Easy Spring DIY Decorating Tips
Freshen Up Your Home with these Easy and Affordable Tips
Mar 20, 2009
If you are looking forward to discarding your heavy winter clothing for something lighter, you're also probably looking for easy ways to lighten and freshen up your home.
Why not mix and match some of these fast and affordable ideas here along with your own to freshen up your home? Making your home a bright, colorful oasis will raise your spirits and those of your family as well.
Change Curtains and Sofa Covers
- For a fast, fresh look, take down those heavy drapes and replace with crisp, white lace-edged curtains or sheers. If privacy is not a problem, opt for just a lightweight valance or scarf across the top of the window. If you don't have any curtains, use bright bed sheets or even lace tablecloths instead.
- Put away heavy blankets or quilts and replace them with lightweight ones.
- Remove heavy tablecloths and leave tables bare.
- Replace area or scatter rugs with lighter weight ones. Here's a cheap and fast trick: Simply flip your rugs over as the underside is lighter in tone and colors than the top.
Freshen Up Wall Space
- Change winter photographs for warm-weather pictures. Frame and display your collection of family photos from backyard baseball games or days spent at the cottage, lake or beach.
- You can turn almost any bright, cheery fabric image into wall art by stretching and stapling it around frames made from canvas stretchers.Hang your creations alone or, for a more dramatic display, in groups of three or four. Check out if you have any fabrics stashed away in the closet or cupboards before buying new ones.
Create an Indoor Garden Oasis
- For instant spring, fill old buckets and pails full of daisies or other inexpensive flowers from the garden centre or grocery store. Have the kids help you out by letting them create their own spring garden indoors.
- To surround yourself with fragrance, place a bunch of hyacinths or narcissi in front of an open window so their scent wafts throughout the house.
- Can't wait for the first bright-green grass of spring to appear? Start a patch of your own. Once sprouted, place pots of your new "lawn" around the house to cheer up any dark corners.
- If you haven't had time to force your own bulbs, you can easily remedy this by buying pots of flowering bulbs from your local florist and re-potting them. Instead of standard clay pots, transfer the blooms into any unused containers that you have on hand. Or, you can also wash off the soil and anchor the flowering bulbs in pretty containers using marbles, pebbles, or gravel.
Fake It
- It you don't have the time to look for gardening, you can create blooming boughs using fake flowers. All you need is a couple of faux floral stems such as forsythia and a branch. If you want the branches to look natural, place it in water, or simply anchor in marbles, small stones, or shells.
Finally, open those windows and let the fresh air fill your home. It's one of the best ways of bringing spring in, and best of all it's free.
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