Get Ready for Summer in Coastal Maine

Prepare your summer cottage for the season with these essential tips and tricks. Get ready for summer in Coastal Maine with us. From maintenance to a vintage market, let’s go!

Get Summer Ready

The frost warnings have passed,

the trees are budding,

and the Forsythia is starting to bloom.

It’s time for a jaunt to our home in Coastal Maine to get ready for summer.

What does this mean?

Well, there are a few things that need nurturing to get a home summer-ready, along with enjoying a few pleasantries along the way.

You’ll have your house ready to embrace the summer season and create a comfortable and enjoyable space for you and your family in no time.

Now, let’s start getting ready for summer in Coastal Maine by attending our first vintage market;

Vintage Garden Variety Market

My first priority (haha) was to attend Sage Farm’s Spring Pop-Up Vintage Garden Variety Market. See what I found and how these vintage finds helped me get our home ready for summer.

Where I found a fantastic stack of green and white vintage ironstone plates and linen napkins.

You may also enjoy the post, 17 Best Summer Home Decor Accessories to Thrift.

Vintage Ford Truck

We store this old 1977 Ford truck in our Maine home’s garage during the winter.

The time is now to get it started and take it out for a drive.

And I got lucky, as it started right up, woo-hoo. Because many times, it does not.

We’ve had this old truck for over 20 years. It’s been a lot of fun, but we just don’t use it like we used to, and it takes up a lot of space… So, this will be our last time with this gem, as we will be gifting it to my husband’s nephew next time he is in Maine.

But look what we replaced it with in our new blog series, Antiquing Road Trips & RV Decor Series and A Classic VW: Embracing the Vintage Vibe post.

Mainely Grass

This is going to be the year that we work on the landscaping at our home here in Maine.

The soil is awful here, truly making it really hard to grow or garden.

When my parents owned this home, they lost so many plants, such as hydrangeas, witches’ broom, and lilac bushes, that they ended up taking out most of the landscaping and planting pachysandra all around the perimeter of the home. Fortunately, this filled in very nicely.

The front lawn has all turned to moss, and I would like a nice plush lawn once again. So, I have hired Mainely Grass to see what they can do for us. They started with their first treatment this past fall and second again this spring. Fully organic treatments.

It was also time to clean up the yard, which was filled with sticks and debris from the winter months. The lawn was ready for its first spring cutting, too. I use the EGO Cordless Electric Walk Behind Lawn Mower. I actually love cutting the lawn now. It’s so light, quiet, and fun to use.

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It’s still early here in Maine for summer flower containers. Waiting until Memorial Day weekend is important to avoid any unforeseen nightly frosts. But I do prefer to keep the flower arrangements around our house pretty simple. You may see last year’s flowers in the post, Red Geranium Time-Honored Window Flower Boxes.

My mother loved having all-white outdoor flowers. Which I may choose to go with this summer, we’ll see. See them in the White & Green Rustic Summer Flower Planters Sure To Charm You post.

Storm Windows

To get ready for summer, I always look forward to removing the storm windows. They give the home such a bright and new perspective after all those long winter months of hibernation.

Opening the windows and letting all that fresh air in! Priceless.

Do you see Ella, our Bernese Mountain Dog, peeking in from outside?

My father invented this easy and brilliant way of storing storm windows in the summertime so that they don’t get banged up or broken.

Simple white hooks mounted into the ceiling allow us to hang all the storm windows from the garage ceiling beams.

You may also enjoy the post, Chatting About This and That in Vintage Home Decorating from this same time last year.

Rose’ All Day Patio Party

I always enjoy catching up with friends that I haven’t seen in a while. On one of the most amazing, beautiful spring days, I met up with one of my besties and attended a Rose’ wine patio party at Walker’s Maine Restaurant, just around the corner from our home. It was so much fun!

You may also enjoy this Maine Coastal Towns, Antiques, & Boondocking Road Trip post.

Get Ready for Summer Bedding

I always look forward to switching out our bedding from winter to summer. I love adding fresh new bedding to the bedrooms in anticipation of summer.

This year, I’m going with Schweitzer Linen’s crisp white Italian bedding sets.

Guest Bedroom

This is Schweitzer Linen’s Hampton Court bedding, which is now ready for our summer guests.

You may also be inspired by this 12 Cottage Vintage Guest Bedroom Ideas To Inspire post.

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Master Bedroom

To get ready for summer, our master bedroom will sport Schweitzer Linen’s Windward Luxury bedding. I just love the embroidered sailboats and coastal vibe of this bedding set.

Crisp, clean, and fresh with a nautical summer vibe.

You may see more get ready for summer bedding options in the post, 10+ Best Coastal Bedding Ideas For Your Beach House.

A May Beach Day: Get Ready for Summer

As the temperatures reached the low 70s, it was time to dig out the beach chairs from the shed, gather the sunscreen, charge the earbuds, and head out for a few hours on the beach.

The beach was filled with seaweed, the wind was blowing, the bugs were flying, and a bulldozer was moving rocks. But it was still so great to sit in my beach chair with the ocean by my side

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I laughed as I watched these golden retrievers frolic in the sand, seaweed, and ocean. They dug holes and gathered sticks completely in sync. Now, this was just pure joy!

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A Spring Visit to Snug Harbor Farm

And, of course, an annual spring garden trip to Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk, Maine, is always a favorite. Accompanied by my girlfriend, we headed north to find topiaries and succulents to display in our homes to get summer ready. Snug Harbor Farm has the best selection around by far.

See more in the post, Snug Harbor Farm, A Maine Road Trip.

The Snub Harbor Farm greenhouses were filled with beautiful displays of topiaries and succulents in preparation for Mother’s Day weekend. My girlfriend, Lisa, even got poked by a super duper succulent.

Then, of course, we ended our day once again with a fabulous Maine lobster roll at The Boathouse Restaurant.

You may also enjoy the post, Antiquing, 6 Thrifty Finds, and a Lobster Biscuit and Mother Nature And An Antique Millinery Hat Mold post.

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And we got the chance to look through some old family photos, too, in preparation for Mother’s Day:)

You may also enjoy the Quaint Nautical Decor Corner With a Vintage Wow Factor post and A Bernese Mountain Dog & The Gift of a Whale post.

Our home is now summer-ready, and it’s time to get my hair done and head back to Vermont until we can return to enjoy our summer in Maine. Thanks so much for joining me this week. It means the world to me that you are here!