Interior Design Tips: Celebrating the Great Outdoors Inside Your Home

The impulse to bring nature indoors has expressed itself in every generation, from Victorian conservatories to 1970s house plants to today’s living walls and biophilic design principles.

Research suggests that what people respond to is not the presence of plants per se, but the qualities associated with natural environments: varied light, material diversity, and the sense of not being enclosed.

This means the most effective way to bring the outdoors in is to maximise texture, natural materials, changing light, and spaces that feel, in some sense, alive.