Easter at Home: Decorating, Traditions & New Beginnings

Easter is the perfect excuse to decorate the home again. Once the Christmas decorations are put away, the house can feel a little bare, and then Easter arrives and the decorations come out once more.

If you are looking for Easter decorating ideas that feel fresh and natural rather than shop-bought, the garden is the very best place to start. A few branches, a handful of spring flowers and some pretty eggs are all you need to bring the joy of spring into your home.

Make an Easter Tree from Garden Branches

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I gather plenty of branches from the garden, looking especially for those covered in lichen, which is earthy and rather beautiful. I divide them between several vases placed around the home, then weave fairy lights through the branches before hanging the decorations.

Birch, hazel, contorted willow and blossom branches all work beautifully, and pussy willow is a lovely choice too, with its soft silvery buds. Choose a heavy vase or a stoneware jug so the arrangement stands firm, and hang your decorations at different heights so the eye travels around the branches. Pastel eggs, little wooden hares, feathers and tiny bunches of dried flowers all look charming.

Affordable Easter Decor

We are spoilt for choice these days: shops such as TK Maxx and HomeSense sell beautiful Easter decor at affordable prices.

Look out for ceramic bunnies, painted eggs, linen napkins in soft spring colours and pretty egg cups, which you can bring out year after year. I always think a few good pieces, mixed with natural treasures from the garden, look far more stylish than a lot of matching decorations.

Homemade Easter Decorations

I also make a few decorations by hand. Last year I made Easter nests from walnut shells, moss and mini eggs, with gold thread to hang them from the branches. They are simple to make and a rewarding project to do with children.

Other easy Easter crafts to enjoy with children include blown eggs painted in spring colours, paper bunting and little moss-lined baskets for an Easter egg hunt in the garden. Real eggs can be dyed naturally with onion skins or red cabbage for soft, earthy shades.

Spring Flowers and Easter Vignettes

Throughout the Easter season I create small spring vignettes around the home, with vases of daffodils, paperwhites, hellebores and grape hyacinths, my favourite spring flowers.

Group small bottles and jugs of different heights on a windowsill, a mantelpiece or a kitchen shelf, and finish the look with a few speckled eggs, a bird's nest or a candle. Tulips, ranunculus and blossom are wonderful at Easter too, and potted bulbs can go out into the garden once they have finished flowering, ready to bloom again next spring.

Setting the Easter Table

For Easter lunch, keep the table simple and seasonal: a linen tablecloth, a low arrangement of spring flowers down the centre so everyone can still see each other, and a painted egg or a sprig of blossom on each napkin as a place setting. It is the easiest way to make the whole family feel the joy of the season.

Celebrating New Beginnings

Easter arrives with the spring. It is a season that awakens the spirit, a time to celebrate life and new beginnings.

It is also the perfect excuse to decorate the house. After a good spring clean, I decorate for Easter with pieces collected over the years, and always one or two new additions.

Bring a little springtime magic to your very own interior

Bring fresh greenery in from the garden to adorn the fireplace and fill vases around the home, with yellow tulips and daffodils for a touch of spring.

Tall bare branches cut from the garden bring nature indoors. Place them in a vase, hang them with pretty Easter decorations and finish the Easter tree with a delicate string of fairy lights for a little sparkle.

A beautiful Easter tree on the coffee table and a few bowls of mini eggs dotted around the home will bring a little springtime magic to your interior.