Decorating the Fireplace for Summer

We have been living in this house for three years.  It’s a charming house (too small of us) with some cute details: wide plank floors, original windows (it’s cold in the winter),  checkered floors in the mudroom, a swing door that connects the kitchen and study.  I like this house most during the summer.   It takes time to make a house a home.   I spent a little time updating the fireplace area, which was in need of a spruce up for summer.

I unpacked some moving boxes and found a few fern frames I used in our previous house.  Don’t you just love shopping your home?  Summer is all about the beach.   Sea shells, new and old, were placed in a French porcelain basket.   A natural fern was added to the inside of the brick fireplace.  It was a great deal at $10 at Home Depot.  (Look #1)

A chair and a leopard print pillow complete the space.   Of course, once I started moving things around, I kept going.   Here’s  look #2.  The birds are a gift from a dear friend.  I love my Bunny Williams Home pillow.  The cane chair I bought at auction.  The rug is from One Kings Lane.  Eventually, I would like replace the mirror and the lighting in this room.

The boys bedroom also has a fireplace and needed some TLC.  Now that they are college boys, I kept it simple, and a little more age appropriate.

It’s a non-working fireplace.  The tortoise shell is from Nate Berkus’ Target Collection.   Tortoise shells remind me of my childhood.  Lastly, the dining room fireplace could use a little change for summer.  I  have a few more boxes to open.  Maybe I’ll find more forgotten treasures to decorate the dining room fireplace for Summer.

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