Freshen up your home for Spring

Bring spring into your home with these simple and quick ideas

Breathing life into a room for the new season doesn't have to mean a major decorating overhaul. Just follow our simple projects and spruce up for Spring.

Pretty cushions

Brighten up plain cushions with appliqués made from bits of fabric off cuts.
• Cut out flower shapes in different sizes and layer on top of each other, before pinning and stitching onto the cushion.
• These shapes can also be ironed on using a snip of Wonder Web.

Cushion fabric: for a similar one try Linara Oyster 2494/137, £25.50 per m, Romo

Let in the light
let-in-the-light

Take down your heavy winter curtains and replace them with a soft-coloured voile panel that lets the light stream through.
• Cut two 1m lengths of coloured ribbon – we chose white and fuchsia organza ribbons – and a 1m length of gingham ribbon in a co-ordinating colour.
• Hold the three lengths of ribbon together, then gather around the voile a little lower than halfway down and tie all the ribbons in a bow, allowing the ends to hang down.

Blue voile panel, £9.97 for two, Asda

Ribbons, from a selection, Berisfords Ribbons

Mercury curtain pole, £37.99, for a 1.2m pole, Cope & Timmins

Memory corner
home-gallery

It's a shame to hide your treasured moments away in a photo album – show them off instead.
• Group photos of a favourite event together with a few small mementoes of the occasion in box frames.
• For a unified look, line each frame with fabric and paint in matching colours.

White Ribba box frames, £4.99 each, IKEA

Natural wood frames (painted blue), from £5.99 each, HobbyCraft

Peg up new snaps
ribbon-pics

• Print out your latest digital shots straight away and simply peg them onto a ribbon line for a display you can change as often as new pictures are taken.

Ribbon, from a selection, Berisfords Ribbons. Butterflies, from a selection, HobbyCraft

Primrose pots
primrose-pots

• Pretty potted plants such as primrose brighten up a dark corner.
Make them look special by wrapping the pots in brightly coloured seed packets and tying with ribbon.

Seed packets, from garden centres nationwide.

Ribbon, from a selection, HobbyCraft

Use Spring as your inspiration for a whole room with our shades of Spring green decorating story.

Cut flowers are a great way to bring in Spring. Find out how to care for cut flowers from floral designer Jane Scott .

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