How to Incorporate Touches of Spring Into Your Apartment

By Francine Fluetsch on April 20, 2017

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Spring has sprung! While summer is just around the bend, we need to enjoy spring while we can! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and it is the perfect time for you to liven your apartment up with some touches of spring.

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Invest in some plants

Plants are a great way to make your apartment feel like spring. You can get a few for your back patio that thrive in the sunlight, have one or two on your windowsill to spruce up your kitchen and add some color to your shared spaces, or have a few in your room to make your sleep space feel pretty and smell great.

If you’re like me and have a hard time keeping plants alive, you can get succulents with flowers on them to keep the color in there without the worry of killing it after a few days.

You can also opt to DIY your own mini fruit garden if you want some plants that will give you some tasty treats. These will be a little trickier, but there are tons of helpful tutorial videos on YouTube that will turn you into a green thumb in no time.

Add pops of color

Nothing screams spring like some more color in your life. You can invest in a cute throw rug for your living room and a matching blanket for your rental couch. Once the bigger pops of color are settled, you can add smaller floral pillows to complete the look.

For the dining room, you can get a cheap table cover with some flowers on it, or just a solid pastel color, to add the spring to your dining room. You can decorate with flowers on the table (real or fake), or invest in some cheap white picture frames to hang up some new photos in lighter colors to emulate spring.

Incorporate spring smells

If you want your place to smell like spring, you can invest in some nice spring candles (my personal favorites are from Bath and Body Works), get some Febreze plug-ins, or get some of those Febreze fabric refreshers to make your furniture give off the scents of spring too. Or why not invest in all of them? Just make sure that the scents you get can mingle and mix.

Engage in spring cleaning

This one might not sound very fun, but you’ll feel so much better once you do it. You can tackle your closet first by cleaning out any of the winter clothes you won’t be needing, and then move towards the spring clothes that you haven’t had a desire to pull out of the closet just yet.

If you’re like me and have a hard time letting clothes go, even when you know you don’t wear them, tell yourself you can go shopping for some new spring attire once you get rid of some old clothes. Donate them to help other people out, and keep the receipt so you can write it off on your taxes. Cleaning is a win-win for everyone.

Once your closet is done, you can move to the boxes that you haven’t finished unpacking under your bed, sort through common areas with your roommates to see what needs to be there and what clutter has accumulated that is just taking up space, and then top it off by a deep cleaning session where you actually bother vacuuming and using bleach.

Spring it up outdoors

Now that it’s finally starting to get nicer outside, why not take advantage of it and deck out your patio, porch, or tiny yard? You can make a little sitting area where you can study or have a snack with some friends after class, hang a hammock for an afternoon nap after a busy day of classes, or just do simple spring decorations like hanging a bird feeder or getting a cute outdoor lawn ornament.

It’s quite easy to make your backyard/hang out area ready for spring, and you should take advantage of it now before the midst of summer hits and it’s too hot to be outside.

It’s the little things

If you don’t want to do anything too crazy for spring, why not just add some simple décor here and there to make your place feel different and new without all the effort? You can paint some mason jars as a project and put fake flowers in them, can make cute welcome signs for your front door that are spring themed, can get cute buckets at a craft store and make a wall project to store things in, etc.

Pinterest has great inspiration if you want to do something crafty but aren’t sure what. This will be a great stress relief from classes, won’t cost too much, and will make your place feel a little more fun and festive.

However you choose to decorate, let the spring inspiration guide you to making your place the cutest that it can be.

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