Happy first day of spring!! Daphne and I made a spring stained glass window to welcome spring in style (and to offer all kinds of good, warm spring ju-ju so that it starts to feel a bit more like spring!). It’s light green, pink, and yellow and especially gorgeous with the morning light streaming through the front of the house!
5 Tips to Decorate Your Home for Spring with Window Treatments
The spring season is the perfect time to upgrade your home décor and give it a new look. It provides a reason to transform your interiors and make it fresher and brighter. What better way to spruce up your home than by enhancing your windows with season-inspired window treatment?
Window coverings, with a hint of spring décor, can bring the beauty of this lively season into your home. After all, windows are also decorative elements that can make a statement.
If you want to inject some seasonal freshness in your space, then follow these 5 useful tips by
Nicole Draperies.
- Choose Colourful Curtains with Floral Designs
Flowers and colours are two things that perfectly display the spirit of spring. Add these elements to your windows by selecting curtains with colourful botanical motifs. Floral designs in deep cherry, cerise pink and ebony tones will reinvigorate your home décor and make the room livelier. These curtains will also act as a focal point for the room and add a pop of colour to the interiors. If you’re unable to find the perfect floral printed curtains in a drapery store in Toronto, you can go for plain sheers. Use stencils to paint your favourite pattern in the desired hue.
Spring is all about celebrating the beauty of nature and reclaimed wood does that perfectly. Add these shutters to your windows to give a unique and rich look to your home. The natural appeal and bold lines of these unique shutters will add depth to your windows and integrate the warmth of nature.
Spring season is the perfect time to play with colours and textures. You can create multiple layers of texture with contrasting hues to make your interiors interesting. For example, if you choose a white curtain for your windows, complement them with wine red valances. Drapes with horizontal stripes also look great with valances with vertical zigzag patterns or circular designs.
Take your spring-inspired curtains to the next level with beautiful tiebacks. These versatile additions are both decorative and functional. You can use them to tie the curtains open and let their elegant appearance add to the look of the window treatment. You can experiment with the look by choosing a light-coloured curtain and a contrasting tie back to give a glamorous twist to your home interiors.
To keep up with the spirit of spring, light curtain fabrics are your best bet. They’re a wonderful choice to create a minimalist style statement as they’ll flow with the soft spring breeze. For lighter fabrics with a fashionable appeal, you can consider buying sheers, voile and net curtains.
Nothing beats the beauty of spring-inspired window treatments. You can bring them into your home by incorporating the above-mentioned tips. Let your home décor get drenched in the colours of spring. If you need assistance, contact Nicole Draperies, Toronto’s well-known window coverings and drapery store.
Welcome Spring with a Stained Glass Spring Art Project for Kids
Happy first day of spring!! Daphne and I made a spring stained glass window to welcome spring in style (and to offer all kinds of good, warm spring ju-ju so that it starts to feel a bit more like spring!). It’s light green, pink, and yellow and especially gorgeous with the morning light streaming through the front of the house!
A Stained Glass Spring Art Project for Kids
- Easel paper (or individual pieces of relatively thin paper)
- Oil pastels, light colors if possible (crayons would work okay as well)
- Liquid watercolor paint in spring colors
- A multi-paned window to put the stained glass on (or any window)
- A piece of scrap paper
- Pencil
- Vegetable oil
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Tape a piece of easel paper across the table. Draw on the paper with oil pastels. You could draw spring images or abstract designs. We’ve done this with scribbles in the past as well and it looked great!
2. Paint over the entire paper with liquid watercolor paint. (We slipped some art mats under the paper first, to protect the table. You could also use a waterproof tablecloth or some newspaper.) Let dry.
3. Cut the scrap paper to fit one of your window panes—this will be your template. Trace your template onto the spring painting as many times as you have panes in your window. Cut out along the lines.
4. Paint a thin layer of vegetable oil over the backs of the spring art pieces. Press to the window panes.
The oil should make them stick. (Occasionally one of them won’t stick for me and I’ll dab glue from a glue stick in the four corners)
5. Enjoy your lovely new spring stained glass!
When you’re ready for a different look, simply pull the stained glass pieces off the window and wash with window cleaner or soap and water!
More Stained Glass Spring Art Projects for Kids
- DiY Rainbow Stained Glass
- Flower Petal Stained Glass
- How to Make Flower Crowns and Necklaces
- A Flower Mandala Suncatcher
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