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Easy Ways to Refresh Your Home for Spring

Jen — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 03:01:12 +0000

Easy Ways to Refresh Your Home for Spring. Bring some color and light into your home with these easy DIY ideas to refresh your home!

Easy Ways to Refresh Your Home for Spring

Hello! I am so glad you stopped by! If you are visiting from Zevy Joy – welcome! I love Annie’s home and I am so excited for her family’s new adventures! Today I am SO excited to share some easy DIY projects and ideas that I created to refresh our home for Spring! This is the first spring that we have been in our 1891 home since our kitchen, family room, laundry room and pantry remodels! It was so much fun to add some spring elements to those rooms. We are almost done with our airbnb remodel downstairs, next up is the bathrooms upstairs. But in the meantime, I thought I would give you a tour of our main floor all decked out for Spring!

Spring Ideas for The Porch

Weather you have a big porch, a patio or a small landing, there are some easy ways you can bring spring to your front door! Your front door is the first thing people see when they come to your home so if you only have time to refresh one space, I would say start with your porch!

Add a Wreath

A wreath is an easy way to refresh your door. This one is a Sharpie Egg Wreath that I made last year. I switched out the little sign on the front and it’s still one of my favorite wreaths!

Faux Flowers on the Spring Porch

We’re in Utah and it’s still below freezing half of the time in March. I can’t have real flowers so I added some faux flowers for color.

Spring Pillows on the Porch

Pillow covers are an easy and inexpensive way to add a touch of spring to your home – inside or out! I added some bright pillow covers. I have a super easy 10-minute spring pillow cover tutorial if you want to make some this weekend!

Spring Entryway

I just did a big refresh in this entryway! Check out me Instagram @tatertotsandjello to see what I did. I love the new look. I added a positive sign from my @Pebbles collection, a beautiful concrete candle from my friend Sparrow Candle Co. and some target dollar spot bins and a little plant. So easy!

Adding Spring Elements in the Kitchen

I kept it pretty simple in the kitchen. I added some fresh flowers, a spring printable you can download and a couple faux blooms.

My mom gave me the scottish lavender heart and I love that it brings happy color to our room!

Spring Tablescape

In our dining room I made a little tablescape for Easter! I used a green gingham tablecloth and a purple flower arrangement. I think the green and purple combination is so pretty!

Family Room Refresh

One of the most exciting things that has happened in the last year was this new fireplace!! Can you believe this was once a blank wall?? We installed an electric insert and build a fireplace surround that is built into the planking that continues from the kitchen. I love how cozy the fireplace makes our family room. It’s our favorite place to spend family time and game nights!

Upcycle an old Pallet into a Spring Flower Display

The main thing I did in our family room was I upcycled a pallet I had from our basement remodel by spray painting it white and adding some clips for bottles. I put dried flowers in the bottles so I don’t have to change them out as often but you can totally put fresh flowers in them too!

Spring Coffee Table Centerpiece

This is a super simple project. I turned two frames into a tiered footed centerpiece by spray painting them and adding some pretty scrapbook paper to the bottom. You can get all the details on my Spring Coffee Table Centerpiece post! Just add a vase of flowers and some spring items.

Spring in the Pantry and Laundry Room

This backroom had a big sauna in it when we moved into our home. The laundry room was in the dark basement so I knew I wanted to bring the laundry room upstairs. Plus the fact that the house is four stories tall and our master bedroom is in the attic. So doing laundry meant dragging it down four flights of stairs! We created a wall and put the laundry room on one side and built a pantry with a double oven and fridge on the other side. This is our baking area and we have enjoyed it so much!

Office Craft Room Refresh

I work in my office all day long so I added a few items to give the room a spring feeling!

Spring Mantel

I have an original 1891 fireplace in my office. It’s small and sweet and I love decorating it. I created a paper flower hoop wreath, put it in front of a letter board with a spring saying and added a couple of banners and faux flowers.

Now we have made a loop and we are back at the front of our home! Sometimes it seems like our remodel is taking forever, but when I look back at a year ago and see everything that has happened I am amazed and so grateful! Thank you for stopping by!

Next Stop on the Spring Tour

Head over to Jennifer Maune and see Jennifer’s ideas. Jennifer is a mom of 5, has a breath-taking home AND is a chef with amazing recipes !! And to see ALL of the spring homes, hop over to Krista’s @thehappyhousie’s site to start at the beginning and get ALL of the gorgeous spring ideas!!

This week I’m joining some of my talented blogging friends for the Spring Seasonal Simplicity Series! All week long we are sharing our homes decorated for spring and our best tips and ideas for bringing a spring feel into your home. You can visit each tour by clicking on the links below the images!

Sharing with me today….

Friday

Tatertots & Jello // Jennifer Maune // Deeply Southern Home

Homemade Lovely // The DIY Mommy

And sharing the rest of this week…

Behind The Scenes Ideas

If you want to see all the behind-the-scenes projects and crafts, follow me on Instagram at @tatertotsandjello. I would LOVE to connect with you!!

Have a Beautiful Day!

xoxo

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Boho Cottage Colorful Fall Home Tour

Jen — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 02:29:56 +0000

Boho Cottage Colorful Fall Home Tour. Bring warm and cozy vibes into your home for fall with these easy fall decorating ideas for your porch, entryway, kitchen, family room and stairs.

Boho Cottage Colorful Fall Home Tour

Welcome to our 1891 cottage home – all decked out for fall! I am sharing some SIMPLE and easy ways to create fall in almost every space in your home. This is Krista @thehappyhousie’s fall #seasonalsimplicity series and I am thrilled to be here! If you are stopping by from Deeply Southern Home Hello! Isn’t Leslie’s home amazing??

30 Fall Home Tours

So excited to be joining some creative friends who are all sharing their fall homes this week. So many amazing and easy fall ideas, you guys!! Be sure to scroll down and see all of their homes.

Sharing today with me...

Friday

Deeply Southern Home ** Tatertots & Jello ** Two Twenty One

Love Create Celebrate ** Homemade Lovely** Maison de Pax

And sharing the rest of this week...

Monday

The Happy Housie ** Modern Glam ** This is Simplicite

House by Hoff ** Maison de Cinq ** Inspiration for Moms

Tuesday

The Turquoise Home ** Clean & Scentsible ** A Pretty Life

Chrissy Marie Blog ** Colleen Pastoor ** Jennifer Maune

Wednesday

Finding Silver Pennies ** She Gave it a Go ** The Tattered Pew

My Sweet Savannah ** Willow Street Interiors ** Taryn Whiteaker Designs

Thursday

Cherished Bliss ** Life is Better at Home ** The DIY Mommy

Cuckoo 4 Design ** Life is a Party ** Rambling Renovators

Cottage Decorating Ideas for Your Entry

We have two entryways in our home. I love using simple ideas to update the spaces for different seasons! For our front entry I added some simple black and white pillows, a plaid rug and my Dollar Store Fall Wreath.

I recently wallpapered our back entryway and I love the way removable wallpaper updated the space! The black and white whimsical print makes me so happy! I added a gold pumpkin and I enjoy how it shines with the sunlight streaming through our backdoor. Ii also added a little saying on the mirror shelf and a little pumpkin there.

Cottage Decorating Ideas for Your Kitchen

Our kitchen is one of my favorite places to decorate for fall. We spend so much time in there, especially in the fall. I love the smell of soup simmering in the crockpot and fresh breadsticks baking in the oven. Be sure to check out my Mom’s Quick Buttery Breadsticks.

Add a Fall Sign to Your Stove

I added a little spooky sign in front of our stove. I love the way it looks against the cutting board.

Decorate with Fresh Pumpkins

I love using fresh pumpkins for fall! These little pumpkins with their curved stems are so adorable. I piled them up on a cake plate and they bring some color into our kitchen. You can read more about my kitchen at my Fall Kitchen Tour.

Add a Kitchen Wreath

I made the simplest wreath ever and hung it on our kitchen hood. I added a pink bow to the wreath to match our overall home decor. You don’t have to use traditional fall colors when you are decorating. Use things that go with YOUR home.

Add Fall Signs

I love typography in my home. Simple signs add a special fall vibe to our open shelves.

Create a Simple Fresh Centerpiece

I added fresh pumpkins in a tobacco basket in the center of our dining room table. I adore the imperfections in fresh pumpkins. Such an easy way to bring fall to your kitchen table.

Fall Ideas For Your Cottage Family Room

We just built this new shiplap fireplace and we planked the walls too! This is our first fall with our new fireplace and I am having such a great time decorating it! I got out my box of fall decorations and had such a great time creating some different fall mantel ideas. If you go to my instagram @tatertotsandjello, you can see the different videos I created making these.

Fall Cottage Fireplace Decorating Ideas

I created a bright and colorful fall mantel with my dollar store pumpkin wreath, a black and white manel and a fresh greens mantel. Then I ended up using a very simple mantle. All it takes is a garland, fresh pumpkins and some fresh flowers.

Cottage Decorating Ideas for Your Stairs

If you have stairs in your home you might not think about decorating them for fall. I decorated our stairs in two ways. The first way was I added fresh mums and pumpkins. I love the color on our stairs. I installed this runner a week ago and I am so in love with it. To emphasize the runner I added small pumpkins on the treads up the stairs and I adore this simple idea looks. I also added a DIY chalkboard with a fall saying and pumpkins at the top of the staircase for fun.

Fall Cottage Porch Decorating Ideas

Another space I love decorating is our front porch. I also made a few different versions of our front porch. I create a colorful fall porch, a black and white fall porch and for Halloween a Spooky Forest Halloween Porch!