living Room Updates + Summer Drink Recipe + Patio Ideas

Home Style Saturday is your weekend mini-decorating and lifestyle magazine filled with ideas and inspiration with you and your home in mind.

Welcome To Home Style Saturday #409

This week, HSS is part of a series called DECORATING SCHOOL during the month of July. It’s the time of year when readers are a bit elusive; most decorating bloggers have exhausted writing about summer decor, and our readers are not ready for fall yet. However, this period is perfect for boosting our decorating IQ before the rush of fall and Christmas. Welcome to DECORATING SCHOOL! All this week, I’m rewriting and reposting some of the most popular and important “how to decorate” posts to help you become a more confident and skilled decorator! Today’s post is about Updating A Living Room.

See the bottom of the post for a list of all of July’s DECORATING SCHOOL posts.

Make sure you check out all we have to share this week.

Ann | Sutton Place

orange spritzer

This sparkling orange & thyme spritzer recipe is perfect any time of year, but it’s especially wonderful in the summer. It’s light, refreshing, and so pretty!


Janet | Shabbyfufu

blue and white living room

Blue living room ideas! There’s no doubt in my mind that many of my readers share my passion for the color blue. After years of exploring, studying, and observing interior design styles, I’ve come to think of blue as a truly magical hue.


screened in patio

It’s another exciting day around here and I’m sharing how adding motorized Phantom Screens has completely changed the way we are going to live in our backyard. I’m still pinching myself that I had the opportunity to collaborate with them on this backyard project of ours. This was definitely a project for the professionals.


Lory | Designthusiam

patio coffee table with pots of flowers on it

Does your backyard patio need a refresh after a full summer? These ideas will take your patio through the rest of the outdoor season.


Yvonne | StoneGable

a chest with candles, a bowl of large frosted beads and a lamp on it.

Here are 5 + brilliant and inexpensive ideas to update your living room. These are easy, updated decorating ideas you can do and lots of interior design inspiration, too.


Decorating Schoo Posts

5 Steps For Choosing Your Perfect Decorating Style

Mastering The Art Of The Perfect Color Palette

Scale And Proportion: Your Key To Easier Decorating

Rhythm, Repetition, Contrast, And Movement In Design: It’s Easier Than You Think

Beautiful Transitional Style: It Just Might Be YOUR Style

Happy Saturday, Friends!