Style your living room with cozy plant decor ideas—from corner displays to book nook accents, here’s how to create a warm, inviting space with greenery.
Looking to add charm and warmth to your living space?
In this post, I’m sharing cozy plant decor ideas for the living room, including how I styled greenery in a tucked-away book nook corner using thrifted finds, layered textiles, and favorite plants.
Whether you’re working with a small space or a sunny corner, these living room plant decor tips will bring personality and life to your home.
Why Plant Decor Adds Warmth to living Room Corner
Indoor plant decor is a wonderful way to bring the beauty of nature into our living spaces. Plants not only add visual interest and texture to a room but also provide numerous benefits for our well-being. They purify the air by absorbing toxins and releasing oxygen, creating a healthier and more refreshing environment. Indoor plants have a calming effect on our minds, promoting relaxation and reducing stress. They can also improve our productivity and focus, making them perfect for home offices or study spaces.
My mother always suggested that it was important to have something living in every room of your home.
From hanging plants and terrariums to succulents and statement plants, there are endless options to choose from. Whether you have a small apartment or a spacious house, there is always a plant that can fit into your decor. With their vibrant colors, unique shapes, and varied sizes, indoor plants can be used to create eye-catching displays or subtle accents.
They can be placed on windowsills, shelves, and tables or even hung from the ceiling, adding a touch of greenery to any room.
So, whether you’re a seasoned plant parent or just starting your indoor plant decor, incorporating plants into your interior design is a surefire way to create a warm and inviting atmosphere in your home.
9 Creative Plant Decor Ideas for Your Living Room
Bring the beauty of nature indoors with these living room plant decor ideas—perfect for creating a calm, cozy, and welcoming space in any corner of your home.
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Styling a Living Room Plant Corner with a Thrifted Blue Trunk
Vintage Blue Trunk and Crock as the Perfect Plant Stand
Last Sunday, I discovered a roadside freebie: a fabulous rustic blue trunk along with a vintage brown crock. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the trunk, but I loved the color, and the old-fashioned handles were oh-so charming.
We squished Ella, our Bernese Mountain Dog, over, and into the back of the car, it all went.
Once home and unloaded, we set the blue trunk down in a corner of our living room next to the pellet stove and built-in bookshelves. I thought I would let it sit a bit until I figured out what I wanted to do with it.
It is here; I would clean it all up and decide whether or not it needed painting.
Turning a Vintage Trunk into a Living Room Plant Stand
Almost immediately, I thought this rustic old blue trunk would be fabulous for spring plant decor in this living room book nook space, which has French doors adjacent for lots of natural sunlight.
This would allow the trunk to stay in its rustic condition, and I would be able to keep the blue color, which is what drew me to it in the first place. So this is when I started to dabble and decorate with the day’s roadside freebies with plant decor.
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Eclectic Living Room Style with Vintage Plant Decor Touches
I have noticed that my decor style has changed over the past few years. I used to love decorating with neutrals and pops of color. Now, I crave color and more of an eclectic and cluttered cozy vibe. It’s still vintage and antique, just more on the multiform side of design, as in this Vintage Eclectic Decor Meets Craft Room Design post.
How to Style Plant Decor in a Cozy Living Room Corner
Layering Plant Decor for Height and Visual Interest
Layering in plant decor is a technique that involves arranging plants at different heights and depths to create a visually appealing and dynamic display. Here are some tips on how to use layering in plant decor:
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Getting Started with Living Room Plant Decoration Ideas
Using all these techniques, my plant decor on the blue trunk started looking like this in the photo below. I added height with an old painter’s step stool and placed a plant into a recently found vintage crock. See more in the Cottage Farmhouse Decor Trending Finds post.
Living Room Book Nook Styled with Vintage Plant Decor
Then, I dismantled it all and started over…
I decided I wanted this plant decor nook in the living room to be up against the window instead of the bookshelving. This would give the plants more light and leave more open space for a chair that we would also like to add to this space at a later date.
*On a side note, I am not a plant expert and often struggle to keep thriving plants. Today’s post is simply written to inspire those of you, like me, who would like to add some plant decor to your home using vintage and rustic details in cozy spaces.
Unique Plant Containers to Style Your Living Room Decor
Once the rustic blue trunk was positioned, I started looking around the house for unique vintage-style plant vessels. Here is a list of plant decor inspirations that I found to decorate my new plant corner with.
You don’t have to use standard flower pots for your house plants. I especially love using vintage soup tureens, trophies, champagne buckets, crocks, and tea cups.
Unique vessels will truly elevate your plant decor.
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Because this blue trunk and plant decor now sit in front of a wall of windows, it’s challenging to get well-lit photos for this post. The color of this trunk may also vary depending on the time of day the photos were taken.
Choosing the Best Indoor Plants for a Cozy Living Room Corner
With all of my plant decor vessels gathered around, I chose plants that would work nicely among these unique basins—selecting plants from a Myrtle Topiary to a miniature Jade plant.
If you have a small space, remember you don’t have to have large plants like ferns and spider plants. There are so many options available today, such as miniatures, air plants, succulents, topiaries, and more.
One of my favorite places to visit to get spring-inspired for my indoor and outdoor plant decor is Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk, Maine.
My plant selection remains simple. As we are not here much in the summer, I will need to transport our plants to our home in Maine sometime soon.
Seasonal Spring Plant Decor with Forsythia, Lilacs, and Lupine
Plan to leave room for seasonal flowers and fresh-cut blooms to add to your plant decor collections. Here, I added some cut forsythia branches into a glass vase framed with a garden stand that I picked up at a yard sale for our living room book nook.
Decorating with Pansies in a Vintage Berry Carrier for Spring
A vintage berry carrier that I found while out Thrifting with the Gals was recently filled with pansies for spring. Because it’s still below freezing in the evenings, this vintage plant decor will move from the porch to our cozy book nook in the living room.
Seasonal blooms are an easy way to incorporate the season’s colors into your interior design.
Charming Home Accents to Complement Your Living Room Plant Decor
Add a few individual plant decor necessities to your living room plant decor, such as:
I think Demijohns would add a beautiful texture paired with plant-decor nooks, too. These three demijohns sit on our coffee table in the living room, just next to this book-nook corner.
After finding these vintage framed owl prints at a vintage marketplace this past weekend, it was time to replace the winter snowshoes, and the passing Forsythia was replaced with a bouquet of white tulips in another vintage vessel.
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Thanks so much for dropping by today. I hope you found loads of plant decor inspiration, and maybe you’ll even find an upcoming roadside freebie that inspires you, too.
Frequently Asked Questions About Living Room Plant Decor
Start by placing indoor plants in corners, on shelves, or on plant stands at different heights to add dimension. Choose stylish containers like vintage crocks, terracotta pots, or thrifted trunks to give your living room plant decor personality and charm.
Great options include low-maintenance plants like pothos, snake plants, ZZ plants, and peace lilies. These thrive in indirect light and work beautifully in cozy living room corners or sunny spots near windows.
Layer plants in varying heights and textures, and pair them with home accents like watering cans, woven baskets, or garden tools. Using vintage or decorative containers creates a curated and thoughtful plant decor display.
Use vertical space with hanging planters, wall-mounted shelves, or tall plant stands. A small vintage trunk or stool makes a charming base for a few potted plants and adds cozy character to even the smallest corners.
Try mixing vintage vessels like berry carriers, crocks, glass jars, and terracotta pots. These containers add warmth, texture, and an eclectic style that makes your plant decor feel more like a design element than an afterthought.
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I love all of these great ideas for using plants in your home decor! Thank you so much for sharing my faux topiary DIY Ann. I really appreciate that!
Thank you Michele, and you’re so welcome they are fabulous ideas that I knew my readers would enjoy!
Hi Ann! That trunk was such a great find! Love the blue paint! You did a great job styling it with plants!
Thanks so much Molly!
Ann
What a great roadside find.
Thanks Rachel!
I really like the blue chest and cannot image finding that free crock also! Living in FL we would never come across anything like that. I buy a lot of blooming plants to use inside until they look unkept and then plant them in the flower bed outside. We can do that pretty much year round here except high summer which I take off from gardening anyway. Love the berry baskets filled with pansies and sweet planted tea cup.
Thanks so much Pamela! We don’t run across free crocks very often here either… I wish I could plant more outdoors, lucky you. Thanks so much for stopping by today and loved seeing your note!
I love them all! Did you just leave the plants in their pots with the berry basket?
Yes! The pansies are in the flat bed trays still from when I purchased them at the nursery and I just water straight through them. Thanks so much Cathy, this was a fun little spring uplifting project.