Fall Home Tour 2015

Hello!   It's time to take a tour of my house ready for Fall.   Let's start in the Living/Family room.  I do love Fall but I don't go all out decorating for it, I do prefer simple.

  The mister brought me fresh cotton, out of the field, displayed behind the sofa.

I have some models determined to be in this shot, Sonny, Layla and that foot belongs to Jacques.

There are Fall touches here and there.  Velvet pumpkins on the round coffee table for now.  There are dried hydrangeas on both skirted round tables.  I have switched out the table skirts to warmer colors as shown with the red and a warm green.

  I  antiqued the picture frame surrounding the poppies and fall like trees.  It was a dark brown and I didn't care for it so I used some Rub n' Buff on it.  It's right there to the right of the sofa and next to my bookcase.  I think it came out pretty good!

Here is a close up for you.  I don't have the practice of making anything look older or distressed, I usually try to go the other direction!

You can see it better here.  Right in front of the framed picture is a clear vase with my stems that I leave out year round.  I covered the bottom of my stems in the clear vase with dried hydrangeas.  I just stuffed them into the vase with the stems and the bottom of them is now covered.  It was easy to do and no cost!

The velvet pumpkins resting on top of my silver tray.

Aubergine berries and faux leaves sit atop the pine coffee table.

This table has vintage photos of family, dried hydrangeas and bird's nest all sitting fall-like here.

The mister as a boy and his father.

This was my first mantel decorating for the Fall.  It could stay all the way until Christmas if I had not changed it.

Here I went for a different look on the mantel.  A robust full Fall mantel!

 

 

 

 

 

The buffet ready for Fall.

 

 

 

I shared my dining table and buffet.  This is one large room with the kitchen to the left of the table in this photo.  You can see the beginning of the cabinets at the top left of the photo.

This photo is a miracle for me.  I have a lot of difficulty photographing in my kitchen with the fluorescent lights.  That's the tour for now but I am sure I will be changing things up so stay tuned.....

Jan



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Pumpkins On The Table

Hello!  I have a simple table set up outside for us today.  It's simple but has plenty of color.  Roses from my yard share my table with store bought roses.  There's pumpkins and ornamental squash as well out here.  A bird's nest with a little egg.  All these beauties are resting on blue toile and blue willow plates. 

Blue always looks its best paired with orange and red.  We take a note from nature's blue skies in Fall and imitate it in our decorating. 

But the blue skies always outdo anything we could attempt.  Blue skies with cooler temps are always guaranteed to make you smile.

If we were to be able to live in any season we choose, I would stay in Autumn.  It's exhilarating!

Not unlike taking that first swim in the blue water of swimming pools and oceans in the hot summer, after months of intense heat the cool blue skies rejuvenate us.

The chilly temperatures bring out an excitement, a joyous relief knowing the heavy burden of heat has left us for the season.

 

Jan




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Fall Tablescape

Hello!  I am so glad you made it.  There's a table set up for us outside on the back porch.  There is some fresh pumpkin bread in the kitchen. 

The table is covered by a white tablecloth.  White plates give it a solid white background and let the roses and pumpkins be the stars.

Fall Mantel Part Two 2015

Hello!  I have another Fall mantel to share with you.  It was so much fun doing the first Fall mantel that I decided to do another one.  Let's take a look!

There's some produce up here.  Small pumpkins and orange roses are sharing the mantel with the centerpieces that were on the dining table.  I love the height the centerpieces bring and really think I will use these pieces a lot.  The large green leaves really add interest and that can be changed with small branches like holly.  I can change out the flowers when these wilt and can bring real or faux ones in when needed or desired.