Planter Insights

Discover expert tips, industry trends, and inspiring ideas for creating stunning commercial outdoor spaces with custom planters. Whether you're a landscape contractor, architect, or designer, you’ll find insights that will help you make informed decisions and elevate your projects.

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What is a Commercial Designer?

A commercial interior designer’s role in developing a project is to help a client, usually a business or agency, from conceptualization to the full realization of a completed space for business and public use. While the training and knowledge base is similar to that of a traditional residential designer, a commercial designer plays a much bigger role in how a space can support a larger population and helps their client or business to thrive.

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Interior Designer Profile: Frances Adler Elkins

Born in 1888, and with an interior design career spanning three decades, Frances Adler Elkins has been called “the first great California decorator.” Her interior design styles ranged from (and combined) art deco to country French, chinoiserie to modern. Even though she wasn’t especially known for including small or large planters in her designs, she was fond of carnations and often staged clients’ homes with them.

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How Fiberglass Planters Offer Innovative Interior Design Options

When designing an interior space with plants, fiberglass planters offer not only durability but also almost unlimited flexibility with shapes, sizes, and colors. This enables you to create a cohesive, innovative look in whatever interior design style appeals to your aesthetic vision. Especially in business or retail settings, commercial fiberglass planters allow you to complement or anchor your corporate space with eye-catching, upscale plant installations.

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Interior Designers: Mix Bowl & Round Planters to Create Interest

All designers know that the proper assessment of a home involves large- and small-scale planning. A home’s aesthetic, aside from its fundamental construction, is based largely on the proper selection of primary furniture items as well as the proper placement of those items.

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