Looking for a little spring inspiration and ideas? This bright and happy spring home tour is full of simple spring DIY’s and projects.
Learn how you can use inexpensive decorations found at thrift stores to decorate your home and get it ready for spring. Decorating doesn’t have to be expensive.
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It’s Friday.
And that means Saturday and sleeping in and watching Hallmark movies and celebrating sunshine and getting a pedicure….
…and a yard sale sign on every corner.
Yard sales and thrift store decorating.
It’s the best.
I love decorating for spring and I love tours and I love a little random mixed in.
But today we are touring a little differently (this is the part where you nod your head and tell me you are not surprised).
Today?
I’m all about a spring house and decorating with thrift store finds and yard sale finds to get ready for the change of seasons.
Decorating With Thrift Store Finds
If you were to stop by for a tour of the house, I tell you how happy I am that we are friends and I would get you some sweet tea (or water if you preferred) and I would take you through the rooms and give you the thrift store and yard sale tour. You know, the one where I tell you where everything came from and how I made it or found it for $5 at the thrift store or got it at a yard sale and what I would buy at a yard sale season if I only had $5.00 and that yard sale season is starting again and we should go some Saturday.
This is just like that.
Hold on.
Let me get you a glass of tea.
Now let’s go.
Here’s the living room decorated with thrift store finds for spring:
1. I decluttered this space with this simple method and then filled it with furniture. The coffee table was $10 at the Restore. I repaired it and painted it white.
2. I bought that needle-pointed bench at a yard sale. It was the perfect match for the living room.
3. The striped chairs came from an auction. I had them reupholstered and added silver nail heads.
4. The abacus on the wall is a project that I made from some fishing lures I found for free. You can see that project here.
5. The tray on the table was made from scrap wood. You can see the DIY here.
6. The books all came from yard sales. Some I left plain and some I covered. I cover them with craft paper and add labels to make them match a room.
No judging. I really like it when my books match.
Here’s the dining room decorated with thrift store finds:
7. The chairs on the end are from my mother’s house. I grew up eating every Sunday dinner with these chairs.
8. The sideboard came from a thrift store. It’s had at least nine lives. I took off the hutch on the top and added this gold mirror and lamps.
9. The chandelier was my grandmother’s from her house up on Cape Cod.
Here’s the hallway decked out for spring:
10. This stairway has looked like this for as long as I can remember.
11. The little table in the entry by the back window came from a thrift store.
12. The gray hutch in the entryway came from the Restore thrift store. It was $75 and I painted it SW Mindful Gray.
13. The pieces on the wall in behind the desk came from the side of the road.
They don’t like to discuss their roots, now that they’re art.
14. The pouf in the middle of the room came from a yard sale.
15. The desk was my father’s that sat in this very same room for my whole life.
16. The dresser on the wall came from a yard sale. It came with a surprise in it.
17. We made tons of updates in this room like these.
And that’s kind of the point of this entire post.
Yard sales are amazing.
There’s no better shopping than the side of the road and junk stores and thrift stores and a multi-family yard sale get-together.
Just ask my house. 🙂
This was just what I needed to start my weekend! Thank you, Karianne. My home is full of found treasures, too- including my pup and two cats, lol. Here in Central New York (upstate, vs. the city) this weekend there are garden shows in Auburn and Lafayette,(I am going to both) and I am already seeing the yard and garage sale signs popping up. Yay! But feeling sad for all those buried in the snow from the latest major snow storm.
Your home is amazing! Thanks for the tea and tour. I have always loved yard sales and thrift stores. Now that I volunteer at our church thrift store there is always temptation around me. Most all of my wardrobe is from there and I always get compliments on my outfits. Same with our home where I can really same over 50 percent of my furnishings have been gently used . I love the hunt. My current search is for small cabinet for the master bedroom to hold my DVD and TV accessories and wires. Hard to find the one I want but spring brings the yard sales so I will just keep looking and who knows what other treasures I might find😄
Loved the tour KariAnne .... your childhood home is just beautiful ... I have to ask what you used for rods in the office ... I'm so in love with the look ... Happy Weekend 😘 Kathy :-)
Kathy, I just used basic metal rods from WalMart! The kind that bend at the ends and cost $1.98! Hope this helps friend! karianne
You are a fantastic yard sale finder and love giver of the junk. Loved the entire tour.
Not only do I love your stories, some of my favorite blog posts are when you share other blogs! I wish I could remember how many I have followed, straight from a link like these or your Saturday morning round-ups!!! Thank you, for always sharing so graciously!!!
Me, too. Whenever Karianne shares pix and ideas from fellow bloggers, I am all over them as well. Got some great ideas for painting my stairs- treads black, risers white- in my 1880 upstate NY house. Never would have even considered ripping off the nasty old carpet to do that, before.
Where did you get your blue and white stripe dining room chairs? I love them!!!
Please share about the map in your office? Story? I love your home and all your yard sale finds.
Love all of your Blue and White!! 😍 I’m doing the same...I was wondering where you bought your rug? Thank you for sharing and getting me inspired...your home is beautiful and you are so creative! ❤️Kim
Love all the found treasures and how you transformed them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You put them together with such style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Love the spring look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing spring loook. Thank you for sharing
I love home tours! So fun to be invited in and to hear the stories! So many things I love, the dresser, the hutch and the abacus project. Plus the flowers in the pitcher in the hallway! Have a great weekend!
Seriously Karianne, you amaze me!! The only things I ever find at yard sales are children's plastic toys, ugly old clothing, and rusted lawn mowers!! I need YOUR yard sales!! You've made such a beautiful home and there is no way anyone would thing even think one thing were from a yard sale or thrift store. Gorgeous all around - but I especially love your blue and white for spring - it feels so fresh and pretty! Thanks so much for having me - always love "hopping" with you! Sheila xo
Spring has definitely sprung at Thistlewood!! I love this so very much!!! xoxo
KariAnne, I so love the thrill of stopping at a yardsale. Sometimes I just pulling up, I notice something interesting. Other times it is looking through boxes. You just never know what is going to say, take me home! I am like you, I like to point out the history of an item in my house. Happy hunting the sales this year!
We are such kindred spirits! I love yard sales and loved your show and tell. If you ever get back to Cape Cod I'll take you to our transfer station (dump) where volunteers erected a little three room "Gift House" so people could leave unwanted items that are too good to dispose of. Everything is free and because there are a lot of 'affluent' people here in town, the stuff is amazing! I'd like to take you on a tour of my house to see all my free junk!
Ok you amaze me and I need to go to more yard sales! Seriously every photo is incredible and I love all your finds!
I always love hearing about your yard sale finds. It always makes me smile. I think that coffee table is amazing. I found an old tiny secretary desk at the dumpster the other day. Solid wood. Can't wait to share THAT! ;-) Free is always good, right?
Gorgeous, as always friend. LOVE all of it. When can I come visit? ;} I would definitely get my own hotel room since that's how we BOTH roll. :D
KariAnne, your home is so beautiful and I love all your personal touches! Thanks for always sharing with us! Have a wonderful weekend! Blessings!
I love the story behind all your pieces. It's so much more interesting and beautiful than if the story behind those pieces was "this is from Target", "this piece I got on sale at Wayfair", "this was on clearance at Ross" - no offense to any of those places as I shop at all of them! I'm a major thrifter but haven't gotten nearly as much into yard/garage sales as I clearly need to be! Perhaps this is the year to change all that.
Love this as always sweet friend- so pretty! Yard sales are the BEST And I miss you. I think we need to plan a girls weekend soon!! xo
I love seeing what people have found at tag sales. My best things were free or found! Question--what white did you use to paint that coffee table if you remember? I have such trouble choosing a white.
Beautiful as always, friend!! Enjoy the yard saling season!! I can’t wait to see what you find and transform next. ❤️
Love touring your home every season of the year! I am totally frustrated with my home. I've lived with a sandbox color all of our years here. We have a contract with a painter in June and I want to change it up with a gray paint but my furniture is cream and drapes are a cream base also. Trim is all stained maple tone and I dont want to paint it. I love your office with the desk. If that was a gray it would work for me but it seems to match up with the drop cloth curtains so I'm confused. I love the foyer also with Buddy lying in the sun. It that painted gray as well?
Did you have the chairs re-Upholestered in TX? I am looking for someone to re- upholster a chair. Thanks!
Your spring home tour was delightful and I envy your photography skills! You should see the pictures of birds i took last night in our yard, just awful! Your grandmother's chandelier is beautiful! I love to hear the history of your gems then you combine them and make beautiful pictures and stories to share. Thank you! I hope you survive the storms, they are headed our way to East Texas.
Love everything. But where are the blue curtains from
Love your living room rug. Where is it from?
And how else can we afford to furnish our homes??? And make them so unique?!?!?! I just love mine and yours!!!
KariAnne, I loved your tour. I cannot wait until Garage Sale/Yard Sale season starts up again. I also look forward to visiting our local ReStore.
Your house is amazing; so bright and spring-like! Thank you for sharing. (BTW, my sister's name is Carianne!)
Wow Karianne! What an amazing blue and white palette...so perfectly done. thanks for sharing
Wow - you have an amazing collection of wonderful finds! I love it! Our home is also a collection of finds - though very much less amazing right now, but they have potential and I am eager to help them find it! Do you have a source for the lovely neutral hall rug? I bought a pretty busy navy rug for under our kitchen table that is so bright and pretty but just not right for our small space - I think we need a quieter rug!