Give Your Home a Summer Look. Aahh, summer! We are once more tantalized by the idea of taking time out to goof off. And it does not necessarily mean spending a fortune on a plane ticket or a posh beachside resort. Consider ‘summerizing’ your home for the long, hot days ahead.
You can bask in the beauty of nature in summer without out of town. You can create a refreshing summer atmosphere inside your home even if you can’t go to the countryside very often. Redecorate your home or make some changes by replacing old and jaded decorative objects with nature’s signs of summer. Here are 5 decorating hints for a summery home:
1. Put summer on your living room walls. Change old framed wall decor with paintings or artwork of summer symbols like beach treasures, shells, corals, driftwood, as well as mockingbird hills, harvest time in the green fields, gurgling brooks at the foot of the mountain, etc.
2. Change old, dusty flower arrangements, especially roses and other red and pink flowers that put your home in the Valentine mood last February. Instead, use radiant summer blooms, like sunflowers, birds of paradise plus fruits in season whose color and fragrance can liven up your arrangement.
3. In the toilet and bathroom, display your fancy soaps in the shape of shells plus other souvenir items you got in the past summers.
4. Create an alfresco dining place out of doors. Surely, your family welcome the idea since outdoor dining breaks the monotony of dining in a too familiar, unexciting place indoor. Sometimes, a change of atmosphere is all that is needed to stimulate the family’s appetite and put spice into the route of everyday life.
5. If you need more lounging space, consider the use of pillows and hammocks. Pillows can easily be made from fabric filled with pillow stuffing or shredded polyurethane. Large pieces of foam rubber also work. Several solid foam pillows can be laid out for a guest bed and held together by a fitted sheet. If storing the pillows when they are not in use presents a problem, make them so they can be stacked.
A good hammock, even one wide enough for two people, can be securely bolted to wall studs to provide an area for reading, lounging, or watching television. The great feature of a hammock is that it can be put up without any thought to overall design or furniture placement, because its presence is temporary. A hammock near a bay window on a sunny day will make for good dozing and daydreaming. When you getup take the hammock down and stash it in a closet.
