Summer Home Tour: 2024 Beautiful Ideas For Your Home

Join us for a Summer Home Tour featuring vibrant flowers, fragrant herbs, and seasonal decor. Get inspired by fresh and creative ideas to infuse your home with the essence of summer.

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Summer is here, bringing with it long, light-filled evenings and a bounty of vibrant flowers and herbs. Our agrarian area is especially beautiful this time of year, with roadside farm stands brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables—one of the true delights of summer life here. Despite the heat and humidity that can make summer challenging, I’ve learned to embrace both the highs and lows of the season, appreciating all the good it brings.

Summer reminds me a lot of decorating. There are aspects I absolutely love and others, well, not as much. One thing I do enjoy is adding seasonal decor to our home.

This year’s summer home tour is a bit different. Instead of showcasing entire rooms, I focused on specific areas within our foyer, living room, and dining room that highlight summer decor. My hope is that these featured spaces will inspire you! Seasonal decor is about infusing our homes with small touches that reflect the essence of the current season. In summer, this often means bringing the beauty of the outdoors inside!

I hope you enjoy this new take on a home tour!

A big thank you to Marty at A Stroll Thru Life, who, season after season, is kind enough to herd cats or bloggers and host this beautiful tour! She is a treasure in the blogging world. If you are coming from Thrifty And Chic, I’m sure you got so many beautiful and thrifty ideas from her Cottagecore bedroom! I’m so glad you stopped by!

Welcome!

Do you hang a summer wreath on your front door?

A pretty wreath is the best welcome anyone can have when they come to my front door! A wreath sets the tone and feels for the decor and hospitality friends and family will find inside. I make a new wreath for almost every season. This year, my wreath is a homage to all the hydrangeas planted around our home.

No one will miss this wreath! It’s big and fluffy, and the white color stands out nicely on our door. This Hydrangea Wreath is so easy to make! Wouldn’t it look lovely on your front door!

The Foyer

The first thing you might notice when you come into the foyer is the white vase filled with orange cosmos. I get my flowers at an Amish flower farm. They have acres and acres of flowers and greens. Rachel picks them right out of the field.

When I saw rows and rows of these beautiful blooms, I knew I wanted to use them in the foyer with some of my blue and white chinoiserie. Blue, white, and orange work wonderfully together because they are complementary colors. The key to using orange is to use lots of white with it and a little blue. This trick works every time.

I hang some of my straw hats and a big tote bag on a vertical hook. I often mention that it is easy to grab and go with these things as I head out the door. The hat with the black band and bow is my favorite. It’s a little worse for wear, but I think it is just broken in.

Let’s head to the Living Room

The Living Room

Our living room, aka the great room, is a small-ish open space perfect for our downsized lifestyle. Like the rest of our home, it lives large and can accommodate family and friends. I would like to say I rearranged the furniture in this room and other rooms in our home, but as hard as I try to think of other arrangements that would work, the arrangement I have now is the best without purchasing lots of new furniture.

So, instead of rearranging furniture, I rearrange accent decor and change up decor from one room to another.

The white buffet is a classic—actually, most pieces in our home are. I’m about as classic as they come.

My style is Transitional. Transitional is really a big umbrella style that lots of other styles, like Traditional, Modern Traditional, Mid-Century Modern, and even Farmhouse style, are a part of. I like classic furnishings, and our home has a relaxed style.

This summer, I kept the buffet decor rather subdued. I have a few white urns, all a little different, that I like to use as a base for these fluffy greens. In the center of the buffet is a large shallow bowl filled with a frosted glass ball garland. These remind me of sea glass.

One of the things I change seasonally is my pillows. Sometimes, I use what I already have, and sometimes, I get new ones. This summer, I got a few new pillows and used some I had.

For some time, I’ve been looking for pillows with a color palette that included warm neutrals (like our home) and a muddied but light blue/aqua. When I found the one below, I coordinated a pillow collection around it.

Pillows are an easy way to add seasonal beauty to a room. Have you noticed that pillows are taking on a very mismatched, random look? It’s a very trendy and interesting look right now. Although I think this is such a creative, interesting look, I usually coordinate mine.

Next to the far side of the sofa is an upholstered ottoman I use as a makeshift end table. I did not add any summer decor to the ottoman because we don’t need to add summer decor or accents to every flat surface. Adding summer decor to our homes is a balance we need to be done judiciously with a light hand.

12 Effortless Summer Decorating Ideas You Will Love is a must-read to help you decorate your home for summer.

As I have in the past, I used a rush bench as a coffee table this year. I love the textural, simple, almost cottage vibe it adds to our living room. If you have been following StoneGable for any time, you might know I have 8 coffee tables in my basement. Yes, eight!

I’ve had a very hard time finding The One I want in the living room on a more permanent basis! This is one piece of furniture I do move in and out of this room.

I love the idea of a piece of furniture that can double as something else! I used a white tray on the left side of the coffee to hold a couple decor books and a silver bee I got at a fundraiser auction.

Books are such an important part of my decor and serve several purposes! They add colors and design, work as risers, and tell a story. Decorating With Books is a post with tons of ideas for using the books you have in your decor.

I planted coral bells, along with diamond frost euphorbia, both perennials, in the white pedestal bowl that has a stress crack inside. I can’t use it for food any longer, so I repurposed it for plants.

I love to plant summer annuals and perennials inside. They last a long time with a little care and some, in the right, can continue to thrive inside. When I can see the plants are drooping or looking a bit stressed I plant them outside. I have many plants that started their life indoors at Tanglewood in our gardens outside.

Using Summer Annuals and Perennials Indoors. This post will show you how to plant, care for, and what to do when plants and flowers are spent.

On the other side of the rush bench coffee table is my favorite stack of books and a candle in a wicker basket. I have several of these candles and love using them inside and out in the summer.

A pair of my favorite new pillows rests on the spindle chairs that flank the fireplace. I love the block-print sunflower design—I am so fond of block prints!

Here’s a close-up of the pillow. The block print gives this summer-into-fall pillow a handmade look.

Now, let’s head to the dining room.

The Dining Room

Our dining room is small and open. For today’s tour, I set an easy summer table. I don’t usually keep my dining table set, but since I am featuring accent decor, what better to show you than an easy summer table.

Instead of using four of the same upholstered dining chairs, I swapped out one of them for a patterned bench from our bedroom.

Each place setting includes a round rattan placemat, a white dinner plate, and a salad plate. The salad plates are all different but coordinated.

A block print napkin is gathered up in a bee napkin ring, and I tucked a couple sprigs of fresh thyme I clipped from one of our raised bed gardens.

Herb Container Gardening: The Best Herbs To Use will introduce you to my favorite herbs and show you how to choose, plant, and take care of them. Herbs are one of my summer passions.

A hobnail white planter graces the center of the table, holding fresh bupleurum, a pretty perennial.

Enjoy the best of summer. Set a pretty and simple table.

When our table is not set, I put a big urn of fresh bupleurum in the center of the table.

Our tour here is coming to an end, but there are 19 more home tours to see! Please head over to Calypso In the Country and visit Shelley. Here home is traditional with a little coastal and a splash of British colonial.

Stop back next week for easy summer ideas to add to your home!

Shop My Summer Home

Visit My Friend’s Summer Tours

Friends, please start on Tuesday and visit those blogs first! Then enjoy the rest. Thanks!

Monday June 10th Lineup.

A Stroll Thu Life – My Thrift Stoe Addiction – Decor To Adore – Our Southern Home

Tuesday, June 11th Lineup.

Calypso in the Country – From Farmhouse to Florida – Thrifty and Chic – StoneGable

Wednesday June 12th Lineup

Whispering Pines Homestead – Worthing Court – B Vintage Style – Chalking Up Success

Thursday June 13th Lineup

Bluesky at Home – County Road 407 – Pasha is Home – Bungalow 47

Happy Summer, Friends!