Spring Home and Mantel Decor Ideas for 2024 – jane at home (2024)

Good morning! Around this time of year my thoughts turn to decorating our home for spring. If you’re feeling the same way, I thought this would be a great time to share some spring decor ideas with you, including a few tips for decorating a spring mantel, as well.

Spring is a time of renewal, so it’s no wonder we feel like refreshing our homes this time of year. If you’re ready to decorate your home for the new season, I hope these spring decorating ideas will help you update your home in a way that will look fresh and cohesive throughout the spring and summer months.

Since I’m all about keeping things easy, the spring decor ideas in this post involve creative ways of using colors, textures, and items you already have around your house, like greenery, woven elements, trays, and pillows.

Intimate Living Interiors

Whether you like to go all out with decorating for spring or prefer to just add a few simple seasonal touches here and there, these modern spring home decor ideas and spring mantel ideas will help you embrace the season, indoors and out.

And, if you’re looking for spring table ideas, you might also be interested in my post, Beautiful Spring and Easter Table Setting and Centerpiece Ideas for 2024.

When to decorate for spring

I usually start decorating for spring in early to mid-March, or at least by the first day of spring, which this year falls on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

However, whenever you feel a desire to refresh your home for the new season, I say go for it! Life is too short to live in spaces that don’t bring us joy.

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Spring Decor Ideas for 2024

Below, you’ll find some easy spring decor ideas and spring mantels featuring organic modern elements, interesting textures, and lighter hues for spring, all without a lot of fuss or expense.

1. Use organic, natural elements for a modern spring look

When decorating our home for spring, I like to begin by gathering fresh branches and greenery from outdoors. There’s nothing easier — or more beautiful — and it’s one of my favorite tips for decorating for spring on a budget.

Here’s a beautiful space showing how the simple addition of a few spring branches, along with some wood elements, pottery, and framed artwork, can create a modern spring look in the kitchen.

Amber Interiors

This is the perfect time of year to gather freshly-cut tree and shrub branches and place them in water, allowing them to blossom indoors.

Studio McGee

It’s a beautiful and inexpensive way to decorate your home for spring.

Pure Salt Interiors

Adding fresh flowers to your spaces is one of the easiest ways to decorate your home for spring. I love the idea of adding some flowers to the bathroom!

AKB Design Studio

If fresh flowers aren’t available, green and flowering house plants are a great way to bring the beauty of nature indoors.

Jean Stoffer Interior Design

The bathroom is one of the best places in the home to add a touch of green for spring and summer.

Studio McGee

Trader Joe’s is my favorite place to find affordable fresh greenery and flowers.

Pure Salt Interiors

Adding some fresh fruits and vegetables to your kitchen countertops is another great way to bring a touch of spring to the kitchen.

Brandon Architects and Patterson Custom Homes

If you don’t have access to fresh flowers or plants, then faux is the way to go. I’m often amazed at how real artificial plants and flowers can look. Many give off the same fresh vibe as living plants.

Pure Salt Interiors

Faux plants are the perfect solution for shelves, coffee tables and other wood or marble surfaces, because you don’t have to worry about ruining your surfaces with water.

2. Add some interest with textiles

Next, throw in a few pillows, throws, and layered rugs in lighter spring tones and textures.

Pure Salt Interiors for Katrina Scott

One of the easiest ways to bring a fresh look to your couch, chairs, and beds is by adding new pillows — or simply rearranging the pillows you already own.

House of Jade Interiors – Pillows

A new pillow arrangement in our living room is my favorite (and easiest!) way to update our home for springtime.

linen pillow – pillow – pillow – similar sofa – similar rug

H & M, Pottery Barn, and West Elm are great sources for spring pillow covers. They offer linen, cotton, and velvet versions in every hue.

I love the beautiful mix of pillows in this stylish living room:

Pure Salt Interiors – similar sectionals here and here – similar coffee tables here and here

Adding layered bedding in neutral tones is a great way to update your bedroom for spring while retaining a feeling of coziness:

The Heart and Haven

If your pillow collection has grown to the point where it’s taking up an embarrassing amount of space in a closet (like mine), you might want to think about buying pillow covers from now on and reusing the inserts from pillows you already own.

Here’s a gorgeous spring bedroom with luxurious bedding and pillows in light hues:

Alexis Andra Austin

For tips on creating pillow combinations for your sofa and bed, see my post, How to Mix and Match Throw Pillows on a Bed or Sofa.

3. Refresh your styling

Lightening up your home for the new season can be as simple as making little styling tweaks to coffee tables, side tables, console tables, shelves, mantels, and kitchen countertops.

Intimate Living Interiors

Even the mudroom or laundry room can benefit from a spring refresh, via some fresh or faux flowers in a pretty basket.

Oakstone Homes

A bowl of lemons and/or lush green plant is a beautiful way to refresh your kitchen for spring.

Christine Andrew – counter stools

Even something as simple as a new dish towel draped over the sink can add a fresh touch of spring decor to the kitchen. Here’s my favorite source for pretty dish towels.

Kitchen

4. Update your bedding for spring

Spring is all about awakening, so this is the perfect time to freshen up your bedroom for the warmer months with some new spring bedding in lighter tones and textures.

Design Loves Detail – similar cabinet

If you’re looking for spring bedding for 2024, Serena & Lily and Pottery Barn both have a beautiful selection of bedding, including linen duvet covers and sheets.

Pure Salt Interiors

Or, simply refresh your look by switching out your heavy winter blankets, throws, and pillows with lighter-weight and lighter-toned versions.

Pure Salt Interiors –chandelier

I love white bedding year-round–but especially in spring and summer, because it makes the bedroom feel calm and cool.

Lisa Sherry Interieurs

5. Rearrange the furniture

One of the easiest ways to update your home for spring is to rearrange your furniture. Sometimes I forget what a huge difference this simple tweak can make.

The Life Styled Co.

Rearranging the furniture only costs a few minutes of time (and maybe a few sore muscles), but it can return dividends in satisfaction, making you fall in love with your home again.

Home Beautiful

Not only does moving the furniture change the look of your home, it can change the way you use and live in your spaces during the warmer months.

For more living room ideas, see my post, Living Room Ideas and Trends for 2024.

6. Sprinkle in some color

For a fresh spring look, think about adding lush greens, sky blues, sunset pinks, and cloud whites to your spaces.

Pure Salt Interiors – pendant lights

These nature-inspired hues never fail to bring the vibrancy of the season inside.

Hearth Room

When it comes to adding color to your home, you can never go wrong with pairing colors that exist together in nature.

Pure Salt Interiors – similar coffee tables here and here

Reminiscent of the sea and sky, blue is the perfect way to bring a fresh spring feeling to your space.

Barrow Building Group

7. Freshen up your shelving and fireplace mantel for spring

If you’re wondering how to decorate shelves or a fireplace mantel for spring, flowers, foliage, leaves or branches picked from your garden or bought from the supermarket are easy ways to breathe life into a spring mantel or open shelving without a lot of fuss.

Pure Salt Interiors

I love this beautiful beach house style home. Mixing a mirror with smaller artwork and adding a couple of candle sticks and/or greenery creates a curated and interesting look without going overboard.

Pure Salt Interiors for Katrina Scott

Sentimental objects, perhaps a favorite piece of artwork or photo from a family vacation, can inject personality and can give new life to your fireplace mantel.

Julie Howard for Timber Trails

A spring garland, draped on top of or along the front of a mantel (using small Command hooks), is another great way to make your mantel look fresh in an instant.

Target, HomeGoods, Marshalls, and TJ Maxx are a few of my favorite places to buy affordable spring mantel decor.

Spring mantel styling tips

Here are a few styling tips for decorating a mantel — or just about any surface.

• If you don’t have a TV above your fireplace, create a central focal point with a mirror or large piece of artwork.
• Use a stack of books to raise objects off the mantel. If you don’t like the way the book bindings look, turn them around to reveal their lighter-colored pages.
• Combine items in groups of threes–preferably with a tall item, a shorter sculptural item, and a horizontal item.
• Balance hard and soft objects, as well as things with different textures, colors, tones, and styles.
• Layer by placing some things in front of others and some off to the side, to create more depth and give your mantel a natural look.
• Edit — move things around until you achieve the look you’re going for.

8. Update your artwork

One of my favorite spring decor ideas is to switch out artwork for something that reflects the fun, carefree feeling of spring and summer.

Pure Salt Interiors – artwork

Any space can benefit from an instant spring refresh with a new piece of artwork. Here, a large landscape print adds a fresh touch to the entryway:

Lindye Galloway Interiors – artwork

9. Let in more light

As the hours of sunshine increase each day, this is the perfect time to maximize the amount of light in your home by replacing heavy or dark curtains with white or lighter-colored versions–or removing them altogether!

Pure Salt Interiors

Another easy way to let in more sunshine is to raise your window shades a bit higher during the day.

Kitchen

In the same vein, think about tweaking your artificial lighting sources, too. Replacing lamps and light fixtures with new ones can give an entirely new look to a room.

Alexis Andra Austin – chandelier

We recently added the pendant lights shown in the space below to our kitchen and I love how they instantly transformed our home.

Ali Henrie Design

For more lighting ideas, see my post, Kitchen Island Lighting Ideas for 2024.

10. Freshen up the patio and porch

The patio is one of my favorite spaces to decorate for spring and summer. I love the fresh feeling of the outdoor space below.

Pure Salt Interiors

Here’s a look at our covered patio, decorated with plenty of blue and white and an abundance of flowers and plants for spring.

Patio

Adding outdoor curtains and a few pillows and decorative pieces makes this area feel like a spring and summer extension of our home.

See my post, Beautiful Patio Ideas for 2024, for more decorating ideas for your patio and outdoor spaces.

Spring wreaths

Adding a wreath to your front door is one of the easiest ways to decorate your front porch and home for spring. It instantly refreshes your home and gives your guests, neighbors, and the Amazon delivery person a reason to smile.

Wreath

If you’re looking for fresh wreaths to decorate your home for spring and Easter, many nurseries, home improvement stores and grocery stores carry beautiful wreaths this time of year.

Or, you can order amazing fresh and dried natural wreaths online. My post, Spring Wreath Ideas, shares all sorts of beautiful spring wreath ideas for 2024.

I also share some beautiful and affordable spring home decor ideas in this post: The New Studio McGee Target Collection.

I hope you found these spring decorating ideas helpful. Let me know if you have any questions on how to decorate your home and mantel for spring! xo jane

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