Refreshing your home for spring can bring about a sense of birds chirping and warm, fresh air. That feeling of planting flowers in pots for the front yard or the front porch. Such a colorful, cheerful season! One of the many reasons I love it so much.
But what about inside our homes? They can sometimes do with a spring refresh too. Here are several ways to get your home spring ready and refreshed for a new season of cheer and color.
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In the bedroom
The simplest and quickest way to freshen up a bedroom is with cooler, spring-like bedding. I love Target’s bedding options because of all the fun spring patterns, colors and pricepoints. Here a few of my favorites similar to the one I have in our guest room(which is sadly discontinued).
- Ditsy Floral – 400 Thread Count Printed Performance Sheet
- Floral – Printed Cotton Percale Sheet
- Khaki- 400 Thread Count Performance Sheet
I am a huge fan of having a set of sheets for each season, especially in our guest room because I think it adds that extra little touch for guests. ☺️
During the winter I absolutely love a good flannel, they are so soft and cozy. I buy mine after the season is over to get great deals. My boys and husband love their flannel sheets so they have spring/summer and fall/winter sheets as well.
For spring or summer I prefer cotton or percale because they are more cooling and it gets hot here in Texas starting around April or May. So we use these sheets at least 9 months out of the year!
Spring cleaning
They don’t call it spring cleaning for nothing! I have a fun little history lesson for you:
Did you know that during darker winter months, the body produces more melatonin, a hormone that increases sleepiness. As days lengthen, this natural lethargy lessens and we literally feel “lighter.” With greater energy, we’re more likely to want to clean our homes. During the Victorian era (1838 to 1901), people largely burned coal for warmth and used oil or gas lamps for light. By winter’s end, windows and furnishings were covered in coal dust and oily grime. The pioneering English journalist Isabella Beeton canonized spring cleaning in her popular Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, where she states that “spring is the usual period set apart for house-cleaning.”
There are other cultures and biblical histories in spring cleaning as well…but just thought I’d share that little tidbit with you!
Although I tend to be a clean personn, there are a few things I often neglect such as dusting certain places that I overlook or don’t regularly think of cleaning. I say dust all these things. Air return vents, hard-to-reach shelves, or just shelves, baseboards, lamps—anything you don’t clean on the regular.
I say do a deep vacuum. Have you ever heard of deep vacuumimg vs. just vacuuming? Instead of going back and forth with the vacuum as you regularly do, go in slow, steady and intentional strokes to really get the deep dirt and debris out of the rug or carpet. Plus, it is so satisfying!
Plants
Plants and flowers are often front of mind when we think of spring. So this is a great time to add plants and flowers and to take care of the ones you already have.
For all your current plants: it is time to feed them with every watering. They need food just like any living thing. You can actually use this plant food all year around when you water, but if you prefer only spring and summer then double the dose because it is growing season so it gives extra nutrients to plants that are using all their energy to grow and use all they have during this season.
In addition to caring for our plants, we can also rearrange or add plants to new areas in our home or if we want to change it up and put some in different places or rooms than they usually or have been residing. It is fun to switch it up every season. Sometimes they want more light or we just want a different look for that space.
Adding a plant or vase of flowers next to your bedside is always a good idea! But spring is a great time for this especially for all the reasons we love spring. Rebirth, new life, growth and everything we think of when we think of spring! What better feeling to have next you where you sleep?
Tell me what you’ll do to freshen up your space for spring! Next up…ways to freshen up outdoors for spring.
