Fall Decorating Around the House
Turn Your Front Door Into a Harvest
Turn fresh magnolia leaves into cool door decor with spray paint, hot glue, and a wreath form. (Find the complete DIY instructions for the wreath here.) Use similar paint colors to make a coir doormat feel fall festive. (Find the complete DIY instructions for the doormat here.) Apply custom peel-and-stick vinyl numbers to a patch-grown pumpkin to help guide guests to your place, then load the rest of the porch with more pumpkins and gourds. Doormat: Basic doormat, $25, worldmarket.com; House numbers: Custom 6"-tall removable numbers in sparkly font, $1.50 each, vinylwallexpressions.com
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Entry: Key Dish
Solid Monogrammed 10" x 13" melamine tray in yellow, $45, markandgraham.com
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Entry: Mirror
Uttermost Devoll Classical Gold 36 3/4" x 22" metal mirror, $306, lampsplus.com
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Entry: Rug
Dash & Albert Canyon 5' x 8' wool rug, $589, laylagrayce.com
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Entry: Umbrella Stand
Crisscross 23 1/2"H x 10"-diameter ceramic umbrella stand in turquoise, $178, interiorhomescapes.com
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Add Color to Your Dining Area
How low-effort is this wall of fall colors? You just need simple white frames and scrapbook paper in assorted orange and yellow hues. For a tablescape in a cornucopia of tints, spray-paint mismatched thrift store candleholders the same shade as tapered candles. Add bright mums and pumpkins that you’ve painted with chalk paint. Scrapbook paper: Recollections Basics 12" x 12" paper pad in bold, $20 for 180 sheets, michaels.com; Frames: Framatic Modern 12" x 12" MDF frames in white, $18 each, aifriedman.com; Candles: Taper candles in assorted colors and sizes, from $2 for a set of 2, keystonecandle.com; Chalk paint: (on pumpkins, from back) Eucalyptus, Terra Cotta, Pear, Cantaloupe, and Blue Agave, all by Martha Stewart Crafts Vintage Decor
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Dining Room: Flatware
Oslo stainless steel cutlery set in matte copper finish, $105 for a 5-piece set, canvashomestore.com
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Dining Room: Salt and Pepper
Acorn stoneware salt and pepper shaker set, $8, crateandbarrel.com
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Dining Room: Chair
Threshold Windsor wood chairs in yellow, $130 for a set of 2, target.com
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Dining Room: Platter
Ceramika Artystyczna 11" x 12" stoneware platter, $78, artisanimports.com
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Warm Up Your Mantel
With decoupage, you can skip pumpkin carving altogether. These are embellished with giftwrap affixed with Mod Podge and arranged next to twigs sprouting leaves cut from paper. To fill out the mantel, spray-paint lanterns and put battery-powered candles inside. The plywood fireplace screen is spray-painted orange and customized with a seasonal message. (Find complete DIY instructions for the screen here.) Gift wrap on pumpkins (circles): For a similar look, try smudgeink.com; (squiggles) Propellers gift wrap, $22 for a mixed set of 8 sheets, eggpress.com; (links) Palm Beach gift wrap in sea, $7 for 2 sheets, bellinvito.com; Vase: Juno 11"H x 10"-diameter bamboo gourd vase, $40, target.com; Lanterns: For a similar look, try Black metal lanterns, from $15 each, pier1.com; Candles: Flameless paraffin wax pillar candles with timers in ivory, from $15 each, crateandbarrel.com; Spray paint: (on lanterns, from left) Pumpkin Orange, Island Splash, and Banner Red, all by Krylon; (on fireplace screen) Cadmium Orange Hue 2 by Liquitex; Vinyl letters (used as a reverse stencil): Custom 15 3/4" x 19 3/4" lettering in heber font, $76.50, vinylwallexpressions.com
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Living Room: Baskets
Imax Maya iron baskets, $164 for a mixed set of 4 (large is 18 1/2"H x 14 1/2"-diameter), build.com
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Living Room: Pillow
Autumn Leaves 18" x 18" burlap and felt pillow cover, $30, angieandlois.etsy.com; insert, from $11, pillowflex.com
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Living Room: Pumpkins
Velvet 4"-diameter pumpkin in carrot, $27, and 6"-diameter pumpkin in turquoise, $43, both plushpumpkin.com for stores
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Living Room: Side Table
Adele 15"W x 14"D x 18"H acacia and iron table, $322.50, moeshome.com
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Living Room: Fire Screen
Arteriors Glen Gold-Leafed 28" x 27 1/2" iron fireplace screen, $810, shopten25.com
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Spice Up Your Kitchen
No-sew cafe curtains—make them in minutes by attaching leaf-print tea towels to clip-on curtain rings, then slide them onto a tension rod—set the autumnal mood in the kitchen. Let pumpkins have the final say with 3-D stickers that spell your favorite food words. Tea towels (used as curtains): Fig Leaf linen tea towels in white, $40 for a set of 2, giardino.etsy.com; Curtain rings: Bali 1 1/2" curtain rings in nickel finish, $17 for a set of 7, target.com; Tension rod: Room Essentials 28"–48" round tension rod in nickel finish, $4, target.com; Letter stickers: For a similar look, try Making Memories Puffy Alphabet stickers in green, $5 for a pack of 73, joann.com
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Kitchen: Cake Stand
White Marble 5"H x 8 1/4"-diameter stand with mango wood base, $40, williams-sonoma.com
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Kitchen: Teapot
Tea for One ceramic teapot in yellow, $25, typo.com
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Kitchen: Clock
Tea for One ceramic teapot in yellow, $25, typo.com
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Kitchen: Canisters
Imax Miles ceramic canisters, $133 for a mixed set of 3 (large is 12 1/2"H x 10"-diameter), bellacor.com
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Kitchen: Floor Mat
Loloi Summerton SSC06 27" x 45" polyester rug, $59, kmart.com
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