The winter doldrums tend to set in during late January and early February. Except for vacuuming up the stray, leftover pine needles, the holidays are long over. In general there isn’t much to look forward to until Valentine’s Day.

Why not take advantage of the downtime to make sure your house is in order?

Be honest, have you put away all of your holiday decor? Do you need help transitioning from holiday decor to winter fabulous? Christine Mathias had a great post on how to decorate for the winter season. Speaking of decorating, did you know textures can do a lot to warm up a room?

While preschoolers are cutting snowflakes out of construction paper, grade-schoolers are outside playing in the slush and tracking in the mud. Is your entryway organized to contain the mess, why not give your mudroom a makeover?

Are you looking for household projects that don’t require good weather?

Kelly has 5 Household Projects Great for Bad Weather and it doesn’t have to be nice out-of-doors to try your hand at painting furniture with sponge painting and stencils.

Walk around your house, do you have any blank walls? These simple floating shelves are a budget friendly way to fill a blank wall.

A new light fixture can update a room, with these instructions you don’t even need to put hang the light fixture on the honey-do list.

Why not get a head start on spring cleaning and make these environmentally friendly homemade cleaning solutions.

You do realize that no one needs good weather to being planning their spring garden, right? Christine McClaughlin, our garden writer, has plenty of posts for you:

Should Open Pollinated Plants Be a Part of Your Garden?

Using Flowers for Color in Your Spring Garden

When is the last time you remembered to Use a Garden Journal to Plan Your Spring Garden?

How are you coping with the winter doldrums?