Picking out your flower arrangement shapes and form is a preference of style. When choosing a shape and form, consider your venue’s space and lighting. You are designing a flower arrangement for home décor, keep in mind your colors, space, and light. If you have a larger area, choose bigger arrangements to make a “WOW” statement that fills the room, avoiding vacancy, and keep the eyes interested in all the textures and colors in the room. With smaller areas, use smaller arrangements with tight and neat shapes to bring a natural, cozy feel with warm tones without making it busy. No matter what your pick, you can do it yourself and create beautiful flower arrangements! We will inspire you with inspirational suggestions to get you prepared to DIY your arrangements and pick the form and shapes that best for your special event.
Horizontal Flower Arrangements
This flower arrangement shape and form is commonly used for sweetheart tables, archways, a trellis, entrance ways, and widely used for funerals. Horizontal arrangements are low with width and two times their height with a multitude of uses. This shape is perfect for home décor and suitable for dining room tables or fireplace mantels.
Vertical Flower Arrangements
Vertical flower arrangements take up less space and are perfect for various wedding tables, console tables, dining room tables, mantels, reception areas, and offices. vertical arrangements have height and are small width. The taller the flower arrangement, the grander of a statement it will make! Begin by selecting a vase that is tall enough to support your vertical flower arrangement and wide enough to add flowers around the bottom. Begin building your vertical arrangement by choosing focal flowers and smaller flowers, placing them in the wet floral foam in your vase. Filling space with tall arrangements is a great way to be budget savvy and elegant!
Triangular Flower Arrangements
Triangular flower arrangement shapes and form is easy to make and very popular and is budget worthy! To make a triangle flower arrangement, place your tallest piece of flower or greenery where the point should be, by placing the stem in the wet floral foam. Fill in the flowers and greenery. To keep it in a triangle shape, you need to keep both sides within the triangle shape. Picture a string from the top point to the side point. Do the same on the other side. Flowers don’t need to be in a perfect line; they can be free-flowing. Fill in with flowers and greenery.
Rounded Flower Arrangements
The round flower arrangement is by far the most popular wedding or home décor flower arrangement. It is completely even distribution of flowers around all sides, inexpensive, and easy to make! Round flower arrangements are traditional and super easy. It’s easy because you do not need to concentrate on any angles, creating the shape effortlessly!
DIY’ing Your Very Own Flower Arrangement Shape:
Tips to keep in mind when creating your shape.
Do you want to create your own shape?
Proportions: meaning the number of flowers and height should correlate with the size of the vase – use your judgment.
Balance: whether you make a symmetrical or asymmetrical arrangement, remember the bottom should be big enough to support the top of the flower arrangement, you do not want the eye to concentrate on just one side!
The most important tip: Don’t overdo it! Be careful to overt think your flower design. Have fun and be creative!
Watch and learn more about arranging flowers, DIY Flower Arrangements How-To Videos By Blooms By The Box!
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Tina Merola
As a professional designer with over twenty years of industry experience, Tina's lifelong creative passion has enabled her to pursue her artistry and vision in various professional environments. Drawing on her knowledge from floral techniques and tips from the industry’s leading professionals allows her the opportunity to channel her love of the unique beauty of nature’s many wondrous blooms into stunning floral designs.
