Looking for hutch decorating ideas for this season? Here’s how I changed up my favorite yard sale hutch for spring.
After I took down the little houses and the trees and Santa and his sleigh, the hutch looked like this.
Until yesterday.
Plain, simple, basic.
Kind of like it was taking a nap after the holidays (which I can totally understand).
I started decorating for spring in the living room and I was working my way through the house.
One tiny little boxwood greenery pot at at time.
And then?
I had a brilliant idea to use something that I already had (which ended up looking SO CUTE).
And now?
Spring has sprung in the kitchen.
And now the hutch looks like this.
// tiny pots of greenery // small white pitcher set //
Just in case you were wondering, this is not Extreme Makeover: The Hutch Edition.
No laser wrinkle removal.
No hair extensions.
No facial reconstruction.
No dental implants.
Nothing drastic.
It’s just a mini refresh.
Kind of like those mini-makeovers they used to have on the third hour of the Today show. When a sweet, unsuspecting woman is nominated by her family for a mini-makeover. Then they surprise her in the studio and the makeover team changes her hair color and gives her a new haircut and style and puts some eye shadow on her and then they dress her in some Spanx and a really cute outfit from JCPenney.
And then she tentatively steps out from behind the curtain and her family gathers around her and is all like “You look incredible.” Then she breaks into hysterical sobs because she realizes that she has finally left the 1970s behind and stepped into 2025.
(total aside: the paint color on the hutch is SW Mindful Gray).
// tiny pots of greenery // small white pitcher set //
Not that the 1970’s isn’t all that and a bag of chips.
It’s just sometimes we all could use a mini-facelift just like this hutch.
Or a good pair of Spanx.
Whichever comes first.
// tiny pots of greenery // small white pitcher set //
I got this cement calendar years ago at Magnolia.
I wish they still made it—but I can’t find it now (if anyone has a source let me know).
I truly love this hutch holding up the back wall of the kitchen. It’s one of my favorite yard sale finds ever.
It’s been all over the house. It used to be upstairs at the farmhouse in Kentucky and then it was in the playroom and eventually, one day, it made the arduous trip across the Mississippi River to my kitchen in Texas.
Where things are a lot fancier.
Much more uptown.
Much more the royal blue eye shadow and JCPenny spiffy dress crowd.
// shop the look here //
And did you notice what I recycled?
What I upcycled from the other side of the kitchen?
I added this wood sign that used to be on the wall going into the laundry room. Doesn’t it look so CUTE? Who would have thought a sign on the hutch could make such a difference?
I’ve had so many different things on its shelves and it’s survived all of them.
And today?
Today I wanted to talk about this mini hutch makeover and how I layered in all the greenery and white dishes for spring.
Here are the steps that I took to decorate this hutch—basic hutch decorating tips that work every time.
// shop the look here //
Hutch Decorating Ideas For Spring
1. Take everything off the shelves
I know.
I get it.
It sounds counterintuitive for decorating a hutch to take everything off.
But sometimes it’s really hard to see the hutch forest for the trees. You need a blank slate to help you figure it out. So let’s start our hutch styling with taking everything off the shelves. Then stand back and take a good look at your hutch.
Isn’t it so cute?
Pat your hutch on the back.
It’s about to get even cuter.
// shop the look here //
2. Add height
This is the first step I take whenever I style a hutch.
It’s just hutch common sense.
If you lined the shelves of your hutch with bowls and stacked plates and you never added anything to the back of the hutch it would look empty. This hutch is a little challenging because the back of the bottom shelf is so tall.
Here are a few simple tips for adding height to your hutch:
- plate holders
- simply add plate holders to the back of your plates and hang them up on the hutch
- add oversized platters to the back of the hutch
- line up plates against the back of smaller shelves
3. Stack it up
Don’t just think vertically when adding dishes to your hutch.
Think horizontally, too.
I add stacks of books all over the shelves. The stack makes it easy to get everything at the right height.
When I first started decorating the hutch and I didn’t have tons of dishes, I just went to Walmart and bought two sets of white dishes and then stacked them all over the hutch. I stacked the coffee cups on top of plates and so on. Once I found pieces I loved, I didn’t need to stack everything because I had larger size pieces, but it all started with a stack.
|| tiny pots of greenery ||
4. Keep it odd
When placing things on your hutch, you want to add things in odd numbers.
Some people call this the rule of threes.
(total aside: but really—between us? Why stop at three?)
I’m not really sure why, but odd numbers just make everything look better. Shop your house for a collection of your favorite things and then add them to the hutch in uneven numbers. You can see all the groups of threes on the hutch.
Here’s where we started.
// shop the look here //
And here’s where we finished.
A little spring hutch decorating in under 30 minutes.
You got this friend.
Your spring mini-hutch makeover is just around the corner.
I know it’s 2025.
I get it.
But just between us? Sometimes all a makeover needs is to go old school with a really good eyeliner, some Aqua Net Hair Spray, a little blue eyeshadow…
….and a vintage sign from your kitchen.
If you want to create a similar look with your hutch?
You can shop the look here.
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