How To Include Nature In Your Home Office For Better Balance

Does your home office need better balance? Nature can help. Read on to find out how nature-inspired design and accessories can boost your office energy and decor.

Nature is good for us in so many ways, including the way it looks and makes us feel when used in home decor. It can especially bring a lot of balance and good energy to your home office when you incorporate it in the right ways.

For your inspiration, take a look at these tips on how to include nature in your home office for better balance:

Green Tones

Green is completely on-trend at the moment and it works very well as a home office color. It is renewing, vibrant and earthy – the perfect balanced vibe for a productive and focused space. From very light seafoam colors and pastel greens to earthier fern and moss colors – there’s a green for everybody out there. If you’re not wanting to change your neutral base home office tones try using green accents in cushions, furniture, and accessories like plant pots.

Plants

The home office is a great place to have house plants and a great way to get some green into your office. Try little green peperomias or cacti on your desk, or large feature cacti, euphorbia, or monstera for an eye-catching piece of living art.

Plant Art

Apparently, art with natural subjects and images can be just as helpful to our mental health as seeing outside. So a little bit of plant art can not only make the space look nice, but it can also introduce green to the space and boost your mental health. Botanical prints, macro leaf prints, and even abstract water paintings can all bring something beautiful and helpful to your workspace.

Green Feature Furniture

A green chair, green chest, or table can be exactly what your home office needs to add some interest to how it looks. When used in this way, dark green is often the best tone because it has the impact you need against more neutral tones like wood or warm whites. In addition to your office plants, you will have a layered green look, which brings a lot of depth to the overall aesthetic of your office.

Green Curtains/ Blinds

You often need to control the light in your home office to avoid eye strain and glare. The curtains or blinds that you use could be in a green tone to add a little more interest to a highly functional aspect of the room. Do be mindful that light will shine through the curtains to some degree and that color will reflect across the whole room.

How Will You Add Green To Your Home Office?

If you are adding green to your home office, as you can see above there are many ways to do it. The best way to start is by decluttering, putting your office furniture into cheap self-storage, and looking at the space you are working with. Once the walls and floor are complete you can slowly build your home office back up with your furniture from cheap self-storage (see Storing.com) until you have a complete look you are happy with, new green additions and all.