Spring Home Tour with Annie Selke

I returned home to Dallas last week from Los Angeles, where I attended the Design Bloggers Conference (more on that later), to find that my trees in the yard were all blooming. Spring! It’s arriving! I couldn’t be more excited! So today I’m sharing with you a few things I’m doing to “freshen up my home” for the spring in this Spring Home Tour, sponsored by our friends at Annie Selke.

For those of you coming from Shabbyfufu, welcome! Isn’t Janet’s home so dreamy?! It always feels magical when I’m visiting her beautiful home through her blog. I hope you’re pinning away and feeling inspired. Welcome back to all my regular readers and I’m so glad that you come often to share ideas!

Ok, so there are a few things I do in the spring to “freshen up” my home.

Let’s head into my master bedroom.  First, I give everything a good wash, right down to the mattress cover.  I vacuum all our mattresses with the hand-held attachment on my vacuum and then I steam the mattresses (I used to do it once a month but then I had kids and now I do it once a quarter, ha) to kill any dust mites.  I take out any fur rugs or throw blankets and substitute them for something lighter.

I normally have a large, heavier quilt on the end of my bed, that we like to snuggle up with if we’re not getting all the way into the bed and under the sheets. Instead, I replaced it with this gorgeous WRUFFLE IVORY MATELASSÉ THROW from Annie Selke’s Pinecone Hill.

I love the light knit and the lovely crochet trim around the edges. It’s the perfect pretty throw blanket I needed here for the spring and summer and I love its vintage charm.  I also do something else….I pull out my open-toed slippers.  You may find it odd, but I can not walk barefoot on our floors downstairs.  They are just so hard on my feet and I know it’s bad and dries them out too.  But I don’t like my heavy, warm slippers I use in the winter.  So these are just the perfect pair.  Aren’t they just the prettiest house slippers?!

I also replaced the other boudoir pillow I had on the bed for this WRUFFLE IVORY MATELASSÉ DECORATIVE PILLOW from Annie Selke that matches the throw perfectly. I like it so much better.  It is the thickest, softest pillow and I love the waffle weave texture.  I love relaxing against it when I’m reading to the kids.

Both the quilt and the pillow are from Annie Selke’s new Artisanal Collection that Annie is calling her “or•glam•ic” line.  How cute is that?!  Organic with a little glam….right up my alley!

In Texas, it just doesn’t get cold enough to use flannel or heavier sheets in the fall and winter.  But if you use them where you live, now is the time to get out your crisp cotton sheets and put them on the beds and put the others away.


If you visited my master bedroom recently from my Updated Vanity and Master Bedroom Tour, you saw this lovely vanity I switched out from the previous one.  In the spring, I often have fresh flowers here.  Just not today, as we are traveling a bit.  But I do switch out any of my body sprays or lotions for lighter floral scents and toss any perfumes that I am not using or liking or smell a little old.  They don’t last forever, ya know!

In that same post, I was still looking for a pair of matching chairs to put on either side of this little French provincial end table. I’m still looking for that perfect pair, but until then I decided to bring these two vintage chairs upstairs and put them here.  It’s so pretty with the sunlight coming in, I had to have a place to sit.  And let’s try to pretend that Josh doesn’t throw his clothes on them at the end of the day (cringe).  Haha!  I know I’m not alone in this…right, ladies?

One, I found at a garage sale for less than $50 and it was a hot mess. It was mustard yellow worn velvet with a TON of cat hair all over it. Painting the edges white and recovering it with linen was a labor of love but well worth it. A good friend actually saw it in her neighbor’s yard sale and texted me a picture and told me I had to have it. I agreed. This was back in Waco and was the last thing I purchased there before we move to Vegas. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we’ve moved a lot for my husband’s job in the last 5 years. (Ruffle throw blanket sold HERE in my online shoppe.)

This other chair was my Great Aunt Wanda’s and she gave it to me when I got married before she passed. Oh how I just loved her! But I didn’t love the bright red velvet and dark trim so much. So I had a friend’s father reupholster it (back when we lived in Waco) and I painted the wood as well. I’m so happy with the way it turned out.

The chairs may not be matching, but that’s okay. I think it gives this room a little more character and they are pieces that I love and have sentimental value.

Let’s move on to the Dining Room…I love love love fresh flowers.

These gorgeous hyacinths were a bunch that I purchased at Trader Joe’s right before leaving to Beverly Hills for the Design Bloggers Conference. They had a variety of colors so I bought the pink, fuchsia, and darker purple. I had every intention of arranging them in something beautiful, but while waiting to arrange them, they sat in this lovely white marble pitcher overnight and just sort of stayed there. I thought they looked so pretty that I didn’t want to disturb them.  It doesn’t have to be fancy to be pretty, right?!

Once they passed on to flower heaven (which was by the time I returned from my trip because no one in my house knows how to take care of flowers but me haha), I decided to move a few of my {many} mercury glass candlesticks into the dining room and put them on the center of the table. But they seemed to be a bit dull and I wanted to liven them up.

I’m using green a lot in my home this spring.  You’ll see more of that on Wednesday and next week in some fun upcoming posts.  I remembered loving some gorgeous candle wreaths from Magnolia Market that I used in one of my Christmas Dinner Tables, so I decided to make a little spring version set.

All I did was grab a few bunches of pretty faux boxwood stems and used a little floral wire to connect 3 pieces together in a circle, at 4 different spots (1/2 inch long at each spot).  I covered the wire with a little floral tape and voila! Easy peasy!  All 3 took me about 2o minutes and definitely brings a bit of spring to these pretty candlesticks.

Last week, I shared how you could have peonies all year long. Did you get to visit and read that post? If not, you can click HERE.  I love flowers all year long in my home, be it fresh or faux. But I believe everyone should enjoy flowers around your home in the spring time. Peonies are my favorite. What are yours?  I have a special place for these beauties so stay tuned!

Well, there are a few ideas for now to get you started and ease into Spring.  Freshen up your bedroom with some new bedding options for spring and take care of those mattresses!  Change up your furniture to keep things “fresh” and different without buying all new furniture.  And bring some floral, fresh or faux, and place them around the home.  I think you can do it, don’t you?!  Here are some shopping links I’ve included below, for your convenience.

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I’ll be bringing you several other tips in the next couple of weeks, along with some yummy recipes so make sure and stay tuned. I would love it if you subscribed at the top of the page in order to receive my weekly emails of all my latest posts.  You can also follow me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to see what I’m up to in creating a home and lifestyle of inspiration!

Now, please head on over to my dear friend Tanya at A Darling Daydream to see what she’s sharing with you this Spring.  I just know you’ll just fall in love with her home and never want to leave!  And please make sure to visit my 3 other ridiculously talented friends as well to see what they are sharing with you today!  We love sharing our new favorite Annie Selke goodies and our spring ideas with you!

ShabbyFufu    StylehouseInteriors    ThePinkDream   A Darling Daydream

See you soon!

xoxo,