Brightening Your Summer Home With Creative Ideas

Entry #2536, June 18, 2013

Now that summer is here your home’s curb appeal and interior decoration will be a focal point. By making some simple tweaks, you can make your home look bright and inviting to your summer guests. Below are some tips on how you can make your home cozier for the shiny days. Use these tips to find the perfect landscaping plants and spruce up your house summer.

Bring summer color into your interiors

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Choose the right landscaping plants

Landscaping is one of the first things that you should think of as the days start getting longer and the sun starts to shine bright. This is because after you plant, you will have the whole summer season to enjoy your great choice of landscaping plants. The best choices for this time are plants that have bright colors.

Roses are some of the great plants that will help soak up the summer sun. In fact, hot cocoa rose can be a great centerpiece in your garden. Your visitors will be stunned with the great effect that this rose has when grown against a white backdrop (fence or wall).

The sunray is another plant that will add great value to your garden. This plant shines bright with its large, yellow flowers. Additionally, it is easy to grow and does not need any specialized care.

Other plants that can be added to this list include Little Carlow, butterfly bush, bluebeard shrub and day lilies among others.

Keep your home looking beautiful this summer with landscaping

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Add inviting color to your interior decoration

Yes, you can’t keep changing your furniture every three months as the season changes. However, you can make some simple changes and add some interior décor which you can store up till the next summer.

For example, you may want to do some nice interior plantscaping with some bright, beautiful pot plants. These can also be complimented with beautiful, fake plants.

Get rid of any dark pieces in your living room and feel free to throw open the doors and windows of your house.

You can also buy some accent dishes that can add the summer feel in your next dinner party.

Finally, consider rearranging your furniture away from the fireplace during summer. You can then shift the focus to French doors or a beautiful window.

Bring summer colors into your interior and exterior furniture

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Decorating your house during summer may have seemed hard, but with the above tips, you will surprise your guests whenever they want to drop by this summer. For most people, summer is a time to relax and enjoy the bright weather. With these tips, it is not only the environment that will be shining, your home will too.

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