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That’s probably plenty.

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.

They’re “do it once and enjoy it all season” kind of things, mostly.

I like to use lots of leafy greens, like hostas or soloman’s seal in my vases instead of flowers because they last almost literally forever.Here are some of the kinds of things I find to stick on there:.

I painted the cork board out to match the walls and I love the overall look.I can see what’s coming up and what needs to be taken care of in a glance in the mornings when I’m folding my laundry.

So even though this room isn’t quite done yet, you can see why I had to share this project!I thought that since this set up works so well for me, it just may be the idea that one of you needs for your home too and I just couldn’t keep it all to myself!.