Spring/Summer-Inspired Furniture for a Fresh Look

It's that time of year when we all want to reflect the seasonal change with furniture that encapsulates the freshness and vibrancy of spring and summer. Working with playful lines and breezy colour palettes, you can style your contemporary home to feel wonderfully light and airy as the temperatures soar. From statement furniture choices to the clever use of texture, you'll find design inspiration to finesse the freshest of looks.

A statement sofa for spring 

Set the tone for spring with a statement sofa in cool, calm tones of grey or white. Choose an upholstered sofa for airy aesthetics, seeking featherlight fabrics like linen and cotton. Introduce a sinuous curved sofa to bring movement to your space or keep your lines crisp and clean with a modular sectional.   

A neutral-toned sofa is the perfect canvas for soft furnishing colour pops and you can give a nod to the beauty of nature in bloom with botanical prints or pastel tones. If you love bold design, embrace zesty and minty colours for a fun, refreshing feel. 

Wooden and rattan accents  

Usher the outdoors in with the earthy notes of exposed wood and rattan, and even bring a touch of Scandi-simplicity into your home with blond wood furniture. Style your spring/summer home with a white oak dining table, adding a vase of fresh flowers for simple spring and summer suppers. Use lighter-toned wooden coffee and side tables, consoles, dressers and nightstands for just a hint of rusticity.

Weave rattan into your design scheme, and you can create a charming window reading nook with a rattan pouffe. Add rattan accent chairs to both your interior and exterior living spaces, creating style cohesion for a seamless indoor-outdoor experience. 

A sense of space with minimalist furniture

As Crate & Barrel’s furniture collections illustrate, 2024 is the year of playful minimalism. Explore sculptural lines that add a tranquil, dreamlike quality to your interiors. This sense of movement and flow will help you curate light and airy spaces. Start small with a curvaceous concrete coffee or console table, echoing the style with sculptural cement candleholders and vases.

Let lines do the talking with stylish minimalist accent chairs that ripple and roll with sweeping curves. Turn to the year’s trending bouclé style and overstuffed cushions for cosy seating that wins on the spring and summer style front.

Declutter for spring 

Nothing dampens the bright and breezy spring vibe like a room full of clutter. Choose your storage solutions carefully, and they'll enhance your fresh vibes and maintain the newly spring-cleaned look.   

Declutter your surfaces with bookcases and wall shelves in soft grey, white or pale wood. Choose a hidden storage upholstered ottoman or bench and super-sized baskets in rattan, canvas or rope for those bits and pieces you'd prefer to keep out of sight. Storage cabinets bring style and functionality to living and dining spaces. Crate & Barrel is brimming with spring and summer-inspired white-washed and honey-toned cabinets whose deep shelves and drawers make organising a cinch. 
Feel cool and calm with our spring/summer-inspired furniture ideas for fresh interiors that will become your sanctuary as the temperatures rise.