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Fall Décor Ideas By Melissa J Wantuck  |
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 Fall is known as the time for harvest, brilliant shades or reds, oranges, and yellows, cooling temperatures, and changing the décor in your home from the bright colors of summer.
Beginning in the spring through fall, these three seasons allow for many outdoor elements to be brought indoors and intertwined with your home, from vases of flowers to budding stems, there are many possibilities. Fall, though offers the most. Not just flowers, but leaves and gourds can be brought indoors and then there are elements you can add outside your home as well.
Here are some outdoor elements you can use around your home. These are in addition of course to the fall blooms you bring inside.
Leaves
Leaves don’t just decorate your trees with their fall colors; scatter them on tabletops as a centerpiece or a pseudo-tablecloth. Gather a bunch together and make a bouquet out of them. Between florist wire and foam blocks, a bouquet of leaves would look fabulous spilling out of a compote bowl or small vase, or twist them into a wreath for your front door or hang it over your mantel.
Use leaves that have just fallen from the trees before they start drying out and get brittle.
Squash and Gourds
Fill of basket full of gourds, particularly a cornucopia shaped basket and you have a centerpiece or tabletop accessory. Use a large basket and set it next to a fireplace. If you have that compote bowl with the leaf bouquet in it, add gourds to accessorize the look.
For larger squash like pumpkins, acorn squash and butternut squash, you only need a couple or a few to create a centerpiece, or place them on your front steps next to a large potted Mum.
Hay bales
You can buy hay bales directly from farmers or at a produce seller. They start at a couple of dollars and if buying from a farmer, ask for his mulch way, which is lesser quality and cheaper. You won’t be feeding horses with this hay and it may get wet, so save yourself some cash and buy the cheaper bales. Stack them, take them apart to make a scarecrow, or use them as seats for a fall gathering of friends and family complete with cider, powdered donuts and dunking for apples.
Indian Corn
The multi-colored ears of Indian corn area a traditional look when hung on a front door or they can be added to a centerpiece of squash and gourds. Indian corn is a harder kernel corn that is dried and will last longer than if you used regular field corn or sweet corn.
For a different look, weave them into a wreath for your front door or a garland of branches, leaves, and other fall elements to hang on your mantel or a railing.
Corn Stalks
Buy these from farmers or produce sellers and they’ll only cost you a couple dollars a stalk. Place these against vertical supports like lamp posts, porch posts or tie a bundle together that can stand on its own. Pull back the husks and remove the silk for ears of corn on the stalks and leave the ears exposed. Place a couple of bales of hay next to the stalks and randomly place pumpkins, squash and/or gourds to add more color.
An important note on corn stalks: don’t be tempted to pull over alongside a random cornfield and help yourself to suit your decorating needs. Fields of corn belong to the landowners and taking the corn stalks is theft of a farm product. Farmers work hard to grow corn and this year especially, the cost of seed is very high due to the demand for corn, both as a food and a fuel source in ethanol production. Respect the farmers by buying the corn stalks from a reputable seller.
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