How to Create a Cottage Style Seasonal Refresh: Early Spring Home Tour

Are you looking for spring home decor inspiration and ideas now that the season is fast approaching? In this post, I’ll take you on a spring home tour of my kitchen and laundry room while sharing some simple home decor ideas for refreshing a cottage-style home in early spring.

Spring may not quite be here officially, but it has arrived inside our beach cottage, and I couldn’t be happier. The winter decor is packed away and replaced with seasonal flowers, bunnies, and more color.

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Spring Home Decor Ideas and Home Tour

Today, I’m sharing my cottage-style kitchen and laundry room to show you how I refreshed these spaces for the spring season.

Spring is the time of year when our home seems to wake up. I look forward to the longer days and the bright colors spring offers.

I try to change things up every spring. Whether it’s the color scheme, adding newly purchased vintage pieces, or showing off a different rug, it’s always fun sharing new ideas when refreshing my cottage-style spaces.

For more spring decorating ideas, check out past year’s spring home tours:

About Our Cottage Style Kitchen

I would describe our home as cottage-style with coastal and industrial touches.

Our beach cottage has simple, comfortable spaces with a relaxed feel. Throughout our 1920s house, you’ll also find plenty of thrifted finds.

We like to call our home “perfectly imperfect.”

Our cozy little cottage kitchen was ripped down to the studs a few years after we moved in. The before-and-after pictures of our seventies/eighties kitchen are pretty dramatic.

Here are a few things about our cottage-style kitchen before we move on:

Spring Kitchen Decor Ideas

Swap Out Your Kitchen Linens and Decor

Changing out my winter decor for more vibrant colors and patterns gives me a great head start to the spring season.

Kitchen linens like cloth napkins, dishtowels, tablecloths, and placemats are easy to refresh. I have the best luck with patterned napkins at HomeGoods. Their prices are hard to beat.

Adding spring home decor is as easy as refreshing throw pillows on the window seat of my eating space.

I love that Target now offers pillows with a zipper. This way, I can remove the pillow inserts and easily store only the pillow cover. This has been a game-changer when it comes to storage challenges around here.

Add Spring Flowers & Greenery to Your Kitchen

Nothing says spring better than adding beautiful flowers and greenery to your kitchen.

Rather than displaying a vase with fresh spring flowers for this tour, I added potted flowering plants to vintage pieces with some Spanish moss.

I’ll keep them indoors for a week or two and then transplant them into containers outdoors.

Another spring home decor idea is displaying bunches of dried flowers from last year’s summer garden off the pan rack, which is a great touch.

Add herbs like mint and basil to a vase to bring a natural aroma to your kitchen.

Remember to use realistic faux flowers when fresh blooms aren’t an option. I also have faux greenery throughout the kitchen.

Use Seasonal Fruit as Spring Decor

Placing a bowl of fresh or faux seasonal fruit is the easiest way to create a spring home decor vignette. I chose faux lemons because they brighten up my cottage-style kitchen.

These faux artichokes look so realistic in this ceramic bowl. They were a bit expensive, but I would buy them again. They are such good quality, and I can use them for years.

Bring in the Spring Season with Tableware

Change up your dinnerware and glassware to reflect the spring season.

Swap your regular dishware for colorful plates, cups, and bowls on the open shelves. For the spring season, I tend to use greens and yellows more.

Check out the past Easter tablescapes I’ve shared on the blog:

Incorporate Vintage Thrifted Finds

It doesn’t matter what the season is, I love showing off my flea market finds in any season.

These beautiful green vintage seltzer bottles took my breath away when I first saw them, and I couldn’t be happier with my investment.

SHOP HERE for vintage seltzer bottles.

In the past, I’ve displayed my vintage copper pieces in the fall and winter months and then packed them up in the spring.

But these gorgeous copper pots fit in perfectly with my spring home decor. I love how my plants look inside.

SHOP HERE for vintage copper pots.

Engage Your Senses with Fragrance

For spring, add a scented candle or essential oils to your kitchen. You can also simmer potpourri on the stove.

Incorporate Natural Elements

Natural elements in a kitchen typically bring a warm, inviting, and earthy feeling to a kitchen space.

Display natural elements, like baskets. Place wooden accents on your countertops, like cutting boards and serving trays.

Laundry Room Refresh and Spring Home Decor Ideas

We have a 1600 square foot house with small rooms. However, the laundry room is not one of them!

This area was added on decades after it was originally built in 1920. This room is the hub of the house, and every single space is utilized.

The dog door gives my boys, Jax and Ollie, freedom to the dog run on the other side.

We found the green vintage piece at Habitat for Humanity before we closed on the house, and it was meant to live in this spot.

The original linoleum inspired the black-and-white tile. We needed to replace the flooring, but we loved how the black-and-white looked here. I love it because it’s something I would have never had here and is completely different from the rest of the house.

Storage is scarce in our comfy cottage, so we have cabinets for additional storage space.

As you can see, vintage pieces are a big deal in our laundry room. Some of these pieces fit perfectly with my other spring home decor.

I change out the faux greenery and florals seasonally in this vintage scale. It amazes me how realistic the faux succulents are looking these days.

I create flower arrangements in the laundry room, storing many of my containers, planters, vases, and flower frogs here.

Spring home decor in the laundry room includes these faux succulents in this charming rustic yellow toolbox.

I don’t have to do much in the laundry room. The space is garden-inspired, and my collections of flower frogs and garden pots speak for themselves.

Baskets are hung on the wall and set on the bench for harvesting flowers and vegetables.

More Spring Home Decor Ideas and Tours to Come

I hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s spring kitchen and laundry room home tour.

You can also see Part 2 of my Spring Home Tour, where I featured my living room, office, and bedroom.

If you have any questions or additional suggestions, please share them in the comments below. And be sure to share this blog post link with anyone who may enjoy my spring home tour.

Until next time,

Happy Spring!

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