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60 Best Fall Decorating Ideas to Turn Your Home Into a Seasonal Escape

Add cozy autumnal touches all around your house with these festive and easy ideas.

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Helen Norman

When you start to feel the crispness in the air and see the leaves changing colors, it's officially time to welcome fall in all its glory. And while nature's magic is happening outside, it's up to you to create the cozy home of your dreams inside with our very best fall decorating ideas for your living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, and more.

Because this time of year is all about making your home look and feel as cozy and homey as possible, we've gathered up the prettiest rustic fall decorating ideas that are easy to pull off but oh-so-impressive at the same time. Simple additions like festive fall door decorations, dining room decor (including fall centerpieces for your dining table and buffet), and fall mantel decor ideas for the living room bring a stylish, autumnal touch throughout your home. And you'd be surprised how just a couple of plaid pillows and blankets make a huge impact.

If you're on a budget and wondering how you can do some fall decorating on the cheap, snag some leaves, pine cones, and branches from the backyard and put them on display in a glass vase or bowl. After you've completed all your fall decorating ideas for inside the home, take to your front porch with our very best fall decorating ideas for outside, too.

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Create the Warmest Welcome

Make guests feel right at home from the moment they meet your front door. Here, fall door decorations up the curb appeal outside. Once inside, cozy paint colors and wallpaper, fresh flowers, and a soft vintage runner underfoot make this entry hall feel as special as any room in the house.

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Display Prized Collections

A dark wood hutch houses a collection of wild game-themed plates, mixed in with pieces of white pottery and smoky glassware. A crock with feathers takes the place of a traditional flower arrangement (and requires no watering!).

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Warm Up a Room with a Fire

We can't think of a better way to cozy up a living room or den than with a roaring fire. Get your chimney checked out to make sure it's in proper working order, then get to decorating with fall mantel decor ideas.

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Create a Cozy Cubby

Turn unused space into a kid- and adult-friendly hideaway complete with books, a reading light, and piles of pillows and nubby blankets.

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DIY Kitchen Wall Art

Turn baking tins into frames for beloved family recipes and hang them on a blank wall in your kitchen. You'll never have to dig for Grandma's pumpkin pie recipe again!

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All the Ironstone!

Gather dishware and collectibles in like colors to display on open shelving. Here, this shelf that sits atop a rustic worktable is packed with ironstone dishes. The pieces have varying tones—from white to creamy to beigy-brown—and make for a nice, neutral spot to display white pumpkins.

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Hang Baskets for Homey Texture

Hang baskets on the wall to add some texture and dimension to a collection of framed artwork. This idea works all year round but we love how the rich browns of these woven pieces blend well with pumpkin-colored pillows and fall florals.

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Bring Out Your Copper Collection

The hanging collection of copper pots insures the practical merges with the pretty in this hardworking farmhouse kitchen. And doesn't copper go so well with a fall color scheme?

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Pair Furniture from Different Periods

Have a little fun with decorating and mix up furniture styles for a lived-in, collected-over-time vibe. Here, a pair of orange velvet sofas that date back to 1962 make nice with a Shaker-style sideboard piled with pumpkins. A coffee table, made from an iron gate, adds an outdoorsy touch to the gathering space.

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Get Ready for Guests

Give your guest bedroom a little love this time of year, as friends and family pay visits on long holiday weekends. An old wood dresser repurposed as a nightstand adds a spot for books, fresh blooms, and storage for extra linens. Tuck a folding luggage rack in the closet for easy unpacking and packing.

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Build a Bar and Games Station

An old post office sorting table becomes a one-stop shop for drinks and games. Or turn any table into a serve-yourself entertainment station this fall, when more time is spent indoors and family and friend visits are more frequent.

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Hunt and Gather

Sheaves of wheat in vases make a statement on the mantel, while bowls of collected pine cones make for the easiest (and free!) fall decor.

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Accessorize Your Coffee Table

Clear off the summer clutter and bring out seasonal accessories. Here, antlers, brass candlesticks, and even the colors on the book covers arranged on the coffee table work together with (not against) the room's natural and textural decorating style.

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Add Foliage to Pumpkins

Hit the road, Jack! Carved pumpkins don't hold a candle to this naturally brilliant idea. Use Mod Podge to découpage a white gourd with pressed leaves harvested from your own backyard.

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Surprise Guests With Even More Blankets

A little extra "cozy" never hurt anyone! Here, a simple rolled blanket makes for a charming addition to a guest bedroom.

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Place Pumpkins in Unexpected Places

Every area of your home deserves a chance to get in on the fall action! Even this less-trafficked kitchen corner feels comfy-cozy thanks to the addition of a few white pumpkins. You can use the same idea in bathrooms and bedrooms.

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Play With Patterns

Pumpkins don't have to be orange, you know! Thanks to a bit of Mod Podge, this one features a fabulous blue-and-white pattern that's a clever and appropriate way to decorate your buffet for fall.

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Use Cozy Blankets in New Ways

Betcha never thought of using those cozy blankets for this purpose! Two tartan beauties used as tablecloths turn this back porch table into a work of art. (The oversize wreath certainly doesn't hurt either.)

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Liven Up Your Dining Room With a Fun Centerpiece

This simple fall centerpiece for your dining table can be left out all season long and works just as well for every day as it does for special occasions.

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Spice up Your Fall Flower Display

Embrace the season and hunt down a few fall-colored vintage food tins the next time you go antiquing. For containers on the taller side, fill with bright, voluminous buds (like these Sanguisorba cones) to create an effortless centerpiece. As for smaller tins, keep the look casual with a looser arrangement.

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Spruce Up Your Bathroom

A fresh bloom or two can brighten up your bathroom at any time of year, but we especially love how these happy orange mums really bring this space to life.

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Display Gourds in Your Kitchen

There's nothing easier than filling a basket or bowl with some decorative gourds. Here, they turn an otherwise simplistic (but lovely!) kitchen into a festive, seasonal retreat. The same approach works with pine cones or apples.

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Go Mad for Plaid

Give dinner guests the full seasonal treatment with all-plaid-everything table trimmings. Stock the spread with overlapping layers of mismatched plaid garlands, then reinforce the theme with matching patterned napkins. Take it one step further and top each porcelain plate with fabric-covered 3-inch embroidery hoops that double as place cards.

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Add a Tartan Pillow

Just one pillow or two makes all the difference in this autumnal vignette. Turn your entryway or mud room into a bona fide fall haven with a splash of plaid.

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Glam Up Every Nook and Cranny

When paired with plaids and stripes, this reading nook's subtle pops of cinnamon give off major fall vibes. As temps start to drop, expect this to be the most popular indoor hangout spot of the season.

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Create a Foraged Display

The owners of this renovated New Hampshire farmhouse added fall flair to their dining room table (for free!) by foraging for leaves and branches and then styling them in a simple vase.

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Experiment With Dark Candle Combos

Moody candle hues—like deep velvets, rich greens, or even jet blacks—will instantly modernize any room in the house, especially when you throw sleek gold candleholders into the mix. Don't be afraid to mix and match with fall colors too.

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Revamp Your Kitchen Floor

No matter your kitchen size or coloring, a warm rug can magically add more dimension and style. This multicolored runner packs such a vibrant punch that you'll want to leave it on display year-round.

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Display Wheat In a Creative Way

Nothing says harvest season like wheat sheaves. Use 'em to fill cloches or to adorn candleholders, and then arrange them on your mantel, dining table, buffet, or entry table to create your very own unique autumnal arrangement.

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Create a Cocoon-Like Sleeping Space

Transform your bedroom into a super cozy nook. This Oregon homeowner piled plaid pillows, blankets, and a cushy headboard in her sleeping space (that's just 10 feet wide!).

Blair Donovan Blair Donovan is a staff writer for CountryLiving.com, where she covers everything from the latest Joanna Gaines and "The Voice" news to home décor, gardening, DIY, and entertaining.

Rebekah Lowin Senior Editor Rebekah Lowin is a Senior Editor at The Pioneer Woman, covering home décor, food, entertaining, crafting, gardening, and holiday.

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