Make Your Indoor Plants Look Like A Million Bucks With This Glowing Upgrade

If you've been looking for a way to turn your houseplant into a statement piece, this lighting hack is the perfect solution. Whether you have fake indoor plants decorating your home or real houseplants, you can make them and your space look more elegant by adding some simple lighting. By placing a small LED spotlight or disc beneath or near your potted plant, you can bring attention to your plants and cast gorgeous, leafy shadows across the room.

Choosing lights that can dim or change color can upgrade your indoor plants even further, allowing you to adjust the lighting to complement your plants and the room perfectly. On Amazon, you can find a dimmable indoor LED spotlight that's designed to accent plants for about $15. The major online retailer also carries a similar pack of two dimmable LED spotlights with a remote (about $37) to make changing the mood even easier. For those that would prefer something more colorful, you can find a six pack of battery operated color changing puck lights on Amazon for about $17. Depending on where you plan to put the light, certain options might be better for you. 

One way to make this hack look really stunning is by placing a plant that's in a smaller pot into a larger plant stand, filling in the empty space, and decorating the top. This may not work as well with live houseplants, as it could be difficult to access the soil for watering, but will make fake greenery pop with no problems. At Walmart, you can find the Mainstay planter stand (around $23), which would work well for this project. Taller greenery, like a faux fiddle leaf fig or palm, is perfect for this, as it will have enough height to rise up over the plant stand. With shorter houseplants, you can place a box or a piece of floral foam in the plant stand so it sits up taller.

Once you've set your pot in the stand, surround it with scrap paper or plastic bags to hold it in the center. Now, you can place some faux moss ($1.25 at Dollar Tree) over the filling and set your light on top. Angle the light so that it shines up onto your plant. If you don't like the look of stands, a similar design could be done with a large, decorative pot. The many ways to customize this easy DIY will allow you to pair your plants with your home's decor so that your personal style shines through.

If you don't want to constantly remove the fake moss and paper to water real plants, you could take a different approach to this hack. Rather than using a larger stand or pot, try adding a light to your houseplant the way it already is. Puck lights may work better for this hack, as they won't stick out over the edge of the pot as much. You might consider using waterproof lighting options, like the rechargeable camping light for $25 on Amazon, or wrapping the base of your lights in clear plastic to protect them from the soil's dampness. Simply place the light in the pot facing upward.

Alternatively, you could place a spotlight on the floor or a table behind or beside your plant and angle it so that it accentuates your greenery. No matter how you choose to do it, a little uplighting makes it easier to decorate with indoor plants and can make your space look like a million bucks. Since artificial light can impact plant growth, you'll want to keep an eye on your houseplants to ensure the extra light isn't negatively affecting them; however, a typical LED light in unlikely to add too much excess light.