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[Tigriss]

I prefer fresh air and spring blooms! Then the heat and humidity really hits (I'm a bit north of you in the south of Georgia) and I close the windows and break out the swimsuits and beach towels. Fresh spring flowers or potted plants help turn over the air in the house and do a spring cleaning of the air and visual space.

[Snicks1]

Really I only "decorate" for Christmas, the rest of the time it is my normal decor, which I love. I have beautiful art on my walls, and minimal stuff on end tables, etc. Once warmer weather arrives I want to be outdoors and my home's normal decor makes it easy and quick to clean, leaving me more time for the great outdoors. For each person, it is our own personal choice to make. Hopefully, we all enjoy what we choose to do.

[Tigriss]

@151949 If you don't mind my suggestion. Once the house is back like you want it and you get over being blue about not getting the house and all, take the money that you put down on the house and do something fun with it or do up the current place. I'd hit the spa or plan a trip we always wanted to take, and take it! BUT above all things, BE HAPPY!

[corita]

        I pretty much semi-decorate during the year...nothing too much or too cutesy!!    I have an old Bethlehem Lights, boxwood wreath that lights up on the front door all year around.  It must be six plus years old and still working so well. Just change batteries every four/five months or so.  I hang seasonal decor in the middle of the wreath everytime I change my house decor.  I overlap seasonal decor!!

        Right now I have a nice set of wooden carrots from Hobby Lobby hanging in the wreath.  In my house,  I have Easter items placed around, but not overdone Easter!!   A couple  of weeks after Easter, I put out Americana items -- hang a cute star/flag item on the wreath and I have some Americana items thoughout the house.  My Americana decor stay up thru Labor Day and then I change to Fall, followed by Winter-Holidays!

[Mominohio]

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@Kachina624wrote:

Unless you operate a nursery school or kindergarten, why is it necessary to always have some cutesy decor in your house, especially if the occupants are adults?  Give it a rest.

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How rude!

Some people always love the whimsy of childhood and continue it in their seasonal and holiday decor thorough adulthood. 

Just because it isn't for you or me, doesn't make it ok to criticize and demean others for doing it.

[GingerPeach]

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@Kachina624wrote:

Unless you operate a nursery school or kindergarten, why is it necessary to always have some cutesy decor in your house, especially if the occupants are adults?  Give it a rest.

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Maybe you are serious, my dear @Kachina624, but you always manage to make me chuckle.  

I like my year-round rabbit decor.  Sophisticated porcelain, I'll have you know.  Hah!  

[RedTop]

Only the garden flag outside acknowledges all holidays; no inside decorations except at Christmas.   

[CANDLEQUEEN]

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@faeriemoonwrote:

Forgot to mention that I use a lot of fresh flowers in the spring and summer.  Last Sunday we had a big party here (a shower actually) and I had twenty dozen tulips all over the house.

I buy fresh flowers throughout the spring and summer.

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I do that too, especially in May, june, July and August! Love fresh flowers, and our season here is so short, I like to enjoy them.....Plus they smell and look so pretty! It really can spruce up a space.