Nine Easy Ways to Decorate for Early Spring
Inside: Nine simple ways to add some fresh touches of spring to a few key areas of your home when it’s not quite time to bring out the bunnies!
The month of March where we live straddles the seasons. It’s the time of year when one foot is in the warm bright sunshine of spring, and the other is still planted in dreary, frigid winter-like days.
We’ve recently had a stretch of temps in the teens and twenties, but the promise of delightful spring weather is just around the corner, and I cannot wait another minute to bring spring freshness into my home!
I divide my spring decorating into two phases—early Spring and Easter. After Valentine’s Day, I pack away the winter blues along with the pinecones, winter greenery, and heavy textiles. And I replace them with just a few accessories that make my rooms feel light and fresh, just like spring itself. But you won’t see any bunnies around just yet…
Let me show you how I incorporated nine super simple ways to brighten up a home for spring by decorating key areas with blooms, spring textures, and a bit of color!
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1. Choose a Spring Color Palette.
This first is not a specific area to decorate, but accent colors definitely speak to a particular season. Spring is associated with fresh starts and new beginnings. And plants popping their green heads out of the ground is a sure first sign of spring. Adding in light, bright pastels, and lots of those greens makes us want to reemerge from our own hibernation of winter and get back outside.
Early Spring Decor With Color in the Living Room.
In the living room, I’ve gone the colorful spring route—it looks so cheerful every time I walk through this area it instantly brightens my mood! I think of it as my version of Grandmillenial color but with a very neutral room and just a few splashes of bright, happy shades.
Early Spring Decorations With Neutral Colors in the Family Room.
I went a different color direction in the family room with a neutral and subdued color palette of tan, ivory, and gray, but I added a soft grayish moss green. Green is the “it” color this year in the forecasted trends and also one of my favorite colors, so I couldn’t help but use it as the accent color for spring for the family room.
2. Change Seasonal Greenery and Add Flowers.
Every single one of the areas I decorated for spring involves adding spring blooms because flowers are one of the easiest ways to say “spring“. In my living room, it feels like a French garden with all of the blooms! Really, if you do nothing but put out a bouquet of spring flowers somewhere in a room, you’ve decorated for spring.
And over in the family room, I added white florals to rustic, light-colored pottery to keep things neutral and bright.
For early spring, I added some lavender stems to the basket and purple and white florals in vintage ironstone teacups to the heirloom hutch. (White dishes are one of my favorite decorating accessories!)
3. Change Pillows and Throws Out For Lighter Textiles.
Colors and textures of the fabrics of accent pillows and throw blankets should lighten up in the warmer months.
In the living room, I’ve injected classic spring colors in pink and green with just a few throw pillows. The green and white lattice pillow covers just say spring garden to me, but I like the green so much they will probably stay through summer paired with another color.
In the family room, I changed from the heavy cable knit sweater and fur throw pillows from winter to pillows with lighter materials that I can also leave in place through summer.
Some good candidates for pillow fabric for warmer weather are linen, cotton, chambray, and jute. Mine are all neutral in color with whites, tans, grays, and that soft moss green.
I’m loving these Studio McGee pillows from Target anchoring the ends of the sectional and the green and white stripe accent pillow. I added another touch of lightness and more green with a coordinating soft green and white throw blanket draped over the sofa.
To pull the green over to the other side of the room, I added a chunky moss green throw on the chair to this sitting area. I also used linen tan and white pillows in the chairs and a fresh-looking, airy fern on the chest.
4. Early Spring Coffee Table Vignettes.
Now let’s start looking at specific key areas that I added a bit of spring to!
For a colorful French country coffee table vignette in the living room, I went with faux cottage roses in a profusion of pink and peach shades. Holding them is a scalloped French-style garden pot and a wicker vase that’s an Instagram favorite from Target this season. Wicker looks so at home in this French garden-inspired spring decor since it’s an outdoor patio staple.
The neutral vignette for the family room coffee table is made up of a couple of Veranda home and garden coffee table books with soft green covers, a green glass candle, a rustic vase, and faux white viburnum blooms. And it’s all corralled in a cane and rattan tray. Rattan and caning are also so at home for spring and trending this year so using them now is a no-brainer!
5. Decorating the Mantel for Early Spring.
To decorate the living room mantel for the spring season, I popped more colorful blooms and a sprig of fern into a collection of clear and green glass vases.
A little water in each vase was a great way to create the look of fresh flowers even though these are also faux.
The family room fireplace mantel holds a light-colored rustic vase with several “just beginning to bloom in early spring” branches. There’s no need to fill a mantel up with seasonal decor, especially in a room where you want to keep things more seasonally subdued with just a hint of spring.
6. Decorating the Kitchen Counters for Early Spring.
Since spring is all about freshness and renewal, one of my spring rituals is to give things a good spring cleaning in the kitchen at the beginning of the season. This usually involves scrubbing the counters, wiping the cabinets down, and polishing everything including the windows so that the kitchen is ready to gleam in the warm springtime sunshine.
The decorating in the kitchen is minimal. My spring statement here is some flowering branches on the island in white to flow with the neutral family room since the kitchen and family room are one large area. I dabbed some gray chalk paint on the shiny black stems and added water to the vase too, which made my family ask if the branches were real😉. A few lavender stems in a pitcher “spring” up the corner of the back counter.
7. Early Spring Dining Table Centerpieces.
On the breakfast table, I created a spring garden centerpiece by placing a collection of aged garden pots with greenery and purple and white faux flowers on a large charcuterie board:
This centerpiece is casual and rustic and made up of things you would find in a French country garden—aged garden pots, boxwood and flowers (faux in this case), aged wood (the charcuterie board), and woven natural fabric (the table runner).
This month the dining room table centerpiece is a simple bowl of white tulips. Real tulips don’t last long enough for me and these faux tulips look so fresh even though they are faux! I bunched them into a small jar and then tucked moss around them to cover the jar and fill the bowl:
8. Spring Decor Inspiration in the Entry.
More white flowering branches in my “aged” urn give height to the space beside the stairs in the foyer and set the tone of the season as you enter:
9. Freshen Up the Front Door With a Spring Wreath.
And finally, what’s decorating for a season without front door wreaths? I hung white spring blossom wreaths on the double front doors (they only took me minutes to assemble), and added a sprinkling of other flowers and some spring green gingham pillows to the porch rockers.
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Spring decorating is as effortless as adding spring color, flowers, and lighter fabrics to a few key focal points of your home. Just a sprinkling of these items and voila, you’re ready to welcome spring!
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Your home is beautiful and I always look forward to seeing your seasonal decorating. I am in the process of updating my home and wanted to know what are the paint colors in your family room.
Thank you
Marti
Thank you Marty! The paint in our family room is a custom mixed color that was in parts of the home when we bought it. It’s a great versatile tan that I’ve really liked. I get this question so much I included the formula at the bottom of my “shop my home” page. You can show the photo of the formula at the paint store and have them mix a sample for you to try. You can find it here: https://southernhomeandhospitality.com/shop-our-home/ I hope that helps!
I love the picture above your fireplace! Would you mind sharing the name of the artist and picture? You’ve shared wonderful decorating ideas and tips. I appreciate them more than you know. Thank you!
Unfortunately I can’t point you anywhere to buy one. It was painted especially for us by my husband’s talented aunt who passed away several years ago. I treasure it not only because I think it’s beautiful, but the little girl in it is supposed to be one of our daughters.💗
Everything looks so beautiful! I love the blooms all throughout your home and the ones on the front door! Al so lovely for Spring!
I love how you added flowers everywhere…so many great ideas for spring! And your home is stunning! Great touring with you!
Shelley
Thanks so much Shelley! Flowers are the easy choice for spring, right?
Wow, Kate… your spring home is breathtaking! I love the fresh-faux florals your are using, and green is one of my fave colors, too… so I love all the green textiles you used! Pinned! So fun touring with you!
Thank you Julie! I almost always go faux. They last longer and I know they will look the same as long as I want to leave themout. So happy to tour with you too!!
What a stunning and elegant home you have, Kate!! SO grand and sophisticated but so liveable and beautiful, I just love your style! I love all of your spring tips, it all looks gorgeous! So happy to tour with you again! Happy Spring! xo
Tamara, thank you so much…that is high praise coming from you and your gorgeous home!! So happy to tour with you too!
Hi, Kate, welcome to the tour! Your home is absolutely beautiful and your spring touches are perfect. I have enjoyed seeing your home before and now all dressed up for spring, it’s so stunning. So glad to have you on the tour. Your blog is looking great and I wish you the best. Looking forward to meeting you in NC next month.
I’m so happy to be able to join you on this hop Rhoda! I’ve told you I’ve followed your blog for years so that’s very cool for me. Thanks so much for the sweet comments about my home. I’m also looking forward to meeting you in person in NC!
Your home is a springtime feast for the eyes. I adore all of the florals. Such a joy to be on tour with you!
Thanks Laura! I enjoyed going on your tour today as well. So interesting that you are related to THE “Ingalls”.
Thanks so much for joining the tours this season. It’s always nice to have a fresh face in the group. Your home is stunning and I adore the soft pinks you added for Spring. It was so nice to have a tour of your home, so many great points of interest.
I am so thrilled to be a part of your mega tour Marty! And thanks for the sweet words about my home. I can’t wait to sit down and go through everyone’s tours and hope to be able to join in again!!
What a lovely home you have, so serene and inviting! 🤍
Thanks so much Cristina!!
Stunningly beautiful. I’m absolutely gobsmacked. One question though. I have always wondered how long people who live in vast houses (I’m in 1100 sq. ft.) spend on cleaning. Do you do it all in one day, or a room a day, or do you have a cleaning company, and if so, how long do they take at it? I think I would actually have to have “staff” if I had such a beautiful mansion as yours. Whatever your system, you are doing a bang up job of it. Bravo!
Thanks Suzanne! I am so flattered by your compliment! We are definitely not at a level for “staff” lol. To be honest the larger the home I’ve lived in, the less particular I can be on whether everything is constantly dusted. It also helps a ton that I no longer have kids in the house. When we lived in smaller places and my children were small, I was obsessed with cleaning and I could actually do the whole space in a few hours, dusting and disinfecting everything. Now we clean bimonthly and mostly just the areas that get used when we don’t have company staying or kids home. I save the deep cleaning pretty much quarterly. Basically I make it work where I don’t spend all of my life cleaning!
I find your style so pretty because of its elegance. It’s the complete opposite of mine. I’d say ours is overly cozy with some crap on the floor most days. I’d love to stay and sit on one of your sofas and relax. It’s all so peaceful! Where in Texas do you live? I’m in a suburb of Dallas and grew up in Fort Worth. Loved all of your spring ideas. Nicer (wetter) days are coming! Glad to have hopped with you this week. 🙂
Thanks Cindy! There are definitely piles of stuff that get moved around for pictures but it helps being an empty nester lol. I am also in a suburb of Dallas. I’m originally from Louisiana but have been in DFW since 1993 so I also consider myself a Texan now. I’m so glad to have been able to join Marty’s hop with everyone and can’t wait to tour all of the homes!!
Stunning tour and such great tips. Love the white flowering branches!
Thank you Julia! I’m looking forward to taking the tour of your home and all of the others!!