A SPRING RESET
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The evenings are stretching a little longer, fresh air is moving through open windows again, and our routines are starting to feel a little lighter. Spring naturally invites us to reflect on how we’re living day to day. Maybe you feel motivated to take more morning runs along the coast, or maybe you feel encouraged to start gardening and plant fresh herbs and flowers. Not only does this time of year encourage us to reflect on how we’re living our daily lives, but we also tend to take a deeper look at how we experience life within our home. This is because your home often responds to seasonal changes the same way nature does.
In our last edition of Embark, The Edited Home, we shared our thoughts about what this process can look like. In many ways, editing your space is the first layer of a spring reset. One of the first things we encourage people to do is pull everything back for a moment. Remove temporary seasonal layers and give your space a deep clean. Doing this allows the room to breathe and gives you time to evaluate what’s working and what isn’t. A reset should begin with observation, not accumulation.
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A spring reset isn’t about chasing trends or replacing everything in your space. It’s rooted in intentionality. It’s about taking the time to really notice what’s working, what isn’t, and how your home can better align with your lifestyle. Kristen shared, “after editing a space and things feel a little bare, we tend to feel pressure to fill that space. When the reality is, it’s so much better to be intentional and really understand how you want to live within your environment.” When the visual noise is removed, you’re finally able to see the room more clearly.
We want spaces to function at their highest and best, and that means they’re actually being lived in. Determining how you want to live in a space is often the best place to begin. Once your space has been cleared, step back and ask yourself a few questions:
How am I actually using this room?
Am I using this space to its fullest potential?
Is the layout supporting my daily life?
Are there any areas within my home I continuously just walk past without ever truly using?
Kristen often says, “there is nothing worse than having a room in your home that you never use.” A home should enhance the way you actually live, this means allowing a space to evolve alongside you. For instance, in her own home, Kristen transformed her once unused formal living space into a den that supports her current daily rituals. She added bookcases, layered lighting, a comfortable sofa, and a desk. Yes, the room became more functional, but it also became more comfortable for Kristen. It gave her a place to work, read, and unwind all within the same space.
“Your home often responds to seasonal changes the same way nature does. A spring reset is about intentionality and creating a home that aligns your lifestyle. The goal isn’t to create an entirely different home every season, it’s to allow your home to evolve alongside you as your life unfolds inside it.”
Often, functionality comes through small details. It could be a side table you added next to your sofa so you can set down your coffee in the morning. Or maybe you prioritized task lighting beside a chair you actually want to read in. Or maybe you incorporated a layout that encourages conversation and movement naturally. Other times, it’s simply understanding how you need the space to support your lifestyle right now, not how you thought it should function years ago. You are not obligated to keep spaces exactly as they’ve always been, your home should evolve alongside you. As you grow and change, naturally your home will too. Whether this time in your life is about gathering with loved ones or creating moments of quiet, taking the time to discern what you need from your home is at the heart of a spring reset.
Spring naturally invites a lighter approach to layering. As the season changes, we often find ourselves pulling back some of the heavier textures that carried us through the winter and introducing elements that feel softer and more airy. Fresh linens, lighter textures, opening windows, adding fresh flowers and bowls of fruit in the kitchen, and burning a new candle in the morning. These shifts may seem small, but they can completely change how a home feels. It can feel grounding to allow your home to evolve seasonally in the same way nature does. Spring naturally prepares us for slower mornings, longer evenings, and more time spent gathering. Your home should feel connected to that shift.
We want homes to feel deeply connected to the people living inside them. At its core, a spring reset is about intentionality and creating a home that supports your lifestyle. The goal isn’t to create an entirely different home every season, it’s to allow your home to evolve alongside you as your life unfolds inside it. At Studio Thomas, intertwining a client’s lifestyle is at the center of how we design. How you gather, how you move through your mornings, how your daily rituals naturally unfold within your home, and where you rest at the end of the day are all important to us.
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