Update your summerhouse—or make your regular house feel more like a summer retreat—with a few well-placed upgrades. This week the Remodelista editors discovered design ideas to create a summer palette. Here are a few of their favorites.
Japanese Glassware
![Fresco’s Large Kasumi Plate in pink-inflected purple can be used either as a plate or a shallow bowl; it measures \1\1.75 inches around and is \1.5 inches deep; \$\140 each.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tpe-fresco-colored-glass-8-733x512.jpg)
Pink Pendant Light
![Hanging over a dining table in Hackney, London, are two Louis Poulsen Ph5 Pendant Lights in pink; \$996 each at Design Within Reach.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/louis-poulsen-ph5-pendant-light-pink-1-733x489.jpg)
Rattan Daybed
![Made in Indonesia, the Honey Rattan Daybed is \$549.99 from World Market; twin mattress not included.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/honey-rattan-daybed-world-market-733x733.jpg)
Midcentury Scandi Rug
![Another design from Oyyo, the Östra dhurrie rug is €\2,590 for the 6.6-by-9.8-foot size at Oyyo.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/oyyo-ostra-carpet-733x489.jpg)
Big Green Egg
![A London food writer\2\17;s outdoor space features a German biergarten table and a Big Green Egg barbecue mounted in a built-in counter. Photograph courtesy of The Modern House.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mina-holland-south-london-refurbish-the-modern-house-10-733x489.jpg)
Writes Alexa: “Writer Mina Holland and musician Freddie Denham-Webb were looking to buy their first house in London earlier this year. When offer after offer fell through, ‘invariably because someone else gazumped us,’ says Mina, they went south of the river and bought a 750-square-foot maisonette in Crofton Park.”
See more in Start from Scratch: A Food Writer’s First Renovation in South London.
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