apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

i love having flowers in my bedroom - usually on my vanity or on a small side table. it changes everything about the room. check out my post on flowers for almost every room in the house for $5 - TOTAL.

http://honeyliving.blogspot.com/search/label/flowers

I always keep flowers on my bedside table, so they're the first thing I see when I wake up. Usually it's just a little $3 bunch from the grocery store, but it's a nice way to start the day.

I buy enough flowers to have some for my room.

I buy a gardenia once a month, a smell that is heavenly to me. My mom use to put fresh gardenas from her garden in my room every week.

Having a small NYC apartment I've found flowers can make a huge impact. Always easy to find and cheap in the city. Livingroom, bedroom absolutely and even in a tiny bud vase in my bathroom. Makes a difference.

its a pretty idea i love, but cannot implement. i have pollen allergy and asthma as well.

Where I live, flowers are way too expensive! I just do away with artificial, sprinkled with a little flower essence. Works like a charm :)

http://kirantarun.com

I cut wild flowers for this touch, but I put them in the kitchen window sill so they can catch the light without the cat knocking them over.

Recently, I've found that I cannot live without flowers. Maybe it's been the extreme heat (I'm down in Austin, where we have had over 60 days of over 100 degrees heat) or the fact that I am recovering from an illness.

Living room comes first, but if I absolutely MUST have more flowers, I get purple Oceania roses and put them in a tall blue French vase I picked up at a stoop sale in Brooklyn and put them in my bedroom.

Thank goodness it's a trend right now to have flowers in all the supermarkets and that they are relatively cheap. Tuesdays and Fridays, Central Market in Austin sells long-stem roses for $1.00 each. Two perfect roses in a tall bottle on your mantle can make a big difference. That's two bucks well spent.