DECORATING Spring Home Tour Of a Once-Upon-a-Time-House

Looking for spring decorating ideas and inspiration? This home has all the flowers and the decor and the stories. Come take the spring home tour.

// blue and white planters //

I love a house tour that starts with once upon a time.

It’s true.

I am the luckiest duck in the world to be the temporary caretaker of this home.

That’s exactly how I feel about these rooms and this window and this vintage dresser from my husband’s grandmother brilliantly colored spring flowers. If this is your first visit here to the blog and I’m just meeting you, here’s the story behind this house starts here.

The Reader’s Digest version? I grew up in this house. I got married. We moved away. My mother sold it. We bought it back—there is so much life lived in those five sentences.

And now?

I am lucky enough to get to walk into this living room every single day.

Want to take a little tour with me?

Wait.

I need coffee first.

(sound of steps shuffling)

Okay.

I’m back. Let’s take the spring home tour of my once-upon-a-time house.

Total aside: (You might need a beverage, too. There are TONS of pictures.)

//set of topiaries //

// reversible bunny pillow //

//set of topiaries //

spring home tour 2024

Let’s start the spring home tour with the back door I’ve walked through 4,956,219 times.

Literally.

I brought two tiny dancers home from the hospital and left to go on the first date with an angry lemon through that back door.

You can see the laundry room through the vintage french door.

We replaced the door that was there with this door that we found in the attic. It lets light through and helps keep the heat and air in all at the same time.

// round tray //

// round tray // khaki rug //

If you walk around the corner?

You’ll come into our family room. This is our television-watching room. Our hangout room.

When I was growing up we used to call it the stink room.

I used to sit in this room in my add-a-bead necklace and Lee Press On Nails and bat my eyes at the cutest guy with sparkling brown eyes and dimples.

Oh, the stories this room could tell.

Like this one and this one…and oh wait…this one.

Here are some of the sources from the family room:

• // round tray //
• // khaki rug //
• // reversible bunny pillow //
• //set of topiaries //

My favorite addition to the family room this year?

These little houses.

I found them at Christmastime and we all discussed how much we loved them and I shared how I met the artist and she created a house that looks like just like my house (you can see it a little later in the tour).

Well after Christmas building, I just couldn’t put these houses away.

They were too sweet. So they found a new home on the hutch. I’ve gotten so many questions on the artist and how to get ahold of her! Just email me and I’ll send you her info.

// kitchen stools //

// boxwood sphere // topiary //

The family room is open to the kitchen with a large center island.

We remodeled this kitchen when we moved into the house, but this is where we used to gather in high school.

There was a large round table where the hutch used to be.

And there wasn’t a center kitchen island–instead, there was a bar that stuck out halfway into the room.

// boxwood sphere // topiary //

// kitchen stools // boxwood sphere // topiary //

// kitchen stools // boxwood sphere // topiary //

I’d sit on the stools and giggle and laugh and eat Captain Crunch and listen to my father tell me the entire history of the Revolutionary War.

I’d do my homework at the counter and roll my eyes at my mother and talk on the phone with a cord stretched around the island in front of the refrigerator.

And then?

When we moved back?

My kids did EXACTLY the same thing (without the phone with a cord).

Here are some of the sources from the kitchen:

• // kitchen stools //
• // topiary //
• // reversible bunny pillow //
• //set of topiaries //
• // boxwood sphere //

// blue and white dining room rug //

// blue and white runner // pink tulips // tulip pillow cover //

// realistic ficus branches (set of three) // faux white hydrangea //

// tulip pillow cover //

Through the swinging door in the kitchen?

On the other side is the dining room.

This is the dining room where I sat before school every day and where I’ve celebrated more Easters and Thanksgivings and Christmases and birthday celebrations than I can even count.

Here are a few of the sources from the dining room:

• // blue and white dining room rug //

• // blue and white runner //

• // pink tulips //

• // tulip pillow cover //

// blue and white dining room rug / tulip pillow cover // blue and white runner// blue and white runner // pink tulips //

// blue and white runner // pink tulips //

// blue and white dining room rug //

// blue and white runner // pink tulips //

The walls in this room were faux plastered by my sister years ago with drywall mud and a hair comb.

The chandelier is from my grandfather and there are nicks and scratches on the floor from chairs being dragged and pushed back and forth at the table.

And both the chandelier and the scratches are equally precious to me.

// blue and white dining room rug //

// blue and white runner // pink tulips //

// blue and white rug //brass side table // blue and white striped chairs //

// faux peonies // white wax faux candles //

And then?

On the other side of the vintage front doors in the dining room is the front living room.

This wonderful, amazing, sunlight-filled room.

It’s full of color and pattern and there is so much joy within these four walls of this living room that I can’t even type it to you.

Here are some of the sources from the living room:

• // faux peonies //
• // white wax faux candles //
• //blue and white striped chairs //
• // blue and white planters //
• // brass side table //
• // blue and white rug //
• //artwork  over the fireplace//
• // blue and white spheres //
• // moss rocks //

//blue and white striped chairs // blue and white planters //

// brass side table //

// faux peonies// blue and white rug // white wax candles //artwork  over the fireplace//

// blue and white spheres // moss rocks //

// blue and white rug // brass side table // blue and white striped chairs //

Truth?

This house is my fairytale.

It has a place to dance and trestles full of food and a winding staircase and a handsome prince and his two sons and two ladies in waiting and a trusty steed named Buddy.

Right now because it’s been raining so much—-it even has a moat and a drawbridge.

// faux peonies //

This is our house.

It’s full of love and life and joy and hope and the occasional random quiz over all 50 states and their capitals.

It’s where I fell in love with a prince and he swept me into his arms on the curb and all these years later he can stand in this kitchen making scrambled eggs and my heart still flutters.

This is the house of all the stories and happily ever afters.

The end (which is really the beginning all over again).

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