If you have ever wanted to bring the magic of your favorite story into reality, decorating your home in fairytale style is a fantastic way to do so. While there are many ways to incorporate fairytale-style decor, it almost always encompasses some aspects of the natural world. For an extra special touch, consider adding flowers as an accent or even a main focal point of your fairytale-style room.
How to Decorate Your House Like a Fairytale With Flowers
Flowers can be used to make a fairytale-style room more dynamic and natural. The choice of flowers — including the size, shape, and color, as well as the container used — make flowers an adaptable element to any type of storybook-themed room.
What is Fairytale-Style Decor?
Before getting into the details of how to decorate your room with flowers to look like it’s straight out of a fairytale, it will be helpful to explore exactly what the elements of fairytale style are. Of course, fairytales themselves span a variety of locations and settings, so you will want to determine what type is most appealing to you and your own style. Choose a specific story, if possible, to guide your choices.
You’ll also want to make sure that the decor fits the purpose of the room. The possibilities span a wide range of decoration: it could be an ornate castle with many detailed embellishments, or maybe it resembles a rustic cabin where magical creatures could appear at any moment. Enchanted forests play a part in many tales, but you could also adapt this style to an ocean or sky setting, for example.
While many people consider fairytale style to be most suitable for a child’s room, the possibilities for using these elements don’t stop there. By carefully choosing the theme and execution, you could use fairytale style to great effect throughout your home. Smaller spaces like a powder room are a great option for whimsical decorating, since their compact size means that only a few key elements are needed to set the ambiance.
Fairytale style is generally described as being cozy, whimsical, and a bit unexpected. It invokes a feeling that anything could happen in this space. Surprising and playful details take the space from ordinary to extraordinary.
Flowers for a Fairytale-Style Interior
If you are looking to use flowers in your fairytale-style room, you may be aiming for style that brings to mind a cozy cottage in the woods or perhaps a formal garden. In many fairytales, the natural world, including plants and flowers, are not just background but a key element of the story.
Regardless of what type of fairytale you use to inspire your room, there is a variety of flower or plant that will complement it. Don’t be afraid to experiment and see what works best in your space.
Choosing Colors When You Decorate with Flowers
When choosing flowers to use in a fairytale-style room, the important elements to keep in mind are color, size, and care.
Flower colors should complement (but not necessarily match) the rest of the decor in the room. Choose warm colors like pink, yellow, and orange to bring a cheerful, uplifting accent to the room. Cooler colors like purple and burgundy are suitable for an interior that invokes moody or mysterious fairytales.
White and very pale pastel flowers bring a sense of innocence and purity. Purple flowers are suitable for a castle or princess theme, as purple is the color most closely associated with royalty. Red flowers, especially roses, bring to mind romantic love.
The size of the flowers you choose will also be important in creating the desired effect. Flowers that are too small will be overlooked in favor of more conspicuous items in the room, while too many large flowers might be overwhelming. In general, it is a good idea to choose just a few main focal points (flowers or other elements) to showcase, and then the other pieces in the room harmonize and support those main pieces.
Finally, consider how much care and attention you are willing to provide for your flower decorations. If you use real flowers, they will need to have their water refilled and changed periodically, and will need to be replaced as they die. On the other hand, real flowers can add scent to a room and truly bring the outdoors inside.
Artificial flowers, on the other hand, require no maintenance other than the occasional dusting. They can be placed anywhere in the room, and you don’t need to worry about providing them with water. High-quality artificial flowers may be more expensive to purchase than real flowers, but they will be the more economical choice over time since they don’t need to be replaced. They may have a bad reputation for looking cheap or tacky, but there have been significant advances in the production of artificial flowers and they can sometimes be quite difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
The choice of real or artificial flowers comes down to personal preference and style. There’s also nothing to say you can’t combine both in the same room or even the same arrangement.
Where to Put Flowers in Your Fairytale-Style Room
Typically people think of flowers being placed on a table as a centerpiece or accent, but that is just a starting point. For a fairytale-style room, you can exercise a lot of creativity and where and how to use flowers.
One option would be to use a terrarium or cloche to create a miniature scene, with tiny flowers like baby’s breath or primrose. This would be a lovely place to include some figurines: animals, fairies, or whatever fits your theme.
Moving away from containers, a garland framing a door or window with flowers and foliage could make your room feel like an enchanted forest. Pinning artificial flowers all over a wall creates a magical ambiance, or you could use a series of small vases if you prefer using fresh flowers.
In a bedroom, flowers could be used to decorate a headboard or intertwined with a canopy. A curtain could be accentuated or even replaced with strings of flowers hanging from the curtain rod. Once again, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination, as flowers can make an impact anywhere they are placed.
Selecting Containers for Fairytale-Style Flowers
Finally, don’t underestimate the containers you choose to display flowers in your home. Even if the flowers inside change, you are likely to use the same containers over and over, so choose those that are adaptable and fit your theme.
Of course vases and pots are typical, but you can be creative with container options. Almost anything that holds water can be used to display flowers, so look to old teapots, unique jars, vintage dishes, or whatever other item accentuates the fairytale style you’ve chosen.
With the above tips in mind, you should be able to choose the right flowers to complement your fairytale-style interior theme. Regardless of whether your fairytale room is dramatic and moody, light and cheerful, or simply magical, flowers can be used to great effect as a main decorative element.