We all love home tours. Here's a summer bedroom tour with lots of ideas you can use to decorate the bedrooms in your home?
Ready for a summer home tour featuring two of our bedrooms? The master bedroom and one of our guest rooms. Summer is the time to lighten up these rooms if you live in hot and humid areas like we do! Today I’m sharing our summer bedrooms and lots of tips for adding breezy summer style to your bedroom too!
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Welcome to Blogger’s Best Summer Home Tours!
A big THANK YOU to Kelly at The Tattered Pew! I met Kelly at Haven, a blogger’s and IG influencers conference, a few years ago! She is just the sweetest person and has a beautiful blog!
And she is the organizer of this pretty summery tour and has done lots and lots of work! I’m so thrilled to be a part of your lovely tour! Kelly thank you for herding cats to create this summer tour for all of us and our readers!
If you are coming from Kim’s summer tour welcome! Don’t you love Cottage In The Mitten‘s style? So welcoming! Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
And however you got here, thank you for coming. I’ve been waiting for you!
StoneGable’s Summer Home Tour started last week with part 1. If you missed it or would like to see our summer home tour again visit me HERE.
Here’s a peek at what you will find. We chat about ways to add summer to your home!
See these images and more!
Today let’s chat about summer bedrooms.
I think summer is a great time to lighten up a bedroom. Lighten up decor and lighten up bedding!
Here’s our bedroom looking in from the door ready for summer.
THE SUMMER BED
The newest edition to our summer bedroom is the bed. We had an upholstered bed in this room and decided we loved it so much we wanted a platform bed. You will see what we did with our original upholstered bed later in this post.
I LOVE this bed! It is so well made and the upholstery is beautiful! You can see it HERE. The beige bed is sold out but you can get on the waiting list for its return. There is a light gray and a dark gray bed still in stock.
Our bedrooms are so light and bright! We have double windows that look out over the golf course.
It’s important to change the bedding from season to season to accommodate the weather and our sleeping needs.
Especially in the summer, I want to be cool. Even with air conditioning, I can still feel the humidity! Light layers are best! How about you?
I wanted a new coverlet and I did not want to spend a lot! I found one and think is perfect for summer and our color palette.
The three-piece reversible set, pillow shams and comforter was about $100! And it is a very nice quality! You can see the summery set HERE.
Here’s a close-up of the prints. So pretty for summer, right?
I usually tuck the sides of the bedding into the upholstered rails of the bed but I thought I’d let them stick out for summer. Less buttoned up and a little more free!
I’m not a fan of a duvet and cover at the end of our bed, especially in the summer. We would just kick a duvet and cover off of the end of the bed every night! So I kept things simple.
We like a linen sheet, a white duvet, and one other light layer in case we wake up in the middle of the night and feel a bit too cool.
Seasonal bedding is such a personal choice. Use pretty bedding that makes you feel comfortable!
A good bed and great bedding are the bedrock of a good night’s sleep! And yes, bedrock was a bit of a pun!
DECORATIVE SUMMER BED PILLOWS
Pillows on a bed are a must for me! Can you believe this bed is lightly layered with pillows?
I’m rather obsessed with them and get quite heavy handed when it comes to pillows. I would have added more but I remembered my buzzwords for this summer bedroom are light and breezy.
In front of the pillow shams that came with the quilt, I added a trio of 20-inch pillows with down inserts.
I usually buy a pair if not three of the same size square pillow. I can always find a bed or sofa to prop them up on.
Since I have a whole home color palette most of the things in one room will work in another as you will see later. It’s so important to have a color palette for your home. It doesn’t have to be neutral like mine but think about choosing colors for your home and then sticking with them. Decorating is so so much easier!
Here is a big, informative post, How To Choose A Whole Home Color Palette so you can choose the best and prettiest colors for your home! Reading this will help you be a better and more confident home decorator!
Because it’s summer, I love the look of buffalo check. Actually, I love buffalo check any time of the year! I’ve used buffalo check in our home for decades. It’s such a classic pattern.
Buffalo check works with our Transitional style. Don’t think checks are for Farmhouse style alone. They can work with many home decor styles.
Our summer bedroom also sports a French knot pillow and a long cheetah pillow on the bed.
You can see the indoor/outdoor check pillows HERE and the set of two down inserts HERE. And see the long antelope pillow HERE.
The big debate when it comes to pillows is… to chop or not to chop! Totally a matter of personal choice! I like to chop most of my pillows. Because these pillows are down-filled they chop easily! What side are you on?
THE NIGHTSTANDS
These little round glass and goldtone metal nightstands are so versatile. They can also double as side or end tables too!
Our bedroom is ample but not huge so finding a small profile nightstand with lighter visual weight was a must.
Visual Weight is a very important thing to know when you decorate.
See a post on VISUAL WEIGHT AND DECORATING here.
This nightstand is decorated very minimally! I plug in my electronics behind the side rails of the bed. When I go to sleep I put a tumbler of water next to the bed and that’s all!
You might also like the post, HOW TO DECORATE A NIGHTSTAND here.
I love having fresh flowers next to our bed! I found these pretty lacy flowers on the roadside. There are tons and tons of them growing now. I’m not sure what they are called but I just could not resist bringing some of them home.
The vase of these flowers on my vanity is spilling over with these pretty flowers. They look similar to Queen Anne’s Lace but are not. Can you tell me what they are?
THE SUMMER BEDROOM VANITY
The vanity in our bedroom is such a luxury! I’ve gotten used to sitting down at my vanity and doing my hair and putting on my makeup! My grandmother had a vanity and I used to watch her do the same. And I loved watching her. So when we moved to StoneGable I made a secretary desk into a vanity and loved it.
Here at our Tanglewood House, the vanity sits against the double windows. It has a pop-up lid with a mirror and lots of compartments for makeup and jewelry and other things.
When the lid is down it also doubles as a writing desk!
Bobby got me this vanity the first Mother’s Day we moved here. It is a wonderful treat! You can see my vanity and the chair HERE and HERE.
THE ARMOIRE
I don’t have a dresser and mirror in this bedroom. Instead, we have a tall glass front armoire. All of my clothing except my handing clothing fits in this ample armoire!
The armoire is at its best any season because it reflects the decor in the room.
I’m not a believer in Feng Shiu so I don’t mind the armoire being opposite our bed. It’s the best wall to put such a big piece of furniture on. I am a more decorating theory kind of a girl. But each to her own!
I hope you like our master bedroom summer tour and have gotten a few tips you can use in your summer bedroom too!
Now, let’s go upstairs for a quick look at one of our guest bedrooms…
This post is long enough and I still have a bedroom makeover to show you! When I say “makeover” I mean lots of stuff from all over the house and the basement was rearranged and used in this guest room.
Learning to shop your house is like a secret decorating weapon! And it’s my favorite way to decorate our home. You can see a helpful post, 6 Brilliant Ways To Shop Your Home, here.
So let’s take a peek now and look for a post about this room and tips for getting a guest room summer-ready soon.
The Golf Guest Room is a nice large guest room! And a favorite of our guests.
Here’s why we call it the Golf Guest Room. This is a small sample of what you see from the large windows in this room…
Here’s a look at the bed with summer bedding on it.
And the big fluffy chopped pillows…
And a little table that works as a nightstand. Aren’t these daisies so dear? I like to send a plant or flowers home with overnight guests.
And here’s the dresser and ball mirror in the summer bedroom. The ball mirror in the foyer is still there. There’s a story behind the mirrors and I will share it soon when I post more about the Golf Guest Room.
YOU MIGHT LIKE TO SEE ITEMS FROM THE SUMMER BEDROOM TOUR BELOW…
Now, head on over to one of my dearest friends, Julie at My Wee Abode. She just moved and her story is so selfless and lovely just like here.
I’m hoping she will visit me again this fall or nearer to Christmas to see Lancaster County at its best. Last year we spent a delightful week together!
Thank you for stopping by and taking this summer bedroom tour! I wish you the most wonderful summer!
Bloggers’ Best Summer Home Tours
This week I am joining some of my blogging friends for the Bloggers’ Best Summer Home Tours. Thirty talented and creative women will be opening their homes up for you to tour all week long. You can visit each summer home tour by clicking the links below.
Monday’s Tours
The Tattered Pew / Cottage On Bunker Hill / She Gave It A Go
Cottage In The Mitten / Stonegable / My Wee Abode
Tuesday’s Tours
Thistle Key Lane / Midwest Life & Style / White Lilac Farmhouse
My Thrift Store Addiction / Willow Bloom Home Blog / Dabbling and Decorating
Wednesday’s Tours
Bricks ‘n Blooms /Amy Sadler Designs / Peacock Ridge Farm
