IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE PLANTS IN YOUR BEDROOM?

Houseplants are becoming the go-to décor piece for many homes today, their rich colours and potential health benefits adding to their appeal. Houseplants effortlessly brighten up your home and give off a clam, clean feel that makes your home more welcoming. Indoor plants act as natural air purifiers as they naturally filter out pollutants in the air, as well as maintain the humidity levels in the room. 

 

Your bedroom is a place where you are meant to feel most relaxed, it is commonly considered to be a sanctuary where you can unwind after a long day. Falling asleep and feeling calm in your bedroom is not always easy, but it has been found that having plants in your bedroom can improve your quality of sleep, reduce stress and improve the air quality. Read below for more information on the pros of having a houseplant in your bedroom. 

Houseplants like any other plants remove toxins from the air by taking in the carbon dioxide from the air and turning it into oxygen. This provides us with clean, fresh and pure air to breathe. By adding a plant into your bedroom, it will help to improve the quality of the air in your bedroom.

While we try to keep our best to keep our home neat and tidy, there are very few of us that are fully aware of the hidden everyday dangers that float around our homes. Trace chemicals that can be found in common household items like ink, paint, plastic and cleaning detergents, can seep into the air that we breathe without us even be aware of it. These indoor air pollutants affect us more than we realise and by adding houseplants in the bedroom the levels of pollutants can be slightly reduced.

 

Humidity levels are known to be a factor in sleep quality. This means being trying to sleep in a bedroom that is too dry, or has too much moisture can impact the quality of our sleep. Houseplants increase humidity in the air through the process called transpiration. Transpiration is the loss of water from a plant in the form of water vapor. When humidity levels are increased slightly in your bedroom it helps to keep respiratory issues and diseases at bay, while also decreasing the risk of developing a cold, cough, sore throats, and dry skin.

 

The health benefits of house and bedroom plants don’t end with just improving the humidity levels, by adding indoor plants to your bedroom suite it absorbs the chemicals and helps to alleviate health problems such as itchy eyes, skin rashes, respiratory and sinus congestion, headaches, and other allergy-related symptoms.

 

While many people love houseplants for their beauty and added benefits there are some downsides to them, just like any household décor piece or decorative addition. In spite of the multiple notable benefits that indoor plants provide, keeping them in the bedroom is always a topic that is heavily debated as plants emit carbon dioxide at night, which can be harmful to humans.  Read below for more information on the cons of having a houseplant in your bedroom.

Whether you have plants indoors or outdoors, they will attract some unwanted critters and bugs, and while this is natural it can be quite frustrating when you have houseplants in your bedroom suite. The soil of the plants is the ideal place for insects and bugs; therefore, you need to carefully inspect your plants before you bring them into your house.

 

We are not all blessed with a green thumb, and so keeping your houseplant alive and thriving can be quite a difficult task. While it is not a bad thing to have living plants, it can be a con to have real plants over fake plants if you cannot keep them alive. Indoor plants require you to regularly change and water the soil. This can lead to a messy area and the spread of dirt in that particular part of your bedroom.