Spring Decorating Ideas

Spring fever is in the air. Everywhere you look flowers are blooming and grass and trees are beginning to turn green with new growth. Now is a good time to bring the feeling of the season into your home. With a few easy tips, you can give your home a completely different look and enjoy the season in new surroundings.
One thing that marks the beginning of spring is our home is taking down the heavier drapes and putting up light sheers on all the windows. Sheers now come in a variety of patterns, but even simple sheers make a home look airy and bright. Choose white, eggshell, or a light pastel of your room color. Open curtains to let in as much light as possible. Light will make your rooms look larger and your plants will thank you!

Take the heavy blankets, duvets, comforters, or quilts off the beds, launder or dry clean and then pack them away with a dryer sheet and they will be fresh and ready for the winter. The space saving bags that you draw the air from with a vaccuum will save on closet shelf space. Another idea is to pack them away in your luggage.
On your bed, put crisp pastel sheets in a high thread count cotton or cotton blend sheets for comfort on warm summer nights. (300-400 thread count sheets are great. 600 TC is even better but expensive unless you find them on sale.) If you need new sheets, many store advertise white sales this time of year and it's a good time to stock up on linens.

After the sheets, choose a lightweight comforter or bedspread in a light color. Remember light and airy is what you are going for. I love the matelesse bedspreads, or a lightweight comforter with a tiny flowered dust ruffle. Now is a good time to replace your pillows, too, as chiropractors recommend changing them every six months or so. You will probably also want to change pillows. If you make pillow covers out of lighter hues, you can just change the covers each season. (They are beautiful with a line of buttons across the front of the pillow.)