During the dark, short days of winter, it may be helpful to find new and exciting ways to add more color and cheerfulness to your home. Nothing can compare to the beauty of live flowers and plants when the winter doldrums must be chased away. When you wish your house to be freshened and brightened, here are a few ways that that can be done with flowers.

Gorgeous Cut Flower Bouquets

Even when your backyard flower garden is asleep over the winter, you can still decorate your home with beautiful vases of flowers. It is easy to purchase that added touch of color for your house year-round by visiting florists, gift shops, or your local supermarket for some beautiful cut floral bouquets. You can add a lavish look to your bathroom using a container of beautiful flowers. Inside the living room area, a floral arrangement can add a classic decorator's touch to the mantel. Or, include a touch of beauty and elegance to your dinner table or perhaps the kitchen counter having a vase of flowers.

Floral Wall Art

Without having any flowers to showcase, add beauty and color by choosing floral wall art. Displayed in picture frames, art prints and paintings depicting floral scenes is usually a great way to cheer up your home's décor. You can even make use of an oversized floral canvas or print to decorate one of the walls, and use it to create a wonderful point of interest within your room. Reprints and enlargements made from your very own floral-themed photographs can also bring a beautiful and decorative touch on your walls. The fact is, when spring finally does arrive, you might like to try to make a point of snapping several photos of your own flower garden, to be able to use them as wall art. You can create your own beautiful wall decorations utilizing the photographs of your own garden for just the cost of some picture frames.

Live Plants and Flowers

Nothing beats live flowers and plants because of their capability to add a touch of spring in your winter decorating theme. Lots of houseplants have low light requirements, making them ideal for growing indoors during those short winter days. If you want to grow several plants that need a little more light, just make sure to place them near your indoor lighting fixtures. If you're planning right, you may also be able to trick spring-blooming flower bulbs like tulips and daffodils into blooming and brightening up your frosty winter months. These sorts of bulbs need to be chilled during their regular winter dormancy period, so you can imitate this procedure with your refrigerator. If you plant a pot of springtime bulbs and put them within your refrigerator for three or four months, it is possible to enjoy some beautiful springtime blooms inside whilst there's still snow outside. Some excellent options are paperwhites or amaryllis, that are designed to bloom indoors. Throughout the late wintertime you can add some fragrance and delightful color to your home with branches which you force to bloom indoors, which are cut from such flowering trees and shrubs as forsythia bushes and apple trees.

So help your house be more lovely and brighter with some varieties of flowers. You'll be very happy that you did!