If you have a spacious home, the use of plant stands can be a versatile and flexible addition to your home decor. They can, of course, be used in smaller rooms too, but it is in spacious areas of a home that indoor planters and plant stands can be used most strikingly and effectively.

The combination of plants, planters and plant stands can add another dimension to your living space. The living decor, in the form of foliage and flowering plants, or of miniature trees and shrubs, can be as varied as you wish, with such a wide choice of indoor plants available. Once you combine them with both planters and plant stands, the combinations open to you are almost limitless. It can never be an excuse to say: I can't find any plants, stands and pots that fit in with my home decor."

Types of Plant Stands

Once you have made the decision to use plants in the home, displayed on attractive stands and grown in decorative pots, what types of plant stands can you expect to find in the stores, whether local or online? Plant stands tend to come in a variety of materials, the more common being wood, wrought iron and other metals, and wicker. Less common, but very appealing alternative base materials, can be found in porcelain, marble, stone, and acrylic.

As you can see from the materials alone, the choice is wide enough to enable you to find a stand that complements your home decor, both in colour theme and style. From classic to ultra modern, suitable choices are there to be found. You will even find some attractive combinations of these materials in some plant stands, such as a luxuriously carved wooden pedestal stand with a marble top.

The material from which a plant stand is made is only one variable, though. The actual style of stand can vary significantly too, presenting you with many decor and plant display options. It is this great variation in size and styles that enables you to use height and shape so effectively in interior design, especially in wide open areas such as large entrance porches and lobbies, adjacent to sweeping staircases, and in spacious living areas with wide areas of bare boards or tiles.

There are several types of plant stands that can add interesting height variation to your living decor:

1. Pedestal plant stands may be designed as plant stands, or you may utilize indoor pedestals not especially designed for that purpose, but suitable and attractive nonetheless. Marble pedestals, or classic columns, can be especially appealing and luxurious.

2. Multi-tiered plant stands can be effective in adding height to your foliage and floral displays in the home. In this case, you need to be especially careful with the choice of plants, choosing combinations of plants that will best show off the shape of the plant stand. There are some interesting shapes and styles about, including a spiral staircase effect planter.

3. Hanging plant containers are also available for indoors, and these are worth considering where you want the eye to be distracted upwards rather than down.

When deciding on buying plant stands, it is best to consider the full combination of plant, indoor planter, and plant stand. If you have a vision in mind, then your home will look all the more attractive, and as you want it, when it comes to putting the three together.

Also, never forget that a plant or miniature tree can sometimes look more attractive without a stand at all; and furthermore, some planters you can find are attractive decor in their own right, and may be desirable for display with no plant displayed.