Maybe stow away the sheepskins and put out some spring/summery flowery throw pillows and some potted plants?

swap the rug for sisal, jute or nothing. The floors are beautiful. Bright pillows too as previous post

Corral the sheep(skins) and replace the rug with a sisal or light-colored and graphic flat-weave wool or cotton.

Shed the antlers and move the large grid painting to above the fireplace. (leave that wall where it was bare).

Pull some of the paler colors from that painting as a few sofa accent pillows.

Your background is nice and neutral, so it should be simple to liven it up for spring. I agree with Trish. Your mantle could showcase some brightly colored glass, colorful art, or flowers as well.

Ditto @Trish

That looks like our new sectional..um..it's so nice to see it in such a gorgeous setting.

I love your place! It's very inspirational. By the way, where did you get the chairs from?

First of all I LOVE your living room, it's cozy and inviting!

I don't know what your budged is, but I always opt for low cost if possible, so my suggestion would be to stow away the cozy sheepskin and the rug and introduce a some more yellow or lime things, I see you have some yellow or lime items already if my monitor doesn't fool me, so it might work with those, and they work well with the artwork as well.
Perhaps a very light, yellow trow on the sofa and/or cushions? And if you could scavenge perhaps a nice vase for flowers as well, that would bring the spring right into your living room. Maybe a lightweight and light colored summery rug under the table as well.

But I wouldn't mess too much with the room, as it is so very nice as it is, just needs a little lighter feel for the summer :o)

I am not a fan of the potted plant.

I'm agreeing with what everyone had written so far - pull color from painting (yellow is summery) - then remove rug (bare floors are clean and light and summery), throw pillows on couch /or chairs and complementary fresh flowers on table and you are good to go!

Artacia, They were given to me by a friend who moved to San Francisco, because she knew the Barcelona chair was one of my favorites. But she had been given them by other friends before that, so who knows. They're definately knock-offs, but that'll have to do until I can afford the real thing. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful!

Kaaber, we do have a limited budget - aside from loving the flair you get from second-hand pieces, that's part of why we "have to" scavenge :)

I love all of your ideas! Maybe we'll end up incorporating the large sheepskin throw on the floor of our master bed room, which has hardwoods too. We've yet to find a rug we love for it, and that would be a nice incentive to wake up, so I could feel it under my toes! Throw pillows, a light-weight throw, and a nice vase are great ideas. I'll probably do them all! From looking online Target has a great pillow from DwellStudio that I might go for if I can't get some fabric I love to make some pillow covers from; it's covered in fanciful yellow rosettes :)

I agree with what so many others have said - Store the sheep elsewhere, roll up the rug and go for bare floors or jute if it is affordable. Put away the cozy tea set. Switch out the branch arrangement behind the chairs for something green and alive - some large tropical leaves in the same vase. I, however, would be interested in seeing what it is like just like that without the colored throw pillows. Your furniture is extremely handsome and looks comfortable enough without the throws. I think that the natural colors of the furniture looks bright and crisp and refreshing and might be beautiful without as they are without the distraction of throw pillows or other blankets.

If you don't use the fireplace in the winter, I'd store the fireplace tools as they immediately read winter time. I'd swap out the antlers and owls for something else too since they really read winter woods.

It is a beautiful room.

Remove the sheepskins, scatter some aqua blue/turquoise satin pillows onto the sofa and the chairs, replace the rug with jute rug and put several elongated bluish glass vases on the left side of the fireplace shelf (maybe containing some spring flowers or not) - you get that breezy, cool, beachy, summer atmosphere.

so cozy.

I think the rug is making it much more cozy than the sheepskins, so I would trade this for a white one (IKEA has got some nice ones), then add some nicely coloured throw pillows (green, blue and dark pink, perhaps? Make sure you pick some warm colour as it is kind of cold right now.).

I´d also add flowers (nice fake ones if you cant be bothered to change the fresh ones) and definitely add a mirror somewhere - the place need some more light/reflection.

i would put down a black and white striped rug to add some "energy" to the room.

since you seem to like animals, you could also put down a cowhide rug or faux zebra patterned carpet.

First of all, let me say you have a beautiful room put together here!

I think everyone else's advice re: rug and sheepskin switcharoos is spot-on. However, your artwork and it's arrangement is one of the main things making the room look more severe. There are six grid-like arrangements in the room, making it really geometric-looking and dissected. I would suggest taking down some of that art and introducing some organic shapes into the decor. A large gold, circular mirror over the fireplace would be great. Is that a lilac lamp to the left of the fireplace? Maybe some lilac and gray pillows added to the mix, if so. A neutral rug and any dose of pattern could come from new, cheap artwork--perhaps nice fabric stapled onto a canvas. Also, most of your artwork is hung too high--making it look like it is floating high above the furniture. Rehanging things at eye level (around 60") would make a big difference. Finally, tall candlesticks or something on either side of the mantel to balance it out would look great.

Those would be my suggestions.

Lotus, I agree that the geometry makes the room a little sharp. I haven't shown the opposite walls, though, which are scattered with a few antiques, some round mirrors, and a few extremely organic branches, birds, bird houses, etc, so the whole feel of the room isn't *quite* as severe as this photo implies. Duly noted, though - the next artwork I make for the space will have to involve no grids :)

As far as the height, though, all of the artwork is centered at 5-1/2 feet, aside from the small paintings to the left of the fireplace. Those are hung at 6'. I think we just have low sitting furniture.

I think we'll probably leave the rug, apparently to everyone's chagrin, because I hate Jute (there, I said it!).

As far as colors, I we're going for grey, black, white, and yellow, since those were our wedding colors... We just moved in 2 months ago, though, so I haven't had much time to collect yellow bits and bobs yet.

Plants will definately get incorporated in. I have several orchids that will look nice, and I loved the idea of large tropical leaves in that vase, too. I might have to go to a nursery as soon as all this snow is gone!

Your living room is gorgeous!

I think that a switch in the rug or leaving the floor bare would work, switch out the sheepskin throws for bright colored pillows, along with flowers on the mantle and the coffee table.

I've been privileged enough to spend a couple cozy winter evenings in this ultra cozy room, and Marianne, I LOVE what you've done with it. That said...I think all you really need to do for spring has been suggested here. Store the sheepskins away, Store the fireplace tools, and bring in more yellow accents, my primary recommendation would be some springy pillows and fresh flowers!! I don't know if you need to do much more.

Love you, and Love your gorgeous house! :)

Thank you, Becky!

I'm a curmudgeon, probably, but I'm not much for switching my rooms for the seasons. I get them so I like them and I like them year round. That said, the sheepskin and afghans read toasty, and fresh flowers say warm weather. And I wonder what coral (the color, not the marine life) would look like in the space...