When spring arrives, so does the urge to brighten up your home. After a big spring cleaning, you might be looking for some decorating ideas that celebrate the coming warm weather and the promise of new life. Consider some of these easy home decorating tips for spring to brighten up your home, maybe you'll even be inspired to host your first impromptu party of the season.
Arrange bouquets of seasonal flowers such as daffodils, tulips, lilacs, forcythia and azaleas in glass vases. Cut forcythia branches just after they bud and put them directly into a vase of water on the dining table so that you can enjoy blooming yellow flowers during a spring holiday brunch. Snip tulips from your walkway just after they open and enjoy watching them open for a week or more.
Replace your napkins, tablecloths and placemats with white and pastel versions. Mix and match different shades of robin's egg blue, lime green, carnation pink and buttercup yellow napkins. Include versions with white patterns for a playful, happy table.
Buy a few inexpensive clear acrylic jars and fill them with spring treats such as jellybeans and chocolate eggs wrapped in foil.
Invite serenity into your decor with the color green. For an easy change in a bedroom, living room or dining room with white walls, add green curtains. For a big change, paint the walls a light grassy shade with white molding. For a less dramatic statement, hang framed botanical prints. Green on the walls can maintain a spring-like feeling of freshness in your home all year long.
Fill a tall, light blue vase with pussy willow branches and decorate them with a collection of artificial birds. This arrangement makes an especially fun centerpiece on a buffet table for a holiday dinner, or a kitchen counter where kids congregate for snacks.
Hang a paper flower garland in the eat-in kitchen. Make your own garlands from tissue paper as a fun craft project with children.
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