Home improvement ideas from travel

Our family had a nice day tour at the Royal Flora Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand two years ago where we saw lots of great flower arrangement ideas for our home. Colorful plants and flowers were stacked on different levels of iron bars making a nice ‘flower column’ which is great for gardens with little space. Flowers were not planted directly on soil but on thin black plastic pots and grouped together to complement the other varieties. This makes it easier to replace with a new variety and planting these flowers on the pots gives more flexibility and creativity in your garden arrangement. The trip to the flower festival inspired us to spruce up our garden with the ideas we got from their presentation.

Aside from garden ideas, we also get home improvement ideas from the houses we visited while in Europe. If you’re observant enough, you can get new ideas from the kitchen cabinets and the furnishings around the house. It’s a way of bringing back those travel memories by integrating the art and culture of other places into your home. It really inspires us to make our home better since our house is like a work in progress and we’re always thinking of some fresh ideas to liven it up like designing new cabinets and shelves, searching for a divider in the living room, or looking for new curtains for the living room.

To complement some home improvement ideas from travel, it’s good to browse on the web as well. For instance, an article from Luxury Housing Trends features a stamped concrete walkway which simulates a flagstone look that would very well go together with the flower arrangement concept from the Royal Flora Festival. Browsing through their articles on furnishings, interiors, lawn & garden, tips and more can give you more great ideas for your next home improvement project.