Home Décor Inspiration I’ve Been Pinning

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

Gosh, I just love home décor…Even all these years later (Dream Green DIY just celebrated its 13th anniversary, by the way!), there’s nothing that excites me more than a beautifully designed room. Whenever I have free time lately I find myself turning to the following activities: flipping through interior design books, watching other people’s styled home tours on TV, and/or working on any number of the current projects we have going on around our own home. Point being that home design has been a passion of mine for literally as long as I can remember, and I don’t see myself slowing down anytime soon.

One of my favorite resources for décor inspiration is Pinterest. Hasn’t that practically been everyone’s go-to since it launched 14 years ago? If you haven’t signed up yet or if you don’t even know what I’m talking about, Pinterest offers a wealth of visual inspiration for practically anything you can think up—cooking, fitness, fashion, and, of course, home décor. I love hopping onto my Pinterest feed to browse photos and save relevant Pins to my boards, so I thought I’d share a handful of the images and designs that have been particularly inspiring to me as we work on decorating our new(ish) 1960s home. Keep scrolling for photos and my rapid fire thoughts on each featured space.

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

1. I’ve been a long-time fan of nearly everything Emily Henderson has designed, even as she started moving away from the mid-century aesthetic that she used to be sort of known for. Her kitchen design pictured above is more traditional than I’d probably want to go in our own home, but I still stopped in my feed-scrolling tracks when I saw this photo. I love the stained wood cabinets, blue tile, and pops of gold. That black oven is such a focal point, too, right?! What a clever use of color. (Pin It, Designer: Emily Henderson and ARCIFORM, Photos: Kaitlin Green)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

2. I’ve been hanging gallery walls more and more often recently, but when I do, I hesitantly wonder if that’s a dated look. Then I spot beautiful images like this on Pinterest featuring a wall full of art, and I no longer care if it’s dated! I have too many pieces of beautiful framed art stacked in storage that I’ve collected or created myself over the years, and I love seeing them hung en masse like what you see pictured above. What do you think? Are gallery walls passé? (Pin It, Designer: @newdarlings)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

3. I can’t stop pinning bookshelves these days because of my newfound love for reading. In case you missed it, I’ve been turning to books for an escape from reality since winter 2023, and so my collection of paperback and hardback books has grown exponentially. The side by side white bookcases in the photo I pinned above has inspired me to look into finding a similar long low shelving setup for our guest room. (Pin It, Designer: Ursula Rodriguez)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

4. I find myself repinning Brittni’s home photos all the time (seriously, follow her here if you don’t already). I love her minimalist aesthetic, but that she still somehow manages to work in pops of retro-inspired color here and there. Every room in her home feels dynamic and balanced, and I’m desperate to figure out her formula so that I can get a similar vibe in our own home. It seems like light-colored walls may be key, with lots of wood furniture, and colorful rugs/accents. I’m planning to experiment more with this type of look in 2024, I think. (Pin It, Designer: @paperandstitch)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

5. I still adore antiquing, and always gravitate toward designed spaces that incorporate rustic touches. Really, the only element that looks particularly old in this room pictured above is the wood—those beautiful wood floors and the patina-rich dining set. Without those aged elements in the space, I don’t know that I would have felt quite so inspired when looking at it. Isn’t the combination of modern elements with old just so striking?! (Pin It, Designer: Natasha Howard and architects Studio McLeod, Photos: Christopher Horwood)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

6. Wood paneling is one of those things that I don’t think will ever go out of style. Maybe that’s my love for 1960s and ’70s design speaking, but you have to admit that there’s something extra special about it. It draws the eye right away, and totally negates the need for traditional hung art (aside from the few simple leaned pieces you see here). Wood paneling, when done well, acts like art on its own. Do you guys remember when I created my own faux wood paneling using nothing but paint at our old house? That’s still one of my favorite DIY projects of all time. Maybe I need to think about doing something similar—or going with the real deal—here at our current home. (Pin It, Designer: Tonia Kelly, Photos: Alisha Gore, Styling: Audrey Won.)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

7. This room above is making me rethink my decision to not paint all of the walls in our new home bright white. We’re a little limited, though, since our retro painted trim is cream-colored. Bright white walls sometimes look a little too stark next to cream trim, or, in some lighting situations, it actually makes the trim look dirty. The designer of this room pictured above is lucky that they have existing bright white trim to go with their white walls. Maybe I’ll just have to stick to admiring this look from afar until I get up the motivation to repaint our own trim bright white. (Pin It, Designer: Geneva Vanderzeil)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

8. Traditional Parisian style design is something I never felt like I could lean into at our old ultra modern house, but our new house has more elegant details in it, like decorative trim moulding on the walls and crown moulding at ceiling height. This means that I can finally experiment with some of the design elements I’ve always loved in Mallory’s Brooklyn, New York, apartment, pictured above. Following suit with her style, I’d love to add more trim moulding to our walls and doors, similar to the collection I added to our dining room last year, and Mallory’s antique mirror collection is another thing I’m pining (errr…“pinning”) for. (Pin It, Designer: @reserve_home)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

9. Apologies for the fuzzy photo, but I couldn’t not add this one in. The vintage upholstered seating, bold patterned rug, Japanese-inspired lighting, book-filled shelves, wood console…the plants! I’m in love with everything about this photo, and can’t wait to try to get this exact look in our own space. Although, to be honest, maybe we sort of already have in our own unique way? You be the judge. (Pin It, Designer: Lucas Wearne)

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

10. Finally, I was really drawn to the pretty patterned wallpaper in this room pictured above. It reminds me a little of the botanical wallpaper that we have in our guest room, and that room in our house actually gets similarly bright natural light as what you see in the Pin. This photo is convincing me of a new furniture arrangement in the guest room to make the bed front and center, and it’s also proving that white painted trim really is the best. I think I need to add that mammoth task to my home projects list for 2024 or 2025. (Pin It, Designer: Ginny MacDonald, Photo: Tessa Neustadt)

I hope you enjoyed this peek into my thought process when it comes to Pinterest and my inspiration for future home projects. If you’d like to follow along with me in real time, hop over to the official Dream Green DIY Pinterest page here. I’m really close to reaching 100,000 followers on that platform, and would be so honored to have you join my home-obsessed Pinning community!

Home Décor Inspiration From Pinterest

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Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

One of the most validating things I’ve experienced as a homemaker is witnessing my houseplants grow out of control. The potted plants situated  throughout our house are absolute key pieces within the décor “landscape” I’ve created (a room is never really finished until I include a plant, after all!), and whenever I see that one has grown too large for the space its in, I feel like I’ve done something right. It’s one of my favorite feelings, but it does, of course, come with some necessary homework.

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

Take the overgrown Bird of Paradise plant in our sunroom as an example. My five-year-old plant had outgrown its pot (click here and scroll to about the middle of the post to see how tiny the plant was when I first got her!). The old pot I had her in was about half the size of the new one you see pictured here in today’s post, and she has doubled in size over the course of the last few years. Some of the branches had buckled under their own weight and were in desperate need of added support. I forgot to take “before” photos for today’s story (shame on me!), but you can click over to my Instagram to watch a video I put together documenting this process, including shots of the plant as it looked in its old too-small floor pot, plus you’ll be able to see close-ups of her broken, bent stems and leaves.

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

The first step in this makeover process was to replant the Bird of Paradise. I nestled her into a larger pot (similar option found here) that we happened to have in storage in the basement, which is about twice the size of the old ceramic pot. This plus the addition of extra potting mix will give our Bird lots more room to grow and stretch out her roots.

I couldn’t just swap her pot out, though. The leaves and stems needed much more support and added strength from up above, and for that I turned to my tried and true method of training the branches with floral tape, clear fishing line, and cup hooks. I’ve talking about this process before in terms of how we support the branches of our beloved Fiddle Leaf Fig tree, and the same principles apply here for our Bird of Paradise.

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of ParadiseFirst, I screwed a small cup hook into the wall using a wall anchor for extra strength. Then, I tied small lengths of green floral tape around a few of the droopier branches of the plant. Finally, I looped discrete clear fishing line through the floral tape loops and hooked those around the cup hook to drag the branches to a more upright position.

The reason you need to combine the floral tape with the fishing line instead of just using fishing line alone is because the fishing line by itself would cut into the delicate flesh of the stems. The soft, thick floral tape offers gentle support, even when held taut against the branches. I also incorporated a couple of green-colored gardening stakes to help support the branches and to balance out the pressure of the floral tape against the stems.

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

I’ve been repeating this method over and over for years with our plants as they slowly outgrow their old pots, and it has worked like a charm. The branches are able to grow without stress, and I’m able to help guide them into a shape that better suits the specific confines of the corners in our home. Click back here for even more information about my training method, and make sure you hop over to Instagram if you’d like to see this method in video form. It might make a little more sense to see it come together in action.

And since I know some of you will ask how we managed to get our Bird of Paradise to grow this large over the years, I’ll give you a rapid fire list of what has worked for us: I soak the soil once every other week with water (sometimes weekly if the soil feels a little dry), I keep it in a spot that gets really nice morning-to-early-afternoon sunshine, and I wipe the leaves down quarterly with a damp rag to keep dust and pests away. Feel free to leave your own plant care tips in the comments if you have them!

Supporting An Overgrown Bird Of Paradise

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