10 Simple Ways to Refresh Your Home for Spring
Go bold with colors, rearrange furniture and choose inexpensive options for upgrades
by Sheryl Jean, AARP, March 17, 2021 |
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There s no better time to refresh your home than spring a time of renewal.
Goodbye wine-colored velvet drapes; hello taupe linen panels. Perhaps your all-gray palette, so popular last year, could do with a turquoise or yellow boost.
In addition to simply wanting a change, a year of pandemic-related restrictions has transformed how people see and use their homes. After this last year there was so much doom and gloom and we just had the [winter] storm from hell I m ready for spring,” says Carolyn Tillery of Dallas, 59, who works from home as a book reviewer and budding mystery author. “I redecorated about eight years ago. Now I m ready for something a little fresher and lighter.