A new season can be exciting in several ways, particularly if you’re looking to incorporate the changing weather and landscape into your interior design. To many, autumn is the season of pinecones, pumpkin soup, and cozy time by the fire. This season seems to be a celebration of the more quaint and comfortable homely life, as the evenings get cooler and the nights get longer. With the increased incentive to spend time in the comfort of your warm home, the autumn period is ideal for making small decoration changes that can improve your post-summer or back-to-school mood.
Autumn decor is about ensuring your living spaces, porch, blankets, and stationery have a more “autumny” feel. Often, this means switching the vibrant color patterns of summer decoration for the more muted earthy tones of autumn, such as brown and burgundy. Here are a few tips you will want to consider.
1. Creating Cozy Outdoor Spaces
The cooler weather often makes for more enjoyable, cooler evenings. If you have any porch or garden space, consider installing string lights and investing in throw pillows and lanterns to create a cozy haven you can watch the stars settle in the sky from. You’ll want some plush covers and duvets that make the space look soft and welcoming, and the color tones should match autumn themes. Tones such as dark oranges and muted yellows are suggestive of autumn without lacking coloring and will contrast well with the green of your grass.
2. Use Your Kitchen Dishes To Spread Pumpkin Fever
Nothing suggests the build-up to Halloween like mini-pumpkins. If you have young children, they are likely to enjoy the idea of having these autumn holiday staples on the kitchen counter the entire season, and this can help you encourage them to eat more pumpkin-based food. Pumpkins also have a rich aroma that is, to many, characteristic of autumn, which can help add a layer to the seasonal atmosphere of your home. You’ll want to place the pumpkins in the middle of a beautiful plain dish on your kitchen’s centerpiece counter. The pumpkins should preferably have different coloring from each other to add authenticity and a rustic edge.
3. Plaid Tablecloths or Dressing
Plaid is reminiscent of barn parties and late summers in the countryside. There’s something classic, homely and comforting about most plaid prints, and their pigmented red, blue or brown coloring is ideal for dressing up a dining table. This gives added vibrance to the center of your dining room in a subtle, tasteful, and evocative manner. You can combine different plaid prints for a more colorful, buoyant look.
4. Pumpkin Vases
Pumpkin vases are a particularly cool idea if you’re into DIY or crafts, or have children that would enjoy learning some pottery. Pumpkins are some of the easier pottery shapes to make; therefore, you won’t be needing much practice to create a piece you can use. Alternatively, you can shop for some cute pumpkin vases online, or carve makeshift vases from real pumpkins. You will then want to flower those vases with thematically-appropriate flowers, such as Pansies and Celosias.
5. Dark Bedding
Bedding is likely to be one of the few decoration areas where you might not have much room for change. You have likely already chosen your bed frame, mattress, and bed sheets based on what best matched your overall decoration themes, and the comfort metrics you care about. However, there are plenty of small adjustments you can make, for instance, by investing in new pillowcases. Shades like brown, mustard and dark green will be evocative of autumn and can complement almost any sheet and duvet color. Make sure to use materials like wool, which will be soft to the touch and in line with the cozy feel you are aiming for. While choosing dark tones, stay clear of black and grey, which can be, for many, more suggestive of winter.
6.Fallen Leaves Wallpaper And Posters
Fallen leaves are quintessential autumn imagery. Using fallen leaves in your wallpaper or wall decorations will incorporate this classic symbol into your interior design, without having to deal with the mess of real leaf arrangements. You can purchase a poster featuring fallen leaves online, have it edited and color-corrected based on your own tastes, printed and framed in rich wooden framing. You’ll want to go for a mahogany or oak frame to support the wood and nature theme you’re going for.
7. String Lights For Firefly Jars
Fireflies are a favorite of most children and feel deeply magical to many adults. However, real fireflies are practically impossible to capture, let alone use to brighten your interiors for several days. However, you can mimic the fireflies-in-jar effect using string LED lights, which you can place into a glass jar with chestnuts, leaves, and pinewood fragments you can find virtually anywhere.
