Spring Home Tour
My home is decorated for Spring and I invite you in to take a look! Filled with cottage farmhouse charm and decorated with flowers and greenery and loads of easy DIY's, come check out my bright Spring home.
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Welcome Spring! 🌷🌼 Today is the first day of the Blogger's Best Spring Home Tour, hosted by Kelly of The Tattered Pew and Mansa of This is Simplicite. There are 30 incredibly talented bloggers sharing their Spring decorated homes all week long! We all love Spring, decorating, and inspiring you and we all have our own unique styles!
If you're hopping over here from
Simply 2 Moms, welcome! I am always excited to see what Anne and Anne Marie are up
to!
Look at all that gorgeousness! I promise I'll share all the links to everyone's Spring home tours once I've shown you how I've decorated my Texas home for Spring!
Bright Spring home decor
We haven't lived in Texas long; I'm married to a Pastor, and we've lived all
over the country (you can read more about our journey here). Decorating for the seasons is a favorite of mine, but there's just
something about Spring. When seemingly dead plants come to life and bare
branches leaf out, it brings hope.
Here in the southeast part of
Texas, we don't get too many Spring bulbs. But heck, I can't complain...the
roses are still blooming! I get my 'Spring flower fix' by planting heaps of
flowers and herbs on the patio, and indoors by decorating with mostly faux
florals.
Just call me plant lady
The exception would be our sunroom; filled with live plants, it's paradise! I recently moved some furniture around and created a little 'library table' covered in some of my favorite home decor books as well as houseplants.The windows in this room face southeast, so it's the perfect light for growing plants that thrive. I've added ferns and ivy, Swiss cheese plant and an orchid. My African violets are still going strong because I follow these two simple growing tips for violets, and my fiddle leaf fig is huge!
This is the ideal spot to sit and read, surrounded by all that purified air!
And in case you're feeling super jealous about my green thumb skills at this point, this should make you feel better...I cannot grow succulents to save my life! I think I overwater them, because they all die. Every time I try! Yep, the easiest plant to grow and I cannot do it!
Spring living room
Our living room is adjacent to the sunroom, in fact they share a fireplace. I filled this room with faux tulips (click here to see my Spring mantel) that are incredibly life like.One of my easy DIYs was inspired by Jennifer at Cottage on Bunker Hill. It's an easy way to create forced faux tulip bulbs in a flower pot. You can click here to see how to make them.
I flipped my chippy white door to the aqua side and hung a painted and aged flower pot wreath filled with moss and flowers. This dollar store project is easy on the budget but you can see the big impact it makes.
I made a sweet Spring tray vignette for the new coffee table that Mr DIY and I built (more on that soon) and hung the inexpensive DIY Spring wreath I made last year above the sofa.
I brought out the
faux stone bunny planter
I made last year, as well as my eggs, both store bought (thank you HomeGoods)
as well as the DIY ones I've made over the years.
There's my
chalk painted robin's eggs, and
hand painted gingham eggs
and the cottage floral decoupage eggs I made last year. They are so cute in glass hurricane jars and piled in
a wood dough bowl.
Thankfully the dining room stays tidy...probably because we rarely use it! In the dining room it's all about my vintage blue and white dishes that I've been collecting for years! I love spying one at a thrift store for a couple bucks, although they're getting more difficult to find as more people are collecting. Etsy is usually a good place to check if you're interested in starting (or adding to) your own collection.
I made blue and white decoupage chargers with floral napkins to match my vintage plates. This project was so inexpensive and a great way to bring more of the blue and white to my dining table!
I hung a plate wreath on the wall, using some of my treasured dishes. They're framed inside my huge French painted frame that was a yard sale find and one of the very first projects I ever blogged about nearly 8 years ago!
The centerpiece on my dining table was a super easy DIY that I'll be sharing next week.
Are you feeling the vintage vibes yet? It's more of a modern take on Sunday dinner at grandma's house!
In the sitting room I did just a light refresh for Spring.
I switched out the wreath on my antique window, another Spring DIY from last year.
This room stays pretty much the same all year, with the exception of pillows and artwork. It's a room that is cut off from the rest of our home, so it doesn't get much use.
However, it needs to be pretty because it's the first room you see when you walk in the front door!
You might recognize the DIY farmhouse clock below because it often hangs on our chalk painted fireplace mantel. I swapped it out with the large chunky mirror this year.
The flowers and greenery spill over into every corner of our home, in celebration of Spring! These peonies are such a pretty color!
Make sure to visit This is Simplicite next. I know you'll love the modern Spring touches Mansa added to her dining room! You can tour the full line up of homes by clicking on the links below.
I LOVE all your flowers!! Simply can't get enough of them in the Spring and Summer!! I tried to hard to be a indie plant lady, but I have 2 cats and they eat EVERYTHING!!! Grrrr! I decided I'd stick with my outside garden until they are no longer eating my plants. So I'll just live vicariously through you in the mean time 😉 Loved your tour Cindy!!!
ReplyDeleteOh no, darn cats! Thankfully Millie sniffs but that's as far as she goes. Oh wait, she does love to drink the plant water 😳😁 Thanks so much for visiting!
DeleteI so much enjoyed your spring home tour, Cindy! I'm impressed with the houseplants that you are able to grow in your sunroom. I'm great with outdoor gardening but not so great with indoor plants. I hope that you'll soon enjoy a special meal at your beautifully decorated dining room table with your family. In your dining room, I love how you used your frame to display your boxwood wreath surrounded by your pretty blue plates. It's always a pleasure to see your decor!
ReplyDeleteThank you Paula! I love having houseplants but some of my newbies are a little needy! In fact, I'm off to give them their daily mist, LOL!
DeleteOh wow, Cindy. Your home is stunning! There are so many pretty things. It was like a spring decor feast for my eyes. I adore your potted suculent wreath and the pretty blue plates on the tablescape are absolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteAww, thank you Jen! I love how unique everyone's style is!
DeleteCindy, your home is beautiful! I love your chippy door and cute pot wreath! Pinned! Also, since I've lived in Texas all my life, I really curious to know which area you moved to! ;) Blessings, Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Cecilia!! We are south of Houston, near the Gulf!
DeleteCindy what a gorgeous tour! Your blue and white vintage dish collection is my favorite! Ok, I also love your go ham eggs and your gorgeous green plants. Heck I love it all. You are so talented! Thanks for sharing those talents with us. Happy Spring! Pinning!!!
ReplyDeleteKelly
The Tattered Pew
Thanks Kelly!
DeleteThat was so fun to get a tour of your beautiful home for Spring, Cindy! And I didn't know your hubs was a pastor! Oh, the big kids cooking in the kitchen at all hours; I can so relate. Totally why my kitchen won't be on the tour this round; too hard to keep it clean...think I'm giving up:( Your blue and white table setting is so pretty. I had to to hold myself back from a really pretty blue and white set at the thrift store yday...$35! But I just hate to have to find a spot to store them; I'm at my max. Happy Spring and Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Lora, so glad someone else can relate to a perpetually messy kitchen!
DeleteCindy, you always have the most precious decor, like that sweet wreath on your door. I also love all the flowers displayed throughout your home. A girl after my own heart! Glad to be hopping with you again!
ReplyDeleteThank you Crissy!
DeleteI love all your house plants! Plants are always one of my favorite ways to decorate for spring!
ReplyDeleteThank you, fingers crossed I keep them all alive!
DeleteCindy I love all the pretty flowers and plants! Your home looks beautiful! Have a fantastic weekend! xo
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
DeleteCindy my goodness your blue plates and chargers had me swooning. Just beautifuL! Pinned!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteCindy - your home is so beautiful! Especially this season! Love those blue plates!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jen! I love decorating for the seasons!
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