100 Inspiring Fall Decorating Ideas

Easy fall decorating ideas you can use to create a festive fall home.

There’s something truly magical about the transition from summer to autumn, and what better way to celebrate this beautiful change than by decorating our spaces with warm, cozy, and inspiring fall decorations? You will find lots of ideas in this stunning collection of 100 decorating ideas that will bring the spirit of fall indoors. Embrace the season’s beauty and warmth with 100 Inspiring Fall Decorating Ideas!

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• Use blue and white with orange. It works like magic to give orange a sophisticated look.
• Break up saturated orange from pumpkins by using lots of white items with them. This is a great designer’s secret!
• If you don’t like bright orange, try burnt orange. It is much softer and easier to decorate with!
• Offset fall’s dark colors by adding something white or a light neutral to your decor.
• See The Smart Girl’s Guide To Easy Fall Decorating. Decorate smarter!

• Create an easy fall centerpiece that will make any room you put it in instantly seasonally festive.
• Use a pedestal cake plate as a foundation for a fall arrangement.
• Create one big WOW FACTOR arrangement on your dining room or kitchen table.
• SEE MORE IDEAS FOR BLUE AND WHITE FALL DECORATING HERE

• Make blue and white Chinoiserie pumpkins. So, so easy! You do not need to be crafty to make one! SEE BLUE AND WHITE PUMPKIN DIY HERE.
• Mix pumpkins with pinecones for a pretty look.
• Use good-looking fall leaves (faux or real) as fluff and filler in arrangements.
• Collect acorns and scatter them about. See how to get rid of any bugs and critters lurking in them HERE.

• Perch a pumpkin on a chair.
• Use a tight fall color palette.
• Add an attractive throw or scarf to your fall decor.
• Pumpkins don’t have to be perfect to be pretty! Pick pumpkins with scars, warts, and character.

• “Scrunch” throws so they look like you were using them. It’s a welcoming look.
• Think “cozy” when decorating for fall.
• Use fabric with lots of texture.
• Burlap is the perfect fall fabric.
• This year’s fall color is HONEY. It’s a beautiful color that goes with everything. Use it in your home.

• Add a couple fall pillows to your collection every year.
• Choose one flat surface in your home to decorate with lots of pumpkins and fall elements. A mantel is a great choice.
• See The Ultimate Guide To Styling The Perfect Fall Mantel HERE.
• Group different-sized candles, candleholders, and lanterns together for lots of beautiful ambiance!
• Use your fireplace! It does not have to be for special occasions!
• Add a bit of green when decorating for fall.

• Make a fall vignette for the tables in your home.
• SEE HOW TO CREATE A FALL VIGNETTE HERE.
• Use a textural basket for vignettes.
• Use seasonal flowers like sunflowers, hydrangeas, and pyracantha in white vases or big jars.
• Add fluffy green filler to your fall flowers.
• Fall is the perfect time to pick roadside flowers, grasses, and other brambly sticks and twigs to use in arrangements.
• You might like 5 Beautiful Organics To Help You Transition From Summer To Early Fall for more ideas!
• See How To Make A Fringed Burlap Table Runner Perfect For Fall HERE.

• Cover books with burlap and use them in fall decor. See How To Cover Books With Burlap HERE.
• Use cut birch rounds as risers in fall decor, so textural and attractive.
• Corks have so much texture, too. Collect wine bottle corks and use them when you decorate. Put them in clear containers.
• Coordinate colors and patterns in your fall decor from one room to the next.

• You don’t have to be crafty to make this stunning FALL LEAF WREATH. 5 Easy Fall Front Door Decorations has more front door ideas.
• Fill a Dough bowl with pretty fall natural elements. See my latest Fall Dough Bowl Here. You will love how easy the 10 Minute Fall Dough Bowl is.
• Use a pretty fall throw or Tartan car rug as a tablecloth.

• Make a succulent-topped pumpkin! Make a big Succulent Topped Pumpin Here.
• Or make the darling mini version of Baby Boo Succulent Topped Pumpkins.
• When fall is over, transplant the succulents from the top of your pumpkins to a shallow dish with a cacti planting medium.
• Choose unusually shaped pumpkins or pumpkins in fun colors to add to your home.
• When using real pumpkins, put a plate under them so they don’t ruin your furniture! And check them daily for rot. Use 8 Tips For Keeping Pumpkins Fresh Longer.

• Use real or faux bittersweet.
• Grab a fall garland and cut it apart to use in fall decor. This is a real money-saver!
• Add fairy or string lights to your fall decor
• Put mini pumpkins and squash in a large cloche
• Use more natural fall decor and let go of fall nick-nacks!

• Put pheasant feathers into a tall glass container.
• Add pinecones to the bottom of a vignette as filler.
• Mix rustic wood with silver or goldtone metal for a rich look
• Bring in hydrangeas to dry. How To Dry Hydrangeas is a step-by-step guide for drying these beautiful blooms.

• Add a fall garland to the front of a mantel or draped over the headboard of a bed. Garlands offer a bit dose of fall wherever you put them.
• Put a candlestick with a taper inside a big lantern, what a unique look.
• And pinecones and fall naturals go together.
• Use faux and real pumpkins together. The real pumpkins make the faux pumpkins look real!
• Sit a trio of tiny pumpkins on a stack of books.
• Use wicker or rattan placemats. They add so much texture!

• Tuck pumpkins in unexpected places! Dishes and little pumpkins look great together.
• Use white pumpkins with lots of white decor or dishes for a beautiful fall look!
• Fill a big bowl with tiny pumpkins and willow balls.
• Cut leaves out of old books and burlap, and tuck them into your fall decor.

• Your bedrooms deserve a little bit of fall decorating! Add a few fall pillows to your beds. You can see Easy Fall Bedroom Ideas and how I lightly decorated our bedroom for the season.
• Put fall magazines in a guest room. What a nice surprise for overnight visitors.
• Change out bedding for fall.
• Add a little jar, vase, or container of fall flowers or brambles to sit on a bedside table.

• Stack pumpkins
• Use a bright plaid throw with fall colors. See my favorite Ancient Buchannan Tartan Throw Here.
• Cut branches from a colorful tree and put them in a big glass jug filled with water.
• Put cut wheat sheaves in a vase or pottery. You can also tie the sheaves together with a fall-inspired ribbon so they stand alone.

• Repeat fall elements on a bookshelf.
• Paint books to work with fall decor.
• Decoupage books and other accent decor with fall napkins. See How To Decoupage, it’s fun, so easy, and very addictive.
• Add textural baskets to fall decor
• Use battery-operated candles on timers for a soft ambiance and safe glow.
• Make an easy and pretty Fall Candleholder In 10 Minutes.

• Combine rustic fall items and refined things for a gorgeous fall look.
• Cut off the stems of this year’s pumpkins before you throw them away. Dry and save them. Pop the stem of a faux pumpkin off and hot glue a real stem you saved onto the faux pumpkin! Wow! Makes a faux pumpkin look real! One of my favorite fall tips!
• Go through all your fall decor before you put it away and toss it or give away worn or outdated decor you have not used in several years. This will make decorating next fall so much easier!
• Make a list of fall things you need to be on the lookout for next year.
• Fill a dough bowl with lots of pumpkins and fall leaves.

• Hang a BIG fall wreath on your front door.
• Make a beautiful fall wreath for your front door. See 5 Easy Front Door Decorations Here.
• Spray outdoor wreaths with a fixative to preserve it from moisture. See Clear Fixative Here.
• Hang outdoor wreaths indoors on mirrors, inside doors, or above the mantel.

• Group fall elements en mass for a WOW factor look.
• Create a fall coffee/tea bar. Collect fall flavored coffees, teas, creamers, and other little fall nibbles. Put shaker jars of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cocoa out to shake into coffee or tea.
• Decorate with Indian Corn. Corn husks make great fillers!
• Put a pair of tall boots near your door with a few twiggy branches or bittersweet in them!
• See last year’s Use What You Have Fall Tour with lots of helpful fall ideas.

• Don’t forget to layer a rug and fall doormat at your front door!
• See How To Dress Up A Front Door Mat Like A Pro
• Put a bowl of fall candies near your front door and share a treat with friends and family before they leave your home.
• Add a monogram to a faux pumpkin using letter decals
• Paint designs on a pumpkin with a white acrylic paint pen. So easy and so pretty!
• Do something fun with a pumpkin! See How To Paint Easy Patterns On A Pumpkin, How To Make Beautiful Blue And White Chinoiserie Pumpkins, Large Decoupage Pumpkin, Pumpkin Candles, and Succulent Topped Mini Pumpkins.

• Use wooden things like cake plates and candlesticks. Wood lends itself to fall
• 11 Smart And Inexpensive Fall Decorating Ideas has lots of ideas that are budget-friendly and so pretty.
• Use pinecones as filler in the bottom of fall arrangements. Then, put pumpkins and other fall decor on top of the pinecones. It will look like the whole arrangement is filled with fall decor… not just the top! Another of my favorite designer tips!

• Add things like seed pods, goldenrod, moss, fresh fruit, deer sheds, berries, and grapevine to pumpkins and arrange them on a platter, shallow bowl, or in a pedestal dish. Use the pinecone tip above.
• See a pretty Velvet Pumpkin Arrangement to get lots of fall decorating ideas.
• It’s not too early to start using faux fur pillows and throws.

• Don’t let a pumpkin stand alone. Even this gorgeous feather-colored pumpkin needs a few other fall elements around it!
• Add a little sign to a wreath that says… fall welcome, fall y’all, fall blessing, etc.
• Fill your home with the scents of fall. See how to make an easy Simmering Fall Potpourri.
• Iron real fall leaves between a dishtowel and put it in a glass frame. Write a fall saying on the glass with an acrylic marker.

• Gild a pumpkin. It’s so addictive! See How To Gild A Pumpkin Here.
• Split the stem of a real baby boo pumpkin and slip a place card or saying in the stem.
• Put a fall wreath on a pedestal cake plate and place a big pumpkin on top of the wreath. Instant fall arrangement!

• Put real or faux fall branches in a large glass jug or jar.
• Add lanterns to your fall decor.
• Invest in real-looking faux fall foliage.
• A tobacco basket is a perfect thing to corral fall decor!

• Use a fall throw or scarf as a tablecloth.
• Eat al fresco.
• Plaids and tartans are perfect patterns for fall! Even if they don’t match, they really still go together.
• Seeded eucalyptus is such a pretty filler for fall. And it is so inexpensive!
• Copper is the quintessential fall metal. Treat yourself to a few copper mugs. You will love them!

• Use dried hydrangeas liberally. Cut lots of them and use them en mass in one gorgeous arrangement.
• Scatter pumpkins here and there in decor! This is a very quick and pretty way to add a bit of fall to your home.
• When real white pumpkins begin to turn yellowish, paint them white with acrylic craft paint.

• Decorate with mums indoors.
• Put mums in their original container in another pretty big container.
• If there are gaps between the mums and the container, fill them in with little pumpkins and gourds.
• Think of potted mums as long-lasting cut flowers. When the blooms start to look wilted, get new mums for indoors!
• See How To Care For Indoor Potted Mums.

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There you go! Over 100 (plus a few more) fall decorating ideas for your home! I hope you have been inspired to incorporate some of these fall decorating ideas in your home!