Interior landscaping thus green plants are critical to any interior design!

You need plants - greenplants are critical to any interior design. Our human nature wants to connect with the outdoors. Research indicates that interior landscaping is not only desirable but a “must-do green initiative” to keep clients, tenants and customers happy and healthy.

If you’re not convinced of the power of green plants, please examine this small sample of the overwhelming data from Green Plants for Green Buildings on the subject.

Affect Productivity and Worker Satisfaction

When a company provides and maintains interior landscaping and green plants as part of the interior design for their employees, a message of goodwill is sent. Workers feel management cares because interior landscaping creates a tended space, giving people the sense of caring and well-being. In fact, in one study, workers have demonstrated 12% more productivity with plants present.

Reduce Absenteeism

A few selected quality specimen indoor plants can help moderate the noise level and reduce stress, keeping employees happier and at work.

Make Buildings Look More Welcoming

Subtle settings created by indoor plants alleviate the harshness of the building environment. They create a warm inviting refuge.

Improve the Indoor Environment

Plants take on many indoor environmental health problems by reducing levels of carbon dioxide, increasing relative humidity, reducing airborne dust levels, and reducing off gassing levels of certain common interior pollutants such as formaldehyde, benzene, and nitrogen dioxide.

Increase Tenant Occupancy and Retention

By maintaining healthy indoor plants in attractively designed containers and displays, the character and appearance of the building improves. People want to stay and their perception is positive.

Make a Design Statement

Interior landscaping is emerging as a “fashion-oriented” business. It can be the finishing touches to the overall interior design or stand as a focal point to catch the eye.

Increase Retail Spending

Extend your outside environment inside for the retail customer. Provide a more interesting, cheerful, less stressful experience for your shopper, diner or overnight guest.

Direct Pedestrian Traffic

Plants and landscape design can gently guide crowds to special attractions, direct optimal traffic flow or be the specific landmark for check-in desks, escalators and waiting areas.

Soften Less Attractive Building Features

Utilizing the versatility in size and shape, plants hide the less attractive features of the structural environment with elegant, functional solutions to service areas, kitchen entries, connecting walkways, etc.

Reflect the Holidays and Changing Seasons

It’s hard to beat the visual beauty and grace of green plants and flowers. They express our cultural beliefs and help celebrate our seasonal holidays.

Conclusions

It shouldn’t be forgotten that the individual’s sense of well-being is clearly promoted by including green plants in their environment, and that indoor plants help improve quality of life overall. We therefore draw the conclusion that plants have a positive effect on an individual’s health and sense of well-being. We hope our promotions of studies and research can prompt interior designers, developers, and builders of future buildings to simply do the right thing and include green plants in their green designs!

This fact sheet was developed by Green Plants for Green Buildings website. For more information on how plants can help your business, contact them at www.gpgb.org. You need plants!