How to Decorate a Kitchen With Herbs
Many people opt for a bright and breezy look when designing their kitchens and planning the room's decor. Decorating a kitchen with herbs adds to the room's inviting feeling. The best aspect of having herbs in the kitchen is that they impart a light scent and serve as instant flavor enhancers of everything from pasta sauce to salad dressing.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Gardener's Kitchen
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Create a beautiful backdrop for decorating with herbs. Remove window treatments to let the sun shine in or use a minimalist window covering such as a cafe-style curtain in lightweight cotton set halfway down the window frame. Clear a countertop or shelf or open a cabinet for displaying herbs.
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Choose herbs for a green kitchen decor. If you are doing indoor plantings, shy away from favorites such as basil and rosemary, which are harder to grow inside. Among the herbs that you can grow easily indoors are parsley, chives, mint and Vietnamese coriander, similar to cilantro.
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Select a variety of interesting containers for plantings. One large earthenware pot with good drainage can hold a diverse group of herbs. Smaller pots or buckets holding a single type of herb work well on narrow windowsills or tight corners. A longer box makes for a window box garden that you can install on the interior or exterior of a kitchen window. Maintain your plantings by keeping them in bright sun, especially in the winter months.
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Supplement herb plantings in the kitchen with herb decorations. Use small glass bottles and jars to hold a single stem of an herb you grow outdoors. Dried rosemary makes a striking arrangement when placed in a vintage pitcher or vase. A wreath of twigs may include dried herbs intertwined in the arrangement. Herbs look beautiful around displays of food. Try a ring of basil around a wooden board holding cheese and bread or a stack of cilantro on a plate of ripe mangoes.
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Extend the herbal theme to other decor elements in the kitchen. You can use stencils to paint a small trim of leafy vines along walls, window frames, door frames or a piece of wooden furniture. Leafy, green patterns look beautiful on chair cushions, throw rugs or painted ceramic pieces. Your kitchen's wall art can include framed botanical illustrations of herbs.
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Tips & Warnings
Another fun option is to plant a medicinal herb garden.
Do not over-water herbs, which can cause the plants to rot and attract insects. Water herbs when their leaves begin to droop.
