If you ask me, what’s the best decor for the fall that helps you embrace the season and still doesn’t require too much money, I’ll say it’s natural decor. Natural decor can be gathered in the woods or in your garden, you can get it for a couple of dollars and create very beautiful and stylish decor yourself, without much crafting skill. But besides all that, there are more benefits of using natural items.
Benefits Of Decorating With Natural Elements
Natural elements create a mood and an ambience, such decor looks chic and beautiful in any style and theme as it’s effortless. Natural decor is sustainable and organic, it’s about treating our environment right and using what nature gives you. Natural fall decorations help you connect to the season as there’s nothing more fall-like than bright leaves, acorns or dried grasses, they really scream fall. The last but not least is cost-effictiveness of such decorating, it won’t require a lot of money or even no money at all, and if you preserve your decor right, it will work for long.
How To Preserve Natural Fall Decor?
How To Preserve Fall Leaves?
Preserving fall laves can be done in several ways, the first one is drying them in a microwave, so that they kept their colors, or drying the leaves between the pages. Then you just make them preserved using glycerin water solution or acrylic fixative. There’s one more creative way: dipping your leaves into beeswax, that’s even more eco-friendly.
How To Preserve Fall Pumpkins?
You can really preserve them for several seasons but if you wash and dry them properly, they can last up to the whole season. Removing all the insides and letting them dry can let them live long and you can use them as luminaries.
How To Preserve Fall Flowers And Grass?
Just dry them and voila, as for the blooms, you can use the same idea as with leaves, while dried grass won’t require any special treatments. You can add color with spray paint to flowers and grasses if they aren’t bright enough.
Pumpkin Fall Decor
Pumpkins, gourds and squashes are quintessential fall decorations, I can’t imagine fall or Halloween decor without them. There are tons of crafts telling you how to paint, carve and just decorate a pumpkin but for natural fall decor Id’ advise doing nothing – just stack them and that’s it. Make your arrangement unique playing with shapes, sizes and colors.
How To Choose A Right Pumpkin For Decorating?
To choose the right pumpkin for decorating, consider its type: field pumpkin types are larger, have watery, stringy flesh, and are best for decorating. You can also use large and beautiful heirloom pumpkins for decorating, they look spectacular! Avoid pumpkins that have soft spots, bruising, discolored spots, mold, a bad odor, or liquid leaking out.
The bold pumpkin centerpiece includes a wooden tray, some fresh pumpkins and gourds, berries and a candle.
Pretty all-natural fall decor done with fresh pumpkins, potted greenery and a leaf and bloom arrangement.
A bright arrangement with gourds and twigs.
Leaf Fall Decor
Bright and dark fall leaves are another quintessential fall decoration that is easy to get and that always creates an ambience. Leaves can be used to make garlands, wreaths, buntings, centerpieces and even overhead installations. All of these can be easily made in some minutes, no tutorial is required, just mix different types of foliage for varied texture and color in your arrangements.
This adorable autumn wreath consists of a vine form, bright eucalyptus and some dried leaves and twigs, and it will add a lot of color to your space.
This stylish fall arrangement of a porcelain pumpkin and a vase with bold fall leaves will be a nice fit for many rooms, here for the bathroom.
This rustic centerpiece consists of a bowl with pillar candles and a white jug with bright leaves.
This shabby chic mantel is dressed up for the fall using bold leaves, a faux pumpkin and vintage books.
The jaw-dropping wreath shows off several kinds of dark fall foliage, mini pears and apples and long ribbon.
The bright fall wreath is made of a vine form, bold fall leaves and pinecones and looks amazing.
Make this arrangement for your kitchen using bold fall leaves, a wooden stand with pumpkins, leaves and lotus slices.
This breathtaking fall centerpiece incldues orange and pink hydrangeas, dried leaves, berries and grass and pears on the table plus candles around.
This colorful and simple fall arrangement can be made in minutes using burgundy and yellow leaves and some twigs, and it can be a nice centerpiece.
This adorable rustic fall arrangement is made using bright leaves, green pumpkins and candles and looks very chic and catchy.
The bold fall wreath is composed of bright leaves, twigs and a green ribbon bow and it's a nice touch of color to the space.
The coffee table is styled in a refined way with bold leaves, candles, a green pumpkin and books.
The modern console done with textural grey vases and bold fall leaves is a cool idea for a fall space.
The super elegant modern fall centerpiece of a black vase and dark eucalyptus is always a good idea to add an accent to the space.
Make an overhead installation of a branch with dried leaves, this is a spectacular feature, yet a very natural one.
This natural fall garland is made of dipped beeswax leaves, absolutely natural ones, and you can craft ushc decor yourself.
This bright yellow leaf garland paired with a matching centerpiece will cheer up any space and welcome the fall.
Grass And Flower Fall Decor
Dried grasses and flowers are amazing for creating beautiful fall centerpieces, wreaths and just arrangements, and the good point is that they are usually very long-lasting! Go for various textures, colors and dimensions to make your decor unique.
This dried fall wreath is made of bunny tails, wheat, blooms and it looks very textural, eye-catchy and spectacular.
A wheat wreath is timeless classics for the fall, it will remind that it's a harvest season and will bring a lot of texture to the decor.
The rustic centerpiece is made of wheat and candles and looks very cozy, you can make one very fast.
The boho fall wreath is made of white blooms, wheat and some berries, and its dried look is very fashionable.
The natural mantel decor done with dried blooms, leaves and grasses and accented with pumpkins and pink candles.
This textural and cool fall boho wreath includes grasses, leaves and pinecones and will add a lovely and textural fall feel.
This super textural fall wreath is composed of leaves, grasses, billy balls and blooms and it's a nice decoration for the season.
Infuse your space with color making such a bold wreath with wheat, leaves and dried blooms.
This small and elegant fall wreath is made of wheat and is accented with a brown bow, perfect for elegant modern spaces.
The textural fall wreath made using grasses, berries, dried flowers and a burlap bow for an accent.
Other Fall Decor
Acorns and pinecones will add a woodland feel to the decor, they look nice with moss, mushrooms, leaves and candles. You can use them to make arrangements and centerpieces of various kinds and also to make garlands for styling a mantel. If you wanna fill your home with fall scents, I strongly recommend to use cinnamon bark, dried apples and oranges to make centerpieces and garlands. Get inspired!
This lovely all-natural garland consists of pinecones, acorns and some twine and can be used to decorate a mantel.
This bright and extra dimensional fall wreath is made using branches with berries and dried seed pods, both of them bring a lot of color.
This simple DIY fall wreath can be made using a vine form and some faux branches with berries.
Include natural fall scents into home decor creating an arrangement of pinecones and cinnamon.
This bold and extra textural fall wreath is made using bold fall leaves, greenery, dried flowers, twigs and a blush ribbon.
This eye-catchy and extra textural fall wreath is composed of corn husks and wheat and won't take you much time to make.
This little country style arrangement consists of berries and leaves in a jug and it's a great last-minute centerpiece.
The adorable rustic fall decoration shows off several parts and pieces: pears on branches, vintage books, a metal dollhouse lantern, pumpkins and candles.
A dried apple garland will remind that it's apple season, will add a scent to the space and will help you utilize all the apples that fell on the ground in your garden.
Accent the place settings with dried grasses and a dried orange slice, add ribbon and a card and the combo will look modern and fall-like.
This rustic console table is styled with a rust scarf, fresh pumpkins, candles, a basket with berries.
The natural fall mantel is decorated with greenery, hydrangeas, white and green pumpkins and a shabby chic candleholder.
Stylish fall decor done with a cloche with pinecones, mini wreaths, bold leaves and a faux pumpkin.
The mantel is decorated with neutral green pumpkins, feathers and grass, a wicker flask with pampas grass.
The staircase decor done with pumpkins, greenery, pinecones, leaves and candle lanterns.
This lovely and bright arrangement with dried orange, cinnamon, leaves, pinecones, acorns and a mini pumpkin will fill your space with fall scents.
This dimensional wreath shows off dried seed pods, berries and greenery and lots of long twigs.
Bedroom fall decor is done with white and orange pumpkins, leaves and pinecones and a bold leaf arrangement matches it.
This woodland fall arrangement is done with moss, acorns, pinecones, a candle and tiny faux pumpkins.