How to Freshen Up Your Home for Spring!

I love spring!  It is my favorite season.  I love to see everything pop out of the ground, turn green, and come to life.  I enjoy seeing all the birds come back home, from robins, to swans, sandhill cranes, and so many more!  I like to shed the winter coat and heavy sweaters and bulky boots and put on lighter, prettier clothes.  Spring is a time to renew, to refresh, to restore;  perhaps that is why we all get the urge to spring clean our homes.  We want to freshen everything up just like Mother Nature is waking things up outdoors.  

Every spring I not only clean my home of the soot from the indoor wood stoves, but I also like to lighten up the look from the dark colors of winter to the light airy colors of spring.   Here are some ways I freshened up my house for spring:

                Purchase New Accent Furniture

Now I don't buy new furniture every season, ha ha, but I have been looking for the perfect accent chair for a corner in my sitting room for years.  It's not a very big space so not many styles of chairs will do.  The chair needed to be small, but also comfy.  So many smaller chairs are so uncomfortable to sit in for long periods.  And of course the chair had to match the room! I waited patiently for the "perfect chair" for many years.  Meanwhile, I had an old dining room chair sitting in this spot, until one day I would find this "perfect chair".  Well "one day" finally came.  I walked into Home Goods and there she was!  Sitting right in front of the store on display.  It was love at first sight.  I knew I finally found my chair.  Only, I was unprepared to buy it that day so I said "If it's still here on Sunday when I have a bigger car and my hubby with me, it was meant to be".  Hubby and I swung by Home Goods after church and I couldn't believe she was still there!  And hubby loved the chair as much as I did; that's a rarity!  I thought he'd give me grief about buying such a girly chair.  So he sat in it while I went to pay for it and would you believe two other women approached him as he was sitting in the chair saying "they wanted to buy it"?  It's a miracle this chair was still there five days after I saw it.

I love everything about this chair!  It's the perfect size, I love the style, the color, and guess what?  It even swivels!  The swivel aspect is PERFECT for this room because the chair can swivel to face the tv, or it can swivel out towards the other two chairs in the room so people can converse.

The tag on the chair says the color is "mint".  Apparently "mint" is a hot, hot, hot color this spring.  However, what designers are calling "mint" and what I consider "mint" are two different things.  This subject came up with my "Ageless Style" group too because this month our clothing style challenge is "Pantone Colors 2024" and they have a Emerald Green color on their swatch which they are calling "mint".  Nope, neither the Pantone Color nor this chair is "mint" to me.  I would describe the color as a moss green or a sage.

Anyway, regardless what name one wants to call this specific shade of green, it screams spring to me!  It really freshens up the room just in time for spring!

Buy New Throw Pillows

Another easy way to freshen up a space is to purchase new throw pillows.  Most of my throw pillows were pretty dated (like the burgundy one on the far left) so I donated them.  I found these two new pillows at TJMaxx.

I have never met a bird print I didn't love.  I am instantly attracted to anything with birds on it.  I love this pillow and because there was some burgundy in my new bird print pillow, I kept my old burgundy pillow but placed it in the background.  The colors in the branches and steel cage also coordinate well with the seat cushion too.

Did you know Granny Squares are really in right now?  While shopping I saw so many Granny Square quilts and pillows.  If you can make one yourself, go ahead, but it's not my gift so I purchased one instead.  This one was on clearance for $16.00.  The colors are so perfect for spring.  Did you notice that moss green (or shall I say "mint" 😀) is in the pillow too?

While I was taking these photos I noticed the beautiful shadow on the wall created by the lace curtain panel.  Isn't it lovely?  I don't think I ever noticed this before.

Change Out Your Bedding

I always change my bedding in our main bedrooms every season.  I remove the puffy, down-filled comforters and replace them with a white, lightweight quilted bedspread.  For the guest room, pictured below, I simply added my new quilt I just finished this winter.  I just folded it in thirds and placed it at the end of the bed.

Buy New Accent Pieces

Did you know in addition to "mint" green, mushrooms are also really "in" right now?  I sure didn't, till I was out shopping and kept seeing mushrooms everywhere!  I normally don't buy knick knacks because I have no place to put them,  but when I saw this glass mushroom for only $12.99 I had to have it.   It has a battery powered light and looks just as pretty unlit as it does lit up.  I love the glass and coloring, and the fun shadows it makes on the wall when it's lit up.  I'm not sure I found the perfect spot for it yet in my house, but for now I placed it on a shelf in the guest room.

Decorate for the Holidays/Season

And finally, the last thing I do is take down all the winter colors and florals and replace them with spring ones.  First, I decorate for Easter, but after the holiday is over, I replace them with spring items.

This is a tiered tray I decorated for Easter.  I decorated it just like I have in previous years (see this post HERE), but this year I added mushrooms, because they are so "in" right now.  Do you see them poking out of the grass with their yellow and blue caps?  So cute!

Once Easter is over, I remove all the Easter items from the tiered tray and I do a "Lemon Theme" for the rest of spring/summer.  You can see my Lemon Tiered Tray HERE.

For my china cabinet I replace all the holiday dishes with spring ones and then I decorate the top of the cabinet with more Easter decor.

                 Change Out Your Dinnerware

As the seasons/holidays change, I always change out my plates.  I have a plate rail all around my dining room which I use to display my plate collection.  Here are some of my favorite Easter/Spring plates.

So what about you?  Do you decorate for the holidays/seasons?  I'd love to hear from you!

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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