Category: Monthly Topic

A beautiful home is more than the sum of its parts. It is a personal place defined by the people and things we love, it is defined by our life and it defines our life. A real personal home is also a visual identity of its dwellers – it reflects the owner’s personality and character. Today we not only seek comfort, design, and uniqueness in our homes, we also long for a connection to nature. Through houseplants we invite nature into our homes and we blend the boundaries between indoors and outdoors. And by doing so we not only create a warm and beautiful home, but we also enhance the quality of life by making our home a better and healthier place.

Incorporating plants into interiors is truly a simple task. In our Urban Jungle book we have showed five incredibly creative, lived-in, and unique homes where green oases are scattered throughout the rooms. The secret is in choosing the plants that fit your lifestyle and starting your urban jungle on a small scale. Just like your home, let it grow with you and become more personal and more thriving over time.

In March we want to encourage you to share your green oases with us. We have teamed up with IKEA UK and the interiors community at{mine} for their monthly #IKEAatmine campaign on Instagram and our chosen topic was pretty obvious: Green oasis. In order to give you an idea, we as Urban Jungle Bloggers founders have created our own little green oases featuring some of our favorite houseplants and IKEA pieces that we have at home. Igor showcases his favorite bedroom corner with a lush mix of tropical plants and succulents while Judith features a corner of her living room with one of Ikea’s latest pieces, the IKEA PS 2017 self-watering plant stand. bonus veren siteler

We invite you to share your green oases on Instagram by using the hashtag #IKEAatmine and showing anything plant and IKEA related in your pictures in March. But that is not all! Every week we will feature our favorite picture on our Urban Jungle Bloggers Instagram account and more favorites in the Insta Stories. Let us all make Instagram even greener in March!

This blog post has been created in collaboration with Ikea UK and at{mine}. As always all opinions are our own. Thank you for supporting the brands who support this blog!

Photography by Urban Jungle Bloggers

December has well advanced and the festive vibe is on! The darker season is not only marked by cold temperatures (at least here in the northern hemisphere) and festive decorations, it is also the season of warm lights and cosy moments. Thus we want to celebrate the end of the year with a warm, inviting and cosy edition putting Plants & Light in focus.

Here are the interpretations of plants and light by our Urban Jungle Bloggers community. Get inspired, enjoy, and happy festive season!

 

 

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Plants are beautiful – we all agree on that! Yet we like to accentuate the plants’ beauty with adequate and nice plant pots. However, sometimes it is really difficult to find creative, inspiring and unusual planters besides the normal terracotta and monochrome plant pots from the garden center, don’t you agree? That’s why we want to use November’s topic to highlight and share our favorite plant pots and sources where to find them. All these bloggers show us their plant pots, and how they compliment their plants and interior style.

Top image by our friends from Livingthings: we just love their cool Voltasol pots!

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Those of you who have been part of our community from the beginning may remember the topic: 1 Plant – 3 Stylings. In June we want to challenge your inner (plant) stylist once more: Pick your favorite plant and show us three different stylings with it. Scandi – boho – industrial? Or on a sideboard, in the kitchen, on the balcony? Well here are the ideas of our green community!

To make June extra special, we have teamed up with the interiors community at{mine} where we are long time members already. The community even has its own category called Urban Jungle and we simply invite you to join at{mine} and upload at least one of your plant stylings to the “Urban Jungle” category. We will shortlist our favorite plant stylings on at{mine} as of today (June 23rd 2016), when we launch this month’s topic. The styling with the most likes on at{mine} will win a fabulous SONY compact camera with Wi-Fi! The winner will be announced on June 30th 2016. Good luck!

 

 

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How quick was that? Is it already the end of 2015? Not long now until we will bid this year farewell and welcome a new and hopefully more peaceful year 2016. Let us all gather our positive energy and say PLANTY NEW YEAR to the world. We will show you the beauty of plants, the goodness in humans and our mutual hope for a happy and healthy 2016.

In December we will share our Planty Wishes for 2016: it can be anything, from a plant-inspired illustration, a table setting, a vignette, greeting cards, a wishlist of plants – whatever inspires us bloggers to show our planty wishes and positive energy! Click on the images below to read all the blogposts.

Banner image via The joy of plants as seen at the Trendlunch 2016 in Amsterdam.

 

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