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Spring Home Tour – Farmhouse Style

March 7, 2025 by Kimberly Snyder 6 Comments

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Looking for ways to add a touch of Spring to your home? Please join me on a Spring Home Tour – Farmhouse Style! 

old wooden door with skeleton key

Spring! It is the perfect thyme to refresh your home decor!   One of the ways I like to refresh my home is adding some charming farmhouse touches.  From rustic accents to florals (fresh & faux) to the industrial feel of galvanized metal, these decorating ideas will help bring the cozy and inviting feel of farmhouse style into your home.  I had so much fun putting this Spring Home Tour Farmhouse Style post together!

Today, I am sharing several areas of my former home in order to showcase how I used several of the key elements of farmhouse style to decorate for Spring.  In complete transparency, I sold this home in May of 2021.  The photos I am sharing were mostly taken during my last stay there in the Spring of 2021.

Please join me on a virtual tour of my favorite farmhouse: the farmhouse that I spent the majority of my life living in.

Farmhouse Front Porch Early Summer

Let’s Get Started!

Spring Home Tour- Farmhouse Style

My goal today is to help you discover easy ways to add charm & character to your home.  I am sharing how I refreshed the farmhouse with a few simple core farmhouse decorating ideas.

My focus will be on three areas of my home: entryway, the gathering room and the dining room.  I will include a link or two at the end where you can explore a few more areas of my former home.

This home will always hold the keys to my heart!

display with a set of heart shaped metal boxes, old skeleton key and faux flowers

Early Spring Garden Style Tabletop Vignette

Springthyme Fireplace Mantel Decor

The farmhouse fireplace mantel provided the perfect spot to decorate for the seasons!  While I generally kept both sides of the mantel balanced, you could decorate it in a more asymmetrical way if you wanted. Using some of my favorite pieces from my collections allowed me to reflect my personality.

This Spring Garden Style example showcases three of the farmhouse decorating staples: flowers, galvanized metal and rustic accents. For more detailed information on how I styled the mantel and hearth for Spring, please click on the link beneath the photo.

Spring decor in farmhouse gathering room

Garden Style Springthyme Mantel Styling Tips

The faux hydrangeas are displayed in an old galvanized lard bucket!  When I found it in the upstairs storage room, it still had a tag on it with my Dad’s name.

fireplace screen made from Garden gates

It is easy to create an eye-catching centerpiece for any table with faux hydrangeas. This galvanized tin wall pocket or planter box is embossed with the words “Spring Flower Garden Blooms”.  For the Spring season, I simply placed a bundle of faux herbs and one hydrangea stem in it.

galvanized tin wall pocket with faux flowers next to a vintage pottery vase

Having a mantel to decorate is one of the things I miss most about the farmhouse.  I had been trying to decide where I could put a faux fireplace mantel in the Florida house.   I even toyed with the idea of putting one in the expanded lanai! I did have a spot picked out but Dave AKA Mr From Farmhouse didn’t agree! (update: we finally got a fireplace mantel added to the Florida house! more details can be found here)

back to decorating…..

Before I sold the farmhouse, I spent one Sunday styling the fireplace mantel different ways.

Summer Daisy Gnome Themed Fireplace Mantel

Summer Daisy Fireplace Mantel

Spring Farmhouse mantel

Spring Refresh using Architectural Salvage

Corbel on the fireplace

The matching corbels were originally part of a long linear piece of architectural salvage.  My helpers found several large pieces of gingerbread in the barn when we were going thru the downsizing process.  More details and more pictures of their amazing finds can be found here: Look What We Found in the Barn!

I was able to find a few photos of the mantel styled for Spring before I decided to start blogging!

old carrier on top of box on hearth

 

Fireplace mantel styled for summer

The window hanging above the fireplace originally came out of the Methodist Church Parsonage in Bement, Il.  My friend was the pastor’s wife at the time and she saved it when they replaced it with a different type of window.  In the pictures it has a white NFS tag on it.  The pictures were taken around the time of the first estate sale that I had as part of the Thyme to Let Go process.

The room that the fireplace is in was the kitchen when my parents first moved to the farm in the late 1940s.  In the mid 70s, they tore off the summer porch and added a kitchen.

Farmhouse kitchen table

Then they turned the former kitchen into a hearth room or a gathering room.  The mantel is made of concrete.  A friend of Mom’s made the oak cover for it sometime in the 90s I believe.

Sweet Springthyme Vignette

This tabletop vignette features an old galvanized hog feeder that was found in the barn during the clean out phase.  It makes a great substitute for a dough bowl.

I used a small bundle of faux lilies of the valley as well as a vintage flower frog to accent the display.

Spring vignette with lilies of the valley and flower frog

Another display with the galvanized hog feeder –

moss balls on candle holders with lamb and vintage flower frog

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Springthyme in the Dining Room

For an easy Spring centerpiece,  I filled an old crockery pitcher with faux cream colored hydrangeas and a few stems of greenery.

Coastal Colors for Spring in the dining room

Easy Design Ideas Using Artificial Hydrangeas

The gold framed mirror is a little more ornate than I liked.  It was sort of a family piece and was one of those things that just never got changed.

Industrial Cart in Dining room in front of mirror

This photo shows the galvanized cart a little better.

industrial galvanized metal cart with metal lantern

Before moving the cart to Florida, it received a new coat of spray paint!

Industrial Cart - painted Primer Gray

There were matching corner cabinets in the dining room.  I had decorated this one with a pansy theme one Spring.

Corner Cabinet Farmhouse

Entryway

The entryway received a much needed makeover shortly after the farmhouse went on the market.  I really really really wish I would have completed this makeover much sooner!  I don’t have very many Spring photos of this area but I wanted to show you the beadboard!

beadboard on entryway wall

ready to repaint walls in entryway

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I included this photo so you could see the tall cabinet along the left.  It was one of the original kitchen cabinets that was in the house when my parents moved in.  When they added the new kitchen, they saved this cabinet and then moved it out to this entryway when they expanded this area in the early 1990s.  That cabinet held a lot of stuff!

We won’t talk about the very unattractive floor covering!  Another thing that should have been replaced a long time ago …….

Springthyme Bedding Plants

While I was back in Illinois that Spring, I made a visit to my favorite Amish greenhouse.  I couldn’t resist purchasing a few zonal geraniums & some petunias. They really helped brighten up the landscape!

flat of mixed geraniums and tiny petuniasFlat of geraniums

Let me show you what I did!

old grass seeded used to hold a basket of red geraniums

hanging basket planted with red geraniums

three colors of pansies accented with a small blooming plant, all in a tin container

The petunias even looked great in a basket on the hearth!

pink & purple tiny petunias on a fireplace hearth

How to Refresh a Primitive Bench

Springthyme Lilacs

Lilac bushes that have been there for a long thyme flank the driveway to the farmhouse.

purple lilac bush

The lilacs were in full bloom while I was there.  I gathered some and put them in this old enamelware vessel.

Lilacs on fireplace hearth

For this vignette, I placed several stems of fresh lilacs in an old blue Mason jar.  I used this mercury glass tray to display the lilacs.  Two metal heart boxes accent the display.

Lilacs in a blue Mason Jar

A Few Last Photos

This was the view of the side yard from one of the upstairs bedrooms.  The gazing globe was a gift to my parents from my maternal grandmother.  It withstood a lot of wind, rain and snow over the years.

View from upstairs bedroom at the farmhouse

My friend helped me pack it up so I could move it to Florida!

gazing globe

How to Decorate with Antique Garden Tools & Accessories

To Learn More About the Farmhouse :

Farmhouse Front Porch Early Summer

The Farmhouse That Made Me

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Filed Under: Blog Post, Decorating & Design, Home Tour Tagged With: Architectural Salvage, Farmhouse Fireplace Mantel, Spring

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Comments

  1. laura says

    March 29, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Hi Kim
    Love those corbels!
    Have a great week!

    Reply
    • Kimberly Snyder says

      March 29, 2023 at 9:26 am

      Thank you! I hope you have a fantastic week!!

      Reply
  2. Cara says

    March 31, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    I am not sure how you picked up and moved so far away Kim, but I admire you for it. Your love for your home shows. Thank you for sharing your inspiration and home with us.

    Reply
    • Kimberly Snyder says

      April 1, 2023 at 9:19 am

      Thank you for your kind words. It was a very difficult process. I just recently am able to think about my former home without crying. I am so glad you enjoyed taking the tour!

      Reply
  3. Liz says

    April 6, 2023 at 9:44 am

    So much beautiful inspiration! I need to bring some flowers and plants inside my house!

    Reply
    • Kimberly Snyder says

      April 6, 2023 at 1:26 pm

      Thank you, Liz! Glad you enjoyed the tour!

      Reply

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Hello! Kimberly (Kim) Snyder and I'm glad you're here. An entrepreneurial spirit, I've owned a flower shop and antiques store, a pizza parlor and now we're in Florida living a new adventure. Join me as we downsize into our new digs and continue the adventures! WRITER & BLOGGER

Kimberly Snyder shares the adventures of moving to Florida and beginning again in a new space as a herbalist, a creative, and a serial entrepreneur

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