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(Pumpkin-Free) Fall Home Designs

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Ready to *fall* in love with new seasonal decor?

You can probably smell pumpkin, cinnamon-flavored hot teas, and coffee on the streets as everybody welcomes the fall season.

Besides the beautiful weather, colors, and autumn spirit on the streets and in the air, some of us fill our homes and gardens with seasonal elements and decorations to get us in the spirit.

While it can be fun to decorate for the seasons, some people hear “fall decor” and immediately think PUMPKIN. Sure, pumpkins are cute and all, but bulbous orange masses flooding your home might not properly integrate with your existing design scheme. If you’re looking for ways to decorate your home for the fall without turning it into a farm, here are some ideas to decorate tastefully and festively.

Flowers, leaves, fall foliage, pinecones, dried fruits and veggies, grape vines, and nut shells are a handful of popular themes that can serve as inspiration.

You can mix or build all these elements artfully.

One of my favorites is a garland made from oversized pinecones that incorporate leaflets or flowers.

Important: remember to choose a look you can stick to through Halloween and Thanksgiving seasons. If you focus on one holiday, you’ll need to redecorate pretty soon.

Let's think seasonally and bring fall colors into our homes with the following ideas that are fresher than the changing air:

1. Decorate with green apples, flowers, and dried leaves. Feel free to incorporate branches as filler. Depending on where you live, you can easily gather them for free! For a romantic pop, assemble some of your favorite candles of varying heights and nest them in the center of the arrangement.

2. Make pomanders with cloves and oranges. These are aesthetically intriguing and create a natural perfume for the atmosphere. Place them in a decorative bowl or stack them into a small pyramid like you would with loose Christmas ornaments. Wanna get extra creative? Try plotting where you will puncture the orange with the cloves by using a non-toxic marker to make little dots in the shape of a whimsical design of your choice. Find some inspiration here.

3. Mix dried flowers, herbs, grape vines, and branches to create door hangers, and spice up balconies and patios. No time for that? We found a gorgeous one at Williams Sonoma!

4. Make a cornhusk garland! If you’re like me, you’re sick of the same old wreaths adorned with color-changing leaves on your front door. Mix things up by getting creative with the textures of dried and frayed husks, which can easily be painted and woven to create unique arrangements.

5. Make luminaries and paper cutout lanterns. Be careful with this one– if you’re using real candles inside (instead of electric tealights), you’ll need to ensure that the lantern is large enough to keep away from the flame. If you’re going for a smaller design or something that sits on your table, we suggest sticking to the electric tealights. You can find a tutorial on how to make lanterns here.

Design hack: Keep these decorations when the season is over. They can easily be spraypainted silver, white, and light shades of blue as winter-themed decorations! We won’t tell…;)

GoodLuck and don't forget to tag #goodfeed when sharing your results!