Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Bring Spring Indoors

Longer days, longer shafts of sunlight: spring is upon and the Remodelista editors spent the week compiling a list of clever interior design ideas to bring the outdoors in. Here are five design ideas to bring spring indoors:

An Entryway Bouquet

Above: Eucalyptus is arranged in a wall-mounted straw vase in designer Ilaria Fatone’s ground-floor apartment kitchen. Photograph by Ilaria Fatone.

See more in Kitchen of the Week: A Designer’s Own Ikea Hack Kitchen in Provence, Before and After.

Ikea Glass Jars

Above: Transparency appreciated, especially when sunlight glints against a Sinnerlig clear glass jar ($14.99), an Ilse Crawford design at Ikea.

See more in The Ikea Essentials: Editors’ 10 Favorite Kitchen Tools.

Windowsill Plants

Above: In designer Ilaria Fatone’s wood-framed kitchen window are lab bottles where jade plants are growing roots.

See more in Kitchen of the Week: A Designer’s Own Ikea Hack Kitchen in Provence, Before and After.

Undercounter Appliances

Above: A dorm-sized but sophisticated-looking KitchenAid Double Drawer Refrigerator Freezer; $2,699.10 at The Home Depot.

“The standard refrigerator-freezer has a thirty-six-inch waistline. For smaller kitchens, consider apartment-size or counter-depth fridges that are a mere twenty-four inches wide (but fat with features),” writes Janet. With undercounter appliances, there’s nothing to distract the eye from the view through the kitchen window.

Read more in this week’s 10 Easy Pieces post.

Curtain-Free Zones

Above: Blue cabinets, white walls, airy kitchen. See more in Before & After: A Buzzfeed Founder’s Renovated Rowhouse.

This week Annie tackles remodeling basics first-timers might now know in 10 Things Nobody Tells You About Renovating Your Kitchen.