How to make room in tight quarters for all the plants you want to welcome in? Maria happened to be the perfect person for the challenge: she’s a product designer—in addition to a full-time job at Transformator Design, she freelances for Ikea.
Photography by Maria Bergström.
“I wanted more plants even though I had no more places for them,” Maria tells us. So instead, she utilized the wall at the foot of the bed in the approximately 170-square-foot bedroom.
The broomstick is about 1.5 meters (16 feet) long. Cotton string planters similar to Maria’s are easy to find on Etsy—see the Macramé Planter from Hanging Vibes, for instance, and the Warm Grey Company’s Macramé Planters with Paper Pot Covers.
The planters hang from wooden curtain rings that Maria bought at a secondhand store.
Above L: A look at the simple metal brackets.
“When I decorate with plants, I like to combine them in clusters and groups, and to work both vertically and horizontally,” explains Maria.
To vary the heights of her potted plants, Maria fashioned “cactus coasters.” For additional height, Maria made a shallow pine shelf (see previous photo) that’s based on one she saw at a flea market.
Maria and her boyfriend only have a two-year lease, but she painted the plant wall, so they can bring it with them to their next place.
Maria grew up in a small town in the south of Sweden and says I have had the privilege of moving around a lot After receiving her BA from Linnaeus University she spent...
...a year as an exchange student studying graphic design at LSU in Baton Rouge she got her MFA from the University of Gothenburg in 2012 and has been contributing designs for Ikea ever since
The bed faces the plant wall, which receives plenty of natural light.