Fall into Cozy: How to Transform Your Living Space with Seasonal Decor
By Interior Designer TRACY SVENDSEN | Published on May 18, 2023 |
Fall Decorating Ideas: As the leaves begin to change and the crisp autumn air settles in, it’s time to embrace the coziness of the season and transform your living space into a warm and inviting retreat.
Fall is the perfect time to infuse your home with seasonal decor that brings comfort and warmth. Whether you’re a fan of rustic farmhouse style or prefer a more modern and minimalist approach, there are endless possibilities for creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
This article explores simple yet impactful ways to elevate your living space with fall-inspired decor. From incorporating earthy tones and textures to adding layers of warmth with blankets and candles, we’ll guide you through creating a space that exudes the essence of fall. Get ready to embrace the changing season and create a cozy haven you’ll never want to leave.
Pillows and throws go a long way in transforming a room quickly, and fall is the perfect time to trade out lightweight fabrics with materials that are heavier in weight and texture that add a sense of warmth. Use earthy hues and gorgeous knits for a well-layered look. Drape an extra throw on an accent chair or sofa to add coziness.
Fall is also the perfect time to bring outdoor seasonal elements in. Look to nature for inspiration when choosing a color palette. Feel free to switch it up mid-season for a smoother transition from summer to autumn. For example, use muted shades of green, brown, and white in early fall. Then, incorporate red, yellow, and orange hues as more leaves change colors.
The Importance of Seasonal Decor in Creating a Cozy Living Space
Your living space is not just a place to rest your head; it reflects your personality and is a sanctuary from the outside world. Seasonal decor transforms your space and creates an inviting and welcoming atmosphere. It allows you to embrace the changing seasons and infuses your home with elements that evoke a sense of comfort and warmth.
By incorporating seasonal decor, you can create a space that feels inviting and cozy all year round. During the fall, in particular, it’s lovely to create a space that embraces the beauty of nature and the changing colors of the season.
Fall decor can instantly transform your living space into a cozy haven, from warm earthy tones to rustic textures. Fall decor’s sights, smells, and textures can transport you to fond memories of cozy evenings by the fireplace or walking through the crisp autumn air. These small details make a big difference in creating a space that feels like home.
Fall Floral Display in Vibrant Yellow, Rust & Pinks
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Lucy of the Craftberry Bush Blog created this beautiful arrangement by combining florals she purchased at the grocery store along with hydrangeas from her garden. She usedmums, foraged branches and even a few crab apples. She then placed all the flowers in a vase and then placed the vase into this basket she found at the Dollar Store.
Modern Fall Tablescape Design in Shades of Orange, Peach & White
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Faux floral arrangement created from Afloral, an online floral shop with a small team that carefully curates a custom and seasonal collection of boutique, premium florals and vases you can’t buy anywhere else.
Fall Decor Trends and Inspiration
Before you start transforming your living space, gathering inspiration and staying updated on the latest fall decor trends is always beneficial. This will help you create a fresh, on-trend space while reflecting your style. Here are a few fall decor trends to consider:
1. Natural and Organic Elements: Embrace the beauty of nature by incorporating natural and organic elements into your fall decor. Think dried flowers, branches, acorns, and pinecones. These elements add texture and warmth to your space while also creating a connection to the outdoors.
2. Warm Earthy Tones: Fall is all about warm and earthy tones. Embrace shades of brown, orange, mustard yellow, and deep reds. These colors create a cozy and inviting atmosphere, perfect for the season.
3. Layered Textures: Add depth and visual interest to your living space by incorporating layered textures. Think cozy blankets, plush rugs, and soft pillows. These textures create a warm and inviting atmosphere and add a touch of luxury to your space.
4. Candles and Warm Lighting: Fall is the perfect time to embrace the soft glow of candles and warm lighting. Opt for scented candles with cinnamon, pumpkin, or apple notes to create a cozy and inviting ambiance.
Now that you have some inspiration let’s dive into the practical aspects of transforming your living space with fall decor.
Fall Tablescape in Warm Tones
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Choosing a Color Palette for Your Fall Decor
Incorporate the color palettes of each season to keep your home feeling refreshed throughout the year. In the autumn, look to the deep, warm hues of the leaves as inspiration. Adding artwork that reflects these warm tones pulls the look together.
Be sure to add ambiance with candles and warm lighting. Consider adding levels to your lighting layers with table and floor lamps and sconces to ignite the senses in every room. Natural materials go hand-in-hand with fall décor with their deep textural elements. Incorporate pieces of wood, fall foliage, brass, or woven fabrics to bring warmth to any vignette.
When Should You Start Decorating for Fall
There is no hard and fast rule about when to start decorating for fall, and many people choose to add autumnal touches to their homes in late August or early September. A rule of thumb is to begin with your interior décor in late September or early October. When the weather is cooler, and the leaves have turned, your outdoor decorations can follow suit.
Some may wait until the official start of fall, typically around September 22nd or 23rd. Ultimately, deciding when to start decorating for fall depends on personal preference and the individual’s excitement for the season. Just remember to have fun and enjoy the cozy and festive atmosphere that autumn decor can bring to your home!
Log Home Decorated for Fall | Jackson Wyoming Design
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Here are a few fall decorating ideas to get you started
One of the first steps in transforming your living space with fall decor is choosing a color palette that reflects the season. Fall is known for its warm and earthy tones, which can instantly create a cozy and inviting atmosphere. Here are a few tips to help you choose the perfect color palette for your fall decor:
1. Start with a Neutral Base: Select a neutral base color for your living space. This could be a warm beige, a soft gray, or even a creamy white. A neutral base will provide a blank canvas for your fall decor and allow the seasonal elements to take center stage.
2. Incorporate Warm Earthy Tones: Once you have your neutral base, it’s time to add pops of warm earthy tones. Think shades of brown, orange, mustard yellow, and deep reds. Incorporate these colors through accessories such as throw pillows, rugs, curtains, and artwork. Fall colors work well with bronze, gold, and silver metallics, adding symmetry to a room. Copper also adds instant warmth and country charm.
3. Balance with Complementary Colors: To create visual interest and balance in your living space, consider adding complementary colors to your fall decor. For example, if you have a lot of warm earthy tones, you can balance them out with pops of cool blues or greens. This will ensure your space feels more varied and add a fresh and modern touch.
Remember, there are no hard and fast rules when choosing a color palette for your fall decor. The most important thing is to select colors that resonate with you and create a warm and inviting space.
4. Natural & Organic Elements: Use natural and organic elements like pumpkins, gourds, and leaves to bring the outside in.
5. Fill Rustic Vases: Display rustic vases filled with gorgeous fall branches and bowls of bright red apples or green pears to add a splash of color.
6. Replace Pillow Covers: Swap out your throw pillows and blankets for ones in warm, rich colors like burgundy, rust, and mustard.
7. Get Creative with Centerpieces: a fall centerpiece for your dining table using fall foliage, candles, and seasonal flowers. Impress your guests with gorgeous centerpieces and fall-themed dinnerware. Create an artful arrangement of pinecones, dried berries, leaves, twigs, and apples to be a conversation starter.
8. Warm Up a Reading Nook: Create a cozy reading nook with a plush chair, a soft blanket, and a stack of books.
9. Display Wreaths: Hang a wreath of fall foliage or dried flowers on your front door. Wreaths also look stunning hung on windows and interior doors and walls.
10. Bring in Autumnal Scents: Use candles in scents like pumpkin spice or apple cider to add warmth and fragrance to your home. Create a simple fall simmer pot to infuse the air with cozy scents like apple, cinnamon, cloves, and rosemary.
11. Provide a Hearty Welcome: Add a fall-inspired doormat to welcome guests.
12. Incorporate Nature: Bring nature home with branches, botanical art, and textiles reflecting fall foliage.
13. Add a Touch of Plaid: Plaid is a quintessential fall look that pairs perfectly with florals, herringbones, or graphic dots. Plaid and floral have an exciting way of balancing each other out and are an unexpected way to draw interest visually.
Pottery Barn Fall Living Room
Fall Decor Ideas for Different Areas of Your Home
Whether you’re focusing on your living room, dining room, bedroom, or outdoor space, there are plenty of ways to infuse fall-inspired decor into every corner of your home. Let’s dive in:
Fall Decorating Ideas for Entranceways
Fall is a beautiful time and the perfect time to decorate your entranceway to welcome the season. Summer-to-fall transition decor is all about swapping in new textures, accents, and foliage in a color palette that better reflects the cozier feel of the season.
First, choose a color scheme that complements the fall season. You can use warm colors like orange, red and yellow, or go for a more rustic look with brown, green, and gold. Next, add some natural elements to your decor.
A console table in the entranceway is perfect for displaying candles and small pumpkins, gourds, and dry grasses. Add some fall flowers like mums and asters to add color and texture. Swap out your entranceway area rug with one that reflects fall colors. Finally, remember to add some personal touches to your home decor. You can use signs, wreaths, or other decorations to showcase your unique style and personality.
Collection of Faux Florals
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Fall Entranceway Design in Neutrals
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Collection of Faux Florals
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Burgandy Green Tall Faux Leaf Branches
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Take home decor and interior design to the next level when you create arrangements with tall, natural-looking artificial branches. This colorful and stunning faux leaf branch has burgundy and green leaves with realistic details that perfectly replicate nature. Style a few of these branches in a vase for an everyday table centerpiece that brings permanent beauty to your space.
Faux Magnolia Leaf Branch
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A stunning way to bring life and the feeling of nature into your interior design is to style the most realistic artificial branches in statement vases. Start with this faux magnolia branch that has perfect, natural-looking green leaves. For an elevated everyday arrangement, showcase several of these leaf branches alone in your favorite vase. Or, style them with silk magnolia flowers to create an over-the-top console table centerpiece to ready your home for Fall.
Living Rooms Ready for Autumn
The living room is often the heart of the home, where you’ll likely spend most of your time during the fall season. Here are a few fall decor ideas to transform your living room into a cozy retreat:
1. Layered Textiles: Add warmth and comfort to your living room by layering textiles. Think cozy throw blankets, plush pillows, and soft rugs in rich colors like burnt orange, deep red, and golden yellow.
These textures create a relaxing atmosphere and add visual interest to your space. Swap out lightweight fabrics like linen and cotton for heavier materials like wool, tweed, herringbone, faux fur, and velvet. Cashmere throws and blankets make sophisticated accents for your couch and cozy accompaniments for brisk fall evenings.
2. Fall-Inspired Centerpiece: Create a stunning centerpiece for your coffee table or mantel using fall-inspired elements. Consider using a mix of dried flowers, branches, and candles for a rustic and natural look.
3. Warm Lighting: Embrace the soft glow of candles and warm lighting in your living room. Opt for floor and table lamps and string lights to create a cozy and inviting ambiance.
4. Decorate Your Hearth: Embellish your hearth with autumnal elements such as gourds, twigs, candles, and pinecones to create a warm focal point. Infuse bright bursts of color into your living room by adding it to the mantel or coffee table.
5. Use Seasonal Blooms: Popular seasonal blooms in the living room include dahlias, asters, chrysanthemums, and camellias. Choose pots and urns in muted earth tones to pick up on the fall theme and provide an appealing contrast to your flowers—group neutral, dried grasses with woven and sculptural vases for a calming vignette.
6. Incorporate Seasonal Decor: Bring the fall into your living room with seasonal decor. Place pumpkins and gourds on your mantel or coffee table, and display fall foliage in a vase. Candles with scents like cinnamon and apple can also help create a fall ambiance.
7. Swap Out Artwork: Consider swapping out your artwork or throw pillow covers for pieces that feature fall themes like leaves, pumpkins, and harvest motifs. Combining these elements allows you to transform your living room into a warm and inviting space perfect for autumn.
8. Introduce Soft Textures: As temperatures cool, introduce soft textures to your home decorations. Place wool or cotton throws on your couch. Or put them inside a woven basket where family members can easily pick one up to keep themselves warm during crisp evenings.
Add cozy decorations in lounge areas and bedrooms, like plush area rugs, throw pillows, and bedding.
9. Infuse Your Home with Ambiance: Use flameless candles and lanterns for a soft glow at night. Then sprayscentsfeaturing notes of pumpkin spice, apples, autumn woods, or cinnamon throughout your space.
Fall Decorating Ideas for the Living Room
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Pottery Barn Citrus Clove Scent Collection
This collection’s spicy citrus character blends the bright aromas of bergamot and Seville orange with the uplifting, herbaceous, and floral notes of petitgrain, made from the bitter orange tree. Hints of clove give it seasonal depth and warmth, but you can continue to use the candle vessels year-round after the wax is consumed.
Pottery Barn Heirloom Matte Scented Candles
Bring the most sophisticated scents of the seasons indoors. With a rich, matte-finished palette, these candles can be grouped or dispersed around the house for an aromatic accent that turns every entry into a warm welcome and every bath into a sanctuary.
Autumn’s Softer Side
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Bring the countryside indoors with a warm blend of gentle autumn hues and natural-looking flowers and accents. This beautiful wreath and garland are part of the Briarwood Cottage Foliage Collection by Balsam Hill, and are designed using Autumn leaves, hydrangeas, white berries, pinecones, and rose hips.
Fall Decorating Ideas: Living Room with Fall Pillow Covers
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Artificial Nandina Leaf Branch
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Elevate your home decor with nature-inspired faux leaf stems like this artificial nandina leaves branch. Also known as Heavenly Bamboo and Sacred Bamboo, these colorful burgundy green fake tropical branches are simple to style in a tall vase.
Fake Peony Flowers in Sunset
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Find artificial flowers for fall home decor, like this stunning silk peony stem in terracotta orange with mauve accents. These fake peonies are the perfect autumn hue to complete your fall wreaths and vase arrangements.
Fall Living Room with Warm, Earthy Tones
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Grace, of Nesting with Grace suggests decorating for fall by using cut branches in statement vases, adding artwork in fall tones, draping cozy blankets over the sofa or arm of a chair, displaying seasonal books, and throwing in a few pumpkins and candles.
Touches of Orange add Warmth to this Cozy Fall Living Room
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Fall Decorating Ideas for Kitchens
Simple touches can make your kitchen a comfortable refuge for cool autumn evenings. Seasonal foliage in small wreaths, garlands, or tabletop arrangements brings the season’s beauty indoors.
Create a beautiful fall centerpiece for your kitchen table using a vase filled with sunflowers, mums, and dahlias. Bring the outdoors inside using natural elements like pumpkins, gourds, and pine cones. You can place these items on your kitchen table, countertop, or window sill. Fall is all about warm colors like red, orange, and yellow. Add these colors to your kitchen using fall-themed tablecloths, placemats, and dish towels.
Cream Magnolia Fake Flower Branch
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Simple styling has never been more simple, or beautiful! These artificial cream magnolia stems are perfect for any space or any season. Bold enough to be styled alone, yet make the perfect neutral focal bloom for your spring or fall centerpieces. This realistic faux magnolia stem offers blooms that are fully open as well as partially open for an ultra-realistic look.
Preserved Taupe Hydrangea Full Bloomed
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It’s easy to upgrade your modern decor with these taupe-preserved hydrangea flowers that instill the feeling of nature. They are simple to style in a vase, dried floral arrangement, or Spring or Fall wreath!
Fall Decorating Ideas for Dining Rooms
Remember to add Autumn charm to your dining room and create a cozy atmosphere for family and friends. Here are some tips to help you decorate your dining room for fall:
1. Infuse the Dining Room with Hues of Fall: Use warm colors such as orange, yellow, and red to add a touch of fall to your dining room. You can do this by adding a fall-colored tablecloth or using fall-themed placemats.
2. Fall-Inspired Centerpiece: Create a striking centerpiece for your dining table using seasonal elements. Consider using a mix of pumpkins, candles, and fall flowers for a beautiful and festive display.
3. Fall-inspired Table Setting: Set the mood for a fall feast by creating a beautiful table setting. Incorporate autumnal elements such as pumpkins, gourds, fall foliage, and candles. Consider using warm-toned table linens and rustic dinnerware to complete the look.
3. Cozy Dining Chairs: Add a touch of warmth and comfort to your dining chairs by incorporating cozy chair cushions or slipcovers. Opt for fabrics in warm tones and textures to create a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
4. Add Fall-Themed Decorations: Use fall-themed decorations such as fall leaves, acorns, and pinecones to add a touch of fall to your dining room. You can use these decorations on your table or around the room.
4. Use Candlelight For a Warm Glow: Candles are a great way to add warmth and ambiance to your dining room. You can use fall-scented candles to add a touch of fall to your dining room.
5. Add a Cozy Rug: A soft area rug in fall colors in your dining room can make it feel more inviting and warmer.
Striking Fall Foliage
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Fall Floral Dining Room Display
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Dahlia & Pumpkin Forest Foliage | Farmhouse Charm
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Add a rustic touch to your spaces with earth-toned foliage. Fall flowers arranged with white pumpkins help bring the beauty of the countryside home. The Dahlia & Pumpkin Forest Foliage Collection of wreaths and garlands is created fromdahlias, white pumpkins, snowberries, Norway maple leaves, and assorted greenery.
Autumn’s Softer Side
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Bring the countryside indoors with a warm blend of gentle autumn hues and natural-looking flowers and accents. This beautiful wreath and garland are part of theBriarwood Cottage Foliage Collection by Balsam Hill, and are designed using Autumn leaves, hydrangeas, white berries, pinecones, and rose hips.
Fall Decorating Ideas: Fall Tablescape with Pears
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Fall Decorating Ideas for Bedrooms
Your bedroom should be a sanctuary of comfort and relaxation, especially during the fall season. Here are a few fall bedroom ideas:
1. Add Soft and Cozy Textures: Use plush blankets, fluffy pillows, and soft rugs to create a warm and inviting space.
2. Choose Warm Colors: Think rich browns, deep oranges, and warm yellows. These colors will help create a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
3. Use Fall-Themed Decor: Add pumpkins, fall leaves, and other autumn-themed decorations to your bedroom to bring the season’s spirit indoors.
4. Add Ambient Lighting: Use warm, soft lighting to create a relaxing and cozy atmosphere in your bedroom. Try using string lights, candles, or a Himalayan salt lamp.
5. Layer Your Bedding: Add blankets and throws to create a warm and inviting space. Mix and match different textures and colors to add visual interest. Think plush comforters, soft blankets, and cozy throw pillows. Opt for warm-toned bedding to reflect the colors of fall.
6. Fall-inspired Wall Art: Add a touch of fall to your bedroom walls with fall-inspired artwork. Consider using prints or paintings that feature autumnal elements such as trees, leaves, or landscapes.
7. Scented Candles: Embrace the cozy ambiance of fall by incorporating scented candles in your bedroom. Opt for fragrances that evoke the season, such as cinnamon, pumpkin, or apple. The soft glow and comforting scents create a soothing atmosphere for a good night’s sleep.
These are just a few ideas to get you started but feel free to be creative and personalize your fall decor according to your taste and style. The key is to create a space that feels warm, inviting, and reflective of the season.
Fall Decorating Ideas: Cozy Layers for Fall in the Bedroom
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Fall Decorating Ideas for Bathrooms
Fall is a great time to decorate your bathroom and make it feel cozy and inviting. Here are a few tips to get you started:
1. Add Fall-Themed Decor: Fall leaves, pumpkins, and acorns can create a warm and inviting atmosphere in the bathroom on open shelving and countertops.
2. Use Warm Colors: Shades of orange, red, and yellow can help create a cozy feel in your bathroom.
3. Add Scented Candles: Candles provide a great light source and a pleasant scent to your bathroom.
4. Use Seasonal Towels and Rugs: Switch out your regular towels and area rugs for ones with a fall theme.
5. Add Fall-Inspired Artwork: Whether painting or a print, artwork can help tie together your fall-themed bathroom.
Fall Bathroom Ideas
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Outdoor Fall Decorating Ideas
Offer your guests a warm and cheerful welcome. Adorn your front door or porch with vibrant décor highlighting nature’s bounty. Lush wreaths and garlands with bronze, gold, brown, and orange foliage draw the eye and brighten your doorway.
Adding seasonal plants and flowers is one of the easiest ways to decorate for fall outdoors. You can choose from various options, including mums, pansies, and asters. These plants are all great for fall and will add color to your outdoor space.
Add other elements for visual interest, such as pre-lit pumpkins that tie in well with the harvest theme. Their distinct, weathered look makes them stand out from the usual jack o’ lanterns. Traditional metal lanterns radiate elegance and cast an inviting glow when evening sets in.
Get your front porch ready for the fall harvest with a pair of planters surrounded by faux pumpkins, gourds, and mums. Mix in a few lanterns to add a welcoming glow to evening gatherings. Other options to add to your outdoor space are real pumpkins, hay bales, and scarecrows.
If you have a porch or deck, add some fall-themed pillows and blankets to make it feel more cozy. You can choose from various colors and patterns to match your outdoor space. Finally, remember to add some lighting to your outdoor space. You can hang string lights or lanterns to create a warm and inviting atmosphere. These lights will also help you enjoy your outdoor space even after the sun goes down.
Outdoor Fall Decorating Ideas
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Pumpkins & Fall Florals
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Outdoor Seating Area Decorated with the Glorious Shades of Fall
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Create a festive retreat for guests with lots of plush seating and a mantel swathed in a foliage garland made from a combination of oak and magnolia leaves. Decorate only one side of the fireplace for a modern feel. Complete the look with simple and weighty pottery crocks filled with autumn leaves, hydrangeas, and berries.
Outdoor Harvest Bloom Foliage
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Celebrate the beauty of the changing seasons in Autumn’s vivid colors with Balsam Hill’s Outdoor Harvest Bloom Foliage. Add welcoming warmth and color to your outdoor décor with these vibrant fall florals. The series includes garland, mailbox swag, and garland.
Front Porch Ready for Fall
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Lucy of Craftberry Bush decorated her porch with pumpkins, florals and greenery.
Outdoor Heirloom Pumpkins
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Pumpkins are a timeless Autumn staple. Create a warm harvest welcome for family and friends with the Outdoor Heirloom Collection from Balsam Hill. Arrange these pumpkins on the front porch or by the hearth to add festive flair to your fall décor.
Striking Fall Tablescape with Pumpkins & Florals
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Look to the land for seasonal table décor. Remove the top of heirloom pumpkins to create a trio of festive vases. Fill them with bouquets of roses, persimmons, wheat, dried lotus pods, hydrangeas, fern fronds, and oak leaves.
Creative Fall Floral Display
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Carve out a medium-to-large pumpkin to fit a store-bought pot of mums. Then, simply place inside as you would a pot. To maximize the look, fill smaller gourds with containers of pansies to create a lovely fall trio.
Rustic Fall Entranceway
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A beautifully designed front porch area with fall garland and wreath.
Country Fields Wreath and Garland
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Add countryside charm to your fall decorations with this collection designed by celebrated floral artist Brad Schmidt.
Outdoor Harvest Bloom Foliage
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Celebrate the beauty of the changing seasons in Autumn’s vivid colors withBalsam Hill’s Outdoor Harvest Bloom Foliage.
What is the Best Fall Foliage to Use?
There are so many beautiful options to choose from when it comes to fall foliage and flowers. Use deep red, orange leaves and vibrant yellow leaves, and purple blooms to create a stunning autumnal display.
Popular choices include maple, oak leaves, marigolds, and chrysanthemums. Of course, it’s essential to consider the colors and style of your space when choosing fall foliage and flowers, but with so many options available, you’re sure to find something that works perfectly for your needs.
Use seasonal blooms such as chrysanthemums, marigolds, asters, camellias, and dahlias. Choose pots and urns in muted earth tones to pick up on the fall theme and provide an appealing contrast to your flowers.
Fall Pumpkin & Floral Arrangement
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A striking floral arrangement using a cut out pumpkin filled with violas, pansies, red and green leaf lettuce, thyme, and rosemary. Clean the pumpkin with a Clorox wipe, cut a hole in the top, and scoop out seeds. Line with aluminum foil or a plastic bag, and fill three-quarters full with potting soil and plants.
Outdoor Harvest Blossom Garland
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Add welcoming Autumn color to your outdoor décor with the Outdoor Harvest Blossom Collection.
Where’s the Best Place to Purchase Fall Decor?
Three of the best places to purchase Fall Home Decor are Balsam Hill, Pottery Barn, and Afloral. Balsam Hill is the perfect choice if you are looking for seasonal wreaths, garlands, and faux floral arrangements.
Afloral has a small team that carefully curates a custom and seasonal collection of boutique, premium florals, and vases you can’t buy anywhere else. They test every item in our homes, source only from unique and sustainable vendors, and deliver an environmentally thoughtful experience from seed to centerpiece. You’ll find a gorgeous selection of faux and dried florals, pinecones, dried oranges, and stunning vases here. They are definitely worth checking out!
Autumn’s Softer Side
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DIY Fall Decor Projects
If you enjoy crafting, why not try DIY fall decor projects? Not only will this allow you to add a personal touch to your living space, but it can also be a fun and fulfilling activity. Here are a few DIY fall decor ideas to get you inspired:
1. Fall Wreath: Create a beautiful fall wreath using dried flowers, leaves, and branches. You can customize it with your favorite colors and textures to reflect your style.
2. Pumpkin Centerpiece: Carve out a pumpkin and use it as a unique centerpiece for your dining table or coffee table. Fill it with fall flowers or candles for an eye-catching display.
3. Leaf Garland: Collect fallen leaves from your backyard and create a stunning leaf garland on your mantel or staircase. You can paint them in warm autumnal colors or leave them in their natural state for a rustic look.
Remember, the beauty of DIY projects is that you can personalize them to suit your style and preferences. Let your creativity shine, and have fun with it!
Fall Decorating Ideas: Storing and Organizing Seasonal Decor
Once the fall season ends, storing and organizing your seasonal decor is important. This will ensure it stays in good condition and is easy to access when the next fall season arrives. Here are a few tips for storing and organizing your fall decor:
1. Invest in Storage Containers: Purchase sturdy storage containers specifically designed for seasonal decor. These containers will protect your decor from dust, moisture, and pests.
2. Label and Sort: When packing away your fall decor, label each container and sort items by category. This will make it easier to find specific items when you’re ready to decorate for the following fall season.
3. Store in a Dry and Cool Location: Find a dry and cool location to store your seasonal decor. Avoid areas prone to moisture or extreme temperature fluctuations, as these can damage your decor over time.
By storing and organizing your fall decor properly, you’ll ensure that it stays in good condition and is ready to be enjoyed for many fall seasons.
Conclusion: Enjoying the Cozy Atmosphere of Your Transformed Living Space
As explored in this article, transforming your living space with fall decor is a beautiful way to embrace the changing season and create a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
From choosing a color palette that reflects the warmth of fall to incorporating natural elements and adding layers of texture, there are endless possibilities for creating a space that exudes the season’s essence. With creativity, resourcefulness, and attention to detail, you can transform your living space into a warm and inviting retreat you’ll never want to leave.
I hope you enjoyed this post! For further ideas on decorating for fall, check out my posts on Rustic Fall Decorating Ideas, and Rustic Thanksgiving Tablescape Ideas.
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