It’s that time of year to transition from Winter to Spring and then comes the super fun Summer season when we get to crack the windows open and let the fresh scents of garden florals fill our rooms. Providing you have a garden that is, but even if you don’t, there are design tricks that can give you the look and feel of Spring and Summer without worrying about wilting plants or pesky insects.
3 Neat Ways to Brighten Up Your Interiors
1) Frame a Floral
Floral prints give you the fresh look and feel of the summer colour palette, and in homes with pets, they are better than the real thing because they can’t be eaten.
For the Spring, soft pastel colours work best, then brighter prints of oranges, purples, lush greens, and bright yellows work well to welcome in the Summer.
Florals don’t need to be photographs or paintings either. They can be textiles too. Frame a tea towel with a floral print, or even a butterfly design on a cushion cover. If it can be flattened, it can be framed. That goes for dried pressed flowers too. You can frame the real thing.
For rooms where florals are already on display, floral prints may be too much. If that’s the case, try wildlife art. Frame a bird print to display above a vase of flowers, a butterfly, bumblebee, or any of the other wildlife print. For families with children, have some fun with it by using paint-by-numbers, colouring books, or search online for printable art you can print at home, colour them in and then work them into the design of your room.
2) Hang a Happy Collage
For rooms and hallways where you spend a lot of time, you will feel better when the things you see make you smile. As the saying goes, “the more, the merrier”.
Scroll your digital photo albums and any physical albums you have in storage to find the ones taken outdoors, when the sun is shining, people are laughing, and your pets are doing their thing. If you are really lucky, you could be stumbling upon the odd water games photo of the family with the paddling pool, water guns being squirted or the cat playing with the water balloon. The types of summer photos that make you remember crazy times that you can’t possibly feel sad when you see them. Ditch the blues by displaying your life’s happy moments prominently. Lots of them.
3) Explore New Designs
You don’t need to frame new art to enjoy a new look. Work with what you have by switching your frames around, perhaps moving brighter prints from the hallway to be displayed across from an oversized mirror. A simpler way to switch your interior walls up that can totally transform a room is to switch from the traditional horizontal row of photo frames that’s all hung at eye-level to a gallery wall display made up of frames of various sizes.
You could be pleasantly surprised by what you can create with what you already have. Even the simplest of additions or changes can have a huge impact on how a room makes you feel.