by Blake Hertzog
It’s Time to Bring Spring Inside. Take a hint from the vanishing snow as the colors of spring start to peek out.
It’s time to brighten up your living quarters with vibrant, warm colors, oodles of natural surfaces and a light more laid-back approach to mixing and matching patterns and furniture.
Trends flit in and out every year or two but aligning the little details of your home décor with the weather outside is timeless, a reset of your mindset and appreciation for the splendor of the four seasons we’re privileged to enjoy here in Greater Prescott.
Here are some classic strategies to lasso some of that spring essence and wrangle it into your home on the range.
LIGHTEN WITH MIRRORS
Find some cute, easy-to-clean mirrors to place strategically around your home to magnify every ray of natural sunlight you can. This can become a great DIY project if you look for creative ways to frame or reframe them with reclaimed wood, “sunbursts” of branches or metallic rods or whatever else you have on hand.
PLACE FLOWERS, PLANTS EVERYWHERE
Fresh or dried, show them off in vases large and small, break a bouquet into bud vases, put delicate arrangements under a glass dome, stash some wildflowers into a watering can.
Then add some of your favorite indoor plants. Even if they don’t look like anything you’d find in the wild around here, they’ll infuse your interior with a taste of the outdoors.
Spruce up the fireplace
This coveted home feature inevitably goes into hibernation for the warmer months, but don’t let it just sit there. The mantel is an ideal showplace for fresh blooms and branches, plants, colorful baskets, springy art and more!
Just pick one element as your focal point to give it some definition, and you might want to keep a little firewood handy, given our unpredictable climate.
Weave in the rattan
These chairs and tables are usually found outdoors but they’re so pretty and on the delicate side, so why shouldn’t they be part of your interior? Swap the high-backed dining room chairs for these or scatter them throughout your floorplan to share the sunniness with everyone.
Pick pastels
Now is the time to embrace these soft yet soulful hues that tend to get lost next to the dramatic holiday colors and feel washed out next to the more subdued hues of the long winter’s nap that follows.
As the outside greens up, we can see our robin’s egg blue blankets, lavender throw pillows, minty green placemats and floral print tablecloths with all of the colors in the pastel rainbow.
Show off your shelves
Let any open shelving you have, whether it’s floating shelves, glass-fronted cabinets or a wall unit, burst with color as you put anything colorful, especially pinks and yellows, out to shine!
