Happy Friday! We hope you’re enjoying the anticipation of the weekend and enjoying spring in full bloom. A new season brings with it the urge to cast out the old and welcome the new with open arms – and that can translate to antsiness when it comes to last season’s home decor. (Spring cleaning, anyone?) What was so cozy last October may seem dull and boring now. What to do?

Luckily, you don’t have to buy whole rooms full of new furniture in order to freshen up your world. Sometimes all you need is a jump-start in the idea department to make some little changes that will have a big impact.

Here are 6 great design blogs to get you inspired – whatever your design style, whatever your budget, and whether you want to change things up on a big or small scale.

Simple Song (beauty in the small things)

This is Glamour (daily glamour within your reach)

Design Squish (design for the eco-conscious)

Apartment Therapy (the Big Daddy of all design blogs)

Decor8 (dispatches on design from an American living in Hamburg)

coco + kelley (cozy, worldly sophistication)

(Image ”the home within us” by Bobby McAlpine, found via simple song)

Photo courtesy of posta-bella.com

Whether it’s a vintage steal or a well-chosen investment, it can feel like a shame to tuck away your most beautiful clothes in the closet between wearings. Apartment Therapy NY recently featured a gallery of clothes doubling as home decor.

One look at these well-designed rooms makes it clear that your pile of dirty clothes on the floor won’t qualify as art. Some serious effort was clearly put into the design here; the rooms range from dramatic high concept (a bed with a bodice for a headboard) to sweetly simple. I love the look of the retro dresses hanging outside of the wardrobe in the third image, but I’m less sure about whether or not I like the framed items. What do you think about them? Have you used clothes as decoration in your home?