Flower Cart Rental in Chicago: The New Bloom Bar at North Water Apartments
Chicago Flower Wall introduced this flower cart rental in Chicago in February 2025 as its new Bloom Bar: a white wooden cart, 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide, with a pitched canopy roof, photographed at North Water Apartments in Streeterville loaded with buckets of roses in peach, pink, red and yellow. The caption is explicit about the arrangement — the cart is the rental, florals cost extra, and Chicago Flower Wall can supply them.
First, the Cart Itself
Read the photograph as a product shot, because that is what it is. The cart stands centered on a dark rug in the building's lobby, a green hedge wall as its backdrop, and every structural choice is on display: the canopy roof that makes it read as a market stall, the spoked wheel on its left side, the two working shelves, the lower bench tier. Galvanized buckets do the merchandising — five across the top shelf sorted by color, a small glass vase of tulips breaking the pattern at center, and overflow buckets of baby's breath and greenery standing on the floor at both front corners.
That color sorting is the Bloom Bar idea in one image. Guests do not receive a finished bouquet; they shop the cart stem by stem and build their own, which turns a floral display into an activity with a line of people happily waiting at it. The cart's 5-foot width matters here — it is wide enough for two guests to pick simultaneously and narrow enough to sit in a lobby without rearranging the furniture, exactly the situation this photograph shows.
A Lobby Launch, Timed for Valentine's Day
The post went up February 13 with a Valentine's hashtag, and the venue choice explains the timing. A residential tower's lobby is a flower-delivery crossroads on Valentine's week; placing a build-your-own bouquet cart where hundreds of residents pass daily is closer to a pop-up shop than to party decor. The caption thanks North Water Apartments for having the team in, and the building got a lobby moment its residents could actually take home — a bucket at a time, wrapped at the cart.
As a flower cart rental chicago hosts order for showers and weddings, the same cart usually works a room for four hours. Here it worked a building. The format flexes because the product is the picking, not the party: any gathering with foot traffic and a reason to hand someone flowers can run one, from a tenant-appreciation week to a Mother's Day brunch.
The Hedge Wall Behind It Is Doing Quiet Work
Notice what the cart stands against. The green wall in this photograph is a boxwood hedge wall from the same rental family, and it earns its place twice: it hides the lobby's glass and stone behind a garden texture, and it makes every bucket color pop the way greenery does in a florist's cooler. Cart-plus-hedge is a pairing Chicago Flower Wall stages often enough that the two pieces are usually quoted together — a bloom bar rental with a green wall behind it photographs as a garden; without one, it photographs as furniture.
Where is North Water Apartments?
North Water Apartments is at 340 E North Water Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, just east of the Magnificent Mile near Navy Pier. The luxury residential tower shares its site with the Loews Chicago Hotel and is known for its rooftop amenities and river and lake views. Find it here: North Water Apartments on Google Maps.
Want the cart at your building, your shower, or your store for a weekend? Request a quote from Chicago Flower Wall with your date, and say whether you want the buckets filled by the team or stocked for your own florist.
See the original post on Instagram: @chicagoflowerwallrentals, February 13, 2025