Who wouldn’t love a house surrounded by lush green trees and flowers spread all around? In fact, that’s the dream of many a person who would give a hand or two to live in such houses and situations. But then, we also have to cater to growing population and decreasing space. Now, owning such houses are more like a mere fallacy and perhaps only the rich and luxurious can avail such facilities. Now a day, what we have is apartments and flats with just balconies, in the name of outdoor space. Well, you cannot do much in such conditions but remember you always have the option of bringing nature indoors, by keeping indoor plants. These plants will not only bring some freshness in your house but also enliven the ambience.

So now that you have decided to go for indoor plants, it’s high time we talk about how to take care of them.  Most of the indoor plants are quite okay with normal temperature fluctuation but they also grow at faster rate in cooler climate. So what you need to do is to maintain a cooler temperature at night so that plants grow appropriately. Ideally, night temperature should be kept 10 to 15 degrees lower than the day temperature.

Try not to have excessively low or high temperatures because that will adversely affect the plant growth. Indoor plants should have little exposure to light in an indirect way. You can also arrange for artificial sources of lighting. You will also need to rotate indoor plants on a regular basis so that all the parts receive equal amount of light. Bring your home plants outside once in every 15 days for fresh air. While watering your indoor plants, maintain the balance.

Decoration does involve some tricks that not everyone is aware of. Using these tricks you can make your house look beautiful. One of the basic advantages of using these tricks are you can make your house look larger than they really are. Professionals in the interior decoration field commonly use these tricks so satiate different needs. The problem faced by different house owners is small space. One does not really have too many options when it comes to space constraint faced by house owners in urban cities. Add to that stratospheric cost of real estate and not everyone can afford to make wholesome changes in the household. Some common problems faced are narrow rooms, low ceilings and insufficient light etc. But then, there is option of optical illusion.

Most of the apartments have this problem of low ceilings. If somehow, you can manage to make your ceiling appear higher than they actually are, you will feel more space in the house. So how to do that? Start with selecting appropriate color for the ceiling. Use white color around your ceiling. To those who are interested in cost cutting as well, just paint six inches of the top of your walls with white. You will be surprised to find your ceiling appear higher.

Now coming to the next common problem of small room size, we also have a solution for this. Just paint one wall darker than the rest of the walls. If you are concerned about your bedroom then try placing wall to wall cupboards along one of the walls. Try going for low lying furniture. This will make your home look more spacious and aesthetic as well. Use these tricks and make your space larger than it actually is.