Indoor plant ideas for your living room

Use plants and greenery to soften the lines between inside and out with these nature-inspired designs for your living room – and discover how to transform the look and feel of a room by inviting the outdoors in.

Blues and whites in a sunny spot just inside French balcony-style windows. Wicker armchair beside a plant-wrapped tray table.

A room section next to French balcony-style windows. Wicker armchair and plant-wrapped, slimline tray table and wall shelves.

Let your balcony step inside

The area closest to your window or French balcony can be used to draw nature into the room. Slimline furniture like the wall shelves and tray table here can be made to almost disappear, highlighting the plants and setting an airy mood.

French balcony and chair in the sun, doors open, framed by hanging and standing plants, green textiles and artificial grass.

Roll out the green carpet

To make the outdoor feeling downright unmistakable, a lawn should do the trick. (No mowing required.) Combine live and artificial plants – and themed textiles, too – and you can soon have a sunny spot in your own private park.

A veil of draping plants set in KUNGSFORS net bags and hanging side by side from a curtain rod inside a window.

A window waterfall of green

If you think growing plants from the floor up is too long a wait, go the other way round. Create your own hanging gardens by using a curtain rod (just make sure not to overload it) to fix and hang plants in front of the window.

A plant hanging from a curtain rod is slid sideways with the use of a draw rod, as to adjust the amount of sunlight.

A rod for your plant curtain

A benefit with arranging your plants like curtains is that they’re easily adjusted to make best use of incoming light. Or simply to part the greenery for an undisturbed view from within.

A wall garden formed using artificial plants attached to sections of wire memo board, framed by other real and fake plants.

Mixing plants to form a whole

Build a vertical garden using a mix of plants – real, artificial, and decorative plant objects. Together they can create a wall of green even in places where the light isn’t very strong.

A wall section with different displays of artificial plants and leaves: large, clear frames, small glass domes, plant stand.

For the visual gardener

Don’t have green fingers but still dream of a green oasis? Use glass frames to display artificial plants and leaves. No watering and no planting – just a nice, calm, zen-like corner.

We love to see our customers get creative with our products. Go for it! But please note that altering or modifying IKEA products so they can no longer be re-sold or used for their original purpose, means the IKEA commercial guarantees and your right to return the products will be lost.

Made by
Interior designer: Chiara Effroi Lutteri
Photographer: Mårten Linton
Writer: Henrik Annemark

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