By Guest Blogger, Annie Sisk

You don’t need to completely redo your entire home’s decor to give it a fresh look.

Why not instead focus on one or two new motifs or design statements?

Even minor adjustments and additions can make your entire home seem to bloom like a spring rose.

Give your home a fresh spring makeover with these seven top spring design trends.

1. Earth Tones As Neutrals

Forget the 70’s avocado and burnt orange accents.

Today’s espresso, bronze, sable, and chocolate tones serve as strong neutrals for more surprising color combinations.

Think about elegant, light-toned pinks, bright cheerful blues, and surprising metallic shades to complement your palette of browns.

2. Embrace Maximalism

While the sedate minimalism of Nordic and Eastern decor styles still has a place in homes across the country, there’s a rising wave of folks embracing the opposite aesthetic.

Mixed patterns, lots of “stuff,” eclectic pairings of furnishings and textiles—there are no real “rules” when it comes to maximalism except that you choose things you love, embrace vivid colors, and go for the joy in every element of the room.

3. Go Au Naturel

Bring the outside in by adding touches of growing plants, natural stone and wood, and anything that evokes Mother Nature.

A strategic placement of plants and floral arrangements that are more carefree than carefully arranged can take a room from staid to calming with little effort.

You can go beyond actual touches of nature to add plant and floral prints to throw pillows, wall hangings, and wallpaper.

4. Touchable Textures

Certain textiles just beg to be touched.

Think of rich, brushed velvet, or a gauzy, open-weave burlap.

Fabrics in upholstery, curtains, window treatments, throw pillows, rugs, and other textiles can do more than just provide a backdrop for your color scheme.

When textiles seem to invite running your fingers through them, that touchability and texture help set a mood, just as much as color, shape, and furniture style do.

5. Embrace Smart Technology

Using smart technology in your appliances and other features of your home helps improve your life, increases your home’s security, and can even add to your home’s value.

Potential home buyers want to see smart devices such as lighting, thermostats, refrigerators and more, and when you’ve thoughtfully added smart home technology to your house, you make your home more attractive to future purchasers.

And if you don’t plan to sell your home soon, you’ll still enjoy the benefits yourself!

6. Jazz Up Entryways and Hallways With Mirrors

Ornately framed, oversized, simply ensconced—when you choose to creatively display mirrors, they can really open up your space, add a heightened sense of glamour and drama, and liven up small spaces.

That’s especially true for entry spaces that can start to look dated and sad without big statement pieces to boost the energy.

7. Create Comfy Niches

Think beyond rooms and their individual purposes.

The living room, the primary bedroom, and the den can all be further carved up into smaller niche areas for more particular purposes.

Create a tiny game corner, a plush chaise by a window for reading, or a casual arrangement of couches and ottomans for a conversational area.

Give each little niche its own luxe design statement, and make sure they all mesh well together.

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Guest Blogger Annie Sisk is a freelance writer and content strategist. Originally from North Carolina, Annie now lives in Binghamton, New York. She's written extensively for home repair, home decor and real estate outlets, including Hunker and Homelight.

The opinions and views expressed in any guest blog post do not necessarily reflect those of Michael Helwig Interiors or its Principal, Michael Helwig. Michael Helwig Interiors, and Michael Helwig, do not have any affiliations with any products or services mentioned in the article or linked to therein. Guest Authors may have affiliations to products mentioned or linked to in their author bios.