Inject Some Life into Your Living Room this Season

As the temperature rises and the days grow longer, it’s time to bid farewell to the cozy cocoon of winter and embrace the bright, airy spirit of summer. And what better place to start than the heart of your home – the living room?

I’m so excited to share my first summer living room tour with you, complete with a little summer fashion thrown in for good measure. I have to say, I’m absolutely loving the relaxed coastal vibe that’s happening in here for the season. And I’m thrilled to be joining a fabulous group of women for The Loveliest Looks of Summer Tour, hosted by my friends Summer from Summer Adams Design and Rebekah from A Blissful Nest. A huge thank you to both of them for putting this tour together!

Get ready for loads of blue, white, brass – my absolute favorite color combo – and lots of different stripes for a relaxed coastal feel. If this is your first time visiting, welcome to my home and my summer living room tour. I’m thrilled to have you here. And if you’re a regular reader, you know how much I love when you join me here on the blog. Let’s jump right in!

Coastal Chic with a Twist

My summer living room tour is all about blue and white, which is a constant theme in our home throughout the year. We recently updated our living room with these gorgeous white sofas, so our summer look this year is completely different than last year. You can visit my previous living room tour to see what this space used to look like when we had charcoal grey sofas and drum shade lighting.

With a couple of simple changes, we’ve transformed the space into a fresh, airy oasis. I mentioned blue, white, brass, and stripes – my favorite colors year-round and pattern for the summer months. I’ve been adding a lot of lighter blues into the mix, and I just love the sense of freshness it brings to our home. You can see how I started to implement these paler hues in my spring living room tour.

I’m using stripes of all variations – wide, thin, bold, and subtle – and I’m mixing them with some of my favorite pillows that you’ll often find in my posts. More on those in a bit.

A Curated, Personal Touch

I haven’t changed much of my decor at all – my main focus for this summer living room tour was a simple update with my throw pillows and a few accessories on the shelves and ottoman. I love to rotate my pieces each season to freshen up our home. It just takes some dedicated time, but it’s such a simple way to revive your space.

I also pulled out all of my woven lanterns from last summer as well. I love the infusion of natural elements for this time of year – it always creates a more beachy, relaxed look in our home. What’s really fun about this tour, and something new for me, is sharing some summer fashion mixed in with my home decor.

Comfy and Chic

Below is the summer look I chose to wear for this post, with links to shop the look, plus some other favorite summer fashion pieces you may want to check out. I love this cute little denim dress with the perfect ruffle detail – it’s comfy and can look just as great with sneakers or wedges as it does with these heels that I’m wearing in this photo. I’m all about tassel earrings, and I just scored this cute statement pair. They’re so chic and such a steal. You’ll notice their natural woven texture matches some of my lanterns too.

Beachy Keen

You may remember my recent spring post dedicated to coffee table styling, where my faux blue hydrangeas were the star of the show, along with a curated mix of brass, blue, and white. I decided for my summer living room tour, my styling on our ottoman needed to be focused on creams, whites, and my coral sculptures, with a dose of beautiful fresh blooms – fresh, crisp, and coastal.

I love to layer accessories when I create vignettes around our home. It’s an easy way to infuse my own personality with the things I love and create a curated, more personal touch in my decor. I’ve collected coral sculptures, all faux by the way, for a long time now, and I’m still building my collection. I just love them, especially grouped together to make a chic design statement.

I’ve layered some here with blue design books, glass, and one of my favorite decorative boxes, set against all of my pillows. This chic, beachy-themed display takes me away on vacation, even when we’ll be staycationing this summer.

A Summer Refresh

The only new addition to my summer decorating that you’ll find in this space are these gorgeous new blue and white striped throw pillows on each end of my sofas, which I just received from the new Mark D. Sikes for Annie Selke collection. This new line is just beautiful, and I’ll be sharing my new summer bedding also from this same collection in my master bedroom refresh, coming to the blog very soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for that.

I love to add layers and layers of pillows, and even more, I love to mix patterns and textures together for added visual interest. I can never have enough pillows! I always get asked if we actually use this space, and the answer is yes, we do. We throw the pillows on the floor, throw blankets on the sofas, and lounge in here every single night. It’s my happy place.

Coastal Charm Made Easy

It’s so simple to create a summer feeling in your home – lighten up your colors, bring in some woven textures, add different variations of stripes, throw in some florals (real and faux, of course), and group collections of coral sculptures or shells or anything that evokes summertime for you. Make it personal and decorate with what you love and things that have meaning to you.

I’m excited to share the rest of our summer home with you too. Don’t forget, I’ll be sharing our master bedroom refresh here very soon, finally, woohoo! And of course, our kitchen, dining room, and entryway as well. I hope you come back to visit.

Thank you so much for joining me on my summer living room tour. I hope you enjoyed your stay, and if you’re new to my blog and would like to receive my newsletter with blog post updates, you can head to my Subscribe page or scroll all the way down this page to sign up. Please take a moment to head over to see all of the beautiful homes and fashion that all of my beautiful friends are sharing in their tours today too. So much summer inspiration you’ll love! Stay tuned for more of my summer posts coming to the blog very soon, and thank you again for joining me today.