Decorate Your Home For Spring

Spring home decor ideas you can do by working with what you already own in new ways. I am all about “creativity before consumption” – reusing and repurposing and most importantly, putting your own stamp on your interior decor that will make you enjoy decorating your home for spring this year even more.

As I have gotten older, I have found contentment with what I have even more than I previously did. I may buy something new every now and then, but only if I really love it.

I enjoy the creative process of using what I have to change up my decor for the seasons and now that spring is on it’s way, I am very excited to get started to chase the winter blues away.

Where to Start When Decorating Your Home for Spring

To prepare for the upcoming spring season, I first go on a huge spring cleaning binge. I’m ready to clean every surface, window and more so they are fresh and sparkling so I have a clean slate to begin welcoming spring colors, decor and accessories around the house.

For starters, I have been taking down the white drapes in all the rooms one-by-one and washing them. Next will be the sofa slipcovers, kitchen cabinets and then under all the furniture.

Spring cleaning and removing clutter is the best way to refresh your home for spring that alone will give your home a new energy or vibe. Once I have done both, it’s time for the fun part – decorating.

Plan a Spring Home Decor ReDesign Day

When thinking about how you would like your home to look for spring, why not set up a day to redesign an item or rooms in your home to give them a spring vibe? From moving furniture all the way down to a colorful vase filled with fresh flowers.

Try These Use What You Have Spring Home Decor Ideas

• Clean Out and Organize – Start by going through all the old paint, fabric, gift wrap and other decorating supplies you have on hand or leftover from previous projects. This way you know exactly what you have to work with.

• Update Photos or Artwork – Remove all the photos or art in the frames displayed around your home. Print new photos from your phone for a fresh new look.

• Create Open Shelving – Remove one or two cabinet doors from your kitchen. If needed, paint the inside of the cabinet with leftover paint or line with leftover fabric, wallpaper or gift wrap and then style with your favorite kitchen items in the new open shelving.

• Furniture You Don’t Like – An old vanity that no longer fits your decorating style, can be reconfigured, painted, reupholstered, or relocated to another room or used as a TV cabinet or a bar in a dining room.

• Make a Coffee Table – Slide two end tables together in front of the sofa to create a new coffee table. Place your existing coffee table at the end of your bed to make bench.

• Need a Side Table – Turn a stool or garden urn into a side table for a sofa, chair or bed.

• Rethink Fabric – Take rarely used cloth napkins or never worn scarves to make no sew throw pillows and covers, make cafe-style curtains, and more.

• Do a Switch-a-Roo – Move your dining room chairs to the kitchen and the kitchen chairs to the dining room. Or mix and match them in each room. Move the table lamps from one room to another.

• Allow Hidden Items Be Seen – There’s no point in keeping interesting items if no one ever sees them. Remove a few objects from your china cabinet and use them to style a springtime vignette on a coffee table.

• Use a Tray – Group a collection of small items together to give it more impact. Place on a table.

Create New Functions for Furniture

When decorating your home for spring, try to take a good open-minded look at every piece of furniture in the house from the basement to the attic.

• Take Apart Furniture – Make new furniture by taking existing pieces apart to create entirely new pieces of furniture. For instance:

Combine two unrelated pieces of furniture to create a new piece for a function you need. I did this in my previous kitchen. A dining room hutch top and a bedroom sideboard became my china cabinet kitchen desk.

When we moved to the lake house, these two pieces took on another use.

The hutch top became a sideboard cabinet for a bedroom.

And the dresser was transformed into a bathroom vanity.

• Another furniture idea – the base of your china cabinet can become a craft room table base when you remove the top.
• A crown molding top from a large hutch can become a fireplace mantel or foyer wall mounted narrow table.

• Color Coordinate – Add a pop of color to your china in your china closet or the books on your bookshelves.

• Bring in Cuttings – From the trees, bushes and flowering plants in your yard to force them to bloom. Place in vases or planters and then place on a kitchen table, counter, coffee table, bedside table or in an empty fireplace.

• Sheets and Tablecloths – A colorful sheet or blanket or fabric can become a bed headboard using an unused curtain rod. A tablecloth can become a window treatment.

• Candles Don’t Have to Be Lit – Gather a few candles and arrange them in an unused fireplace is another way to freshen and add new life to a dull spot for the warmer months.

• Re-pot a Plant – Look at containers around the house from pretty teacups to plastic food containers. If you have some spray paint, consider painting the plastic food containers or worn planters. Then place in floral stems or greenery.

• Mix Don’t Match – Instead of using a matching set of anything, mix and match spring colors from napkins on your table setting to candles, pillows on the sofa.

• Add Paint – Dip the bottom of a vase or wicker basket into a can of white or pastel paint to give it a fresh new look in minutes.

“When you live with something a long time, your eyes don’t see its full potential anymore.”

Example of Use What You Have Decorating

Here is another example of use what you have decorating ideas that can be used for spring home decor.

Two years ago, I went up to my attic stash of decor to see what I could find to bring a little spring into the house using what I already own.

Do you remember I had a dining room in my previous house? I made chair back slipcovers for the dining room chairs 10 years ago. When we moved, I gave the table and chairs to one of my daughters because the lake house doesn’t have a dining room.

She didn’t want the slipcovers, so I kept them for no other reason than they were neutral in color and classic. I didn’t think I would ever use them again, but I found a way.

• How to Make Dining Room Chair Back Slipcovers

I figured I had nothing to lose if I tried to see if the white slipcovers would fit the backs of the Kubu Dining Chairs around the kitchen table. To my surprise… they did!

I was so happy that I made the decision to keep them even when I thought there no longer was a use for them.

So I washed and pressed them and my kitchen took on a fresh, simple and casual modern farmhouse look. That plus the fact that I didn’t need to spend a dime, made me do a happy dance.

I even added new chair seat cushion covers to the chairs without having to buy fabric. I found a way to repurpose fabric from a broken deck umbrella I had already and was going to throw out.

Find out how I made the cushion covers in this post:

• Where to Find Free Fabric When Decorating Your Home

I know not everyone has slipcovers and chair seat covers like this.

The reason I am telling you about what I did to the chairs is so that you can look around your home in search of items you may have stashed away and have forgotten about that can be reused in new ways as seasonal decor for spring.

 My mantra… “Just because I have the same stuff, doesn’t mean I can’t use it in different ways.“

What matters when you decorate your home for spring using what you already own is that you setup, decorate and organize in ways that work for you.

You do you to not only fit your personal decorating style, but the functions you need as well, which will in turn make you love your home.

Change what you can with what you own… then enjoy what you have changed in fresh new ways to celebrate the arrival of spring.

• Have you done anything to give your home a refresh for spring yet? Please share how you make a room feel like spring in the comments.