Want to make your yard a little more magical? Bring on the birds. You can call attention to your backyard trees by adding a collection of colorful birdhouses. If you’re lucky, a feathered family will move in and start singing to you.
Follow this easy tutorial to display a collection of Scandinavian style birdhouses in your favorite home decor colors.
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Creating a Birdhouse Village
Materials
- Chalet style birdhouses (I used this one)
- Extra house paint
- Paintbrushes (I like thin angled brushes for this project)
- Painter’s tape
- Clear top coat spray paint
- Hammer and nails for hanging
- Ladder as needed
Find the Perfect Birdhouses
I adore this chalet style birdhouse. It’s perfect for mid-century modern, storybook and Scandinavian decor styles.
For more of a boho look, you could collect an assortment of thrifted birdhouses. I wanted to keep it streamlined, so I bought three matching chalets.

Paint Them in Your Favorite House Colors
If you’ve been wondering what to do with all of your extra house paint, here’s the answer. Use your favorite colors from inside your home to paint birdhouses.
Having your interior paint colors repeated in your yard gives a cohesive feel to your decor. I love this effect.

You can paint them all a different siding color with matching roofs like I did, or mix and match the roofs, too. I used Pratt & Lambert Mint Glamour, Bee’s Knees and Flushed Cheeks, with Benjamin Moore Fallen Timber for the roofs.
Some bird species may avoid bright or non-natural colors, so keep that in mind when choosing your paints.
The chalets have wire hangers that you can unscrew and remove before you paint so you can coat the whole birdhouse. Use the painter’s tape to protect the roof when you’re painting the siding, and vice versa. Give your birdhouses three coats of paint, letting them dry between coats.

Related: Modern birdbaths that actually look good
Seal the Paint
Spray your birdhouses with two coats of clear top coat spray paint. The top coat protects your interior paint from weather damage.
My birdhouses have been sitting outside in the PNW rain, snow and sun for three years now. The paint still looks fresh.

Display Your Scandi Birdhouse Village
Finally hang those lovely birdhouses up in your yard. You can split them up across multiple trees or stagger a few on one tree. And try to put them somewhere that you can see them often from inside the house.
Mine can be seen from the kitchen, office and multiple bedrooms. It’s nice to have a view when you’re doing the dishes.


Love your birdhouses!! We were visiting that summer when you were painting them. What type of “renters” (birds..lol) come to live in your little chalets? I am sure they appreciate you providing little homes for them.
Still waiting for some renters to move in! Maybe this spring. 🙂
Aww I love this idea! I definitely love bird watching! My family has a home in NH and we have one bird house there. We should put up more! The birds would love it and so would the squirrels and chipmunks! 😉
Loved this sweet post!
Thanks Lauren! I think birdhouses are one of those things where more is more…they are so fun in groups and you can add a bunch of different styles. Keep the squirrels happy. 😀
These birdhouses look adorable! I think we should start looking into getting one or more set up in our garden again as well.
Xoxo,
Laura // afinnontheloose.com
Thanks Laura! A couple of birdhouses would be adorable, and now’s a good time before spring. 🙂
Oh my gosh! I love these birdhouses! How sweet. We live on 2.5 acres, and we have tons of live oak trees. I can definitely picture our birds loving these. Our cats would equally love watching them in the windows. I really want to make butterfly homes too. Have you ever tried the butterfly homes?
Thanks Christine! Wow, 2.5 acres, how cool! A group of birdhouses would look great in your oak forest. I haven’t tried butterfly homes yet but I love that idea. Sometimes I see them hanging out around my daisies. Would love to attract more butterflies!
We seem to be getting more and more butterflies. We also have pretty flowers, but they usually don’t last a day with the Bambis everywhere.
Aww, you have Bambis? Your yard already is whimsical!
My kids would love having this birdhouse village in our garden! It’s adorable. What a great idea!
Thanks, Emily! This could be a fun family project with everyone painting their own birdhouse. 🙂