10 Simple Ways to Refresh Your Home for Spring Go bold with colors, rearrange furniture and choose inexpensive options for upgrades by Sheryl Jean, AARP, March 17, 2021 | Comments: There's no better time to refresh your home than spring — a time of renewal. Goodbye wine-colored velvet drapes; hello taupe linen panels. Perhaps your all-gray palette, so popular last year, could do with a turquoise or yellow boost. In addition to simply wanting a change, a year of pandemic-related restrictions has transformed how people see and use their homes. "After this last year — there was so much doom and gloom and we just had the [winter] storm from hell — I'm ready for spring,” says Carolyn Tillery of Dallas, 59, who works from home as a book reviewer and budding mystery author. “I redecorated about eight years ago. Now I'm ready for something a little fresher and lighter."