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decorating, diy, my home, summer, summer projects · May 29, 2019

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer!

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Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Plus 20+ Summer DIY Project Ideas!

My friends are sharing their Summer DIY ideas. Be sure to scroll down to see all of the SUMMER inspiration. I am so freaking excited!!

Farmhouse Decor with a Colorful Twist

When we moved into our home three years ago I evaluated what really makes e happy and decided that it’s COLOR! I love the farmhouse/cottage style but I also love bright, happy colors. I think it’s possible to have a simple cottage-style home with a colorful twist.

Colorful Happy Home. I'm sharing my love of color through DIY projects in decorating, crafts, recipes and lifestyle to help YOU have a more colorful life!

So now when I think of DIY ideas that I want to make I really try to bring COLOR into the equation because it must makes me happy and that is who I am.

Colorful Happy Home. I'm sharing my love of color through DIY projects in decorating, crafts, recipes and lifestyle to help YOU have a more colorful life!

Summer is the Perfect Time to Decorate with COLOR

For Summer especially I think it’s fun to decorate with bright hues. This year I brought color into our home with some simple DIY projects — on our front porch, in our family room and mantel plus our back porch and yard!

How to make a GIANT farmhouse HOME sign for just a few dollars! Create a focal point for your front door or mantel in just minutes with this easy tutorial!

Easy Ways to Bringing Color onto Your Front Porch

Summer Succulent Metal Farmhouse Wreath. Create a colorful summer wreath with scrapbook paper, a metal wreath form and faux flowers and succulents.

Summer Succulent Farmhouse Wreath

To bring color to our porch, I created a farmhouse wreath with a colorful twist using bright flowers and papers from my new Chasing Adventures line that is at JoAnn Stores. The summer vibe is continued with cute faux succulents that I added to the wreath. You can find out how to make the wreath here — Summer Succulent Farmhouse Wreath.

Giant HOME DIY Wood Sign

How to make a GIANT farmhouse HOME sign for just a few dollars! Create a focal point for your front door or mantel in just minutes with this easy tutorial!

One of the ways I brought color and a farmhouse/cottage feeling to our porch was through this easy giant sign. I love making GIANT signs. GIANT signs are so easy to create since I use inexpensive pine shelving. I spray painted some simple letters and added a wreath for the “O” in HOME. You can find out how to make this sign here — GIANT Farmhouse Home Sign.

How to make a GIANT farmhouse HOME sign for just a few dollars! Create a focal point for your front door or mantel in just minutes with this easy tutorial!

Stenciled Flower Crates

I love fresh flowers for Summer. Flowers are an awesome way to bring nature into your home or porch PLUS I love the colors. Stenciling crates is easy. All you do is create vinyl stencils using your craft cutting machine.

If you don’t have a craft cutting machine you can buy stencils at your craft store. And sometimes the dollar store has stencils too. Another idea is to use scrapbook letters to create stencils! You can find out how to do this here — Stenciled Herb Garden Crates.

Layer Porch Rugs

6 ways to decorate your porch for the Fourth of July! Celebrate the Fourth by adding some patriotic flair to the front of your home with these 6 easy ideas! 

One final way to bring color to your front door or porch is layering rugs. I do this all the time. Find two rugs that coordinate with each other and layer them together to create interest and textures!

Bringing Color into Your Family Room

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Create a Colorful Summer Mantel

Just because I love color doesn’t mean that I don’t love a farmhouse/cottage style as well. It’s easy to create a very cottage-y mantel but add color with flowers. The enamel sign, pillow, and signs at JoAnn stores when they were all 70% off (I love a good deal). I used mostly faux flowers which makes it super easy and I love that I can use them next year too! You can find the whole mantel here — Flower Garden Mantel.

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Add Fresh Flowers

I love fresh flowers — especially at Summertime. I usually have fresh flowers in this milk pitcher and I switch them out each week. Such an easy way to bring color into any room. And you can use grocery store flowers! These are from Trader Joes.

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Rugs and Pillows are a Easy Way to Add Color

I love rugs and pillows. We have a few different rugs for our family room. For example, we have an off-white shag rug that I used a Christmas and Valentine’s Day because it’s neutral. But for Summer I got my HOT PINK rug back out and I LOVE it!! I have some matching hot pink pillows and every time I walk into that room the color makes me smile. For storage, I just roll the rugs up and store them upright!

Bringing Color to Your Back Porch or Sun Room

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

We are lucky to have a back porch. It’s a really fun room to decorate. The room is enclosed on three of the four sides, so we are able to use it most of the year!! A few years ago I created a little napping space with a day bed and pillows — Make an Outdoor Room. This year I added a new rug, some bright faux and real flowers and a GIANT solar lantern chandelier!! It really makes the back porch POP!!

You can find the all of the ideas here — 5 Ways to Get Your Backyard Ready for Spring.

20+ Summer DIY Project Ideas

And, today I’m joined by a fabulous group of blogging friends who are also sharing their Summer DIY Ideas as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Summer Series…

Just click on the links below the images to be taken to their posts and see what they’re sharing today. I’m blown away by all the awesome summer DIY ideas!

5 Minute Dollar Store DIY Hit Wall at The Happy Housie
Anthro Octopus Knockoff at Craftberry Bush
Summer Activities Tree at The Handmade Home
Easy Ways to Bring Colour Into Your Home for Summer at Tatertots and Jello
Rustic Birdhouse Garden DIY Decor from the Dollar Store at The DIY Mommy

DIY Shell Planter Tutorial at Zevy Joy
Painted Wood Jewelry Dish at Paint Me Pink
DIY Beach Art on a Canvas at Shabbyfufu
DIY Concrete Vase at Place of My Taste
How to Dress Up Your Walls For Summer at My Sweet Savannah

DIY Pottery Barn Inspired Liberty Burlap Party Banner at She Gave it A Go
Campfire S’Mores Gift Basket Idea at Modern Glam
How to Paint a Concrete Patio at The Turquoise Home
DIY Hanging Garden Trellis at A Pretty Life
DIY Coastal Window Box at Finding Silver Pennies

DIY Rainbow Book Art at Life is a Party
DIY Tabletop Marshmallow Roaster at Sincerely, Marie Designs
How to Make a Sign the Easy Way at Confessions of a Serial DIYer
DIY Bird House at Seeking Lavender Lane
Simple Botanical Watercolour at Lemon Thistle
DIY S’mores Bar at Clean & Scentsible

20 Summer DIY Projects to make!

What projects are YOU working on for Summer??

Share them with us in the comments!

Have a COLORFUL day!

xoxo

Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!


Easy Ways to Bring Color into Your Home for Summer! Bring Color into your home with these simple Farmhouse/Cottage DIY project ideas!

Posted By: Jen · In: decorating, diy, my home, summer, summer projects

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Comments

  1. Megha says

    June 2, 2019 at 1:45 PM

    Love it! so vibrant.

    • Jen says

      June 5, 2019 at 8:34 AM

      Thank you Megha!

      xxoxo

  2. Jennifer Lifford says

    May 29, 2019 at 10:38 PM

    Great tips Jen! You’re definitely the queen of color!

  3. Danielle says

    May 29, 2019 at 8:39 PM

    You have such a knack for bringing color into your home. I love the bold colors you’ve added for summer. xx

  4. Krista says

    May 29, 2019 at 12:04 PM

    Love, love, LOVE…ALL.THE.COLOUR! Great ideas Jen for decorating with colour, inside and out without spending a fortune. Thanks for sharing.

  5. Janet says

    May 29, 2019 at 8:50 AM

    I love color in small doses and can definitely take a couple of ideas from you to use!

  6. Ashley Stringfellow says

    May 29, 2019 at 8:14 AM

    So cute! Love your bright, happy and colorful home! xoxo

  7. Christy James says

    May 29, 2019 at 8:12 AM

    So many great ways to add color to a space! I love your color-filled home! XO

Hi! I'm Jen Hadfield. I'm a mom of 5 restoring an 1891 home in the heart of Salt Lake City. I love being creative and sharing simple ideas to make your life easier and more beautiful!

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