Summer entertaining suggestions and information is always worthy of repeating- exactly the reason I’m featuring these suggestions new to the Places In The Home summer entertaining repertoire.
Summer is in our sights, arriving with the summer solstice gift of extra daylight.
Talk about the ultimate summer entertaining hostess gift!
Invite vibrant color, easy entertaining tips, and fun home decor touches to the party, and prepare to impress.
Summer nights frame the art of entertaining with a canvas of color and hosting ease.
Creating an evening under the stars atmosphere begins with bringing down the house lights and illuminating the summer night with soft accent lighting.
Casual elegance is easily achieved by strategically placing kerosene lanterns or glass jar luminaries along a walkway.
For extra ambiance wrap, hang, drape or string white twinkle string lights from trees, in shrubs and around columns.
Stunning!
Tiki torches, table lamps on loan for the evening from your interior home decor, garden chandeliers, and decorative paper lanterns also make great options in the quest to create a comfortable and inviting atmosphere.
Invite the wow factor to your summer soiree- the consummate guest.
DIY party ice buckets and ice cubes serve a gorgeous and delicious purpose.
Ice ice baby too cold, too cute!
Ball Jars prove a versatile party decor darling.
Light them up, fill them up, or chill them down.
A midsummer night’s entertaining dream becomes a reality with these quaint and stunning homemade hurricanes. I discovered this simple how to supply list for colorful jar lanterns from Joann Stores and promptly pinned it to my Pinterest account.
Simple and affordable combine decorating forces to add subtle yet palpable charm to a perfect summer evening scene.
DIY summer citronella candles how to video from Southern Living show us how to make a DIY bug-be-gone candle that is not only visually impressive, but an essential must for comfortable summer soiree nights.
Give me a reason to turn a flower pot into a serving piece and it is summer soiree party on.
I’ll never forget the look I got the first time I announced we were having pot brownies at our pot party to a co-hostess. I don’t believe I have ever clarified something so quickly before or since.
Anywho, clay flower pots are an inexpensive and summer appropriate alternative to traditional serving pieces.
Baked beans, barbecued wings, Creole seasoned French fries, baked Vidalia onions, summer sausage- all great “pot” options.
Elevate an otherwise average patio table to party perfection by topping it with a stylish outdoor tablecloth. Layer the look with chairs, cushions and outdoor pillows decked out in bright summer colors.
Decoristas have long had a trusty trick up their sleeve. Home decor and furnishings that work gorgeously inside the house will rock an outdoor living space like a Led Zeppelin concert!
Love your inside dining chairs and know they will be the key to pulling the entire outdoor tablescape together, but don’t want the chair legs to get dirty?
Wrap the bottom of each chair leg with clear plastic wrap.
Perhaps a tad time-consuming, but it will save time on the clean up end of the party.
Be as pre-party proactive as possible with certain tasks. It’s a summer entertaining essential skill for the host and/or hostess to hone.
With the very, very good points of summer outdoor living and summer entertaining comes the very real concern over controlling mosquitoes.
Burning sage or rosemary repels is said to kill mosquitoes. The mosquito killing power is in the smoke so I’m thinking summer fire pit or campfire plays into being a natural necessity.
At the point in the party when the food and drink has hit the spot, the music is summer smooth, the outdoor party life is kicking up a notch, and the company and the conversation is hitting all the right notes it’s time to hand out summer relaxation party pails.
Fill plastic beach pails from the dollar store with his or hers flip-flops, individual aluminum spray bottles filled with chilled homemade rose water (the guys love this stuff almost as much as the gals), cold cucumber slices in freezer bags and Burt’s Bees Cucumber & Sage facial cleansing towelettes (love the scent).
Assemble party pails beforehand adding chilled and cold items to pails right before handing them out.
Enjoy the colors and celebrations of the season.
What better excuse for throwing a stylish summer entertaining soiree!
