Life & Home at 2102: summer home tour

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

A Red, White & Blue Summer Home Tour 2017

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to my R-W-B (Red, White & Blue) Summer Home tour! First of all, I would like to extend a big "THANK YOU" to the lady behind it all, Marty from A Stroll Thru Life! You are amazing in every possible way dear, thank you for organizing, being patient and of course, for including me in this fantastic group of ladies!

And as the title of this post implies,you kinda know that my Summer Home is filled with these colors. For someone who does not use RED quite often (except for the holidays), this is a big step for me! So come on in and hope you enjoy the tour!

Our simple RWB Front porch

I kinda figured that since the 4th of July is just around the corner, might as well enjoy my patriotic decor early right?!

Now, let's head off to our Dining room, where most of the RWB decor is!

I transferred my huge Matisse print in the dining room and placed some of my blue and white ceramic plates and jar here too.

I love these Red Carnations!

I used my Jonathan Adler plates and brought out my red chargers for the table. The placemat is made from gift wrap I cut to size!

I think my red acrylic utensils go perfect with this setting too! A thrift score from years past.

Red Cherry Blossoms are a score from At Home and the plates are part of a small but growing collection

Now let's head off to the Living Room...

I didn't spend much for my Summer Home decor at all obviously, since the pillow covers are Christmas staples in my home and the art works are mostly made by yours truly.

I scored this scarf print pillow cover from EBAY and I love the greens on it!

Now, I truly enjoy decorating our console obviously. I did not change much of it from my Spring home tour (which you can check HERE ), except for the giant leaves (Homegoods score) and the Cherry Art print, and the carnations in the pots of course! ;-)

I love this RWB John Robshaw for TARGET throw that I scored years ago. It's light-weight and
of course, perfect for my theme this year!

I have a toddler who likes to keep us all busy so I had to include her small work table -
luckily, it's RED! LOL!

I finally got to use my brass hippo book stands!

Proud to say, all RED ARTWORKS are proudly made by yours truly!

I call this one "Sea of Poppy"! The chinoiserie art is an original from Kerry Steele

My other set of abstracts

Their called "Dragons I-IV"

We're almost done, let's head on back...

The only space where RWB is no where to be seen.... YET! ;-)

I love all the succulents I planted in my giant Clam shell this year!

My husband added the railing on our back porch himself late last year! And I just finished painting the bottom railing to black (before it was white, dirty white;-)).

I'm getting ready to renovate our Master Bedroom so that's something to look out for in the next couple of weeks, and definitely something that'll keep me quite busy!

I hope you head on now to Linda from "It all started with Paint" and the rest of the group. I posted all the links below in case you've missed the previous days!

Also if you want to get more ideas on how to decorate your living room, you should check out
TOP REVEAL's Stylish Living Room Ideas HERE!

Enjoy and Have a Happy Summer!

Monday – June 12

A Stroll Thru Life

Pink Peppermint Design

Cuckoo4Design

Nesting With Grace

Life On Virginia Street

Decor to Adore

Tuesday – June 13

Thrifty and Chic - Alicia

21 Rosemary Lane -Barbara

Decorating Delirium - Jennifer

The Chronicles of Home - Jennifer

Hymns & Verses

My Sweet Savannah

Wednesday – June 14

Thursday – June 15

Life & Home @ 2102

It All Started With Paint

Fri – June 16

Vel

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Linking back to: Coastal Charm, Cooking & Crafting with JJ, Amaze Me Monday

Friday, June 10, 2016

Summer Home tour

Welcome to my Summer Home tour! I am so thankful and honored to participate in one of the biggest Summer Blogging event! Thank you Marty from A Stroll Thru Life for this chance to join and share our home! And if your coming from Monica Wants It I am sure you've seen the amazing Summer home tours of the other bloggers participating in this tour!

In case it's your first time here, I am a mom of 3 kids (15y, 11y & 1 y) , wife and Pediatrician who adores all things design and frustrated decorator at heart! I started my blog to share our life here in the U.S. (since we're originally from the Philippines) to our family and friends back home, but it has blossomed into my decorating journal and a way to share my ideas to others who love decorating like me!

Anyway, let's get on with the tour shall we, starting off with my Dining room!

Our Summer Dining Room

As you may have noticed BLUES and YELLOWS dominate our summer Dining room! For summer, I always love pops of yellow around the house, what better way to remind you of the current season with this bright and happy color right?!

I wanted to display my Blue and white Chinoiserie collection here, and I think the yellow flowers and the lemons just made them pop out all the more!

I adore these Light Blue Magnolia place mats which I scored from Draper James a while back. I also used my Jonathan Adler Happy home plates and coasters which went well with my colors.

Did you notice my gingham runner? I made that using gift wrap I scored form TJ maxx and some cardboard. :-)

Now let's head off to our Summer Living room...

The huge windows in my home always keeps everything bright, but like I mentioned, I love pops of YELLOW everywhere especially for summer. I sort of thought of a "Subtle Beach" theme for our home all together.

Havana Canning pillow fabric were scored from Serena and Lily Sales - my MIL did all the sewing for me though, aren't I lucky! Thank you Nanay!

I love the Original Watercolor paintings by my favorite artist Gina Julian

From here, the outdoors beckons, so let me show you some Summer Zhusing up in our patio!

Summer is our favorite season since we get to enjoy our little piece of heaven outdoors. We've had the gazebo since we moved here in 2010, and added the pergola last year. Our family loves the water, and since there is no beach nearby, our pool is our favorite substitute.

Let's start with our Summer Outdoor living room in the gazebo!

All my furniture is from TARGET bought 7 years ago!

I just changed up our pillows and rug this year and I love it! I used to have yellows outdoors too, but this year I opted for GREENS.

These fab pillows are from Plow & Hearth and bought them from Joss & Main. I ordered another set of pillows but they just haven't arrived yet.

Fabulous rug is from Carlton Varney Collection from FRONTGATE

And for our Outdoor Dining area...

I kept with the GREENS and punches of black with the pillows and our plates!

Plates are from Carlton Varney Collection as well.

So now you know where we'll be spending most of our days this summer. Oh, and there's one last thing...

... we're finishing up our daughter's playground in the yard too, so the outdoors is really gonna be the place for all of us!

Thank you so much for stopping by and don't forget to check out the other homes joining this fabulous Summer tour on the links below in case you missed them!

Monday - June 6