Just how what you wear each season changes, so too should your home decor. Transitioning your home decor from summer to fall is easy to do. A few simple changes can transform your home into a cosy fall retreat and help improve how you feel by embracing autumn. From fall scents to cosy blankets, decorating your home for fall is easy.
Here are 5 easy ways to transition your home decor from summer to fall:
1. Declutter Your Home from the Summer
Before you jump into changing your summer decor for fall decor, spend some time decluttering your home first. Put on your favourite playlist and organize anything that may have piled up over the summer or that you won't use until next year. Sell or donate items that you don't need anymore to local charities or friends and family. Starting with a clean slate for fall will make your home feel instantly better (and your wellbeing) and makes way for the new season.
2. Decorate with Fresh Fall Flowers and Branches
Bring nature into your home with fresh florals that celebrate autumn. Sunflowers, dahlias, chrysanthemums, marigolds and cosmos are a few of our favourites for adding fall colour to your home, both inside and out. Branches or twigs are also beautiful and can have a big impact on your space by simply placing them in a vase or crock. Flowers have been scientifically proven to make us feel good, boosting your mood and relieving stress. Bringing nature into your home also helps align you with the rhythm of nature when you choose what's in season at your local flower market, florist or while on a walk. Try placing flowers or branches in each room that you spend the most time in for the biggest impact. Want something longer lasting? We love the realistic faux botanicals, like these mauve pom pom sprays and willow branches from LemonTree & Co. Interiors.
Another fun way to decorate for fall with nature is to collect pinecones and acorns on a fall walk. You can even get your kids involved by making it a game to see how many you can find or who can collect the most! Once you're home, simply place your cleaned pinecones or acorns in their own display bowls on your coffee table or mantel.
3. Elevate Your Home with Fall Scented Candles, Reed Diffusers and Room Sprays
Use scent to truly welcome fall into your home with fall scented candles, reed diffusers and room sprays. Our sense of smell is so powerful for changing how we feel and we can use this to our benefit by switching out our scents based on the season and the mood we want to create. For example, if you've been burning a floral or citrus candle all summer, bring home a fall scented candle like Brightfield's Legacy Glass Candle with autumnal notes of apple, fig and sandalwood. This non-toxic wood wick candle will make your home feel ready for fall. Our Pumpkin Spice Latte Travel Candle is also a favourite fall candle, with nostalgic notes of pumpkin, cinnamon, espresso and vanilla bean. It smells like fall and is irresistible, just like your favourite Pumpkin Spice Latte.
While burning wood wick candles are so cosy and perfect for fall, you can also layer your fall scents with our non-toxic reed diffusers and room sprays. Simply place our fall scented reed diffusers in any room of your home. You can mist our natural room sprays throughout your home anytime to instantly freshen it up and make it smell like fall. Try mixing and matching scents for a beautiful custom fall home fragrance, for example, burning our Pumpkin Spice Latte Travel Candle in the same room with our apple, fig and sandalwood Legacy Reed Diffuser. Find scents to mix and match: Shop our scents.
4. Add a Cosy Fall Blanket, Pillows and Towels
Texture in your home is important and one way to decorate for fall is by using textiles that are cosy and layered, like blankets, throw pillows and hand towels. While in the summer you might use a neutral linen pillow, change it up for fall with a block print pillow, gingham pillow, or thicker materials like a kilim pillow. Bring in a blanket or throw in a cosy, rich fabric in a fall colour, or an heirloom piece like a quilt. We are loving the moss blanket from tuck x Tiffany Leigh Design. We love the deep and calming shade of olive, perfect for fall.
5. Add a Fall Wreath to Your Front Door
Now that the inside of your home is ready for fall, the finishing touch is a fall wreath on your front door to elevate your style. Fall wreaths are a perfect way to warmly welcome guests, friends and family home. Instead of one with bright colours or artificial looking leaves on it, lean into something more monocratic, like a burgundy wreath made with faux grapevines, or one with natural branches and dried florals.
