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2018 Coastal Inspired Summer Home Tour

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It’s one of my favorite blogging days of the entire year – summer home tour day! Today I’m joining Marty from A Stroll Thru Life, along with 30 other bloggers, to share our coastal inspired summer home tour! If you’re stopping in from Simple Stylings, welcome! I love Summer and her gorgeous style!

In past tours, I’ve split our home up over a few tours, but today, I’m actually going to be sharing all of the spaces with updates all in one post! If you’ve read here for awhile, you know I’m a summer girl at heart and couldn’t be happier warmer weather is here to stay for a few months!

Let’s jump right into the tour! After each room, I have a widget with all sources so you can simply click any of those images to learn sources for each item shown.

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Over the past year or so, I’ve made a number of updates to our entryway. Most involved paint but I’m loving the updated look! Now I just need to update the paint in the stairwell, on the banisters and on our office doors.

Something I haven’t shared yet, I just updated our entryway hallway console table! The table is knock-off of a designer version I’ve wanted for ages, but I just couldn’t justify the cost of the original. The art is from HomeGoods earlier this year and I’m loving this new block print pillow here!

Summer entryway hallway with linen and wood bench, navy blue block print pillow, reclaimed wood console table and swing arm sconces.

The tone on the new console table works so much better in our space, and I love how it lightens up this area!

Light and bright entryway with natural wood console table, chrome swing arm sconces, navy blue interior front door, and unique staircase railing.

Up close, it’s clear it isn’t truly a natural wood, but I’m totally okay with that since it’s about $1200 less than the one I actually wanted. I love the new look it provides! And how cute are these rope baskets?!

I only made a few minor updates in our living room for summer, with the switch of some pillows, greenery and art.

Coastal style living room with white, blue, green, and neutral accents. The space includes spindle chairs and linen slip-cover sofas. Blue and white shibori pillows are accented by striped pillows and ombre blue art. Wall color is Benjamin Moore Simply White.

After my gallery wall frames sat empty for a few months, I figured it was time to fill them in time for the tour. I still hadn’t settled on art or photos to use, so I simply filled the frames with ombre colored cardstock I had on hand. So basically it was free art. Score!

Ombre blue art in driftwood toned frames hang over a linen sofa with blue and white pillows. Accented by palmetto palm leaves.

I’m loving these indoor/outdoor shibori-like pillows for the summer months. Since we tend to have a lot of visitors all summer with the pool, it’s nice to have durable pillows I don’t have to fret over!

I haven’t shown our office, basically since the reveal last year. But that’s mostly because nothing has really changed – we love it as is! I love how bright and sunny it gets in the summer months. The view has changed quite a bit now too, with the house being white. It totally changes the vibe now and I love it!

Coastal inspired home office with white walls and white oak hardwood floors. Room includes a white wood bead chandelier, blue and white striped drapes, linen rolling chair, and faux fiddle leaf fig tree.

A month or so ago, I gave our smaller guest bedroom a mini-refresh and I love the new look! Clearly I haven’t centered the rug yet after I realized in photos we were off center by like a foot! We already have several sets of guests scheduled to use this room this summer (it’s usually the overflow when we have guests in the other bedroom), so I’m glad I got it looking just how I had envisioned for the summer months!

I also did a few fun updates in our craft room/TV room recently too. We actually have a few times this summer where our house will be so full we’ll have a guest sleeping in here too! Thankfully the room is now ready for more guests!

TV ROOM/CRAFT ROOM SOURCES: Daybed | Rug | Jute Poufs | Beach Art | White Tray | Wide Stripe Pillows | Similar Paisley Pillows

We had our house painted white a few weeks ago (it used to be a fairly dark brown), and we couldn’t be happier with the result! I plan to share the before and after tour on Thursday including what we did on the front of the house, so be sure to check back for that!

We’ve had countless meals out on our covered patio this summer already and we can’t get enough of it!

Up until all of our recent updates, I can count on one hand the meals we had eaten out here previously. So, it is fun change to our routine to eat breakfast and dinner out here each day!

I hope you enjoyed our summer home tour! The next stop on the tour is Remodelando La Casa – I know you’ll love Cristina’s style! Once you’ve stopped there, be sure to stop by all the other homes on the tour, as well, for loads of summer inspiration!

Monday – June 11

A Stroll Thru Life | Pink Peppermint Design | Setting For Four | Nesting With Grace | Cuckoo4Design | Southern Hospitality

Tuesday – June 12

ZDesign At Home | Inspiration For Moms | Clean & Scentsible | Simple Stylings | Life On Virginia Street | Remodelando La Casa

Wednesday – June 13

Thursday – June 14

Haneens Haven | Monica Wants It | Duke Manor Farm | My Sweet Savannah | 11 Magnolia Lane | Life Love Larson 

Friday – June 15

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  1. Julia@Cuckoo4Design says

    Your house is so gorgeous! Love the new house color so much and your pool area is like a resort. Super pretty!

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  2. Hali says

    Your home and yard look so beautiful!! I love all the updates and changes that you’ve made. And painting the house white…GORGEOUS!!!. I know y’all will have a fun summer in that pool!!

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  6. Marty Oravetz says

    Love the white color on the house and you know I think your pool is FABULOUS. You have done such an amazing job with your decor indoors too. I love, love, love the neutral tones and light accent furniture pieces you are using, so pretty. I especially love that daybed in your craft/tv room. Styling it with hats is perfect. Thanks so much for joining the tours, Love your style.

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  9. Lisa says

    It all looks gorgeous Sarah! I love how much white you’ve incorporated into your house this year, and the new white exterior looks amazing! You style everything so beautifully!

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  11. laura janning says

    as always you home is so beautifully styled. Classic, fresh and perfect for summer. You and curtis must sit out by the pool and just stare at the exterior and smile!

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  13. erica says

    Girl….your home looks incredible! I love all of your new living room furniture, and I am so jealous that you got to paint your house white. xoxo

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  18. Heather Luckhurst says

    I love your summer decor Sarah! Those rope baskets are gorgeous and I love your summery living room! Happy summer friend! Xo Heather

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  21. Christy @ 11 Magnolia Lane says

    It’s just gorgeous, Sarah! I think this is the first time I’ve visited since you’ve gotten the pool and back porch finished, and it’s stunning. I know you guys must be loving that outdoor space this summer! Thanks for sharing the tour with us again. XO, Christy

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