Biophilic Design Used in Interiors & Staging

The botanical influence in biophilc design by Denise Jadd, , principal Designer at Domaine Luxe!

🌿 Biophilic design is incorporating the use of your natural surroundings outside, and bringing that influence into your home design plan. The use of Biophilic design in homes and businesses has become a huge trend in the last few years, as it contributes to our wellness. It is a proven method to help us live, work, learn and thrive better!

Biophilc staging technique on the patio.

🌿 Setting the green tone in your home just makes sense, as we all want a connection to nature. It’s about instilling calm, a respite from our work, and our world’s industrialized, high speed hustle and bustle. It makes us slow down, take pause, and concentrate on and respond to nature. Like environmental psychology, and  neuroaesthetics, it’s naturally restorative. It can also aid in selling a home, just like in this outdoor living space we created in the photo above, where our staged home sold in just 1 day! With more of us at home and skipping travel this summer, this outdoor space doubles the home’s living area, allows for more freedom, vitality, and connection to the great outdoors. We have offered up this biophilic practice as a tip for helping others to stage their homes, and was just quoted by Redfin, the real estate portal, on this topic. Keep reading for more details on this.

Image credit: Felipe Tozzato/Bolton Chalklin Architects

🌿 The biophilc concept defined reflects how it is used within the building industry, both public and academic spaces, commercial and residential real estate alike, to increase the occupant’s connectivity to the outside environment through the use of direct nature, indirect nature, and it’s natural conditions. This example above proves having these expansive, bifold doors and an enormous skylight illuminating your kitchen space is an architecturally adept way to merge your inside with your outside. The entire space becomes seamless, where the shell seems to be opening to the sky and beyond, exposing the great outdoors.

A beachy, seaside retreat, filled with natural woods,wood beams, organic lighting, is filled with biophilc design touches.

🌿 We like to use these techniques to make a house appear more homey. Organic elements, reflecting the outside trees, flora, and fauna combined with natural yet made into decor elements like the woven basket, wood table, rope and shells all contribute to this wonderful feeling. Here, we rely on a potted palm tree to hug a corner, defining the boundary of the space. On the weathered wood coffee table, a fresh heather blooms happily, graced by a few well chosen, seaside decor pieces, like the shell tassel and a glass, rope handled hurricane lantern. A touch of real plants naturally lifts our spirits as we feel connected to nature. .

A Murano vase with floral leaves.

🌿 Well placed, simple greenery can be elegant and dramatic, especially in a Murano glass, one of a kind, handblown vase. The bold, metal detailed cabinet, offset by the quieter abstract painting, and fine marble sculpture, is gently enhanced by the fresh, green floral leaves. It can lead the eye through the surroundings, and direct the viewer for a specific experience or focal view.

Proteas and hydrangeas in a stoneware vase on a wood dining room table.

🌿 Some floral placement is integral to enhance the decor, and amplify the impressive, overall design results. The fresh proteas seem to be made for this abstract, mixed media floral inspired painting in this elegantly designed, classic modern dining room. Botanical linens on the table, or floral rug can carry the theme throughout.

Floral ginkgo sconces grace the wall behind the bed. Earthy wood tones mingle with moody walls. Image:: CB2.

A floral theme does not need to be in pattern, but it could be represented in shape. These ginkgo brass sconces gracing the wall behind the upholstered bed, are perfect to illuminate your sleep space, and there are many beautiful floral inspired chandeliers available now.

Biophilic art of mosses in a stainless steel box configuration, leaf sculpture, and leaf patterned white chair mingle with bold yet fun iron and wood furniture gracing this office by Domaine Luxe.

🌿 Having biophilic art in your surroundings can help you focus, especially in a work space. This stunning creation of varying mosses handset into steel boxes is by an artist and landscape designer we like to promote and use on our jobs, as above. Stephanie is based in Fort Lauderdale. Ask us for more information on her.

A green wall in a living space infuses life into this darker trimmed wall with gray ceiling great room by the kitchen. Green palm leaf wallpaper fills the niche behind the built in bench dining nook. A rounded glass wall on the right allows more light into the great room while the view to the back patio shows tree branches peaking through.

Perhaps it’s time for a green wall and planter to spruce up your space! Here a botanical wallpaper placed in the arched niche has a palm pattern, which is repeated in the live garden on left. Notice the rich mix of green upholstery and blonde wood tones all around, offset by a deep gray.

A light and bright living space is transformed by an organic design and color scheme and a few well placed plants.

🌿 Other times, we can use one perfectly large, green leaf displayed in a mod vase to convey the feeling of nature. Limit the window treatments, open the doors, and welcome the pretty view and let sunshine in.

As mentioned above, we are happy to share we got quoted about using Biophilic Design in staging in a recent article, which appeared on Redfin, “Staging A House On A Budget”. Here is the quote:

Incorporate biophilic design. This design approach seeks to connect the outdoors with people indoors. Open all your window treatments, let in the sunshine and the view, and bring the relativity of nature in with a few, well placed live houseplants, or fake, silk trees to set the green tone. This enhances vitality and psychological wellbeing, as buyers judge homes with all of their senses. Just be sure to avoid heavily fragranced plants or flowers because some people are sensitive to strong scents. It pays to be green in staging, as gorgeous greenery will always be in fashion. 

See the full article “Staging A House On A Budget”, here.

🌿 Make it a beautifully, biophilcally designed day, keeping it green!…💚
- Denise xo

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DOMAINE Luxe ( Domaine Luxe ) is a boutique interiors firm located in Delray Beach, Florida. Founded by interior and staging expert Denise Jadd, DOMAINE Luxe combines inspired design services with real estate luxury home staging services. The award-winning DOMAINE Luxe brings a different perspective to a design project through creativity, introspection, history & research.
Denise is the founder of Professional Home Stagers Industry, judge of the International Home Staging Awards 2020, and has been recognized as an industry leader by the IAHSP for the past two years running.