Summer Décor Trends to Update Your Home

Summer is a time when our homes look their best, with the longer days filling the rooms with natural light and gardens looking lush and colourful. It's also the perfect time of year to update the interiors with a splash more colour and brighten up your living spaces. Whether you just want to freshen up your home or you're hoping to increase rental revenue as an investor, here's some inspiration for ways you can adopt summer décor trends in your own property.

Add in Saturated Colours

While we may have seen neutral, pastel tones for some time, this summer, more of us are keen to embrace boldness and add more saturated palettes to our interiors. Think vibrant hues like grass green, cerulean blue or sunflower yellow that transport you to a holiday resort or a beach-side café. It's an instant mood enhancer and reflects the season perfectly.

Anna Ward, interior designer and owner of Furnished by Anna, advises making sure the colours you choose work with the room as a whole: "Take a look at the colours you've chosen and see how they look against the furniture you own. Do the colours go with the furniture, or do they clash with what you already have?." If you want to play it safe, without needing to replace all your existing furniture, adding an accent wall is an effective way to play with this trend in a more subtle way.

Bring the Outdoors in

One of the most popular trends we've seen this summer is bringing the outdoors in, and it's particularly effective for those who live in urban areas and may not have access to gardens or green spaces.

Houseplants are a fun way to add life to a space and with so many varieties to choose from, you can get creative with colour too. You can also play with height, using potted trees or sculptural plants to add depth and interest. But materials like wood, stone and jute are also effective in making your home feel more natural. This blurs the lines between indoors and the natural environment to create a calm ambiance the whole summer long.

Increase Light Where Possible

Summer is all about enjoying the light and more sunshine-filled days, so enhance this feature in your interiors. Adding more mirrors to a room is an effective way to bounce light between walls and make your home feel larger and more spacious, but you can also replace heavy curtains or blinds with sheer curtains that let more light through and add an ethereal touch to living rooms, bedrooms or landings.

Mix Patterns and Textures

Another popular summer interior design trend for this year is mixing and matching patterns. If you've grown tired of solid colours, whether it's on furniture or textiles, then adding in patterned alternatives will instantly refresh the room and make it feel new again.

Why not recover your dining chairs for a statement addition to a dining room, add patterned blankets and throws over the sofa for instant interest, or replace a drab rug with something colourful and textured. Be sure not to go overboard – you want each room to still look curated and pulled together, rather than chaotic. Choosing patterns which have similar colours or motifs can help tie everything together.

Think Floral

Floral room decor is guaranteed to make an instant statement and is well-suited to the summer season. For a striking impact, consider wallpapering your dining room with a large-scale floral print from wall to wall, which brings a significant wow factor and can serve as the room's focal point.

To enhance the floral theme, you can go full-on chintz by adding matching floral curtains, creating a cohesive and immersive floral atmosphere in the room. Alternatively, you could add florals into your bedroom décor with fabric-covered headboards or blousy cushions and duvet covers which bring the garden theme to life.

Transport Your Home to the Mediterranean

Channel the elegance and holiday vibes of the Mediterranean by bringing these sun-filled destinations to your home. Add lighter textures like linen and cotton to further embrace the coastal feel, with other additions such as rattan furniture and pairing deep azure blue with crisp white and earthy yellows. Mediterranean interiors work particularly well in kitchens, where you can add in accents of tile and marble to add texture into the space.

Embrace Natural Forms

Organic curves, rounded furniture and natural shapes are in for this summer, and it's an easy trend to adopt for your own home. For example, you could add ceramic lamp bases in rustic natural forms for a sculptural touch, add rounded mirrors to walls that will brighten up the room and also be functional for residents, or opt for creative coffee table designs that are less geometric and more flowing.

Head Outdoors for Al Fresco Cooking

Don't limit yourself to the interiors when updating your home for summer – in fact, with more time spent outdoors to enjoy the great weather that summer brings with it, you may want to invest in functional outdoor additions that will enhance your living experience.

Outdoor kitchens are a perfect suggestion, creating the ideal space for enjoying barbecues with friends, grilling up fresh food for evening soirees or even mixing refreshing cocktails in the breeze. From small kitchenettes with a fridge-freezer for ice and chilled drinks to a full kitchen set-up with a cooker and counter space, outdoor kitchens are a wonderful addition to help you really make the most of the summer.

Whether you're looking to dive head-first into the summer season or you want a subtle nod to this year's popular trends, hopefully these suggestions will inspire you to transition your property into a brighter, more colourful space for summer. Updating your home for the season doesn't need to mean a full redecoration process – in fact, even small touches like a new throw or painting an accent wall can make all the difference to how your property looks and feels.

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