It really feels like spring is near! As we come out of hibernation from the winter season, whether you had cold weather or not, it's the perfect time to reflect and refresh your environment. Oftentimes, it can be overwhelming to figure out the best methodology for tackling your home projects or organizing your things, but books can be a great way to get ideas.

Here are some helpful cleaning and renovation guides to spark your interest and motivate a refresh. You can also ask your local librarian or check in Libby to discover more great titles.

Tidy Up Your Life by Tyler Moore
🎧 Audiobook

This guide offers practical, straightforward advice to tidying up your mind and your space. A few years ago, author Tyler Moore found his life and home a mess. He decided to make some crucial changes and tracked his progress on Instagram as @TidyDad. Along the way, he learned some systems and hacks for how to bring order to his life. Translated into a wonderful book format, Moore shares his essentials for how to get started on your own space.

The Martha Manual by Martha Stewart

Who is better than the domestic and hosting queen, Martha Stewart, to tell us how to do everything? In this guide, readers can find tips on how to:

✨Organize every space or room in your home
✨Repair and maintain common issues like leaky faucets and dirty tile grout
✨Refresh or embellish your space
✨Plus cleaning, laundering, crafts, hosting, celebrating, and more!

Your Not Forever Home by Katherine Ormerod

If you’re looking for renter-friendly ways to brighten up or reinvigorate your space, check out this book. Offering tips and tricks that vary in difficulty from simple to master DIYer, Oremerod’s book shares a long list of ways you can make any space feel like home. With lots of bright and colorful creations, this is a great read for anyone looking to brighten up any room.

For the Love of Renovating by Barry Bordelon & Jordan Slocum

With the arrival of spring, you may be ready to tackle a bigger renovation or update in your space. Authors Bordelon and Slocum will walk you through their tips for buying a fixer upper, beginning a renovation, and tips to develop a design. They also tackle how to approach different rooms or features in your renovation like your laundry room, kitchen, or windows. They also remind you not to forget the finishing touches in your house, like your outdoor space or adding character with niches, moulding, paint colors, and more.

My favorite feature of this book is the helpful reference illustrations to help readers and renovators alike discern between cabinet door types, lighting shapes, and so on.

Goblin Mode by McKayla Coyle
🎧 Audiobook

You can “glow up” your space in ways other than tidying and decluttering. If you’re looking for a method to make your home more cozy and less perfect, this book helps you embrace your inner goblin and learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, and joyful mess.

The Little Book of Cottagecore by Emily Kent
🎧 Audiobook

Goblin core not quite your vibe? Try cottagecore! Kent shares very cozy tips for gardening, making the perfect cup of tea, crafting, quilting, making your own soap, and other ways to up the cozy factor in any space. You can choose your effort level by investing in everything you need for beekeeping or keep it simple and focus on teamaking or mastering the perfect loaf of bread.

Feeling inspired? Get glowing with these books, perfect for renovators and spring cleaners, and make your space feel new again—borrow today on Libby.

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