Springtime! Cheerful and enlivening, spring arrives to almost audible applause. Something about the newness of nature — trees budding, grass growing, flowers blooming — brings with it a desire for new, fresh items in your home’s décor. Wafting into your home on spring breezes, that impulse to change is easy to indulge.

Transformative and refreshing, the removal of rugs, throws and other warm accessories imparts a light and airy springtime atmosphere. Similarly, the addition of fresh flowers and live plants brings the garden into your home. And even a mere rearrangement of furniture, to face a garden view or to offer quick egress to the yard, injects new life in familiar surroundings.

Yet, with a nod to spring, shopping for even one new accent piece can deliver the biggest and prettiest alteration. Readers of the recent series on local home décor shops in metro Atlanta will recall Cote Soleil, Eclectic Living, House and Garden Boutique and Wind in the Willows among them. What better place to find that lovely new item than in one of these superb stores. Here’s why:

The outdoor beauty of a Provencal spring has arrived at the elegant Cote Soleil. From wonderful willow baskets of greenery to birds aflutter on a stunning stone plaque to scented soaps whimsically designed as colored eggs, this delightful French shop is ready for the season and your home will be, too.

Likewise, birds alight in every charming corner of Wind in the Willows. In flight on captivating tin plaques, chirping silently as porcelain salt and pepper shakers, and resting peacefully on clips, these harbingers of spring will add seasonal charm to your home.

Meanwhile, in addition to a mellifluous fountain, splendid springtime wall accents and capricious garden accessories, the lovely House and Garden Boutique offers excellent interior redesign services as well as custom window treatments to make your spring decorating beautifully unique.

And in true eclectic fashion, Eclectic Living displays marvelous white chandeliers to lighten your décor for spring along with amusing flora and fauna wind chimes, and enchanting garden accents that will provoke smiles from all visitors to your home.

Enthralling with their spring décor, a small sampling of the wares available in these shops’ is in the slideshow below. You may begin shopping now!

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