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Enhancing your home with nature doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, it is one of the easiest things you can do!

No matter what your design theme, whether you are redecorating the entire house or just one room, bringing the outdoors inside is one way to make it warm and welcoming for your family and friends.

Let your imagination get carried away with these ten suggestions for bringing natural elements into your home no matter what the season.

10+ Ideas For Enhancing Your Home With Nature

This post was originally published in 2016, but we have updated it to be current (2022)!!

The other day, I was digging through a drawer and found some photos from 1997. I was 10 years old, and life was really simple back then. I was transported back to such a happy time looking through those photos. Some of them were from New Year’s Eve, and others were from my birthday in February. Everyone was laughing, we had people over, my little brother was right at my feet for every picture, and it was just pleasant scene to witness. I am so glad someone took pictures to capture those memories!

But something I noticed was my mom’s decorations. She was very in to the nature vibe back then! House plants, fake plants, and fake trees were all over the house. It was awesome! It was inviting, and it was cheerful.

Her decorations have evolved overtime and 25 years later, she has decorating down to an art. But, she still loves adding in nature to her home. Even just a subtle plant in the middle of neutral tones, it really brings the area together.

Maybe this is why my mom has always had a sweet, happy home everyone enjoys being at!

It is easy enhancing your home with nature, here are some ways you can too:

Use Items From Vacations Around Your Home

You can enhance your home with all types of nature from vacations. One of my favorite things in my daughters room is a bowl of sea shells I have from our first beach vacation! Not only is it the perfect aesthetic for her book shelf, but it is also a fun reminder of our time there! In the movie, Somethings Gotta Give, Diane Keaton’s character has such a beautiful home, but she adds the perfect decor around her living area with bowls of rocks she has collected from the beach.

Add Green Plants

Green plants, like succulents, are another way of bringing a natural element into your home. Adding in a real plant to your home brings in a perfect nature vibe!  You can also try things like herb gardens in the kitchens and terrariums.

Try a nature themed picture

Hang your favorite beach vacation photo in a frame made of driftwood or shells. I love this DIY idea using little twigs as a frame. You can even do a shadow box with some nature mementos and a photo.

Vintage Prints

One of my favorite things is vintage prints of flowers, birds, or nature scenes. This is such a great idea for bathrooms or bedrooms. I love this one with the words and flowers together. This vintage floral one is another favorite of mine. We did our daughter’s nursery in a garden theme, and used things like this to decorate it!

Don’t forget to add nature to your outdoor spaces too

Patios and porches are also part of your home. Not only can you create relaxing outdoor living or dining spaces, you can plant a variety of fragrant flowers that will bloom almost all year long. Bring their fragrance indoors by planting window box gardens on a window that opens, and around your outdoor seating areas. Your sense of smell is one of your strongest senses and frequently tied to good memories.

Use Moss Balls Throughout The Home

If there is anything that reminds me of a beautiful spring day, it is moss. And moss balls for decorating are totally in right now! Adding fresh, soft greenery to your home is the perfect nature element. You can get a really pretty bowl and fill it with these moss balls. It is also great to add these cheerful moss balls to a really bright vase that pops. There are so many DIY ideas for moss balls!

Nature Themed Candles

Candles are cozy and fun for all areas of your home, but bringing in a nature theme to the candles is even better. You can try making your own like these really fun DIY sea shell candles. This would be a beautiful addition to a bathroom or even a kitchen. These birch candles are also a great idea too. If you had a garden themed bathroom or bedroom, these would be an idea nature enhancement.

Add Nature To The Walls

If you really want to enhance your home with nature, you can add some nature to your walls! We used fake ivy to decorate the walls in the church for my wedding, but this is a great idea to do at home too. This is a sweet idea for a girls bedroom, bathroom or kitchen. Adding lights into the ivy makes it even more appealing! Another idea is using ivy hanging plants like these. Place the ivy up high like on a a tall shelf or cabinet, and let it cascade down. This is another good idea for bedrooms and bathrooms!

Raw Wood Decorating

For a more complex project, you can use raw and live-edge wood for DIY projects. Live-edge and raw wood can offer you one of a kind decorating options for doors, tables, shelves, frames for mirrors, headboards, and even flooring. Driftwood glued around a large balloon can become a globe for a hanging light once the balloon is popped. A unique piece of wood, like a manzanita branch, can become art on the wall just by itself. Slices of wood become drink coasters or plate chargers on your dining table. With an inexpensive wood burner, they can also become ornaments or name cards for your holiday dinner.

Water Fountains

Remember when water fountains were in? Small water fountains on a coffee table or in a bathroom add such a relaxing sound. I think the sound of trickling water is one of the calmest sounds in the world!

I also love soft wind chimes! Using nature to add lovely sounds to your home is very soothing.

No matter how you choose to decorate your home with natural elements, from simple DIY projects, vacation memories, or complex art projects, there are resources and ideas just outside your door. The possibilities are as endless!

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