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Room Recipe: how to create a lush plant-filled entrance hall

Make a striking statement in your hallway with an abundant display of living, verdant plant life.

Welcome guests and bring nature indoors with a profusion of potted plants in your entrance, arranged beneath a gallery wall of collected botanical illustrations and graphic prints.

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Here’s our Room Recipe to show you how:

Muk Van Lil
(Credit: Muk Van Lil)

“Team terracotta with textured timbers for an earthy, natural display.”

Ingredients

Textured timber table, try Elm mid cross dining table, Tara Dennis Store

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Framed botanical prints and botanical artworks, try Botanical Prints, Insire Prints

Terracotta pots in varying sizes, Bunnings

Lush plants of all shapes and sizes, try Strelizia nicolai plant, $200, Divine Flowers

Beautiful coffee table books to fire the inspiration.

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Extra styling details in natural leather, try Quintessential Duck Egg Blue

Method

1 Start with fabulous herringbone parquetry flooring, try floorwood.com.au in a space with plenty of natural light to allow plants to thrive.

2 Anchor the display with sturdy timber table or sideboard.

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3 Arrange and hang a collection of framed botanical prints and illustrations to create layers of interest and echo the colour and detail of plants.

4 Assemble decorative woven baskets in coordinating tones with terracotta pots in all shapes and sizes to hold plants, high and low to create a living, growing, ever-evolving display.

5 Add thoughtful details with picture books and quirky vintage pieces.

Get the look

Room Recipe
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(l-r), FLÅDIS seagrass basket, $11.99, IKEA; Framed Wall Art, $79, Insire Prints; Elm mid-cross dining table, 1.8m, $1975, Tara Dennis Store.

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