How to Decorate with Faux Flowers (2024)

Learn how to decorate with faux flowers with these simple tips. Beautiful ideas to add color and life to your spring decor.

Spring Decorating with Flowers

Spring is {almost!} here, and today it’s all about the flowers! I would love to be able to buy fresh flowers for our home every week, but unfortunately our budget doesn’t allow for that and I don’t have much of a green thumb. Thankfully artificialflowers have come a long way in the last few years and I love using them in our home. Decorating with faux flowers can still be beautiful and a few personal touches can really bring them to life. A high quality arrangement will last for years and can be used throughout your home year-round.

How to Decorate with Faux Flowers

I received a couple of beautiful artificial floral arrangements from Balsam Hill and had so much fun styling them for spring! Today I wanted to share some of my favorite tips to decorate with faux flowers and make them look more realistic.

Look, touch, and bend.

There’s definitely a wide range of quality when it comes to artificial flowers. There are three main things that I look for when choosing faux flowers:

• realistic colors. Look for colors that are more natural and not overly saturated – especially the greens.
• flexibility in the stems. I like stems that can be molded and fluffed to make a more realistic arrangement. Flowers don’t all look the same, so you don’t want your faux flowers to all look the same either!
• a more natural feel. Faux flowers might not feel exactly the same as real flowers, but I try to stay away from ones that feel real plastic-y. Not only do they feel super fake, but they also tend to be more stiff and not have the natural fall of real flowers.

Choose a couple of investment pieces.

Having one or two core investment pieces that you love can serve as a base for a variety of different vignettes and displays. Spending a little more money on an arrangement that will last for years to come, is worth it in the end. This Jane arrangement is probably my favorite arrangement from Balsam Hill. In a house full of boys, flowers are the one time that I actually get to use pink! This bouquet has an assortment of hydrangeas, anemone, roses, and berries and is so pretty. The acrylic water illusion and the hand-painted petals and leaves give it an amazingly realistic look.

Mix in a few fresh flowers or greenery.

Try mixing in a few fresh flowers – or even just some greenery from your yard – with your faux flower arrangements. It will give your design a fresher appearance and guests will never know what is real and what is artificial. A bundle of tulips is only a few dollars right now and just adds a little extra to this tablescape.

Use different vases or containers for the base.

Changing the vase or container that your arrangement is in can totally switch up the look and style. This beautiful Blue Viola Arrangement came with a pretty glass vase with a water illusion. By placing it in this olive bucket, it gives it a little bit of a more rustic, farmhouse look. The flowers look so realistic, and it’s nice to know that these ones will last despite my poor gardening skills.

Switch up your vignettes.

Since your faux flowers will last forever, it gives you lots of time to be creative and switch things up! Move them around the house and have some fun with them. Use them for a pretty centerpiece, place them on your bedside table, or brighten up your kitchen counter. After changing things around in our dining room, I decided to try out the look in our front entry. I just love the pastel colors of spring!

Even though it’s still cold and dreary here, I brought out some of my spring purses last week for a little bit of spring hope. My pink purse went perfectly with the Jane design.

In the end, I put the blue viola arrangement in our family room and the Jane florals went back into the dining room for my Easter tablescape.

I’m also still working on a little project using this provincial lavender garland. The lavender stalks come in varying shades of purple and pink, and are accented by silver-gray leaves for added depth. I ended up using some wire cutters and cutting my 6 foot garland into 4 foot and 2 foot sections. If I ever wanted the full 6 feet, it would be easy to wire it back together.

I’ve been looking for something to dress up our ladder in our family room and a 2 foot garland worked perfectly. I added some little battery operated lights around it as well. It’s so pretty when it’s all lit up!

More Spring Flower Arrangements

For more tips to decorate with faux flowers, check out these beautiful ideas from some of my favorite home decor bloggers. They’re sure to inspire you for for your spring and summer decor!

French Country Cottage / Liz Marie Blog
Finding Silver Pennies / The Idea Room
Craftberry Bush / Sand and Sisal
The Wicker House / Migonis Home
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia / Nest of Posies

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