5 Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Add Spring Vintage Home Decor

Looking to refresh your home for spring? Try these 5 easy and inexpensive ideas to add spring vintage home decor to the look of your home. Thanks for hopping by to see 5 of my favorite easy ways to add spring decor in our vintage style living and dining room! I hope these ideas give you some inspiration today!

Seasonal decorating is so fun and it’s something that I look forward to. In a way, it feels like something I can do to welcome the new season rather than wishing for time to slow down (though sometimes I do wish for that!). I especially love the chance to bring out the vintage spring decor and get our home refreshed for the season.

In this little corner of the world, I hope you can find some inspiration for simple, seasonal changes that refresh you rather than drain your time, energy, or budget, for that matter!

On that note, I’m excited to share some tips, ideas, and spring decor inspiration with you today that can help refresh your home and even use decor and accessories you may already have. (Actually, chances are, if you’re reading this blog post, you already love vintage decor and have some great vintage treasures around your home!)

Today, I welcome you through the back door, into our living room and bonus dining room, known in our family as the “back living room” and “back dining room”. What can I say? We weren’t feeling too creative when we defined these spaces. ????

However, this might be my favorite room in our home, decorated with some of my favorite pieces. So, welcome!

Let’s get started, chatting about some easy and inexpensive ways I added some of my vintage finds and vintage spring decor to these spaces!

You can use these tips to easily add a spring style to your own vintage home decor too.

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How can I decorate my home vintage style?

We are going to dive into 5 of my favorite ways to add spring vintage home decor around my home for the season. Here’s a quick list you can save to refer to later on:

Add inexpensive spring accents to vintage collections.
Add fresh plants and flowers to vintage styling.
Use architectural salvage for spring home decor display.
Invest in vintage furniture.
Add chippy garden elements for spring vintage home decor.

When should I decorate my house for spring?

Actually, I really dove into answering this question over on THIS POST and I encourage you to go and read it. Hopefully, it helps explain my process. Even though there is no right or wrong answer, I love a little method to the madness, so to speak, and this schedule just continues to work well for me year after year.

February: Start slowly transitioning into spring by switching greenery and textiles, continue decluttering and organizing from January, begin the process of deep cleaning (spring cleaning) our home.
March: It is “go time” for all of the spring decor
Mid-March or depending on the date of Easter: Add simple Easter accessories and decor

Like I said, there is no right or wrong. This just seems to to suit our home and lifestyle, as well as the natural cycle of our Florida weather.

view of a dining room with a long white table and large wooden buffet cabinet at the end of the room

5 Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Add Spring Vintage Home Decor

a small stool with a grain sack on top next to a striped chair with a throw pillow and blanket

Spring Vintage Home Decor Tip #1: Add Inexpensive Spring Accents to Vintage Collections

How can I decorate my house for the spring?

One easy way to get a spring vintage home decor look is to simply add a few seasonal accents to your existing vintage pieces for a fresh look. For example, on this vintage cubby, I only added one white, ceramic bunny to the vignette on the top. That’s it!

You can find several perfect bunny decor pieces and my favorites all linked HERE for you!

However, adding a cute bunny is a good way to give an instant look of spring. My vintage cottage sign, white ironstone, and fresh plants are all simple ideas that work together to create a bright look for this space. However, all it took was one little bunny to create spring vintage home decor in the dining room!

If you’re ready to put the bunny decor away, I understand. Instead, try other signs from nature in these warmer days, such as birds or flowers.

Here are a few bunny favorites:

Here are a few non-Easter related spring accessories that I love:

large wooden cubbies holding mortar and pestles and other ironstone

large wooden cubby with vintage signs and a small bunny on top

Vintage Spring Home Decor Tip #2: Add Fresh Plants and Flowers

How do you style a spring house?

This is the time of year when I just want to stroll through the lawn and garden department! You too?! You can really get away with changing nothing else in your home and just adding some plants and flowers to instantly bring the spring vibes for a spring vintage home decor style.

Even though we live in Florida and have green trees and pretty flowers year round, I still love to refresh my plants and flowers, inside and out.

One great way to create spring vintage home decor is by simply adding fresh plants and flowers or even faux spring flowers to vintage vessels! My favorite faux spring flowers are THESE tulips, THESE hydrangeas in different colors, and THESE cherry blossoms! I added the beautiful tulips to my kitchen spring decor this year and they are such a bright and happy way to dress up the large vintage scale that I keep on our kitchen island.

topiaries in the middle of a large wooden trough in the center of a table

I love investing in pieces that I can decorate with and use year-round in our home. This big wooden trencher on the dining table holds fresh topiaries for spring vintage home decor, but I can add jars of sunflowers in the summer, fill it with pumpkins in the fall, and add winter trees for Christmas decor!

Pro Tip: Vintage vessels can be pricey but are worth investing in because you can use them in your home year-round. Only invest in the ones you absolutely love and you’ll find that you use them more than enough to make it worth the cost!

topiaries in aluminum buckets in a wooden trough on a white wooden table

Tips for Finding Great Vintage Vessels

I shared some of my favorite ways to style flowers in vintage vessels over on this post, for more ideas!

Here are some vintage favorites, available online, for you:

Large wooden trencher HERE and HERE
Ironstone pot is perfect for a plant! (This one also has free shipping.)
Vintage European pickling jar looks beautiful with spring branches or flowers. (This one isn’t vintage, but it’s a great dupe!)
Add free spring branches from your yard to a vintage bucket! I love the height and gorgeous patina on this one! It’s a perfect example of an “investment piece” that I would use year round! You can find some pretty faux flower stems HERE!
These double handle European zinc buckets are perfect for spring plants and flowers! (And you can use them year round too! Mine are always in circulation somewhere in my decor!)

topiaries in a large wooden trough as a table centerpiece

Spring Touches in a Casual Living Room

Spring Vintage Home Decor Tip #3: Use Architectural Salvage for Spring Decor Display

What are decorations for spring?

This is the time to pull out your favorite bunnies, eggs, bird-themed decor, flowers, plants, and fresh colors for spring vintage home decor. However, no matter what spring accessory you’re adding to your own home, you can use this tip to turn a simple accessory into a home decor statement piece.

Whether you’re adding a fresh plant, a cute bunny, or a decorative faux egg, you can add a vintage look to your spring home decor by adding architectural salvage. Architectural salvage pieces are always my favorite things to add character to any room and I hunt for them in every antique store I go into!

Literally, elevate your decor with vintage patina!

On my console table, I grouped a collection of cloches and combined several spring accessories. What makes this vignette really have a spring vintage home decor look, I think, are the salvage pieces. What makes these interesting vignettes really have a spring vintage home decor look are the salvage pieces. Otherwise, it would just be the typical “new” spring decor that you can similarly find every year in almost every big box home decor store.

They offer variety of height, lots of character, and great texture to the whole vignette.

chippy white and green cabinet styled for spring

Tips to Find Architectural Salvage

Chippy salvage is always on my hunting list when I go to vintage markets, antique stores, and flea markets! I love having a collection of different styles, colors, and sizes and I rotate them throughout my decor year round.

Here are a few favorites available online:

This chippy riser would be perfect under a cloche!
I take fragments like this (great price too!) and lay them them down for a base or you can stand it up for texture too!
A chippy plinth like this is great for a small base or you can make a simple DIY wall vase like we did over on THIS POST!
The straight lines of this salvage column base make it great under a cloche or plant!
These risers are perfect for any room and can mix with a lot of decor styles!

closeup of cloches styled with wooden salvage pieces with things underneath

Spring Vintage Home Decor Tip #4: Invest in Vintage Furniture

Let me be clear! “Invest” doesn’t have to to mean a ton of money. However, vintage furniture and vintage style decor is worth investing a little more budget, some elbow grease, and some creativity and imagination! However, great vintage furniture pieces are the backbone of vintage farmhouse decor style because they are timeless and can go with any decorating look and whatever your favorite colors may be for your home.

Our coffee table in the back living room is an antique library table with the original zinc top. I fell in love with this table on an online auction estate sale. We didn’t get it for a “steal” but definitely reasonable!

I immediately imagined it as a large coffee table for this living space. While it is a smaller living room area, the large coffee table functions perfectly for us. We cut the legs and it makes a perfect coffee table for our family!

large striped cushion underneath a low coffee table

We use it often for family games and puzzles and it is great to have the open space in the family room to do so. With the great texture and patina of the table, it gives the vintage look I want even when I use “new” accents in my vignette.

As you collect vintage pieces that you love, they slowly transform your home into a charming, unique space. You can add decor pieces that you like, new or vintage, but with great vintage furniture as a backdrop, you always get that vintage home decor look regardless of the season.

low coffee table styled with a small spring vignette and a board game

You can find some of my tips and ideas for looking for vintage furniture HERE, HERE, and HERE!

If you find a great piece but it needs some work, check out these posts!

Vintage Decor Tip #5: Add Chippy Garden Elements for Vintage Spring Home Decor

How can I spruce up my house for spring?

Bring some of the outdoors in for a vintage spring home decor style! Actually, nothing says spring quite like garden accessories and organic textures. While vintage spring home decor items are a little harder to find (at least ones that I love), you can often find chippy, vintage garden accessories at a good flea market or antique mall! There are even great pieces with vintage style (reproductions) at big box stores like Hobby Lobby.

You don’t need a lot of them. However, a few pieces added to your decor can really give that vintage home decor look!

chippy white concrete planter with a pothos plant inside

In this back family room space, I added a chippy concrete planter to my coffee table vignette. Of course, it’s perfect to hold a fresh plant or faux flower stems. The concrete planter style gives it that garden vibe, and the chippy blue paint brings a touch of color, texture, and vintage character!

Thrift stores are a great place to look for old garden tools, worn terra cotta pots, imperfect baskets, old concrete garden pieces, straw hats, and other items that come to mind when you think of spring gardening! Over on THIS post, you can find the top 11 finds from the thrift store that I use around my home for spring decorating.

And remember, it doesn’t take much! Just this one, chippy planter gave my back living room that vintage spring look I was hoping for in this space!

small vignette with vintage black books, a small white bunny, and a chippy white concrete planter

What is popular for spring decor 2024?

2024 is a fun year for decorating. Even though a great neutral base is always in style, adding touches of earth tone colors are really continuing to be on trend. Woven textures and natural materials continue to be inspiring home decor designers, no matter what exit home decor style you enjoy for your home.

We will also see a lot of curved furniture, floral accents, and eclectic styling. The good thing for those of us that love vintage style is that these trends easily lend themselves to the vintage home decor style.

Additionally, warm neutral colors, woven textures, such as rattan, and plants are staples that carry over from last year so that will save us a little additional cost by shopping our homes too!

Great news for the vintage home decor lovers is that the use of vintage furniture is on the rise in 2024 as sustainable decorating is a hot topic! This is a great time to really embrace using those favorite vintage furniture pieces and have so much fun using them around your home.

Mix new items in with spring vintage home decor too!

Here are a few favorites from this year that you can mix into your spring home decor:

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little tour of some of my favorite rooms in our home, especially with some of my favorite vintage items decorated for spring! As I write these blog posts to share my love of decorating, it gets my creative juices flowing and I hope reading the blog posts does the same for you!

Thanks for visiting my blog today and I hope you have fun pulling out some vintage favorites and incorporating them into your spring decorations this season too!