Materials
Why New Artificial Plants Smell and When It Fades
You unbox a new faux fiddle leaf fig, set it by the sofa, and within an hour the room smells like a tyre shop.
Materials and durability, page 2 of 8
Owen spent years around plastics and coatings before he wrote a word about decor, which is why he is difficult about the phrase UV rated. He runs the fade tests here and reports the ones that go badly as well as the ones that do not.
Materials
You unbox a new faux fiddle leaf fig, set it by the sofa, and within an hour the room smells like a tyre shop.
Buying Guides
An artificial olive tree is one of the most popular faux plants sold, and one of the easiest to get wrong.
Buying Guides
Two fiddle leaf figs sat side by side in a showroom I visited last month. Same height, same leaf count, almost the same price.
Real vs Faux
Every November the same argument starts in our house.
Materials
A 150 cm faux fiddle leaf fig arrives in a black plastic pot weighing barely 2 kg.
Games
This is a site about the things that sit quietly in a corner of a room, so a game that sits quietly in a corner of an evening...