How I Transition Our Home From Spring to Summer (And Why I Actually Look Forward to It)

Every year, one particular Saturday towards the end of May (though the actual date moves around) I go around our Thessaloniki flat and get a feeling that things have to be altered.

It’s not that there’s something wrong with the apartment as it is for spring; it’s perfectly pleasant. However, spring and summer are very different in this part of northern Greece, which is hard to describe to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. Spring is still about having layers on, still being a little reserved.

Summer just is, and with it the light is entirely transformed, the windows can be open for weeks on end, life adopts that slower Mediterranean rhythm, and the apartment needs to mirror that, or it will feel at odds with everything going on outdoors.

And so I make alterations. I don’t do it to everything, in fact not to most of it. But the particular details that move the apartment from being for spring to being for summer only take an afternoon and are almost without cost, yet they create a much larger impact than the time and money spent on them.
This is what I do.

First — take things away

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