Interior Design | Get Your Home Ready for Spring with Me | Spring Ideas 2022

Hello and welcome back to ken woven i'm rebecca robeson your host today i'm very excited about this brand new limited series that we're about ready to launch here on my channel here's the idea it's time to think about spring maybe do some updates to your home but not necessarily a renovation what about.

Things that you can do for very little money some things maybe using the things you already have or moving things from room to room just to give you that fresh new look so i started to take a look at my house now there's a little back story and i want to tell you but i'm actually going to save it to the end of the video because sometimes i get into back.

Stories and then it takes forever to get in the video and we don't want to do that so stay and watch to the end and hear what's really going on behind the scenes okay because it's very exciting news what i'm going to do today is i'm going to walk you through i decided you know we need to get these videos filmed and edited and posted on youtube but we.

Have a lot of work to do to accomplish the updates nothing has changed yet i've been in the process of purchasing things and planning in fact you know what i did i created a spreadsheet in the first column the room that's going to be addressed the second one is the action that's going to be taken and then the third column is the subcontractor who do.

I want to contact to do the work if it's something that needs to be contracted out the next one is the workers this kind of a spreadsheet keeps me organized in my projects because when you're doing seven different rooms all at one time you kind of want something to you know wrap its arms around it so that's gonna do so let's get started walking through.

The house and let me show you the rooms that we're going to address and what we have in mind when i say we i mean the royal we you and i one of the rooms on my list is my family room so i like this room a lot and i'll tell you that the color scheme was selected.

Based on the area rug there's a creamy beige color in there it kind of brings in the white sofas it also has a beautiful gray a warm gray tone so what i did was i had gray pillows and i added to that this kind of a velvet almost butterscotchy looking pillow and it looks fabulous with this area rug so i thought well what can i do to change.

This up for spring and make it look even better than it does now so here are my ideas that are on my list number one i'm going to change out the pillows here's the secret i'm not going to change the area rug that means that the pillows still need to go nicely with the area rug but not compete with it.

But it doesn't have to match like it does now and the color i have in mind is maybe some green because here's the thing about green green is in your plants it's in nature and it's everywhere it's a great color and it also kind of looks like spring to me another thing that i thought i would do.

Is um bring my tripod lamps back in now they were taken down do you guys remember what i did at christmas time i had these beautiful swags over my windows that were lit and it was kind of competing with the swags so i took the garlands down and i just haven't brought the tripod lamps back in but i think those would still look great here but.

Guess what else i want to do to this wall i'm going to add window treatment panels yes i'm so excited about it so be sure to come and watch that episode of how i redo this family room because i think just the addition of white linen curtain rods or window treatment panels as i like to call them hanging on either side of these windows as well as all the.

Way around the room is going to bring in so much more of a finished look these botanical pieces i love and the mirror the antique mirror that's surrounding them in the frame looks it looks very spring to me i may change that i'm going to wait and see what it looks like when those window treatment panels get on either side.

Then i'm going to go over to the ladder that i have in the corner in this area and i'm going to re-accessorize it to be more spring-like i have my aura frame that's on the top and you know i changed all the photos that show up that pop up every like 30 seconds i change them to be christmas photos and.

We're in march so it's time for me to change those out and go back to i may put any kind of photo in there i want i may pick things that are more spring related because i think it's really fun to change them up so a few extra accessory pieces and honestly i think this room is going to.

Look great one thing i haven't showed you guys yet is look at this i don't think you've seen that i added the lutron shades in this room so these give me so much privacy protection no one can see in or out and i actually really love the color because it brings in that kind of cinnamon nutmeg caramel butterscotch.

Look all right you guys let's move on and take a look at what i'm going to do in another room to update for spring so what about my living room you know how much i love my living room and i worked so hard to get it perfect this last uh what right before christmas and at the beginning of the year but guess what it's still gonna be perfect it's.

Just gonna look lighter for spring little changes can make a big difference in how things look but i think more importantly how you feel it makes you feel like you've done something new something fresh and it doesn't require an entire makeover it can cost.

This what i'm going to do is not going to cost me anything it's just bringing in things i have for example what makes this room feel dark well the black wall which is not changing because i love it and then i have dark furniture but i also have a dark rug the floor the largest surface in the entire room is.

Dark brown i have a beautiful rug that's very large that would fit underneath of the four chairs and even span a little bit further that way and maybe even a little bit further that way and it happens to be creamy off-white a little bit of browns in it just slightly much lighter rug and.

Did you know that every rug has a nap to it so you can put a rug out and look at it from one direction and then you turn it the other direction and it looks completely different so i'm going to see which one i like better but i may put it on the one that makes it look even lighter so imagine the light foundation underneath of my chairs then.

What do i change well i love these pillows they're so great with the brick room and the brick wall paper in there but you know really dark for this time of year so they're going to go back to my pillow department downstairs in the basement and i'm going to bring out some lighter color pillows i'm not sure which ones because i'm.

Going to see how it looks with a new rug underneath don't you think that sounds great doesn't cost me a thing i already own these things am i i might have to hire a handyman because it's a big rug and these are heavy chairs regardless it's going to be worth it i think it's going to look great and then the last.

Finishing touch is i'm gonna go through and i've already lightened up my accessories on these edgiers back here but there's a little bit more i could do to edit them to be even less on the shelves and everything on there white let's go into the music room and i'll show you what i'm going to do in there because i have plans for that room oh.

Yeah you bet i do and my fabulous music room oh my gosh do you guys love it well the first thing i could do to lighten it up is open the shades again those lutron shades i put into these rooms have been a lifesaver but as the summer months come along you.

Know what i'll probably use them a lot because the sun is going to be beating into these rooms so i have the option well what are you going to look through that's going to look any different is there anything becky can do to update for spring i don't have another rug that i can use.

So it's going to stay what it is hopefully it's going to look good with the one in the living room but there is something i've got up my sleeve that i think if you follow me on instagram and do you if you don't you're really should because that's where a lot of the fun stuff happens on my stories and on my feed every day on instagram when you see.

What i'm gonna do in this room you're gonna be blown away i'm going to paint my wallpaper what i know right can you believe that after all i went through to get this wallpaper here's the good part though i'm not taking it back to where it was.

Just plain smooth drywall this is going to have the same texture as the wallpaper it's going to look it's going to look like grass cloth got to come back and see that one you're going to love the one of how to spring up my music room how many of you saw my using what you.

Have video on decorating your guest bedroom well i'm sitting in it right now i gotta say it looks pretty springy to me already don't you think for starters i'm going to change out the color scheme here's what i have is a white comforter but all of my pillows are in the yellow and green combination different various shades of green so i'm.

Going to take those out and i'm going to add millennial pink i know sounds like is it dated you tell me is millennial pink dated i like it for a soft version and i have a bunch of guests coming this summer that are my girlfriends from san diego so you know it'll be a girl's room not always just for my son when he comes to.

Stay so i'm going to change those out to that color palette of course it'll be perfect for bringing in fresh flowers bringing in some fresh plants maybe even a tree in here but the biggest thing i'm going to add window treatment panels in here too i've wanted to since the day i got here and now the time has come so.

I'm going to add white linen window treatment panels that are sheer in nature still keeping the shades because these are perfect when people are staying at night this is great for pretty much room darkening all the way around but you add panels here you open those shades over there and then i'll do.

Panels on this wall as well i think that's going to add a lot to this room so that's my plan for this room i think it's going to look great and i'll also keep the rug that i have the furniture that i have just art and accessories and a few ready-made window treatment panels super inexpensive and very easy to do in one day.

welcome to my pistachio mint chip bathroom telling you guys from the very first moment i saw this bathroom i knew when i moved in if i bought this house it was going to be the first thing i changed turns out it wasn't.

But i also knew that i didn't like it i never have liked it i tried to use what i had and you know kind of create some things here in the time being but you know when christmas came around after the new year i was like okay 2022 this is the year i'm going to renovate the guest bathroom i designed it the way i wanted it and.

Trust me it turned out fabulous if you want to see there is an entire session on the design sessions just on this bathroom and all the phases of design that i went through that i was going to design it so you can go there and watch it on the design sessions but i looked at this thing and the bid came.

Back you know how much the bid was for to change this i don't know nine by eight bathroom one hundred thousand dollars yes indeed ladies and gentlemen what so i was like oh my gosh met with the contractor i redesigned it and came up.

With another design that's way way way way less cool and it was still fifty thousand and that is when i went okay i will never get that money out of this if i do this to this bathroom even at fifty thousand dollars i'm not going to get my money back out of it when i sell it however.

What could i do in this bathroom and it's going to make me not hate it so much well i've got some ideas and plans in fact when you come back to see this aspect of spring updating your guest bathroom or any bathroom i'm going to show it to you in a way i love to do and that is on three different budgets i'm going to show you three ways.

Really low budget a medium budget and one that's got a little bit more substance to it what you can do to make a difference it may not be your uh dream bathroom with your fabulous tile and marble you've always wanted but it is going to be a heck of a lot.

Better than this so come back and watch that video because i think you're gonna love it well according to my sheet here my spreadsheet i have come up with some ideas things that i can do in my master retreat area now again if you saw the using what you.

Have videos you saw that i already redid my bedroom there are some things i want to do in here but not just yet i can live with it the way it is and by the way those are paper shades yes accordion pleated amazon dollar 50 shades those are going to be lutron one day.

It's all in good timing but there are two things two areas that i want to address in here that i came up with ways that i can update one of them is my master bathroom believe it or not and the other one is in my closet where do you want me to start stop the video leave a comment.

Did you leave it did you leave a comment stop the video and leave a comment okay let me read what you wrote do you guys want to see the bathroom first all right let's go do it you should if you haven't seen the series on using what you have because i keep referring to it through this entire.

Video because it's where i am right now it's not where i started but if you want to see what this bathroom looked like before where i started and then where it is now it's been a huge improvement i have to say but i still think i could do something better or something more i think this bathroom is actually very nice.

25 30 years ago someone spent a lot of money putting in all this real marble solid slabs on this jacuzzi tub i mean so much marble but they made a couple of mistakes in my opinion one of them was this shower it's that the glass doesn't go to the ceiling and it's got these very strange rounded tension bars is what.

They look like i don't think they're tension i think they're solid but i don't like them this bathroom to a lot of people they would they would think this was perfectly fine but i have a major huge problem with it and it is a principal problem it's a principle that i teach on the design sessions everyone who's a.

Member of the design sessions will tell you rebecca is obsessed with flow this bathroom has flow this way but it doesn't have flow this way all this money and to stop the stone early.

If you're building a house or you're redoing a bathroom whatever you do take your stone to the ceiling as long as it's not a taller than 10 foot ceiling so i have a plan and i want you to come back and see because i am going to faux finish the exterior edge all the way around.

This room to look like marble all right so my closet i'm so excited about what i'm gonna do in here you guys okay how much do i tell you or do i just make you come back and see it okay i'll tell you a little bit.

First off look at this you seen this this is peach marble i'm sure there's a great name for it somewhere i am not a peach or pink marble person never have been but there's something that in my opinion is.

So ugly about it that it's kind of beautiful does that make sense so rather than throw the baby out with the bath water and yank this puppy out and stick a piece of ikea furniture here this is a custom-made dresser what can i do to make it look better not invest a lot of money but just really make an update in this in this closet.

Well first off i could redo my clothes i could bring take all of my winter clothes out because i do have a wardrobe room i know isn't that nice take those out bring all my summer clothes in use all new hangers i have black hangers in here dark dark dark i could get white hangers then i could use this wall and make it much more.

Effective for my belt so i can put scarves up there you know what i really want have you seen my glasses collection these are not a joke every one of these glasses is prescription not only prescription they are progressive meaning on the.

Bottom you can read as it goes up you can see things normal and as it goes up like this like you're going like this you can see far away it means when you're in your car you can look down and see the speedometer and look up and see the distance and you're not getting a migraine headache because you tried to.

Do this with your readers on oh my gosh progressives are great these are sunglasses these are regular glasses and they transition wouldn't it be cool if i had a great place and a way to display them other than using my countertop because countertop space is.

Precious we want our countertop space but i got all kinds of wall space in here i could use so wait till you see what i have in mind sorry that doesn't sound very good does it so here's the plan.

Keep the dresser paint it but this wall right here this wall right here from there around around over around an accent color georgia peach baby of all the rooms i'm updating i i can't.

Say that there's a favorite because i think that the differences that i'm going to see in each room is going to be market and it's going to be pretty exciting and i hope it's going to give you all kinds of ideas of things you can do with stuff you already have or just go to homegoods which is what i've been.

Doing them for the last couple of weeks and buy all kinds of inexpensive things bring them home and see if they fit if they do keep them if they don't take them back as long as it's within 30 days it's the best way to shop ever and come back and see all of these videos don't just all.

Come back and see this video because i promise you i'm even getting excited about what this crazy granite has done to my crazy imagination and what i have in mind i think is going to be amazing so wish me luck that's a lot of work isn't it.

You take each one of these rooms individually and it's pretty much a project a day other than outside painters or things like that but accessorizing changing out rugs or pillows that's can easily be done in one day so it's not a lot individually but collectively it's a lot so thank you for being patient with us to make these.

Videos do the work here in my house and get them out to you guys but between now and then i would highly recommend you go and watch the series called using what you have it'll get your palette wet for what's to come so i told you in the beginning of the video that i would explain to you a little bit more about my decision on the rooms that i'm doing.

And why i'm doing him the way i am you know i love this house and this whole video series that we've done is where you know rebecca's designing her dream home right and i have considered this my dream home i actually have considered this my forever home but it's become increasingly more obvious to me with time the longer i.

Live here that i don't think i can live here forever and the reason i say that is because i have two flights of stairs to climb over and over again every single day at this age i can do that easily but i'm not going to be this age forever.

And as i began to contemplate more and more of the renovations i wanted to do in my home and then get the cost of those back it was like ridiculously expensive and i thought i mean i either have to die here because no one is going to pay for this house no one's going to pay for this house what i.

Put into it because i was indulging myself to get it the way i wanted it so i decided you know what i need to start thinking differently maybe i do need to look for a house with a master bedroom on the main floor there could still be guest rooms upstairs for when my kids come but i need a bedroom on the main floor and i.

Need a laundry room on the main floor and a kitchen and a living room anyway that got me starting to think and i've actually made a pretty exciting decision that i've been waiting and holding off to tell you guys about and that's this guess what i just bought a piece of property.

I know this is like a dream that i've had all my life and the fact that i'm at this place in my life this stage in my life the season and that i i've been fortunate and i had a successful career that i can afford to do it i am actually going to build my dream home one of the things we're also going to do besides.

Showing you all of this stuff to build this house and of course eventually me moving in is um i'm going to go camping with my friend angela who works for ken woven and her husband michael and whoever else wants to come along they're huge campers.

Their idea of camping is completely different than mine i'm quite sure we're not just gonna go to you know a national state park we're going to go camping on my new piece of property it's undeveloped and i'm going to get to feel what it feels like to wake up in the morning and see the sunrise to go to bed at night.

And watch the sunset and to gaze up at the stars all night long doesn't that sound like fun and if i'm good at it and i really visualize i probably won't even pay any attention to the snakes and the raccoons and the bobcats that are probably going to be surrounding me at the time so isn't that great news i hope you're.

As excited about it as i am i just know that we're going to be talking about it i'm going to be talking about it doing videos on it showing you the design everything as we go along through the project but i'm super excited will i miss this house yes but i will tell you this you know the purchasing land.

Uh designing the the lot building the house that's about a three year process so i will be here for three more years three more christmases three more summers in the pool so yeah i still have to do all these updates because three years is a long time where were you three years ago stop right now and.

Ask yourself where was i three years ago and ask yourself wasn't that a long time ago hasn't a lot happened in between there i need to live in a beautiful home at least during that time so that's we're gonna do okay thanks guys come back when we upload all these videos go watch the you know though using what you have.

Watch whatever you want watch some of our christmas videos just watch kim over or go to my daughter's channel go to ken woven home shera's got all kinds of great projects especially if you are a young mother or you have young children she's doing a whole series on how to decorate your home in a kid-friendly way and yet it'd be beautiful remember to.

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