Simple Spring Decorating Ideas for the Dining Room
In this post: If you enjoy seasonal decorating, these simple spring decorating ideas for the dining room will help bring a fresh sense of renewal to your home.⇒
I just spent a whole lot of time and effort taking most of the color out of my dining room.
And yet, along comes spring and I’m piling on the color. “What am I thinking?” you may ask.
Ah, but that was part of the plan! The whole point of paring back my rooms to sophisticated neutrals was to make it easy to add in any color feeling with accents and details. In an upcoming post, I will be detailing the transformation of my dining room, but for today, I’m sharing some simple spring decorating ideas to help celebrate the season in the room we love to entertain in.
I’m thrilled to thank my sponsor Amara for providing much of the spring decor in this post. Please see the resource list below if you’d like to find these items for your own home.
For my seasonal dining room, the key was to keep my styling very simple. Unlike my recent Easter table setting, with it’s abundant use of color and pattern, this room takes a gentler approach.
Set against a neutral backdrop of dark wood, creamy white and gilded accents, it doesn’t take much to make a statement.
1. Fresh spring flowers
Always a no brainer, using fresh flowers in my home is a given. But for spring, I love to make an effort to use quintessentially seasonal flowers, such as tulips and hyacinths. I’m absolutely crazy about the scent of hyacinths and I find myself wandering past them intentionally to catch a note wafting by. Filling my antique dough bowl is always fun and if I did nothing else, this alone would go a long way toward foreshadowing spring.
2. White dinnerware
It doesn’t have to be stark white, but a lovely way to lighten the mood is with creamy white stoneware plates. The blush pink napkins add a soft touch and the overall goal is to provide a pale foundation off which the florals can shine.
3. Pastel colors
Soft pinks, pale periwinkle, rich cream and gentle greens add enough color to communicate spring without being overwhelming the way reds, oranges and yellows would.
4. Butterfly imagery
With a bowl full of blooms, can butterflies be far behind? These wonderful jeweled napkin rings are perfect for the season, with hints of pretty color and a conceptual nod toward nature. These are my new favorites, so you can expect to see a lot of them in the future.
5. Peony glass tumblers
When fresh flowers are not enough, how delightful it is to magnify the seasonal look with floral decorated tumblers in a range of barely-there colors.
In addition to these specific spring decorating ideas, there are several items from my ‘all-year decor’ that enhance the spring feeling.
My dining room is dark, so a healthy dose of crystal helps bounce around the light. Likewise, crisp white linens always say spring to me.
Gilded accents also brighten the scene, although I love them so much, they make their way into every season’s decor. From the vintage candelabra to the modern gold tray, they shimmer nicely against the playful tulips.
It doesn’t take much to add simple spring decorating ideas into your dining room, while maintaining an elegant tone with an understated palette.
As the season progresses the colors can get a bit stronger, but with the season is just starting out now, a light hand and restraint can nonetheless speak volumes.
Spring Decorating Ideas Resource List
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So pretty, Lory. I always love your use of soft colors. Thanks for joining the tour!
Amazing! The wooden dough bowl with fresh spring flowers looks darling on your table! Love it all!
lori- your table is gorgeous. i love the simplicity of the dough bowl filled with flowers instead of using a vase.
Lori, this is absolutely beautiful! I love how you displayed all your fresh flowers through out the dining room.. so so beautiful 🙂
Any tips for keeping the flowers in the doughbowl from wilting? Lovely room.
Thanks Barbara! I’ll repeat my reply to Margaret, who asked the same question: If I use flowers in the dough bowl as a centerpiece for a dinner, I either keep them there for the evening and then move them into a vase after the dinner or I let them dry in the bowl and use them as dried flowers. But I’m sure it is possible to rig up a hydration system in the bottom of the bowl with a shallow tray.
Love all your tables, but this is just perfection! A question – how do you keep the flowers in the dough bowl fresh, as they don’t appear to be getting water from any source. Thanks.
I don’t really. If I use flowers in the dough bowl as a centerpiece for a dinner, I either keep them there for the evening and then move them into a vase after the dinner or I let them dry in the bowl and use them as dried flowers. But I’m sure it is possible to rig up a hydration system in the bottom of the bowl with a shallow tray.
Beautiful, Lory! Having neutral walls is the best. I “need” one of those dough bowls! Everything looks calm and utterly lovely.
Love that dough bowl and how you’ve used it as such a spectacular centrepiece! Your home is gorgeous!
Thank you so much!!
These are such pretty ideas. Decorating my table for a family meal is such a joy.
I loved your table. The simplicity of the dough bowl filled with flowers instead of using a vase.
Thank you so much!!
I loved all these tips and I’m sure that will implement some of these very soon! Thank you
Thank you for the great decorating ideas. Love all your tables.
Thanks so much!