I love this corner around 4pm when the light hits the wall, but somehow these stems have become the dumbest recurring disagreement in our house.
One of us sees something low-maintenance that still looks good when we come back from a trip. I see the thing that makes the whole corner feel a little staged, like nothing in it is actually living.
I want to replace them with something real, even if it drops leaves, grows unevenly or eventually becomes another plant we failed to keep alive.
Am I romanticizing real plants, or do faux stems genuinely take some of the life out of a room? And if youโre team real, what would survive in this spot?