These particular parts worked well for 2 main reasons.

it’s summer.” If your home could use a little seasonal pick-me-up, you might want to try adding a few of these ideas to your bag of tricks as well!.When I think of summer decor, the first thing that always comes to mind is the advice that I used to read in decor magazines about how to switch your home decor up for summer.. And it was ridiculous.. And it kind of made me mad..

I always used to read suggestions like “Take down all of the curtains in your house and switch them out for flowy white cotton ones instead.” Or “Switch out your large area rugs for something more natural and beachy-feeling.” Or “Bring the outdoors in!Simply have your personal carpenter knock a hole in your living room wall and install 6-8 french doors, then install a patio made of imported limestone and create a second living room outside to create a flow between the two spaces.”.OK, I made that last one up, but still.

None of those things are happening for normal people with normal busy lives and normal budgets.I always hate advice like that because it kind of suggests that if you can’t do it right, don’t even bother.

And of course, there are so many, even better things that you can do to make your home feel summery in just a few minutes and without a whole team of stylists and hard-laborers to work for you.. For summer, it MUST be easy.

One thing is for sure, no one wants to spend their summer fussing over decorations in their home.So even though the whole room isn’t really ready for its close up, I just had to tell you all about it!.

Our laundry room is a little nook off of our kitchen so we like it to be pretty tidy and also to function really well, since it’s one of the first things you see when you come in through the kitchen mud room.It’s been kind of a resting place for lots of different things over the last few years, but nothing that really helped its function as a laundry room/pantry/extra kitchen space/whatever.

Whenever I folded laundry, it would end up in piles on the kitchen table.The table is pretty big, so we could still find space to eat at it, but it was just really a big eyesore.. Chris had the idea to put a long counter in the laundry room for me to fold on and then he also thought we might as well add in a cork board and make it kind of a command center too!