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Ahh it’s good to be back here in a fresh new year! Today I’m sharing some spring therapy for a winter home with some seasonal shifts and progress in several rooms in my home!
This will be a long post with lots of photos and ideas, so grab your coffee or tea and let’s look around together!
For your convenience, a lot of the sources I’ll talk about in this post are linked right here but I’ll also link them throughout the post below.
I’ve noticed something about my home at the start of the year. Maybe you’ve noticed this, too. If I take down the Christmas decorations too early, the house will feel a little… empty. And yet—I also love that clean slate. The fresh start. The calmer rooms.
Over the years, I’ve found that after the Christmas decorations come down, I look forward to rearranging rooms or surfaces and adding a small touch of spring.
Yes, I said spring. 🙂
It’s never too early to bring a hint of spring indoors.
A fresh color or pattern, a living plant, rearranging things you have or mixing them with something a new to create a “spring moment” — this is what brings life to a room which can be such a booster in the middle of winter.
The freshness and optimism of spring is a good thing, and I’m all for decorating in a way that helps us feel more present and happier in this season.
Spring decorating is not just for when spring arrives on the calendar, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
By the way, before I dive in to the recent updates around my home, if you love decorating like I do or just wish you had a mentor and guidance 🙂 you’re invited to my new 5 week workshop (it starts next week!) to learn exactly how to pull rooms together so they feel the way you want them to, in any season of life.
Hint: in the new workshop I walk you thought a timeless recipe and rhythm you can adapt and follow with principles that work for you in every season — because following everyone else’s rules or rhythms won’t bring you the same sense of connection to your home or delight in the season.
Let’s take a look around at a few seasonal swaps and some mixing and matching I did this week (or am in the process of doing now!) around the house (the snug, the entry, the kitchen and our bedroom!).
You know my motto for last year was a place for everything and everything in its place.
Well here’s another life-altering spring decorating tip for you:
Just because something found a place last season, doesn’t mean it has to be in the same place in this one.
You know I have always practiced this rhythm of evolving my style and my home with the seasons (and in our different homes over the years!).
A home should not stay stagnant or stuck in a season from long ago.
And that my friends is why we all need a recipe and a rhythm — so you know just what to do to make your home a reflection of you, and so it is inspiring to you in the season you’re in. And so you stop overthinking and start enjoying decorating!
We have plans to completely refresh the snug with paint and rearrange it this year (which I’ll explain soon).
But this week we used what we had.
Spring decorating is not just bringing in some bunnies or flowers (although I love that, too).
After Christmas, it can be simply rearranging and pairing of what you have or adding new things. So it is still serving you in winter, but also makes you feel uplifted and ready for the arrival of spring.
For example, in this room we removed Christmas, swapped the rug and mixed and matched pieces we had so it’s ready for cozy winter to spring moments, hosting family, binge-watching shows, doing puzzles and taking naps.
Refreshing your home for spring is easier when you collect timeless pieces you can use in every season.
The classic pieces we have in the snug that are from Wayfair and why we love them:
The set of framed art — this botanical set is so beautiful and great value, too.! You can hang all of them as a set, or break them up. We have one of the pieces in the living room.
Checked lampshade and lamp — This lamp is so fun, it looks traditional but also adds a whimsical touch.
The table the lamp is on — this is a classic piece in my home, it’s so easy to move around the house. It’s been everything from a end table to a stand for our table top tree to a cozy table by the fire, and now a table in the snug!
The rug was our dining room rug for a long time, and now it’s up here. I love the color and pattern — and it’s not so crazy heavy that we can’t move it on a whim.
The faux hydrangeas — these are similar to mine, perfect for some winter therapy or when you don’t have the real thing!
Spring decorating can be about bringing the hope, magic and joy we felt at Christmas into the new year in a fresh way.
Our entry felt bare to me after all of the magic of Christmas left the room. We didn’t just leave it empty because it’s winter and winter outside is bare. No.
We don’t literally have to bring the winter season in just because it’s winter. If that cold bare dreary mood doesn’t inspire us. Spring can be a hopeful feeling we want to bring in — anytime.
So with the happier mood we wanted in mind, I did a little refresh to BRING THE JOY BACK IN, because the happiness of spring is on its way (praise be) while still keeping the peace this season brings.
We brought back some whimsy and a bit of spring in simple ways, using mostly what we already had and just added a few touches to make it feel fresh.
Now it feels welcoming with simple touches: tulips in our brass door knocker, the cute striped pot with an orchid on the entry table and swapped to this lamp for a lighter mood.
And we kept Finnegan because he’s a joy bringer in any season.
Our little entry feels happy again, and so do I.
Love this door knocker–it’s solid brass! It’s a classic timeless quality piece and adds so much charm to the door. We got ours last year and I’m very pleased with it.
We can hang a wreath around or over it, but when there is no wreath it’s so simple to refresh for the season. Another thing I love about it besides it being a decor piece, it really is a door knocker! It’s also practical, our entry is small so having a smaller element on the door makes it easier for people to come in, which is important.
Decorating for spring can be about the color and pattern mix that inspires you.
Collect things over time that inspire you and that all work together (hint: they don’t have to match, just go together!)
It is time for the seasonal swap of dishes with some puttering in the kitchen. This is my kind of hobby and collection. 🙂
All of the dishes come down from shelves, we do a quick clean and then we put them back in different combinations.
Imagine if I had a huge house how many dishes I could collect? But I collect now with intention! This is also why I designed the kitchen the way I did. I knew this area would feel like therapy for me in every season, so I do my best to design my home with intention, too.
Collecting dishes that all coordinate or just go together even if they don’t “match” makes each season feel fresh in our kitchen…simply by pairing them together in different ways. I can refresh my own mood that way too, when the season changes or inspiration strikes.
This Green and White Dish Set – This set of dishes comes with the two different sized plates and the bowls — it also comes in a blue set (it’s so cute in blue too!) so I think blue might be my next addition to our plate collection and my therapy for this season.
This Botanical Dish Set
This Patterned Dish Set
This Set of Striped Pots
I’m in the process of refreshing the shelves here, too, so we can evolve the season from our winter mood to spring with ease.
To keep a room fresh you can not only swap pieces or move them to other rooms, but use them in different ways.
Decorating for spring can be about seeing things in fresh ways, too.
Case in point! This planter looks so adorable with plants, but I decided to use it in the kitchen to hold our wooden spoons and I AM IN LOVE!
Is this not the simplest and most whimsical idea for spring? And look how cute it is with my dishes.
These two striped pots in my house came in a set. They are affordable and can be used in many ways. They feel like spring on a dreary winter day. That is the kind of decor I love the most.
Decorating for spring can be practical changes, like making every day things feel intentional, tidy and beautiful.
There’s so much more I want to show you. Since we’re refreshing all over the house right now I’ll have lots to talk about.
One of my favorite things about the start of a new year is I’m more motivated to declutter and organize with intention. That often spurs on our room refreshes because when something isn’t working for us or in this season, I want to fix it so it serves us better.
Classic pieces like this lidded laundry basket are wonderful because they can serve in any room as an attractive storage piece. It’s easy to move around.
Who knows where the basket will end up this year now that we’re refreshing our bedroom and every other room upstairs, but we’ve kept it in this spot ever since I got it because it’s really handy for extra blankets.
Speaking of storage, organizing, rearranging, and the upstairs rooms, we actually brought our dresser back into this room this week, too!
But that dresser swap and our latest room updates will be a post for another day.
Stay tuned I’ll share more soon, but let me just say we are LOVING the fresh new mood in our room so much!
Spring decorating can be about creating spaces that delight you and bring you peace.
Just how you feel when you walk outside to see the first bulbs popping out of the barren winter ground, our home doesn’t have to stay stuck in winter. We can decorate to experience delight!
Picture how you feel on a warm sunny day or a tiptoeing through the tulips in spring. If winter moods don’t inspire you, you don’t have to stay stuck in it.
Visualize what inspires you more and embrace that in your home.
Every time we walk in to our room now we talk about how DELIGHTED we are by it! I love to be in this room now any time of day. The mood just draws us in and makes us want to stay. Fresh paint and pattern, using the furniture we had, a few updates to bring it all together…. now it feels the way we want to feel.
I’ll share more soon!
Happy January!
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