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Red Cottage Spring Home Tour

Spring Home Tour

Welcome! I am so happy to be part of the Styled For Spring Home Tour organized by the very talented Jenna from Wife In Progress.  If you are hopping over from viewing Brown Dog Vintage’s beautiful dining room, so glad you stopped by.  If this is your first visit you can learn a little bit more about me here.

 

When it comes to decorating for the seasons, I am all for it.  But, I always like to challenge myself to spend as little money as possible while still making the space stylish for the season. 

The arrival of spring means the return to colour!  Vibrant, bright colours as well as soft pastel shades.  

Spring Home Tour

Let me show you around our little living room (which also doubles as our family room).  Maybe I should back up a bit for those who are just visiting for the first time.  We live in a little “war-time” house that was built in the 1940’s to house those working in war related industries.  The main floor measures about 550 square feet, and in the case of our home, a basement was added in the 1970’s.  Until very recently the basement housed two bedrooms for our daughters, but one has since moved out on her own and we will be reclaiming that space to create a family room downstairs.  

Spring Home Tour

Our front door enters right into the living room.  I love the neutral white slip covered sofas because they provide the perfect backdrop for any seasonal décor, and quite inexpensive to replace.  While I already had a few springy cushion covers, I supplemented them with run-of-the-mill mismatched pillow cases in pastel shades that I just tucked in my extra pillow forms to create the perfect fit.   An antique quilt has all the right colours and is perfect to cover up with as the evenings are still quite cold.

Spring Home Tour

My favorite thing about our living room is the fireplace that my husband built me a few years ago.  I don’t know what I did without a mantel for so many years.  For spring I have kept it very simple.  I whipped up a spring wreath to hang above the mantel, and will be sharing that tutorial next week.  Most of the other accessories I purchased at yard sales or thrift stores over the years.  I stuffed some faux greenery left over from my wreath project into a wicker wine bottle basket I bought at Goodwill for $2.

Spring Home Tour

 

Spring Home Tour

I do plan on customizing two RAST dressers from Ikea for either side of the fireplace, but for now I have the base of an old hutch a friend’s father made me 30 years ago.  It is the perfect perch our upcycled thrift store lamp, an old enamelware jug filled with a potted pink hydrangea, diy paper mache eggs, and a dollar store bunny tucked in a glass cloche.

Spring Home Tour

Can you tell the chair belongs to the cat! Thank goodness for slipcovers.  They are inexpensive to replace when the cat decides to use them as a scratching post!

Spring Home Tour

Beside the chair is a tiny little stool-turned-side-table.  Some pussy willow branches from the market and a faux green sphere from the dollar store add a touch of spring.

Spring Home Tour

Since we have two rambunctious golden retrievers, we use an ottoman as a coffee table, which is easy to slide over in front of the fireplace when we need the floor space.  An old shallow wooden box holds an old metal bucket with a faux topiary, some candles, and dried roses.

Spring Home Tour

 

Spring Home Tour

Tucked in the corner is an antique ladder that was a gift from a friend who shares my love for chippy old things.  I tied on an old wicker basket and set in last years spring door flower basket to add a pop of color.  Sitting atop a distressed Ikea footstool is a blue glass vase with some left over silver dollar eucalyptus branches.  

spring home tour

Open to the living room is our little tiny dining room.  Last weekend it was all set for spring, but this is how it looks on most days.  A vase of fresh market flowers, a stack of plates and napkins, and a simple linen runner.  The dining room measures only 8 feet by 10 feet.

Spring Home Tour

I hope you have enjoyed our spring home tour!  Don’t forget to visit all the beautiful home tours this week.  Up next is Savvy Apron.  Follow the links below and hop from blog to blog!

Until next time…

Red Cottage Chronicles

 

 

 

Monday

Monday Participants

Wife in Progress // Postcards From The Ridge

Sand Dollar Lane// Lovely Etc. // Noting Grace// Farmhouse For Five

 

Tuesday

Green With Decor // My Life From Home //Bisozozo

One Mile Home & Style // Create & Babble // My Thrift Store Addiction

Paint Yourself a Smile

 

Wednesday

Wednesday participants

Saw Nail and Paint // The Tattered Pew

Brown Dog Vintage // Red Cottage Chronicles // Savvy Apron

 

Thursday

Aratari At Home // Home Made Lovely

Atta Girl Says // Inspiration for Moms // The Happy Housie // Farmhouse on Boone

 

Friday

Friday participants

A Blue Nest // Hashtag Blessed Blog

Bluesky at Home // The Frugal Homemaker // A Purdy Little House

Twelve on Main // Our Crafty Mom

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  1. Meg Green With Decor says

    March 21, 2018 at 10:55 am

    I love the plank wall above your fireplace!!

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  2. Cecilia says

    March 21, 2018 at 11:50 am

    Hi there, excited to be participating in the tour with you. Your home is so charming and your spring wreath is truly stunning! Love it! Blessings, Cecilia @ My Thrift Store Addiction

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  3. Sherry Cole says

    March 21, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    I love all of the pink that you have used in your decor. The flowers are beautiful and I am looking forward to the beautiful wreath tutorial. Happy Spring to you.

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  4. Kelly says

    March 21, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    Maureen I loved your tour! I love your use of flowers and I really enjoyed your wreath! Loved touring with you!

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  5. Leen says

    March 22, 2018 at 9:55 am

    Maureen, your home is so pretty and I love your Spring decorations, especially that pretty wreath!

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  6. Melissa says

    March 22, 2018 at 9:58 am

    This is beautiful Maureen – I love all your flowers and your vintage touches. Happy to be touring with such a great group!

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  7. Steph at One Mile Home & Style says

    March 22, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    Your fireplace is beautiful, and I especially love that wreath hanging above it!

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  8. Jen @ Noting Grace says

    March 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm

    Maureen! I’m dying over that sweet basket on that beautiful vintage ladder! It’s perfection! So much inspo!

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  9. Zografia | Bisozozo says

    March 22, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    I loved every detail in your historic home. You have lots of items with stories to tell! Doesn’t have to be a big house to be gorgeous!

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  10. Sue purdy says

    March 22, 2018 at 5:14 pm

    I love the wreath above the fireplace and the little bunny under the cloche is adorable.

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  11. JaneEllen says

    March 25, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    Is that shiplap over your fireplace and mantel?, love it. Love how your wreath and all your pretties look on your mantel. Your wrath is very pretty. Never seem to bet tired of seeing the gorgeous wreaths, all so different and each one special.
    I get so many great ideas for using items we have from each and every post, so many is hard to decide which idea will copy. Mostly depends on what I have which might be similar.
    We have a small home, a 16×80 single wide mfg. home on 1/2 acre in rural area few miles west of Grand Junction,CO on western side of Rockies. No dining area at all so no dining table/chairs. I still miss our home in KY but real estate here is quite expensive compared to KY. and MT. Before we lived in Mt we lived in San Diego area for 21 yrs.
    In lieu of a mantel Mr.Furry built a shutter shelf for me to do some of my decorating on. Not as nice as your mantel but it works fine. I have a great time switching out decorations season to season and holiday to holiday. Would love to get the Mr. to install shiplap on wall shelf is on.
    Enjoyed seeing your lovely cozy home.
    Happy Spring and Easter

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    • Maureen says

      March 26, 2018 at 7:13 pm

      The one benefit of a small home is it sure is cozy!! Over the mantel we did a faux shiplap using 1/4 mahogany underlay. I think it is also know as luan I believe. It is really inexpensive, and we had it cut into 8 inch widths, and then just nailed up using an air nail gun, and then painted it white. We used nickels as spacers between each board. We then just trimmed out each side with flat simple baseboard moulding. It was a super easy and inexpensive project that I just love!

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