Hutch Decorating Ideas for Spring (with Vintage Garden Style)

How do you decorate a hutch for Spring? these vintage garden style decor ideas will inspire you to decorate your china cabinet for Spring beautifully.

Spring is hopefully getting started where you live! Here in Minnesota, it’s definitely a waiting game. When other bloggers are cutting their bulb flowers, we’re still waiting for feet of snow to melt! Spring HAS to start inside long before we see it out the window. If you’re getting in the Spring decorating mood, I’m hoping this Hutch Decorating Ideas for Spring (with Vintage Garden Style) will inspire your creativity!

Hutch Decorating Ideas for Spring (with Vintage Garden Style)

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We’ve had this Facebook marketplace hutch for just a year now, and I’ve so enjoyed styling it for each season. You can see it’s ho-hum before and it’s vintage-style furniture makeover HERE. Last year was it’s decorating debut and I decked it out in happy, pastel Easter decor. Wicker baskets even decorated the top of the hutch. You can catch the Easter china cabinet display in the background HERE.

With all the snow we’re still getting this year, I needed a more subtle hello to Spring. This vintage garden style look is easy on the eyes and embraces lots of texture. Here’s how to decorate your china cabinet or hutch with a subtle Spring vibe.

Choose a Spring Color Scheme

For a subtle Spring color scheme, I used whites and creams with mossy greens and rusty brown. Like Spring trying to emerge from the melting snow. Plenty of organic textures and metal and glass keep the display interesting.

A couple of “new” vintage metal baskets give a nod to Easter, along with moss bunnies hopping throughout. Thrifted white dishes and lily-of-the-valley vintage saucers provide a fresh backdrop.

Garden-Inspired Accessories, Combining New and Old

Garden-inspired accessories fill the shelves. New, pedestal-shaped containers in terra cotta and faux rust give the display structure while vintage garden tools and accents fill in the spaces.

Vintage garden accessories to include:

• floral frogs
• garden hand tools
• floral misters
• hose faucets and handles
• mini topiaries
• moss bunnies

Lay, Prop and Tilt your Acccessories

Everything in your hutch display should not be standing up straight if you want a collected look. Lay, prop or tilt some accessories for a more natural, less contrived style. My DIY Repurposed Candlesticks add chippy texture in the corners. Some are standing, some laying on their sides.

A vintage green wicker basket that lost it’s handle still looks good when added to the whole. Old tools spill out as if someone knocked it over.

Decorate for Spring with Fillers

Fillers, the extra textures you add to your accessories, is what makes a seasonal display. Once you get the framework of your decorations in place, finish off the display with seasonal fillers.

• rolled or shredded vintage music
• decorative eggs
• moss, excelsior grass
• rustic spheres: grapevine, moss, wood
• clay pots or pieces

How Do You Decorate the Top of a Hutch?

Once you’ve styled a pretty hutch or china cabinet display, you may be wondering “How do you decorate the top of a hutch?” Decorating the top of a tall piece of furniture can be as fun as styling the inside. I’ve got many ideas and examples to decorate the top of any tall furniture piece HERE. For this Spring hutch display, I topped it off with my vintage birdcage collection. {see more ways to decorate with vintage birdcages HERE}.

I filled the insides of the birdcages with clay pots and saucers, stacking and leaning them. Apple blossom branches poke out here and there for fresh Spring style. A vintage suitcase, an old stool and an upside down basket elevates them to get a nice balance of heights. {see 9 Fun Ways to Decorate with Vintage Suitcases for more ideas}

Spring Hutch Decor with Vintage Garden Style

I am loving this subtle-into-Spring hutch display. The soothing, yet fresh colors, along with the mix of old and new accessories and lots of texture means I will be happy to look at this as long as Spring takes to arrive! It’s got a subtle nod to Easter with an organic, gardeny vibe.

Hope these hutch decorating ideas give you inspiration how to style a china cabinet for Spring, or wherever you can enjoy a vintage garden-themed display. {You may also enjoy “How to Decorate to Thrift the Look, Garden-Inspired Decor”}

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