Fall Decorating Ideas
The third season of the year will give you many fall decorating ideas, as the weather turns crisp and people start donning heavier jackets.
The best thing is, you don't have to buy plastic decorations when you have nature's bounty to choose from.
Natural gourds and the like are more tasteful, less cookie-cutter looking and they are a more tasteful way to decorate. The colors of Autumn will create a lovely seasonal character for your home. Gourds, small pumpkins and leaves come together to make a lovely centerpiece for your dining room or coffee table. Use differing colors and sizes of squash and pumpkins, and fill in between them with gold and red fall leaves. Use a multi-tiered serving plate to make an arrangement of squash or pumpkins on each level. Small pumpkins and squash make great fall decorating ideas, as they can fill the top level, and then you can use smaller or mini gourds and leaves, and add some nuts, to create the lower levels. To welcome your guests with a warm inviting scent when they enter your home, check out these great Autumn Glow Pumpkin Candles ! They're really eye-catching and fill your home with a warm pumpkin-spice scent.
Tie together some tall, dried corn stalks and attach them to your mailbox post or the posts that support your porch. Use a festive ribbon of fall colors to twine them together, and add mums or pumpkins at the base. Tall and thin pumpkins make great vases for fall flowers. Clean the pumpkin out as though you were making a jack-o-lantern, but instead of carving out a face, simply use the shape of the hole you cut in the top, to arrange tall flowers. If you want smaller arrangements, mini pumpkins can hold shorter flower stems with ease. A single tree branch can become part of one of the cleverest fall decorating ideas. Cut one branch and lay it on your table, and then nest around it with mini pumpkins and gourds, nuts and leaves. This creates an elegant, yet simple centerpiece. Using a foam cone, you can create a beautiful topiary. Hot glue pine cones, walnuts and acorns onto the form, covering it entirely. This can decorate a countertop very effectively. Select some bright fallen leaves, and rub them with a moisturizing cream to keep them from curling and losing their color. After the cream dries, you can scatter them around a centerpiece, on a table or on the mantle of your fireplace.
Take some larger pumpkins and arrange them into a group on the stairs of your porch. You can paint messages or designs on the pumpkins, or carve them. Dress up your door with a beautiful Fall Door Wreath for a warm welcome to your home. Spelling out the word “welcome” with one letter on each pumpkin, for example, is one of the easiest and most effective fall decorating ideas. Fall is a beautiful time of year, and you can use its natural beauty to grace your home, both inside and out, for the season. Related Articles |