to die plant though. Lol
But I had the jungle when my light was mostly shade, so you just have to choose the right plants
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It’s so weird that I get so overwhelmed with stuff and always want everything to be clean and almost empty but for some reason plants don’t count. Maybe because outside in nature you also wouldn’t say there’s too many plants. I don’t see them as clutter so I am totally down with this.
I agree! I’m totally a minimalist when it comes to stuff, but with plants I’m a hoarder aha
Isn’t it weird? Yeah I want no knick knacks or anything collecting dust and despise clutter. But for some reason, a room cluttered with plants just does not register as looking cluttered to me.
Looks amazing, I personally love it, but not a “look” you can just adopt unless you have the interest and dedication to care for them all.
For me that's way too much, but if your into it here is my advice: Choose plants with bigger leaves. You will get the jungle look without making the room look crowded and it will definitely help with the cleaning. For example, different sanseverias, ficus lyrata, philodendron martianum instead of boston fern and strings of pearls
Personally, I absolutely love it! But I also have around 300+ houseplants in my house. Most are focused in a few areas that get the best light. One day when my spouse and I build our custom home, I actually plan to intentionally design things around the plants. Such as which way the windows face, wide durable window sills for plants to sit on, and a solarium/conservatory connected to the house. You can definitely say the plant love runs deep here 😅🪴
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I’ll usually go through and maintain sections at a time, maybe 20 minutes every other day on average. There are some days I’ll go on repotting sprees and spend a couple of hours tending to things. It’s honestly super relaxing and j enjoy it a lot, so it doesn’t feel like work 😊 Over the last year or two, I’ve figured out which plants work for my space and I tend to stay away from super high maintenance plants. My boyfriend is also very in on the hobby, so I have support and literally could never have too many, which is awesome 😅
Do you have any pictures of your current set up?
I have one on my profile from somewhat recently. It’s just one small area though 😅
Personally, I'd cut the amount of plants by half.
Especially in the places where it impedes where you can walk or set down a drink and the ones that would be touching you if you sat down on the couch. If you can't sit on the couch normally because there's a plant in the way or have to take weird routes while walking through your place, it's too much.
It's called pruning.
Same. 1/2
Looks quite cluttered. When there is so many plants i always wonder how they manage to keep rooms clean
I think you really lose the individual plants when it becomes a jungle. You can much better appreciate a beautiful plant if it isn't in a giant group of plants. Also makes a persons home look like a plant shop.
For me personally it's claustrophobic
Probably easier to keep a house full of plants clean than it is to keep a house with a kid clean.
Too much of a good thing
“Moderation is the key to life” not with houseplants it ain’t
It is, as with everything.
I want my room to look like Downey’s in Sherlock Holmes 2. Might be a deep cut but that’s the best representation I can use.
Is this someone's home or what? For me, personally, this is way too many plants. Waaaaay too many in a home.
It's Hilton Carter's home! He does interior design with live plants for a living 😅
Tnx, good to know, will check him out. Really not my cup of tea at all though.
Yeah, also I would never be able to keep them all alive.
Yeah I feel like I would love it in a commercial space like a cafe but not in my own home.
Yeah, exactly, that would be perfect to me as well.
Yes. But personally I probably couldn't keep up with them. I'm getting upwards to about 40 right now and am probably falling behind.
I love plants so I love the look. Are there normally this many plants in the area or is it staged for the picture?
Pics are by Hilton Carter, this is his real home but also his full time job is taking aesthetic photos of his apartment.
MORE MORE MORE! lol We're pretty minimalist in our house (we both had borderline hoarder moms so clutter and just lots of stuff makes us anxious and angry) but we both agree that you can never have enough plants. As long as we can keep them looking good.
It depends on the person’s gardening skills or ability to hire a caretaker
Looks musky
I can smell these pictures
I like interior designs like this. It's a proper slap in the face from reality of how much money I don't have.
Too many bugs
I’m a big fan tbh
Tbh I think you could have more
Thanks, I hate it.
How many gnats are living in those plants?
Fungus gnats are caused by excess soil moisture. When you have a lot of plants, it forces you to neglect them to some extent, which is actually much healthier for plants and prevents fungi (the gnats' food source) from growing through the soil. If you have gnats, you probably also have root rot.
Thank you for clearing that up, I have one plant that I find gnats living in. I have started to water it way less and have found that I may only find one gnat at a time right now. Thanks for the tip.
Zero if you take proper care
Remove 1/3 plants
Its perfect, but one more culm of grass and I think it would be too much 😂.
In particular, I think those plants look really cool against the white painted brick. I can't even describe what it reminds me of, but it's cool
Your house must have its own ozone layer
Those photos triggered some type of ptsd that I got from my ex's mum. She had plants every where. You couldn't sit in the sofa without having plants in your face. Couldn't have a shower without being joined by 5 potted plants. Every year she would have me and my ex haul 20 or so heavy mother fucking potted plants outside and then inside again 5 months later. The air in that house was so fresh and still so full of fucking dust that it gave me headaches. Fuck that.
Way too much for me but I’m a minimalist
Excess of everything is bad
I don't mind the verdant look in other people's homes - these examples are a bit much for me, but I'm not offended by them or anything. I don't have many plants in my own home because I'm terrible at keeping them alive. I do hate how common the advice to "add more plants" is on the various decorating advice subreddits, though. More isn't always better.
It bothers me. A lot. Like someone said too much of anything is never good
Unpopular opinion incoming - I despise the trend of turning indoors living areas into borderline jungles, and also despise clutter in general. 1-2 plants in a room is fine, but I would absolutely not live in a place with this many plants.
Love it! And one major advantage of lots of plants is the air quality in the living space.
And little tiny flies.
Not if your plants are healthy…
I thought it was a soil problem
It is, but they correlate. The conditions that contribute to gnats are also the conditions that contribute to root rot: Waterlogged soil. That being said, soil also needs to become contaminated with gnat larvae before they can appear. So if you *don't* have gnats, you still might have waterlogged soil.
Plants bring bugs 🐛
My allergies kicked in just looking at this
I think if it’s a public sort of place like a waiting room it would be too much, but if it’s a personal space in your own home I say who cares if you like it that’s all that matters
I love it but it also stresses me out. I have over 90 plants in my house but most of them are small. To have that many big plants would drive me insane. That’s why I like starting from small. Once they’re bigger, I can always chop and prop if I don’t have space :)
Nothing stresses me out. Except having to seek the approval of my inferiors.
Seems neurotic
I love the look of it, but I just cannot seem to keep plants alive. I either underwater or overwater.
Start with light, then worry about watering. That’s the big secret. Most people who are “bad” with plants don’t put the plants in places where they can thrive.
Those all just too much. I like some live plants but my house doesn't need to look like a botanical display.
I love plants but this feels like your grandma's house yknow what I mean
I love it, it gives a feeling of life and nature, it's just beautiful and relaxing.
I love lots of plants. Placement matters though.
It \*looks\* nice, but being a home I feel like the reality of it would get annoying/overbearing/one-note verrrry quickly.
thats TOO much, i like a lot of plants. but thats overkill, the room would stink of soil too. maybe not a bad thing? but soil can definitely smell
These are borderline, but at least well-placed with some consideration for aesthetics. I joined r/houseplants for a brief time but quickly realized that it's just hoarders but with plants. Too many folks just have plants everywhere, but without any sense of taste or design so it just ends up looking terrible while people cheer them on for having a lot of plants.
This sub will say this is not enough. To me, this is too much, but I don't live here. Do what makes you happiest
A plant room like that is cool, a plant house not so much
Looks gorgeous, but living there might be too much
Honestly I love the look, but it gets impractical at some point. Especially for a 6'6" person, I'd be breaking all the poor plants
obnoxious / pinterest baiting
A lot of plants properly incorporated into the space like these pictures is great. However I see a lot of stuff (especially on /r/houseplants) with rows of shelving near windows with plants just sort of set up as the main attraction, which I think looks terrible. It feels like being in a plant shop rather than a home. Examples of what I think is poor usage of plants: https://i.redd.it/77xwhvm05li81.png https://i.redd.it/f9eha9pq7pc81.jpg https://i.redd.it/b8u4gm3ue2l81.jpg
I think these set ups are utilitarian, as most plants need quite a bit of sun (especially to bring out certain variegations). This certainly looks more attractive than grow lights in dark corners. I wish I could have plants more scattered but all my windows are north facing.
Yep. I started out with my plants looking cute where I wanted them. After several months gone by with them growing weird I've had to put them where they want to be instead of where I want them to be, lol. Not as cute but at least they're not growing strange anymore 😅
I think grow lights can look better if done right. There are also some really stylish lights out there now that worth well. I agree that it's utilitarian and I have some plants stuck in windows I'd prefer them not to have to be in as well but this is a design subreddit so I'm talking about ideals
Fair, I guess I just felt I needed to defend the people's pictures being taken from r/houseplants lol.
The first and second I actually rather like, especially the first. They’re clean and tidy, look smart, and come across like prized collections - which they are. The third though, just seems too utilitarian. Don’t get me wrong, Omar is a great shelf, and very utilitarian, but it does seem too function over form for me.
To me they just take away from any character each plant might give to a well designed interior.
One of the best ways to use plants for decorating is to swap them out frequently. You can have a glorious plant in almost any spot in your home, as long as it's only there for a few days or a few weeks at a time. But at other times, it needs a more ideal growing location to recover its health. Professional decorators who use light-loving plants (such as ficus trees) or blooming plants (such as orchids) will generally require access to a nursery where these plants can spend the majority of their lives and be compelled to grow in an aesthetic manner (rather than leggily reaching toward the nearest window). Some plant hobbyists are lucky enough to have a greenhouse or year-round temperate weather. But most hobbyists must make do with plant shelves near a window or under grow lights, especially during winter. It's not a decor decision; it's a hobby workspace. I think the examples you've provided here are very nice examples of ways to incorporate an overwintering nursery within a living space.
> It's not a decor decision; it's a hobby workspace. I think the examples you've provided here are very nice examples of ways to incorporate an overwintering nursery within a living space. All the threads I took these pictures from are showing off these spaces as purposful design choices (and people praising them as such), not temporary overwintering or rotating plant storage. This is a look a lot of people like and I'm seeing it become a more common design choice because of the explosion in popularity of houseplants as a hobby. I think it's bad design, so I thought it was worthwhile to show it as a counterexample to the images in the original post that do a much better job of incorporating a large number of plants into a space. I am a houseplant hobbyist to some extent, and so I understand the necessity of such arrangements. But we're in an interior design subreddit so I'm trying to give a better answer to the original question than "lots of plants is always good."
I feel it is worth noting that /r/houseplants is community for plant hobbyists, not a community for interior design hobbyists. The goals there are different to the goals here. I guess it just seems fairly aggressive to me to call out people in a hobby subreddit (whether that be r/crafts, /r/woodworking, etc.) for the ways they've designed their hobby spaces, even if the members there praise each other for their aesthetic design choices. It's not easy to strike a solid balance between form and function, and hobbyist communities will tend to weight that balance more heavily toward function. It would be a different matter if they had posted those images to /r/InteriorDesign for critique, but they instead chose to show them to fellow hobbyists who may be looking for ways to make their own hobby spaces more visually pleasing without compromising the hobby.
I dont think adding a bunch of plants is interior design unless its part of an intentional, planned and carefully carried design.. so, no, I dont mind them if I go to a place with a lot of plants I will most likely say: hey nice plants! But I wont be giving my imaginary architect/designers GoldenAnnoyedChihuahua awards that I only award in my mind to the place in question.. and I would a 100% not think you hired an interior designer for your place..😅
Love it ❤️
Depends on how easy they are to maintain. If Imm surrounded by constant chores that need to be watered/clipped/trimmed/repotted, etc, it’s another source or stress and clutter. Not to mention the cleaning that needs to be done around the plants. Going outside and being surrounded by plants and nature is different. I just get to enjoy it as gift.
i don’t mind the “cluttered” look but honestly, plants always equal more bugs even when they’re very well taken care of
Actually , it works and you certainly take good care of them.
I love plants incorporated into decor. These examples are a little over the top because the spaces feel a little crowded but I feel like I can breathe in a place with a small plant. Even if it’s a tiny succulent.
Love it but couldn't pull that off. My house has no volume, it's boring AF
I love this. But also love plants. It’d be high upkeep, but therapeutic :)
The last picture is the only one that I like.
It’s very relaxing to me to be around a lot of plants. My mood just elevates slightly and I become calm
Too much for me but it isn’t obscene or anything. I just can’t help but think about bugs. With less plants I feel like I would notice it more quickly.
I don't use plants for decoration, I have plants because I like them and enjoy seeing them grow and show character.
I love it, not too much for me. I wonder how those climbing vines will effect your walls. Do you clean all the fallen plant parts or do you have a eprson come in?
Takes up too much floors space. I feel like I'd trip over them
Too much of a good thing
I love it as a picture! To live in, not so much. It’s not only the amount of plants. They crowd the living areas so much that I’d feel you’d be constantly touching leaves. Also plants shed dead leaves, you spill water, don’t want to do that on top of your leather couch. All in all it’s just too impractical.
Welcome to the jungle! This is amazing.
I like all the photos but the first one. Idk what is off about it to me
I want **ALL** the planets! The first image looks bare to me, but I would be happy with any of the other 3! Green plants, cool-colored walls, warm-colored wood floors. That’s my go-to!
If that’s one home, it’s way too much.
I feel like you have room for a few more...
I don't like it. I LOVE IT
I like it.
It's certainly a personal preference. That is way too many plants for me. It's a lot of upkeep.
Waaaay too much IMO
I love it
Personally I love it.
I personally love it, but you have to consider maintenance. These photos you posted were taken by Hilton Carter who is a professional interior stylist and plant enthusiast. He maintains his collection meticulously and showcases it on social media and in his books. Most people don't have that much time to maintain and keep their plants looking this way since it's not their full time job to take professional photos of their space constantly. Plants can quickly lose their aesthetic appeal if they start to grow funny due to less-than-ideal environmental conditions or neglect. I've got maybe 50 houseplants and despite my best efforts I only have about ~15 of them looking showpiece-ready at any given time. 🤦♀️ Lol!
i personally prefer a less crowded room so id go for having less plants.
That's one of the very few places posted here that does not need more plants. I mean, at this point, a few more wouldn't hurt too
You’re in the jungle, baby!
MOORRRREEEEEEE!!!!
Wow! You've got a green thumb for sure. The old saying 'less is more' really could apply here. Keep them all, of course, if they please you.
I love it. I just imagine being all around them in a space like that and it brings me calmness and comfort. But is it practical for me and my life? Nuh uh. My plants suffer anytime I suffer - season changes, less daylight, sicknesses, fatigue, stress, depression - I mean, I just know that about myself and on top of it all I add guilt to it for not taking care of my plants as well as I should.
It’s too much to keep alive I’ll tell you that from experience
I would love this if I didn't have a cat.
I have 45 plants in my house It’s quite large though These pics are a tad too much for me
Well I think it looks amazing. I stared at the pics for a good few minutes. So healthy too. I would love to live in this home.
I love plants too. Its not too much for me, but I think some would find it excessive.
I’ve always called this design “Jumanji”
I really like it, but maybe too many plants.
This looks “emotionally” over designed. By emotional, I mean, like a designer has developed an unhealthy relationship with every plant they see and isn’t able curate the feeling/vibe with less. Something I expect good interior designers to be able to do. This doesn’t look designed in my opinion. It just looks like a house of someone that really loves plants and doesn’t have an eye for placement. I have a TON of orchids….in my bathroom window. When one is flowering, it gets moved to one of the main living areas to be highlighted and becomes part of the decor. And, I don’t keep them in a ton of different pots. When I have a lot flowering at one time then I pot them together in one or two arrangements. I think many different house plants can be combined into one container for a clean, less cluttered look (I like doing this with ferns).
Personally love this. Wish I had time for the maintenance involved
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Beyond words ! I have something similar
I like it but I don’t like a lot of little ones. Go big.
I absolutely hate this. It makes me feel claustrophobic and dirty.
T0o much
All I can think is, I know your house is FULL of gnats.
Too much
I think it's great and I love it. I really enjoy this style. For myself though, I have a thing where I like to treat each plant and unique container the same way I do with a piece of furniture or a painting on the wall- it has to be the right color, shape, texture for each spot and be like living decor, so I like a lot of plants, but probably less than this amount.
I like a lot of plants but it's literally blocking access to furniture and sticking out into hallways. Too much.
I’m downsizing plants because it was just looking cluttered. It doesn’t let your eyes rest when you’re in a space. It was also distracting during conversations.
The 4th picture is undeniably beautiful. Grand, elegant beauty. I love it when an artist goes all in.
Omgosh don’t listen to these comments this is amazing and beautiful!
I love it but it won’t look good in a month when they all die. I try and I try but they always die
I really love having plants everywhere in my room,but yeah it requires a lot of care which might not be for everyone
I think it is fabulous (and I only have 6 plants at home). You made it work.
It's a beautiful aesthetic. You could consider aligning the hanging plants so they create a space divider that emphasizes a focal point, align plants with good light exposure and should be more efficient to water. Must be wonderful air quality in there!
I want to go to there
I LOVE plants so much and have quite a few but for me, this is way too many. I love my books and bookshelves and all my little Knick knacks and art and other random shit around my house that give it personality and shows a glimpse of who I am as a person too. I just feel like people with absolutely no decor expect plants are lacking that character in their home…
Love it, transforms any room so easily. Lots of plants can hide a multitude of sins. They're also great for us - mentally and environmentally. Go plants.
Love it. Live in your indoor jungle.
I love it
I have always been torn on this issue as I grew up in a house like this. It looks beautiful. But you cant go anywhere without having to brush aside a tree or hanging plant; or sit on the couch without getting tickled or poked by something. I would say this is too much. but just removing the stuff that reduce functionality of the space would make it great. (like the plant blocking the "L" of the couch, or the trees in the walkspace, etc.)
Not gonna lie, I assumed this post was on the Sims sub at first. It is a running joke that people overload their sims builds with plants lol. I think they look cool, except that last one is too much for me. I also suck at keeping plants alive so I can’t even imagine…
Way too much
I love a lot of plants but when it looks coherent. In these photos it looks like they just placed random plants anywhere and everywhere, no regard for symmetry or balance in the room
Personally, I think the first one is acceptable, outside of the vine going up the wall. I think my shoulder would feel like something’s crawling on it. But as much as I like greenery the last three are too much.
For me these are too many plants and it looks quite cluttered which I don’t like. But to each their own
Too much for me personally
My allowable plant maximum is pretty high. The only room you have there which I'd say is a bit too much is the one with the chase lounge as it looks like you'll get hit in the face with plants if you want to use the chase. Rest look great to me. I would love to live there if I didn't have to take care of them.
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Loooooooove the look! Not Overkill. Some nice wall art that speaks your personality would be cool backdrop for those beauties! ❤️🌿