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A Positano Inspired Table Setting – Dining Room Decor

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It seems this Summer everyone is in vacationing in Positano. I came up with this little table setting to transport me there — minus the crowds and saving a few dollars.

I used my oil table cloth from Williams Sonoma from last year. I paired it with faux lemon trees and a majolica centerpiece. The lemon blossom napkin rings are new, from the “Positano Collection” at Pottery barn but have sold out. I also used my new tumblers from Juliska – they are melamine and are kid and outdoor friendly! I love them!

A closer look at my little napkin rings! To give the entire “Positano” feeling, I recommend burning a citron candle as well.


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Summer Dahlias in the Mudroom

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While Spring is my favorite season because all many flowers are blooming, I do love dahlia season in Summer!

I especially love these pom-pom type dahlias. The flower feels so funny when it’s held in your hand! Bringing them into the house and setting them down in the mudroom for a quick photo on the phone….

Then put them in this pretty vase by Astier de Villate and set them back in the mudroom. We got this new coat rack that I love. It looks faux bois but it is actually from a tree. I like it juxtaposed next to the ornate antique barometer.

One last little look at the flowers. Wishing you a wonderful week.

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Summertime Beach Coastal Theme Tiered Tray Tablescape

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Sponsored post. Sharing my beach themed tiered tray used as my centerpiece for my Summer table. I used these beach themed ornaments I received from Old World Christmas.

I love the pops of blue and green! I sprinkled the ornaments amongst my collection of seashells. Aren’t the cute?

I love Old World Christmas ornaments and have purchased many of them through the years! They aren’t just for Christmas- I use them also for my Easter and Halloween decor. I’ll plan to use these for a coastal theme Christmas tree in the future!

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Summer with Roses and Gingerjars

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This Summer I’ve enjoyed decorating with roses from my garden. For me, seasonal decor often involves just harvesting whatever is growing outside and bringing it inside! At this time of year, our roses are blooming.

Here I picked some Eden roses and placed them in a ginger jar. The rose candle that’s burning next to it is one of my favorites! It smells like you’ve stepped into a rose garden!!

They have actually been blooming since May. Here in California, they will actually bloom all the way through November.

My ginger jar is by Juliska which is discontinued.

This Ginger jar is similar here.

This one is pretty too!

Also like this one for under $30!

Of course you can always check EBAY

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Transitioning from Summer to Fall Decor

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The period from late Summer to early Fall is always a struggle for decorating with me. Today I’m sharing how I’m transitioning my decor and I’m joining many other fabulous bloggers in a Summer to Fall decor Blog hop!! If you’re coming from First Day of Home, welcome!

One of the easiest places for me to transition the seasons is in the kitchen.

Sunflowers are a really easy way to transition from late Summer to Fall. Just put a few here, a few there, and voila! You’re done.

I usually display this gardener nutcracker in August/September. He sits elsewhere in the house during the rest of the year but becomes front and center at this time of year.

As we enter later in September, I will add pumpkins.

A majority of the house is like this… nothing seasonal. Just decorated with antiques and floof. I do like to set the table, but frankly we have not eaten in here since the Spring. We spend enjoy many of our dinners outside on the patio during Summer.

See what I said about sunflowers? I added a few to the basket. Also, how do you like my non-staged picture? I am trying to decide where to hang the painting. In the mean time, it will enjoy its temporary home here.

If you missed it, I just shared my late Summer/early Fall tiered tray in this post.

You can start adding pumpkins to your decor. In fact, I already have! I know it might be too early for many of you to see pumpkins, so I’ll give you a sneak preview of an upcoming post… check back in a week or two.

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Next up on the tour is Virginia Sweet Pea, so head on over there next! Also I want to give a BIG shout out to Amber at Follow the Yellow Brick Home for organizing the tour!

Here are all of the lovely bloggers participating in today’s blog hop!!

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Summer Farmhouse Tiered Tray

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I had not decorated my tiered tray since Easter, so I pulled it out to decorate for the lazy days of Summer.

I was inspired by late Summer… sunflowers are blooming, my apples are *almost* ready for picking.

Continuing my love for blue and white . I love how well the sunflowers go with the blue and white!

I shopped around the house to decorate the tiered tray.

And that’s it! I’ve been busy daydreaming about Fall decorating. Today I’m hiding inside since it’s 107 outside… yuck! The majority of this Summer I’ve been outside, reading my kindle, floating in the pool… life has been good!

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Late Summer Early Fall Decor in the House

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Late Summer early Fall decor in my house.  I like to use sunflowers and apples.  As we get closer to September, I’ll throw in a pumpkin or two.

early fall decorating

While nutcrackers are traditionally associated with Christmas, this nutcracker is a Summer nutcracker! Isn’t he cute. I love the little mini basket with mini apples that I recently found.

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A few sunflowers are stored in a mini mason jar holder.summer to fall decorating

Above the range I’ve placed olive buckets and filled them with faux geraniums. I do like the pop of red up there.  I don’t know if I’ll switch them out for the Fall for something else, but for now I like them there. summer to fall decorating

Also found this little sign… yes I’m ready for pumpkin spice.  My favorite pumpkin bread is by Williams Sonoma… can’t wait to eat it! early fall decorating

An antique figurine marched its way onto the centerpiece.  I love the donkey and sheep! early fall decorating

Changes in the entry way as well.  Placed the outdoor lanterns here for now.  A new old painting of Hallstatt, Austria hangs here.

summer to fall decorating

Filled the ironstone pot with sunflowers. It previously held dried hydrangeas that were a little worse for wear.  I realized now I have a shelf I need to decorate… hmm, what to put there?summer to fall decorating

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A Late Summer Early Fall Tiered Tray

Tiered Tray for late SummerWe use affiliate links in our posts and our site. This means if you make a purchase using these links, we may earn a small commission. You don’t pay a cent more than you would otherwise! Our full disclosure is available under About.

I’m so excited to be participating in a late Summer/Early Fall decorating blog hop!  We are sharing how we decorate for the transition between seasons.

A big thank you to Amber at Follow the Yellow Brick Home for arranging these tours.  If you are coming from Judith at Botanic Bleu (a fellow Francophile) then welcome! If you’re just joining here, then also welcome!

Transition Summer to Fall decor

Today I am sharing a tiered tray in my kitchen.  When I think of late Summer, I think of sunflowers.  So I used faux sunflowers as a base for a pop of color.  Then I started putting other pieces around them.

Tiered Tray for late Summer

Apple season will be here before pumpkin season, so these mini faux green apples I thought were perfect for this transitional decor piece!  The faux florals were the only thing I bought for this vignette, but I know I’ll use them again and got them for a deal at Michael’s.

early Fall tiered tray

Then I walked around my house and shopped my home. Do you do that? I was picking up various things that reminded me of the Fall.  I dug through the cabinet and oh, what’s that, a tea cup for Thanksgiving… perfect colors for my tiered tray.

late Summer decor

Below, an antique chicken and chick vase figurine and a handmade little snail box.  Tiered Tray for Fall

The Bavarian bear reminds me of Oktoberfest which starts in September.  He is actually a little smoker.  The vintage transfer ware cow creamer matches all the other china pieces.
early Fall decorVarious other trinkets were gathered… a fig scented candle. Mini white vases.  Things to “fill it up”.  Transitioning Summer to Fall Decor

Here are some decorating elements you can use to transition from Summer to Fall:

  • apples
  • sunflowers
  • twigs or old wood
  • dried flowers, such as hydrangeas
  • leaves that are more green in color, as it is early Fall
  • copper and brass accents
  • Fall colored throws
  • corn

If you want to go full on Fall, you can start putting little pumpkins in your decor, but if you are still feeling like you’re not done with Summer, I’d say to avoid the pumpkins.

Summer to Fall Decorating

If you are getting excited about Fall, check out my Fall pillow round up.

Next up is Stacey at Poofing the Pillows!

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Summer Farmhouse Kitchen

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A Summer farmhouse kitchen.  Or should I call it a midsummer kitchen?  Either way, it’s a kitchen with sunflowers! Keeping it clean using the sunflowers as a pop of color.

farmhouse summer kitchen

First though, lay the flowers in the sink, take a picture.  Then I trimmed them.  I love the “flowers-in-the-sink” type of picture with farmhouse sinks!  I don’t know what it is… seems so appropriate for a farmhouse sink.

white farmhouse kitchen

Some faux sunflowers sit high up on the hood range mantel with the roosting ceramic chickens.  A Summer farmhouse kitchen.

farmhouse kitchen

We had intended to plant sunflowers this year, but we forgot.  We’ve been super busy. (That’s also why I decreased the amount of posting on the blog for the meantime and readership is down because everyone else is busy too! )

I thought life was going to be slower since we moved into our house.  But then we decided to build a pool and pool house… which isn’t ready yet even though it’s midsummer…. harrumph!!! Oh well, we can wait.

farmhouse kitchen

There’s still plenty of work to do inside.  In the mean time though, I’ll take a moment to relax and stop to smell the roses sunflowers.

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Farmhouse Sunflower Table

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Nothing to me says Summer quite like sunflowers.  I love the yellow against the black and the white Mackenzie Child’s Courtly check!
black and white table with sunflowers

The drapes are pulled because it is HOT out. 100 degrees! Too hot for me.sunflower dining room

I’ve slowly been expanding my courtly check collection.  It all started with these candle sticks.  Then the placemats and napkin rings. The pitcher is new this year.
black and white table with sunflowers

A sunny table for a sunny day!

black and white table with sunflowers

I actually had a dream about creating this table.  I guess you could say I dreamt it up – literally! Sometimes some of my best design ideas come from my dreams in my sleep.   Does that happen to you? black and white table with sunflowers

It happens to my Mom too, in fact, we call it “Schlafkreativ” – meaning sleeping creativity in German.  We made up that word, btw, but in German you can make up words by adding words together, no, really! It’s called compound German words.    If you’re curious, you can read all about German compound words here.black and white table with sunflowers

Okay, back to the table.  I decided to leave the white tablecloth underneath the placemats to make a nice white base for the black and white check.

black and white table with sunflowers

Love this little pitcher I bought earlier this year!  You can totally use it for serving… but I have only used it as a vase so far!

black and white table with sunflowers

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Courtly Check Pitcher – Here at Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue.

Placemats – Saks Fifth Avenue or Neiman Marcus.

Unfortunately the candlesticks were discontinued but they still have candlesticks for taper candles.

Salad Plates

Dinner Plates

oops I forgot to include glasses/goblets on the table, didn’t notice until just now! See, blogland isn’t always perfect!

Hope you have a lovely day! I’d love it if you’d pin the image below!

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Blue and White Table Setting for Summer

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I’m so excited to share this fun blue and white table setting for Summer!

I received my French bistro chairs last week and was so excited to show them off!

They are actually going to be used outside – but we are building a pool and there’s construction people and a mess back there and I didn’t want them getting ruined.

blue and white table setting with French bistro chairs and peonies

So they found a temporary home in the breakfast nook!

Then the next day, I was at Costco and found these gorgeous peonies.  I love the dark pink color!

I’ll never tire of peonies! My favorite flower.  If you’ve missed it, I wrote about everything you need to know about peony care here.

The plates are Spode “Blue Italian”.

Found them for a song at Home Goods and naturally couldn’t pass them up!

Pitcher is by Juliska and chargers are from Hobby Lobby.  The gold cutlery is plastic! See, you can mix cheap with expensive!  You wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t told you.

What are your Summer plans? Mine are to *hopefully* sit in my pool… but it’s not done. So maybe it will be next Summer!

blue and white table setting with French bistro chairs and peonies

Oh, and I made French strawberry pistachio macaron cakes!  Recipe up later this week, so stay tuned!

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