Along with spring cleaning of the sunspace in my kitchen comes French Country updates. A little rearranging of the shelves on the plate stand and a few new additions add freshness inside to match the new freshness outside the windows.
The gray metal plate stand serves as storage and display for a collection of white dishes.
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Keeping plates and bowls on the French Country style stand near the breakfast table makes the dishes handy to use and makes it easy to add French style to the space.
This spring a pale French bleu placemat with a white flower landed on the top back rung of the metal stand as a place to store the extra placemat from the nearby dining table. Quite by coincidence, the width of the plate stand is the perfect size for placemats.
Life-size wooden eggs are beautiful decor for all spring, not just during the Easter season. The natural color of the wood blends well with the white dishes and the scenes outside the windows.
French style urns are part of the standard decor on the plate stand year round. Whatever is displayed in the urns has an automatic French Country look. Most of the year, a preserved boxwood topiary adds even more French design to the urn on the top shelf.
But, not always.
See a DIY Budget Friendly Moss Topiary for how I created an ivy-covered moss bunny for the French style urn one spring.
This spring DIY Easter Paper Cones stand in the smaller French style urn atop plates on the second shelf.
The fleur de lis wax seals are another French touch to the plate stand.
Another preserved boxwood sits inside a vintage chamber pot on the bottom shelf.
To clean the preserved boxwood, hold it upside down under the kitchen sink sprayer. Spray a gentle stream of cool water over the boxwood taking care not to spray water downward into the preserved boxwood.
Take the dripping boxwood outside to gently shake it upside down to remove excess water. Use a paper towel to wipe down the individual leaves to dry them and to remove dust from the boxwood. Spring-clean fresh! And rejuvenated by the water.
Greenery inside the sunspace blends with the sparkling new green growth outside.
Inside the vintage high chair is a live ivy heart topiary. The seasons are little overlapping with the heart shape and the green metal tree stake.
A new dried lavender wreath hangs from the wall lamp used to shed light on the dining table when the sun goes down.
A blue and white wired-ribbon coordinates with the blues throughout my home and the French Country sunspace in the kitchen.
Do you find your life follows the seasons and naturally includes Spring cleaning? Maybe even more so this Spring?
Seeing my French Country sunspace fresh with a little rearranging and with a few new additions seems to breathe new life into my home each Spring.
But, not always.
See a DIY Budget Friendly Moss Topiary for how I created an ivy-covered moss bunny for the French style urn one spring.
To clean the preserved boxwood, hold it upside down under the kitchen sink sprayer. Spray a gentle stream of cool water over the boxwood taking care not to spray water downward into the preserved boxwood.
Take the dripping boxwood outside to gently shake it upside down to remove excess water. Use a paper towel to wipe down the individual leaves to dry them and to remove dust from the boxwood. Spring-clean fresh! And rejuvenated by the water.
How is your Spring cleaning coming?
Seeing my French Country sunspace fresh with a little rearranging and with a few new additions seems to breathe new life into my home each Spring.
