Early Spring Garden Style Tabletop Vignette

Ready to add some garden style accents to your home? Here is how to quickly style an early spring garden style tabletop vignette!

While the outdoor temperatures might be plummeting, you can still add a touch of Spring to your home with an Early Spring Garden Style tablescape!

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Welcome, friend — however you found your way here today, I’m truly glad you stopped by. I’m Kimberly, a former florist turned pizzeria owner who somehow fell in love with both flowers and flour, and all the beautifully imperfect, rusty‑chippy Brocante treasures I discovered along the way.  On warmer days, you’ll find me in the lanai, tending to my herbs, refreshing my patio pots, or simply dreaming up new ways to bring a little intention and heart into my everyday living.

I’ve learned so much over the years, and sharing those lessons has become one of my greatest joys. Sometimes that looks like a story from my life, other times it’s a craft, a recipe, or a simple idea that makes home feel a bit more loved. And yes — you’ll often see me swap “thyme” for “time,” because around here, the garden has a way of sneaking into everything I do.

My hope is that your thyme here today leaves you inspired — maybe to see your home with fresh eyes, or to use something you already have in a new, creative way.

Let’s “Spring” into Action!

Let’s get started with our Early Spring Garden Style tablescape.  To be completely transparent, this is a tabletop vignette that I designed a few years ago when I was spending time at the Illinois farmhouse.   

The first step would be to choose the location where you want to place your vignette.  It could be a coffee table, a side table, a mantel or any flat surface.  This primitive scrub top table is one of my favorite pieces!  It is a little tall to act as a coffee table since I had my handyman add the wheels, but I still use it as one anyway!

Do you ever name your furniture?  I call this table “my Glo Ann” table.  I think I explained how it got its name in this post Fireplace Hearth Decorated for Spring 

This is Glo Ann!  She was the first person to swim in our new pool!  She was an immense help to me when I was working on cleaning out and getting the farmhouse ready to sell!  If I didn’t have her for a friend, I would probably still be spinning around the farmhouse trying to decide where to start!  And I wouldn’t have that awesome primitive table either!

Back to the vignette…

After you choose your spot to design your vignette, you will want to start gathering items.  I like to use a runner or table cloth to add texture to the vignette.  For this vignette, I used this natural-colored muslin runner with a navy-blue stripe.  I also used it as part of the Summer European Dish Garden project pictured below.

Now you are ready to start building the display.  I used a combination of silk flowers, candle sticks, a mirrored tray, heart shaped boxes and a few rusty things.  Rusty things are one of my very favorite things!  More about my obsession with rust covered items can be found here: Worn Wooden Boxes & Cool Rusty Things

Close ups of the elements

This tin wall pocket or planter box is embossed with the words “Spring Flower Garden Blooms”.  For the Early Spring season, I placed a bundle of faux herbs and one hydrangea stem in it.  Next to the tin wall pocket, I placed a vintage planter.  The dainty flower design on the planter mimics the design embossed on the tin wall pocket.  I honestly don’t remember where I got the planter.  It may have been in a box of things someone brought me when I had the flower shop.  That happened a lot!

The mirrored tray looks like mercury glass.  It is quite heavy and works really well in the vignette.  The heart boxes are made of metal.  They can be used as a set and stacked on each other, or they could be used separately.

The skeleton key was one of several that I found when cleaning out the farmhouse.  I kept three.  The front door of the farmhouse still has the original lock that uses a skeleton key.  Well, at least it did when I sold it a few years ago.

If you are interested in learning more about the history of and the process of downsizing the farmhouse, I wrote a series of posts called Thyme to Let Go.  You can find them here: Downsizing The Family Homestead 

In the picture below, I used a bundle of faux pansies and assorted greenery and flipped how I had the items displayed on the tabletop.

The tin wall pocket can be used for other seasons just by strategically placing a bundle of silk flowers in the container.  To see how I repurposed this container for Autumn, please check out this post: Let’s Spring into Autumn

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you gained some inspiration on how to bring early spring touches to your home.  I appreciate you being here. If today’s post sparked even one new idea or reminded you of something you already love, then my work is done.

Wishing you a day styled with heart,

Kimberly

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