Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

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Summer season is synonymous to sweat and stickiness. However hard you may try but the weather conditions are such that you are bound to experience such attributes for sure in the house and outside.

You can’t bring changes in the atmosphere outside but can certainly adjust your home decor and interiors to make it cooler, airy and summer friendly.

In the words of Sam Keen- Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

This season respect laziness, by following certain tips, that will help to make your home cooler by changing its internal atmosphere altogether.

Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

1) Make way for Light Shades

Summer season encourages using light colors tones such as yellow, green, orange, white, and more. Try giving a fresh look to your house by opting colors that bear neutral, fresh and warm look via curtains, bed sheets, sofa, cushions, etc.

Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

If the makeover for your sofa is due or you are planning to purchase a new one for the living room or the patio, make sure that the top fabric is heat-resistant like cotton or linen and does not stick to the body as PU leather does.

Sunlight has been scientifically proven to kill invisible germs and bacteria floating in the air inside the home. So, let the sun rays enter into your house, if possible.

Or you can add colors like tangerines, lime green, yellow, bright blue or baby pink, white, soft grey to your bed sheets or curtains as such colors would be uplifting positive and soothing vibes inside the home.

2) Experiment with Sitting Arrangement

A cool sitting arrangement in the outdoor or open space of your house with the help of light-weight furniture made of the rod, such as a coffee table and chairs, will lend your hectic lifestyle some relaxing and refreshing moments.

Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

You may also try a sitting arrangement at an open window side inside your house because that will let the evening breeze enter the home and change your mood for good. You may cover the window with a sheer curtain or bamboo chick if you think opening windows will do away with your privacy.

If feasible, move pieces of furniture slightly towards the wall so that your room looks and becomes airy and more spacious. This tweaking of furniture would not cost anything but would certainly clear somewhat cramped environment.

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3) Plan Little Shift towards available Open Space

Feeling the breeze reach your heart and soul is never easier anywhere than in an open space.

Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

If you have a terrace, patio, garden or balcony, try utilizing it during summers by arranging a casual atmosphere there with the beanbags, rugs on the floor, ottoman cotton pod, etc.

Sipping your evening tea or coffee in the open space will make you relaxed because A/Cs brings down your body temperature instead of naturally cooling it.

4) Plant some Indoor Plants

Let your house generate fresh air of its own with the help of bonsai and indoor plants. Pot surroundings restrict the growth of these plants to it.

Summer Home Decor Ideas to keep it Cool and Airy

Even if your home is not darned with enormous squares of footage, you may don the greenery inside your house by planting various kinds of indoor plants. These plants require minimal space and less sun to grow.

These not only add colors, vibrancy, and breath of cool air to your interiors but also add freshness to it by converting the carbon dioxide into oxygen. These small plants can help remove some toxins present in the air we breathe inside our house.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research has confirmed that common houseplants are natural air purifiers.

Small plants like the Variegated Snake Plant, Peace Lily, devils Ivy, spider plant, Flamingo Lily, bamboo plant, Chinese Evergreen are examples of low-cost and low maintenance plants that can be grown inside as well as outside a house. These plants complement the look of the house. Place them on your kitchen slab, living room corner, or bedside table to improve lungs health of your family.

Plant some vines and creepers in beautiful glass vases or bone-china pots along with the staircase railings, balcony grills or indoor dividers. These will result in the shaded area underneath them besides lowering the temperature in their close proximity by around 20 degrees.

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By changing the kind of upholstery, bed sheets, drapes, etc you can offer your house a vibrant and breezy feel. A lot of floral or tropical motifs on the bed sheets, curtains, rugs, and cushions accompanied with summer lamps, LED Chandelier, fresh bouquet of flowers on the center table along with lively photo frames on the walls would render the sought-after cool look to your residence.

Turn off unnecessary lights, especially incandescent bulbs as such lights increase your power consumption boosting your electricity bill. Also, these radiate a lot of heat.

So, switch over to cooler light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or compact fluorescents (CFLs) lighting system and gift your house cooler shades this summer.

This was it for today. I hope you have found this post helpful. Have a Good Day! 😇