summer decoration
Ideas for a holiday mood in your own home
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Whether indoors or outdoors – a certain holiday feeling is sure to arise with fresh summer decorations. We will now tell you how you can turn your home into a holiday paradise in just a few simple steps.
Warm temperatures, airy clothing, a touch of lightness – when summer is just around the corner, not only the temperatures rise, but also the good mood. It can be done with the right summer decoration Bring that holiday feeling into your own home. That’s how it’s done!
Summer decoration: 5 ideas for that holiday feeling at home
1. Bright colors
Whether inside your home or on the balcony or in the garden: bright colors are simply part of summer. Whether it’s the glow of citrus fruits is or the pink of the succulent watermelonwhich offers us a sweet refreshment in summer, the strong green meadow, over which we prefer to walk barefoot or the bright blue skies – Nature provides us with plenty of (colour) inspiration for summer decorations.
2. Pillows, blankets, bedding
The easiest way to freshen up the summer decoration with bright colors is with the right ones pillowcases and blankets. You can do this yourself Concentrate on monochrome fabrics tone on tone, combine them or work directly with matching motifs.
Many people have special, thinner duvets for the warmer months. You can also use your bed linen to spread the summer mood. With light fabrics such as linen or summery colors and motifs your bedroom will radiate that holiday feeling in no time at all – from lighthouse above popsicle.
Our secret favourite in terms of “summer motifs”: a shower curtain with a holiday motif. It puts you in a good mood early in the morning.
3. Decorative Items
Symbols, colors and motifs of summer also play a major role in summer decoration in the area of decorative objects and figures. In addition to the types of fruit already mentioned and their bright colors, there are also more subtle variants: North and Baltic Sea fans can agree on the color combination blue and white just as much as fans of Greece. Maritime motifs such as seagulls, anchors, shells and co. spread maximum wanderlust.
Functional objects such as plates, fruit or confectionery bowls, lamps or vases can convey the feeling of summer just as much as pure “objects of interest” without an immediate task.
4. Table decoration
For a nice table decoration you can also use the in the warm months matching dishes worries. Depending on how “thick” you want to tower, you can between delicate summer motifs to brightly colored models Select.
Just a few fresh flowers, beautiful lanterns and lanternsso that you can still enjoy the milder evening hours outdoors, and your summer table for friends and family is ready.
5. Lights
Among other things, the summer months have two wonderful advantages: It stays light for a long time and when it gets dark, we regularly enjoy mild summer evenings, which we can end comfortably in the open air. For a particularly nice atmosphere, the right lights help once again. Whether lanterns or outdoor fairy lights – depending on taste and general conditions, there are numerous possibilities.
You can’t go wrong with one (or more) lanterns when it comes to “atmospheric light”. The flickering of the candles and the soft glow spread a romantic calm that quickly spreads to us humans. Lanterns made from natural materials such as woodclay or ceramics go perfectly with the outdoor ambience, but also lanterns Glass or metalin which a pattern has been punched, have their appeal.
If you have trees or a canopy available, you can use them to lanterns (with LED lights) to hang up. When choosing the right lanterns, you should pay attention to how weather-protected they will be hanging. Instead of classic paper lanterns, there are also very beautiful, weather-resistant models.
Fairy lights are the all-rounders among light sources. If they are approved for outdoor use, they can be attached to the balcony railing or garden fence, placed in lanterns or other elegant glasses/bowls, “laid” in trees or larger plants or dangled as a garland on a parasol or sun roof. Since light chains are available in all colors and shapes, you will always find the right model for your desired area of application. Particularly practical: one String of lights with solar cell.
Summary: How to transform your home into a holiday paradise
In order to turn an apartment or a house into a place of relaxation at home, you sometimes only need a few accessories. With these tips you too can dream of the sea, the mountains or exotic countries in your home:
- bright colors and subtle, warm light sources
- Citrus fruits or other “summer fruits” on laundry and dishes
- light fabrics such as linen and silk, pure cotton
- maritime motifs: with shells, fish, waves and sand or other natural materials such as raffia or straw, you can almost hear the sound of the waves and the screeching of seagulls.
- (alleged) holiday accessories such as straw hats, sombreros, castanets, tajines, etc.
- You don’t like bright colors and the sea doesn’t offer you any decoration incentives? Then you can also provide summer decoration with oriental accents. After all, what area stands for hot days, sunshine and holidays more than the Orient?