Decorate Your Kitchen for Spring with Minimal Spending

You're ready for Spring and have decided to decorate your kitchen to bring in the season. However, you wish to stay within a minimal budget.  Below you'll find six simple ways to decorate your kitchen without excess spending.  You can brighten your kitchen for Spring in no time!

If you're like me, the kitchen seems to be the most difficult room to decorate.  Maybe this is due to the fact that it needs continual cleaning, and decorating gets put on the back burner.  To tackle the kitchen right away, clean it really well first and remove all lose objects from the counters, refrigerator, cabinets, etc.  While doing this you can take inventory of what you have available for decorating or what needs to be thrown out.  Include the kids in your decor project to make it a family event.

Below are 6 FREE or Inexpensive Ways to Decorate your Kitchen for Spring:

Kitchen Decor Tip #1:  Use Labels and Stickers Tear off labels from cans, boxes and even stickers on fruits, and create unique designs with the labels and stickers on construction paper.    A little glue and paper can go a long way.  Your kids might want to help.

You can create pictures and frame them to hang around the kitchen.  You can also use them to decorate mini flower pots to sit in the window.  Labels are usually very colorful and have great photos of food.  You can also create your own magnets for
the refrigerator.  Check with your local craft store for inexpensive supplies.

Kitchen Decor Tip #2:  Transform a Cabinet

Pick a cabinet (any cabinet) and turn it into an open shelf with a brightly colored curtain covering.  It's easy to remove a cabinet door. You can store the door for later usage.  After removing the cabinet door, hang a curtain on a curtain rod over the hollow cabinet area.  Use this cabinet to store canned goods or whatever you'd like.  It's sort of like having an open pantry.  A decorative curtain will add a touch of Spring to your kitchen.

Kitchen Decor Tip #3:  Add Baskets

Use small-to-medium sized wire or wicker baskets to hold your fruits, onions, peppers, tomatoes, etc.  You can find very inexpensive, but decorative baskets at your local discount stores.  Arrange the baskets decoratively on your counters, bar, and kitchen table to add color and beauty.

Kitchen Decor Tip #4:  Painting the Kitchen

If you have wood cabinets, painting might be an option for your kitchen decor.  Please take precaution with painting.  Be sure you can finish the job without making a mess.  Once you've started painting, there's no turning back!  Paint is fairly inexpensive if you do it yourself and
you can choose your own colors.

Kitchen Decor Tip #5:  Add Color with Potholders and Other Accessories

Colorful potholders and hand towels can come in handy to decorate for Spring as well.  You can purchase these items at local discount stores as well.  If you don't already have them, hang a couple of small towel racks around your kitchen, and also a potholder rack to hang up colorful potholders in a neat row.

Kitchen Decor Tip #6:  Inexpensive Kitchen Decor Items

Finally, other inexpensive accessories that can be used to decorate your kitchen with colors are burner lids, canisters for storing foods like flour and sugar, cookie jars and flowers for the kitchen windows.

All of the above decorating methods are affordable and non-permanent (except maybe painting.)  These small changes can be made at the turn of each season without spending a fortune.  Enjoy your new kitchen decor this Spring!

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