50 Ways to Decorate this Autumn Season
Autumn is a time of harvest and it's the season to be thankful and grateful for all the bountiful blessings we receive. With efforts to embrace fall, we find ways to incorporate all the earthy treasures from this time of year into our everyday lives from what we eat and drink, to what we wear and how we decorate our homes.
When it comes to decorating your home in a festive way for the season, there are so many affordable options available. Nature gives in abundance, presenting us with pine cones, gourds, pumpkins, hay bales, colorful leaves, flowers and acorns along with many seasonal fruits and vegetables to name just a few. You can use nature's bounty to creatively inspire a seasonal theme throughout your home and garden.
Also, consider how you can incorporate your fall decor for when you throw football tailgating parties, any sort of Oktoberfest celebration, when decorating for Halloween and trick-or-treaters but also for your cherished Thanksgiving holiday dinner with family and friends. As a side note: Some popular autumn plants that can be toxic to dogs. If you are unsure if a particular plant is poisonous to pets, please be sure to do your research in advance.
Below are 50 ways how you can incorporate the fall season into your home and garden.
25 Outdoor Decorating Tips
1. Hang a seasonal autumn wreath on your front door.
2. Line your front steps with pumpkins, gourds and fall flowers or plants.
3. Make luminaries to line your front walkway and steps.
4. Surround a hay bale with pumpkins, gourds and fall flowers.
5. Create a pumpkin topiaries for around the front door or along the side of an entrance to walkways and garden paths or even a garage, barn or garden shed.
6. Decorate a front door knocker with mixed seasonal greens with colorful ribbons or fall flowers.
7. Make or buy a store bought garland to hang around the front door.
8. Bring your garden to your doorstep such as potted kale, cabbage and other seasonal veggies and herbs.
9. Use corn husks or corn stalks to accent a fence, front porch or back deck.
10. Plant your window boxes with a variety of ornamental seasonal plants.
11. Spruce up your patio furniture with a variety of fall colors by mixing and matching plaid pillows and blankets for those chilly autumn nights.
12. Set up a fire pit, place a bag of pinecone fire starters nearby, get an old wooden basket to hold your firewood, place a few blankets on Adirondack chairs then set up a vintage tv stand with seasonal mugs and napkins for hot mulled apple cider.
13. Use various size garden containers to display fountain grass flanked with colorful fall flowers and hanging vines.
14. Brighten up your garden path with solar lights. For real autumn ambiance, cut out and discard the tops of each pumpkin then put the solar lights in its place.
15. Decorate a picnic table with an outdoor table cloth, harvest plants and mini gourds and pumpkins.
16. Switch things up by using white pumpkins to accent your outdoor area insteads of the traditional orange pumpkins. Tie the look together by incorporating pale squashes, gourds and tall potted wheat.
17. Fill a wheelbarrow with hay and the collected pumpkins and squashes from your garden and then position it in the yard for a fall harvest display.
18. Hang stringed lights to illuminate your autumn decor and landscaped yard.
19. Plant seasonal flowers in garden beds throughout your garden.
20. Get a doormat that truly welcomes the season.
21. Place seasonal garden sculptures around for a whimsical touch.
22. Put a scarecrow amongst your holiday decorations or use smaller scarecrows on a stick to enhance any fall exhibit.
23. Make a cozy sitting area out of hay bales by placing blankets and pillows so it becomes an inviting place to rest.
24. Add long drapes to your indoor porch to create a stylish comfy ambiance.
25. Put your large potted mums in wooden baskets to create a farmhouse feel.
25 Indoor Decorating Tips
1. Hang dried herbs and flowers with twine from your kitchen window.
2. Place white candles in each window to bring a special mood to your house during this special fall season. Change the lightbulbs to orange for Halloween festivities.
3. Decorate your fireplace mantel with pine cones, fall garland, small pumpkins and candles.
4. Place a beautiful fall flower arrangement with a lot of depth and texture on a desk, side table or dining room centerpiece.
5. Make pomanders with oranges or pomegranates and place in a pretty bowl.
6. Incorporate a terrarium or a few small terrariums to any table display.
7. Spiff up a chandelier with fall inspired garland or hang a string of acorns.
8. Create a simple kitchen display of green and red apples in a large glass vase.
9. Place pussy willows in a decorative floor vase.
10. Accent wood elements on your tabletop decor and pair with autumn flowers and plants for a very natural, rustic fall feel.
11. Line your staircase with etched pumpkins and various sized votive candles.
12. Decorate a bar or bar cart with festive liquors, wines and beers. Add those seasonal glasses and copper mugs along with other antique glasses that'll hold festive garnishes such as local edible flowers, native berries or cinnamon sticks.
13. Use festive dinnerware to include plates, bowls, glasses, serving bowls, platters, tiered serving trays, saucers and a punch bowl for when you host your own special farm-to-plate harvest dinners and Sunday brunch to celebrate the season.
15. Decorate your dining room table for a special and elaborate autumnal feast with fall placemats, matching napkins and an artful but natural centerpiece .
16. Create the scent of autumn by placing potpourri in decorative containers. To naturally enhance the fragrance throughout your home, make a homemade potpourri boil on your stovetop for a chemical-free alternative to store bought air fresheners.
17. Natural eco-friendly beeswax candles should be placed everywhere and in every room of your house. Use different styles of candlesticks to bring out the season.
18. Line your handrails with leafy garland you can string yourself from collected leaves or get store bought garland.
19. Bring your terracotta and clay potted fall flowers and plants indoors.
20. Fill a cornucopia with acorns, pine cones and gourds and other gathered objects from your yard or the woods.
21. Put bittersweet around a display of tabletop pumpkins.
22. Hang an old basket or wooden crate full of fall flowers or wheat on the wall.
23. Set out in a bowl of whole walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, almonds and hickory nuts. Be sure to keep a nutcracker nearby.
24. Use festive napkin holders and place cards for your decorated table. These you can make yourself with a little creativity.
25. Paint your pumpkins to compliment the colors of your room.