Doniphan Moore is an up- and-coming Dallas interior designer whose flower arrangements were all the rage during a recent home tour there.
Here are some of Moore’s do-it-yourself floral design tips.
1. Work with what you have. “Choose flowers that fit containers you already own and love to help tell a story.” Sometimes the perfect vase only needs a single flower.
2. Choose blooms that last. “If you put flowers in your house and they’re dead the next day, it wasn’t worth the mess and expense.”
3. Put flowers in the rooms you really live in. “It’s nice to have flowers in the entry hall, but if you never see them, what’s the point?” Moore loves to place arrangements in the master bathroom because “we all spend so much time in there.”
4. Go easy on mixed arrangements. “Flowers should look natural, so don’t over-think arrangements and work them to death.” Cut flowers fresh, drop them in a container and let them sit. “If you mess with them too much they start looking contrived.”
5. Know these tricks of the trade. Splurge on “big face” flowers such as hydrangeas and peonies when available. If you use roses, a dozen is never enough: “More is more with roses.” Create a quick, fragrant table arrangement with stacks of eucalyptus. (Bonus, it looks just as pretty when it dries.) And for fall, there’s nothing more chic than an artful arrangement of limbs and branches from the garden.
