Celebrating Spring With a Cheerful Cottage Style Home Tour

Are you looking for some home decor inspiration now that spring has finally arrived? I don’t know a better way to celebrate the season than to take a tour of our spring cottage-style home.

Spring has finally arrived! And what better time to take you on an early spring tour of our Pacific Northwest cottage on the Puget Sound?

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Welcome to My Spring Cottage Home Tour

The Cottage-Style Living Room Spring Home Tour

It feels so good to brighten up our cottage home after a long and gloomy winter. It’s almost as if a switch has been flipped, and the spring home decor has made our cottage come alive again.

Since the last spring tour I took you on, so many decor changes have been made in the living room.

A New Spring Rug

Ollie was a puppy last year, and here he is in one of my spring tour pics from 2021. We had to take the living room area rug away the previous winter and spring because he wasn’t potty trained yet. It felt so bare!

But now that Ollie is potty trained and a big boy, we have a new rug in this space.

Our new one-of-a-kind vintage rug is from Revival, and I am in LOVE!

Spring Vignettes – Here Are a Few of My Favorite Things

If this is your first time here, I’ll let you in on a little secret…I am passionate about vintage decor, antique finds, greenery, and flowers…LOTS AND LOTS OF FLOWERS!

Vintage finds mixed with flowers and greenery are the best combination for a spring cottage.

I didn’t have this vintage copper-top cabinet \ sideboard last spring. This is one of my all-time favorite vintage finds. I’d like to say it was a thrifted find, but I paid dearly for it, over $600.

It has helped with my “small house” storage dilemma and is perfect for displaying my seasonal vignettes in the living room.

I bought the vintage ceiling tile on a shopping spree in Sumner, Wa. It makes a great focal point in this room, and I plan to eventually make it into a mirror.

Glass and wire cloches and pedestals are the perfect home decor accessory for a pretty spring feel. Displaying a nest with an Easter egg or two and a bit of moss makes a great vignette for the change of season.

I will try to up my game next year and plant pansies in a teacup with a cloche over the following spring season.

I always display vintage books in my seasonal vignettes year-round. I love their look and the simplicity they bring to any space.

Here are more nests with eggs.

I love the vintage birdbath I found years and years ago. The green and white vintage dishes add beautiful spring color to this space.

I have lots of moss bunnies around the house, too. These are great to use in spring tablescapes.

Flowers and Greenery – Fresh and Faux

There may have been a Trader Joe’s shopping trip before I took these pictures for my spring home tour.

The thing is, I don’t always have time to take the 45-minute trip across the Tacoma Narrows toll bridge to get fabulous flowers from TJ’s. And as good a deal as they are, I don’t have any self-control when it comes to flowers, so I do end up spending a lot of money when I’m there.

Spring is the time of year when I like to use faux plants and flowers throughout my cottage. The cut flower garden is not a reality this time of year, so artificial flowers do the trick. And they seriously look real, depending on where you shop for them.

This cute little spring bulb pot is also from Trader Joe’s. They cost the same as a bouquet of fresh flowers and last longer!

When we get to the kitchen, you’ll see some other ways I like to bring the beautiful blooms into the house for spring at a very reasonable and sometimes even free price.

The Color Palette for Spring

I’ve always gone with a more neutral area rug and picked up the brighter spring colors in the room through decorative pillows and throws.

However, with the bold pattern in our new rug, I decided to keep the other textiles in the room more neutral this year. Otherwise, there would have been way too much going on.

I tried to pick up the greens from the rug through greenery and accessories. I’ll probably switch it back up in the summer so stay tuned!

The Spring Cottage-Style Coffee Table

The coffee table is styled with ceramic bunnies and birds, which are always tucked in here and there throughout the cottage.

Daffodil bulbs are a great way to brighten up your home. And as you can see here, they look just as pretty even when they haven’t bloomed yet.

I stuck the container in my urn and covered the edges with Spanish moss. Of course, it bloomed two days after I took all my pictures.

Here’s the same view with the daffodils swapped for a vase of assorted flowers. As you can see here, I always try to start with a tray or something that adds height to the spring decor on my coffee table.

I found this wooden tray at Target last winter under Hearth and Hand but it seems to be sold out.

A Cabinet Full of Vintage Ironstone

My vintage ironstone and transferware live in this china cabinet year-round.

I switch colorful china in and out depending on the time of year. I removed the red and white transferware for Christmas and Valentine’s Day and kept it mostly white ironstone for spring.

The Cottage-Style Kitchen Spring Home Tour

Welcome to one of my favorite rooms in our home, the cottage-style kitchen. Here I’ll take you on the spring kitchen tour.

Our kitchen is a bit on the small side but we do have enough room for a small island and dining table at the eating area.

My husband built the pot rack for me which I absolutely love. This is a great place to hang my vintage copper pots and dried flowers from my cutting garden.

We will be taking on the project of upcycling this dresser once again and I can’t wait to show you when it’s finished.

Using Bright Greens on the Countertops

By adding spring flowers and greenery to our cottage kitchen, this space really does come alive.

These stunning green vintage seltzer bottles make quite a statement. You might remember them from last spring’s living room tour.

Garden-Inspired Spring Decor

Putting spring bulbs and flowering plants in a cute pot with some moss is such an easy way to bring beautiful blooms into the house.

You can find packs of violas and pansies basically anywhere for a great price.

The Eating Area Decorated in Many Ways for Spring

Here’s our kitchen eating area. We added the window seat and took a wall out between the kitchen and living room to make more room for the dining table.

I went with blush-colored printed pillows from Target in this space since I couldn’t do much in the living room.

Here, you can see I made a super simple centerpiece for everyday living.

I added yet another glass cloche with a nest of eggs. A bowl full of faux green apples gives this spring vignette a pop of color.

A few flowering branches were cut and brought in to force bloom them right in front of our eyes.

This is the easiest and cheapest way to bring the outdoors inside. I start cutting branches from the yard in the winter. I’m actually going to cut some lilac branches this week to see how they do. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Here’s a shot from last year when I force-bloomed forsythia in this space.

Garden-Inspired Spring Tablescapes

I love bringing the outdoors in, especially when the weather doesn’t allow for dining alfresco.

FUN FACT: Our contractor found this big butcher block at a Dunkin Donuts that was going out of business and added it to our dresser.

It took almost 10 years to get to this point, but we’ve added the charm and character this beach cottage deserves.

Read more about our 100-year-old beach house and how it became “our forever home”.

I hope you’ve enjoyed our cottage-style spring home tour this year. Thank you for being here to celebrate the fact that spring is finally here. Have you seen last year’s spring home tour?

If you have any questions or additional suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below. And be sure to share this blog post link with anyone who may enjoy these spring home decor ideas.

Until next time,

Happy Spring Decorating!

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