Mine were gifts so I’m on the lookout for more now that I know they can actually be of use to me!.
When I think of summer decor, the first thing that always comes to mind is the advice that I used to read in decor magazines about how to switch your home decor up for summer.. And it was ridiculous.. And it kind of made me mad..I always used to read suggestions like “Take down all of the curtains in your house and switch them out for flowy white cotton ones instead.” Or “Switch out your large area rugs for something more natural and beachy-feeling.” Or “Bring the outdoors in!
Simply have your personal carpenter knock a hole in your living room wall and install 6-8 french doors, then install a patio made of imported limestone and create a second living room outside to create a flow between the two spaces.”.OK, I made that last one up, but still.None of those things are happening for normal people with normal busy lives and normal budgets.
I always hate advice like that because it kind of suggests that if you can’t do it right, don’t even bother.And of course, there are so many, even better things that you can do to make your home feel summery in just a few minutes and without a whole team of stylists and hard-laborers to work for you.. For summer, it MUST be easy.
One thing is for sure, no one wants to spend their summer fussing over decorations in their home.
So all the ideas that I’m showing you today are really kind of “set it and forget it” types of ideas.We used the most basic lumber supplies but ended up with something that looks really cute and custom!.
For the top itself, we just used one long piece of pine shelving and trimmed it out with some 2×2 pine pieces to make it look chunkier.The shelving that we got (I think these are also sometimes called “project boards”) was about 16″ wide and we just measured it to run the length of the room.
You can get these boards in all different shapes and sizes and they’re made up of long strips glued together so you get that authentic “butcher block” look!We attached the 2×2 trim pieces around the edges using clamps and wood glue and then sanded them down to be rounded on the edges once everything was dry.