The Sunshine Shades for your Summer Home

With summer just around the corner, there are plenty of ways to give your home an uplifting splash of summer brightness. Whether you want to brighten up your kitchen or add a little colour to your living room, here are a few tips to spruce up your home for the sunshine season.

This season’s colour trends are bright, breezy, and warming and will breathe a new lease of life into your post-winter abode. So, get the sunflower shades, warm tones, and fresh hues into your décor palettes and love colour this summer!

Sunshine Yellows

Yellow tones have a particularly summery and fresh feeling to their appearance. They are a bright and clean colour option for any modern or traditional home, offering more time-honoured décors a contemporary take on traditional styles. Yellow is a great accent colour for cushions, throws, and rugs and is easily matched with other light and bright shades, including crisp whites, sky blues and rich navies.

But if you want to be a little daring with your décor, why not go all out with yellow tiles? This shade works perfectly for kitchen tiles, giving your cooking and dining space a summary glow all year round. Alternatively, you could choose cabinetry and fittings, such as those from the Uni range by Schuller Kitchens. These bright and playful kitchens in white and pastel yellow are the perfect addition to modern homes looking to add a summery aesthetic to their kitchen.

Warm Oranges

Oranges, often associated with darker burnt hues, are now set to be the must-have colour of the summer season. Orange isn’t necessarily thought of as a colour choice within design; however, we think this shade is the go-to choice for any on-trend and chic colour styling!

There are many ways to add orange to your home, and it works well in various different rooms. For example, deep, burnt orange pairs well with a range of hues, such as mossy greens and neutral wood or beige. This colour palette is a perfect choice for a lounge, as you can see below. The warmth of the orange ties perfectly with the wood effect floor tiles, creating an inviting and welcoming space for family and friends, with the pop of colour from the green tying in natural elements like house plants.

Fresh Grass Greens

Following on from the above, green makes a bold return this season with bright, luscious limes, freshly mowed lawn greens, and gorgeously natural forest shades. Green can add a strong sense of style within a room and be a complementary shade to both lighter and darker palettes (shade-depending).

Greens are a fantastic choice for injecting that touch of natural shine into a home during the summer months, are great alongside house plants, and generally offer a ‘nature-indoors’ touch. However, for those who want to implement green into their home permanently, wall tiles in these shades are an excellent choice. Below are the Hamptons bathroom tiles in Victorian Green, which are a welcome addition to any bathroom space. With its mossy hue, it complements natural elements such as wooden fixtures and fittings and a range of neutral colours. This is an alternative take on summer home interior design, offering a forest effect rather than a beach effect that many people adopt in their bathrooms.

Other Interior Design Elements to Consider This Summer

Of course, as much as colour plays a significant role in summer-inspired interior design, it isn’t everything. There are various other elements to consider when redecorating during the warmer months; let’s take a look:

• Light. We all know the feeling of hope for summer when the clocks spring forward, so making the most of the natural light in your home is a great way to add a summery touch to your interior design. If you’re remodelling your home, consider skylights or adding more windows. However, if you’re simply just redecorating, strategically placing mirrors in your space is a great way to help light bounce around the room and fill it with sun.
• Flower and Plants. Whether real or fake, adding some greenery or floral arrangements to your home helps you celebrate the summer season with style. If real, you can switch flowers out regularly to add a different pop of colour depending on your mood.
• Material Choice. Opting for materials such as rattan invokes a sense of the beach or coastal themes if that’s the summer aesthetic you prefer. Alternatively, linen is an excellent summary option for interiors. Whether you go for linen curtains, rattan side tables, or something else, switching out your materials helps you adopt the summer look in your home.

Roccia’s Role in Designing Your Summer-Inspired Home

Here at Roccia, we are proud to be one of the leading suppliers of the latest on-trend designs to suit any tiling style. Our comprehensive and beautifully unique tile ranges include all bathroom, flooring and kitchen wall tiles for any home or décor. So, if you’re looking for a transformation this summer, we can help. Whether it’s tiles for your bathroom or an entire kitchen remodel, our award-winning design team are here to help.