To achieve a bedroom décor with a summer feel, it’s good to strive for a feeling of bright airiness. One of the key factors when deciding how best to create this look is to think about the size of the space that is being decorated.
A feeling of space in a box room can be created by painting the walls a fresh white, accessorised with bedding in nautical stripes for a coastal theme – team with a neutral roller blind and white wooden furniture. For a larger bedroom with bigger windows, fold-back shutters are a fantastic way to make the most of the window space and allow daylight to flood into the room. White painted floors will also reflect light into the room, a feature that contrasts beautifully with dark-wood furniture, adding a real colonial-feel to the space.
Another good way to add a summer feel to a bedroom is to add a floral motif. It can be stencilled onto a wall or a plain wardrobe and injects a real sense of summer brightness, ideal for a children’s bedroom.
Bright colour is also a fantastic way to bring summer into the bedroom. A bold patchwork bedspread is an easy way to update the room and the moment autumn dawns it can be switched for a more muted option. Bold floral wallpaper is another great way of introducing summer into the room, as a feature wall or or on all four walls.
Pastel tones add a relaxed shabby-chic feel to a bedroom, perfect for a summer’s day. The ice-cream shades of mint green, duck-egg blue and pastel pink work perfectly for wall colours or with scatter cushions and throws. This is perfectly complemented by a four-poster bed with fresh white embroidered bed linen married with a vintage-style bedroom lamp. Finish off this summer-bedroom look with natural floorboards and a simple sisal rug.
Create a nautical look
Simple blue and white stripes combined with white wood panelled walls and a sisal rug creates a classic coastal feel.
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Use bold wallpaper
Here, a semi-transparent fabric hanging over the bed combined with brightly coloured patterned wallpaper demonstrates that creating a summery feel in a child's bedroom can involve more than plain white walls.
Find similar canopy fabric at Voyage Decoration and a similar blanket at Melin Tregwynt
Maximise natural light
White painted wooden flooring along with white shutters and bedlinen creates a colonial feel, while dark wooden furniture adds structure to this light-filled bedroom.
For similar shutters, try The New England Shutter Company, find white floor paint at Little Greene
Brighten a neutral scheme
Create texture
Wallpaper that looks like planks of wood lends a soft, Scandinavian feel to this pared-down bedroom, while unusual Shaker-style peg rails add further textural interest to the scheme.
Find similar wallpaper at Andrew Martin
Choose brightly-coloured fabrics
In this colourful bedroom, a vibrant patchwork bedspread combined with pretty floral bed linen and pale blue walls creates a boho look, while ceramic accessories and a vintage lamp add further interest to the scheme.
Find similar bed linen at Cath Kidston
Four-poster bed with bright coloured linen
Dress a four-poster bed in layers of bold colour and drape a length of linen or cotton fabric across the top for tropical bedroom style.
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Natural Bed Company
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Sainsbury's
White country-style bedroom with patchwork accessories
Add cheerful layers of patchwork against a fresh white backdrop for bright and breezy bedroom style.
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Kelly Swallow
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John Lewis
Country-style bedroom with pom-pom lamp
How cute is this pom-pom lampshade? Just the ticket for adding some bright and summery style to your bedroom. It's super-easy to make, too - just add some pom-pom trim to an existing drum lampshade.
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Notonthehighstreet.com
Country-style bedroom with veranda
This is the kind of summer bedroom that holiday dreams are made of! Bright patchwork bedlinen, doors flung open onto a veranda, and a fresh sea breeze fluttering in. Sigh.
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Notonthehighstreet.com
Bedroom with woodland photo wallpaper
If this isn't a magical summer bedroom idea we don't know what is. A woodland photo wall mural and meadow-fresh bedding create a dreamy woodland-inspired room.
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Photowall
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Marks & Spencer
Country-style bedroom with bedside table
Introduce an instant hit of nature to your bedroom by adding a vase of fresh flowers and a sweet-scented candle to your bedside table.
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John Lewis
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Designers Guild
Light blue and white bedroom
Keep your cool with a fresh blue and white bedroom scheme. Crisp white walls and soft blue bedding are the perfect pairing.
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Loaf
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Debenhams
Summer bedroom with bird wallpaper
This bedroom idea is just bursting with summery goodness; the sunny yellow chest of drawers and chirpy bird-pattern wallpaper are a winning combination.
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Wallpaper Direct
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Notonthehighstreet.com
Brightly coloured bedroom
We don't know what to look at first in this bedroom - the patchwork bedding, the bright wall display or the paper decorations. It's an instant energy boost.
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Ikea
Paper decorations
Petra Boase
