My Fall Tiered Tray And Other Indoor Fall Decor

Fall officially arrives on September 23rd, but I am getting ready by having both my indoor and outdoor fall decor done.  I still haven't transitioned my closet over yet.   I will wait till the weather is a lot cooler before I put the warm weather clothes away.

Today I want to share some of my indoor fall decor and next week I'll show my outside fall decor.  As always, the first item to be transitioned over is my metal tier tray which sits in the center of my dining room table.  I change the decor of this tray out for every season and holiday.  They are so much fun.  

I bought all the ceramic pumpkins, hay bales, and the orange sign from the Dollar Store.  Everything else I had already in my stash.  

One thing I noticed when looking at other people's trays on Instagram is that I use a lot of florals in mine in comparison to other people's trays.  I don't know if that's right or wrong as I don't think there are any rules to decorating tiered trays.  I just know that after I put all my items in my tray, I don't like seeing "Holes" and so I fill those holes with florals.

I always include a coffee mug in my trays.  This leaf print one is from the Dollar Store.



Faux birds are a favorite decorating accent of mine too.  Do you see one n the coffee mug?










My dining room has a plate rail going all the way around the room.  I changed out all the plates to fall ones.   I then did a fall vignette on all the other surfaces in the room:  the two dining hutches and the piano.

I changed out the peachy-pink glass ware I had in the dining room hutch for spring/summer and replaced them with fall china.

I also changed the place mats from the blue & white ones I had on the table all summer, to these natural round ones.  I thought the rough texture was perfect for fall.

The "Grateful, Thankful, Blessed" sign is up on the wall most of the year, but it seems to be especially appropriate for fall/Thanksgiving.

I did put a little fall decor in the rest of my home, but  I will only share a few pictures as some of the rooms are very dated and haven't been renovated yet.  This is my entry table that greets guests when they first enter my home.  The "Hello" basket and galvanized pitcher and rooster are there most of the year.   I just added some fall garland to the table.

In my new living room, I kept the fall decor simple by adding a little white ceramic pumpkin to an end table (Hobby Lobby).

On the metal accent tray also in that room,  I changed out the spring floral and added a couple of fall stems.

In the upstairs bedrooms I simply switched out the spring floral arrangement for a fall one on the nightstands.

Decorating for fall is so much easier and simpler than decorating for Christmas!  I have the whole house done inside and out in a day.  Christmas decor takes me a week!

What about you?  Have you decorated your house for fall yet?  I'd love to hear from you!

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My Fall Home Tour

I'm so excited because with the exception of potted mums and real pumpkins, I have my entire house inside and out decorated for fall already! Yippee!  It feels so good to have it done.  I was inspired by a new Hobby Lobby opening in our home town;  I walked in and saw all the beautiful fall decor but I was afraid to buy anything new until I got my own fall decor out of storage.  I wanted to be sure I only bought what I needed to fill holes and not buy anything I had already. 

Let's begin our tour shall we?

This is a cabinet in my dining room.  I put vintage wheat plates on the plate rail on the wall.  I created a fall vignette using a tobacco basket, a fall sign, a galvanized pitcher, a dried arrangement,  some fall leaf garland and faux fall mums.

The tobacco basket, galvanized pitcher, and dried fall bouquet are all new this year from Hobby Lobby.  Everything else I already had in my stash.

On my piano, which is also in the dining room, I placed a fall sign, some baskets, a ceramic pumpkin, and a candle with some fall foliage.

The china cabinet on the other side of the dining room has a pumpkin flower arrangement on top with more vintage wheat plates on the plate rail.

A fall candle with a fall candle ring sits in the center of the dining room table.

 In the living room, I filled a vase with silk fall flowers and added a fall candle.  Both sit on a corner table.  On another table in this room,  I have another fall candle and candle ring (not seen).

In the downstairs guest bathroom on top of the vanity I added some fall scented products from Bath and Body Works.

The other side of the vanity holds a vase filled with silk fall mums.  A fall hand towel hangs on the towel ring.

For the office, I put some fall garland on top of a bookshelf and added a ceramic owl to a shelf.

In my entryway, I put a decorative fall metal bucket on a side table with some fall foliage and a little straw pumpkin.

The table that is directly across from the entryway door, and the first thing my guests see when walking in the house, is topped with another fall vignette.  I filled a galvanized vase with Viburnum cut from my garden.  Then I added a basket, a ceramic pumpkin, and a rock with sunflower on it and the word "Welcome".  Fall garland is weaved through all these items laying on the table.

On the entryway door hangs a fall swag.

The outside side porch, and the porch most guests enter through, is the most decorated for fall of all my porches.  Here I put a fall themed pillow on my white rocker, placed a scarecrow doll next to a planter, and I put some faux pumpkins on the porch floor.

On the large porch wall, I hung a large tobacco basket and placed a wooden pumpkin sign inside along with some silk fall flowers and foliage.  I picked up the large tobacco basket at Hobby Lobby this year too.  They are so popular right now, aren't they?   I just love them for layering.

Right next to my porch door is this fall welcome sign.  I painted it myself years ago.  It says "Happy Fall".  I added sticks, silk flowers and fall stems, and then placed faux pumpkins and squash on the porch floor and inside the wooden barrel.

This sign hangs on the wall on the opposite side of the door.

For the front porch, I added a fall leaf stake to a potted plant sitting on the porch steps.

Upstairs, I wrapped fall garland around a hallway mirror.

And I put a fall candle and fall candle ring on the table beneath the mirror.

Down the hall just a bit, I put more fall garland on a shelf, hung a "Give Thanks" plaque on a peg,  and added a wheat bundle to the table below.  My cat Jackson just loves chewing on this wheat bundle.  Ugh!

The master bedroom is mostly white and greys so I added a white fall floral arrangement to a nightstand.

And finally, on the shelf above the stairwell, I added more fall silk flowers and baskets.

After getting out my own fall supplies, I realized I had enough fall decor already.  I updated a little bit with two tobacco baskets, for they are really trending this year!  I also purchased two other trending items:  a galvanized pitcher and cotton.  If you can only purchase a few fall decor items, those would be the three things I would recommend investing in.

I also bought the new fall floral arrangement for the master bedroom.  I needed something more neutral to go with all the white and grey.  If you couldn't tell by the pictures, my house is very outdated color wise.  All the walls in the main living areas are jewel tones.  I've been going through my house the past few years and renovating, repainting the walls a cream or light grey.  I'm all done with the upper level;  this year I am starting on the main level, beginning with the living room.  As I repaint the rooms, I find some of my fall decor doesn't work in that room anymore.  That's what I discovered about my master bedroom, hence the new floral arrangement.  But the jewel tones walls, outdated as they are, look great with fall colors!  Don't they?

So what about you?  Have you decorated for fall yet?  Will you be using more traditional fall colors like I did or is your house all updated with white/grey paint so you use more muted fall tones?  I'd love to hear from you!

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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