15+ Cozy Fall Decorating Ideas – Easy Autumn Decor Ideas
When Fall arrives with all its beautiful colors, we spend more time indoors. Sweaters, football, comfort food, falling leaves, and crispy cool weather are part of our daily lives now.
With so much time spent indoors, we don’t really need an excuse to do some Fall decorating, do we? These easy Fall decorating ideas will make your home look cozy and inviting!
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~George Eliot
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Cozy Fall Decorating Ideas
Looking for ways to make your home feel cozy and comfortable this fall? Look no further than these cozy fall decorating ideas! From adding a few Fall decor items to your home to creating a cozy ambiance with candles and fireplaces, there are plenty of ways to make your home feel warm and inviting this season.
Fall Entryway
Greet guests with a pumpkin display and use beautiful autumn leaves to craft a wreath and garland to decorate the door.
Use items like bales of hay and big lanterns with LED lights for the finishing touch.
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ~ Lauren Destefano
Rustic Autumn Centerpiece
A metal plate, a few pine cones, and candle holders make for really easy fall centerpieces. Set one on a dinner table or in your cozy nook to enjoy all through fall.
Fall Mason Jars
Fall Mason jars in autumn colors found on Amazon.com
Is there anything you can’t do with mason jars? Paint them in fall colors like red, yellow, brown, and orange and use them as beautiful centerpieces.
Add flowers or leaves and you’ll have the easiest fall table decor ever made!
Autumn Wreaths
A simple fall door wreath in gorgeous autumn hues will spruce up any door and look welcoming and colorful to guests. Make one yourself using materials like leaves, burlap, mesh or buy a handmade one.
Autumn Wreath with Scarecrow Decor
This 15″ fall wreath with scarecrow ornament is a really nice decor piece for Autumn and Thanksgiving.
LED Lighted Maple Leaves Wreath
This wreath is made of maple leaves, which gives it a beautiful autumnal color. The LED lighting provides a festive touch and welcomes guests with a warm glow.
Silk Fall Door Wreath with mini pumpkins, gourds, acorns and silk fall foliage
You can easily attach a Fall wreath to any door using wreath hangers.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus
Fall Garland Ideas
A garland is an easy way to decorate your home for fall. Use them for the fireplace mantel, door frames, windows, or railings for an instant Autumn decor update.
You can find lighted garlands that are battery-powered for even more coziness.
Fall Leaves Garland with Lights from Amazon
The above-pictured garland has yellow lights, which add a beautiful warm glow to your home.
Just a few more ideas of what you can do with a fall garland. Use one to decorate a beautiful mirror or as part of an Autumn centerpiece. The possibilities are endless!
Fall Tree With Lights
You don’t have to wait till Christmas to put up a tree! Add a Fall tree with lights to your hallway, porch, or living room for an instant warm glow.
Lighted Autumn Maple Tree
This maple tree with gorgeous burned orange leaves is suitable for indoors and outdoors. It comes lighted and will look great on the porch.
Pumpkin Decorating Ideas
It isn’t autumn unless you’ve seen at least one pumpkin patch by the side of the road. They are a staple of the fall decor – not to mention Halloween for the kids.
But, pumpkins are made for much more than just scaring folks. They represent harvest, bounty, and thanks.
When it comes to using pumpkins in your autumn themes around the house, the possibilities are endless.
Here are a few ways you can utilize those pumpkins that you might not have tried.
Pumpkin vases
Not all pumpkins are used for carving. This pumpkin planter may turn out to be the centerpiece of your harvest table.
Choose a large pumpkin, preferably orange. Use a sharp knife to cut small holes in the pumpkin, around the center. Place a florist vial filled with water snugly into each hole so the top portion of it sticks out.
Place large colorful-cut blooms in each tube. The blooms need to be big enough to obscure the presence of the tube. Place the pumpkin in the center of your table or on display elsewhere in the house.
Replace the flowers as they wither.
Porch Pumpkin Planters
This is not actually a real pumpkin but a plastic pumpkin candy basket painted with black chalkboard paint. Place your favorite fall blooms inside of them and then use chalk to write festive messages on the outside.
Pumpkin Candle Holders
Instead of using glass votive holders, use mini pumpkins. Hollow out the inside and place one small candle in each. For a more dramatic effect, paint the pumpkins different colors first.
Mantel Pumpkins
Using acrylic paint and painter’s tape, create different designs on your pumpkins. Try gold polka dots, and monochromatic pumpkins in bold colors like blue, red, green, gold, and white. Add stripes to pumpkins, harvest sayings, floral designs or whatever suits your décor. Place them on the porch, around the fireplace, as a centerpiece, or anywhere in the house, you choose.
Etched Pumpkins
Instead of carving all the way through the flesh, simply etch designs into the top layer of the skin. It provides a natural contrast on pumpkins of all colors without breaching the inside of the pumpkin.
They can be displayed around the house, on steps, and in windows because they will last longer.
Set of 3 decorative pumpkins found here
Pumpkins are not just to make jack o lanterns for Halloween…They are beautiful for the mantel, table or the porch. Pick a few small ones and group them together. These pumpkin decorations can also be used for Thanksgiving!
Fall Centerpiece Ideas
The centerpiece is the focal point of the table, much like the fireplace is in the living room or great room. People gather around the table and it is the first thing they notice. There are a number of great ideas you can use to accent your Fall table decor this year.
Beautiful berry branches
Berry branches look stunning on your fall table. This simple idea can be the starting point for other ideas. For instance, lay a long, oval circle of entwined red berry branches the length of the middle of your table. Depending on the color of your table, this effect alone with the red berries is good.
In the center of this loop, place a tall, earth-tone vase. Fill it with dark-colored mums. Place small, white pumpkins inside the loop as well.
Basket of pine cones
Place a white basket in the center of your table. Fill it with dark pine cones and colorful artificial or real autumn leaves. Sprinkle with cinnamon potpourri or use a cinnamon room spray on them.
Hurricane vases and candles
Candles are always perfect as a centerpiece. In this instance, try tall pillar candles in a hurricane vase. Choose colors that reflect autumn: orange, red, brown, and white. Surround the candles with stones, dried fall corn kernels, and/or red berries. Place gourds, pears, and apples around the candle arrangement in the center of your table.
Potpourri on a tray
If you don’t like the idea of items all around the table like the berry branches, use a wooden tray. Layer it with pillar candles. These can be scented candles or LED candles without a real flame. Layer dried, natural potpourri around them.
The best thing about this centerpiece is that it travels. Move it to a coffee table in the living room, the counter in the bathroom, or even the mantel if you like.
* Centerpieces can feature a variety of elements natural, real, or artificial, and portable to share your look with any room in the house.
Fall Table Runners and Tablecloths
Just simply adding a fall tablecloth or runner instantly updates the whole decor. Leaf patterns are very popular and so is buffalo check!
Fall decor for the dinner table….it’s so easy! Start with a beautiful fall-themed table runner like the one above…..
…or get a full set of fall tablecloths, napkins, and harvest decorations like pumpkins, pine cones, maple leaves, and a cornucopia basket.
More: Best Thanksgiving Tablecloths
Set of 3 Led Candles found here
Add some autumn mood lighting by using decorated LED candles like the ones above. Beautiful, long-lasting, and safe to use.
Another great way to light up: Autumn fairy lights! The above fairy lights are made from rattan balls and warm white LED lights. The rattan balls with lights are in typical fall colors like dark red, brown, and orange!
Use these fairy lights to easily decorate any area in your house like the porch, the fireplace mantle or add them to a Fall table display.
Set of 2 candle holders found here
I love lighting a candle in Autumn and these votive candle holders just get me in the mood for sitting on the sofa and drinking hot chocolate!
Fall Throw Pillow Covers
Decorating the couch for Fall is easy: Just buy some new throw pillow cases. Cheap and easy Fall decorating idea right here!
There are so many prints and colors available, see them all here.
A maple tree like the one above is a beautiful addition to a porch or next to the front door. This Maple Tree with 120 warm white lights is suitable for both indoors and outdoors.
How are you going to decorate your home to show that fall has arrived?
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