As Spring to Summer makes flowers more strident, start sorting out different shapes of vases to display cut flowers when staging a home.
Positioning flowers with their floral scents to greet visitors in the entrance to a home must rank as high as the smell of coffee or freshly baked bread in selling residential property. Classic displays of lilies or contemporary designs using roses need super-fresh cut flowers and the right vase in home staging.
In setting up a property to show, don’t overlook this guide to design of vase shapes for floral display. Everything in home staging needs to earn its keep in getting that real estate sold.
Vase Shapes
There are ten main shapes of vases – each with their own strengths - to consider for showcasing the features of the home:
Belly Vase has a longer neck that the Fishbowl Vase and suits soft-stemmed flowers like Papaver orientalis (Oriental Poppy).
Bud Vase can be bought in contemporary stores although, and only if this suits the styling of the house, vintage finds including Royal Doulton, Worchester, Midwinter with one perfect flower specimen evoke quality and charm without kitsch.
Conical Vase, a wide-necked vase shape, works well for displaying a large gathering of flowers, such as sweet peas with their fragrant effervescence of colourful petals and stems.
Cube Vase should be used sparingly in quality home staging. If small in size cube vases should be used in a block of two or four. Larger cube vases in high quality colored glass or ceramic can be used alone. Flowers should have their stems cut short and tightly packed to fill the cube vase shape.
Cylinder Vase can be used for lofty arrangements of 70cm to 1meter to burst out of a tall commanding shape in materials like bamboo cane (pictured below). In World Flowers: Inspiring Floral Creations From Around the World (Conran Octupus Ltd, 2003), Jane Packer uses gladioli and zantedeschia or calla lilies in an exceptional display of keynote flower specimens viewed through the giant spaghetti-jar-style glass vases with clear water. Floristry coloring for the water could be used.
Fishbowl Vase is similar to a Belly Vase but with a shorter neck, giving balance to wider flowers such as peony, a spring to summer favorite, contrasted with structural leaves.
Hourglass Vase is available to buy in several sizes. As a vase shape, it’s a popular choice for opening the scent of 6 to 10 lilies in a home’s entrance. Small leaves from a bay tree or larger palm leaves can be used to wrap around and cover the stems in the lower part of the shape for elegance.
Square Tank Vase designed in clear or frosted glass can provide an effective packed display of high quality blooms such as roses with their stems cut short.
Tulip Vase is a wide-necked vessel – usually glass - to hold flowers and their foliage easily. Tulips which spread when placed in water as cut flowers with flower food give this type of vase its name.
Tumbler – crystal glass used for whiskey such as Waterford Crystal or cool white ceramic tumblers lined up in an odd number, 3, 5 or 7, can provide a stunning row of floral scents on a bookcase, a hearth or in a bathroom.
Setting up a display of flowers in home staging has several fundamentals including budget for floristry expenditure, space for each arrangement of flowers and vase, one or more vases or vessels on display in the home and season’s trends - color of flowers, texture/materials, size and shapes of vase/s.
Buying the right shape of vase to accent a home’s features is an important part of home staging.
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