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How to Decorate for Spring and Refresh Your Decor for 2022
We have made it to March—my official least favorite month of the year. March is the month when we get our first few nice days and I decide I’m ready for spring and then it decides to snow again. Given this tug of war that the weather plays on us, it quickly begins to feel like spring lingers on forever, but never really arrives. However, while I may have to wait on spring outside, it can be spring inside my home. I have decided to start decorating for spring!
Spring is such a fun time of year to do a decorating refresh! After the Christmas decor has been put away, things can seem a little bare. Sometimes it is nice to keep out some of the sparkly branches, and other times it’s refreshing to just rest in the minimalism of having very limited decor. Usually though, by early spring I am itching to add a little bit of color and a few other spring touches to my home!
As always, I like to start with doing a little audit of my home. I ask myself these questions before I reward myself with the fun part of decorating:
· Has my home gotten cluttered? What needs to be purged?
· Is there something broken that I’ve been putting off fixing or touching up?
· What isn’t working well? Do I need to rearrange or rethink anything?
· Is there anything I’ve been meaning to buy that will make daily life easier that I just need to sit down and order?
After I have gone through those questions I get to the fun part—the actual decorating!
Flowers
I love flowers in my decor. I tend to stick to decorating with dried flowers as they last practically forever, generally look better than faux, and are lower maintenance than real. Spring is a great time to reintroduce some flowers and greenery to your decor. I like to keep the colors of my flowers muted for spring because: 1) that’s more my style, and 2) I like to save bright pops of color for summer.
Greenery
Speaking of flowers, spring also a great time to add in greenery. Faux moss or moss balls add natural touches of the season; if your home is still feeling a little sterile maybe think about welcoming an additional house plant or two into your home. Plants are natural air fresheners and even a plant killer like me has managed to keep air plants, spider plants, and several different types of ivy alive!
Color
Spring is a time of year when we see a lot of pastel colors… I’m not the biggest fan of pastels though. If you are not a pastel person or don’t have a color pallet in your home that works well with pastels consider adding a few of these colors to your decor for spring if you are craving color after winter’s barrenness:
· Salmon Pink
· Deep Turquoise
· Light Aqua
· Sea Green
· Sage
· Green Grass Green (also known as John Deere Green..)
· A Bright Daffodil Yellow
· Bright Tulip Red
· Spring Crocus Purple
Cute But Not Too Cute…
Spring is also when we see a lot of bunnies, birds, chicks, and other such little cuties appearing in decor. The key to adding these to your decor is to not get too cute with them. Usually a safe way to do this is to try to find vintage versions of these (or at least ones that look vintage), or versions of these done in an unusual medium such as wood or glass and then adding them to your decor. Also, instead of pairing a chick with an egg try mixing it up; don’t add more than one little cute figurine to your decor or vignette at a time. Instead, pair a cute bunny with a few vintage items. This will add an unexpected touch to your decor, lending just a touch of visual tension and will keep things interesting!
Keeping Your Decor From Getting To Summery
Besides keeping your colors more muted and toned down, I like to pair my spring decor with vintage items. I love adding soft white flowers to a dark amber bottle as a vase. I will always love white vases and such but during spring I love playing up the vintage with the lighter spring colors as I think this juxtaposing adds an earthy depth to your decor that really makes it pop!
Holes
Do you have any holes in your decor? Is there something you’ve been telling yourself for months or maybe even years (like last spring and the one before that) that you’ve been wanting for your decor? While I am not a big proponent of buying new decor every season (See my post on how I repurpose my decor for my centerpiece here: Centerpieces Throughout the Year), I am a proponent of thoughtfully adding a few new touches when needed—-especially if it is something that you keep wanting season after season.
I hope this helps to inspire you to refresh your home and to get excited about the season we are about to enter! Be sure to check back next week when I’ll be giving some ideas for different spring and Easter vignette ideas. Be sure you’ve joined my email list (you can do this by inserting your email address in the box at the bottom of your screen) so you don’t miss it!
Other Posts You May Enjoy:
Decor Staples
How to Refresh Your Home for Spring
Capsule Decor
How to Make Your Home Timeless
How To Spring Clean Your Home For 2022
I hope this helps to shed some light on some often overlooked cleaning tasks! My goal isn’t to overwhelm or make you feel shame if you have never cleaned any of these; rather, I am hoping to shed some light on ways you can get your home looking and in the case with a lot of these, also smelling better, so that when you come home you can truly relax in your beautiful and clean home.
Spring and Easter Vignette Ideas
Last week I talked about how to refresh your home for spring (see that post here); this week I am bringing you a few ideas of how to create a spring or Easter vignette for your home. If you aren’t sure what a vignette is, be sure to check out my posts: Vignettes for any room in your home, and Vignettes: Tell me a story. A vignette is just a grouping or gathering of items, arranged together in a manner that is pleasing to the eye. Here is how to create a spring or Easter vignette
How to Decorate for Spring and Refresh Your Decor for 2022
We have made it to March- my officially least favorite month of the year. March is the month when we get our first few nice days and I decide I’m ready for spring weather in the 60s, and then it decides to snow again. Given this tug of war that the weather plays on us it quickly begins to feel like spring linger on forever, but never really arrives… However, while I may have to wait for spring outside, it can be spring inside my home! I have decided to start decorating for spring!
Top Decorating Mistakes
I’d like to start off by saying, I am not here to point fingers! We all have had our less-than-stellar decorating moments. Some decor faux pas you may be aware of, others you may not. There may be a few sections in your house that you have a feeling that something isn’t quite right but you just keep hoping that if you ignore it may fix itself… While your decor may not magically fix itself below I have listed a few of the most common decorating mistakes. Check yourself and if you find yourself guilty of any of these don’t worry- just fix them!
How to Make Your Home Timeless
I love history, I love vintage items, and I love using vintage and antiques in my decor. But, I also think this is something everyone should do. Few and far between are the homes that can’t benefit from a few touches from the past. You may not want to add so many that your home starts to feel like an antique shop, but sprinkling in a few vintage pieces here and there will give your house a collected feeling and depth that you simply can’t buy at the nearest chain store.
Dresser Makeover Inspiration and DIY
We are in the process of setting up a nursery for our first child! It has been so much fun to think of all the possibilities to decorate a room for a new little one, and of course there is some specialized furniture we will be needing; namely a changing table. We had an old dresser that had been given to us but which we didn’t have an immediate need for so it had been living in the basement. However, it is shorter in height, and longer in width, making it the perfect size for a changing table. There was just one problem- it looked a little dated. It was time for some repurposing for this old dresser!
Tips To Make Your Home (and your life) Run Smoother This Year!
How is your new year going thus far? Are you sticking with all the new commitments you said you wanted to do this year? Or are you struggling? If you are anything like me and enjoy a quieter start to the year, where you slowly start to focus on things that a cumulative effect th throughout the year then read on for a few of the tips that I have accumulated over time to help give me back some of my time and streamline some of life’s most mundane tasks in areas such as meal planning, laundry, and developing and cleaning and tidying routine- you know, all the fun stuff!
How to Decorate Your Home for Winter
Christmas comes and goes so quickly but here in Pennsylvania winter does not go as quickly. I always feel a bit bereft after taking down the Christmas tree and all of my Christmas decorations at once, so I decided a while ago that I wouldn’t take it down all at once! Here it is cold and except for the sporadic snowfall, it is quite bare outside as well for months. I don’t want the inside of my house to feel bare as well! I want it to feel cozy- extra cozy! I want to decorate for winter, after all winter is a season too! Here are some ideas of how to decorate your home for winter.