Let’s Have Some Plants!

Are you aiming to add some aesthetic appeal to your interior? Try some plants! Yes, plants! Plants are not only meant to provide oxygen, they also provide aesthetics to your home and your workplace. Rather, plants provide more than a mere decorative touch to the indoor environment. They bring people together for a relaxing ambiance, and they create an atmosphere for cooperation and collaboration. And what makes it even more interesting is that they might just cost you a dime. In today’s high paced work life and cumbersome work routines, indoor plants play an important role in adding the “living element” to the interior design. Acting as a focal point for changing the feel of a space, plants add color and temperature to the interior and complement the décor, to eventually enhance the design without much alteration to other important elements. One key feature of adding plants to the indoor design is that they create visual depth to the interior while delineating spaces. For instance, in big (and empty) spaces, such as building lobbies and shopping malls, people tend to get intimidated. In that case, introducing plants can interrupt spaces and break them down into smaller, cozier and more appealing spaces, thereby creating visual depth. Similarly, plants can also be used as dividers between rooms, or as portable walls between collaboration spaces in a shared workspace or in an open-concept office without brick-and-mortar walls. Not only do they create visual depth, but indoor plants also visually lower the ceilings. So while tall ceilings can be daunting, and render an uncomfortable impact on the visitor, installing tall plants with a canopy of foliage, for instance, can create the feeling of “false ceiling” and hence visually lower the overhead space. For instance, if you have a 50-foot ceiling, you can introduce 15-20-foot tall ficus trees to visually bring the ceiling down, to a more acceptable and manageable height of, let’s say, 12-15 foot. Interestingly enough, the heavier the canopy of foliage, the greater the reduction in perceived overhead space. And let’s not forget the true value of plants; their natural ability to cleanse the air and add to creating a healthy environment. Plants, as a matter of fact, provide a wealth of health and well-being benefits to the indoor environment, both for the living as well as workspaces. Recent studies indicate that plants serve benefits beyond the mere production of oxygen. According to scientific research, plants remove harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the air, such as benzene and formaldehyde, converting them into harmless compounds which are then used by the plants as a source of food. Similarly, they reduce levels of carbon monoxide from indoor air by as much as 90 percent. Also, they stabilize the humidity and temperature in the environment, hence creating a more comfortable and relaxing setting. These and many such benefits then translate into healthier work environments and healthier workers. Other researches have proven that people working with plants around them tend to have lower blood pressures, and are more attentive and fresh-minded while at work. Hence, plants are essentially a cost-effective means to adding aesthetics to your interior, while also serving numerous health benefits that eventually translate into better lives and higher workplace productivity. No other living element in the built environment gives back so much while looking beautiful. To get more information about it, you need to coordinate with one of the most experienced Architects in Pakistan and get the consultancy about latest planting ideas.