Hello everyone! I’m sharing a little spring refresh in the living room! I used things I already had and just brought some yellow and florals into the room to give it more of a cozy spring feel.
I brought back the gold kilim pillows my daughter gifted me a few years back, and added some red velvet from Walmart a few years ago as well. I made the floral pillow covers out of the Kaufmann Queensland fabric I bought about five years ago. I’m seeing a lot of that particular 1990s-era fabric in cottage-style decor this season.
The Kalandiva plant has finished blooming, so I brought it in here from the bedroom and love it even without blooms. I added some of graddaddy and great grandmother’s books as well as a brass candelabra mother bought in Lebanon in the 1970s.
I bought the yellow pillow covers five years ago on amazon, but they are no longer available. I’ve really enjoyed them over the last few years.
The red tole lamp was a facebook marketplace find last year, and I still love it. The inherited Chinese Ancestor prints hang on windows from the old house.
On great grandmother’s chaise, I added another of the yellow pillows and a larger floral one I made. I also made the solid red pillow cover years ago. I bought the Moroccan wedding blanket probably seven-eight years ago at World Market.
The box was a find in Germany, and the brass incense burner is an inherited antique from India.
My great grandfather and grandmother are in the top photo with my great aunt and uncle.
I clipped some of my grandmother’s “Mock Orange” branches from mother’s garden and added some of the peonies my great grandfather planted.
I love how the simple addition of plants can really make a room feel like spring, but also a few pops of yellow just feel like this season to me.
I really just changed a few things around and rotated some others for a fresh new look. I prefer to rotate instead of buying/purging then going through that never-ending cycle again. It makes me appreciate the things I do have, and nothing just sits in a closet not getting used. I like to use what I have and make it pretty❤️
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Anita
It warms my heart that you have blooms from plants your grandmother and great grandfather planted! That you know where they are planted and who [loved] and planted them….very special.
As always, your room additions are lovely!
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Thank you! Yes, I am very sentimental about things like that🙂
Love your beautiful Summer decor. Yes I do just move things around, I love all the different decor I use so , why not!
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Absolutely, Marlene!!
You know how much I love your use of red…and the pops of yellow do make it feel a bit like spring. Such richness in textures, but the true richness is in the family heirlooms you treasure. ( SO do I !) Beautiful room, wish we were neighbors! sending hugs, Alda
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I appreciate that Alda, thank you!
Love the pops of yellow and the beautiful flowers you cut from your garden! How special they are from your family!! Happy Spring!!
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Thank you so much Linda🙂
I love your cozy darker walls and how they work beautifully through all of the seasons! The yellow adds pops of sunlight. 🙂
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Thank you so much Susie! That’s exactly why I went back to that color, and it really makes all the changes I make with colors work so well🙂
Absolutely stunning!! I just love those deep rich colors!!
Hugs,
Deb
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