Simple Spring Home Tour

Simple ideas for decorating home for spring by using artificial greenery and flowers, decor capsule staples, and neutrals for room styling year-round.

Happy spring, y’all!  Well, it doesn’t totally feel like spring outside, but I’m calling it anyway.  It’s spring.  So there.  😉

I’m joining in with my friend Krista from The Happy Housie and a group of blogger friends to share our homes all decorated for spring.

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In years’ past, I was all “PASTEL AND FLORAL ALL THE THINGS!”

This year, I’m all about the simple.  Having a 5 month old is making us crave simple, minimalist, neutral these days.  And I’m not mad about it. Because babies already come with enough stuff.

So we kept the pastel colors to a minimum.  95% of our flowers and plants are fake because there’s just no way we have the time or energy to keep real ones alive (or clean up the mess after we’ve let them suffer their miserable fate, for that matter).

As a result, our home feels clean and fresh and fuss-free, and I gotta say I love that feeling.

Dining Room

Our foyer is currently a mad house as we’re working on a massive construction project upstairs, but I’ll share more about that later.  Besides that little bit of chaos, right when you walk in through the front door is our moody dining room.

I literally dug through my already existing decor stash and found these faux pink cherry blossoms to stick in this DIY “stoneware” vase I made.

And I just set the table with our usual neutral wedding china.  (My mom told Robert and me when we were getting married to register for plain white china because it will never go out of style and my gosh.  She was right… as always. Cue the inner teenage angsty sigh.)

Kitchen

In our kitchen, I finally cleared out all of the Christmas decor (oh you know… in February) and stuck to neutrals again with a few gray stoneware dishes, simple glass cloches, and wooden platters and cutting boards.

I always like to keep a candle on our countertop to light while we’re making dinner every night to ward off cooking smells, and I love how it adds a little glow to our evenings.

One of the few real flowers I used were these cabbage roses I picked up from the grocery store because the blushy pink color is one of my absolute favorites.

We gave this kitchen a budget facelift last summer with mainly just paint, a DIY backsplash, and some new lighting.  It still AMAZES me how it changed the look so much for so little.

I’m forever officially a fan of deep green anything thanks to these lower cabinets.

Breakfast Nook

This little spot where we eat 99% of our meals is still a work in progress as I try to transition from farmhouse to a little more modern-meets-timeless, but I can’t seem to part with that wall planter I made from a thrifted banister just yet.

We hauled in this table we picked up at Walmart and keep thinking maybe it needs to be swapped with one that has a smaller base for the tight space.  But I still love that we now have the room to sprawl out as a family as meal times.

Spring is always the start of our cookouts and big family get-togethers, so I better get my act together and figure it out.

I just stuck a bouquet of pink cabbage roses from the grocery store on the table and it feels instantly fresh in here.

Living Room

We spend most of our day in this space, so I stuck to minimal with neutral pillows that I can use any time of year and on into summer, if I want.

I reused some of the neutral ones I already had and just added in a couple I snagged at HomeGoods for around $20.

The white tulips are fakes but they look and feel SO real in person.

And I finally bought this fake fiddle leaf fig I’ve been eyeing for the past year to add some life to the corner.  Maybe one day when the kids are more grown, I’ll try to see if I don’t completely destroy a real fiddle leaf fig with my black thumb.

I still need to fluff it a little more to make it more life-like, but I’m blaming that one on user error.

Beside our back door, I put my free spring botanical prints back up to live another season.  Since we don’t have a mud room, this bench becomes “shoe central” when we walk in the door, so having those prints there really livens it up when it normally looks a hot mess.

And even though, most of the time, the pillows are thrown on the floor (you think that’s why they’re called throw pillows???) and we have pacifiers and baby bottles galore on the end tables, I’m giving myself an “A” for effort over here.

By the way, not a single photo on our walls or in our frames has been updated since Regan has entered the world.  Gotta get on that too.

Lola doesn’t judge me though. 😉

That’s our home this year in terms of “spring decor”, but I promise all of the other rooms in our house aren’t nearly as put together.

Truthfully, as I type this, the toys are already back out, the dress-up clothes are tossed around, and laundry is starting to pile up again, but I’m so thankful for this phase.  Because I know I’ll miss life with little ones when they’re grown and gone.  Everything is for a season, and I’m holding on tight to every last bit of this one.

“To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1

If you want to know about any of the sources, you can find them all here (some similar items linked for items that were thrifted or discontinued):

Dining Room-

• Paint color: Benjamin Moore Kendall Charcoal
• Dining table
• Wicker dining chairs
• Slipcovered parsons chairs
• Bleached jute rug
• Table runner
• Vase (tutorial)
• Pink cherry blossom stems
• Wooden chargers
• White china
• Napkins

Kitchen-

• Lower cabinet color – Sherwin Williams Billiard
• Upper cabinet color – Benjamin Moore Simply White
• Wall color – Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee
• Cutting board
• Wooden platter
• Gray speckled dishes
• Aqua dishes
• Teardrop vase
• Backsplash
• Rug
• Scalloped cake stand
• Domed cake plate
• Pitcher
• Faux boxwood plant
• Framed handwritten recipe art (tutorial)
• Barstools

Breakfast Nook-

• Wall color – Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee
• Wall planter (tutorial)
• Table
• Chairs
• Blue vase
• Silver modern candle holders

Living Room-

• Wall color – Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee
• Door color – Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron
• Ceiling fan
• Sofa
• Chairs
• Area rug
• Ottoman coffee table (tutorial)
• Window seat (tutorial)
• Seat cushion
• Gray textured pillows
• Cream lumbar pillow
• White throw blanket
• Aqua macrame pillows
• Mint green pillows
• Ivory knit pillows
• Fireplace basket
• Artificial fiddle leaf fig
• Fiddle leaf belly basket
• White tulips in glass vases
• Round basket tray
• Gray stoneware vase
• Bloom votive holder
• Equestrian statuette (tutorial)
• Concrete flower (tutorial)
• Artificial cream tulips
• Mercury glass lamp
• Wagon bench
• Botanical prints (free printables)
• Botanical print frames

If you’re ready to shake off the winter cobwebs and need some spring beautifying ideas, you can check out all of the prettied up homes on the tour (and more will be going live later this week):

Also sharing today…

Wednesday

Shades of Blue Interiors // Finding Silver Pennies // Life is a Party // Bless’er House

Summer Adams// Tatertots and Jello // Paint Me Pink // This is Our Bliss

And sharing the rest of the week…

Monday

The Happy Housie // The Turquoise Home
Amber Tysl // Inspiration for Moms // Lemon Thistle

Southern State of Mind // Modern Glam
Taryn Whiteaker // A Burst of Beautiful // My Sweet Savannah

Tuesday

Jenna Kate at Home // Sincerely, Marie Designs // Town and Country Living
A Pretty Life // Hallstrom Home

House by Hoff // Tauni Everett // The DIY Mommy // Clean & Scentsible // Rambling Renovators

Thursday

Home Made Lovely // So Much Better With Age // Maison de Cinq
Craftberry Bush // Rooms FOR Rent

Maison de Pax // Zevy Joy // Place of My Taste // Deeply Southern Home // Kim Power Style