Decorating your living room for fall can be as simple as adding candles, styling your mantel with gourds or a seasonal wreath, or filling a vase with autumn leaves. You can also incorporate fall-inspired accessories like velvet throw pillows in shades of rust, crimson, and mustard. From accessories and lighting to furniture and paint colors, explore these cozy and easy fall living room decor ideas to celebrate the best of the season.
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Pumpkin Mantel Decor
Give your living room mantel a rustic fall feel with simple DIY styling tricks. Liz Marie Blog created a fall-themed focal point in this farmhouse living room using pumpkins under glass cloches, antique urns filled with feathers, and an autumnal Frame TV still life in an ornate frame.
Simple Fall Living Room
Decorate your coffee table with a vase of autumn foliage and a scented candle for a simple and budget-friendly fall display. Emily Henderson Design added a patterned pillow in a rusty shade and hung a simple wreath to enhance the fall theme.
Fall Bar Cart
Style a living room bar cart for fall to make it extra inviting for cozy nights in. Inspired by Charm stocked the bottom shelf with spirits and styled the top shelf with glassware, a vintage trophy holding a bunch of dyed wheat stalks, and a tea candle to signal that the bar is open.
Cozy Fall Reading Corner
Make your reading corner cozy for fall by swapping in a few seasonal extras. Emily Henderson Design layered a neutral upholstered armchair with a throw pillow and blanket in bright fall shades of mustard and orange.
Fall Built-Ins
Restyling a bookcase is an easy way to decorate for fall. Blogger Ursula Carmona styled her built-in living room bookcase with autumn in mind, grouping earth-toned books, adding art, seasonal greens, and gold accents.
Fall Leaves
To decorate a neutral farmhouse living room for fall, commit to a single element to make a dramatic impact. Liz Marie Blog used oversized fall leaves to decorate the coffee table and mantel, creating a striking visual effect. Layering garlands on the mantel and adding extra-tall branches to the coffee table further enhances the impact.
Cozy Fall Textures
Adding soft, warm textures is an easy way to refresh a living room for fall. Leanne Ford Interiors decorated this rustic 1906 Echo Park cabin with a plush Beni Ourain rug, a large armchair draped with a fringed blanket and a fluffy sheepskin, creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere for long autumn nights by the fire.
Fall Corner Vignette
Brighten up a quiet corner of the living room by styling a fall vignette. Homestead City Dwelling stacked a low vintage table with twine-tied vintage hardcover books and colorful autumn leaves, creating a rustic arrangement.
Spooky Side Table
Decorate a side table with moody branches and a few spooky Halloween-themed decor pieces to create a fall decor scheme that celebrates the holiday without overwhelming the room, as seen in this space by M Starr Design.
Plush Velvet Accessories
Add plush velvet accessories like throw pillows in rich autumn shades to create a luxurious fall feeling in your living room. Emily Henderson Design decorated this modern rustic living room with a burgundy velvet throw pillow, a vase of bright orange fall leaves, and a scented candle for an affordable fall decorating idea.
Coffee Table Pumpkin Vase
Decorate your coffee table with a fall-themed centerpiece. The Merrythought created a DIY vase from a craft pumpkin and filled it with a bouquet of white and burgundy fall flowers, creating an elegant centerpiece perfect for autumn entertaining.
Neutral Fall Living Room
If you live in a warmer climate, opt for a lighter fall decor scheme. Emily Henderson Design decorated this bright living room with pale pumpkin decorations and a sculptural branch in a light wood vase, adding subtle fall touches that complement the existing decor style.
Fall Farmhouse Living Room
Decorate with foraged and natural elements like leaves or preserved flowers to give your farmhouse living room a touch of fall. Leanne Ford Interiors decorated this space with a generous bunch of dried flowers in a repurposed vase, complementing the white walls, warm wood, and leather accents.
Fall Cocktail Tray
When entertaining, bring in small touches that celebrate fall to create a sense of occasion. Inspired by Charm styled a cocktail tray with apple cider cocktails, simple taper candles, a jug of fall flowers, and a small decorative pumpkin, transforming a leather ottoman into a cozy cocktail table for two.
Mushroom Candelabra
Warm metallic accents in shades of brass, bronze, copper, or gold will warm up a fall living room. This DIY gold spray-painted candelabra from Liz Marie Blog, adorned with mini mushrooms, faux greenery, and taper candle holders, creates a festive centerpiece for your mantel, console table, sideboard, or coffee table.
Moody Fall Accent Pillows
You can signal the shift to fall by swapping your pillow covers for a moody shade. Ajai Guyot for Emily Henderson Design added a couple of chocolate-colored throw pillows to a soft cocoa-hued rug, creating a cozy fall atmosphere in this comfortable living room.
Halloween Decor Accent
Decorate a quiet corner with an unexpected Halloween-themed accent to surprise the kids and give guests a friendly fright. M Starr Design chose an oversized black spider to hide in plain sight in the neutral living room.
Leaning Blanket Ladder
If you need a place to store extra blankets for fall, consider using a decorative ladder. Interior designers Emily Henderson and Priscilla Frost leaned an arched wood ladder stocked with extra seasonal blankets against the wall of this cozy living room.
Fall Vintage Cabinet Display
A simple way to decorate for fall is to focus on a single seasonal vignette on a console table, buffet, or other piece of furniture. Inspired by Charm styled a vintage glass-front cabinet with fall essentials like stacked blankets, amber glass, and pumpkin figurines.
Layered Rugs
Rustic interiors come alive in fall. Leanne Ford Interiors layered a dark chocolate rug over a neutral area rug, complementing the dark wood on the walls, floors, and ceiling for a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
Fall Harvest Wreath
Celebrate harvest season with a wheat-themed display. Thistlewood Farms assembled this arrangement around a festive fall wreath, filling it out with ribbon-tied books and beads in neutral colors, creating a farmhouse-inspired centerpiece.
Gilded Accents
Create a warm glow in a fall living room with gilded accents. Blogger Ursula Carmona filled a trio of DIY gold-accented vases with crimson autumn leaves, creating a simple, inexpensive, and eco-friendly seasonal display that complements the other gold-toned accents in the room.
Coffee Table Book Stacks
Come fall, be sure your coffee table is stacked with plenty of reading materials in tidy piles. Even better if, like this living room from Leanne Ford Interiors, there’s a wood-burning fireplace nearby.
Rustic Fall Living Room
Layer earth tones and natural materials to create a relaxing fall living room that brings the outdoors inside. Lobster and Swan mixed neutral linens, patterned textiles, wood accents, and dried flowers and plants to create an effortless and cozy feel that complements the reclaimed flooring in this English country cottage.
Single Pumpkin Display
Balance a homey fall mantel with an extra layer of decor in front of the fireplace. Homestead City Dwelling used a tiny vintage occasional table to display a fabric pumpkin, creating a charming focal point in this neutral living room.
Candlelit Fall Living Room
Never underestimate the power of candlelight to make a fall living room feel especially inviting. Ryann Miller for Emily Henderson Design added ambient lighting to this living room using simple orange taper candles on the coffee table and in a wall-mounted sconce.
DIY Pumpkin Votives
Make a pair of DIY pumpkin votives to decorate your coffee table. Blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona stuck to understated tones of white, gold, and silver, creating a simple yet elegant centerpiece for this neutral cottage living room.
Warm Fall Living Room
Warm living room lighting is key to creating an inviting fall ambiance. This rustic space from S.U.S.A.P features a floor lamp that emits golden light and a hurricane lamp on the coffee table, adding a warm and cozy glow.
Boho-Style Fall Accessories
Style a neutral living room with boho-style accents to create a warm autumn feel. This space from Home and Spirit is decorated with woven textures, scented candles, and pampas grass in a white vase, adding subtle fall touches.
Fall Console Table
Style your console table with a woven basket filled with simple seasonal greens to complement a farmhouse living room. Stacks of neutral books and vintage pots beneath the table create a casual fall display.
Tree Stump Coffee Table
Small everyday rituals take on extra meaning in fall, when we look to our homes for comfort and reassurance. Lobster and Swan set out a tea set on a tree stump coffee table, creating a practical and decorative centerpiece for this rustic English countryside living room.
Amber Glass Accents
Add fall color to a neutral living room with a single well-chosen decor accent. A Beautiful Mess filled a large amber glass vase with branches, creating a striking autumn centerpiece on the DIY live edge coffee table in this bright living room.
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