Spring Decor Ideas – 14 Ways to Bring Spring into Your Home

Spring decor ideas

Spring decor is more than just brightly colored Easter eggs and plastic bunnies.

There are beautiful layers and textures, pops of color, and other subtle spring touches that will bring this season into a more elegant way!

Here’s how to transition your home from winter to spring.

Clear the clutter and put away your winter decor

The first step to switching up your seasonal decor is to remove the previous season’s decor and accumulated clutter.

Ditch the heavy layers, faux fur blankets, and woven pillows. Pack away any remaining evergreens and winter art. Are you still bringing out the New Year’s disco ball? It’s time to go!

Give your home a quick sweep to remove any decor that doesn’t fit the spring season. Also check your storage spaces to clean out any unnecessary items you’ve been unintentionally keeping.

Cleaning can be done in early spring when the weather is cool and damp outside. Before the sun starts warming things up you want to spend as much time outdoors as possible.

You can find my guide to decluttering your home here.

Organizing my home in the spring is self-care for me. It’s the perfect way to welcome the sunshine and a brand new season.

Add more plants and flowers

Where we live, starting in mid-February, the grocery store is filled with $7 tulips. Maybe it was earlier or later where you live. But those cheap bouquets of fresh flowers are always a sign that the long winter will soon be over.

Adding more plants and fresh flowers to our decor is my favorite way to bring spring into our home again.

This could be:

Simple tulips in a glass vase, jar or pitcher Larger, fuller spring bouquet Bulbs in pots Start inside before moving outside When it’s warm enough, branches are cut from yard plants that just say ‘spring’ to you Place Some moss around your jar candle in a wooden bowl

If flowers aren’t your style of decor, try some simple greenery.

Update your bedding

Spring is also the perfect time to say goodbye to flannel sheets and hello to light bedding.

Personally, I like warm flannel sheets in the winter, while cool cotton sheets are best in the summer. In the spring (and fall) I find that linen (for our climate) is the best!

It’s also nice in the spring to brighten up your duvet and/or other bedding. Remove those extra heavy blankets and switch to a lighter duvet or duvet if you have them.

Rearrange the furniture

After living all winter with the same furniture arrangements (perhaps the same arrangement that allowed the Christmas tree to fit in the living room), now is a great time to switch things up.

Change seating arrangements, and move accent pieces. Simply update your living room, dining room or bedroom by rearranging it.

Spray in some colors

This is one of the easiest spring decor ideas!

After a long, harsh winter, even I, a fan of neutrals, have begun to crave a little color. In past years, hints of pastel shades such as pink and blush have appeared in our decor accessories. But some years it was simple green and warmer colours.

Whatever colors you love — and that fit your entire home’s color scheme — sprinkle them onto flowers, pillows, candles, or artwork.

Update your artwork

Another great way to bring the spring season indoors through your decor is to scrap any artwork you have. Pictures framed on shelves, wall displays, or even books you leave on display can be considered works of art in your home.

You can also choose from a wealth of free, downloadable spring artwork to frame and decorate.

Use lighter fabrics

I mentioned this when I was talking about bedding above, but you can also signal spring in your home by switching your fabrics to lighter ones.

Back in the day, when windows weren’t as insulated as they are now, people would switch from heavy curtains to lighter curtains as a functional change. Now changing curtains and other fabrics from heavy fabrics to light ones is more of a decorative function than anything else.

Linen, cotton, and light knits all work well in spring decor.

Swap out decorative pillows and blankets

Cushion covers are another item that can be easily changed with the seasons. I love mixing and matching colors and patterns in my pillows.

Spring can only mean colorful pillows. Or it could mean throw pillows with flowers and sayings if that’s your thing.

You can also replace heavy winter blankets with lighter ones.

Replace candles and other home scents

Bringing spring into your home decor isn’t just about the form and function of objects. But also about the smell of your home.

You can replace hot winter scents with lighter, brighter home fragrances such as lemon or orange. Get some new candles – and light them already! (Get 15% off when you use Homelovely15 at our favorite candle store)

Or try some spring diffuser blends in your diffuser.

Update your wreath

One of the first signs of your home decor that people see is your front porch and front door. Spring is a great time to switch to a seasonally appropriate spring wreath or get a new one for your front door.

Although I’m very picky about the fake wreaths I buy these days, there are some amazing wreaths available. You just have to look for realistic-looking wreaths, rather than plastic-looking fake ones.

Although I like some things, the dollar store probably isn’t the best place to buy wreaths, honestly.

But the good news is that preserved or fake wreaths can be kept and reused over and over again if they are properly stored indoors when not in use. We attach our simple screws to the furnace chamber.

Cleaning winter planters

It takes a while for the spring warmth to get here and the nights are still quite cold, so I don’t usually plant new things in the porch planters while I’m initially decorating for spring. But I do clean up the greenery and winter decor.

Change the carpet

I don’t necessarily do this in key spaces like the living room or bedroom, although you can. But changing the carpeting in the entryway, kitchen, and mudroom is a perfect way to add some spring decor to your home.

For example, where we live in the winter it is snowy and wet and often comes with a lot of salt accumulating in the house. That’s why we use a completely functional, rubber-backed rug in the hallway during the winter. But for the rest of the year, I’d rather thin it out and have a nice jute rug in there.

You can do the same thing even if where you live isn’t covered in snow by having a warmer, heavier color rug in the winter and a lighter, lighter rug in the spring.

Create new vignettes and centerpieces

Spring is a fun time to create new vignettes, shelves, and new table centerpieces. Don’t let the TV on your mantel stop you from decorating!

Flowers, moss, dainty bunnies (concrete or moss-covered), and other spring decor make beautiful additions to usual everyday decor pieces like books, architectural items, and vintage art.

Create a spring wreath

Wreaths are a wonderful and versatile addition to your decor collection.

They can be used on shelves, stair railings, and dining room tables, and you can make them with fresh or fake greenery and flowers. You can also apply feathers, pastel eggs, small birds or antlers to create an interesting, layered wreath.

These are my favorite ways to bring spring indoors and welcome the season.

Do you have any other ideas for spring decor?