Flower Power: Incorporating Color with Flowers

Incorporating color into your home or office space can be incredibly intimidating, not to mention pretty pricey depending on what the item is. This project will help give you the sense of color without breaking the bank.

Start by taking a few pictures of your space. Now go out to your backyard, your local grocery store or even the weekend farmers market and find flowers that have colors you’d want in your space. Your goal here is very simple, find (at least) two different colored flowers that you feel go together. Remember everything we talked about- between the winning color combinations/ why certain colors will go great in certain rooms- and use that newfound knowledge with the pictures of your room to choose colors that you want in your space. Next go home or to your office or wherever your space is and place those flowers (with water and preferably some flower food) in a container of your choice. It could be a glass vase, a ceramic pot, or even that empty mason jar you have laying around. Place your flowers in the space marvel at your color choice.

Now for the next few days, everytime you walk into the room with the flowers take note about how they make you feel. If you put the flowers in a specific corner of the space, think - would these pink peonies translate well into a pink accent wall? Or if you placed yellow sunflowers on your kitchen table and are loving it, maybe some yellow chairs would be the perfect translation.

This project is geared to give you a taste of color in your space without the commitment. So don’t worry, if you’re hating what you chose, you can always choose again. See what you like and what you don’t like and just go with your gut. And remember, it’s all subjective. There are no wrong answers when it comes to color so just have fun. And don't forget to Upload all the images of your flowers to the project gallery and show everyone what you created!

I can't wait to see what you all create!

Samantha Downs

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