Clean & Decorate With Me: Cozy Neutral Decor For Spring

Today I am going to do a clean and decorate with me at home. Follow along as I complete a quick family room and kitchen refresh. I will be using a ton of neutral colors, making these two spaces very cozy.

I hope that it gives you some cleaning motivation as well as a few decorating ideas along the way. So let's just get right into it.

1. Mantel

Okay, so the first area of my home that I am going to decorate is this mantel area. I've been wanting to give this a little bit of a refresh for a very long time now.

So what I'm going to do is take the clock down, clean it up a little bit, and then I'm going to add my decor. I keep seeing layered vintage-looking mirrors, so that is the look that I'm going to try and achieve here.

I was going to use this extra large frame in between the layers of the mirrors, but once I had it up there it just didn't look very good. It was just too much, so I decided not to go with that.

I love the way this mantel turned out. I think it looks so pretty and cozy. I also love that those mirrors add a little bit of reflection because this area of the room only has one window and there isn't a lot of light.

So right now Target is pulling out all of its spring decor, and I just happened to find this vine. I think it looks very lifelike, so I thought I would add it up here with the mirrors and maybe during the springtime and the summer I can add some floral pieces to this as well.

I'm not quite sure if I want to do that or not, but that is one idea. I love the way this looks. It softens up this wall right here with all of the white, and I think it looks so pretty.

So I love the way this looked, but I really wanted to add a tiny bit of warmth over here. It is very white and it just has that tiny little pop of green, so I thought adding wooden candlesticks would definitely do the trick and it did.

I think everything looks so pretty now, and I'm not going to add any more to this. I found these candlesticks at HomeGoods last year. For the mirrors, I just shopped my house.

2. Couch

Since I'm giving my whole family room a refresh, I thought it was time to take my slipcover off and give it a good washing, so that's exactly what I did.

I made this slipcover from drop cloth a while back and now that it is cleaned, I'm placing it back on my sofa.

Now I'm going to finish off this sofa and make it look super cozy with lots of pillows and a cozy throw. I found the larger pillow covers on Amazon.

Then I found this faux fur throw at HomeGoods.

That middle pillow was also found at HomeGoods.

And the two beige floral pillows I found on Amazon.

It's very cozy looking. It even has a little bit of a boho feel to it. I absolutely love all the textures that I added to this sofa.

3. Ottoman

Okay, so now I'm just going to add a little bit of decor to this ottoman that I have sitting in front of the sofa.

I found the basket at HomeGoods.

That vintage-looking mirror was found at an antique store.

And I think I purchased the unscented candles at Target.

Here is how it all turned out.

4. Hutch

Okay, so now I'm going to head on into the kitchen area, and I'm going to add a tiny bit of decor over here in this hutch area. It just kind of sits off of the kitchen.

I love transforming this little area to fit each season, and I wanted to stick with the neutrals and the whites over here, so I added some baskets up on the top.

Next, I added a cake plate on top of a candle holder to give it some height. Inside the cake plate, I'm adding some really pretty white flowers.

Then, I thought I would add more of those white flowers down in the open space.

I only added a touch of decor over here, but I feel like it really warmed things up and it kept it very neutral. I love the way this turned out.

5. Shelves

Now I am heading into the kitchen area to decorate these shelves.

I'm going to decorate this bottom shelf with some white vases.

I'm going to also add some stacked little saucers and a milk glass piece. I think it's like an ashtray or a candy dish, and I think it just looks really pretty and simple.

6. Valance

This is the valance that I had up for Christmas. It is like a red and white ticking and I wanted to add something really soft and very neutral, so I decided to add a valance that I made a few years ago.

It didn't seem to quite fit so I added some double-sided sticky tape and just kind of stuck that to the sides to pull it out a little bit so it fit the window better.