Spring Living Room Tour
I was planning to make this post super catchy and helpful like…
10 Ways to Bring Spring Into Your Home
5 Ways to Make Your Living Room Look Effortless With Florals
But… my brain is half asleep from all of the work we’ve done in Olivia’s room lately and preparing for a yard sale. I rattled around in this noggin of mine and all I got was, “Hey, look! I decorated for spring even though spring is halfway over.” Ha!
But it does the soul so much good to dust the tabletops and sweep the floors and set out a couple of vases of grocery store flowers.
It’s not just cleaning and decorating. It’s refreshing your mood, brightening your perspective, wrapping a new season in a big ol’ bear hug and saying, “This spring is going to be great.”
That’s always time well spent in my PB&J spreading, LEGO stepping, glitter slime mixing world. Even if the peace and pretty lasts only a day.
Lola has the right idea on the couch there.
Most of the time, this tray on our DIY ottoman is a toy catcher and remote control corraler…
Most of the time, that antique book has doubled as a coaster for a sippy cup of chocolate milk…
Most of the time, this sofa has more piles of folded laundry on it than it does throw pillows…
And there are days I wish for it all to go away… but only for a second. Because when all of the laundry and sippy cups and scattered toys go away, I know I’ll wish for it… this season.
Even though I’ve been in “spring cleaning mode” these last few weeks while the sun gets warmer outside, I still have to remind myself to be thankful for the messes.
So Robert, Olivia, and I are going to sprawl out for family movie nights in this living room and build blanket forts and have dance recitals on the rug. Because what good is a living room without the living part?
I’ll enjoy the tidy and pretty today, but I’ll embrace this crazy, chaotic little family life always.
Side note real quick though… can you believe how much this room has changed?
Here’s the before:
It wasn’t “ugly” by any means before at all, but this space definitely feels like a reflection of us now.
I realized I never really did a “room reveal” post for this one, so I rounded up everything below, if you’ve ever wanted to know.
If you want to know about any of the sources and tutorials in our living room, you can see them all here: (Some affiliate links are provided below.)
- Wall color: Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee
- Trim/ceiling color: Benjamin Moore Simply White
- Door/window color: Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron
- Ceiling fan
- Sofa
- Accent chairs
- DIY ottoman
- Area rug
- End table
- DIY nesting tables
- Light sconces
- Mercury glass lamp & shade
- Lanterns
- Blanket basket
- DIY window seat
- Mercury glass vase (similar)
- Wooden candle holders
- Wooden beads
- Curtains
- White pleated pillows
- Oblong pink pillow
- Geometric pink pillow
- Vintage style pink pillow
- Spring botanical prints
- Small water hyacinth baskets (similar)
- DIY limewashed fireplace
- DIY concrete flower
- Wagon bench (similar)
WOW, ALL SET FOR SPRING. I LOVE THIS INNOVATIVE IDEA. yOUR LIVING ROOM IS LOOKING VERY INVITING ANYONE WOULD LOVE TO SPEND SOME THIM IN A GREAT PLACE LIKE THIS. KEEP POSTING SUCH THINGS.
Would you mind giving me more details on the curtains- how did you hang them? I have an incredibly similar looking room that needs some tweaking. I’m going to try to paint the doors like you have. I’ve always struggled with how to drape my doors – I have a half moon window directly about the double door set. Would love your opinion!
The curtains are hung just underneath the molding. They are more for texture than functionality. The rods do not allow the curtains to move past the ‘between space’ of the doors. It is a great way to fill space and bring a room together when you have so many doors and not so much wall space.
Hi Lauren,
Which color did you get in the chairs? It comes in a gray-beige and a blue. Yours look like a light blue in the photos, but the blue on Ikea’s website looks more like a navy.
Thanks!
Hi, Annmarie. The link https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S99033544/ should take you directly to the specific chair. However, ours is the gray-beige.
Hi there, I absolutely adore all of your home furnishings and decorations. I noticed that the rug in one of your shots of your home tour looks different then in this post, did you change it? Which is the current rug you have ? I followed the link to the rug on Amazon but I didn’t want to purchase that particular one of you did not like it for some reason and changed it. Wanted to make sure I get good quality LOL thank you for your answer.
Hi Carla! Yes, I did change it after a long year of puppy training made our old rug pretty gross. 😉 Here is the link to our new rug: https://esalerugs.com/gray-9×12-berkshire-area-rug-33141703# We bought the gray color, but it leans slightly blue in person.
Hi there! Weird question, but I love your shoes in the photo by your front door. Where are they from? Thank you!
Hi Gina! They came from Target. 🙂