Some Basic Principles : Page 14

These, and many more, ideas will come to you, so try to look at yoursetting as though it were a frame and compose your flower decorationwithin this space. The frame, as you see it, may be one corner of the room,or just the mantelshelf. It may be a low table on which a lamp habituallystands. So for the mantelshelf, take everything on it into consideration. Itmay be that a clock is the centrepiece of attraction, then why not place someflowers each side, in containers and using colours that will combine withthe clock ; this makes for good composition within the framework of yourmantelshelf. Similarly, on the low table, you might compose this picture byadding a low flower design in a small round bowl, made of flowers thatcombine or contrast with the colour of the lamp shade.