Spring Decorating After Easter
Fresh, simple ideas for decorating your home after Easter with light spring decor that feels updated, calm, and season-ready.
Decorating after Easter is all about keeping your home feeling fresh, light, and in step with the season.
Once Easter is over, it can feel a little in-between. The bunnies and eggs are ready to be put away, but summer decorating still feels a ways off. This is actually one of my favorite times to decorate because a few simple changes can make a home feel calm and pulled together again.
How To Decorate After Easter In 3 Easy Steps
If you’re not sure what to do after Easter, this simple approach makes it easy.
1. Put away anything that clearly feels like Easter
Eggs, bunnies, baskets, and themed decor.
2. Keep what still feels like spring
Flowers, greenery, branches, and light colors.
3. Use less and keep it simple
Let your everyday decor stand out again.
Before you start making changes, it helps to take a quick look at how seasonal decorating really works in a home.
A Word About Seasonal Decorating
Every season has a beginning, middle, and end, and decorating follows that same rhythm.
At the start of a season, I usually begin adding a few pieces while the previous season is still winding down. It feels natural because I’m ready for the change. Then there’s a middle point when the season feels fully settled in, and decorating feels at its fullest.
As the season begins to shift again, I start to pull things back. This is where we are after Easter.
This is a good time to decorate with a lighter hand. Let your everyday decor come forward again, and keep just a few simple nods to spring.
One of the easiest ways to decorate this way is to follow the natural rhythm of the season, adding and subtracting as it changes. I share more about this in The Lazy Girl Guide To Decorating Your Home, where I walk through it step by step.
When Is The Right Time To Take Down Easter Decor
Determining when to take down Easter decorations is less about following a strict date and more about paying attention to how your home feels.
I always enjoy using a few favorite pieces during the Easter season, but once Easter Sunday has passed, I’m usually ready to put them away and move on to a simpler spring look.
A Cautionary Tale
When I was dating my husband, we put up a Christmas tree in his apartment together. Christmas came and went, but the tree remained. Valentine’s Day came and went, but the tree was still languishing in his living room. Just before Easter, he put a big cardboard Easter bunny on his front door, but the tree was still inside. Did you know that the dead, dry needles of an evergreen tree fall in a perfect circle around its trunk? It’s really something to see in a wonder-of-nature way! I almost stopped dating him because of the fire hazard he harbored in his apartment.
That little story still makes me smile, but it’s also a good reminder. Seasonal decor should feel timely, not forgotten.
Most of the time, you’ll know when it’s time to take things down. If your home starts to feel a little out of sync with the season, that’s your cue. As a simple rule, taking down Easter decor within a week or two after Easter helps your home feel fresh and ready for late spring.
Put Away All Bunnies, Chicks, Nests, And Other Easter Decor
Think about putting away any seasonal decor that is overtly Easter-ish. Use your own good discretion. You will know what spring decorations to put away and what to keep out.
Here are some things I put away right after Easter…
And here are spring-inspired things I leave up for a while…
Decorate With Spring Organics After Easter
Decorating with organics after Easter is one of the easiest ways to keep your home feeling fresh. Whether you use real plants or faux stems, they add life and beauty to every room. I tend to keep them around until I’m ready to move into early summer decor because they always feel right for the season.
After Easter is also a good time to step back a bit. Let your everyday decor reclaim the spotlight and use just a few spring elements to support it. I like to edit things down this time of year. Using less makes a home feel calm and gives everything a little more room to stand out, and I enjoy adding back in much-loved, non-seasonal accent decor.
This is one of the simplest ways to decorate after Easter because it always looks fresh and never feels like too much.
Decorate With Spring-Inspired Pillows And Other Textiles
It’s time to switch out any pillows that clearly feel like Easter. If a pillow has bunnies or eggs, it’s a good time to put it away until next year. I always enjoy using a few seasonal pillows, but after Easter, I’m ready to bring in something that works for the rest of spring and even into summer.
Switching out pillows is one of the quickest ways to decorate for late spring without buying anything new.
After Easter Transitioning
This is a great time to move toward a lighter look.
Choose pillows made of cotton, linen, or other lightweight fabrics. They feel right as the weather warms up and help a room look a little more relaxed. Choose pillows that work with your room’s color palette and add a fresh late-spring/early-summer splash of color.
Don’t forget the bedrooms. Changing out bedding or adding lighter layers can make the whole room feel refreshed.
Pillows and textiles do so much work in a room. A small change here can make everything feel new and fresh.
Twigs, And Spring Branches
As you’re putting Easter decor away, keep out a few of your best blooming branches.
They are perfect for this time of year and make an easy focal point in a room. A simple arrangement in a vase or urn on a coffee table, buffet, or entry table feels just right for late spring.
Branches add height and bring a natural element into your home without feeling fussy.
I like to use them until I’m ready to switch to early summer decor. They carry a room beautifully through this in-between season.
Use Tulips Year Round
Tulips may be known as a spring flower, but I use them well beyond Easter.
They come in so many colors and work in almost any room. A simple bunch in a vase on a kitchen counter, coffee table, or bedside table can make a space feel fresh in minutes.
I like to keep tulips around through late spring because they still feel right for the season, even after Easter. Use them to infuse your home with a sense of grace and sophistication all year long.
Shop Your Home
Before buying anything new, take a look around your home.
Some of the best decorating ideas come from using what you already have in a different way. A vase moved to a new room, a tray restyled, or a favorite bowl filled with something seasonal can feel completely fresh.
I do this all the time. My favorite pieces show up again and again, just used in new ways.
This is one of the easiest ways to decorate after Easter because it keeps things simple and helps your home feel collected rather than cluttered.
Add A Small Nod To Summer
After Easter, I like to add one or two small things that hint at the next season.
Nothing big or bold, just something simple. In my home, I hung a garden hat and added a small butterfly picture to the side of a bookcase that bridges our foyer and living room. It’s just enough to feel like the season is beginning to shift.
Think Decide Do
When I decorate after Easter, I keep things simple by using this little approach.
Think
Look around your home and notice what feels too seasonal and what still works.
Decide
Choose what to put away, what to keep, and where you can simplify.
Do
Make a few small changes instead of redoing everything.
This keeps decorating from feeling overwhelming and helps you move forward with confidence.
Questions You May Have About Decorating After Easter
This in-between season can feel a little tricky, so here are a few simple answers to help you decorate with confidence.
Store Easter decor in covered bins in a cool, dry place. Use containers with lids to keep out dust and moisture, and don’t overfill them so pieces don’t get damaged.
For larger items like faux branches or arrangements, store them upright in a large container or cover them with a sheet on a shelf.
I like to sit my larger branches upright in a plastic garbage can by season and cover them with an old linen sheet so they don’t collect dust.
After Easter, focus on simple spring decor.
Keep flowers like tulips, greenery, and branches, and start using your non-seasonal decor accents you love. This helps your home feel fresh without needing a full seasonal change.
Start by removing anything that clearly feels like Easter, like eggs, bunnies, or themed pieces.
Then reuse what’s left in a simpler way. A basket, a vase, or a bowl can be restyled with greenery, flowers, or everyday items, so it works for the rest of spring.
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After Easter is a lovely time to slow down and enjoy your home in a simpler way.
Once the holiday decor is put away, everything feels a little calmer. A few small changes can make your home feel fresh again without needing to start over. Use what you love, keep things light, and let your home settle into this easy, in-between season.
Another great post on how to edit out stuff that no longer applies and help to move to the next season!
I agree…love white tulips…I have some pretty good silks that get used Year after year!
Thanks, Mercedes!
Thanks for your idea to store the tall twiggy branches in a trash can – why didn’t I think of that?!
I tend to keep Easter up until right before Mothers Day. Since I was born on that day it is a great way to clean up, edit and start my New Year correctly. Then out comes the Red, White and Blue. With Summer on the way and all those great Patriotic holidays I use my own made quilts on the rocking chairs on the porches, on pillows here and there and the other themed decor pieces. I try not to over-do because I tire of it by mid July! Each season, Each holiday beckons for change. I even change out curtains. Thanks for this post, It is reassuring to know that many of us think alike! Hope you are feeling well and life is getting back to normal.
We share the same feelings about Red, White and Blue. Mine starts with Memorial Day, thru Flag Day, gets a lot of addition to in for the Forth of July. It tapers down until Memorial Day then we look forward to cooler days and early autumn decorations.
I was born on Mother’s Day too! This year my birthday will $all on Mother’s Day.
Great tips, Yvonne
I love the trash can for branch storage. Mine are kept in a dresser drawer right now. Forsythia and pussy willow are two of my favorites.
Great ideas!!
Once again…beautiful! I’d been wondering myself how to decorate afterwards also. Regrettably, I don’t have any other pillows that signal spring or tulips. My pillows go directly to summer and it’s too early, in my opinion, for pillows with shells. I stopped doing live plants in the house years ago, after dealing with water spots on furniture or the flooring. Overall, I probably need to focus on purchasing some items that aren’t seasonal.
Hi Melissa – I know what you mean about water spots as I noticed certain plants (such as the common Pothos) do that but having something real and green in a room really does add life to the decor. There are plants that don’t emit droplets such as Asparagus Fern and Snake Plant. I was looking at some stunning interiors the other days, all professionally done, but they looked incomplete and just “flat”. I visualized a tall palm in one corner (in one photo) and a Boston Fern (in another photo) and realized that’s what was missing.
Love hour Spring banner! It’s so cute.
Back to neutrals and touches of green.I have some neutral rabbits
that I leave out all year.Paint and spray paint are my friends to
repurpose items.Love the white tulips and natural elements.
Everything always done to perfection! Love your posts!
I was thinking a long unused drawer would be a good place to store branches but I like the garbage can idea too! We live in a very dusty area so I’d probably slip a loose bag or pillow case over them. Thanks for the great ideas!
An unused drawer is a great idea!
I’m in a condo, Elizabeth, and have NO room at all to store tall branches (I love them as well!) so I still keep mine out on display in a tall vase on my bedroom dresser. That way, I’ve solved the storage dilemma but they aren’t on plain sight anymore. Sometimes, I place a lower vase (with seasonal silk flowers) slightly in front of the vase with the branches which seems to place attention on the florals and not the branches.
Thanks for all the inspiration. Time to change things up. Happy Monday.
Just what I needed!! I’m looking around and wondering what to do!! Thank you! You gave some great ideas!
Spring has sprung! I will be busy this week cleaning house and getting ready for round two of company so Easter will last another week in my home.
Great ideas and beautiful images, Yvonne. I love the nest with eggs – so pretty! Happy Monday!
Great ideas to change from Easter to spring.
Love the ideas, I put up all Easter by end of April. this year I am excited about bring out the Spring/Summer with birds/nest/birdcages, etc in colors of green, white and burlap/brown. I will start in a couple of weeks but like you Memorial Day and July 4th have to play a part too, so I spend a lot of time packing and unpacking, but love the look of all seasons. Can’t wait to see what you do for Memorial/July 4th.
Thanks for sharing!
Ready to change it up a bit! I do have two tall Bunnies wood carved that I put out Easter right thru to Fall Decorting. They are one of my favorite pieces I own
Thanks for all the tips, Yvonne. Today is my day to remove Easter and refresh! Happy Monday!
Since I tend do seasonal decorating with just a sprinkling of specific holiday touches, I simply gathered up the two bowls of eggs I had in 2 vignettes and stored them away for next Easter, leaving my basic spring decor still in place.
Thanks for the great ideas. I still drool over your pillow stash. Love pillows.
I really like your ideas Yvonne, I will be adding more color to my rooms and more flowers and plants!!!
Spring banner hung today. Hope your Easter celebration was meaningful
Thanks for the great spring update ideas. I’m glad to hear it’s OKAY to use faux branches and florals!
Absolutely! I love to use great faux!
I love the burlap lined crate/tray and the burlap covered books! Love decorating with books! Thank you for the inspiration as always!!
Great advice! what is the name of the Greenhouse, thanks for any help.
Lovely and motivating! We keep Easter for 50 day, right up to Whit Sunday [Pentecost], but the pastel bunnies and chicks depart today. I love the lightness and brightness of your spring style. Easter fell so late this year–will come even later next year–that it will be summer here in Texas really soon.
Great tips for spring!
I love nests, so happy they can be used all year!
What a great idea of storing tall branches in trash cans! Thank you again, Yvonne, for sharing your wonderful dcorating skills with us!
Such good ideas. My birds and rabbits stay out pretty much year-round , except at Christmas ..
Love all the spring ideas. I also love tulips and all the trees and shrubs bursting with new life! Happy Monday.
I love your white tulips. So pretty for spring!
Hi Yvonne,
Love the idea of keeping that bunny tureen out all spring. I just purchased one recently and will do the same. Then it will go with the rest of my ironstone, for the rest of the year, on display! Thanks for the idea.
Happy, happy spring!
Birds, nests , rabbits , branches, Spring has sprung!
I always decorate with plants and pillows. I love live plants best.
Great ideas – thanks.
Good ideas to remove some of the Easter in our homes. I am so glad that greenery is a part of the spring decor.
I agree. Just get rid of the bunnies and such and leave out the bird’s nest, and spring flowers. I guess I love decorating for spring and fall the most. Thank you for all your tips.
Enjoyed the post…let those rabbits hop around a little longer! Bunnies are special anytime of the year!
Bunny
Love those nests!! I am putting away my bunnies but definitely will be using my nests and birds.
I use nests and birds all seasons. The nests that I bring out December 1st have faux snow and they stay out until the middle of February unless we have a very mild February like we did this year and last.
I love tulips also. Thanks for all the great tips. Can’t wait to try some of them.
Carol
I have the same bird pillows and rabbit soup tureen. They along with my bird nests and rabbits stay around the house and garden for the season. Ordered some yellow faux tulips for a blue vase in my blue and yellow guest room.So pretty they may stay till fall! Will put away the things that definitely say Easter like my pastel egg wreath ,Easter baskets ect but so much can stay till Memorial Day when summer starts for us in North Carolina.Then the beachy decor comes out.
I love the bird nest and the eggs…yes looks like Spring
Love that basil tree!
Thanks for all the great ideas of decorating for spring. I love bird nests. Even my 2 oldest granddaughters, ages 4 and 5, like to play with little decorative birdcages, birds, and nests that I keep for them when they come over. They love taking the birds and nests out of the birdcages and putting them back in, pretending to feed the birds, and carrying them around.
love spring, your suggestions for spring are great!
All very good ideas Yvonne. I love to change out my pillows and a few accessories are taken out and more springlike elements take their place. I like a clean fresh look all year so to be honest, my home looks kind of Springy all year long to most peoples eyes. Flowers are always in the scenario, all year long, but like you, tulips and daffodils are a favorite for this time of year. Lamp shades can be changed out to white or lighter type fabrics as well. Heavy blankets and throws are put away for a cleaner look. I use to change out some of my artwork, but the new house does not really allow for that anymore. Just have fun!!
I love birds and nest too and I have several that use some inside and birds and birds houses in the patio and around the back yard. Love the last podcast. You ladies are so much fun!
I actually thought this morning, “Bunnies are over and just plain “Spring” continues. Love the Spring banner. Off to Etsy now. Your blog is always great! Hope your Easter gathering was wonderful.
Thanks for all the the tips to change out Easter to Spring. I like your idea to store your faux stems in a trash can,I store my longer stems in the tubes from wrapping paper, I also use the plastic container that the wrapping paper comes in at christmas for storage of my silk flowers. Have a good evening.
Great ideas and beautiful home. I am trying to step up my seasonal decorating and you really inspire me.
Thanks so much Lisa!
You do Spring so beautifully!!!!…I love using nests…so organic and love the texture that it brings to a space.
You have to let me know when you open up your beautiful home as a B&B…I want to be your first guest!
Just listened to your Podcast….you are too sweet…so next time we can do a tug-a-war on a the soup tureen!!! 🙂
Love how you put everything together. And yes. Love white tulips.
Great suggestions! Debunnnying tomorrow.
I love to do lambs before Easter, and birds and nests afterwards. I love your basil and beautiful tulips. Pink’s my favorite.
Blessings!
love the birds nest & pillows.
Love the tips on using nest in spring!! Love the table with white and fruit, very refreshing!!
As always you never disappoint. And I’m in love with the pillows!
I love,love, love that tablescape. You are sooo brilliant, and I am sooo copying it. Thank you very much
Lovely spring ideas Yvonne!! Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing, Yvonne. My favorite tip is your one on pillows. I have been wanting to purchase some pillow inserts for quite some time now, but just couldn’t justify spending the money. God is SO good and kind, even in the little things… I recently won a $100 Pottery Barn gift card, so the inserts are on order (plus a couple of covers!)
I was going to share something that I read recently in “Glimpses of Grace”. If you haven’t read it, I thought you would appreciate this:
The centrality of “me” in our lives takes precedence over meditating on the grandeur of the Holy One. We’re also easily distracted with the things of eternal insignificance and obsess over petty trivialities. To take and example from my own life this afternoon, I found myself with some extra time, so I purposed to pray I sat down on the couch in my home and immediately my mind was transfixed on whether that couch ought to have two pillows or three plus a throw blanket. Here I was with free, unlimited access to the throne room of the Most High because of Jesus’s blood-bought gift of reconciliation with God. And all I could think about was pillows. To illustrate how important the pillow problem was to me, I’ll confess that my mind came back to this great pillow dilemma every time I passed by that particular couch tonight. (I eventually ended up switching a pillow out from another room and added a throw blanket to the couch, in case this dilemma left you hanging!”
Funny, yet serious, too! I’m sure many of us know this very real struggle, yet, there is no condemnation. And the author of the book knows that, too. 🙂 Such a balance in being creative (and reflecting our Creator’s image) and experiencing tastes of Heaven through our homes, and being sure that we are worshiping the One that we want to always bring glory to, in everything.
Thanks for letting me ramble. I promise it won’t be a habit. 🙂
A good post. I always hate to put out a lot of Easter stuff just for it to be over so soon. So, carefully selecting your decorations does make it easier and you can leave them up for a good 6 weeks or so. Thanks!
This is just what I needed to read right now! I also have a bunny soup tureen that’s white and I love to leave it out. I always have faux branches and flowers, and love nests for spring through summer! Thanks, you gave me just the inspiration I needed to transition from Easter through the rest of spring. Let’s enjoy spring!
Thanks for all of the great ideas as I think about transitioning from Easter to spring decorating! Your tips were just what I needed as I think about packing away the Easter decor. Blessings to you….
Thanks for the motivation! I still have Easter bunnies & eggs out, but I’m ready to move on. You have given me some inspiration!!
Hi Yvonne,
Great post! I also love bringing in color with pillows. Yours are gorgeous! I do have a question, where/how do you store your pillows?
Thanks! Love your home!
just put away Easter! I love these ideas and can’t wait until summer! Thanks Yvvonne!
Love the post today!!! great tips, I think im going to go head and see if I can make a cute nest. I so love your bird pillows,
Hugs.
I love using the nest with eggs during Easter, but also after.
I always find so much inspiration from your posts and what a great tip in regards to using a trash can to store your floral stems.
Bye Bye bunnies, except for those who have permanent homes. I love nests, probably have 50 different sizes and materials. My favorite is a 24″ nest which I have out year round. Not always eggs in big nest.
Thanks for sharing. My favorite post is your dining room table, love the color.
I love nests!
Happy Spring! Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Yvonne, I enjoy your blog. Very creative… I live in Northern New England so Spring comes late! I decorate always using outside medium – branches for forcing, wreath making, and my old maple syrup bucket hangs on the front door filled with forsythia. I can hardly wait to hear those birds sing in my gardens. Happy Spring thoughts! PS love the cake stand idea. I may make one today!
I love your grey chippy urn, do you know where I could find one like it? Thanks!
I love bunnies. I leave them out all year and change the bows around their necks to coordinate with the season
Thanks for this column. I just cleared the dining room table & was thinking now what?!!! Except we are expecting snow in Michigan!
A few items that I’m addicted to are … dish towels and cocktail napkins and I have a collection for every season and every nuance. So stop in to your local Target or TJMaxx and see what you can pick up to add to your home to usher in Spring!
Great idea, Paulette!
Where do you get the bird pillows.
HI TWILA! The bird pillows came from a local Spring Decor Fair. Sorry I don’t have a source for them.
I swap out heavier canvas curtains for sheer floral curtains to change from fall/winter to spring/summer.
Yvonne,
Great tips on Spring decor after Easter!
After doing some general housekeeping today,
as I sat down, I realized I hadn’t put the ‘Easter’ away.
So~o~o glad I hadn’t as I’ve received some great tips!
Thank you for always inspiring. . .
and for sharing your lovely home!
Pat
Beautiful transition, Yvonne! I love reading your blog and get so excited when your email shows up! I see you’ve switched out your prints above the mantle. What do you use to hang your wall décor?
Hi Julie, we use nails and picture hangers and all the normal things. We also use a lot of spackle and sandpaper and paint! Hope this helps.
I love your blog. Our style is so close. I look forward to seeing what you’ve done.
Thanks, Gloria!
We have a real bunny that keeps coming into our yard so we will keep on putting out carrots for him.
Thanks, Yvonne, for another wonderful post with such great advice! Since moving into our new condo, I am a little behind in reading all your posts! We are almost settled in. I was just looking at my Easter decor yesterday and thinking that I really need to pack away a lot of it. I like to leave my stems with their pretty blossoms for another few weeks. I love your cushion on your dining room chair. It’s so pretty. I love cushions, too, and have quite a collection which I always enjoy changing for the seasons. I pray you will have a blessed Easter with your family. God Bless you all!
I only put out two rabbits, one is a small Lladro that sits on an occasional table alongside a flowering plant, the other is a larger rabbit in a ballerina outfit. She sits in my kitchen. Both will be put away Tuesday and I will bring out two other pieces. Not sure what yet.
I wonder why you put away nests but leave out birds. I would think they are both something that could take you through summer. .
I enjoy reading about your ideas on decorating. I have incorporated many of them in my home. Turning your inspiration into something that look great in my home. Thanks
Your blog about paring down Easter decor and lightly decorating until summer is very helpful as I navigate between seasons. I love tulips! Thanks for your suggestions to use them year round! Happy Easter.
Great ideas for decorating after Easter! My house looks so empty after all the holiday decorating! Ha!
Love your posts!!
Have a blessed Easter!
This tutorial was a lifesaver. I had been trying to figure this out all day. The way you wrote it made things click. I’ll be sharing this with my colleagues. Great work!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this.
Love this post and all the new ideas! I actually have Forsythia branches in many rooms of my house. Bathroom included! I’m also forcing Viburnum branches for their sweet smell. Your spring pillows are just beautiful. I would love to see a post with strickly all of your spring pillows, and where they were purchased.I need a refresh! Thank you for a well needed breath of fresh spring air.
This is exactly what I needed! I always love your simple, elegant style. Thank you!
Thank you Janita. Happy spring decorating.