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My last challenge of the year with Lowes as a Lowes Creative blogger, was making my house shine and sparkle for the New Year. There are many ways to interpret that and I browsed in my local Lowes and immediately spotted some pretty plants, some of them even marked on clearance. I’ve long been a lover of real live plants and have always had something live and green in my spaces ever since I can remember.
Real plants add so much life to a room and I love having them around. From what I hear, they all add oxygen to the air too. This pretty plant came from Lowes, as did the white ceramic planter.
With my brightly painted front door, I added this little plant on the ledge. It’s in some sort of lightweight rocks and all I do is add water to this clear container and the plant grows and thrives. My kind of plant!
Over by the fireplace, I added a cornplant. I had one of these in my old house and it got huge, so now it’s living on my parent’s back porch. This one should get big eventually too and I can move it around the room. I’ll put it in a ceramic planter too. My paperwhites are leaning in this pic, those things always get too tall and next time I’m planting them in a tall cylinder to keep them upright.
But even thought they get a little gangly, I still love the look of real paperwhites blooming this time of year. We eagerly wait for spring and this just gives a little boost of sunshine inside the house on a cold winter’s day.
On an end table in the living room, this potted white ceramic planter of ivy is a reminder of spring as well.
This live plant on the coffee table, in a planter I found at a yardsale in one of my fave shades of blue, is so vibrant and green and a much needed pick up this time of year.
When all the Christmas décor is put away for another season, my real plants will be the stars and remind me that Spring is not too far away. I love watching them grow and how much life and vitality they add to a room is priceless.
If you think your room is looking pretty blah after Christmas, head out to Lowes and check out their houseplant section for lots of inspiration for the New Year. You’ll love bringing home a plant or two yourself!
Thanks to Lowes for letting me write about what inspires me for the New Year. Plants do it for me, how about you? I got rid of almost all of my fake plants a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I don’t think I’ll ever do that again….bring home the fakes.
Live ones are so much better!
I have so enjoyed being a part of Lowes Creative Ideas Creators and Influencers this year! Here’s to a fun year in 2013. Â
For some end of the year excitement and to make some reader really happy, Lowes is giving away a $75 giftcard to ONE of you this week!Â
What a way to start the New Year, right?!Â
All you have to do is leave a comment below, telling me what you would do to add some sparkle and cheer to your home in January from Lowes?Â
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We are currently building and have a mile long list of things we need from Lowe’s. 🙂
I have lots of little projects to finish up such as reorganizing the master closet, painting woodwork and updating some tile and a mirror in the bathroom. A gift card from my favorite Lowes would really help. Happy New Year!
I need to get new rugs for the front and back doors to add some cheer when you go in and out.
I’m redoing my parents home and I need new light fixtures, knobs and pulls, and new vanity tops for 2 bathrooms. I love your live plants-they add so much this time of year especially. I like to bring home a few cyclamen for pops of color too.
There are so many things I could use that for!
I would add some new lamps, maybe a new area rug, and a few new houseplants like yours wouldn’t hurt either. I’ve also been looking for a large wall clock!
I think I would follow in your footsteps and add REAL plants to our new home for the new year!
I can use paint. All my woodwork needs to be repainted after 20 years in the “new” house.
I would use it to pick out some new light fixtures! It’s always difficult adjusting to longer nights, shorter days and new lighting should definitely brighten the whole mood in the house!
I am inspired to repot my plants and bring them inside now-thanks! What my house really needs to spruce it up is a kitchen redo! Painting the cabinets, new drawer pulls and knobs along with a new stove would really make things pretty in there! A gift card from Lowes would really help make that happen. 😉 Thank you for sharing.
I’d love to repaint my children’s rooms and a gift card would help tremendously!
I would LOVE to finally paint these old kitchen cabinets!
New rug!
Honestly, I would get more organizational tools for our garage so I could get rid of some of the clutter IN our house and put it out there 🙂
Thanks for the give a way of the gift card. I would use it toward paint. I want to paint our kitchen walls and buy a paint kit for the cabinets. Then everything else in the room would look tired, so a new sink and hardware, and new drawer pulls. Lol, presto change-o, a new kitchen!
We’re replacing the outdated light fixtures throughout our home. Lowes is our go to place since we only live 7 minutes away. 🙂
I would shop for paint for my bedroom. I wouldn’t be able to actually paint until spring. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love Lowes and would love to win!
You are speaking my language…PLANTS! I just cannot wait until spring. You might try staking your bulbs. Paperwhites are pretty, but I cannot stand the scent, so I do not grow them. I do grow amaryllis, and I use a stake to keep them upright.
I would use any gift card to add to what I have saved for either pulls for all the cabinets in the house or for stain and such I will need to stain my patios.
What a wonderful giveaway. I just love Lowe’s! We’re doing lots of things this year but first up is switching two of our rooms around and installing new flooring, so organization help is a must! Also we’re purchasing a Kreg Jig system and that would be a perfect boost to get us there.