Are you looking for summer décor ideas and inspiration for your home? Welcome to my summer home tour with plenty of coastal cottage touches and beautiful blooms for the season.
I absolutely love decorating my home for summer. “Why” do you ask? Because it’s SO EASY!!! All you need are some bright-colored accessories, lots of flowers and greenery, seashells, and an oar or two!
This week I’m joining some of my blogging friends for The Bloggers Best Summer Home Tour, hosted by Kelly at The Tattered Pew. All week long we are welcoming you into our homes. Be sure to come back each day and click on the links below to see the complete tour.
Today is my day to share my home and garden with you along with 5 other talented bloggers. If you’re visiting from Pasha at Pasha is Home, welcome! I’m so glad you’re here. Didn’t you just love her bright and airy summer home tour?
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Summer Living Room Tour
For those of you who have been following along with me for a while, you know that I removed my dark leather couch and relocated my two white slipcovered chairs in front of our living room window. That alone lightened the room up!
We found the most perfect vintage copper-top cabinet a few months ago. It has become the centerpiece for displaying my seasonal décor.
Coastal Summer Décor
When you live in a beach cottage, it’s pretty much an unwritten rule that you decorate for summer with seashells, nautical fishing floats, and sea glass.
I also love vintage books, but when the book covers are shades of blue I have to have them! These vintage books were a gift from Jays World.
Decorative Pillows and Throws for Summer
I wish I could be a little more unpredictable with my color choices for summer, but I’m such a huge fan of navy blue and turquoise. It seems so perfect for these next few months. I added in a touch of yellow here and there to lighten things up a bit.
A friend of ours gifted us this pretty “Beach Cottage” pillow when she and her family were staying with us for a few days. I have moved that pillow all over the entire house and just love it!
Flowers & Greenery
I always love to bring the outdoors in and what better way to do that than with flowers and greenery throughout the house. It’s still a bit too early to be displaying cut flowers from the garden just yet but just wait until July.
I will have daisies, dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, black-eyed Susans and so much more from my cut flower garden!
These were a pretty bouquet that I picked up from Costco.
When I can’t make it to town a great option is to pull out the faux flowers. I use these faux hydrangeas throughout summer in baskets and other containers that won’t hold water.
The pink peonies from the garden look perfect with the turquoise glass bottles.
Summer Kitchen Tour
I know it may be no surprise to you, but the blue and yellow color palette flows from the living room to the kitchen.
Did you know that our kitchen island is a vintage dresser? And our contractor found a piece of butcher block from a Dunkin Donuts that was going out of business and installed it on top.
Keeping the kitchen décor simple is so important in a small kitchen like ours. I want to display EVERYTHING and tend to go a bit overboard. But I’m really trying to work on scaling back and not clutter up the counters.
Summer Flowers, Greenery & Fruit
Greenery, flowers, and fruit are my most favorite summer home décor accessories in the kitchen. Some are fresh…some are faux. I’ll never tell which is which.
Fresh flowers or a dough bowl of fruit will be the main centerpiece on our farm table throughout the summer. This season’s theme is pretty, yet simple.
The peonies were cut from the garden, right before the heavy rain. I saved them just in time.
One of my favorite additions to the kitchen was the open shelving we added a couple of years ago. I have heard comments from people about the dust and how dirty the dishes can get.
But…I am all about the decor when it comes to these shelves. I don’t display everyday dishes here, it’s just a place where I can style fun things for each season. I’m crazy that way!
Mix up the Accessories
Vintage accessories and dishes are always my favorite thing to show off in the kitchen. The Ironstone and scale are always here throughout the year, with the seasonal decor mixed in.
Simple things like these colorful straws are perfect for an extra pop of color.
Summer Cottage Garden Tour
June is a really interesting month in my cottage garden. The beautiful spring flowers have just finished blooming, and the true summer flowers have not yet exploded.
There are a few flowers such as foxglove, peonies, delphinium, calla lilies, and saliva that are keeping the garden beautiful this month, but for my garden in zone 8B, you’ll see a lot more greenery than blooms.
And that’s where planting annuals really comes into play. Planting containers this time of year is what really brings the garden to life while waiting for the true summer flowers to bloom.
I’ve even created a container garden with a mix of new and vintage pots and planters.
I hope you’ve enjoyed touring around my summer coastal cottage and garden.
The Bloggers Best Summer Home Tour continues with Jordan at a Blue Nest. You can find links to all the inspiring summer home and garden tours below! Have fun checking them all out!
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Blogger’s Best Summer Home Tour
Monday’s Tours
The Tattered Pew / Stonegable / My Wee Abode
White Arrows Home / Fiddle Leaf Blog / Dabbling and Decorating
Tuesday’s Tours
The Flowering Farmhouse / Sanddollar Lane / Cottage In The Mitten
Up To Date Interiors / Bricks ‘n Blooms / Cottage On Bunker Hill
Wednesday’s Tours
Open Doors Open Hearts/ Pasha Is Home / Shiplap and Shells
A Blue Nest / Cloches and Lavender / Simply 2 Moms
Thursday’s Tours
Cassie Bustamante / First Day of Home / Midwest Life and Style
County Road 407 / She Gave It A Go / Robyn’s French Nest
Friday’s Tours
The Ponds Farmhouse / DIY Beautify / Follow The Yellow Brick Home
My Thrift Store Addiction / Tatertots and Jello / Sweet Pea
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It’s summer perfection! I would never want to leave!
We are looking for a small beach cottage vacation home in NC, (eventually will be retirement home) and your decor is so similar to how I envision our little cottage and garden looking. So much inspiration to pin!
Happy summer!
What a stunning summer tour, Kim! I love the pops of color everywhere, especially the aqua accents and fuchsia-colored flowers. Your home always looks so happy and welcoming. And your garden always makes me swoon!
And you always give the best compliments Crissy. I feel the same about your home, it’s so beautiful.
You house is so amazing. I love how you’ve mixed in all of the different blues. I love the mercury lamp on your island. What a fun hop! I’m excited to go around and see the others.
Thank you, Andrea. I do have a thing for blues!
The copper top cabinet is such a good find! Pink and turquoise is one of my favorite color combos. I really enjoyed the photos of both your home and garden!
I am SO GLAD I ended up getting it, Marie. It has really changed this room. Thank s so much for visiting.
I always notice something that I haven’t seen before in your pics…I love that Fresh Fish sign!! Your home is always so pretty to scroll through.
It’s probably because I’m ALWAYS moving it Jen! That sign is one of my favorites too.
Your white slip-covered chairs look so good in the new spot and I love that copper top cabinet! You do such a great job displaying collections without looking cluttered and your banquet is one of my favorites. And oh my goodness, that flower cottage is a dream!
Thank you so much, Kathryn. I really appreciate that because I have been really trying to keep from cluttering up my house. It’s really hard for me because I want to show EVERYTHING and I have such a small house. I just can’t. So that means a lot.
Kim,
As always, everything is so stunning. I love the oars in the corner. I don’t remember seeing those before. Keep up the good work
Thank you, Rachel. I bring them out only in the summer so that’s probably why you haven’t seen them.
Kim your home looks so gorgeous! I love that new cabinet you bought it looks great in your living room! The gardens look so gorgeous too! Have fun on your trip!
I really like the space now that the cabinet is there and the couch is gone. It was just too big for space. Thanks so much for the compliment. Loved your garden as well.
As always, your home is gorgeous! I love all the pops of color and I’m crazy about that copper topped table! What a find!
I’m crazy about it too. It has made such a difference. Thank you, Leen!
Your little cottage makes my heart sing, Kim! Love the coastal touches (of course), and the touches of aqua, as well! And those peonies! Especially the ones in the aqua vase! Those are amazing! Love hopping with you, as always, sweet friend! pInned!
You are just the sweetest friend Julie. Thank you for the lovely words. I always love hopping with you too.
SO lovely Kim! That green coffee table gets.me.every.time. Love all the details and those peonies you saved are beautiful. Have a wonderful day. XO- MaryJo
Thank you MaryJo! I am trying to find the color of that table so I can do paint another piece. It’s the perfect beach house shade. Happy Summer my friend!
Kim your tour was amazing, both inside and out! I was looking forward to seeing all of your flowers and you sure did not disappoint! I’m so glad you saved those gorgeous peonies! Thanks for joining me this week. Pinned!
It was an honor to be invited to participate with all of you talented ladies Kelly. It’s always such much fun to see everyone’s homes every season.
I never think to check my local Costco for flowers. It’s usually so crowded I get my stuff and get in the check out line never even seeing that side of the store. I’m definitely checking it out next time. And how fun to have a piece of Dunkin Donut’s in your kitchen! Everything is beautiful and I agree with that unwritten rule. 😉 It just wouldn’t be the same without shells and nautical stuff! You are living the dream my friend, living the dream. Happy summer and always love your tours.
Thank you, Cindy. This was the first time I had picked up flowers from Costco too. And that butcher block really transformed the island, or should I say dresser. So appreciate you being here.
Oh my word! I am in love with your darling cottage and it looks so beautiful dressed for summer!
I really appreciate it Jordan. Thank you!
I am always so inspired by your gorgeous home, Kim. I love the bright colors and the charming, classic style. So happy to be touring with you this week, friend. Pinned!
Thank you Jen! I am a huge fan of your home as well my friend.
Kim, it is always a treat to visit your charming cottage. Your garden is just beautiful and I adore your window seat!
Pinning and sharing on IG this week. Have a lovely summer! Blessings, Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction
Than kyou Cecilia. I love that window seat too. It’s a great place to sit and take in the view. So fun to be hopping with you this week.
I always love visiting your cottage, Kim, but I think summertime has got to be the best time of all! I love all your coastal colors and touches and the view of your gardens and the sound is always so breathtaking. I’m so glad we get to be touring together this week!
We cherish the summers in the PNW. There’s nothing quite like them and it’s usually not too hot. This week will be a different story though. Not looking forward to triple digits. Always love hopping with you!
Your home is so perfectly CHARMING! I love it all!
Thank you so much Ana!
I could live in your garden. You have amazing flowers.
I love your copper top on the counter. How have I never seen it before?
Hi Cindy! It’s fairly new, I found it a couple of months ago and I just love it.
I so much enjoyed every single picture you shared. Your home looks amazing!
I’m so glad Paula. Thank you!
Oh that shed in back is a dream! love it so much! And your pops of aqua are so pretty. With a blog name like yours, your home was made for this season- love it!
You’re right! I am all about the summer here in the Pacific Northwest. We wait all year for it! Thank you, Cassie.
I love your Grow Big Dream sign!! I’m such a dreamer and that sign just speaks to my heart!! I’m also so happy you brought your peonies in before the rain! I didn’t and they were so sad looking after 🙁 Lesson I learned for next time I suppose! Your home looks beautiful friend!! Pined!
Thank you so much, Aliya. That’s one of my favorite signs, so glad you like it. It’s amazing how incredibly beautiful peonies are and I want to grow a ton of them. I only wish they lasted longer than a few weeks and held up better in bad weather.