Spring is here and it's time to start transforming your interior design. Over the winter, you spent your time bundled up in cozy blankets and surrounded by comfortable textures that added warmth to your space. But now, with hot temperatures just around the corner, it's time to freshen up and transition into a fresher interior design. Keep reading to learn how from your favorite interior design company at the Lake of the Ozarks - John Elliott Interiors! 

Pack Up Winter

The first step to transforming your interior design is to pack away all your winter-themed décor. Pack away your thick throw blankets, fuzzy decorative pillows, and cold-weather décor. If something in your home has a snowflake on it, it's time to pack it away! 

Spring Cleaning

Once the winter decorations are put away, you will need to get your space clean before adding your new, spring-themed décor. Spring cleaning is more than your standard weekly house chores. Spring cleaning should include all the spaces and surfaces you might not normally get to during routine cleaning... under the furniture, around the baseboards, in the corners of the vaulted ceiling, etc. This is the best chance to get all the dust, cobwebs, and other unpleasant substances out of your house. 

Choose a Color Palette

When you're redecorating for the warmer season, it's important to use a color palette that will give you the right flow and feeling for the spring and summer season. Dark colors like maroon, evergreen, and navy can help a space feel cozy in the winter. But those same colors in the spring and summer could feel stuffy or even suffocating. Choose lighter, brighter colors in the warmer seasons to help your space feel more airy and less congested. 

Play with Patterns

Pattern can add a lot to your interior design. It's another way to add visual interest to your space in addition to color. Some of the best spring patterns include florals, greenery, birds, and other themes associated with spring. When choosing a pattern, be careful to make sure it's going to go along with the colors, themes, and other design elements in your home. Having difficulty? Call the experts at John Elliott Interiors to help! 

Add Some REAL Flora

When getting your home ready for spring, fresh plants and flowers can do a lot to help transform your design. Their beauty is not only very visually appealing, but they can also help boost your health. Plants have been shown to help reduce blood pressure and improve someone's mood. Indoor plants can also help purify the air and increase the amount of oxygen in your home. That sounds like a win-win in our book! 

Best Interior Design Company

John Elliott Interiors is the best interior design company at the Lake of the Ozarks, and we are here to help you transition your home design for the new season. Let us help you get rid of the stuffy winter décor and replace it with a fresh design for spring. We can't wait to help you! 

With the weather warming up a little bit, John Elliott Interiors can't help but think about spring and design inspiration that will give us all the warm weather vibes we've been wishing for this winter. After blistering cold weather, Christmas decorations, fuzzy socks and blankets, snow slush getting tracked through the house... Your home may be feeling a little stale and dingy. Spring is the perfect time to refresh the house and choose a new design to bring in cleanness and cheer! As the best interior design company at the Lake of the Ozarks, we are here to help bring the inspiration you crave! Keep reading to learn more and find great tips from our team. 

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Out with the Old

In with the New! 

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Every week brings us closer to consistently warmer days and the first signs of spring are showing up just about everywhere that you look. Our Lake of the Ozarks home interiors store knows how to bring some of that springtime beauty indoors and the following tips from John Elliott Interiors will help you to do just that.


Freshen It Up
The warmer weather is what inspires spring cleaning around the house. Now the windows can be opened wide after a season of keeping them closed to keep out the cold. The fresh air makes you want to freshen up everything else that has been cooped up inside.

While you are spring cleaning, do a clean sweep by taking an inventory of the furniture and home decor that you currently have on display. At the same time you are clearing out the clutter, go ahead and get rid of items you no longer enjoy or use on a regular basis. That may give you enough space to bring in something fresh and new from our home decor store at the Lake of the Ozarks. 


Liven It Up
Outside the grass is green again, the trees are blossoming, and lively shades of green are everywhere that you look along with colorful floral accents here and there. Display plants in different rooms to bring some of that magic indoors. You can also incorporate beautiful vases for freshly cut flowers from an outdoor garden or a local florist.

If you want to get the look without the worry of taking care of a plant, go faux instead. We have many different artificial arrangements at John Elliott Interiors that look perfectly real. Place them next to a scented candle with a spring aroma and you're all set. 


Lighten It Up
Now is the time to use lighter fabrics throughout your home. Curtains don't need to hold the cold out any longer and sheer panels will allow the sun to shine through. Bed linens and throws can also be traded out for lighter materials and throw pillows and other accents can be switched out for floral patterns or perhaps some lovely birds or butterflies.

Lighter colors will also bring the look and feel of spring inside your home. Hints of lavender, pastel pinks, sunny yellows, and soft blues do a wonderful job of mirroring what you see outside. Many of these colors can be used wonderfully together. After all, nature mixes colors and patterns, so take a cue from that expert and do the same yourself.


Change It Up
Some of you may be ready for an entire interior design makeover from our luxury furniture store at the Lake of the Ozarks. If that's not the case, you can still get a newer look simply by rearranging what you've already got. (After you move it all around, you just might find some empty space for a brand new piece after all!)

This is an excellent time to change out your home decor pieces too. Trading out the pieces you have on display each season is an easy way to get a fresh look. This includes the art on your walls and while you're at it, put some springtime memories in your picture frames as well.


It's not hard to replicate the beauty of the outdoors and the happy, refreshing feeling spring brings with it inside your home. If you try a few of today's tips and still want to do something more, come into John Elliott Interiors in Lake Ozark and speak to our talented Lake of the Ozarks interior design experts. If you can imagine it, we can help you bring that look to life!