How to Decorate Your Home For Fall

Now that you’ve put away all your spooky decorations, you can now get ready for Thanksgiving and festive home decor! This can be a difficult holiday to decorate for. Thanksgiving requires more thought and planning than holidays like Christmas and Halloween. With that being said, here’s a helpful how-to on decorating your home for the fall!

Hand with burning match lighting a candle on the windowsill with cozy autumn still life with pumpkins, knitted woolen sweater and books. Autumn home decor.
Know Your Color Palettes

With fall comes neutral colors that are as warm as the home on Thanksgiving day. These include browns, darker reds, orange, tans, and off whites. Using these fall colors gives your home the comforting feeling of fall. This encourages the use of toasty throw blankets, warm beverages, and festive fall traditions.

Nature Inspired

Many festive fall decor items utilize fun nature fall foliage inspired themes. From pumpkins, acorns, pine cones, and leaves, you can never go wrong bringing nature inside. Adorning the inside of your home in fall leaves and putting a cheery wreath on the front door are fall staples everyone will love!

Woven basket brimming with vibrant dried flowers and plants, two small orange decorative pumpkins, set on wooden logs background. Seasonal home decor for fall holidays
Cozy Nooks

Create a cozy reading nook for the best spot to read all of your favorite books! Best done by a window, you can set up your cozy nook with ease! Using plush pillows, a warm blanket, and a lit candle, you can set the scene for a relaxing experience. Your cozy nook can be set up in the living room, bed room, loft, or anywhere you see fit!

Scented Candles

Do seasonal allergies stop you from taking in the fresh scents of nature every fall? If so, a quick and easy solution for this is purchasing fall scented candles for your home. Scents vary based on your preference, you can have nature inspired, dessert inspired, and everything in between! If you’re the crafty type, you can even make your own!

Plaid Accents

Besides the 1990’s, fall is the most fitting time to use plaid and flannel. This is versatile and useable for anything you can get your hands on. From pillows, dining table settings, welcome mats, kitchen cloths, and so much more! Break out the plaid and leave the mullets behind!

Pumpkin, cup of tea, cozy sweaters, autumn leaves, burning candle and vintage book in golden lights bokeh on white wooden background in room.
Seasonal Table Settings

Make every meal this month feel like Thanksgiving this month by adding seasonal table decor. Seasonal decorative table runners, fall themed dinnerware, pumpkins, and fresh flowers are great for bringing the festivities early! This also saves you time with decorating for Thanksgiving and can give you a head start on some of the December holidays.

Give Burlap and Twine Some Love

Farms have a certain, attractive aura to them that makes them the perfect decor inspiration for fall. For a rustic farmhouse look, go to your local craft store and purchase burlap and twine. These are often used as accent pieces like bows and knots, or can be more complementary and be used to cover any floral arrangement!

Autumn harvest or thanksgiving dinner table setting with plate, silverware, check print napkin, pumpkins and decor. Top view on a rustic wood background.

We hope this articles gives you some guidance on how to get your home ready for the fall and all its festivities. If you have your own pieces of advice, let us know by tagging us on Instagram @HomeByGeneva!