Indoor Gardening
It used to be that furniture and home electronics were what visitors noticed first - but now its all about plants. It doesn't matter if you don't have a garden, or even an apartment balcony NOW everyone is growing greenlife in almost every room of their dwelling.
As long as there is some filtered or dappled light in your home you can grow a huge range of colourful and exotic plants - and all you need are a few tools, heaps of pots, saucers and planters and bags of potting mix and Perlite.
The benefits are numerous:
#1. What a great hobby or pastime? Simple and can be done in short bursts when you feel like it. All you need it a table and waterproof cover to get going.
#2. Indoor plants bring a sense of calm and peace in our busy lives - they literally transmit minute vibrations which connect to our inner 'hunter gatherer' to say 'all is well, greenlife surrounds us so human sustainance is also likely closeby'. Its pretty basic but re-assuring at a primal level.
#3. Indoor plants clean the air we breathe.
#4. Indoor gardening has literally mushroomed in recent years and no 'cool cafe, bistro or boutique' will be without shelves of cascading plantlife or gently swaying hanging pots.
If you haven't yet - then give it a go.