How to Add Vibrant Color to Your Home for Summer

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

In summer, the color that surrounds us can be one of soft neutrals or one of bright colors.

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 this summer. I’ve incorporated the bright colors that flowers 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.

Today, I’ve joined a group of talented bloggers for our 2024 Summer Home Tour hosted by Marty of A Stroll Thru Life.  This annual bonanza of summer decor is a fun journey for both content creators and readers alike.

For the first four days of this week, sixteen bloggers are sharing how we have decorated our homes for summer. 

There is a variety of styles, rooms, both indoors and out, and colors for you to enjoy. We all hope you are inspired and encouraged to bring summer decor into your home.

Today, my group of four bloggers is bringing the final day of the summer home tour to you. The complete list of all the participants is at the end of my summer tour.

I hope that you will take a summer stroll through all the beautiful summer decorating ideas. If you are visiting Bluesky at Home from Jill of Bungalow 47, I’m so glad you are here. Wasn’t Jill’s summer cottage something special?

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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

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. A plus is that the design is on both sides.

Then I found solid bright pink pillows with white trim to coordinate.

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

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 needed 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 styofoam balls in my craft stash. Let’s paint them!

This was the result for the coffee table.

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

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. 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?

Summer in the Kitchen

Because our kitchen and living room are one large room, I had to add 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 these 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.

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

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 last weekend, I was looking for sunflowers and zinnias and gerber daisies.

Here is what I came home with.

The entry was in need of 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.

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

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 color from the colorful painted vases, bowls, balls, and flowers. It was a very simple way to decorate our home for summer.

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

I hope that you loved our 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.

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