Three Rooms to Inspiration Easy Fall Decorations

September 13, 2025 182 Comments

13 Sep

Do you like easy but looking really good decorations for the season? I sure do!

I’ll take you through our middle room, kitchen and powder room that is decorated simply for fall! My youngest granddaughter was my helper.

decorate for welcome and Pretty

Fall middle room book case Granddaughter decorating

Who is my helper? Miss O who always wants to decorate!

She already has her own personal philosophy for decorating. It warmed my heart to hear because it does reflect mine. At the core is hospitality for both of us.

In her own words, she said ‘It has to look good, pretty. You know so people want to be here and feel welcomed when they walk in this room. It’s what they see first. It has to have a little heart too.’

She is 6, has an amazing vocabulary and thoughts of her own!

fall Holiday Decorating Central

Table with decorating elements with leaves, candles and velvet pumpkins

TIP. Use a table or other flat surfaces to spread out your decor items. The portable table is a good place to sort it all out! The middle room is the place for our fall decor central! Most of what you see in the above photo are items that are stored in large bins. The other items are collected from around the house. Having the table to spread it all out makes the process so much easier. No more digging through the large bins and piling them to the side.

I don’t keep a lot of fall decor in storage. To keep it simple I use:

velvet pumpkins
fall looking stems of leaves, berries and flowers
dried flowers and corn that I replace regularly
dried twig with clusters of fall leaves and pinecones.
my collection of seasonal salt and pepper shakers and figurines

Here are items from around the house:

mercury glass and fall colored votives
dishes, figurines or books
vases, dough bowl
candlesticks
trays and soup tureens

TIP for storing seasonal decor. Don’t over stuff the bins. Those crushable items stay nicer longer.

Middle Room prepping for decorating — Middle Room prepping for decorat

I set up the portable table in front of the bookcases to spread all the stems and other items. I’m not sure why we didn’t buy one before now. It was so much better than spreading it all over the dining room and spilling over into the living room.

It is now a sitting room but it still is a good spot for ‘holiday decorating central’! Read about that transition here. (https://bushelandapickle.com/season-of-life-4-empty-nest-room-changes-for-our-new-lifestyle/)

the middle room

We don’t actiually have an entry. The front and back doors open directly into the living room and kitchen. There is also a separate door to the mud room which is normal for a farmhouse that was built long ago for the farmer and family.

That’s why Miss O said this is what folks see when they come in to our home. The main piece is this stunning glass faced book case. It sat in Jim’s grandfather’s office where he practiced medicine in a small upstate New York town.

She arranged 2 large stems of foliage over lapping them around a flat serving dish, tucked in battery candles and the gold and red velvet pumpkins. The BLESSED sign is from Target’s dollar aisle. 99 cents!

She put the semicurved plaque on the clock shelf. I had to look up what to call this piece made of woven twigs decorated with leaves and fruits. The Entertaining Ideas From Williamsburg book on my shelf shows a plaque typically has a hard surface like mine with the heavy woven twigs adorned with foliage and other decorative elements and are hung over doors.

tall book shelves

Tall Shelf with Japanese Tea Pot and Creamer

There also 2 tall bookcases. They hold books, odds and ends, office supplies. It is the ‘drop’ zone for stuff!

I cleared off one shelf to decorate. It is one of the large stems. They are lush and color rich; there are also a few pine cones with glitter edging.

Just a touch!

I spent a little more for them but have found it was worth it. I have 6 of them. Stems work better than garlands for the main room furniture and surfaces.

The tall white porcelain cut out vase by Amy adds height and a break to all the wood and similar fall color to highlight the arrangement. I used the vintage tea pot and creamer from Japan. The sugar bowl is in my kitchen window by the coffee pot full of sugar.

details of shelf decorations

Tea Pot Close Up on shelf with white vase and leaves — Tea Pot Close Up

The tall white porcelain cut out vase by Amy, our daughter who is a ceramic artist, adds height and a break to all the wood and similar fall color to highlight the arrangement.

I used the vintage tea pot and creamer from Japan. The sugar bowl is in my kitchen window by the coffee pot full of sugar.The Japanese tea pot and creamer are part of a tea set with cups and saucers I bought over 10 years ago at our local auction. When I bought them I wasn’t thinking wow, that will look great for decorating in the fall! Recently I saw similar sets in a vintage and antique store at affordable prices.

And of course, a candle. The tops have assorted candle holders with only a small velvet pumpkins. So simple and it works!

middle room cozy corner with mini fall figurines, a hedgehog, glass turkey votive with cream table lamp

The cosy corner small antique Chinese chest under the window sill was easy to decorate. Acorn salt and pepper shakers are on the long cracker tray that put on the window still. The turkey votives are a fun touch. The small scarecrow and scented candle with a pumpkin candy dish look good too. The hedgehog was added this year. Meg loves them so when I saw this, I bought it.

Isn’t it a pretty vignette?

The powder room (Half bath)

Corner Shelf in Powder Room. Neutral for Fall

This year I used neutrals in the half bath.

The corner shelf is next to the toilet. The cream orb with the single stem of cream berries is so easy, yet so perfect for this small corner shelf. Laying the single stem of creamy white berries next to with the orb. I hid the long bent stem hidden behind the orb. This vignette looks so pretty against the grey walls and white curtains.

Our powder room has this funny under the stairs closet with odd shelves. It was an under the stair storage for food items.

The accordion door was one of the first things we did after moving in. That is after painting some rooms that had the dark 80′ and 90’s country colors. Yes, canned goods and store bought canned food food were stored there.

Nope, no food storage in the bathrooms please. Remember this post about our half bath?

Now, it is where I store vases and candle sticks. The ends of the shelves that are visible is where I put pretty collected items and fancy soaps.

On the antique farmer stool I changed the florals to use only cream ones in metal container.

farmhouse kitchen

kitchen table for fall using dough bowl filled wiht root vegetables, chicken salt and pepper shakes, red glass votive, ceramic tumblet with foliage — kitchen table for fall

Walk through our back door right into the kitchen. What to fill the antique dough bowl with? Roots vegetable including red potatoes from our garden. I used the Japanese ceramic tumblers for a sprig of foliage. Remember them for the autumn pottery soup bowl post? The chicken salt and pepper colors are a wonderful addition. The red glass votive adds warmth.

Do you feel welcome? Hope so.

Dried Herbs and Old Barnwood Shelves in the kitchen — Dried Herbs and Old Barnwood Shelves Dressed for Fall

The shelves and wooden wall are made from the barn on the property that was torn down many years ago before we owned the house.

It’s fun to decorate these shelves that provide extra space for canisters and other things I use frequently.

My Le Ccreuset pans are orange and red so I pulled them out to put on the shelf. Looking around, I spotted the Nespresso pods in earthy tones. Perfect in the glass canister. The art is a Chinese peasant painting from China. My youngest son gave it to me one Christmas when we lived there. The jar of a bread spread is from Home Goods. Jim picked several up without a thought of how they would be part of the fall decorations!

Thyme and sage hang on pegs from a beam are from our garden. After all it is a farmhouse kitchen.

Seeing it every morning, makes me smile.

That’s it for easy fall decor

Just a small fall wreath hanging from the china cabinet in the sitting middle room is a simple way to add a wonderful look for any cabinet knob! Hope you have been inspired for fall decorating in your home!

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