Elevating Faux Florals for Spring Cozy Styling Tips That Look Real

Faux florals can be done beautifully or if they're done wrong they can look very fake. So today I'm going to show you exactly how I style them so they look beautiful and elevated. Well hello everybody. Welcome back to The Simple Cozy Haven. If you are new here my name is Kaylee and I am the girl behind The Simple Cozy Haven. Over here on my channel I share attainable decor, design, and DIYs with a little bit of motherhood, a few cocktails, and some good recipes. So if that's something you're interested in I would love to have you consider subscribing and join our little corner of the internet over here. So I'm in a little bit of a different spot. I don't normally film in front of our fireplace and TV but I figured this was as good a spot as any. A little something new. So today's video is going to be all about faux florals. We're going to be swapping out our florals for spring. We're going to be adding in like some light textures and colors like these beautiful ones behind me with the blush and the cream. I think they're gorgeous and we're just going to talk a little bit about how to really get a designer look for less. Y'all know me I do everything on a budget and I'm not someone who wants to go spend hundreds of dollars on faux florals so I definitely have a more affordable option and I'm going to show you guys how to make them look very realistic for what they are. I mean you know at the end of the day there's still faux florals but there are a few styling tricks that you can do to make your faux florals look as good as they can. I'm going to show you guys some lookalikes and options that I have in my house versus more expensive options. There's nothing wrong with those but I know a lot of my viewers do enjoy the more budget-friendly options as well as I do so that is kind of what we're going to be focusing on. So I hope you guys enjoy this video and let's get right into it. Okay let's just go ahead and start here on the fireplace. So I am someone I love to pick out different vases. I truly have so many different vases and one of my favorite places to get them is from the thrift store. So many different like DIY ways to paint them and age them. I also have a blog post that I will leave down in the description box below of like creating a restoration hardware old world aesthetic look and I will pop in a photo right here of what that looks like that vase. I still have it to this day. I got that vase for like two dollars at the thrift store and it gave it a whole new look so that is something I love to do. If you guys want more information on that I can definitely do an updated video but I love to thrift old vases. You know they can be ceramic and glossy. You just need to spray a little matte black spray paint on them and then you can go to town with some craft paints and baking soda. I love to do it. It's one of the easiest things that you can do. So anyways I actually found this beautiful little urn last year at an antique store. I love this beautiful little urn and I thought it would be a great little place for these little faux peonies. So these are from Michaels. I bought mine three years ago now. These sell out every single spring probably actually in December I feel like they sell out. So as soon as they release the spring stuff they're gone. I will leave a link down in the description box to these exact ones I purchased but I'll also have a lookalike link as well which I plan to purchase some because I would love to fill this up a little bit more. One of my biggest tips is to don't over fill your vase but you want it to be full enough that it looks realistic. Is this a great example? Maybe not. It could be a little bit fuller in the back. Everything's kind of pushed to the front but for you know where it sits no one's really on the side of the fireplace. So I have three stems in here. Inside the jar they look like a mess. I don't want to cut them because I have put them in taller vases before. I just like winded the stems up in kind of like a circle honestly and that way I can even give it like some support on the sides to kind of hold itself up. I really like these. I think they're beautiful but I just have two cream options and then one of the blush and a tip that I have is to always like bend your stems. It just gives it a little bit more realistic look because nothing in nature is you know 100% straight. These are some of my favorite spring stems and of course when I'm decorating my home for spring I'm just looking for light colors. I'm not trying to do anything too bright so I kind of stick to the whites and creams and like very muted colors. I do have one exception on my coffee table which I'll show you guys right now. Once again this is a painted vase. I think I got it from Hobby Lobby and I just kind of made it a little bit more me. So inside of here I have all of these little cuttings. I did cut these stems off of a longer plant. I'll show you guys that in just a second. So in here I have an like asparagus leaf. I think is what it is. I'm not sure. It is from Hobby Lobby but I just added that in there. I think it looked really pretty. It's a little bit brighter than what I've been telling you guys I look for but I do think that it looks nice so that's what I used. This is the stem that those flowers came from and it is from Hobby Lobby. They were $2.99. They're in the regular floral department. My apologies I am back. My memory card completely filled up so I had to go take a little intermission and do that so hopefully I can jump right back in. So I just use these wire cutters. They are my husband's nothing special. I'm sure that like a floral department has something at Michael's or Hobby Lobby. I've just never looked because I don't need to buy another tool. For those and the vase on my coffee table I just kind of come through and snip at the very bottom just so I can get as much length as possible and then I did take off these little stems but they're really easy. You do need wire cutters versus scissors because inside there is a wire that way you know you can bend things and scissors just won't cut it. I mean maybe you could but I would not want to ruin a pair of scissors trying to cut floral stems so that's a really easy way. I don't recommend doing that for everything just because you don't know what you might use your floral stems for one day. That is a great way to cut stems. Again would not recommend it for everyday stems just because you never know what size vase you're going to do. You can always unbend them. I'm moving on to in front of my piano. I purchased all of this last year and I just literally threw it into my garage on my little storage shelf and it's been there since I decorated for fall. So this beautiful ginger jar I think I got it from Home Goods. Yes I got it from Home Goods for about $30. Such a great investment. I think it's beautiful and then I added these gorgeous like cherry blossom stems from Hobby Lobby and again y'all I don't even think I can pull them out right now because I bent the stems and the neck of the jar is so small but there are three stems in here so again I love to work in odd numbers. I think like three or five or seven it just depends on the size of the vase and I know that this looks like a lot and now they're kind of like flying everywhere but these did come like standing straight up which I thought looked very odd. I definitely came through and like bent all of these stems and I have them kind of so they splay over the piano so let me show you that. So they just kind of like cascade over the piano. Of course they're a little bit in front of the art but I do think that's beautiful and I love again to use florals for like layering. I think it just adds that last finishing touch. It looks gorgeous. I do love it so I've got like one of the stems coming out towards the hallway and they do need a little bit of shaping but I just have them like cascading down. There's a little bit of like a dead space in the center but I think it looks really pretty and like very natural. So these are beautiful. One of my favorite stems from Hobby Lobby. They're not super realistic looking and they did have some like really bright yellow leaves on them I believe. I think that's what it was that I removed. Don't be afraid to remove like weirdly neon color stems if that's kind of like part of the stem. Like the little leaves just pluck them off. It's no big deal. I just saw the tag. They were $18 a piece. I think it looks great and this is one of my favorite parts. So I've just got some books stacked under this beautiful little ginger jar to get a little bit more height. Just make sure you just like play around with your florals. You know come back, you know do a little bit of work, come back look at it with like a fresh set of eyes and see what you think and how it looks. Now we're over here in the dining room and this is my big beautiful vase that everyone loves. It was from the Hearth and Hand collection at Target. Now it's time to move on. Don't hate me guys I have played around with these. I went to Hobby Lobby and I knew I wanted these because I felt like they would complement the pianos right behind me. I felt like they would complement that arrangement but not be like too much. So if they are a single stem they are originally $10 and they are part of the spring line. I think they're really pretty and I knew I wanted to add them in here and they're very long. I did have to bend the stems. I think they're like 30 something inches maybe. So I bought five of those. Yes I thought five was again a great number. Then I also got the Hobby Lobby. These are just in the regular floral section like not in the seasonal aisle. It's just like this kind of wispy like a trailing vine if you will. I thought they were really pretty. The green is nice and like a spring bud green so I really like that and I like held them up together. I was like that would actually complement each other really well so I purchased three of these viny ones and I am thinking about getting two more. Since this vase is very large I did use a zip tie to tie everything together so let me just show you guys how that fits in. And again like this vase I can fit my whole hand in it in the opening so I wanted to kind of keep them all together and I do have like some old bubble wrap down here in the bottom just to kind of give it a little bit more height because again this thing is really tall. I had to come back in and like pull certain stems so they like showed a little bit more. Yeah again like I just want things like trailing out. I did have one going towards the back just to give it a little bit of something. I don't really want that little guy hidden so just kind of play around with it. Like it's enough color to bring in the spring tones but it's not overpowering so it's like pink or purple in your face and I think these cream colors don't ever buy anything that's like stark, stark white. That can look really fake because I don't, I do know that some flowers grow very bright white but I feel like this creamier little bit of a yellow tone, a little bit of a it's been out in nature, maybe it got rained on, there's bees pollinating, there's insects and caterpillars and all that you know. Let's just think about spring right now. Oh I cannot wait. You know just think about like life is not perfect, nature is not perfect. I think it adds character so get something a little bit, a little bit deeper than pure white. Now we are in one of our most favorite spots on the channel. This is our breakfast nook. It was a coffee bar and now it's just kind of like the bar. Let's just chat a little bit about sizing. I would recommend that you don't have stems that absolutely look way too small. If you had like this is you know a fairly large face so if you had stems that only came up to about here like just three or four inches above it, it would look very weird and just not right. But I do feel like you can go too large in certain things. However, this is the one time I'm gonna kind of break my own rule. This is the spot. So again like this shelf is probably six foot three off the ground and it is like an open space all the way up to the ceiling. I feel like you can get a little bit bigger, a little bit more up there. Kind of like a juxtaposition. These are the stems I put up here last year and again you'll see I feel like it's very boring for me to kind of come on here and talk about sometimes because I do reuse the same things over and over and over. I again purchased these from Hobby Lobby. I did not see them this year. These are like snowball viburnum. I think they're beautiful. They're like tiny looking hydrangeas. Truly I'm obsessed. I really wish I could find more. I'm also breaking my rule because I'm only putting two but these are so big and I feel like it would look way too overcrowded in this area. These are like a super super super long stem. I mean they're huge like they're truly huge so and they're like they've got the very thick stem. So I just folded it and folded it back over. I've used these in a few other places before. I put them in here last year but I think that they're gorgeous. I love them so much. So they're a little bit taller but I think they fit in this space so well. They definitely cascade over but I think it looks so pretty and I love that it brings this like bright white and again like the the light green over here you know on the like in the flowers are kind of like tipped with like a lime green. I think they're so beautiful. I love these. So I'm absolutely not afraid for them to kind of come over in front of the doors because we don't really open them all that often. I just really like the way that this cascades and the color it adds to this area and of course I will show you in just a second but you will see how the stems are bent. Don't be afraid. You can't you really can't mess it up okay. If it if it bends a little too much straighten it back out. Don't be afraid to just play around. Take florals from place to place. Try them out in different faces and get creative. I mean you can even do little glass hurricanes. Again I have that little urn. Just for an example I made this little centerpiece. I put it in like a if you guys were here last year I added it to like a little foam that I just shoved into the champagne bucket. I've used the champagne bucket multiple times. I put dried hydrangeas in it last year during fall. I thought it was beautiful and like the bucket is a little bit tarnished now. Don't be afraid to like play around. This is a perfect floral arrangement thing. You could even put real florals in here. I'd love to do that but that's like another kind of different way to add florals to your home. Adding them into a champagne bucket and again you could absolutely do a I actually bought this at the antique store yesterday. I've just washed it and I've not put it away yet but it is like this really pretty glass compote which is so funny because I had just purchased this at the thrift store and it's got like the same pattern on it so when I saw I was like oh it was only ten dollars. It was actually $9.95 and I had cash so it was free in girl math but yeah again like using even just like clear vases you can absolutely use for faux florals even if you just wanted to add in a little bit of water just to kind of give it that look of that maybe it's real but I love adding florals through everything and it just kind of adds so much. I hope that this video was very informative for you or even just inspirational. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Again I'm so thankful for every single one of you who show up here week after week and come say hi and check in. I would love to hear you guys' ideas. If you have any video requests please leave them below. I truly love your feedback and you add so much value to my life so I hope you guys have a great rest of your week and I will be coming at you guys with a new video next week. We're gonna do a little bit of a vlog and I'm even gonna show you guys a little bit of our Disney World trip so very excited for that. I've actually really got to go get the laundry going so we can get packed up and get out of here but thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a wonderful next week. Anyways I hope you guys are so ready for spring and we are gonna have so much fun this spring and summer with all sorts of content but I will talk to you guys later next week. Bye y'all!