How To Make Decorating For Valentine’s Day (Or Any Other Time Of Year) Fast And Easy
Use this great idea to make your decorating for Valentine’s Day, or any other time of year, fast and easy!
Do you have a spot in your home is that is your favorite place to decorate for the different seasons and holidays throughout the year? My favorite space is the open shelves in my breakfast area! Why? Well, it’s because they are one of the most visible spots in my home. Located through the wide opening from the family room into the kitchen/breakfast area, these shelves are impossible to miss whenever we’re moving about in our house.
If you caught this previous post, “How To Quickly And Easily Keep Shelves Decorated As The Seasons Change”, then you already know that my mission today is to show you how you can very quickly and easily add seasonal or holiday decorations to any spot in your home.
The secret is to start with a base of basic, mostly neutral items that will allow you to get a whole new look and celebrate any holiday or season with just a few easy decor changes.
Take a look at this side-by-side comparison – a basic winter look is on the left. You can see that by using a mostly neutral background, how easily I was able to only switch out a few things to go from Winter to Valentine’s Day.
I don’t do a ton of decorating for Valentine’s and I don’t have very many Valentine’s Day specific decorations, so I keep them all in a small tub in the place where I store the rest of my decor. All I had to do was to bring that small tub downstairs and pull out what I wanted to use on my farmhouse shelves this year.
Let me explain just how quick and easy it was! Take a closer look at the right side of the shelves. The white casserole dish on the top shelf was replaced with an adorable sitting pillow, I added a cute Valentine’s heart plaque to the second shelf and a wonderful scented Valentine’s candle to the bread board on the bottom.
Get the directions for how I made that cute wreath for under $10 by clicking HERE.
On the left side, I tucked in a larger Valentine’s heart block to the decorations on the top of my sideboard.
You can see that on the rest of the shelves, I simply replaced the white candles on the top shelf with red ones, added Valentine’s themed dishes to both tool boxes and then switched out some of the accessories displayed on the round bread board that the lamp is resting on. So – have I convinced you yet? I challenge you to find a spot in your home where you can put these same decorating principles into practice!
I don’t typically decorate for Valentine’s Day — although I am a hopeless romantic! — because it always seems to kitschy. But you have clearly demonstrated how just a few well-placed Valentine-inspired pieces can celebrate Cupid’s Day without going overboard! LOVE it!
Happy Valentines Day!
Love cozying things up for winter…but I am thinking about spring decorating soon. My daffodils and tulips are popping up and the lack of snow here is making us all a bit antsy for spring. Love reading your blog!
Such sweet Valentine decor!
Love the candle with the xoxo’ all over it. That is the e way I always sign anything I send my grandkids. Xoxo Nana
Cute and cheery! Enjoy the change-up to the shelves you do for holidays and seasonally. Thank you for sharing your fun ideas!
Your Valentine’s Day décor is adorable! I too frequent Hallmark and love their décor items!
Makes sense just to change out a few fillers and is effective. Good idea
HI, Suzy:
Your VAlentine’s decorations are adorable! I also loved your post this morning of your awesome coffee bar. The reason i am posting a comment to this post is because I just had my kitchen painted (Revere Pewter, woot! Woot!), and I took down my very dark espresso stained wood shelves that were short, and want to make longer ones (about 5 feet) in a lighter color similar to yours on a wall that my old Baker’s Rack was on. Could you please share where you got your wood, and did you stain them yourself or were they pre-finished? I’m having a hard time finding real wood, and wood that is already finished. I’m trying to save my husband some work and time. Any advice you can share is much appreciated!
Blessings,
❤️Beth
Hi Beth. Congrats on getting your kitchen painted! Due to the length of my shelves, I wanted them to be thick (they’re 2″) so that I wouldn’t worry about them bowing from the weight of heavy things that I knew I would inevitably place on them. I wasn’t able to find wood that thick at Lowes or Home Depot, so I went to an actual building supply store in my area. They even cut them to length for me.:DI stained them myself (super easy!). I was lazy and didn’t add polyurethane to them, but I wish that I had so that they would be easier to dust.
Thank you so much! We are headed out this morning to a few local lumber yards. I knew we would have to get the wood from a specialty store, because everything that Lowe’s and Home Depot carries is veneered MDF?
Have a great day!
Hi
Where did u get the cute sitting
Pillow? Loved it all!
Ann
Hi Ann. So sorry for the delay in responding! I got the pillow from Walgreen’s a couple of years ago.