How to Make Your Home Cozy for Spring (Little, Beautiful Things That Make a Difference)
Inside: Making your home cozy this spring isn’t about filling your home with new things. The whole world is new. Let that be enough. Here’s how to celebrate it.
Winter is easy. Fireplaces, blankets, candles. But spring coziness? A little harder. We have to balance the fresh, open-windows feel of it all, that yearning to reach out. But spring coziness is a real thing, just different.
Your grandma didn’t run to Target for new springtime pillows on March first, and you don’t need to either. Instead, let’s work with the season itself. Tiny wildflowers, open windows, and ways to settle in on these still-chilly mornings and evenings. That’s spring cozy.
It’s about making your house feel like home, every day of the year. And it doesn’t involve buying new bird figurines and fake nests.
1. Rearrange Your Furniture to Follow the Sun
Spring sunlight moves differently through your home than winter light. Take the time to really notice it: where does the early sun land now? That spot might be perfect for your morning coffee chair. That dark corner that was so cozy in winter? It might want to be a bright reading nook now.
2. Clean Your Windows
Clean windows aren’t just about bragging rights. They’re about letting in every bit of that light and giving you clear views of the outside. And yes, there’s something so satisfying about seeing the sun shine through spotless glass.
I don’t really like deep cleaning, and I clean my house bit by bit. But in spring, there’s a cleaning energy. Roll with it!
Skip the fancy cleaners. A mix of warm water, white vinegar, and wiping with crumpled newspaper is all you need.
3. Make a Nature Table
Instead of buying fake flowers, set up a spot to arrange what you find on spring walks. A jar for flowering branches and a bowl for interesting rocks is all you need.
4. Set Up a Morning Sun Spot
No floral pillowcase can complete with the new light this time of year. It’s longer, brighter, and better.
Choose your brightest east-facing window and create a spot for a morning ritual. Pull up a chair, set out a small side table for your coffee, maybe add a reading basket. It’s not about buying new furniture. It’s about finding a sunny spot to plan and dream.
5. Switch Up Your Kitchen
Move your heaviest cooking pots to lower shelves and bring forward your salad bowls. Keep a jar ready for fresh herbs. Clear a windowsill for sprouting kitchen scraps. (Green onions will regrow easily in a sunny spot inside.)
6. Create a Simple Potting Station
I believe in starting all your own seeds, but doing it just a little at a time. You can skip the elaborate light set up if you’re diligent about bringing them out on warm days and bringing them in at night. Make a dedicated spot with some containers and your seed packets. Having everything in one spot makes it easier to start a few seedings whenever you have the time.
7. Keep Some Winter Comfort
Keep a light blanket rolled in a basket by the door for morning coffee on the porch. If you need a little fire in the evenings to take the chill off the room, so be it.
8. Put Your Windowsills to Work
Clear away the winter candles and make room for tiny greenhouses. Line up glass jars with herb cuttings rooting in water. Set out trays of seedlings. Even your dish drying rack could move near a window watching dishes dry in the sun is strangely satisying!
9. Set Up a Clothesline
Even if you don’t dry all your laundry outside, hanging just your sheets in the spring air is lovely. A single line on your porch or a drying rack by an open window works too. You might also find it worth the effort to hang dry your jeans and other heavy things outside before moving them to dryer.
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10. Make an Opening Up Routine
You had a routine for closing up the house at night all winter, now, make a little ritual of opening up the house in the morning. Throw open windows, shake out rugs, prop open doors.
11. Watch The Rain
Snow gets all the attention, but watching the spring storms roll in is just as cozy. Make yourself cup of herbal tea and settle in.
12. Create a Place to Watch Nature
Put your binoculars and bird guide on a shelf near your kitchen window. Keep a notebook nearby to jot down the first crocus, the first robin, the first buds. If this sounds lame to you, ask your youngest child to do it to “help” you. They will like it, and so will you.
13. A Place in the Sun (Outside)
Sweep away all those old leaves and set out a chair (just one!) in a sunny spot. Keep a basket outside the door for muddy boots. That way you can sit in the sun on nice days and everyone muddy boots won’t come into the house.
Winter cozy asked us to shut out the cold with blankets and fires. Spring invites us to something different. It’s a transition season: messy, hopeful, and alive. One day it’s sixty degrees and you get hot walking up the driveway, and that very evening a March snowstorm blows in. I hope you enjoy it for all that it is: the in-between, the fresh air, and the waiting.
By Katie Shaw
Katie lives in Virginia with her husband, three daughters, a chocolate lab, and over thirty chickens. She loves creating simple tutorials for sourdough, bread, and soap. Her recipes, articles, and YouTube videos reach millions of people per year.
