4 Tips to Make Faux Flower Arrangements Look More Luxurious

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This guide reveals how to make artificial flowers look real so your faux floral arrangements look as luxurious and lifelike as designer pieces. Readers will discover tips on selecting the most realistic artificial flowers, styling them properly, and using vases to enhance their impact.

• Choose high-quality artificial real-looking flowers: The most realistic artificial flowers start with premium materials, like Winward Home’s hand-crafted faux florals.
• Shape and layer your stems: Trim or interlace stems to add dimension and balance to your arrangement.
• Fluff and iron petals and leaves: Styling your flowers revives shape, creating realistic movement and texture.
• Pick the perfect vase: Scale, opacity, and style of the vase dramatically influence how authentic and high-end your artificial floral arrangements appear.

With these steps, any faux flower arrangement can rival the elegance of fresh blooms.

Faux florals offer a beautiful, long-lasting alternative to fresh flowers—adding elegance, artistry, and ease to your everyday interiors. That said, not all faux florals are created equal. Even the most realistic flowers need a few thoughtful touches to reach their full potential. If you’ve ever wondered how to make artificial flowers look real—or even how to make artificial floral arrangements look like luxury designer pieces— Here’s how!

1. Buy High-Quality Faux Flowers

The secret to beautiful arrangements starts with investing in the best. At Winward Home, we craft some of the most realistic artificial flowers in the world—made with fine fabrics, hand-shaped petals, and premium materials. People often ask “How do you make cheap fake flowers look real?” The (likely unpopular) answer? It’s difficult.

You can spruce up faux flowers in a pinch by adding a mix of real flowers with them, but you can’t create quality where there isn’t any – creating this luxury takes time.

Look for lifelike detailing, soft-touch petals, wired stems, and color variation. These elements are what transform faux into fabulous.

2. Cut the Stems or Interlace Them

The best floral designers know how to make artificial floral arrangements come alive with movement and balance. Like fresh florals, artificial arrangements benefit from varied heights and textures.

A live bouquet is an artistic statement piece as much as it is a collection of living plants. So when you create a faux floral arrangement, whether large or small, play with the length of each stem.

If you don’t want to cut your faux flower stems, you can interlace them together at the bottom of the floral arrangement, making it possible to reuse different flowers in different arrangements later, creating a beautiful and luxurious look.

3. Fluff or Iron Petals and Leaves

One of the easiest ways to elevate your faux florals is simply to style them. Realistic flowers have shape and softness—your fauxs should, too.

When fluffing your faux flower arrangement, pay careful attention to where each petal falls. Remember to iron or arrange the leaves of each stem also; crinkly leaves can be a dead giveaway that your flowers aren’t real (pun intended), especially on plants that are mostly leafy, like artificial eucalyptus. When ironing the leaves, be extremely gentle and cautious. Avoid using high heat, as it can easily damage the fabrics.

Alternatively, you can use a blow dryer on a low heat setting to gently warm and soften the leaves or petals, adding natural movement and shape without direct contact.

This finishing step is what separates the amateur from the editorial-ready look.

4. Don’t Forget the Vase

Your vase isn’t an afterthought—it’s half the design. If you’re wondering how to make artificial floral arrangements look luxe, your container matters.

• Scale: Large faux flower arrangements need appropriately hefty vases. Small faux flower arrangements can be put in vases that are proportionally smaller. If your floral arrangement doesn’t come in or with a vase, you’ll want to think about where you’re going to place it and the height and depth a vase will add to the overall look and feel of the arrangement.
• Opacity: Do you want to be able to see the stems? Use glass vessels to show off the stems, especially if you add faux water or stones. For a cleaner, sculptural look, go with porcelain or metallic vases.
• Aesthetic: The vase you choose can work for or against your faux floral arrangement so make sure you match your vase to your blooms. Are you going for a country-chic look or a Chinoiserie look? Do you want a more traditional arrangement or a more contemporary one? Your faux flowers are half your arrangement, and your vase is the other half – so choose wisely.

Discover Winward Home Faux Floral Arrangements

For luxury faux floral arrangements that are truly life-like, rely on Winward Home arrangements and greenery. From tabletop to vanity to greenery, our high-end faux flower arrangements are designed to mimic the living plants on which they’re based, making them truly celebratory – and realistic – by design.

Browse our curated collection of ready-to-display faux arrangements or create your own with individual stems and luxe vessels.

Whether you’re styling a dining room, entryway, or powder room, Winward Home has everything you need to create floral displays that elevate your space and last for years.