Having plants in your home office is one of the better things you can do for yourself and your working environment. There are loads of benefits associated with keeping green in your home office.
Increased productivity, better air quality, and a generally more inspiring setting make having plants in your home office a no-brainer.
Below you will find more information on the benefits of having green life in your home office while getting help to choose the right plants for your workspace.
There is nothing like walking into a designed space featuring green and exotic plants. The impact is often surreal. It can leave us in awe or envelop us in something calm and familiar. This, too, is true in your home office.
Vertical plant walls reaching to the sky, oversized potted trees, and suspended hanging ferns of differing sizes, shapes, and colors. This worldwide trend is here to stay. And rightly so.
During the recent Covid-19 Epidemic, many employees worked from home. We started questioning the validity of our past office workspace. Working remotely from home is the new norm. We are no longer content with our laptops perched precariously on the dining table or pushed into the remaining space on the end of the breakfast bar.
We desire a well-designed home office space that includes everything needed to work efficiently from the home office, without distraction and for long periods.
We need to feel calm and relaxed but attentive and focused. And that is why we – and you – should have plants in your home office.
The main benefits of having plants in your home office
Are you asking questions about the sustainability of your home office and reducing the carbon footprint whilst boosting productivity? Plants are natural air filters, removing carbon dioxide and producing pure oxygen. They filter harmful chemicals from our environment and within our homes. They provide visual stimulation, undeniable fragrance, and a variety of touch sensations.
Caring for plants offers us a moment to participate in nature, and get our hands dirty. This, too, can create a nice break for you if working from home is becoming a bit monotonous.
Plants in your home office create an atmosphere and decorating opportunities to enhance our spaces. But mostly plants make us happy. And that is a huge benefit when working from home in your home office.
So, get some greenery. It’s a small investment with huge gains.
Plants have a positive effect on your mood and productivity.
We want to imagine a space within our home that inspires us to create, is stylish but is also practical and easy to maintain. Using plants within our home office is not a new phenomenon.
Did your childhood home include plants as a decorating feature?
Surrounding yourself with lush greenery is good for you. It is good for your wellbeing.
We have a biological connection with plants and other living things, which affects us by increasing positive emotions. Our ability to connect to plants through visual, touch, feel and smell improves our mood almost instantly.
Research consistently finds that plants in the home office increase productivity by 15%.
The health benefits of keeping plants in your home office
Numerous scientific studies worldwide suggest having plants in the home office benefits us by
- improving air quality
- increasing attention span
- improving creativity
- lower stress
- stabilising moods
- reduce fatigue
Architects and designers are designing spaces with specific plants as a mandatory design feature, many featuring vertical gardens and suspended curtain gardens.
Advocates of colour psychology argue that the colour green has a relaxing and calming effect explaining why the colour green is chosen for upcoming trend analysis each year.
Adding a few plants to your home office will make an impact.
Indoor plants improve air quality by releasing water vapour into the air, increasing humidity, and improving respiratory and skin health, headaches and allergies.
Placing plants in your breathing zone can maximise your oxygen intake.
Just having plants around you will offer psychological benefits and help reduce stress and anxiety.
How to choose the best plants for your home office
Plants for home offices are selected based on their proven ability to survive in a low-light artificial environment, are low maintenance and provide optimum health benefits. Bringing the outdoors into your home office is actually really easy.
Here you can see some examples of plants that live up to that criteria.
Devil’s ivy is a perfect choice. She grows in any direction, dressed haphazardly over a shelf or climbing on suspended wires. She is easy to look after, thrives in a dark corner or well-lit place and best of all is an air-purifier.
If you are hoping to make a bold statement by introducing plants to your home office, introducing a parlour palm or a group of parlour palms makes a striking arrangement.
They add colour and structure and can transform a bland room into an incredible space.
Mini succulents and cacti grouped in stylish pots on a windowsill always look stunning. They love sunny spots.
The Monstera philodendron is the show-stopper plant. Teamed with giant elephant ears and a mature Fiddlewood tree in large pots of differing sizes, an instant and impressive vista completes your home office makeover.
Most are affordable and available from your local plant nursery.
- Peace lily (Spathiphyllum)
- Succulents
- Snake Plant (Sansevieria)
- Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema)
- ZZ plant (Zamioculcas)
- Nerve plant (Fittonia)
- Corn plant (Dracena fragrans)
- Arrowhead plant (Syngonium podophyllum)
- Madagascar Dragon plant (Dracena marginata)
- Parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegens)
- Ponytail palm
- Spider plant
Designer recommendations
- Keep the same plants in groups of 3 or 5 for maximum impact.
- Arrange tall plants in 3 levels, using different shaped pots of the same colour.
- Search for inspiration and keep it simple.
Curated plant placement within the home office workspace is a no-brainer for most people. With remote working on the rise worldwide, it’s easy to make your home office healthy, practical and beautiful with home office plants.
My name is Frederik
I am a passionate marketeer who loves the freedom that comes with working from home whenever I choose to do so.
I love getting nerdy with every single detail about making everything related to my home just a tiny bit better.
That is what motivates me to write about home stuff on this blog.