Decorating Tips for Your Summer Interior
Let’s welcome summer with some easy summer decorating! Get your room ready for summertime by bringing in a bit of seasonal flair to your decor.
These super easy tips and ideas will help you redecorate your living room in no time. Summer is supposed to be relaxed and easy-going, decorating for summer should be the same. So enjoy some summer home decor inspiration.
1. Remove the Leftovers
When moving through the seasons, from Christmas to winter, to spring, little decorative items seem to be sticking around. Take a good look around, and make the time to finally remove that extra set of candle sticks, that stray spring centerpiece and those bowls of potpourri.
2. Create Some White Space
Summer is a time for light and airy, with some room to breath. So put away those extra decorations and keep some surfaces empty and clear.
3. Replace the Blanket With a Light Plaid
One of the quickest and easiest ways to change the ‘feel’ of a room is to change the fabrics you use. So if you still have some heavy-weight plaids lying around this is the time to change them out for a light plaid or one of those hamam towels. This stripy couch is an example of a summer living room in coastal farmhouse style.
4. Snip Little Bouquets From Your Garden
No room is fully decorated without some flowers (or plants). Summertime decorating with flowers is easy. The garden and parks are full of flowers and even the simplest of grocery store flowers are pretty now. Just make some tiny bouquets and scatter them around. Find out the best flowers for home decorating here.
5. Use Light Colors
Keep your color scheme for your summer home decor light and airy. You don’t have to go all white to create a beach cottage feel, but using the light colors of sand and sea in hour decorating choices will take the beach right to your home (even if you live the big city life).
6. Add Texture
Adding texture to your home adds visual interest and makes it look finished. Summertime decorating is no exception to that rule.
Summer textures are cotton and linen, raffia and wicker, straw and rope. So don’t forget to change out some of your decor and organizing units for summer style.
7. Change the Pillow Covers
A super quick update to your decor is changing out the covers of your throw pillows. Choose pillow covers with summer patterns that can be colorful and flowery, or you can choose our go-to style with nautical stripes and cheery polka dots.
8. Accessorize for Summer
Bring in a few choice decorations that mean summer to you. Use coral and shells, hang some straw hats on the wall, put down a stripy runner, and use wicker baskets for organizing.
9. Bring in a Bit of Beach
Keept those memories of days spent at the beach alive, by creating a little DIY beach decor for your table. These homemade beach candle holders are super easy to put together, make for a great centerpiece on your table, and a great way to reuse those beach souvenirs.
10 Bring in a Field Bouquet
Tiny flower posies are wonderful but sometimes you want a big statement bouquet in your room. Pick field flowers to put in a big pitcher or even a bucket, and make the perfect summer bouquet for your table.
11. Bring in a Touch of Beach Cottage Core
Typical decorative elements for a beach cottage style are sea stars, coral, and glass fishing floats (you can DIY Japanese fishing floats if you don’t have any). Put them all together in a vintage crate for a laid back decoration on your side table.
12. Add a Nautical Stripe
Nautical stripes are a quintessential summer pattern. Add some fabric to your room that features some blue and white stripes and you’ll have that summer vibe going in no time.
13. Bring in Shells and Coral
A tray or crate filled with shells, pieces of faux coral and some shell balls is a super easy way of making an impromptu centerpiece that you can add to and change as the mood strikes you.
14 Add a Touch of Quirky
I strongly believe that summer decorating should be light and airy, quick and easy and most of all uncomplicated. And let’s not take it too seriously. Remember to add a touch of the unexpected, funny and quirky to your room to make it feel personal and lived in.
hey, so i loved the idea bout snipping lil bouquets from the garden but what if ya don’t got a garden? any tips on cheap places to get em? kinda new to this whole decor thing lol. thanks Marianne Songbird for the cool ideas
Hey! Farmer’s markets or local grocery stores usually have affordable bouquets. Sometimes even wildflowers from a walk can do the trick!
or just grab some from the neighbors yard, they won’t miss em lol
Creating white space is such a refreshing tip! It really opens up the room. Marianne Songbird, you’ve done it again with these brilliant ideas. Can’t wait to declutter this weekend!
yo i tried that light plaid thing instead of my usual heavy blanket and its like way cooler now, not just looks but temperature wise. didnt think a blanket swap could make such a diff. legit good advice.
Replacing the blanket with light plaid is an easy update. Makes sense for summer. Simple but effective.
omg adding texture is like my fav thing to do!! throws, pillows, you name it. thanks for the inspo Marianne Songbird, my living room is gonna look so beachy this summer 🙂
Sounds cool but isn’t all that stuff hard to keep clean?