Home Summer Decorating Tips

Summer is the perfect time of the year to just relax. Visit the beach during the day and look at the sunlight. Watch the fireflies light up the skies at night. It is the time when families come together to have fun. After the long and fun filled day, there is no better place than the comforts of your own home for a good night rest and relaxation. There are a lot of summer home decorating styles and ideas that can make your house much more attractive and lovely, so you can really enjoy it after a long day in the sun.

Set a Colorful Table. You can consider buying some accented dishes to add splashes of summertime color and pattern to your next dinner party. Mix bright floral, tropical, or nautical-theme dishes with your everyday plates and bowls. To ramp up the desired summertime look, clear a small table to create an impromptu bar! Arrange the bottles and glassware on a pretty serving tray. Fun elements such as stir sticks and paper umbrellas are to be added to create a perfect seasonal look.

Bring the outdoors in. Summer is all about enjoying the outdoors, so bring it indoors with living color. Decorate the house with live plants. Sunflowers are some of the perfect plants to use for indoor summer time decoration. They make an excellent statement and brings to mind the sunshine and summer time season. The bright yellow of these flowers are great accent for almost any room in the home and are quite common in the silk form. They are low maintenance, continue to bloom throughout the season, and are more budget friendly.

Turn your bedroom into a beach retreat. With just a couple of steps, you could turn your bedroom to a beach-side oasis that you are dying to visit. Purchase a rather inexpensive canopy over your bed. For dramatic flair. Toss a few plush and over-sized pillows onto the space. Buy some bundle of shells and bright colored rocks that you can throw into a vase or spread sporadically throughout your room for an added touch. Any painting company can give you a hand with painting the room, when you would rather not do it by yourself.

Sweep the Chimney. A fireplace and mantel is a great decorative pod for the warmer months, but can also be a great focal point for your living room during the laid-back days of summer. Clear out old wood pieces and ashes, then look to what you already own to fill the space creatively. You can stack different sized vintage suitcases, cover piles of paperbacks to create bricks, or display bright orchids in tall vases for a more modern look.

Light up the Night. Since summer is as much a state of mind as it is a season, so you can transform you outdoor spaces to embrace all the benefits it has to offer. String paper lanterns on tree branches, a small round table with a couple of chairs for sitting and gathering to last well into the night hours. Should the weather turn stormy, you can always cozy up by lamplight on a covered porch. Because rare summer days sometimes fall few and far between, you will want to take full advantage of the time you have to spend outside, rain or shine.

Update old furniture and art on the walls. Give a tired chair or side table new life using high-gloss spray paint. Paint it with sky blue or grassy green colors to enhance the room. Make sure that you prime the furniture properly to help the paint adhere to the surface and wear longer. Should the walls be dominantly dark, brighten the dark walls with colorful art pieces.

Mike Wall writes interesting articles for painting companies.