Decorating with Blue & White for Summer | Nancy Meyers Kitchen Decor Ideas + Tablescape

Hey there! Welcome to my home for another decorating video. We are back in the kitchen today because it is officially time for me to add some of my summer decor here to this space, and I'm really excited to share this with you because what I like to do for summer is a blue and white colored palette, and then throughout the season I incorporate different accent colors with the blue and white just to kind of change it up. I like to do lemons, I like to do red for red, white, and blue. Once we get to Memorial Day, the 4th of July, this is one of my favorite, favorite seasons to decorate for. And one of my favorite things to share with you, because this color palette for some is summer. There are some out there that love a blue and white color palette all year long. It really is a timeless look. Yes, this is my summer decor, but this can really be timeless decorating inspiration for you if blue and white is the color palette that you love in your home. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you how I incorporate the color palette into my home, specifically my kitchen and my breakfast room today. If you watch my channel, then you know I recently decorated my kitchen with a very neutral color palette, which is what you see behind me right now. This is a color palette that I feel like I could leave out all year long if I wanted to, but of course you know me, I'm a seasonal decorator, so I like to change it up. I'm going to try to show you how I take my palette from neutral into a season. So thank you so much for being here today. I hope that you enjoyed this video. Let's get to decorating! I'm starting here on my open shelving today, as I usually do when I'm in this space, and you'll see that throughout this video, I'm really just making a few simple swaps to freshen everything up for the new season. Things like switching out some of the more neutral pieces and canisters for blue and white ginger jars, adding in a little more color and pattern, but just in very small ways. One of my favorite easy swaps is small art prints like this one. I usually get them half off at Hobby Lobby, and changing them out is a simple way to add color. You know I am a seasonal dish collector, so I like to display some of those here on the shelves as well. Most of the dishes you'll see in this video today actually came from home goods. All right, I'm getting hungry, so I'm going to take a quick break and make a little sandwich, which makes it the perfect time for me to share today's video sponsor with you, Graza. I discovered Graza olive oil a couple of years ago, and it has been the only olive oil that I've used ever since, so when I found out that they came out with this mayo, I absolutely had to try it. I think it actually makes a lot of sense that Graza made mayo because mayo is mostly oil, so if the oil isn't good, the mayo isn't going to be good either. Most of what you find in the stores use things like canola oil and soybean oil, and you can really taste the difference. Graza does it the Graza way. They use olive oil, cage-free eggs, and I'm telling you, this is literally so good. I love mayo, and I think this might be my favorite mayo of all time. I'm serious. This is my second bottle. I like both the original and the fancy mayo, but I'm using the fancy mayo today. It has a very bold and slightly tangy flavor with this really good olive oil taste. I also have their original. I really like this one, too, because you can cook with this. They also have a garlic aioli, which is good for dipping and spreading. I just don't personally have it on hand right now. If you're familiar with Graza, then you know they make high-quality, delicious olive oil. Graza mayo and aioli are available in-store only, so I will have a link in the description box below that will take you to their online store locator, or you can just scan the QR code right here on the screen. It will also take you right to their site as well so that you can find the one nearest you. Picking right back up where we left off on the open shelves, you'll notice that I tend to use a lot of white faux florals in my decor because what I'll do is just move them around, swap out the vessels, keep the actual florals, and I think that's a great way to utilize your decor, freshen it up a little bit without having to just go out and get all new florals. You can use a neutral floral in a fresh vessel. Some of my absolute favorite go-tos are these white roses that you see all the time in my videos from Hobby Lobby, so I can't link those, but if you go into your Hobby Lobby on the aisles where they have the actual bundles of flowers, you will find them there. And then I also love small cherry blossom stems. I know that some people like to use flowers in season. I do too, just depending on the season, but these are two things that I really use all year long regardless of the season. I'm going to take the plastic off this and tell you why I'm so excited that I found this lamp. It's a Ralph Lauren lamp, and a couple of years ago, I saw a blue and white lamp like this, Ralph Lauren, at HomeGoods, and it was really, really large, and I thought, you know what? I don't really need that lamp, so I didn't buy it, and it has haunted me ever since. I've gone into HomeGoods occasionally to see if they had something similar, and they finally had this one at my HomeGoods in stock, and I thought it was so pretty. The perfect kitchen lamp, and I'm really excited to have it. One thing that I decided to do today that I thought I would share with you, I actually decided to use the lids of my ginger jars to contain my coffee cups, the to-go disposable cups, and the little sleeves, which I thought is just a cute way to use them, especially when I'm already using the jar to house flowers and it doesn't have the top on it. I don't know, just thought I would share it with you because I think this is a neat way to repurpose something like this. Okay, so we are moving on to the breakfast room, and if you've watched my channel before, if you've watched me decorate this space, you know that the first thing I usually do is swap out the little art prints that I put on each side of this window. I use very simple, inexpensive Amazon frames for this. This is a 12 by 16 frame size with an 8.5 by 11 mat. I will be sure to link it below, but you can get them in other sizes, so just get a size that you think fits best for your space if you want to do something like this, but I really like this because this is a simple way to change out the decor for the season that I feel like makes a big impact for very little money. I make and print all of my art prints on canva.com. I have been asking in the past if I could make these available, and I think I have finally figured out how I can get these to you, so if this is something you're interested in, let me know in the comments below. I am going to try to get these up in a set. They will be a digital download. I'm probably going to charge a little bit for them because I do make them, but it won't be a lot, and they will come in a set of eight to ten just depending. I say eight to ten because I usually typically design eight for this space, but there are times that during a season I'll design a few more because I'll use some around here, and then I'll use some around my home and other places, like for example for the 4th of July, I have more. I'm going to start linking these in the description box below. If you're interested in them, you can purchase the digital download, and if you have any questions about printing them at all, just ask me, or if you have questions about the type of paper I use. I actually have two different types of paper that I printed on today. I will use just a regular standard cardstock that you can get from Hobby Lobby. I will link some of my favorites from Amazon, and then I also use this watercolor paper that I love, and it's a little bit bigger of a piece of paper. It's got a little bit of texture to it, which I love, but you can really use anything that you would like. What matters when you're printing something like this, if you're unfamiliar and you've never done it before, are your printer settings. Make sure that you're using a printer that is capable of printing graphics and photos, and then make sure you have those settings on best quality. Also make sure you have the settings on the proper sizing. So for example, these will all come in a pdf size for 8.5 by 11 pages. I actually print on a piece of paper that is a 9 by 12, so once I put them in the frame and line them up properly, outer layer is just like right on the edge right there. But you can always purchase the digital downloads and take them somewhere to like CVS or Staples and have them printed for you on really nice quality paper or photo paper. I'll also try to share other seasons as they come up and have those available for you too. Hopefully that helps for those of you that have asked for them in the past. I really wanted to be able to share this resource, and I'm excited that I can now!