Fall is a magical time of year and your home can reflect your love of the season. Decorate your home this year to bring out the fall vibes with these seven easy tips.
1) Bring in Earth Tones
When the air smells of mulchy leaves and wet soil, you feel connected to nature and want to bring that feeling into your home. Earth tones like brown, light greens, and autumnal reds and yellows bring that fall feeling indoors. Use pillows, rugs, throws, or wall art that feature earth tones.
2) Dress Up the Fireplace
If you’re lucky enough to have a fire place in your home, make the most of it with seasonal decorations. Candles, miniature pumpkins, and foliage are classic design choices. As you get closer to Halloween, you can spook things up with fake spider webs, ravens, and vintage artifacts that look they belong in a mad scientist’s lab.
3) New Wood Dining Tables
Fall is a busy season when holidays and family get-togethers start to show up on the calendar. Is your home ready to host everyone for Thanksgiving dinner? Has your family grown and now you need more room at the dining table? There are plenty of options for elegant and beautiful dining tables that you can find online and get sent to your home before Thanksgiving. A wood dining table will always be in style, but come fall, it will feel homey and warm.
4) Dining Table Centerpieces
Is there anything more evocative of the season than your dining table centerpiece? Whether it’s Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, or Halloween, the dining table centerpiece lets you get crafty and creative. You can even use the quintessential fall fruit to make an organic, edible centerpiece. Apples preserve well left out and after you have guests over, no one will notice if your centerpiece slowly shrinks, will they? Pile them up in a wood basket and decorate with reds and yellows.
5) Cozy Up with Quilts
Fall can be a chilly time of year, especially if you try to save on heating by holding off on the furnace. That doesn’t mean you can’t cozy up with quilts in the living room. Make use of your fireplace and get warm and toasty. Fall is also a good time to switch out your throws.
6) Bring Autumn Scents
Half the joy of fall is the way it smells. From pumpkin spice to hot apple cider, the scents of fall are simply enchanting. While candles are a quick and easy way to bring in autumn scents, it doesn’t have to end there. For a special occasion, you could even boil a pot of autumnal spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to fill your home with that rich, sweet smell.
7) Decorate the Porch
Don’t stop inside, you can also decorate the porch, and you don’t have to wait for Halloween. Decorate your front door, railing, and mail box with orange brown garlands, corn stalks, straw, and other natural, woodsy decorations.
Get more out of the season by decorating in the spirit of fall. You don’t have to stop at these seven tips. Let your imagination carry you away.