Square brown frame with yellow flowers and pale leaves on a dark ground

Framed Florals for a Living Room Refresh

The QUBZI Edit / Home & Display

If the wall behind the sofa has gone quiet since you moved the furniture, a framed flower is an easy thing to try there. These eleven pieces are all flowers in frames, but they are made in different ways: fine stems pressed flat on green or dark grounds, one painted field, raised blossoms that stand above their backgrounds, and two round compositions the listings call planets. The choice comes down to the shape of the arrangement and the color you want to look at every day.

Flowers and leaves in frames

Pressed botanicals keep the line of a stem. That is what makes these read so clearly even when the colors are soft, and it is a good place to start if you want the frame to feel gathered rather than styled.

In Pressed Flower Frame Solid Wood Home Decor, fine flower stems cross a green field inside a small brown frame. The stems are thin enough that the green does most of the work, with the flowers arriving as small interruptions. On a console beside a plain ceramic it would have room to breathe.

Small brown frame around a green background with fine flower stems
Fine stems on a green ground QUBZI catalog image.

Yellow makes the same idea warmer. Handcrafted Pressed Flower Frame in Solid Wood sets yellow flowers and pale leaves on a dark ground inside a square brown frame. The dark field puts the yellow first and the pale leaves second, a quieter layer underneath. Above a reading chair, with cream or wood nearby, the square shape would hold its own.

Square brown frame around yellow flowers and pale leaves on a dark ground
Yellow flowers on a dark ground QUBZI catalog image.

Framed Pressed Flower Art 16 Inch is mostly line: pink and purple flowers branch across a dark rectangular frame, stems reaching in more than one direction. Those stems keep the arrangement from settling into a single mass, and the dark frame gives the pinks a firm edge.

Dark rectangular frame around pink and purple flowers with branching stems
Pink and purple flowers with branching stems QUBZI catalog image.

Pressed Flower Art Framed A4 Gift gathers lavender, purple and pale flowers against a dark background in a brown frame. A side table or a narrow shelf would suit it.

Brown frame with lavender, purple and pale flowers against a dark background
Lavender and purple flowers against dark ground QUBZI catalog image.

Painted and raised floral scenes

These change the surface. Paint sits on the picture; raised flowers stand above it, so the frame holds something with a little depth.

Original Oil Painting Flowers Wooden Frame — the title calls it an original oil painting — sets a painted landscape of colorful flowers inside a dark frame with a gold-colored inner border. The border gives the painting a formal edge, and the flowers are packed densely enough to read as a field rather than a bouquet. Where the pressed pieces are all line, this one is all color and surface.

Dark frame with gold-colored inner border around a painted landscape of colorful flowers
Gold inner border, painted colorful flowers QUBZI catalog image.

Clay Flower Painting Framed Art brings the flowers forward: raised pink, cream and brown shapes above a green ground, inside a pale frame. It is the softest of the raised group.

Pale frame around raised pink, cream and brown flower shapes on green
Raised flower shapes on green QUBZI catalog image.

Clay Floral Art in Ornate Frame is the dressier one, with raised peach, pink and red flower shapes inside a dark ornate frame. The frame has a lot to say, so give it a quiet stretch of wall.

Dark ornate frame around raised peach, pink and red flower shapes
Peach, pink and red raised shapes QUBZI catalog image.

For a cooler note, Clay Floral Painting in Wood Frame places raised pale lavender and gray flowers inside a dark frame. The palette is restrained, and it would settle into a room that already has blue-gray or natural wood.

Dark frame around raised pale lavender and gray flowers
Pale lavender and gray raised flowers QUBZI catalog image.

The most saturated of the raised pieces is Clay Floral Painting Framed Artwork, where blue, red and green flower shapes stand out from a dark frame. The red carries the most heat. If your living room is mostly neutral, this is the one that changes the temperature.

Dark frame around raised blue, red and green flower shapes
Blue, red and green raised shapes QUBZI catalog image.

Round floral compositions and clusters

The last two take the flower out of the stem-and-bloom arrangement and gather it into a circle.

Pressed Flower Planet Framed Art builds a round yellow composition inside a dark frame, with small star-like flower shapes scattered across the dark ground around it. The yellow is warm and a little unexpected against all these dark backgrounds.

Dark frame around a round yellow flower composition with small stars
Round yellow composition with small stars QUBZI catalog image.

Pressed Flower Planet Picture Frame makes the same circular idea in purple, in a brown frame on a dark background. The purple reads cooler and more evening-toned. Between the two, the choice is mostly color: yellow for a warmer corner, purple for a cooler one.

Brown frame around a round purple flower composition on a dark background
Round purple composition on dark QUBZI catalog image.

Two pieces in one room can share a thread without matching. Both the first pressed frame and the pale raised flowers have green grounds, and the gold-colored border on the oil painting and the ornate frame on the peach-and-red raised piece are the two most formal edges here.

For more botanical pieces in small frames, our edit on pitcher plants and pressed flowers goes smaller and stranger. If you would rather see flowers in thread, embroidered accents for walls and tables takes the same impulse into stitching.

Pick the one you would look at twice on the way to the kitchen — a fine green stem, a yellow square, a purple circle — and give it a spot you pass every day.

About Delia Groveley
Delia Groveley writes about natural forms that move toward abstraction while staying recognizable. She describes the line first and the association second, keeping that order clear for readers who enjoy shape and pattern.

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