Summer brings the chance to go outside and celebrate the sun. But why stop at the garden? Bring the outdoors in with seasonal inspiration for your living room and let the sunlight shine, even if it’s slightly less than glorious outside! Here are five ways to brighten up your living room during the warmer weather.

1. Paint your walls white

Freshening up old paintwork or tired wallpaper gives your room a new lease of life and white is just the colour to inspire a fresh summer feeling in your lounge. Offering the ambiance of light breezy linen, white comes in a variety of hues, allowing you to maximize the feeling of space you have available and get rid of darker, wintrier tones.

2. Wicker chairs aren’t just for the garden

Bring outdoor style furniture inside and create a garden in your home with indoor wicker chairs. Comfortable and stylish, wicker furniture is a lighter alternative to hefty couches, offering a cooler feeling to indoor life when the temperatures start to soar. Wicker chairs provide the opportunity to choose from a spectrum of cushion colours, from bright block colours to pretty country patterns, so you can pick the furniture that best fits your palette. You can also match chairs with wicker side tables to create a completely garden-style room. This theme works best in spaces with lots of light, so rooms with large windows or conservatories are ideal.

3. Use your windows wisely

A perfect summer room needs lots of light, so ensure you are making the most of your windows. If you are lucky enough to have a bay window, create a sitting space by furnishing it with comfortable chairs, which are the ideal location for a spot of summer reading. Dressing your windows lightly also creates an environment that allows the light the flow, so do away with heavy curtains and dark drapes, replacing them instead with light gauzy panels that drift with the soft summer breeze.

4. Strategically place houseplants and flowers

A startlingly simple way to bring a little piece of summer home is to place vases and potted plants in your living room. If you are seeking to create a lush, green tropical feel, evergreen houseplants are the ideal solution and they go well with clean whites and bright holiday colours alike. For a British summer in the country look, choose sprays of wildflowers to add a rural splash of colour to any living area. Place flowers on mantelpieces, coffee tables and window ledges alike and team up with quaint summer bunting for a garden party feel.

5. Nautical themes

There is nothing like summer to make people flock to the seaside for lazy days by the shore. Why not bring a little piece of the coast into your home, with whitewashed furnishings and driftwood style items? Match whites with pale seaside blue and green and don’t be afraid to experiment with wooden cladding on featured parts of a wall.

There are a range of ways you can bring summer into your living room and your life, so start planning your ideal home today.

Buying furniture nowadays is really expensive especially if it comes in good quality woods. Although there are cheaper ones available, if it is compared to those quite pricey products, not all guarantees their consumers with good qualities. Thence, it’s still optimal to purchase those comes with higher value with greater quality.

But since woodworking can be done all by self, it would be a great idea if one creates his or her own wooden furniture instead of buying one in the market or retail store which cost much. With just router bits, wood and other tools… instantly a new set of furniture is ready! It’s pretty easy though; just make sure that person has the will to learn the particular field.

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Creating furniture depends on the style and size one is creating. But if the person doesn’t have much idea about it, learning the basic would help. Aside from woodwork task, wood carving is also nice to learn and at the same time perfect for woodworking projects.

Carving is one of the ways on how to beautify one’s furniture. Although this particular thing needs patience and little hard work, sure thing it will be worth the effort and time in the end. In this way, people could design their finished products according to what they desire. It can be in flower, animals, letter forms and so much more!

For those who prefer to create their own furniture rather than having one from the market, this stuff is what they should look for. It doesn’t just teach on how to work our own furniture but it also helps individual to save more!

Bedroom is a very important space among kids, this is the place where they can call their own. The place where they sleep and relax, play and learn many things like doing artworks, reading and writing.

In order for them to be more productive you should design  the kid’s bedroom according to child’s perspective if you don’t know where to start you can search online for best design ideas for kid’s bedroom. You will surely find something appealing and awesome design for you to start.

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Used a theme that will help them enhance their wild imaginations, kids usually want  a theme that is very pleasant into their eyes, a colorful theme is always a good catch.  Aside from it you should also carefully choose a  bedroom furniture that will corresponds with the bedroom color.

Seeing used furniture here is normal you can see them in the street when the owner throws them. People here always shift to different places to look for better job opportunities and most houses here are not the typical houses you see in developing countries. Houses here are usually apartment style where different families live so when they need to transfer and cannot carry all their belongings they throw them especially closets, tables, beds and even sofa sets.

Just like the other day there’s two large closet in the street I thought it is newly delivered but when I saw sticker on it I already know it is going to be thrown. If you think garbage truck will picked them as good as they are you are wrong they tore it down and when they did it we can hear the pieces of glasses being being crashed to pieces.

In some places there are stores that sells used furniture it is cheaper than buying a new one but now a days you can also find store online that sells used furniture. Buying a used one is not bad as long the quality is still good and can still be used for many years.

Did you know that the clock is one of the most important devices of all civilization? Without clock other things will not be possible, you can not meet a client without setting a place date and time. You would not know what time you wake up or sleep without looking at the clock and you would not know what time you’re born without the help of the clock. That’s only few reasons why clock is very important in human lives, in short clock is a gadget that we use to tell the exact time of day.

Every house, buildings, schools and any other establishment has a clock to remind everyone for break, snack time, lunch, dinner and further more time to pray. Clocks have only one uses  to tell time and wake up us in the morning using its alarm, most of these alarm clock are small and usually put in our bed side table.

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There are also round clocks, Cuckoo Clock and Grandfather Clock, most families only uses round clock on their home, I have seen few who uses Cuckoo and Grandfather Clock but they are not as many with the round clock.

If you don’t know yet Grandfather Clock are long case clock which are usually tall and stand alone.  They are usually pendulum-driven clock that  when the hour strikes you can hear the sound of the Common Cuckoo.   Mostly I saw these  type  of clocks on  movies and television, especially on big and old houses.

Our apartment is still empty, we have no curtains and wall decors. Sometimes I want to buy stylish wall decors to make our wall more attractive but I don’t think our landlord will be happy if I tear off the wallpaper and change it with book and shelf wall sticker design. A shelf wall sticker design will be perfect to add as inspiration in the small corner of our apartment, where few of our books are kept.

When you don’t have many books or even a bookshelf at home, office or study room this design is  perfect, you don’t need to worry because the wall sticker is very easy to apply and comes in a secure poster tube. You can actually apply it in just a few minutes.

We didn’t start yet with our house construction as we don’t have sufficient funds,  earning online these past few days is not good that I can’t send money home.  The other day I passed by at Daiso and found them under-renovation,  I remember seeing some cheap China furniture on the shop. Once they re-open and I have funds I am thinking of buying few of those furniture’s and send them home,  we can either display them in our house or sell them to our relatives who are into cheap items.

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I am now certified garbage picker (lol). Last Thursday when we are on the way to the gym I saw a stuffed toy about 2 feet tall in the garbage area, I didn’t bother to pick it because we are going to the gym and for sure my husband will not be happy if I did it plus it is still daylight other people might see me picking something in the garbage which is so shameful.

The thought of the stuffed toy didn’t pass on my mind the evening went by smoothly. Like I usually do every night I am surfing the internet and cook meals for my husband. I later found out I forgot to bring the food bag when we went to the gym it is already full and it needs to be thrown as I cannot closed the garbage pail anymore, I decided to do it after cooking the last meal so everything will be thrown away.

I went out late at night and the street is empty when I reached the garbage area I saw the stuffed toy it seems nobody is interested to pick it up, I wa;led around and I found one orange plastic bag I took the milk cartoons at the top and I saw stuffed toys underneath. The curious me started to look more inside and every time I took a stuffed toy I can see more stuffed toy. I cannot anymore hold the stuffed toys so I return them in the plastic bag and took the whole bag I left the 2 feet stuffed toy. What’s on my mind is in to see what’s inside the bag in our apartment in any case there’s other recyclable items I can just segregate them. Aside from the stuffed toys bag, I also saw another bag with a lot of plastic toys, I didn’t bother to look at them anymore I run home. I will be embarrass if someone saw digging in the plastic bags.,

When I reached home I excitedly told my husband of my bounty and instead of being amazed with me, waaah he feel disgusted on what I do and he keeps calling me garbage picker. Then he start telling me it feels like there’s bug crawling to him and start scratching and when I asked him if he is really itchy he just keep acting like scratching.

My husband asked me what I am going to do with all the stuffed toys I brought, I told him I am going to wash them and send home to Philippines so I dropped the stuffed toys in the washer and washed them even though they are clean and doesn’t smell. They are too white actually, there’s one toy I can’t washed because it has battery.

I hanged them in our balcony and my husband won’t stop teasing me garbage picker, I just ignore him and he said afterwards maybe you’re not going to have more time with me, all you gonna thinks are your stuffed toys, right there I concluded he is just jealous with my stuffed toys that’s why he won’t stop teasing me especially when I told him I am going to return it seems I dropped something plus there’s more bags with plastic toys there, he didn’t allowed me to do so and told me every stuffed toys I brought if I went back will cost a fine of $9 each.

Anyway I didn’t return anymore I don’t have a courage to do it again, other people might see me hauling something in the garbage.

I wonder why the owner throw them away when they are still looking good and new, to answer my thoughts I just concluded the owner maybe is moving to a new apartment and wouldn’t like to carry more stuff with her or the kid is already grown up and wouldn’t love to play toys anymore. I have counted them tonight and they are exactly 20 stuffed toys.

To whoever who own this, thank you.