Spring Room Makeover

If you're eager to embrace spring in your home, a room makeover is a great way to achieve that. With just a few simple tricks, you can transform your living room from winter drab into springtime fab.

Celebrity event planner and Early Show lifestyle authority, Colin Cowie, has some easy tips for you to welcome in the warm weather.

Rug: Change your cozy wintery rug for a sisal rug, which will offer a cooler, cleaner look for spring and summer.

Couch: Since the couch is the biggest piece and makes the biggest impression, you can transform the room by changing this piece of furniture. You don't even have to buy a new couch. All you need is a new slipcover. Featured on The Early Show was a natural color slipcover from Linens-n-Things, which will give the couch a whole new look.

Pillows: You can adopt a nautical theme by replacing the pillows with summer cushions, which could be a mixture of navy and white stripes or navy and white floral. Also, add a throw blanket.

Lamps: A lot of people may not think of the lamps, Cowie says, but their look are easy to change. Just think about replacing the lampshades – again, if you follow the nautical look, pick white, blue or striped shades.

Accessories: Add a rattan bowl that's already filled with seashells and two big 3-wick candles to the coffee table. Add accessories that go with the season, so put out some books on summer destinations or summer decorating or sailing. And, on the sideboard, add three orchid plants in different stages of growth, so you'll have at least eight weeks of show from the orchids (because they're not all in full bloom at once). Cowie put the orchids in a silver ice bucket or wine bucket and put moss over the top of the soil so you can't tell that it's really three separate plants. You could also add candlesticks to the table.

Window Treatment: Trade your velvet curtain hanging on a rod over the window for something more seasonal. Underneath the velvet curtain you could have matchstick blinds, which will stay in place. The idea is to just switch the overlaying curtain to make the window treatment more summery.

There are other alternatives people can choose to give their room a makeover. Cowie says you could also take down a painting and replace it with two prints that are more appropriate for the spring and summer. Also, you don't have to do everything that was suggested above. You could pick a few elements, like just putting out the summery books and the bowl of shells. It's about staying true to yourself, but also giving your home lift without breaking the bank, Cowie says.

Also fun is to have a martini pitcher and glasses for summer entertaining at a moment's notice, Cowie says.