How to Add Vibrant Colors to Your Home for Summer

June is here, and it’s time to add touches of summer to our homes. The most impactful way to do that is with bold color accents. I’m sharing how to add vibrant summer colors to your home for summer decorating. I hope you’ll be inspired.

In summer, the colors that surround us can be either soft neutrals or bold summer hues. Mixing neutrals and brights is one way to create a soft summer palette.

This year, our flowers are brighter and more profuse than in years past. (Thank you, lots of spring rain.)

That makes me lean toward bright colors in the summer. I’ve incorporated the bright colors of flowers that decorate our outdoor spaces into our living spaces.

If adding bright seasonal color and decorations to your home brings you joy, then you are in for a treat today.

I hope these colorful home ideas inspire and encourage you to bring summer decor into your home. I want you to read this post and gather ideas that you can use in your own home.

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Vibrant Summer Decor in the Living Room

I’m starting our summer decorating in the living room. Our living room is our main space and is open to the kitchen and our seating area. We walk through it multiple times a day. It’s the area that I always want to look its best.

Also, our new Ballard Design bookcases were delivered Friday afternoon, and we haven’t set them up yet. We emptied everything from the old bookcase. All my books and decorative items are on the dining room table.

So the dining room is out of commission for now.

Once I decided on my summer color palette, I started searching for decorative accessories that fit my vision. I started with the sofa area.

Summer Color on the Sofa

Colorful throw pillows are always a plus. I fell in love with these bright floral zippered pillows. The fabric is a nice cotton, and the colorful design looks like a watercolor painting. Another plus is that the design is on both sides.

Then I found these solid bright hot pinks pillows with white trim to coordinate.

To bring in more summer color to coordinate with the pillows, I pulled three summer shawls from my closet. The bright pink shawl and lime green shawl, mixed with the stripe multi-colored scarf provide a tropical color palette and pattern.

Does this area shout summer?

The solid pink pillows came in a set of two. I ordered two sets and used the second pair on our swivel chairs.

I added a pink vase, which I’ve had for many years, to the side table. Here is a pink vase that would be pretty in any setting.

Color on the Coffee Table

The coffee table is such a strong focal point in a living room that it deserves a vignette that makes a strong statement.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a beautiful, bright pink bowl in a cabbage design at the antique mall. I came so close to buying it, but at $110, it was more than I wanted to spend. (Ironically, the booth owner is one of my neighbors, and I didn’t feel comfortable asking if she would take less, so I passed.) I wish I had taken a picture of it.

Then, the next week, on a trip to a local thrift store, I saw this glass bowl. Could I make it into a similar bowl?

I went on a spray painting marathon last week. (More on that in a minute.) The bowl was transformed into a bright pink accessory.

A bowl needs something to go in it. I found eleven craft balls in my craft stash. Let’s paint them!

TIP: The balls that I found in my craft stash were styrofoam, which has a rough surface. I would recommend that you use the smooth-surface ones that I’ve linked above.

This was the result for the coffee table.

I placed the hot pink bowl and three pink books in a white and gold-trimmed DIY tray.

I moved my small pink vase to the tray and added another green thrift store vase with a modern shape, and an aqua ice cream cup with a floating candle.

On the other side of the coffee table, I used a green vase from my thrift store jackpot filled with faux zinnias. I set the vase on three colorful books to add height.

This is scene is my happy place this summer.

This coastal color scheme makes me feel like I’m on a tropical island.

Color on the Mantel

Let’s finish the summer living room with the other main focal point in the room, our mantel.

I recently shared how I transformed plain glass vases from the thrift store to color-saturated vases.

Here is the finished mantel with a collection of DIY-painted vases and a few colored vases from the thrift store. I mixed the colors of bright blues, lush greens, pale and hot pinks, lemon yellows, and aqua.

Can you tell which ones are painted and which ones are colored glass?

I’ll tell you at the end of this post.

To finish the mantel, I added colorful faux zinnias to each vase. That was the finishing touch. The vases and flowers pick up the colors of our painting. A great pairing, right?

This one place is where pale pastels shine.

I also added a pale blue hydrangea and pale yellow roses from Trader Joe’s to another blue-painted container for an end table. It goes perfectly with our blue lamps.

Summer in the Kitchen

Because our kitchen and living room are one large room, I also added a burst of summer color to our island. I used another of my favorite summer flowers, sunflowers.

I have two obsessions lately: Trader Joe’s flowers and Tuckernuck dresses. I know they have nothing to do with each other!

I added them to this pretty chinoiserie cache pot (antique mall purchase). It has a hole in it, so I placed a small glass vase inside.

I set the cache pot on a white tray with my favorite Lemon and Basil scented summer soap and lotion from Michel Design Works.

Summer Flowers in the Entry

When I go to Trader Joe’s for flowers, I have certain flowers in mind. I always come home with more flowers than I intend to buy.

On my trip to Trader Joe’s, I was looking for sunflowers, zinnias and gerber daisies. This combination of flowers is the best of nature-inspired colors.

Here is what I came home with.

TIP: Always ask Trader Joe’s for buckets to bring home your flowers.

The entry needed a touch of summer.

I added a new woven basket. I filled it with a DIY glass vase decorated with pressed flowers from last year. Then I stuffed newspaper around the vase.

Of course, I topped the paper with Super Moss, my can’t-do-without finishing touch.

All the flowers are from Trader Joe’s except the white petunias that I cut from our backyard.

I filled in with two small chinoiserie jars.

I gathered two of my blue chinoiserie planters and filled them with a variety of flowers, including white snapdragons (I think), yellow sunflowers, and yellow gerber daisies. The pink hydrangeas came from our backyard.

By using the woven basket, I began mixing neutrals and brights. This move provides contrast and warmth to your home.

See the pink zinnia? It’s faux, left over from the ones I used on the living room mantel.

There’s a faux pink zinnia in this jar, too.

That’s how to add color to your home for summer. I love all the colors from the colorful painted vases, bowls, balls, and flowers. It was a very simple way to decorate your home for summer.

I didn’t have to purchase any new accessories, unless you count flowers.

Before I forget, here are more ideas for summer decorating that you will love to see.

I hope that you loved my mini-summer home tour. If you did, please PIN it to your summer home decor boards. Check out these Pinterest Boards:

• Summer Home Decor Ideas
• Home Decor Colors
• Home Decor
• Paint Projects.

I hope that you are ready to see all the other fantastic summer home tours that were shared this week. Please begin your journey with my sweet Texas friend Cindy of County Road 407, who lives “up the road” from me.

Which vases were colored glass? The blue, green and pale yellow pitcher. I painted the other ones. Did you guess right?

Have fun as you explore this digital magazine of summer home decor.