Sunny Spaces: Summery Less Fussy Inspo

These interiors are sunny spaces with a breezy quality mirroring the weather outside today. We already started a parade of summer delish HERE, where there wasn’t enough room to share glowing inspiration. “Unfussy” is certainly subjective. What seems too busy for me, may be relaxing and just right for you. A design or three below may not be consistent with the vibe in your opinion. I’ll offer what I believe keeps them from crossing over into fusslandia.

Sunny Spaces & Skipping the Fuss

How can I say I’m not a big yellow person when I’m crazy ’bout summer sunshine and French farmhouses in the South of France? There’s something magical about how it is celebrated in the space above with block-printed drapes and below in an elegant Hamptons bedroom! Here comes the sun, little darlin’, and it’s all right.

Summery Sikes Inspo

So classic and relaxing! Unfussy enough that a sweet Spaniel is welcome.

Here’s a fabric designed by him (Sikes, not the pooch) that fits the sunny summery vibe:

This lovely yellow Hamptons bedroom above is inside the forthcoming book you can pre-order by Mark D. Sikes:

In his third book of the Beautiful trilogy, FOREVER BEAUTIFUL celebrates nature, colors, patterns, and textures, including the designer’s favorite blue and white, rattan, gingham, stripes, and the chinoiserie chic we expect. Inspiration from homes he designed (such as the ooh la la gardens of Versailles–inspired French Chateau-style home in Chicagoland!), signature touches, quotes, and updated tradition glow in light-filled photography by the (oh yeah, I’m just gonna say it) PERFECT LENS of Amy Neunsinger.

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1. Painted Wall Sconce

2. Newbury Pillow Cover

3. Schumacher Santa Barbara Ikat Wallpaper

4. Devon Table Lamp

5. Custom Green Ikat Pillow Cover

6. Medallion Wallpaper

7. Signature No. 1 Wall Sconce

8. Shower Curtain

Here’s a Sikes-y moment I’d gladly insert myself with a copy in hand…

Less Fuss Doesn’t Mean Rustic or Informal

Would you, could you, imagine consulting design books at a beautiful desk like this with a view?

Isn’t it a clever console/bar/library moment in the sun?

I want to fall in love with the New England style glory of this gorgeous structure above, but that Toyota FJ140 Land Cruiser is stealing my attention. And I don’t even notice cars for the most part! What can I say? I’m a child of the 70s. This classic one just does it for me, and I can imagine it transporting me and my friends for summer shenanigans. Any coastal grannies in the house?

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1. Floral Arrangement

2. Stripe Top

3. White Jeans

4. Something’s Gotta Give

5. Bucket Hat

6. Ina Garten Cookbook

7. Pillow Covers

8. White Tee

9. Woven Tote

Is your idea of “unfussy” not necessarily spare or neutral? Because I love Rita Konig’s design (I took her course on Create Academy) and approach to making houses feel like home.

Sometimes we can locate resources to create a breezy summer look at home, and sometimes we have to escape to magical places to absorb it first.

Of course virtually traveling works too, and that’s how these images with their effortless layering and timeless arrangements inspire.

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1. Linen Slipcovered Chair

2. Double Sconce, Regina Andrew

3. Blue-Grey Paint Color

4. Creamy Plaster Paint Color

5. Soft Black Paint Color

6. Iron Top End Table

7. Framed Fine Art Print

8. Wallpaper

9. Gilded Iron Swing Arm Sconce Set

Sunny Spaces With Lemons

Suddenly we’ll notice a color combination we may never have considered working. We’ll remember that we love terracotta and blue or…

that a bowl with a vibrant pop of yellow lemons is powerful because lemons…

are surely the happiest!

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1. Santa Barbara Rattan Pendant

2. Colefax & Fowler Bowood Pillow

3. Simone Task Lamp

4. Paint Color

5. Gingham Napkin Set

6. Avondale Dinner Plates

Can Patterns Feel Less Fussy?

Sometimes it is a bit of fussiness that leads to ultimate unfussy living.

Think about how forgiving patterns on the floor or counters (veining in white marble) or walls (wallpaper can brighten up forlorn and dim spaces) do wonders.

And sometimes what is unfussy about a design is a mood of spaciousness. There’s fuss happening on the fireplace mantel and details in this historic space above, but the DeGournay-graced walls and the luxurious lofty space in this bath? Calgon, take me away. (I never said the inspiring spaces in this post would be at all dupe-able!)

Remember the yellows and oranges in Jane’s house in IT’S COMPLICATED? Who can compete with that California sunshine?

A Pause for Holiday Decor Inspiration to Pin in June

Please, kittens, no hostile emails about how I’m rushing you and wrecking your summer. Let the good people load their Pinterest boards and take their sweet time to dream and scheme about Christmas days comin’.

I have always wanted a pink Christmas…

Isn’t it interesting with red?

Or in place of red? I love how others decorate with citrus during the holidays…

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1. Cableknit Stocking

2. Hanging Iron Bells

3. Long Needle Pine Wreath

4. Little Cow Grazing Bells

5. St. Jude Candle

6. Fisherman’s Knit Throw

7. Gingham Pillow Cover

8. Ivory Silk Ribbon Spool

9. Swedish Karin Candelabra

10. Pine Hanging Vine

11. White Ornaments

12. 3′ Pre-lit Tabletop Tree

13. Taper Candle Set

14. White Ceramic Houses

15. Nutcracker Christmas Paper Plates

16. Handwoven Hemp Lumbar Pillow

Have you ever seen Rebecca Vizard’s southern home?

Oh my! It’s a feast for the senses. Watch the whole tour and be captivated by the charming textile designer and her stories!!!!

Bet you had no idea I was going to take you through seasons beyond summer! Hahahaha.

Thanks for reading with tenderness and journeying with me in the sun. Make sure to see the first installment of inspo HERE.

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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