Silk Flower Projects to Decorate Your Home

Using silk flowers to decorate your home can be a frugal way to liven up your home. There are millions of projects that anyone can do with silk flowers for decorating your home. Fake flower arrangements in vases, baskets, buckets, shoes, tableware, and wreaths will make a pleasant addition to any room's decor. Silk flowers come in a wide array of colors and sizes. Also, there is a wide range of fake greenery that can be used with fake flowers.

Silk Flower Projects

Materials Needed for the Silk Flower Arrangements

Bushes of fake flowers, babies' breathe, and greenery. The greeneries are bushes of leaves or ivies.

Wire Cutters. You will need the wire cutters to cut the flowers from the bushes.

Styrofoam Pieces. The Styrofoam pieces come in squares, rectangles, circles, half circles, and cones of various sizes.

Various containers. The containers can be anything that you are not using in your home such as colored plastic buckets, metal buckets, any type of wicker or bamboo baskets, old shoes, tableware such as gravy urns, large bowls, etc.

Vase Silk Flower Arrangements

Get a bush of silk flowers, babies' breath, and greenery, any color or style that you like, cut the baby's breath and greenery stems off the base of the fake bush. Place the whole bush of silk flowers in the vase. Arrange the baby's breath and greenery throughout the fake flowers for a fuller and prettier arrangement.

NOTE: For the following silk flower projects you will cut all silk flowers, greenery, and other additions from the larger stem at the bottom of the fake flower and plant stub.

Dinnerware Silk Flower Arrangements

Use any piece of glassware for this project. You can use glasses, bowels, gravy boats, and other types of serving dishes to create silk flower arrangements for your dinning table.

For glasses, use a cone-shaped piece of floral styrofoam. Place the cone-shaped styrofoam with the skinny part facing down in the glass. This will allow you to use the wider portion of the Styrofoam to arrange the silk flowers in. Also, you may want to use smaller flowers for this silk flower arrangement.

For bowls, you should use a half circle piece of floral styrofoam with the curved area facing down. For other glass pieces, square or rectangle styrofoam pieces will be used

Arrange the silk flowers and greenery in an order that is aesthetic to the eye. You can arrange a few of the flowers to be a bit taller than other silk flowers.

Shoe Silk Floral Arrangements

Use any style of a shoe for this silk flower arrangement. Sometimes, the styrofoam piece may need to be trimmed to fit inside the shoe. If you are using heel dress shoes, you may need a touch of glue to hold the styrofoam in place. The glue will need to dry before placing the silk flowers in the styrofoam.

For boots, a cone-shaped piece of floral styrofoam will be used. The cone shaped styrofoam will be inverted into the boot in the same manner as in the glass silk flower project. With the boot silk floral arrangement, I suggest using vine greenery around the outer area of the boot.

These are just a few silk flowers home decorating ideas that can be done in about half an hour. The larger the base pieces you are using, the longer it may take you to make your silk floral design. The best think about making your own silk floral arrangement is you are able to make the color scheme work for your home. You are also able to use your favorite types of flowers for these projects.

By Karen Barnes