Ways To Decorate The Home This Fall

1. A "Wow Factor" Fall Wreath

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Add color to your standard and slightly boring front door by decorating it with a seasonal wreath.  Now Fall is upon us, take advantage and use white pumpkins, berries and greenery.  Be as adventurous as you want or even use the cheats method and get a store bought wreath, adding your own touches to it!

2. Create A Cornucopia

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Creating a centerpiece for your table or sideboard can literally lighten up the whole room.  Think outside the box and use succulents alongside veggies, mixing and matching up the rustic colors of the season.  A cornucopia is simple to design and the younger members of the household can join in.

3. Set Up A Fall Tableau

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Celebrate Fall by bringing the stunning hues of the season into your home.  Make a seasonally inspired table in your foyer or hallway to bring warmth into the house, even when the weather has turned and it's getting chilly outside.  Terracotta pots always look effective.

4. Design A Fall Inspired Bar

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Pimp up the drinks bar in your living room.  One really easy look is to pile pumpkins into a Champagne bucket or scoop out small pumpkins, line them with greaseproof paper and put snacks in them such as potato chips and tortillas.  Add a few flowers from your yard so you don't get pumpkin overload.

5. Carve Out A Mumkin

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What better way to display Fall flowers than in carved out pumpkins! You can purchase some chrysanthemums from your local garden center if you don't have any growing at home.  Smaller scooped out pumpkins would make great little pots for pansies and they're really eye catching.

6. Make A Fall Foliage Bouquet

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If you aren't necessarily the artistic type, creating a Fall foliage bouquet might fill you with dread.  Take on board these few tips and you'll surprise yourself. Group together different sizes and colors of Fall leaves and arrange them like flowers.  Red maple leaves make a great focal point and greens could trail at the fringes.

7. Stack Pumpkins On Any Table

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If you want to decorate a small area in your home for Fall but have only 2 minutes to spare, then pile up some pumpkins of different sizes on a table any way you want.  You'll still have a minute spare to admire your handy work.  When you're fed up of admiring them, scoop them out and make a pumpkin pie!

8. Make Pomanders

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There are a huge amount of displays in department stores of scented pumpkins which can last up until Christmas if they are scented with cloves and spices  Save a fortune by making your own. Display pomander citrus fruits studded with cloves and hang from a mantelpiece or mirror.  You can even arrange them in a bowl an the smell is gorgeous!

9. Use Pumpkins As Plates

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It would look so cool to serve snacks and small food items on your buffet table on pumpkins.  Go ahead then!  Find Cinderella pumpkins which are almost flat on top, cut the handle off each one and place a serving plate or tray that fits over the pumpkin's surface.  It will transform your table.

10. Impress Guests With A Formal Table

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For a celebratory or formal dinner, besides using decorative china and crispy ironed napkins, make your own place cards and stick on a small dried flower in the corner of each one.  Fill jam jars with Fall flowers, embracing the season and bringing elegance without breaking the budget.

11. Mix Dried Flowers And Herbs

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If you've never tried mixing herbs with dried flowers, then you really have to try this.  Mix bunches of blooms and foliage in a rainbow of colors.  If you add a glass hurricane and candle to the middle of the wreath, you'll light up the whole room as well as the table.

12. Bring The Garden To Your Doorstep

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If you are desperate to make your front porch feel more Fall harvest than Halloween itself then pair pumpkins with potted green, preferably kale, to create the warmest of welcomes to your home.  You can also make a garland with clippings from your garden.

13. Incorporate Colorful Branches

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To add drama and height to a Fall display, simply use red dogwood branches.  You can arrange them in a vase besides dried grasses, squash, moss and little pumpkins.  Showcase the display with an interesting shape or a twisted stem.  An easy way to impress everyone!

14. Make A Cornhusk Garland

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You can construct a calico corn garland with ease.  Wrap a piece of sisal rope around broomcorn, dried grasses and corn tassels.  Then place corn along the rope in bundles of three or in single file.  Secure in place and then tie some raffia around it as a finishing touch.

15. Display A Terrarium

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Terrariums are brilliant because they need very little tending.  Just stand back and admire!  Choose a clear glass container that has a wide opening and then build up your terrarium with either a selection of colorful plants or just the one. You can use ferns, succulents, begonias, miniature orchids and African violets.

16. Carve Your Own House Number

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Why not announce your address in style by etching your house number, or even your initials, into a pumpkin.  It's original and useful for the postman!  Pile a combination of heirloom and traditional and pumpkins on your front steps before you welcome your  guests to your Halloween party.

17. Design With Tacks

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This is a great idea that's as easy as pumpkin pie.  Pick up upholstery tacks from the craft store. These tacks look great on white pumpkins. Mix the sizes and shapes up of the tacks and create different patterns.  If you're not happy with the result, pull the tacks out and re-do!

18. Top An Outdoor Table

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Decorating an outdoor table or garden furniture will give out the impression that the inside of your house is stunning!  Place succulents, such as the popular sedums and echeverias, on a wooden outside table.  You can create a green table top with a bed of moss and seasonal gourds (large fruit with a hard skin).

19. Use Ghostly Pumpkins

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With Halloween in mind, black and white "Lumina", "'Jarrahdale" and "Moonshine" pumpkins will setup a mysterious "feel" in your garden. Cluster them around your front steps and if you are struggling to find the right colors, just spray paint the pumpkins you already have in your possession.

20. Utilize Your Sideboard

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Create a beautiful sideboard that's also functional by grouping Fall arrangements together.  You can use red and yellow roses, orange dahlias alongside festive plates and serving dishes.  As well as a serving station, this doubles up as a stunning statement piece.

21. Decorate The Door Knocker

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To bring out the best in your door knocker (!!) why not zip tie two crookneck gourds together.  Then zip tie them to a 5 inch long foam core oval and cover the ties with ribbon. Continue to work at an angle, incorporating holly fern , abelia and asparagus fern as these are hardy against any bad weather.  Trust me: the result will be admired!

22. Make Your Mantel Slightly Spooky

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Even a small child can do this!  Arrange some small pumpkins around the mantel area and wind thick wire around each one, twisting the wires, as they lean against the wall, into zig zag shapes for that spooky appearance.  Place some ferns around the pumpkins and a couple of feather and there you are.  Done!

23. A Healthy Decoration!

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As green apples are now in season, utilise them to make a "gathering" basket.  Line up Granny Smith apples alongside small stones, moss and green berries, in a long wicker  basket. Make it look extra special with a line of spider mums and green carnations around the outside.

24. Make Fall Luminaries

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These look so good and you need hardly anything to make them!  Stencil a large leaf from your garden on to a paper bag.  Add sand and LED votive candles (so it's safe) to make them shine brightly in the dark.  If you don't want to use leaves, do pumpkins or anything else on a Halloween theme.

25. Create A Cosy Outdoor Fireplace

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For an absolute festive treat , create this plush seating and a mantel, decorated in a foliage garland which is made from oak and magnolia leaves. Decorate one side of the fireplace and complete the look with pottery crocks filled with Fall leaves, hydrangeas, and berries.

26. Spice Up The Patio

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Bring Fall to the table with a decorating recipe using pumpkins and mums in nice warm shades of cinnamon, paprika and curry.  Then add a helping of calico corn on the side, sprinkling assorted hickory nuts, pecans  and a few acorns that you can gather from your yard.

27. All About The Grasses

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You can use grasses to celebrate the changing seasons from Summer to Fall where the vibrant greens move on to a wheat colored hue.  By adding tall black planters (paint them with outdoor paint if necessary), the extra height will be a welcome addition to your arrangement.

28. Transform Pumpkins Into Candleholders

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Cinderella pumpkins are so good as they are flat on top.  You can make beautiful candle holders to put along your garden path and create a vision of beauty!  Carve out the center of each pumpkin and put in a glass hurricane and a chunky, unscented candle - a very dramatic look!

29. Forage For Foliage

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You can find decorations at your doorstep or your yard, to brighten up your table.  Thin twigs with Fall colored crispy leaves, bunched up into a vase, looks really effective and costs nothing.  A few tiny pumpkins and some winter berries can complete this pretty picture.

30. Plant A Window Box For Fall Into Winter

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A bit of imagination and you can create your very own masterpiece.  Plant ornamental cabbage with their gorgeous colors, dried hydrangeas, artichokes and ivy.  Lastly, add gilded branches and berries.  This lovely colorful arrangement will last for many months.