Blue, white and sunlight: The trio of royal blue potted plants

This summer we've been trying to redo our apartment with a little bit of style... since one of us has been spending so much time there this year, it's been worth it to make parts of our house a little more comfortable and vibrant. Unfortunately, all of our walls are beige, and we can't paint, so we've always been trying to find ways to make the apartment look a little more exciting without resorting to doing anything with the walls.

With this challenge, I often find myself inspired by the great Toronto design blog, KITKA, who are always making me jealous of their amazing vintage finds and their ongoing danish-inspired cottage renovation. They're always spying on great trends and designs, and I can't recommend visiting their site enough!

With that said, one of the recent updates we made to our apartment was finally clearing away all the black IKEA storage boxes out of our windowsill, which were great for privacy, but kept out too much natural light. Instead, we re-potted a combination plant that our friend Amanda gave us earlier this year which we've successfully kept alive for many months. We put them in this trio of clay planters that we found by chance at Canadian Tire while hunting for a replacement air filter (in our little apartment, we go through them a lot).

One of the techniques we've used in the past for decorating our apartment is using simple, bold coloured items to bring some eye-catching detail to our pad, and attract attention to the bright objects instead of our seas of beige walls.

I've always loved royal blue (black is still my favourite colour... even if it technically isn't one), and after spotting this painted lawn chair outside a Leslieville antique store, I was inspired to keep my eye out for something along these lines.  Our clay pots work exactly the way as the blue chair, and really give a sense of vibrancy to the green of the plant and the sun-soaked concrete that lies outside our window.

Stay tuned for more post about interior design ideas for little apartments, and if you have any design blogs that I should add to my Google Reader, please pass them on!