“Summers and sunshine inspire you to experiment with bold colors, prints, and invite brightness into your home for the even brighter days ahead”, says our principal designer Anupam Singh about summer home designing. 

While every new season is a great time to explore and give your home a makeover, summers especially are the time to give way to the most extravagant colors and decor. It is the time to indeed allow the outdoors, inside. 

Here are some of our most believed-in summer home decorating ideas. 

1. Curating the sunshine color palette

Quite the mood-enhancing tip for summer home designing is playing with the shades of summer. Let the energy of the sun reflect inside your home, through colors like yellow, orange, pastel reds, etc. paired with more neutral shades to balance it out. 

Also, summers almost instantly remind us of the beach, which makes all the beachy blues coupled with light shades of pale yellow or green, the perfect colors to bring in. 

2. Go for the bold prints

Statement-making wall finishes that carry bold prints like fruits, and scaled-up florals in exotic colors are what you need for introducing the summer touch. 

Not just walls, ceilings also have great potential to lay down an element of surprise in a space. The scale of the prints is something to look at when exploring summer home decorating tips, factors like the height of the room; what already exists, and if you are planning to add custom-made furniture or not, will play a key role. 

Nonetheless, nature-inspired prints for upholstery and furnishings or wall finishes are always a great addition to the material palette. 

3. Explore the summer decor

A luxe summer-inspired home needs lush elements of decor to complete the picture-perfect look. Fresh flower arrangements made with Baby’s breath or orchids or even the lovely daisies, will brighten up your home like nothing else. 

Interior Designers and stylists stand by baby’s breath for being the most breathtaking of flowers for being the star of any home theme for summer. Coffee table styling or the consoles in the foyer are great places to introduce them. 

Along with the flowers, you can add some lush green plants which will put together the summer garden theme. There’s also so much more to experiment with in terms of decor pieces, say a large-scale summer fruit as your dining centrepiece would bring the summer theme to life. 

4. Give your furniture a bright update

Given that furniture is the backbone of any well-designed space, one of the easiest summer home decor ideas would be sprucing it up in your own home. Getting in touch with an interior designer would be of help here, as they can help you decide which pieces to keep and what can you add. 

While custom-made furniture might be on the higher end, it definitely is a good investment especially if you are looking to design a summer-inspired holiday home. 

For a seasonal and opulent update, Anupam Singh – Principal Designer and Architect at Alive Studio, suggests changing the upholstery to summer prints or colours and re-doing the wooden finishes of the furniture. 

5. Let’s not leave lighting behind

Our principal designer believes that the list of summer home decorating ideas can’t be complete without mentioning the right kind of lighting. It is the key to defining ambience and calling any home well-designed. 

Luxury lighting solutions come in different shapes, sizes, and materials. For that summer mood, there’s room to experiment and introduce more bright lights. The best pick is to let as much sunlight in during the day while creating a balance of warm lighting in the evening with pendants, chandeliers, and more. 

We believe that summer fun decorating ideas aren’t just limited to decor, it is about developing the right theme that leads to creating wellness-focused spaces. 

Seasonal updates are just the perfect way to keep the spirits of your home alive and ready for entertaining yourself and your family anytime. 

“This year’s interior design trends have seen a  lot of summer-inspired moods with a focus on wellness. Developing a theme for your home that lifts your spirits and creates a sanctuary at home is what summer home designing is all about.”  – Anupam Singh