Simple Summer Coffee Table Vignette

Need summer decorating ideas? Decorate your summer coffee table with fun vintage finds. Thrifty colorful Accessories and fresh foliage will give your coffee table summer style.

Once Memorial Day has passed, it’s time to switch up your decor for summer! I love bright, happy colors when the temperatures rise. Summer decorating is when you can be a little more casual and add an element of fun to your surroundings. Let’s kick off summer decor with Simple Summer Coffee Table Vignette ideas.

Today is part of our monthly Pinterest Challenge series, where a talented bunch of home decor bloggers all design around an inspirational pic, chosen by Cindy at County Road 407. If you’re visiting from South House Design, didn’t you love Diane’s round coffee table styling tips? I’ll have all the Summer Coffee Table ideas at the end; you are sure to be inspired!

Pinterest Challenge Inspiration Pic

Today’s inspiration pic comes from Beth at Home Stories A to Z. Beth styled a beautiful, neutral summer coffee table with lots of textural interest. Here are the design cues I noticed:

• square coffee table
• wicker/woven accents
• round ball garland
• candle
• coffee table books
• tray
• garden branches
• blanket and pillow on sofa

Now it’s time to see my colorful take on this challenge!

Simple Summer Coffee Table Vignette

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First, Refresh Your Coffee Table for the Season

Once the Spring coffee table decor was removed, I vacuumed the dust and revived the rustic wood. Mr. Fix-it and I crafted this table years ago, and I still love it. It’s large, which enables me to create fun, seasonal displays, and the bottom rack gives us plenty of storage for reading materials. You can see the whole DIY in “From Vintage Roof Rack to Cool Coffee Table”.

Although the table was originally brushed with poly, it gets dry and scruffy looking with wear. Rubbing on THIS will condition and polish the wood, so it looks fresh again.

Find all my Vintage Reviver’s Favorites HERE.

Can you see the difference? So much richer:)

Styling a Summer Coffee Table Vignette

I love pulling out my collection of bright summer colored quilts to kick off the season. I drape them over all the furniture pieces for instant color punch. Seeing one of my colorful favorites draped over the loveseat inspired the colorful coffee table vignette.

Instead of a wooden ball garland and a tray, I piled vintage croquet balls in a huge galvanized colander. Whenever I come across old partial croquet games, I scoop them up. We grew up playing this classic game at our family cabin, so these stir fond memories. We’ve also upcycled many old croquet games into fun art through the years:

“Upcycled Croquet Mallet Head Wreath”

“Upcycled Croquet Candlestick”

“DIY Upcycled Croquet Art”

These projects have been featured in magazines and even hang in the halls of a collegiate school. We enjoy the brightly colored balls inside as decor, and then bring them outside when we’re ready to play our “extreme” version all over our couple-acre yard.

I tucked in a ruler star for a patriotic touch. {“Easy Vintage Folding Ruler Stars How To”}

Upcycled quilt coasters are fun for summer, too. {“14 Simple Ways to Repurpose and Upcycle Old Quilts”}

Styling a Square Coffee Table

Styling a square coffee table in four quadrants makes it easy. Across from the colorful croquet balls and artificial grass underneath, I placed a colorful thrifted braided circle. On top I set two stoneware pieces with live plants. The two quadrants mimic each other in color, texture, visual weight and shape.

Coffee Table Books for Summer Reading

Summer is a great time to get caught up on reading! I am not a fiction girl; give me all the decorating books to enjoy. It’s so fun to own books by some of my blogging buddies! You can find my favorite reads HERE.

Simply stack your coffee table books in one of the coffee table quadrants for instant style. Top with a seasonally fragrant candle.

Fresh Picks from the Garden

The fourth quadrant of my coffee table will feature whatever is blooming in the garden. A pretty wicker vase (find HERE) has a mason jar with water inside. Currently, our beautiful hedge of bridal veil spirea is in full bloom. It’s arching branches, full of lacey white flowers are gorgeous tucked all over the house. Next will be the peony show; I can’t wait!

Summer Decor in the Kitchen Sitting Area

This little sitting area in our kitchen is the first to get summer decor! It’s inspiring me to spread bright happy summer colors to the rest of the house; as the temps raise, so does the color spectrum at my house.

Hopefully you got some new coffee table decorating ideas today! For even more inspiration, visit Carol at Bluesky at Home next; she always has great ideas!

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