Summer Home Tour
Welcome to our summer home tour! I am excited to be joining 30 talented bloggers this week to give you a little peak into our homes styled for summer. I love a little peak into people’s homes, don’t you?! Summer is our family’s favorite season! Summer for us is all about simplicity, relaxation, and comfort. I think you will find these same elements in the décor throughout our home.
If you are coming here from Kim at Shiplap & Shells beach cottage summer home tour…welcome! Kim’s home truly embraces the feeling of summer. I look forward to opening our home to you and showing you around our cozy home! A big thank you to Kelly at The Tattered Pew for including me in this summer home tour event!
After my home tour, I hope you will check out the other summer home tours linked at the end of this post. I know you will find endless inspiration in their beautiful blogs!
Welcome to Our Home
If you are new here, let me introduce me and my family! Hi, I’m Heidi! We are a family of four living on the south coast of Massachusetts. Our home is a labor of love, which we built from the ground up almost 15 years ago. We are DIYer’s, so the projects around our home are endless. Our latest DIY undertaking has been our kitchen. My husband says this will be the last major project in our home, but we will see about that (wink, wink!). We live about 20 minutes from historic Plymouth, Massachusetts and we enjoy heading there on hot summer nights for dinner and drinks by the ocean.
One of the most commonly asked questions I get is, “Where did the name Eleanor Rose Home come from?” Eleanor Rose Home is named after our dachshund-mix rescue, Eleanor Roosevelt. She is the apple of our eyes and the epitome of love, homeliness, coziness, and togetherness. Eleanor embodies all things I wanted the blog to represent! You can read more about me and the story of Eleanor Rose Home here.
Now that you’ve learned a little bit about our family, it’s time to get this summer home tour started!
Kitchen Summer Home Tour
The kitchen is the heart of our home.
When you walk through the front door into our home, you enter the kitchen. As I mentioned earlier, our kitchen is currently under renovation. We still have a few things left to do including building the oven vent hood, painting & hardware updates to the cabinets, and wallpaper to hang. But for now, I am enjoying all that we have accomplished so far!
You can view the progress of our renovation in my Instagram highlight labeled Kitchen Renovation.
My hope is to have the kitchen completely finished by the end of this summer (fingers crossed)!
My vision for our kitchen remodel was an open & airy farmhouse-cottage style kitchen with a combination of warm woods & cozy whites. It has been so fun seeing our vision slowly come to life!
To create that cottage vibe, we installed beadboard around the entire kitchen including the backsplash. I love the texture the beadboard adds to the entire room. We painted all of the beadboard Alabaster in an eggshell finish by Sherwin Williams. Picking a shade of white paint was no easy task, but I am so happy with the color we decided upon! Alabaster is the perfect creamy shade of white for our home.
My favorite part of the entire kitchen renovation is this open shelf area with hanging pegs! I wanted to have an open shelf in the kitchen so we removed the cabinet that was here. It was amazing how much lighter and brighter the kitchen became by simply removing that cabinet!
To style this shelf for summer, I placed a few red ranunculus in a cream colored planter and added a couple of blue & white striped hand towels for just a small touch of red, white, and blue.
I loved the addition of the basket to the hanging pegs as well. The texture of the basket against the texture of the beadboard really makes this area pop. Also, who doesn’t love a little scallop detail?!
These glass bon bon jars are one of my favorite additions to the kitchen! I love the functionality and uniqueness they add to our countertops.
In this corner of the kitchen by the stove, I have a cookbook holder. I like to leave a particular cookbook open to the page that contains a recipe of my grandmothers. I love that every time I walk by the open cookbook it reminds me of her and her delicious homecooked meals.
A great way to keep your home cozy is by adding items of sentimental value into your décor, pieces that are unique and special to you and your family.
From this view in the kitchen you get a small glimpse into the rest of our downstairs, which includes the library and living room.
Let’s head over to the next stop in our tour, the living room!
Living Room Summer Home Tour
Our living room is small and cozy. Just how we like it! We enjoy unwinding here at the end of a long day with our feet up with an exciting movie on the television or a good book in our hands.
Our entire first floor is open. The sofa console table we have on the back of our living room sectional helps to create a more defined living room in an open downstairs.
This console table is one of my favorite pieces to style & play with in our home. I love changing the décor on this table often. For summer, I added an old white olive bucket with a mix of blue & white hydrangeas, chamomile, and stock along with a red bow for a festive 4th of July arrangement.
I added a few of my favorite books in shades of blue to our console table for another pop of my favorite summer color!
When building our home, we added built-in bookcases along with two window seats to one wall in our living room. The window seats are one of Eleanor’s favorite places to nap and keep watch for mom’s deliveries (she is not a fan of delivery drivers!).
I like to keep our bookshelves simple for the summer with a collection of our favorite books, a couple of faux green plants, and a few baskets for texture. To add texture and dimension to the bookshelves, I face some of the books with the pages facing out and randomly alternate them on each shelf (this has been slightly controversial on social media!). I just love the the texture it adds to the bookshelves.
You may notice a few gold bunnies on the bookshelves as well. Gold bunny figurines are a year around décor staple in our home!
I love adding small pops of blue to our home for summer, and one of the easiest ways to do that is with throw pillows. I like to purchase pillow covers and change those on our throw pillows seasonally. The blue script pillow cover here, is the just the right amount of blue for summer in our neutral living room.
Above our living room sectional, we have three large wooden signs with photos of Nadalee & William from a couple of years ago. I love these photos of our children and the natural backdrops of the photos are perfect for a summer home.
That completes the tour of the first floor. Let’s head upstairs to our master bedroom!
Master Bedroom Summer Home Tour
We did a small refresh of our bedroom a few years ago. The refresh included installing Summer Squall wallpaper by Ellie Cashman as an accent wall behind our bed. This wallpaper is absolutely stunning with it’s large bold flowers and it’s incredible lifelike attention to detail.
I love the challenge of keeping this wallpaper suitable for all seasons and holidays!
I added this pink & white block print/stripped quilt to our bed for the summer. The bright pink color is what sold me, and I loved how the small floral block print complimented the large floral print wallpaper.
Summer is the perfect season to play around with bold colors and patterns that you might otherwise might be nervous about trying! Summer is full of bright, vibrant colors so it’s the perfect season to experiment with colors in your home.
To style our nightstands, we clipped wild roses from our woodline along with a few peonies we have growing in our backyard. Shopping our yard for natural décor is one of my favorite activities. It is like a treasure hunt and the bonus is it’s all budget friendly!
We purchased our bedroom furniture a few years ago from a local New England furniture store. The furniture gives the perfect French farmhouse-cottage vibe to our bedroom.
I wrote a blog post last week with 10 tips to refresh your bedroom for summer. You can check out that blog post here for a few great tips and to see more views of our bedroom!
Thank You for Stopping By
I hope you have enjoyed this little tour of our home as much as I’ve enjoyed sharing it with you. I would love for you to visit us again, it was so fun having you here!
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Cindy at Cloches & Lavender is the next stop on this summer home tour. Cindy is a fellow dachshund lover and her home is filled with beautiful, unique, vintage pieces which makes her home feel warm and inviting. Be sure to visit the other homes in our summer home tour too, links included below. Happy Summer!!!
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Bloggers’ Best Summer Home Tours
Monday’s Tours
The Tattered Pew / Cottage On Bunker Hill / She Gave It A Go
Cottage In The Mitten / Stonegable / My Wee Abode
Tuesday’s Tours
Thistle Key Lane / Midwest Life & Style / White Lilac Farmhouse
My Thrift Store Addiction / Willow Bloom Home Blog / Dabbling and Decorating
Wednesday’s Tours
Bricks ‘n Blooms /Amy Sadler Designs / Peacock Ridge Farm
White Arrows Home / Pasha Is Home / The Ponds Farmhouse
Thursday’s Tours
Simply2Moms / Country Peony / Southern Home and Hospitality
Shiplap and Shells / Eleanor Rose Home / Cloches and Lavender
Friday’s Tours
Le Cultivateur / Lora Bloomquist Create & Ponder / Noting Grace
My Family Thyme / Vintage and Grace Living / County Road 407
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Thank you Mary Anne! I appreciate your kind words so much!!! Have a great summer!
What a beautiful home you have! I love how you’ve styled your kitchen and that accent wall in the bedroom is so lovely! Thanks for sharing !
Thank you Emily! I feel the same way about you and your home!!!
Hi Cindy! Thank you so much!!! I would love to do a blog hop with you again!
Thank you Jen! Our kitchen is a work in progress, I can’t wait for it to be finished! Happy Summer!!!
I absolutely love your style!!! Your home is so beautiful!!! I’m loving your kitchen soooo much!!!!! So pretty!!!!
Just popping back in to say how much I loved your tour and that I’m featuring it on Farmhouse Friday tomorrow. Thank you for sharing it with us and hope you link up again. pinned
Oh wow! I just love your home! I’ve been looking for kitchen inspiration and your is so lovely! I’m pinning for sure!
Thank you Michelle! The summer home tour was so fun, and I am so glad we connected. Happy Summer!
Hi Lora! Thank you!!! Summer is the perfect time to play around with colors, happy summer!
Hi Julie! Thank you for your kind words. It was lovely meeting you and I look forward to staying in touch!
Thank you so much Rachel! Happy Summer!
Thank you Jennifer! It was nice meeting you through the summer home tour, I would love to do another one with you!
Heidi, First…I can’t remember if I already left a comment on the tour…LOL!!! Your home is incredible! I truly love your style! You’ll have to message me offline and tell me where you live in Mass…and if you are close to me!! I have to put a New England blog tour together soon.
Heidi,
Your home is so inviting and I loved every detail. So much inspiration in one post.
So happy to meet you through touring with you, Heidi! Your home is lovely, light and airy! And the farmhouse cottage elements are perfect, as well! Looking forward to visiting your blog more!
Thanks for the lovely tour of your beautiful home! I love using the vibrant colors of summer too; nice to see someone else who does, too!
Beautiful summer home tour Heidi, and I love that you included your bedroom so I could get a glimpse of that beautiful wallpaper. Your bedding is such a pretty contrast! Pinning!
Hi Cynthia! Thank you, I hope you are able to do that this summer as well! I can’t wait to head to your summer tour to take a look around!
Thank you so much! Your kind words mean the world to me!!!
Hi Cindy! Wow, thank you so much for your kind words, that really means so much! I can’t wait to tour your home, headed there today!
Wow, waking up in your home each day must be the best feeling. I love every nook and cranny. Hope you get the kitchen finished even though I’m not sure how it can get even more beautiful. Excited to hop with you again. Happy Summer!
What a STUNNING home you have created, Heidi!! It’s simple and cottage-y and light and airy. I love all of your simple decorating using textures to make your home feel cohesive yet very much alive! Beautiful!!
Heidi, thank you for having me as a guest in your home. You have turned a house into a beautiful home. I love how you display family photos. I have that on my to do list. Hopefully, I get a gallery wall of my kids done this Summer. So fun hanging out with you on this tour!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Kim! It was a pleasure meeting you as well, I hope you have a fantastic summer!
Thank you for having me Kelly, this was a blast!!!
Thank you Renae! It was an honor to be a part of this tour with you and all of the amazingly talented ladies!!!
Thank you Susan! Happy summer!!!
Hi Tammy! Thank you so much for taking the tour, I am so glad to have been a part of this event with you!
Heidi, what a gorgeous home. That wallpaper in the bedroom is so beautiful. I love the bedding you selected for the bed. Enjoyed this tour!??
Nice tour Heidi, everything looks beautiful!!
Thanks for sharing
Enjoy your summer!
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Your home is so beautiful! Your kitchen is so warm and welcoming. I can imagine people sitting at your counter visiting. It was so much fun hopping with you this week. Blessings to you.
Heidi your home is just beautiful, and I loved getting to know you some more! I’m excited for you and your new kitchen! Thank you for joining us this week!
Heidi, your home is so lovely! I especially love the built-ins and your bedroom is so elegant, yet cozy! So nice meeting you through this hop! Happy summer!
Thank you Kristin! I’m so glad to have been invited to this tour with all of you talented ladies! Have a great summer!
Thank you Elizabeth, I appreciate your compliments! Happy Summer!
Thank you Stacy! I hope you have the best summer as well!!!
Thank you Kate! Awww that makes me so happy, pups are the best!
Hi Cindy! Thank you! Hydrangeas are my favorite too, they are so beautiful!
Thank you so much Jen! I love looking at that cookbook everyday and thinking of her!
Thank you AnnMarie & Anne! It was fun being a part of this event!
Thank you Cecilia! I appreciate you taking the time to tour our home!
Thank you so much Kim! I appreciate your kind words!!!
From your built-in bookcases and window seat to your kitchen beadboard, your beautiful details are so inspiring Heidi. I love how you have decorated your home for summer. How special to leave your cookbook open to one of your grandma’s cherished recipes. What a lovely tour.
Everything is so beautiful! It’s fun to get to know you through this hop. I love your bedding and I love how you came up with the name of your blog, so sweet! Happy Summer!
Hello Heidi! I loved touring your charming home! Everything is styled beautifully–pinned! Blessings, Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction
Your home is absolutely stunning Heidi. I love the mix of woods and white you use throughout your home. So happy to have met you through this blog home tour. Pinned!
Your home is stunning! I love all of the natural elements. So many beautiful details to look at!
Heidi, I love your beautiful home tour. You have put together an amazing collection of curated finds and everything is styled to perfection! My favorite is the cookbook that is opened to a page with your grandma’s recipe. How special. Happy summer to you. Pinned!
Your home is beautiful and I love hydrangeas. I can’t wait for mine to bloom.
Great touring with you
Heidi, your home is so cottage cozy and inviting! And your kitchen is already so pretty and welcoming. I can’t wait to see it with it’s final touches. Btw I love how you named your blog…it struck a chord with me because I feel the same way about my pup! Great to tour with you and happy summer!
What a gorgeous home you have! I love the bedroom wallpaper it is fabulous! Have the best summer.