Bringing a breath of fresh air, decorating with indoor plants has become a trend with many followers. What is interesting is that we are coming across more and more original ways of incorporating plants into interior décor, many of them sharing one feature: they are arranged vertically and have their place on the walls!
Wall gardens, known abroad as living walls or vertical gardens, create an attractive, eco-friendly result that suits public or commercial spaces and restaurants and cafés, as well as your home on a smaller scale.
Besides their aesthetic impact, living walls have other important advantages, including improved air quality and room acoustics and a potential reduction in energy consumption (on exterior walls in particular, living walls can act as insulation, lowering the cost of cooling or heating the space).
There are several options available for interiors. As a first step, we have gathered a few examples for inspiration, in homes as well as in shops and offices:
Systems that cover entire walls or parts of them:
Decorative “frame”-style panel systems that move easily from wall to wall, working as portable planters
Islands of “vertical” gardens, portable and fixed
Text and editing: Natasa Lianopoulou
