Fall home tour – rustic and bold simplicity

I am so excited about today! I have been working hard this week, putting the finishing touches on my Fall home tour – rustic and bold simplicity and it is ready to be shared!

 

Like any home tour I have done in the past, any DIY projects or crafts I have done that are featured within this tour will be shared at the bottom of this post. I pack in a lot of DIY ideas, furniture redos, crafts and DIY decor into my home so I have found this is the easiest way for people to find what they are looking for.

 

Each year my home seems to have a mind of it’s own and the holiday decor changes a little. This year I was feeling the need to simplify and keep the casual feel my home has year-round. So a lot of the fall decor this year is rustic, with a few bold patterns and textures and a simple color scheme.

 

This is the perfect example of simple and rustic. I grabbed this old vine that was all twisted up and I have used it for decor the last few years. The x-ray leaves I printed out and stuck onto the wood pallet frame with tape. Yep, decorating for fall does not have to be expensive or time consuming.

 

The one biggest change in my fall decor this year is that I had to make is stretch further than previous years. After changing around the furniture arrangement in my home I now have a formal living room as well as a family room. Which means there was less of my typical fall decorations to go around.

 

This is a new sofa and I am loving the soft gray color of it! I adore the mix of gray, yellow with pops of blue. It feels very authentic to my decorating style. I want this to feel like our home year-round. Making holiday decor and different seasons work with my typical aesthetic has been a learning process for me.

 

Another new addition to my home is this stick and tree trunk end table. Dale gave it to me for my birthday and I am in love (with him and the end table). This as well as the black cane chairs help separate the two living spaces.

 

Fun tip, when decorating for fall or any season really use what you have. I decorate with shells a lot, which means that I have them all over my home. If I were to remove them for fall it would be a pretty bare house. So I sprinkle in the fall theme in subtle ways like this. Adding pumpkins to my shell collection. Simple but effective in welcoming the fall season!

When in doubt when it comes to decorating for fall throw a pumpkin on it!

This year instead of removing the blue colors in my home I worked with them. I am loving the combination so much this year! I also upgraded my art work this year for fall. Oh deer it is wonderful! It was a very simple update, I purchased from digital prints then sent them to be printed as a poster. I got large prints at a huge cost savings!

 

For me fall is all about nature. Here in Wisconsin we have a beautiful cooling of the temperatures. In fall there is always stunning clear blue skies, an explosion of colors with the reds, oranges, and golds in the leaves. We also do a ton of activities in fall with festivals, pumpkin farm fun, hikes and so much more. So nature feels very authentic to fall without needing to use orange all over the place to decorate for fall.

 

I also have had to make the addition of more blue in my home work for fall. In the past I have decorated with shades of blue for my year-round decor, then remove all of it when fall comes around.

However, the blue I removed was smaller decorations. Now I have added a lot of blue features to furniture and my fireplace with the shiplap that cannot be taken away so making the fall decor work with that has been a fun struggle.

Keeping the rest of the fall decor simple with colors was the easiest way to do this. For my fireplace mantel I added two new large prints of leaves. Leaves are a great and simple way to decorate with fall without it being corny or over the top. These were also just prints that I purchased digitally and had printed out as posters. Then I went and got large frames to put them in.

 

White pumpkins feel so fresh and perfect for my rustic and bold simplicity this fall!

 

Adding in other tiny nature themed items allows my home to be decorated for fall without spending a lot of time, energy or money.

 

 

Since I rearranged the furniture in my home and put the dining room table in the living room this combo has worked out so well for us! I love all of the extra room around the dinner table and it is the coziest place to relax when we have friends over. We do a lot of entertaining in fall with friends, my son Caleb has a birthday in fall and our house is also the go-to meet up place for our friends to trick-or-treat so I like to keep my home festive but casual enough to make everyone feel at home.

 

The fall centerpiece this year was actually a lot of what I had over the summer. I used the same glass hurricanes but added the craft leaves under the candles. The pumpkins added a fun pop of color to the table. I love a full look for table decor, but this is our main dining room table so I cannot have anything too fancy that will block our views of the kids or take over the table. Making the fall decor work for my family is key.

The last room I decorated for fall is the family room. My fall front porch will be shared next week on the blog. We had a random heat wave last week here and I did not want my neighbors to look at my weird sweating it out in a sundress and adding pumpkins to my front porch. This week it has been a lot cooler, jackets have been needed and their is a crisp feeling to the air so now I can rock pumpkins, mums and gourds with no shame.

As far as the family room goes I kept the fall decor even more simple and focused on the cozy feel. I moved the large tree art into here from another room, with the dark wood color it felt very fall to me. I also swapped out the blue striped rug for a cozy and plush rug with tan colors.

 

These tree trunk stools are in our home year-round but they feel perfectly fall!

With the additions of a few fall touches, darker textures like wood, and some nature items I have managed to decorate for fall without compromising on my casual and clean style of decor.

 

I also managed to make my favorite pops of blue work with the fall decor and I am loving it! Every year has a little variation form the previous years. Some years I want a fall explosion of reds and oranges, other times I am craving neutral. It seems to vary a little and I just go with it. Using what I have and making it work.

 

This time of year means all of the fall fun that I adore, but it also means we are getting back into a routine with school, fall sports activities kick into high gear. Life gets crazy so this year I was craving a clean and simple feel to my fall decorations. I need to come home and feel like I get that breath of fresh air, even if it is actually very stuffy and dry air because the heat is on. The idea and feel of it is what I am going for.

My home is where we come to get away from the noise and chaos, yes with three kids there is a fair amount of chaos in the home as well. But this year I did not want to add clutter with fall decorations. Blending in fall specific items, highlighting nature, leaves, twigs, sticks and pumpkins felt like the best way to decorate for the season. I have landed with a Fall home tour – rustic and bold simplicity without going crazy or getting a ton of new items. I used what I had from previous years but updated the art, it was a small change that made a huge difference. When you are decorating for fall focus on the color and feel you are going for and go from there. Make it work for you and your decorating style.

Don’t forget to check back next week for my fall front porch!