Early Spring Home Tour {& $400 Giveaway!}

I hope you enjoy all the details of my early spring home tour!

Good morning!

It is spring home tour day!

Home tours are always my favourite – mainly because I usually link up with an awesome group of bloggers who are also sharing their tours and I look forward to stalking their spaces.

And Spring!

That’s another favourite of mine.

Though, I must say we’ve had a little more spring rain then I would like and not quite enough spring sunshine. I can’t wait to see that sun come back out again so flowers will start blooming.

Right now the forsythia that are in bloom are being pummelled so badly by the rain that they are pretty droopy and sad looking.

But all the grey and rain outside is even more reason to make our indoors full of light, bright and cheery spring decor, right? Come on in! On our front door I added a bright hit of spring colour with my easy five minute DIY Spring Forsythia Wreath…

Let’s head into the living room… I shared some changes to our living room a couple of months ago when I brought in more beautiful navy accents. We also put up the hanging light fixture and it has been such a godsend during these dark winter months. But the time changed just last night, so we are excited to see daylight still at 7pm now! Yay! The winter is finally on it’s way out…

Can you believe that those flowers aren’t real?!? Normally I might try to disguise that fact, but I’m so impressed with these ones that I have to fess up. I absolutely love them – I picked them up at Michaels. I used to choke over the price of faux blooms, but a good quality bloom makes a huge difference. And just think about how many weeks they will last for compared to real blossoms.

I think my favourite spring touch, though, are these new throw pillows I made with this P Kaufman fabric from Tonic Living.  As soon as I saw this fabric on their website, back in January, I ordered it immediately, knowing it was absolutely perfect for bringing in fresh bright spring colour. I even tackled zipper pillows for these instead of my usual envelope style pillows. I will share the tutorial soon.

My yarn wrapped Easter eggs are a great little center piece for now, though I will have to find something to replace them in a few weeks since Easter is so early. Until then, I’m enjoying the bright hit of colour and texture they bring to the living room.  

You’re seeing the living room in a bit of a transition-state right now. I recently moved some furniture around in the living/dining room and the new X bookcases that I ordered from Wayfair are currently in the living room. I can’t lie – I’m not thrilled with it at this point and it will be changing again soon. I’m thinking that we will switch around our media cabinet to a smaller one that we have in the basement and then the scale of the pieces will work a little better. I’m also deciding about whether or not stain the bookcases in the same weathered grey as the dining table, or to paint them out white. I think I will have to wait and see how they look with the new media cabinet.

The dining room is my favourite room these days, or at least one of my favourites. We still love the DIY farmhouse table that we {i.e. my Dad} built with these amazing table legs from Osborne Wood Products. The tutorial and tips for that will be up on the blog soon. I also really like the way that the room feels so much more open now that I have replaced the big faux mantel hutch that we had in here with this lower sofa table. This piece used to live in the entry hall, but moved into the dining room when I recently tweaked the entry hall and added the faux map wallpaper. I’ve freshened it up with some chalk paint and may share some more details on that soon.

I’ll be back tomorrow to share more about this little Spring Vignette – along with the free printable Watercolour cherry blossom art that I made. The “hello spring” watercolour is available as a free printable here  – in 10 different colour choices!! My new super easy and fast No-Sew or Barely-Sew DIY Drapery Panels might be what is making the dining room my favourite these days…

Some more faux cherry blossom stems from Michaels were all I really needed to add a springy feel to the dining table.

From the dining room we look right into our kitchen. In fact, we often eat our meals at the island since it fits our family perfectly (I have one extra stool in the command closet that I pull over to sit at the end of the island). We renovated our kitchen last year and you can read about all the details in this post.

To add a little springy feel to the kitchen I simply popped in some more beautiful faux blossoms from Michaels, as well as these easy DIY Speckled Easter Eggs that I shared the other day. I was so thrilled with how well they turned out – and they were so easy to make!  

I am loving all the spring inside our home – now I’m ready to see a little more of the spring sunshine and a little less of the spring rain outside.

Well, I hope you found some light, bright and cheery spring decorating inspiration! 

 

This week I have joined in with a fabulous group of bloggers who are also sharing their homes all spruced up for spring…

Monday

Lovely Etc. /  All Things With Purpose /  The Happy Housie /  Restless Arrow /  The Turquoise Home

Tuesday

Our House Now a Home /  Seeking Lavender Lane /  Run to Radiance /  Primitive and Proper /  Place of My Taste

Wednesday

House by Hoff /  Blue I Style /  Bigger Than The Three of Us /  Casa Watkins

Thursday

The Tale of an Ugly House /  Boxy Colonial /  A House Full of Sunshine

Friday

Designing Vibes /  Shabby Grace /  Re-Fabbed

All of the amazing bloggers taking part in this Spring Home tour series this week have also joined forces to offer you a fabulous giveaway!

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I may link up at some of these fabulous places below, for more info check out housie parties:  Monday Funday , Inspiration Monday, Nifty Thrifty Tuesday, Project Inspire{d} , Inspire Me Tuesday, The Scoop, Hit Me With Your Best Shot,  Wow Me Wednesday, Whimsy Wednesday ,  From Dream to Reality, The Inspiration Exchange, Wow Us Wednesday, Live Laugh Rowe Live Laugh Linky, Thursdays Are Your Days, Inspire Me Please, Catch as Catch Can, Fabulously Creative Friday, Party Junk,  Pinworthy Projects , Link Party Palooza,, Weekend Bloggy Reading, Strut Your Stuff Saturday, Spotlight Saturday, Suburbs Mama , That DIY Party

 

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