5 Affordable Ways to Transition Your Home For Summer

Use a Winter blanket as a Summer picnic blanket or even a seat cushion for a backyard wooden table. We also love arranging silver and gold Christmas tree ornaments in a large bowl or glass vase in the Summer months. As an added bonus, it saves on storage!

Switch Winter accessories for decor with seasonally appropriate materials and colors. We recommend investing in a couple of high-quality items that you can use year after year for overall savings; for example, swap a favorite heavy wool blanket for a lighter-weight cotton one in an enduring style, retrieve brightly striped throw pillows from storage and toss on your upholstery, or change spiced soaps and candles for fresh scents. Jo Malone's Orange Blossom is our favorite — it's the perfect reminder Summer is here!

Just as pumpkins are ubiquitous for October and November, fresh flowers, like peonies or hydrangeas, are a beautiful and affordable way to bring the warmer seasons to life. Best of all, bouquets don't break the bank!

Different shapes, sizes, and colors of vases and bowls will pop against heavy bookshelves that tend to darken a room in Summer. Tabletops are another point of interest, so arrange different sizes of glass accessories in a cluster or pair with flowers. Check out stores like HomeGoods and Michaels for great deals on small decor or paint existing glass and ceramic pieces bright colors yourself.

Crisp whites and fresh neutrals are great go-tos for Summer. We also love pale blues and greens, cheery yellows, oranges, coral, and, of course, marine blues and turquoise — all colors that transport you to the tropics even when you are stuck in the real world. You can easily swap in these seasonal tones with affordable decor, such as bright throw pillows, tabletop trays, decorative boxes, and even lampshades.