Audra: Moss bring in the outdoors, inside can really add some personality and Rhiannon learns some easy ways to decorate with inspired items from mother nature.
Rhiannon: It’s spring and that means it’s time to make those subtle changes to your homes décor and here to show us some great tips is our lifestyle expert Mar Jennings and Mar what a better way to start than to bring some stuff from outside indoors.
Mar: Absolutely, let’s have a ball shall we.
Rhiannon: Yes.
Mar: The idea is to take mother nature inspiration and bring it indoors and here’s a perfect example, this rope ball is a wonderful decorative accent to bring inside and the inspiration behind the ball also works in a variety of different ways as well look at this great composite.
Rhiannon: I love these.
Mar: Granny apples okay when you clump them together and put them on cupboard with — and also on a cake spin another great way to invite Mother Nature inside. The willow balls another great example how when you clumped in together is very organic, very natural, great colors to incorporate.
Rhiannon: One of my favorite is the moss balls how unique and beautiful.
Mar: The moss balls are wonderful and when you stack them like this you really get a sense of space and dimension as well and it’s just a wonderful way again to add some interesting texture and color into your home.
Rhiannon: A lot of people might be a little intimidated about bringing branches into the house.
Mar: And you should not, okay because mother nature is right next to you and here are some great birch branches and some crab apples that has just starting to bloom but look at how I have incorporated into an urn vessel which is really another inspiration from mother nature that’s coming indoors and it’s being used as a wonderful vessel for this
Rhiannon: and we can use urn spread our things as well.
Mar: Absolutely and not just earns you can also use a variety of different outdoor elements such us the finial that also speaks about mother nature incorporating it inside as well so don’t just limit yourself to the basic earn ideas, go ahead and expand that idea.
Rhiannon: I love it as a holder for something for something a remote control
Mar: Absolutely, remote control put it on your desk use it for book ends. It’s just another decorative way to incorporate it into your home that’s clever, let’s face it. It’s all about being clever.
Rhiannon: And bringing mother nature inside and nice tree indoors.
Mar: A tree indoors is always a wonderful way to bring in that texture and color into your house and a large capacity.
Rhiannon: Alright thank you so much Mar some great tips. Yeah it’s time to get our house ready for spring.
Mar: Absolutely, right.
Audra: Thanks you guys and for more mother nature designs in the home you could check out Mar’s website. There’s a link on Better TV.com.
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