Feeling good at home: best plants and flowers within your bedroom

Everyday is marked by multiple activities, many of which force us to stay away from home. Going back to our dwelling at the end of the day and finalising the daily tasks thus represents the moment of quiet for regaining strength. Our environments, indeed, should necessarily allow us to relax and rest in a soothing and positive atmosphere. If you’re a green soul, there’s a way for conveying to your space the warm atmosphere you need: plants. However, sometimes, a doubt lies behind the best positioning… plants within your bedroom?

Plants within bedrooms: contraindications or benefits?

Plants and flowers are the best natural decorative elements for livening up environments, thanks to their shapes and colors. Assuming they might not be ideal for a bedroom, since they consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide into the air during the night, it’s not totally correct. The process surely happens, but the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air is so low it could never be harmful to health, by no means. On the contrary, Nasa in its Nasa Clean Air Study proves the benefits of plants within interiors.

Plants clean the air, absorb the environmental toxins coming from the external atmospheric pollution or directly from the inside, from cleaners, filtering the most dangerous substances for health: benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene and xylene. Here the answer summing up the beneficial functions of plants within a bedroom: they reduce stress, they improve the quality of sleep, the air we breathe and even the smell of the room.

They enhance furnishings, lull our dreams and refresh the air. Which plants represent the best option within a bedroom?

Pothos, arrowroot and aloe vera: here the first three names of the most suitable plants for enjoying the moments of rest in your bedroom. Pothos is the most popular houseplant thanks to its predisposition of standing even the toughest life conditions: dry air, heat, dark corners or prolonged drought are not a problem for pothos.

Maranta, coming from the equatorial forest of Brazil and Guayana, is an evergreen plant with particular shapes and shades, perfect option for decorating and also absorbing electromagnetic waves.

Aloe vera, from the family of succulents, is the best known for its beneficial properties. Its leaves are also biomarkers of the air, if they color in small darker spots it means the air of the room is contaminated. For purifying the bedroom environment, enjoying the calm and create a reinvigorating atmosphere.

A green and colored soul: flowers besides plants, delicate and inebriating scents for a peaceful rest within your bedroom.

Flowers, just like plants, have a purifying effect in the domestic environment. Among the most recommended for bedrooms, we find:orchid, with its elegant form, shiny fleshy leaves and stunning colorations, lavender, considered a natural relaxant with small flowers of light scents, jasmine, the jasmine, the sweet and spring-like fragrance and spathiphyllum, the amazing white flower able to absorb acetone, formaldehyde, ammonia, benzene and even methanol.

If you are a nature lover, decor your bedroom with a floreal hand-drawn wallpaper. Discover the designs of Andrea Tarella, for a dreamy atmosphere among the walls of your house.

Ambientha is always looking for new inspirations and this time they come directly from our friends Urban Jungle Bloggers.

Igor and Judith, Igor and Judith, lovers of green and interior design, have decided to merge their common interests thus launching Urban Jungle Bloggers project in 2013: a global community for plants and home decor amateurs, which shares everyday new stories on how to get the most benefit from “living with plants”.