Grow lamps are not exactly synonymous with interior design and home decorating. In fact, you probably just pictured your high school botany class or a friend you used to know that grew his own "oregano" under grow light bulbs in his closet. If there is anything you should have learned by now is that just about everything you find today can somehow work its way into fashion, whether it's clothing or interior decorating. Grow lamps are no exception. Though they have not lost their original capabilities of growing strong, healthy plants indoors, they might have picked up a few talents along the way.
You can use these lamps in several rooms of your house, either to help the plants that are in that room or to add a distinctive accent to the room. They're not exactly something that you want to look directly at, but they can be good for illuminating a picture on your wall or behind a sculpture for some back lighting.
What do you do with your fireplace for the nine months out of the year that you don't have a fire in it? Find a semi-opaque fireplace screen and place grow lamp in the fireplace with the screen in front of it. Don't expect it to resemble a real fire, but that's not exactly the idea. It is simply a unique way to use your fireplace to create new light in the room.
Their original use not forgotten, these lamps can help make your home a little more beautiful encouraging healthy and strong plants that you keep. In the kitchen, hand a small set of grow lights underneath a top cabinet where they are mostly out of sight and shine down onto the countertop. This is now your new greenhouse where you can grow fresh herbs and plants to use in your cooking. It can be difficult to keep plants alive indoors, so a grow lamp will help perform the function of the sun and help your mini-garden prosper.
Another thoughtful place for a grown lamp is not in the home at all, but at work. If you have your own office, or even cubicle, you may be able to use a grow lamp for part of the day to keep that plant on your desk alive for a few more weeks. You really don't want to be in close proximity to a grow lamp for several hours a day, but letting your budding beauties get a little artificial sunlight for a little while each day may do you both some good. The halogen is making both of you wilt, and maybe you won't benefit from the grow lamp, but at least you can save your plants.
Using grow lamps in your home or office décor is going to require a little imagination on your part and patience from your family or coworkers while you try out a few things. In the end, however, you may have found an interesting new way to spruce up your home while you are helping the plants in it. They are a lifesaver for anyone that finds themselves without a green thumb, but it doesn't take a professional to come up with a few new places to use them.
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