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Hosting a Summer Party
Once your house is all fitted out for summer, it’s time to invite
friends over. Summer is perfect for picnics, brunches and camp-
fires — get-togethers that allow you to eat outside, serve light,
fresh foods that don’t require lots of cookies and decorate with
flowers, colorful patterns or maybe a traditional red- and white-
checked tablecloth.
Brunch
Brunch combines the best of breakfast and lunch. You can serve
sandwiches, quiche, waffles, fruit, coffee, champagne, juice, salads
and so many more light foods — try to avoid baking, at least the
day of, to keep from heating up the house — and have seating out-
side to take advantage of the summer weather. MarthaStewart.com
recommends using seasonal fruit and fresh-squeezed orange juice
and serving foods in bright-colored dishes and vintage-looking
wooden spoons. Decorate with fresh flowers or ferns.
Picnic
Pack a basket and head outdoors! You can do this in a park, at a
table, on a blanket or on the beach. You can go traditional with
sandwiches, cookies, lemonade and fresh fruit or vegetables,
but you can dress up a picnic too. Bring fresh, crusty bread and
cheese, add fruit skewers and dip, put together fancy sandwiches
and homemade baked goods or bring along cold chicken. Taste of
Home recommends bringing a picnic basket and a cooler for cold
food and beverages and packing your basket in the reverse order
of things you’ll need.
To make a day of it, bring croquet, bocce ball, a Frisbee or other
games. Go at sunset or find a new, out-of-the-way park to enjoy
the view, or go to a lake or swimming hole and work up an appe-
tite with a dip.
Campfire
Invest in foods that can be cooked on a stick. S’mores and hot
dogs are traditional and shouldn’t be overlooked, but sausages,
vegetables, fruit, chunks of meat and even garlic bread can be
speared and cooked over a fire. Put chairs or rocks around the fire
and keep utensils and plates to a minimum, allowing people to
eat with their hands and get a little messy. Liven up your s’mores
with different types of chocolate or by adding peanut butter to the
graham crackers. If you’re less inclined to cook with a stick, make
foil dinners with your favorite meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, car-
rots or cauliflower and salt or pepper. Make sure to cook the meat
before packing the dinner.
Summer Decor
Winter is over, spring cleaning is done and it’s time to re-
decorate with lighter colors and fabrics, flowers and fruit
and all the decorations that make your house feel like
summer inside and out. House Beautiful offered a list of
fairly inexpensive, do-it-yourself options.
Add Color
Keep fresh flowers in a vase on the table, counter or
bookshelf, swap out dark drapes for light- or bright-col-
ored window coverings, add a couple of colorful throw
pillows to the couch and exchange your bed coverings
and towels for brighter, lighter or patterned versions.
Stumped when it comes to color? Visit a local design or
paint shop and see what’s in style now.
Summerize your Fireplace
Once it’s cleaned, you can keep candles, plants, flowers
or other summer items in your fireplace, providing deco-
ration during a season when you won’t be building fires.
Change up your Furniture
Want to feel like you’re on a boat or on the beach?
Change up your upholstery, either per-
manently, through DIY reupholstery,
or by adding new throws, pillows and
trimmings on the furniture. You can
plan colors and patterns with a nautical
or tropical or forest theme, helping to
bring a little of the outdoors into your
living room.
Add Hanging Plants
Bring your garden inside with hanging plants in the din-
ing and living rooms, patio and other places. Flowers
spilling out over the side of a hanging basket provides a
different kind of ceiling decoration than a fancy light and
makes a room seem brighter and more colorful.
Add a Fire Pit
You can build a firepit or buy a small metal pit for your
backyard, which means campfires, s’mores, hot dogs and
sitting around the fire for hours, an ever-popular summer
activity, right into your space. Adding a picnic table to
your backyard, if you have room, helps to bring even
more summer fun into your yard. You can find the sup-
plies for these easy projects at any home improvement
store.
Install a Mirror
Mirrors make rooms look bigger and brighter. You can
set one up on a table near a window, giving it lots of light
to reflect, and surround it with flowers, plants and other
decor.
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